Manhattan
LES Gallery Night first ever second Sundays—25+ galleries stay open late for people who appreciate art no tickets needed check website for participating galleries 4-9pm
Manhattan
LES Gallery Night first ever second Sundays—25+ galleries stay open late for people who appreciate art no tickets needed check website for participating galleries 4-9pm
Manhattan
Paula Cooper Gallery 534 W. 21st Street Opening: Ja’tovia Gary: You smell like outside…
International Center of Photography 79 Essex Street Community Meetup: Cameras & Coffee 11 am – 12 pm
81 Leonard Gallery 81 Leonard Street Opening reception: Irrational Craft 7-9 pm
Brooklyn
440 Gallery 440 6th Ave Opening reception: Juliet Martin / I see you falling out of love with me 4-6 pm
Open Source Gallery 306 17th Street Opening reception: Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds / In Union 7:30-8:30 pm
A.I.R. 155 Plymouth Street Opening reception: Bonam Kim, Lauren Simkin Berke, Ellyn Weiss 6-8 pm
Manhattan
Morgan Library 225 Madison Ave Opening: Nina Katchadourian/Uncommon Denominator free Friday evenings at the Morgan
Taglialatella Galleries Keith Haring pop up shop opening preview 6-9 pm
Bridget Donahue 99 Bowery 2nd floor opening Mark Van Yetter/ Politics of Charm 6-8 pm
LatchKey Gallery 173 Henry Street Opening: Echo Box 6-8 pm
Theodore 373 Broadway room F10 Opening reception: Peter Krashes / Crosswalk 5-8 pm
Online
James Cohen Art for Lunch: Devon Zimmerman on Elsa Gramcko register via zoom
Pace Nina Katchadourian/ Look Who’s Talking online viewing
Apex art Solidarity Beyond Borders in conjunction with My Pen Won’t Break, But Borders Will 12 pm online
The Museum at FIT opening Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: Fifty Years of Hip Hop Style 10 am – 5 pm
Acquavella Galleries opening and conversation: less minimalism in the 1960s 5 pm ( exhibition) 6 pm (panel)
Flag Art Foundation 545 W 25th St #9 opening Aubrey Levinthal
Greene Naftali 508 West 26th Street, floor 8 opening Bernadette Corporation 6-8 pm
MARCH 62-64 Avenue A Opening: Mose Tolliver/Decoded and John Hee Taek Chae/Shed Your Eyes 6-8 pm
Westbeth Gallery 57 Bethune Street Opening: paroxysm (reception tomorrow 6-9 pm)
Totah 183 Stanton Street Opening: Alex Sewell, dad?
Camera Club of NY Baxter St opening reception: Tommy Kha Ghost Bites 6-8 pm
Manhattan
Two Palms 38 Crosby Street opening: Mel Bochner Amazing
Mitchell-Innes & Nash 534 West 26th Street Brent Wadden: Ogopogo
Debra Force Fine Art 13 E 69th street, Suite 4F opening: 19th Century American Art
Brooklyn
Light Industry 361 Stagg Street in Brooklyn, Suite 407 Screening: Rubén Gámez’s The Secret Formula 7:30 pm
Online
Perrotin online viewing salon: Elmgreen & Dragset after the kiss on view now through February 15
Manhattan
Umami Gallery 156 E 45th st experience: Traditional Japanese Crafts from Kurashiki (with free ramen tasting) 1 pm
Brooklyn
Incubator Gallery 56 Bogart St, Lower Level South Opening reception: Group show/ Trophy, 1-6 pm
The Shanty 79 Richardson Street performance: NYDC Reading Series (monthly) 6 pm
Queens
Satya Narayan Mandir 75-15 Woodside Avenue Queens performance: SATSANG & KIRTAN
Manhattan
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel 532 West 25th Street Opening reception: John Alexander Parks 5-7 pm
Field Projects 526 W 26th St Open studios Dawn Frasch 4-8 pm
Rick Wester Fine Art 526 W 26th St Opening: Group show/What’s up, Pop up?
Andrew Edlin Gallery 212 Bowery opening Ray Materson, Embroideries, 1990–2023
Artists Space 11 Cortlandt Alley & Online Event: Segue Reading Series 5 pm
Latitude Gallery 64A Bayard Street Opening reception: Charlie Mai 6-8 pm
Brooklyn
carvalho park 112 Waterbury Street Opening: Matt Kleberg, Mary Little + Rachel Mica Weiss, Creatures of Sense 2-5 pm
Manhattan
52 Walker Opening reception: Gordon Matta-Clark & Pope L, Impossible Failures 6-8 pm
The Shed Level 2 Gallery opening The Yanomami Struggle 11 am-8 pm
Andrew Edlin Gallery 212 Bowery opening Joe Coleman, 100 Seconds to Midnight
Greene Naftali 508 West 26th Street opening: Gedi Sibony, I Was Like Wait
The Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street opening: Xiyadie, Queer Cut Utopias
R&Company 64 White Street opening: Robert Pfannebecker, Friend and Collector of the Arts & Luam Melake, Furnished Feelings
The Journal Gallery 45 White Street opening: A.R. Penck and Spencer Sweeney, Tennis Elbow 111
PPOW Gallery 390 Broadway, Floor 2 opening: Tom Knechtel, Drawn After Life & Jimmy DeSana, The Dungeon Series, 1978-79
Brooklyn
Kaje 74 15th Street Opening Reception: Ignas Krunglevicius, Spawn site specific audio installation 6-9 pm
Cathouse Proper 524 Court Street, 2nd floor Opening: Alex Brown, Presence Chamber
NARS Foundation 201 46th Street 4th floor Opening reception: Leonardo Madriz, Can’t Forget, Dying to Know & Shihori Yamamoto, I am here to love 6-8 pm
Amos Eno Gallery 56 Bogart Street Opening reception: David Olivant, Out of Joint 6-8 pm
Bronx
Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos 450 Grand Concourse Musical performance: Percussia 4-6 pm
Manhattan
Studio79 224 West 79 Street Art on the Ave features Gaelle Hintzy-Marcel 6:30-9 pm
Tilton Gallery 8 East 76 Street Opening reception: Noah Purifoy, Assemblages of Found Objects 6-8 pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery 132 East 68th Street Opening reception: C. C. Wang, Lines of Abstraction 7-9 pm
Arsenal 830 Fifth Avenue (Central Park) opening reception: NYC Parks’ Art & Antiquities, Heritage: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future in Black Art 6-8 pm
Consulate General of Argentina 12 West 56th Street Opening to the public: Monica Sartori, Lava 6-8 pm
Gagosian 522 West 21st Street Opening reception: Cy Gavin, Large Landscape Paintings 6–8 pm
Ceres Gallery 547 West 27th St., #201 ASCA’s group show reception: Ciao! María de Echevarría, Erin Karp, Richard Karp, Margo Mead, Bonnie Rothchild 6-8 pm
The Painting Center 547 West 27th Street, #500 Reception: Lisa Pressman, Chase Cantwell, Karen Nielsen-Fried & Marybeth Rothman 5-8 pm
Pictor Gallery 547 West 27th Street Opening: TAFA, the echos of memories 6-8 pm
Whitney Museum of Art 99 Gansevoort Street free community viewing by CENTRO and The Whitney, exhibition “no existe un mundo poshuracan”: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria 6:30-8:30 pm
Yossi Milo Gallery 245 Tenth Avenue opening: Navot Miller, Eurovision
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art 26 Wooster Street Opening reception: Coyote Park, I Love You Like Mirrors Do 6-8pm
188 Allen Street Opening night: SacSix & street artisans, most illegal art show 6 pm
Brooklyn
Dumbo First Thursday Gallery Walk 6-8 pm see participating shows below:
A.I.R. Gallery 155 Plymouth Street d’Ann de Simone, textilis mnēmosynēy; and Friend of the Artist
Smack Mellon Emily Clayton, Hydra; and Tomi Faison, First As Tragedy, Then As LARP
Janet Borden, Inc. Alfred Leslie
Minus Space Cris Gianakos: Works on Mylar 1983-1989
IN MEMORIAM
New York art historian, editor and archivist Larry Qualls (born Larry Benton Qualls 1945-2022) whose daily blog Documents On Art & Design was such an invaluable resource for New Yorkers like me.