New York Fashion Week brings an extra charge to the city, and the art world is moving just as fast. This week’s gallery openings span Greenwich Village, the East Village, the Lower East Side, NoHo, and Tribeca, creating an ideal rhythm for nights spent bouncing between fashion events and downtown exhibitions. Across these NYC neighborhoods, galleries and artist-run spaces are unveiling new shows, intimate launches, and experimental presentations that reflect the city’s creative momentum right now. Whether you are already circulating for NYFW or simply looking to explore what’s opening across Manhattan, this week offers plenty of reasons to step inside and slow down with the art.
Greenwich Village | Mon
Grey Art Gallery, 18 Cooper Square, work by Irrititja Kuwarri
East Village | Tues
Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Exhibition
Lower East Side | Weds
334 Broome,. 334 Broome St, ‘Ten Story View’ by Amir Badawi, 6pm-9pm
Noho | Weds
Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, 417 Lafayette, ‘Baroque Apocalypse’ by Anne Katrine Senstad
Tribeca | Weds
Friend Editions, 357 Canal St, Volume Paper 4+5 Launch event
Lower East Side | Thurs
The Opening Gallery, 41 Division Street, ‘Gradient Maps’ by Doug Henders
Shutter Gallery, 17 Eldridge St, ‘Anatomy of a Soul Machine’ group show curated by Katya Austin
David Peter Francis, 35 East Broadway #3F, ‘A flower in the ending’ by Donyel Ivy-Royal
Noho | Thurs
Aicon, 35 Great Jones St, ‘A False Security’ with Marcy Chevali, G. R. Iranna, Siri Devi Khandavili, Katja Larsson, Promotesh Das Pulak, Adeela Suleman, and L. N. Tallur
East Village | Fri
14BC Gallery, 626 East 14th St, ‘Transformations’ by Liv Tyler, 5pm-9pm
Tribeca | Fri
Silke Lindner, 350 Broadway, ‘What was left of me bloomed’ by Elizabeth Jaeger
Rainrain, 110 Lafayette St, ‘Cafeteria’ by Judy Chung
Dimin, 406 Broadway, ‘Fragile Architecture’ with Ben Balustein, Russell Maltz, Alex Stern, Emerald Rose Whipple
Scroll, 86 Walker St, Grand Opening
Hesse Flatow, 77 Franklin St, ‘Double Fantasy’ by Elizabeth Hazan
Shrine, 368 Broadway, ‘Inventing Abstraction’ group show
As New York Fashion Week animates the city, gallery openings across NoHo, the Lower East Side, the East Village, Tribeca, and Greenwich Village offer a compelling parallel to the runway schedule. This week’s featured artist, Anne Katrine Senstad, anchors the downtown scene with Baroque Apocalypse, the foundation’s first solo exhibition with the Norwegian interdisciplinary artist and the newest chapter in her ongoing ELEMENTS series.
Working at the intersection of light, sound, and spatial perception, Senstad creates immersive environments that transform architecture into sensory experience. ELEMENTS IX unfolds as a luminous colonnade activated by noble gases, each emitting distinct chromatic intensities that shift as viewers move through the space. A four-channel sound environment by acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell deepens the installation, drawing on the phenomenon of sonoluminescence to explore themes of transformation, pressure, and creation.
For those moving between fashion shows and evening events, Senstad’s exhibition offers a moment of reflection within NYC’s most active art neighborhoods. During NYFW, it stands as a reminder that some of the city’s most resonant creative experiences are happening just off the runway, inside galleries shaping how we see, hear, and inhabit space.
Featured work above by Anne Katrine Senstad at Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery
