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October 22 at 7pm +26
New Museum · Lower East Side
The New Museum champions emerging artists with challenging, experimental exhibitions that make you work for it. Housed in a distinctive stacked building on the Bowery, it's where you go to discover what's next in contemporary art.
October 22 at 6:30pm
The Studio Museum in Harlem · Harlem
An evening of art and giving back: StartCare marks 57 years of community health work with a fundraiser inside the Studio Museum in Harlem, surrounded by contemporary African American art.
Every day at 12pm from May 5 to Dec. 31
Fraunces Tavern Museum · Financial District • $10
Experience the American Revolution where it actually happened. This new exhibit inside Fraunces Tavern traces the path to independence through personal letters, artifacts, and art from 1775 to 1776, all housed in the very rooms where Washington bid farewell to his officers.
Oct. 23 & Oct. 24 at 12pm
Participant Inc · Little Italy
Tyler Cala Williams shifts from digital media to oil on canvas in this solo exhibition. The work explores how images mutate through personal memory and diasporic visual culture using pixelation and chromatic disruption.
Every day at 8am from Sep. 17 to Nov. 1
The Africa Center · East Harlem
Climate change, seen from the front lines. Five young African photographers capture communities adapting with grit and ingenuity, from Soweto's waste pickers to fishing villages in Togo and Kenya.
October 23 at 7pm
Pier 51 at Hudson River Park · Manhattan • Free
Dive below the Hudson without getting wet. This free, tech-powered gallery lets you explore the river's critters through immersive games, with October's hands-on lessons themed around Trees and Foliage.
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Thu, Oct 22 · 7:00 PM
SVA Theatre · Manhattan
Thu, Oct 22 · 7:00 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Manhattan
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:00 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Thu, Oct 22 · 9:00 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Thu, Oct 22 · 7:00 PM
SVA Theatre · Manhattan
Thu, Oct 22 · 7:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Manhattan
Thu, Oct 22 · 9:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:57 PM
TKTS Times Square · Theater District
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Thu, Oct 22 · 7:00 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Manhattan
Thu, Oct 22 · 9:00 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Thu, Oct 22 · 11:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Thu, Oct 22 · 9:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Manhattan
Thu, Oct 22 · 7:00 PM
New Museum · Lower East Side
Thu, Oct 22 · 7:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Fri, Oct 23 · 11:00 AM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:00 AM
Susan Sheehan Gallery · SoHo
Fri, Oct 23 · 1:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:00 AM
The Lenfest Center for the Arts · Harlem
Fri, Oct 23 · 9:30 AM
Museum of Broadway · Theater District
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:30 AM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:30 AM
The Museum of Modern Art · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 9:00 AM
Westbeth Artists Housing and Center for the Arts · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 11:30 AM
Long Gallery Harlem · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:00 PM
Whitney Museum of American Art · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 4:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Fri, Oct 23 · 6:00 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:30 AM
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Manhattan
$0-$30
Fri, Oct 23 · 1:00 AM
Fashion Institute of Technology · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:00 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 3:00 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:30 AM
The Museum of Modern Art · Midtown
$17-$30
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:00 AM
New York Transit Museum Gallery & Store · Midtown
$$
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:00 PM
The New York Historical · Upper West Side
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:00 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 7:00 AM
SVA Theatre · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:00 AM
Chelsea Piers · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:00 AM
SVA Chelsea Gallery · Chelsea
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:00 PM
The Morgan Library & Museum · Murray Hill
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:00 AM
Color Factory NYC · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 12:00 PM
Company Gallery · Nolita
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:30 PM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:00 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Central Park
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:00 AM
David Zwirner · Tribeca
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:00 PM
The Morgan Library & Museum · Murray Hill
Fri, Oct 23 · 12:00 PM
Gordon Robichaux Gallery · Chelsea
Fri, Oct 23 · 12:00 PM
Derosia · Little Italy
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:00 PM
Josie Robertson Plaza · Upper West Side
$0
Fri, Oct 23 · 10:00 AM
The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 11:30 AM
Long Gallery Harlem · Harlem
Fri, Oct 23 · 11:00 AM
Heft Gallery · Manhattan
Fri, Oct 23 · 6:00 PM
Leica Store and Gallery New York · West Village
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