Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best art in Chelsea, Manhattan over Labor Day weekend 2026 (Sep 5–7): 6 picks, refreshed weekly.
6 picks · checked Sep 2
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 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.
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.
Poster House, Chelsea, ManhattanTwenty years of Czechoslovak travel and identity posters, a country inventing its own graphic language between two wars.
Poster House, Chelsea, ManhattanTwenty years of Czechoslovak travel and identity posters, a country inventing its own graphic language between two wars.
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