October is officially underway, and downtown New York is easing into fall with a busy week of art, food, culture, and neighborhood happenings. From Tribeca and SoHo to the Lower East Side and East Village, there are new reasons to wander, linger, and make a plan somewhere below Canal Street.
And there is plenty more to explore beyond the galleries. This week’s picks take you through some of downtown’s most active neighborhoods, with opportunities to discover new art, sample something unexpected, browse local events, and settle into the particular energy of New York in early October. Consider this your guide to what’s happening around Tribeca, the LES, East Village, and SoHo this week.
Lower East Side | Thursday
Blank Mag Books, 17 Eldridge St, Drew Korn’s Prints
Cafe Studio, 195 Chrystie St, #102W, ‘Shared Waters’ presented by Reef with Rob Machado, 6pm-9pm
Hi Note, 181 Ave B, ‘The Exchange’ by Max Kluchinsky, 6pm-9pm
Collective Z, 325 Broome St, ‘Carried, Not Told’ by Cécile Roberfroid
Tribeca | Thursday
One Art Space, 23 Warren St, ‘OUT OF LINE’ by Don Hershman, 6pm-9pm
Lower East Side | Friday
Understudy, 42 Eldridge St, Opening party
Van der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard St, 縁 — Japanese Craft, Evolved
Whitebox, 9 Ave B, Tightrope: The Midterm Itch, curated by Juan Puntes, 5pm-8pm
Soho | Friday
Duane Thomas Gallery, 137 W Broadway, Women’s Drawings, Feminist Works on Paper
Tribeca | Friday
Frisson, 141 Attorney St, ‘2 x Self’ by Noah Pica, Paul Negron, Pica Negron
Gallery 456 (CAAC), 456 Broadway, 3rd Fl, ‘SLEEPLESS NIGHT’ by Xuhong Shang
East Village\Lower East Side | Saturday
Art Gotham, 4 Saint Marks Place, ‘Velvet Underground’ with various artists, curated by Ross Pino, Kimberly Salib
Below Grand, 52 Allen St, ‘Where Are My Keys?’ with Yan Wen Chang, Antonio Darden, Ro Miller, Stress Actual (Live), Curated by Karryl Eugene
Chinatown Soup, 16B Orchard St, work by Brandon Tellez
MexPino New York, 4th Ave at 11th & 12th St, Street Food Fair
East Village | Sunday
Raw Meat Gallery, 45 Division St, ‘Bucked Up’ by David Mramor, closing reception 12pm-4pm, readings at 2pm
Turquoise, 81 Elizabeth Street, Suite 302, Launch for Eleanor Ivory Weber, A Common Language is One of Holes, 5pm-7pm
Halo Salo Festival Philippines Fest X, Union Square Park, 10am - 6pm, Street Food Fair
Tribeca | Sunday
201@105, 105 Mulberry St., Room 201, ‘O’Shaughnessy’s’ Black and Whites by Rick Fichter
One of this week’s art highlights is Cécile Roberfroid at Collective Z Gallery**,** where abstraction and the human figure come together in layered paintings and works on paper. Her vivid canvases shift between color and form, while figures surface through scraped paint, maps, torn paper, stitching, and other accumulated materials. The exhibition has a feeling of movement and discovery, rewarding the kind of close looking that makes a gallery visit worth the detour.
Featured work above by Cécile Roberfroid
