Days & Nights Presents: THE EVENING
A night out on Jan. 10
The best night of 2025 (so far) is upon us. Folks, meet Friday, January 10.
As Tribeca explodes with new shows from our favorite galleries and Jack Shainman’s gorgeous new space opens on Friday, THE EVENING is your guide for what to see and do before, during, and after the 6-8pm gallery openings.
We encourage you to grab your friends or just yourself (pending energy levels) and get ready to have a supremely good night.
Before 6p
If you’re free early, see shows that are already up and running and definitely worth your time:
Paintings by Alexis Mata and sculpture by Raul De Lara at The Hole (86 Walker Street)
Al Freeman’s Room Service at Broadway Gallery (375 Broadway)
Irascible: Hans Hofmann and the Contemporary Legacy of the New York School featuring work from Hofmann himself, Justine Hill, Erin O’Keefe, and more at DIMIN (406 Broadway, 2nd Floor)
And/or, grab a drink at the Roxy Hotel’s bar for a quick breather.
Opening Time: 6-8p
1. Start on Church Street
🎨 Margot Samel (295 Church Street)
Opening reception for Leroy Johnson, the first show of the late artist’s work in New York, at the always exquisitely curated Margot Samel.
2. Take a right on Walker Street
🎨 Bortolami (39 Walker Street)
On the first floor, catch the opening reception for TRANCE, work from the unbelievably, incredibly genius Paul Mpagi Sepuya, one of our favorite living photographers. We’re not art advisors, but if we were, we’d tell you to buy whatever you can from Sepuya.
Head upstairs to see Violet Dennison, Kelsey Isaacs, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Olivia van Kuiken’s the Lord will spit out the lukewarm, with new work from four artists.
🎨 James Cohan (48 and 52 Walker)
See half of the Behind the Bedroom Door group show at 48 Walker (the other half is at Cohan’s 291 Grand St. location, with an opening today from 4-6p).
Head next door to catch the opening of There is another sky by Scottish artist Katie Paterson. Expect loads of multi-disciplinary work.
🎨 Bortolami (55 Walker)
At 55 Walker, a space shared across galleries, Bortolami presents Melike Kara’s was uns bleibt, featuring painting, installation, and photography.
🎨 Chapter (60 Walker Street)
Cheyenne Julien’s solo exhibition 41 Floors opens tonight with lots of paintings drawing inspiration from famed architect Paul Rudolph. This show “coincides with Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through March 16, 2025.”
3. Take a left on Broadway for a quick detour above Canal
🎨 Ulterior Gallery (424 Broadway, #601)
Catch Jen Mazza’s Vicissitudes of Nature. Ulterior is on the top floor of a cool old building on Broadway just north of Canal.
4. Turn south on Broadway to catch:
🎨 Marian Goodman Gallery (385 Broadway)
Two shows open tonight at Marian Goodman’s new-ish, sprawling Tribeca space: Boris Mikhailov’s Refracted Times and An-My Lê’s Dark Star/Grey Wolf.
🎨 PPOW (390 Broadway, 2nd Floor)
This great gallery's first show of the year is Berlin-based American artist Rajkamal Kahlon’s Are My Hands Clean?
5. Quick detour to Cortlandt Alley (behind PPOW)
🎨 Andrew Kreps (22 Cortlandt Alley)
Catch new photos in Roe Ethridge’s Shore Front Parkway.
6. Back to Broadway:
🎨 Sargent’s Daughters (370 Broadway)
Two shows open tonight at the gallery’s new-ish Tribeca space: Sarah Rosalena’s Star Rose, Rose Star and Gogo Graham’s Do I Make You Proud?
7. Over and down Lafayette:
🎨 ⭐ Jack Shainman’s new location (46 Lafayette)
This is the night’s biggest draw! For a big new gallery space, a big new show from one of the world’s biggest artists: Nick Cave presents Amalgams and Graphts. How did we get so lucky.
🍸 BREAK
If you’ve had enough or if you ran out of time to see more openings, a few options to end your night:
Dinner at Dr. Clark (104 Bayard Street)
This is a Japanese restaurant with extraordinary food and cocktails. We love it for somehow nailing a chic-rustic-sexy vibe—the way we want a cabin to be, but cabins can’t because they’re too busy living in the woods with worms and bugs to be this cute.
Drinks at The River (102 Bayard Street)
This bar has snacks and cocktails and a vibe that’s hard to pin down, but as long as you bring yourself you can’t have a bad time. (Because let’s be honest, you’re great.)
8. Or! Head north to see more openings:
🎨 Nathalie Karg Gallery (127 Elizabeth Street)
A 14 minute stroll from Jack Shainman gets you to this great Chinatown gallery to see Simon Ko’s Dreams Apart, a show of new paintings of people in slightly surreal or magical landscapes from the New York-based artist.
🎨 Plato Gallery (202 Broadway)
This new gallery, opened less than a year ago, is a five minute walk north from Nathalie Karg. Tonight, see Here's Looking at You, a group exhibition, and Katya Muromtseva’s Heart Left in the Bag.
🍸 Good job!
That’s the end of our recommended art hop, although there’s always more to find. If you’re done looking, grab a drink at somewhere nearby, like:
Rintintin (14 Spring Street)
Four minute walk from Plato, with wine, cocktails, and totally fine Mediterranean food and wine. The crowd can be annoying on weekends, but then again aren’t we all insufferable? So let go and enjoy Spring Street on a Friday.
Or, double back to Little Italy and eat off-menu lasagna at a beautiful red sauce-y jewel:
La Nonna (134 Mulberry St)
Ten minutes from Plato or four from Nathalie Karg, this beautifully average Little Italy spot is best visited with your best friends. One of the coolest people we know ordered off-menu lasagna here last time we went after a Nathalie Karg opening, and everybody left the restaurant with teeth stained purple from the heaviest house red you’ve ever consumed. Ten out of ten.
And there you have it: a perfect night! Remember that all these shows are open for at least a month, so you can pick and choose parts of The Evening to do anytime.
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