Grey Art Museum
NYU shows us how a university museum is done, with superbly-curated, context-driven shows right in the middle of historic Cooper Square.
Andrew Edlin Gallery
See well-known and new-to-the-scene “Outsider” artists whose personal mythologies, spiritual visions, and non-conformist approaches will open your mind – and your heart.
Elliott Templeton Fine Arts
Highly covetable, high aesthetics art in a two-room Henry Street gallery named for a fictional gay art dealer. You’re going to want to move in.
Below Grand
In a display window and closet in a Chinese kitchen supply store on Orchard Street and a storefront on Allen Street, artist-and-curator rebels stage experimental shows that stretch art world rules.
Miguel Abreu
Poetic, philosophically-minded art in a sun-flooded storefront on Orchard and a cavernous floor-thru loft on Eldridge. The light in the space meets the light in the work.
Company Gallery
Get immersed in utopian futures with feminist and queer art and artists at this graffiti-covered street-level gallery with subterranean speakeasy.
Michaeli
Don’t miss this Israeli-style bakery, loved by LES locals for their burekas, babka, challah. The real star? Rugelach.
www.willshott
Meet the art dealer whose jewelry has been worn by hip-hop legends and is now collaborating with wave-making contemporary artists.
Bluestocking Cooperative
Began as a woman's bookstore in 1999 and is now NYC’s only queer, trans, and sex worker-run, cooperatively-owned bookstore.
Reena Spaulings Fine Art
This brainchild of a collective of artists is named after a fictitious art world It Girl, and presents rule-breaking, sensual art with a DIY approach.
Dim Sum Palace
Dates and family diners hunker down in this old-world meets new-world Cantonese parlour, with 200+ seats. Gallerists sometimes host opening dinners here.
Westwood Gallery
A neighborhood-embedded gallery showcasing artists whose work will transport you to the factory lofts and artist’s studios of iconic ‘70s and ‘80s Bowery.
Abraço
Echoing the old school coffee bars of Spain and Italy, this place has been serving the neighborhood since 2007. Go for the olive oil cake and coffee in classic NYC cups.
Only New York
The brainchild of NYC skateboarders. Pick up a piece of cult memorabilia. The kind of souvenirs you want on your desk - MTA desk light? Garbage can for your pens? Plus the latest apparel collections, special collabs, and in-store exclusives.
Blade Study
Internet explorers, anime theorists, and memetic mythmakers are looking to escape the algorithm inside this tiny, but mighty, storefront gallery.
Foreign & Domestic
Process is worshipped in this bunker-like basement gallery, which champions local and international artists and the immigrant-powered spirit of the LES.
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