Four NYC Art Week Galleries: Lower East Side, Then Chelsea by Subway

4.8 (237)

Tue – Sat, 10:00 – 18:00

130 Orchard Street

Start on the Lower East Side. Perrotin shows Izumi Kato's sculptures, JR's studies for his Pont Neuf cave in Paris and Nancy Graves's Moonwater watercolors, free, through December 19. For Chelsea, take the F from Delancey St to 23 St, then walk about 20 minutes west.

4.5 (777)

Tue – Sat, 10:00 – 18:00

533 W 19th St

Yoshitomo Nara's first David Zwirner solo show, November 5 to December 12, is split across two buildings. New paintings and drawings fill 537 West 20th Street. At 533 West 19th, thirteen white heads, 2024 bronzes enlarged ten times, recall the snow monsters of his childhood winters.

4.3 (33)

Tue – Sat, 10:00 – 18:00

525 West 22nd Street

Three blocks north, Yancey Richardson shows Karen Gunderson's new moon and water paintings in Dark Waves Rising, beside Sharon Core's Flowering, close-up photographs of flowers from her own garden. Both run through December 19. It is a quieter stop after Zwirner's large rooms.

5.0 (6)

Tue – Sat, 10:00 – 18:00

535 West 24th Street, Third Floor

Finish two blocks north at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, third floor of 535 West 24th Street. Tacita Dean's twelve Eclipse Drawings, screenprints made from photos she shot while spinning her camera at the 2024 eclipse, hang beside Analia Saban's Data Center through December 19.