Upcoming events in Chelsea — curated from the Stumblday board and refreshed regularly.
31 picks · checked Aug 25
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Chelsea, ManhattanGreat Migration, Dust Bowl, Trail of Tears — Benny Andrews's final painting series traces three American exoduses, closing soon at Michael Rosenfeld.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Chelsea, ManhattanGreat Migration, Dust Bowl, Trail of Tears — Benny Andrews's final painting series traces three American exoduses, closing soon at Michael Rosenfeld.
Gotham Comedy Club, Chelsea, ManhattanGotham Comedy Club runs nine All-Stars showcases across the weekend, in the main room and the Vintage Lounge.
Gotham Comedy Club, Chelsea, ManhattanGotham Comedy Club runs nine All-Stars showcases across the weekend, in the main room and the Vintage Lounge.
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.
GOCA by Garde, Chelsea, ManhattanSkate ramps rebuilt in bentwood: Yuya Saito's 'flow-chitecture' sculptures ask what a truly open city looks like — free on West 23rd Street.
GOCA by Garde, Chelsea, ManhattanSkate ramps rebuilt in bentwood: Yuya Saito's 'flow-chitecture' sculptures ask what a truly open city looks like — free on West 23rd Street.
Karma, 549 West 26th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanPeter Bradley — the abstractionist who curated the 1971 De Luxe Show and then vanished from the market — gets a full Chelsea room.
Karma, 549 West 26th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanPeter Bradley — the abstractionist who curated the 1971 De Luxe Show and then vanished from the market — gets a full Chelsea room.
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Gallery Henoch, Chelsea, ManhattanEleven new paintings of cities smeared into motion — Pacula paints nightscapes the way a long-exposure photo remembers them.
Gallery Henoch, Chelsea, ManhattanEleven new paintings of cities smeared into motion — Pacula paints nightscapes the way a long-exposure photo remembers them.
Gallery Henoch, 555 West 25th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanThe one Chelsea gallery still open at the weekend in August — a free realist group show on West 25th Street, no appointment needed.
Gallery Henoch, 555 West 25th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanThe one Chelsea gallery still open at the weekend in August — a free realist group show on West 25th Street, no appointment needed.
Yancey Richardson Gallery, Chelsea, ManhattanNine photographers straight out of Yale's MFA get a blue-chip Chelsea wall — the annual show where dealers go talent-spotting. Free.
Yancey Richardson Gallery, Chelsea, ManhattanNine photographers straight out of Yale's MFA get a blue-chip Chelsea wall — the annual show where dealers go talent-spotting. Free.
Poster House, Chelsea, ManhattanSdkb · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsTwenty years of Czechoslovak travel and identity posters, a country inventing its own graphic language between two wars.
Poster House, Chelsea, ManhattanSdkb · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsTwenty years of Czechoslovak travel and identity posters, a country inventing its own graphic language between two wars.
Poster House, Chelsea, ManhattanPoster House's history of New York's AIDS activism told entirely in printed graphics closes this weekend, alongside Act Black on the same ticket.
Poster House, Chelsea, ManhattanPoster House's history of New York's AIDS activism told entirely in printed graphics closes this weekend, alongside Act Black on the same ticket.
Poster House, Chelsea, ManhattanJoe Mabel · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsA century of posters advertising Black American theatre and film, from race-film one-sheets to Broadway runs, in its final days at Poster House.
Poster House, Chelsea, ManhattanJoe Mabel · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsA century of posters advertising Black American theatre and film, from race-film one-sheets to Broadway runs, in its final days at Poster House.
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, 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.
David Zwirner, 519 West 19th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanThomas Ruff blows compressed web images of New York up to mural scale at David Zwirner, until every picture dissolves into glowing grids of pixels.
David Zwirner, 519 West 19th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanThomas Ruff blows compressed web images of New York up to mural scale at David Zwirner, until every picture dissolves into glowing grids of pixels.
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.
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.
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.
Starrett-Lehigh Building, Chelsea, Manhattan91 galleries from 14 countries fill the Starrett-Lehigh with art priced $100 to $12,000 — buy-it-off-the-wall energy in its final days.
Starrett-Lehigh Building, Chelsea, Manhattan91 galleries from 14 countries fill the Starrett-Lehigh with art priced $100 to $12,000 — buy-it-off-the-wall energy in its final days.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Racket NYC, Chelsea, ManhattanBryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsRising K-pop five-piece ONE PACT play Racket, the low-ceilinged Chelsea club where the front row is genuinely arm's length from the stage.
Racket NYC, Chelsea, ManhattanBryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsRising K-pop five-piece ONE PACT play Racket, the low-ceilinged Chelsea club where the front row is genuinely arm's length from the stage.
Racket NYC, Chelsea, ManhattanMiami indie band Mustard Service play Racket NYC, the West Sixteenth Street club built in the old Highline Ballroom space.
Racket NYC, Chelsea, ManhattanMiami indie band Mustard Service play Racket NYC, the West Sixteenth Street club built in the old Highline Ballroom space.
Sixth Avenue, 14th–23rd Streets, Chelsea/Flatiron, ManhattanKen Lund from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSixth Avenue goes car-free from 14th to 23rd Street for a classic Sunday street fair — vendor booths, fair food and people-watching, rain or shine.
Sixth Avenue, 14th–23rd Streets, Chelsea/Flatiron, ManhattanKen Lund from Las Vegas, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSixth Avenue goes car-free from 14th to 23rd Street for a classic Sunday street fair — vendor booths, fair food and people-watching, rain or shine.
JAPAN Fes street fair, Chelsea, Chelsea, ManhattanRamen, takoyaki, onigiri and matcha sweets pack a Chelsea block for two days as JAPAN Fes rolls through its 10th-anniversary season — free to browse.
JAPAN Fes street fair, Chelsea, Chelsea, ManhattanRamen, takoyaki, onigiri and matcha sweets pack a Chelsea block for two days as JAPAN Fes rolls through its 10th-anniversary season — free to browse.
8th Avenue, 14th to 23rd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNine blocks of 8th Avenue go car-free from 14th to 23rd Street for one of the weekend's biggest Manhattan street fairs — food rows, vendor tables and all of Chelsea to wander off into.
8th Avenue, 14th to 23rd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNine blocks of 8th Avenue go car-free from 14th to 23rd Street for one of the weekend's biggest Manhattan street fairs — food rows, vendor tables and all of Chelsea to wander off into.
Sixth Avenue, 23rd–34th Streets, Chelsea / NoMad, ManhattanEleven blocks of Sixth Avenue close to cars from 23rd to 34th Street for the weekend's largest street fair — food stands, crafts and bargains from Chelsea to Herald Square.
Sixth Avenue, 23rd–34th Streets, Chelsea / NoMad, ManhattanEleven blocks of Sixth Avenue close to cars from 23rd to 34th Street for the weekend's largest street fair — food stands, crafts and bargains from Chelsea to Herald Square.
Racket NYC, Chelsea, ManhattanThe Rasmus plays Racket NYC on the Sunday of US Open finals weekend.
Racket NYC, Chelsea, ManhattanThe Rasmus plays Racket NYC on the Sunday of US Open finals weekend.
Racket NYC, Chelsea, ManhattanBryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsDeadpan indie cult heroes Cheekface bring 'America's local band' and their talk-sung anxiety anthems to Racket in Chelsea.
Racket NYC, Chelsea, ManhattanBryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsDeadpan indie cult heroes Cheekface bring 'America's local band' and their talk-sung anxiety anthems to Racket in Chelsea.
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