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GalleryLower East Side

Bitforms

Where technology stops being a problem to solve and starts being a story to tell.

Photo by Greg Navarro for Beholdr

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Steven Sacks has cultivated a community of pioneering artists who treat tech not as a tool, but as a medium.

Don't let the simple glass exterior fool you. Inside, the space pulses with ideas. Whether the art on view is ephemeral, generative, digital, time-based, or interactive, screens flicker, code breathes, and machines feel oddly human.

You leave more fluent in the language of technology, with a deeper appreciation for the poetic potential of pixels. You stop seeing tech as cold or purely functional and start seeing it as beautiful, strange, and playful.

About the Gallery

Steven Sacks founded Bitforms in 2001, becoming one of the first gallerists to champion digital and generative art. Over two decades, he's built a tight-knit, forward-focused community of some of the most compelling artists working in digital, generative, and tech-based media today.

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Rogue

Looking to source the best of 90s and Y2K clothing and accessories? This is your place. Vintage shopping at its finest.

GalleryLower East Side

Perrotin

Blockbuster contemporary art and global talent inside the old Beckenstein Fabrics building on Orchard Street, original painted signs and all. Expect spectacle with substance from artists who have reshaped contemporary culture.

GalleryLower East Side

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Artists of color break things open in a curved, cream-walled gallery on Orchard Street.

BarLower East Side

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If you live downtown, you’ve probably walked past the entrance of this iconic speakeasy countless times. Inside, it has low lights, a long bar, and bottle-lined brick walls. It’s inspired hundreds of imitators, but it’s still home to the best mixologists in the city.

Past Best of Shows

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Best of ShowLower East Side

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Bitforms

Glitter, AI dancers, Dance Moms energy, and unsettling perfection. The sharpest, eeriest, most painfully accurate show about life in the age of reality tv, social media, and algorithms we've seen in a long time.