Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best art in the Lower East Side, Manhattan over Columbus Day weekend 2026 (Oct 10–12): 7 picks, refreshed weekly.
7 picks · checked Sep 17
New Museum, Bowery / Lower East Side, ManhattanMarcy Hargan from New York City (Manhattan), USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsLove is the Message and the Golden Lion-winning The White Album anchor Arthur Jafa's first US museum survey, in the expanded New Museum.
New Museum, Bowery / Lower East Side, ManhattanMarcy Hargan from New York City (Manhattan), USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsLove is the Message and the Golden Lion-winning The White Album anchor Arthur Jafa's first US museum survey, in the expanded New Museum.
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New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSarah Lucas won over a jury of Cindy Sherman, Julie Mehretu and Kiki Smith and her sculpture now anchors the free New Museum plaza.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSarah Lucas won over a jury of Cindy Sherman, Julie Mehretu and Kiki Smith and her sculpture now anchors the free New Museum plaza.
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New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanA couple embraces in Tschabalala Self's sculpture, bolted where the New Museum's two buildings kiss and free to see from Bowery.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanA couple embraces in Tschabalala Self's sculpture, bolted where the New Museum's two buildings kiss and free to see from Bowery.
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New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanDavid Shankbone · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSandstone and glass wrapped in flax pelts and hand embroidery climbs four floors of the New Museum's new atrium stair.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanDavid Shankbone · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSandstone and glass wrapped in flax pelts and hand embroidery climbs four floors of the New Museum's new atrium stair.
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Entrance, Lower East Side, ManhattanFrank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsConceptual sculptor Tom Friedman takes over Entrance on Ludlow Street with there's no such thing as art — a final-week gallery stop.
Entrance, Lower East Side, ManhattanFrank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsConceptual sculptor Tom Friedman takes over Entrance on Ludlow Street with there's no such thing as art — a final-week gallery stop.
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New Museum, Bowery / Lower East Side, ManhattanHorror, slapstick and cartoons turn unsettling in Diego Marcon's films, including the new Krapfen, in his first NYC museum solo show.
New Museum, Bowery / Lower East Side, ManhattanHorror, slapstick and cartoons turn unsettling in Diego Marcon's films, including the new Krapfen, in his first NYC museum solo show.
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New Museum, Bowery / Lower East Side, ManhattanDigitally rendered Singaporean children pose riddles about power inside the New Museum's elevators in Ho Tzu Nyen's P for Power: Up Down.
New Museum, Bowery / Lower East Side, ManhattanDigitally rendered Singaporean children pose riddles about power inside the New Museum's elevators in Ho Tzu Nyen's P for Power: Up Down.
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