GalleryLower East Side
Astor Weeks
Just three floors above the din of Canal Street, escape into serene visions of lives rooted in nature, the coast, and clean Upstate air.
Why we it
New York City forces you to speed up. Astor Weeks, hidden on the third story of an office building above the noise of Canal Street, asks you to slow down. We love this place for its peaceful art that feels like home.
We come here to look carefully, move slowly, and pay attention to the spoils of an interior life. An exercise in the art of living in stillness. To be conscious about how we interact with one another in the spaces we inhabit, inside and outside.
If Mary Oliver were a gallery, she might just be this one.
About the Gallery
Astor Weeks was founded in 2022 by artist Cal Siegel and curator Poppy Pulitzer. They started the gallery in a spare bedroom of Cal’s apartment on Harlem’s Astor Row — a block of 19th-century townhouses known for their distinctive porches and storied pasts. They moved the gallery to the third-floor space in Chinatown in late 2023. In addition to the gallery and alongside his brothers in Vermont, Cal co-runs a furniture studio that blends contemporary design with Shaker sensibility.
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