Week of June 9
Paintings, people, turtles, and other happenings 👀
We can’t get over how magical it is to look at things, and this week gives us great content to stare at: paintings, people, turtles, and more.
🆓 = costs $0, 🎨 = art, 🎼 = music, 🎬 = film, 📚= books, 🌳 = nature, 🎭 = performance, 🧠 = extra smart people, 🍸 = drinks available, 🗽= extra New Yorky
🔑 Click the venue link for full event details.
Monday, June 9
McNally Jackson’s Preservation of Record fest presents The Afterlife of Hilma af Klint
Jodi Hauptman, the curator who brought Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers to the MOMA, and Julia Voss, author of Hilma af Klint. A Biography, talk about af Klint’s work and afterlife, including her posthumous rise to international fame in the past decade.
To attend, grab a $5 ticket to reserve a seat or $35 for a book and a seat. You’ll get a $5 coupon when you check in which you can apply to any purchase in the store (including the downstairs bar).
McNally Jackson, South Street Seaport
Mon at 6:30p 📚 🎨 🍸🧠
Other Monday events, briefly noted:
192 Books presents Jay Ruttenberg and Lucinda Schreiber read from Gabba Gabba We Accept You: The Wondrous Tale of Joey Ramone at Clement Clarke Moore Park next to 192 Books (Chelsea), 5p 📚 🌳 🗽
Screening of The Voice of the Hudson at The Explorer’s Club (Upper East Side), 6p 🎬 🗽
Franklin Park’s Monthly Reading Series featuring five novelists and one poet at Franklin Park (Crown Heights), 8p 🆓 📚
Tuesday, June 10
Museum Mile Fest up and down Fifth Avenue
Every Summer, the big institutions up and down Museum Mile stay open a little late. Stroll in and out of The Met, Neue Galerie, Guggenheim, Cooper Hewitt, Jewish Museum, Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and The Africa Center til 9pm tonight.
Arrive in the neighborhood early to catch a book signing with Kennedy Yanko at the UES’s gorgeous Salon 94 following her exhibition Retro Future from 5-7p.
Up and down Fifth Ave, Upper East Side
Tues from 6-9p 🆓 🎨
Last day to see R U Still Painting???
Already extended once, this is the new last day to see this remarkable show in an old office space. Highlights include Scott Reeder’s paintings and Sam Barsky’s sweaters.
520 8th Avenue 15th Floor, Midtown
Tues from 12-6p 🆓 (RSVP required) 🎨
Other Tuesday events, briefly noted:
Opening reception for Contents May Vary group show at Fredericks & Freiser (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Susumu Kamijo’s Fish & Flowers at Venus Over Manhattan (NoHo), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Jeff Hiller talks his new book Actress of a Certain Age with Bridget Everett and Murray Hill at Symphony Space (Upper East Side), 7:30p 📚
Wednesday, June 11
The National Queer Theater’s Criminal Queerness Festival kicks off in collaboration with HERE at the HERE Mainstage Theater (Soho), runs through June 28 with three different plays 🎭
Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room opens at the Brooklyn Museum (Crown Heights), runs through 2031 so you’ve got time 🎨
Member Summer Evenings, every Wednesday through September 3 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Crown Heights), 6-8:30p 🌳 🍸
After Hours Viewing & Poetry Reading—Spotlight: Peter Halley at the Flag Art Foundation (Chelsea), 6-8p with reading at 6:30p 🆓 🎨 🎭 📚
McNally Editions presents a party to celebrate the reissue of John Gregory Dunne's Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season with Stephanie Danler at the wine bar Anaïs (Boerum Hill), 6:30p 📚 🍸
Thursday, June 12
Christian Marclay: Doors opens at the Brooklyn Museum
We could watch Christian Marclay do his thing forever, which is good because that’s how long his projects seem to last. The Clock from 2010 is a full 24-hour film. Doors from 2022 has a similar setup: a continuous loop of doors squeaking open, slamming closed, and otherwise being bigtime metaphors on the big screen.
The film screens on the 5th floor Moving Image Gallery from today through April 12, 2026.
The Brooklyn Museum, Crown Heights
Thurs from 11a-6p 🎨 🎬
Other Thursday events, briefly noted:
Lunchtime Exhibition Tours: After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025 at the Grolier Club (Upper East Side), 1-2p 🆓 📚 🎨
Eleanor Sypher does a talk on Jan Vermeer at the Salmagundi Club (Greenwich Village), 6-7:30 🎨 🧠
Morgan After Hours: Summer Salon at the Morgan (Midtown), 6-9p 🎨 🎼 🍸
Tom Comitta’s People’s Choice Literature launch and conversation at Printed Matter (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨 📚
175 Years of Harper's Magazine featuring writers, editors, and friends of the magazine toasting the publication’s special anniversary issue and performing some readings at McNally Jackson (South Street Seaport), 6:30p 📚 🍸
Tara-Jo Tashna presents A. Garden at Performance Space (East Village), 7p 🎭
Art in Conversation: Continuum Chamber Collective performance celebrating All About 25 at James Cohan (Tribeca), 7p 🆓 🎼 🎨
J. Hoberman in conversation with Eric Banks about his book Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde—Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop at 192 Books (Chelsea), 7p 🆓 📚 🗽
Farewell My Fool by Joyboy and Joy-Marie Thomopson at Triskelion Arts (Greenpoint), 8p 🎭 (performances run through Saturday)
Thursday’s best gallery openings:
Opening reception with the artist for Arcmanoro Niles’ When There’s Nothing I Can Do: I Go to My Heart at Lehmann Maupin (Chelsea), 5-7p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Jane and Louise Wilson’s Altogether at 303 Gallery (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for a door left ajar: diambe, michael ho, thiago hattnher at kurimanzutto (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for When We Meet Again: RISD MFA Painting Class of 2025 at Hollis Taggart on 26th St (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Till Gerhard’s Turning Tides and Hidden Tracks at 303 Gallery’s Project Room (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening receptions for four shows at Perrotin (Lower East Side), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Beau Gabriel’s Blackberry Rondo at Carvalho Park (East Williamsburg), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Juanita McNeely: Works on Paper at James Fuentes (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Correspondences group show featuring Heidi Bucher, Craig Jun Li, Alix Vernet, and Willa Wasserman at François Ghebaly (Lower East Side), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Nathaniel Matthews’ This Loneliness at Entrance Gallery (Lower East Side), 6-9p 🆓 🎨
Friday, June 13
Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from “Ruckus Manhattan” opens at the Brooklyn Museum (Crown Heights), 🎨 🗽
Louise Nevelson show opens at Pace Prints (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Lecture: Celebrating Black Bookstores in which author Katie Mitchell will give a talk based on her new book Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores at the Grolier Club (Upper East Side), 6-7:30p 🆓 📚 🧠
Opening reception for Esteban Ramón Pérez’s Smoking Mirror at Charles Moffett (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Six to Nine featuring art, DJs and drinks at Amant Arts (East Williamsburg), 6-9p 🆓 🎨 🎼 🍸
Night at the Museum: Pride 2025 presented by MoMA PS1 and Visual AIDS at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City), 8p-midnight 🎨 🎭
Saturday, June 14
Last day to see Nick Goss’ Stations at Matthew Brown
How you feel at any given moment shapes how you experience the world, and thus how you engage with art. (That’s the truth behind Your Mood Projects, run by Super Friend of the List Selby Sohn). Which means: sometimes, you’re having such a good night that every painting you see is a masterpiece, every artist a genius, every gallerist a saint.
We were at the opening of this show last month, having what turned out to be one of the best nights of our lives. We were out with some of our greatest friends, a little drunk, about to run into a tall, handsome somebody from our past—the kind of night in which you’re so high on the narrative of your own life that judgment of your surroundings is rosily clouded.
So last week, we were glad to revisit Nick Goss’ paintings and drawings inspired by his trip to the historical Belgian coastal resort of Ostend. It turns out: these works are all absolute bangers that hold up to a second and third viewing. Today’s your last day to catch the show, and you really should.
Matthew Brown, Tribeca
Sat from 11a-6p 🆓 🎨
Wetlabs Look-In
Part of being a New Yorker is sustaining a delusional idea of how vision works. For example: we stare through the windows of other people’s apartments, pretending nobody can see us looking, pretending nobody can do the same to us in our home. This is how we don’t have curtains on our windows but don’t register it as a problem.
All day today, some of our best aquatic New Yorkers will be on full display by the exhibitionists at Wetlab—the Hudson River Park’s aquarium. Look at turtles, crabs, seahorses, and other little guys recently scooped up from the Hudson River. We hope they don’t mind, and we hope they enjoy looking back at us.
Pier 40, West Village
Sat from 11a-5p 🆓 🌳
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway at 100: A Marathon Reading
Mrs. Dalloway, the deeply relatable novel about having an existential crisis before throwing a party, was published 100 years ago. To celebrate its centennial, great writers will trade off reading the book aloud at the 92nd Street Y (also streaming online).
92nd Street Y, Upper East Side and online
Sat at 12-8p 🎭 📚
Other Saturday events, briefly noted:
Schomburg Centennial Festival at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem), 11a-7p 🆓 📚 🎼🗽
Last day to see Ilana Savdie solo show at White Cube (Upper East Side), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Last day to see Tomma Abts at David Zwirner on 19th St (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Sunday, June 15
Everybooty 2025 at BAM Fisher (Fort Greene), 5p 🎼
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir present La la la Liberate at the Quaker Meeting House (Gramercy Park and streaming online from Reverend Billy’s YouTube Channel), 6p 🆓 🎭🗽
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