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Art WalkNoHo
NoHo, With Detours
Cast-iron lofts, a free university museum, cross-generational galleries, and shopkeepers who will tell you everything.
Last updated Sep 9, 2026
NoHo has the bones of old New York.
Cobblestone streets, cast-iron facades, and lofts that were once the playground of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The lofts are landmarked now. The light is the same.
The art matches the neighborhood: refined, a little posh, with lineage and grit. NYU's Grey Art Museum anchors the scene. The galleries run wide: '70s abstraction, punk and pop, neo-Romanticism, and work that asks you to slow down.
Then there are the shops, the best of which are somebody's entire personality, lovingly shelved. Rare photobooks, Japanese fashion and homeware, Danish antiques, used vinyl. And some of the city’s best tables are tucked in-between, making this a neighborhood where every detour pays off.
Here's where to find them all.
Art Spaces
MuseumNoHo
Grey Art Museum
Come for thoughtful, richly researched exhibitions that transport you across cities, histories, and art movements. Stay for quiet galleries and work that makes you smarter. This is exactly what a university museum should feel like.
GalleryNoHo
Eric Firestone Gallery
This gallery stages beautiful shows that make overlooked art histories feel urgent again. Psychedelic mosaics, hard-edge abstraction, gestural figuration, and under-recognized American artists, many from the 70s, thunder back into the spotlight.
Alternative SpaceNoHo
Atelier Jolie
As in Angelina. Basquiat’s former studio has been reanimated by the superstar actress into an impeccably designed living room/café concept and gallery.
GalleryNoHo
PALO Gallery
Art’s romantic past and topical present merge emphatically in art that is at once socially relevant and inextricably tied to art's history.
GalleryNoHo
Amanita
Be drenched in old-world European elegance with art by rarely-seen contemporary Italian artists, shown at the former CBGBs punk bar turned gallery.
GalleryNoHo
The Hole
Named after a legendary downtown club where every subculture collided, The Hole is where contemporary art gets weird. Glossy, hyper-online, and funny without ever losing their edge, shows here are some of the most visually addictive in the city.
Places to Pause
BookstoreNoHo
Climax Books
A candy-pink temple to rare ephemera, erotica, VHS tapes, and books on art, photography, and counterculture, curated like a great exhibition.
Clothing StoreNoHo
Dear: Rivington+
Wander two stories where Japanese designers nestle against vintage treasures, all set off by spare, whitewashed walls.
RestaurantNoHo
Il Buco
A downtown staple that’s here to stay. Come for the Mediterranean dishes, great wine, and rustic setting, and stay for the occasional sighting of a local icon.
Home GoodsNoHo
John Derian Drygoods & Furniture
Pick up a signature paperweight or canvas cushion at the studio-turned-store of this iconic NYC interior designer, known for his love of decoupage.
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NoHo, With Detours
Cast-iron lofts, a free university museum, cross-generational galleries, and shopkeepers who will tell you everything.
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Last updated Sep 9, 2026
NoHo has the bones of old New York.
Cobblestone streets, cast-iron facades, and lofts that were once the playground of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The lofts are landmarked now. The light is the same.
The art matches the neighborhood: refined, a little posh, with lineage and grit. NYU's Grey Art Museum anchors the scene. The galleries run wide: '70s abstraction, punk and pop, neo-Romanticism, and work that asks you to slow down.
Then there are the shops, the best of which are somebody's entire personality, lovingly shelved. Rare photobooks, Japanese fashion and homeware, Danish antiques, used vinyl. And some of the city’s best tables are tucked in-between, making this a neighborhood where every detour pays off.
Here's where to find them all.
Art Spaces
MuseumNoHo
Grey Art Museum
Come for thoughtful, richly researched exhibitions that transport you across cities, histories, and art movements. Stay for quiet galleries and work that makes you smarter. This is exactly what a university museum should feel like.
GalleryNoHo
Eric Firestone Gallery
This gallery stages beautiful shows that make overlooked art histories feel urgent again. Psychedelic mosaics, hard-edge abstraction, gestural figuration, and under-recognized American artists, many from the 70s, thunder back into the spotlight.
Alternative SpaceNoHo
Atelier Jolie
As in Angelina. Basquiat’s former studio has been reanimated by the superstar actress into an impeccably designed living room/café concept and gallery.
GalleryNoHo
PALO Gallery
Art’s romantic past and topical present merge emphatically in art that is at once socially relevant and inextricably tied to art's history.
GalleryNoHo
Amanita
Be drenched in old-world European elegance with art by rarely-seen contemporary Italian artists, shown at the former CBGBs punk bar turned gallery.
GalleryNoHo
The Hole
Named after a legendary downtown club where every subculture collided, The Hole is where contemporary art gets weird. Glossy, hyper-online, and funny without ever losing their edge, shows here are some of the most visually addictive in the city.
Places to Pause
BookstoreNoHo
Climax Books
A candy-pink temple to rare ephemera, erotica, VHS tapes, and books on art, photography, and counterculture, curated like a great exhibition.
Clothing StoreNoHo
Dear: Rivington+
Wander two stories where Japanese designers nestle against vintage treasures, all set off by spare, whitewashed walls.
RestaurantNoHo
Il Buco
A downtown staple that’s here to stay. Come for the Mediterranean dishes, great wine, and rustic setting, and stay for the occasional sighting of a local icon.
Home GoodsNoHo
John Derian Drygoods & Furniture
Pick up a signature paperweight or canvas cushion at the studio-turned-store of this iconic NYC interior designer, known for his love of decoupage.
BookstoreNoHo
Dashwood Books
New York's essential photography bookstore, where the city's image-makers come to browse, discover, and linger.
Record StoreLower East Side
Ergot Records
Good people selling good music. That's what makes this indie record store specializing in the edges of techno, ambient, and IDM one of the best in the city.
Home GoodsLower East Side
Salter House
This serene and sustainable housewares and clothing store is all breezy white cottons and flowy tops and dresses that would be as comfortable in a sweet-smelling meadow as they are in Manhattan.
