From bold new art shows, to thought-provoking artist talks and underground performances throughout the Lower East Side, SoHo, NoHo, Tribeca, and the East Village, this week’s curated listings spotlight the best in downtown New York’s creative scene. Discover the most buzzed-about gallery openings, book launches, and cultural happenings to experience now, whether you’re an art lover, collector, or just looking to tap into the city’s ever-evolving creative energy.

Lower East Side | Weds

Derek Eller Gallery, 300 Broome St, ‘Split Level’ by Steve Keister

Helm Contemporary, 132 Bowery, 3rd Floor, ‘Cross Currents’ featuring 20+ artists

New Art Dealers Alliance at LUNCH, 311 East Broadway, 2nd Floor NADA Talks with Alan Barrows, 6pm

Tribeca | Weds

Scroll, 86 Walker St, In the Afternoon’ with Raina Lee, Elena Rivera-Montanes, Alejandro Sintura

Canada, 60 Lispenard St, ‘Paper Tigers’ with Katherine Bernhardt, Kathy Bradford, Joe Bradley, Marc Hundley, Denzil Hurley, Kahlil Robert Irving, Xylor Jane, Robert Janitz, Elizabeth Kley, Sadie Laska, Mimi Lauter, Lily Ludlow, Michael Mahalchick, Joanna Milanowska, Elena Panakova, Tyson Reeder, Scott Reeds, Hasani Sahlehe, Julie Shapiro, Joan Snyder, Rob Swainston, Trevor Warren, Rachel Williams, Wallace Whitney, Annette Wehrhahn, and Anke Weyer

George Adams Gallery, 38 Walker Street, ‘Staff Picks’ with Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Craig Calderwood, Tony May, Katherine Sherwood, M. Louise Stanley, and William T. Wiley

Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, 87 Franklin Street, ‘Explosion Robinson’ with Helen Beckman, Nancy Bowen, Sasha Budai, Amy Decker, Julio Espada, Chad Etting, Saskia Fleishman, Meena Hasan, Cooper Holoweski, Wayson R. Jones, Rhea Karam, John Hyen Lee, Sangram Majumdar, Noah Markoe, Kimberli Meyer, Nyeema Morgan, Toshiaki Noda, Bobbie Oliver, Nathalie Shepherd, Alma Sinai, Thomas Spoerndle, Kim Uchiyama, Skye Volmar, Mie Yim, Matthew Zaccari

PPOW, 392 Broadway, ‘I have become my own worst fear’ with Dotty Attie, Jimmy DeSana, Joe Houston, Betty Tompkins, Anton van Dalen, Martha Wilson, David Wojnarowicz with Jesse Hultberg, Martin Wong

Sebastian Gladstone Gallery, 36 White St, ‘Edifice’ by Nick Angelo

Lower East Side | Thurs

Half Gallery, 235 E 4th St, Fear of the Fiddle by Eric McHenry

Gern en Regalia, 105 Henry St #5, Book launch for ‘Pyre’ by Michael Cavuto, 73-pm, performance with Henry Fraser

Olfactory Art Keller, 25A Henry Street, The Rise of Medusa, performance with Ben Richter and M Dougherty, 7:30pm

Gordon Gallery, 139 Norfolk St, ‘Landscapes’ by Ronit Goldschmidt

Equity Gallery, 245 Broome St, ‘Grand Unity’

Van der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard St, ‘Joyful Apocalypse’ by Al Diaz, Brian Gormley, Christine Randolph, Ed Higgins III, Konstantin Bokov, Johan Wahlstrom, Juan Carlos Pinto, Kevin Wendall (FA-Q), Matthew Aaron, Monty Cantsin (Istvan Kantor), Peter Griffin, Shalom Tomáš Neuman, 6pm-9pm

Soho | Thurs

Allouche Gallery, 77 Mercer St, Summer Show 2025 with FAILE, Rose Freymuth-Frazier, Israel Agboola Oladapo, Juan de la Rica, Felix R. Cid, Hannah Lupton Reinhard and Mia Scarpa, Swoon, and Chito

Noho | Thurs

Aicon, 35 Great Jones St, ‘In Lights’ by Rasheed Araeen, ‘Looking Back and Forward’ by Victor Ekpuk

Tribeca | Thurs

Galerie Timonier, 246 West Broadway, ‘a labyrinth of linkages, pt II’ with Michaela Bathrick, Morgan Canavan, Olivier Mosset, Michael Ross, Jairo Sosa, Z Susskind

Mryia Gallery, 101 Reade St, Refractions with Saint Chalom, Brittany Clifford, Erik Sommer, 6pm-9pm

Lower East Side | Fri

Blank Mag Books, 17 Eldridge St, Oh, You’ by Chad Moore, 6pm-9pm

Underdonk, 191 Henry St, Reset’ by Jeenho Seo

All St, 119 Hester St, All Street Community Art Day, 1-8pm

Whaam!, 15 Elizabeth St, Heatstroke Candy with Abella D’Adamo, Chloee Maugile, Chris Martin, Coco144, Hunter Ney, Lawe/Sub5 aka Chris Capuzzo, Ruth Angel Edwards, Wombat

Space776, 37-39 Clinton St, ‘Refreshment: On the Aesthetics of Reawakening’ with Ocean, Roberta Gattel, Mary McGee, RSVP

Tribeca | Fri

Gallery 456 (CAAC), 456 Broadway, 3rd Fl, ‘The Duet’s Carnival’ by Tianxing Xu, curated by Phil Zheng Cai, 5pm-8pm

Harkawik, 88 Walker St, ‘Good News/Bad News’ by Katarina Janečková Walshe

One Art Space, 23 Warren St, Bam! Red Dots! Art Experience featuring 40+ artists, 6pm-9pm

Tribeca | Sat

Francis Irv, 106 Walker St, #201 (3rd Fl), ‘Adam Unparadis’d’ with Tina Barney, Arthur Marie, Carissa Rodriguez, Rose Salane

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Featured work above by Katarina Janečková Walshe at Harkawik