NYC art map and recs, 7/15/25 - 7/20/25
Hi folks!
There are two great events happening on Wednesday night that I want to highlight — the first is the ADAA Gallery Walk, which will span both Chelsea and Tribeca with almost 60 galleries participating between both neighborhoods. It’s a useful opportunity to catch some exhibitions in the evening, since most galleries in those neighborhoods are now on the summer Monday - Friday schedules. There are a whole bunch of individual events rolled into it including walkthroughs, screenings, and book sales so be sure to check the full schedule for planning.
The other is ISCP Open House, which is my recurring favorite open studio event — if you’ve never been to ISCP and especially if your art-viewing tends to be oriented around commercial spaces in Chelsea and Tribeca, I can’t recommend it highly enough as a great opportunity to see a much more international and much less market-oriented perspective on contemporary art. (If you’re over there in the evening, it’s basically across the street from Grimm, which is one of my favorite breweries, and a short walk from Anchored Inn, which has some of my favorite bar food and excellent drinks).
I managed to make it to 4 new to me spaces on Saturday, which I think might be a personal record! I started at the intriguing apartment gallery Turquoise with the “Marcel Duchamp” exhibition Some Debatable Readymades. (Marcel Duchamp is in quotes for a reason, go see the exhibition or read about it and you’ll understand why.)
I also went to Kalei to see Gaetano Pesce: WORK/LIFE IMBALANCE, the newly opened space Offline to see Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time, and to Nguyen Wahed to see Doku: Black and White Karma – Turning. Nguyen Wahed was the one that I messed up on and thought was still open when it has closed the day before…but the work was still visible from the street (though without sound) so I’m still counting it (especially since it was a long schlep there from the previous destination).
One more quick recommendation! I went to a screening of works by Viktor Timofeev who’s a really fascinating Latvia-born, New York based artist at eflux screening room a few weeks ago — it was one of the best screenings I’d been to in awhile, and really got my mind turning about some of the future time-based media exhibitions I’d like to organize. Viktor put the playlist of films from that screening on Vimeo, so they can be streamed online (password is “melon” — it is in the link in his Instagram bio). I suggest reading the descriptions of each on the eflux page before watching! eflux also published an edited transcript of his conversation following the screening with Erika Beckman, which is also fantastic. As someone who’s really into rule and system based art, and also art that has something of a sense of humor, this really hit a sweet spot for me.
(Are you an artist who makes time-based media or digitally native work that’s available to stream / otherwise experience on the web? Hit me up if so — I’d love to learn about and feature more compelling projects of this nature).
Also…this is me politely pleading to galleries to please, please update your hours on both your website and on Google maps. I triple checked for everything I went to on Saturday, and only got screwed over twice (one was my fault for not checking the updated exhibition dates), but it was kind of surprising how many inconsistencies in information I found.
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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!
Monday, July 14th
Sofia Crespo: Critically Extant at Nguyen Wahed
Tuesday, July 15th
Ricardo Cabret: Un día at Efraín López
Joe Brainard American Art Catalogues
Artelibre: More than a Quarter of a Century Giving Voice to Realist Art at Atlantic Gallery
Wednesday, July 16th
Cross-Currents: New York-London at Helm Contemporary
Summer Exhibition at Shin
Steve Keister: Split Level at Derek Eller
André Ethier: Canned Heat at Derek Elller
Explosion Robinson at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
I have become my own worst fear at PPOW
Mizue Sawano: TOKYO—NEW YORK—PARIS at Sapar Contemporary
Raina Lee, Elena Rivera-Montanes, Alejandro Sintura at Scroll
Nick Angelo: Edifice at Sebastian Gladstone
Crossings at First Street Gallery
Celebrating 30 Years at Yancey Richardson
Thursday, July 17th
Victor Ekpuk: Looking Back and Forward at Aicon
Rasheed Araeen: In Lights at Aicon
Matt King: Blunt Instrument at Entrance
Ronit Goldschmidt: Landscapes at Gordon Gallery New York
Mary Temple & Nathan Dilworth: Double Nature at Half
Eric McHenry: Fear of the Fiddle at Half
centrifugal at Island
Herbivore at The Hole
Mathew Zefeldt: Reflections at The Hole
Joyful Apocalypse at Van Der Plas *6pm - 9pm
Summer Show at Allouche Gallery
Dealer's Choice at DIMIN
Labyrinth of Linkages (Pt 2) at Galerie Timonier
Katarina Janečková: Walshe at Harkawik
REVOLVE at Market Gallery
Refractions at Mriya Gallery
Guest of a Guest at The Hole
Kris Calnan: New Hampshire Landscapes at Bowery
THE FIRST CIRCLE: RADICAL HUMANISM at Microscope
Wassy Bats at Field Projects
Any of the Many at The Canopy Gallery
JAPAN REIMAGINED: A New Circle (Wa) of Creativity in the Heart of New York at Noho M55 Gallery
Gray Ecologies at Adler Beatty
Phong H. Bui & Sol Lewitt at Craig Starr
This Is Not The Signal at John Street Gallery
Friday, July 18th
Rose Wong at Ernorme
Refreshment: On the Aesthetics of Reawakening at Space 776
a glimpse of Things at Spencer Brownstone
Jeenho Seo: Reset at Underdonk
Tianxing Xu: The Duet’s Carnival at Gallery 456 / Chinese American Arts Council
Seasonal Drift at 303 Gallery
Saturday, July 19th
Adam Unparadis’d at Francis Irv
Hot Town at Pictor Gallery
Greg Dzurita & Alexis Granwell: Beneath the Surface at Field of Play
Sunday, July 20th
DANCING WITH CHAOS at Gallery MC *No evening opening, closing even July 25th
Events
Tuesday, July 15th
Sonic Performance by Africanus Okokon at the Ford Foundation Gallery
6pm - 7:30pm
Early Films by Guy Sherwins screening at Light Industry
7pm
Decision Moment. II: Simultaneous Pasts screening at eflux screening room
8:30pm
Wednesday, July 16th
Summer Celebration & Open House at ISCP
5pm - 9pm
ADAA Chelsea & Tribeca Gallery Walk 2025
6pm - 8pm
SHIFT 2025 Catalog Launch at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
6:30pm - 8:30pm
NADA TALKS with Alan Barrows and Andrew Woolbright
6pm
Gavilán Rayna Russom, Oh Remain performance at Participant
7pm
Thursday, July 17th
Artist talk with Choichun Leung in conversation with Logan Taylor Brown at Ruby/Dakota
6pm - 8pm
The Tenderness of Glass Book Launch with Jodi Lin and Gavilán Rayna Russom at CARA
7pm
Artist talk by Paul Anthony Smith hosted by Pubic Art Fund at Jack Shainman Gallery
RSVP via link
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Friday, July 18th
All Street Community Art Day
1pm - 6pm
The Lost Salt: A Sonic performance-lecture by Saar Shemesh and Mars Dietz at Springs Projects
7pm
Patrick Sarmiento: Trash and Recycling presented by Camaclang Lane at 53 Scott Ave
7pm - 9pm
Saturday, July 19th
Zine swap hosted by ABC No Rio at Bluestockings
2pm - 6pm
Synthetic Legacies: Poems of Artificial Intelligence with Davide Balula, Charles Bernstein, Rindon Johnson and K Allado-McDowell at the Swiss Institute
2pm - 4pm
REVOLVE: an hourglass of performance art, animation, and abstract sculpture at The Boiler
7pm - 9pm
Sunday, July 20th
Khajistan Presents: 5 Year Anniversary Screening of Showgirls of Pakistan at SculptureCenter
2pm - 4pm
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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