Planning your weekend in downtown Manhattan? This week’s art listings spotlight the most exciting exhibitions, gallery openings, and creative events happening Friday and Saturday in the Lower East Side and Tribeca. From cutting-edge contemporary shows to immersive installations and emerging artist showcases, these two neighborhoods continue to define New York City’s vibrant art scene. Whether you’re gallery-hopping along Orchard Street or exploring Tribeca’s expansive loft spaces, our curated guide helps you discover the must-see art events, openings, and cultural experiences happening this weekend. Stay ahead of the scene and make the most of your Friday and Saturday with the best art listings in the Lower East Side and Tribeca.
Lower East Side | Thurs
Trotter & Sholer, 168 Suffolk St, ‘Capitol Babylon: The Narrative Falsehood of the Static Monument’ by Leah Dixon
Westwood Gallery, 262 Bowery, ‘NO!art: Downtown Rebellion, 1960s’ with Boris Lurie, Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher
David Peter Francis, 35 East Broadway #3F, ‘Science Fiction Master Plan: Wholesome Encounters’ by William Scott
Dashwood Projects, 63 East 4th Street, ‘Bedtime Stories for Bad Boys and Girls’ by Larry Clark & James Gilroy
Noho | Thurs
Aicon, 35 Great Jones St, Indian Miniature Painting, ‘Past Comes to Present’ with Humaira Abid, Hasnat Mehmood, Tazeen Qayyum, Talha Rathore
Tribeca | Thurs
205 Hudson Gallery, 205 Hudson Street, 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions with Lauren Cline, Reuben Gordon, Juan Hinojosa, Maya Lee-Parritz, Quin Mittelstead, Daniel Tepper, Anna Witenberg, 6pm-9pm
Ulrik, 175 Canal Steet, Floor 3, ‘LOOKING IN THE BOTTLE’ by Matthew Pang
Lower East Side | Fri
Auxier Kline, 19 Monroe St, ‘How Nice not to Rush’ by Tin Nguyen
Turquoise, 81 Elizabeth Street, Suite 302, ‘Who’s Afraid of____?’ by Hans Goodrich, 5pm-7:30pm
Tribeca | Fri
Hal Bromm, 90 West Broadway, ‘Outsiders’ by Joey Tepedino, David Wojnarowicz, and Larry Stanton
Harkawik , 88 Walker St, ‘Internal Weather’ by Eli Hill
apexart, 291 Church Street, ‘The uterus is also a fist’ curated by Talita Trizoli and Renata Freitas
Dimin, 406 Broadway, ‘As Above, So Below’ by Brennen Steines
Derek Eller Gallery, 38 Walker Street, ‘Spiral Architect’ by Steve DiBenedetto
GR Gallery, 116 Chambers St, ‘Held Within’ with Miho Ichise, Shangkai Kevin Yu, Kenta Kawabata, and Peter Opheim
One Art Space, 23 Warren St, ImageNation New York, featuring several artists
Shrine, 368 Broadway, ‘Stray’ by Rob Ober
Friday Art Crawl Map:
Noho | Sat
Eric Firestone Gallery, 4 Great Jones St #3, Couples featuring various artists, 3pm-6pm
As you map out your Friday and Saturday in the Lower East Side and Tribeca, don’t miss this week’s featured exhibition at DIMIN. As Above, So Below presents a striking new body of work by Brennen Steines, whose paintings channel the alchemical Law of Correspondence—bridging inner and outer worlds through processes of transformation and material tension.
Across eleven works, Steines constructs layered, volatile surfaces using oil, limestone, copper, mica, and emulsion. These materials fracture, erode, and re-form into abstract terrains that feel at once cellular and cosmic—evoking tectonic shifts, celestial expanses, and microscopic instability. The palette moves through volcanic reds, oxidized blues, metallic golds, and dense blacks, capturing both geological time and atmospheric vastness.
Rooted in both scientific inquiry and personal experience, Steines’ practice treats painting as a living system shaped by pressure, vulnerability, and change. Cracking, pooling, and oxidation become generative acts, resulting in works that hover between collapse and cohesion. Rather than fixed images, these paintings operate as evolving fields—where scale dissolves and perception remains in flux.
Make sure to add DIMIN to your itinerary this weekend and experience one of the most compelling exhibitions currently on view in downtown Manhattan.
Featured work above by Brennen Steines at Dimin
