NYC art map and recs, 10/6/25 - 10/12/25
Hi folks! I’ve now been through a cycle of each of the major gallery neighborhoods in NYC since Fall season kicked off so I did a multi-neighborhood “leftovers” crawl — these are always a bit of a wildcard, with things that are a bit second-tier in my mind, and outer or upper parts of neighborhoods I previously didn’t have time to go to. It’s that sort of weird time that’s the start of the end of the first Fall exhibition cycle — most but not all galleries wait until after the major fairs in Europe to open their next round of major exhibitions, though there’s still quite a bit happening this week and next!
There are a TON of artist talks this week, particularly at galleries — these usually don’t require RSVP and I try my best to indicate when they do. Red Hook Open Studios also takes place this weekend, and kicks of South Brooklyn Fall open studio season, with Gowanus Open Studios and Sunset Park Open Studios next weekend.
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Openings — All exhibition openings are 6pm - 8pm unless otherwise noted — but I do recommend double checking the galleries’ websites / Instagrams before going anywhere!
Tuesday, October 7th
USER vs. BOT at Gallery MC
Wednesday, October 8th
Emi Kusano: Ego In The Shell: Ghost Interrogation at Offline
David X. Levine & Nicholaus Jamieson: New Drawings at Steven Amedee
Mike Lee: Pendulum at Half
Gordon Terry: All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office at Half
Luke Shannon: Replacement Character at Heft Gallery
Thursday, October 9th
Lynne Drexler: A Painted Aria at Berry Campbell
Eric Zener: States of Being at Gallery Henoch
Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product at MoMA PS1 *No opening reception
Inuuteq Storch: Soon Will Summer Be Over at MoMA PS1 *No opening reception
Sho Shibuya: Freedom of Speech at Bienvenu Steinberg & J
Lamar Peterson: The View from Outside at Fredericks & Freiser
Stacy Leigh: State of Disrepair at Harper’s
Iria Leino: In Two Parts—The Suomen Suo and Colorfield Series at Harper’s
Katy Stone: Terrains at Ryan Lee
Fred Bendheim: Music For My Eyes at 440 Gallery *Opening reception Saturday 11th, 4pm - 6pm
Devin B. Johnson: Crossing at Nicodim
Dannielle Hodson: Forking Paths at Kravets Wehby
Joel Wyllie: Aerial the Projectionist at Foreign & Domestic
Stamos / Ramos at Louis K Miesel *No opening reception
Alix Vernet: EDEN at Market Gallery *6pm - 9pm
Pat Lipsky: Color Next to Color at James Fuentes
Anay Ngawang Chodak: Human values that transend time at Crossing Art
Christopher Beane: Dante’s Blaze at Jim Kempner Fine Art
Whitney Staff Art Show 2025 Artists At Work at Westbeth Gallery *No opening reception
Huguette Caland, Dorothy Salhab Kazemi, and Afaf Zurayk at Salon 94 *No opening reception
It Must Be Nice To Fall In Love at TEMPEST
I Knew It Once Before at Helm Contemporary
10th Anniversary Show at Lyles & King
Friday, October 10th
Merikokeb Berhanu at James Cohan
Jesse Mockrin: First Romance at James Cohan
Teresa Margolles: Portrait at James Cohan
Amy Winstanley: Life Hum at Margot Samel
Beauty & Splendor at Nars Foundation *Opening Reception October 17th, 6pm - 9pm
Constanza Alarcón Tennen: Sudamericana tiene memoria del aire at Nars Foundation *Opening Reception October 17th, 6pm - 9pm
Kai Jenrette: Loose Rap at Silke Lindner
10th Anniversary Show at Lyles & King
Heather Drayzen: Towards the Sun at My Pet Ram
Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens at Brooklyn Museum *No opening reception
Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations at Brooklyn Museum *No opening reception
The Gay Harlem Renaissance at New York Historical
Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped at Guggenheim *No opening reception
DON’T LOOK NOW at Art at a Time Like This
Alic Brock: When Shadows Forget Their Master at Plato Gallery
Henry Hung Chang: Island and Its Visitors at Plato Gallery
A Beautiful Friendship: Husain and Herwitz at Aicon
Threaded at Aicon
Alexandra Smith: Doppelganger at Auxier Kline
Group Shower at Nine *6pm - 9pm
After the Watershed | Late-Nite TV from Britain at Various Artists
Daniel Licht: Eight Paintings at Jarvis Art
Hana Ward: Much more elusive and even more wonderful at Hesse Flatow
Emily Harter: Split the Rolling Year at Hesse Flatow
Marie Watt: Thirteen Moons at Marc Strauss
Heather Bause Rubinstein: Out of the Woods at Ruttkowski;68
Phoebe Ploom: STILL HERE at Heath Gallery
Rex Morris & Daniel Stroh: Floor Model at Kaleidoscope *6pm - 9pm
Permanent Instability at Kates-Ferri Projects *5pm - 8pm
Beyond the Bedrock at PS122
Saturday, October 11th
Carlos Rodriguez: The Light That Passes Through Us at Hashimoto Contemporary
Monet and Venice at Brooklyn Museum *No opening reception
King Paris: GUARDIANS at Friedrichs Pontone
Satoko Morishita at Enorme *1pm - 4pm
Leda Tsoutreli: The Interstice at Palo
Sunday, October 12th
Frisco Pete at Elliott Templeton Fine Arts *3pm - 6pm
Events
Tuesday, October 7th
Artist Talk: Britta Marakatt-Labba in Conversation with Cecilia Alemani on the High Line
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Screening & Launch: Blackburn Oral History Project at the Emily Harvey Foundation
6pm
Screening of Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome at Nicole Klagsburn Gallery
6pm
Brightening Glance by Pat Lipsky book event with Pat Lipsky and Lili Anolik at Rizzoli Bookstore
6pm - 8pm
Artist Talk with Robert Zeller at Robilant + Voena
6:15pm
RSVP to rsvp@robilantvoena.com
Andrew Ross Artist Talk: Intersections of Assemblage Sculpture and Digital Imaging at Cooper Union
6:30pm
Imagining Indigenous Futures publication launch and panel discussion at MoMA
6:30pm - 8pm
Harriet Korman artist talk at the New York Studio School
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Artists at Work: Robertas Narkus in Conversation with Job Piston at ISCP
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Economies of Love. Part 6: Rituals of Replacement screening at eflux screening room
7pm
Tickets via link
Susan Meiselas and Kristen Lubben in Conversation hosted by Aperture at The New School
7pm
Henry Leutwyler Artist Talk at SVA
7pm - 8:30pm
Artist Talk: Harvey Stein - Long Term Projects & Sustaining a Career at Bronx Documentary Center
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Wednesday, October 8th
Artist Talk with Rachel Rossin at Pratt Department of Digital Arts
12pm - 2pm
Bernadette 2 Launch and Reading at Printed Matter
6pm - 8pm
Downtown Dealers panel discussion with Jane Lombard, Lisa Carlson, and Matthew Higgs
6:30pm
Zoe Leonard Artist Talk at Hunter College
7pm
A.L. Steiner Artist Talk at The New School
7pm - 8:30pm
Thursday, October 9th
BJ Armour Record release party + performance at White Columns
5pm - 7pm
Reading and Conversation with Elizabeth Glaessner and Ksenia M. Soboleva at PPOW
5:30pm
Bosco Sodi Artist Talk at NYU
5:30pm
Art & After: Praxis in an Age of Collapse Panel Discussion at MARCH
6pm
RSVP to info@marchgallery.org
Still Point Zine Launch & Poetry Reading at Ortega Y Gassett
6pm - 8pm
Frog Man & Baby Frog with Aristotelis Nikolas Mochloulis Performance at Artists Space
7pm
R.H. Lossin, “Artificial Intelligence: A Meaningless and Hazardous Concept” Lecture at eflux screening room
7pm - 9:30pm
We Are Not Alone: A reading at Ruby Dakota
8pm
Friday, October 10th
Photography Book Release for The First Draft with Rich Gilligan at the Center for Architecture
6pm - 8pm
Behind the Scens: A Look into Art21’s collaborative filmmaking screening at discussion at MoMA
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Tickets via link
Portrait of an Artist: Filmmakers Matt Wolf and Penny Lane in conversation at MoMA
4pm - 5pm
Tickets via link
Art21 Presents An Artist Talk with Lubaina Himid and Thelma Golden at MoMA
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Tickets via link
Art21 Premiere of “Between Worlds” at MoMA
7pm - 8pm
Tickets via link
Saturday, October 11th
Exhibition Walkthrough of Baseline with Cameron Martin and Hal Foster at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins
1pm
Artist Talk and Book Signing with Jesse Mockrin with Jacoba Urist at James Cohan Gallery
2pm
Artist Talk with Inuuteq Storch at MoMA PS1
2pm - 3pm
Triple Canopy Symposium 2025 at Roulette
2pm - 9:30pm
Artist Panel for Stretch, Hold, Release at Picture Theory
3pm
Artist Talk with Ryan Cosbert and Grace Aneiza Ali at Welancora Gallery
3:30pm - 4:30pm
A Dragon in the Halls of Diplomacy performance at Sculpture Center
4pm
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black Performance performance at MoMA PS1
4pm
Closing Poetry Reading for The Decline In Reading at d.d.d.d.
4pm - 6pm
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Disclaimer: I try to be as accurate as possible with dates and times that things are happening, but things are subject to change and I am subject to human error so please always check links before venturing out