Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best free things to do in Chelsea, Manhattan the weekend of Oct 2–4, 2026: 11 picks, refreshed weekly.
11 picks · checked Sep 7
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanProvocateur Jordan Wolfson debuts a room of uniformly scaled new sculptures at Gagosian, each one built around found color and archival photographs.
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanProvocateur Jordan Wolfson debuts a room of uniformly scaled new sculptures at Gagosian, each one built around found color and archival photographs.
Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanKorean icon Lee Bul fills Hauser & Wirth with major new sculptures — cyborg bodies and glittering future ruins probing technology, nature and history.
Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanKorean icon Lee Bul fills Hauser & Wirth with major new sculptures — cyborg bodies and glittering future ruins probing technology, nature and history.
Pace Gallery, 508 and 510 West 25th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanMonumental bent-metal sculptures and a new burnished clay series from Arlene Shechet, with artist-made aluminum chairs to sit and look from.
Pace Gallery, 508 and 510 West 25th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanMonumental bent-metal sculptures and a new burnished clay series from Arlene Shechet, with artist-made aluminum chairs to sit and look from.
Lisson Gallery, 504 West 24th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanNew Sugimoto photographs shot inside the American Museum of Natural History dioramas, plus washi paper screens that turn images into byobu.
Lisson Gallery, 504 West 24th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanNew Sugimoto photographs shot inside the American Museum of Natural History dioramas, plus washi paper screens that turn images into byobu.
Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanLynda Benglis knots molten glass, bronze and ceramic into five decades of sculpture at Pace, including rarely shown 1985 glass works with enamel eyes.
Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanLynda Benglis knots molten glass, bronze and ceramic into five decades of sculpture at Pace, including rarely shown 1985 glass works with enamel eyes.
Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanTorkwase Dyson's monumental blue-black abstractions land at Pace — architecture-scaled paintings and forms mapping water, space and liberation.
Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanTorkwase Dyson's monumental blue-black abstractions land at Pace — architecture-scaled paintings and forms mapping water, space and liberation.
David Zwirner, 533 West 19th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanTwelve enormous Thomas Ruff photographs built from compressed images of the World Trade Center attacks, shown for the 25th anniversary.
David Zwirner, 533 West 19th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanTwelve enormous Thomas Ruff photographs built from compressed images of the World Trade Center attacks, shown for the 25th anniversary.
David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanCult painter Scott Kahn hangs moonlit, dreamlike landscapes and hushed interiors at David Zwirner — visionary scenes that feel like remembered dreams.
David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanCult painter Scott Kahn hangs moonlit, dreamlike landscapes and hushed interiors at David Zwirner — visionary scenes that feel like remembered dreams.
Gagosian, West 21st Street, Chelsea, ManhattanSix decades of Brice Marden paintings, with loans from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney, in a free Chelsea gallery survey.
Gagosian, West 21st Street, Chelsea, ManhattanSix decades of Brice Marden paintings, with loans from the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney, in a free Chelsea gallery survey.
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanRadical Italian artist Carol Rama's provocative, body-obsessed work fills the Hauser & Wirth Chelsea gallery — free and closing at month's end.
Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanRadical Italian artist Carol Rama's provocative, body-obsessed work fills the Hauser & Wirth Chelsea gallery — free and closing at month's end.
Lincoln Glenn Gallery, Chelsea, ManhattanNan Goldin, Louise Nevelson, Lee Bontecou and Lynda Benglis among 30-plus women tracing a century of American art at Lincoln Glenn — free in Chelsea.
Lincoln Glenn Gallery, Chelsea, ManhattanNan Goldin, Louise Nevelson, Lee Bontecou and Lynda Benglis among 30-plus women tracing a century of American art at Lincoln Glenn — free in Chelsea.
Big weekends coming up — save them now, plan later.
