Upcoming events in the Lower East Side — curated from the Stumblday board and refreshed regularly.
49 picks · checked Aug 25
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.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSandstone 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, ManhattanSandstone and glass wrapped in flax pelts and hand embroidery climbs four floors of the New Museum's new atrium stair.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe Garden empties out and the whole Harry Styles crowd reconvenes downtown at Mercury Lounge — all-Harry, all night.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe Garden empties out and the whole Harry Styles crowd reconvenes downtown at Mercury Lounge — all-Harry, all night.
Uffner & Liu, Lower East Side, ManhattanNicole Eisenman, Dana Schutz, Peter Saul and Genieve Figgis in one Suffolk Street room — sixteen painters working the comic and the grotesque.
Uffner & Liu, Lower East Side, ManhattanNicole Eisenman, Dana Schutz, Peter Saul and Genieve Figgis in one Suffolk Street room — sixteen painters working the comic and the grotesque.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsICP's Fuego Camina Conmigo reaches its last days on Ludlow Street and Friday admission is five dollars.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsICP's Fuego Camina Conmigo reaches its last days on Ludlow Street and Friday admission is five dollars.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanNobuhiko Obayashi's man-eating-piano haunted house plays on 35mm at Metrograph, right up against midnight.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanNobuhiko Obayashi's man-eating-piano haunted house plays on 35mm at Metrograph, right up against midnight.
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Miguel Abreu Gallery, Lower East Side, ManhattanDlkj83jdk3883ll · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsR. H. Quaytman, Liz Deschenes and Pamela Rosenkranz among twenty artists Miguel Abreu regathers on Eldridge Street — free and closing next week.
Miguel Abreu Gallery, Lower East Side, ManhattanDlkj83jdk3883ll · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsR. H. Quaytman, Liz Deschenes and Pamela Rosenkranz among twenty artists Miguel Abreu regathers on Eldridge Street — free and closing next week.
GHOSTMACHINE Gallery, Lower East Side, ManhattanFour artists try to think their way out of the human point of view, in a free Monroe Street gallery curated by a MoMA associate.
GHOSTMACHINE Gallery, Lower East Side, ManhattanFour artists try to think their way out of the human point of view, in a free Monroe Street gallery curated by a MoMA associate.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsWong Kar-wai's pineapple-tin heartbreak and Faye Wong on repeat, screening in the middle of the day at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsWong Kar-wai's pineapple-tin heartbreak and Faye Wong on repeat, screening in the middle of the day at Metrograph.
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.
Uffner & Liu, Lower East Side, ManhattanSix RISD painting MFAs get the upstairs room at Uffner & Liu — Isabel Horgan, Siran Liu, Kati Lowe and company, free and closing next week.
Uffner & Liu, Lower East Side, ManhattanSix RISD painting MFAs get the upstairs room at Uffner & Liu — Isabel Horgan, Siran Liu, Kati Lowe and company, free and closing next week.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsICP traces how Yves Saint Laurent's clothes reached the world through the camera, from studio portraiture to editorial fashion imagery.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsICP traces how Yves Saint Laurent's clothes reached the world through the camera, from studio portraiture to editorial fashion imagery.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA closing-soon solo presentation on ICP's first floor, included with the ticket you are already buying for the building's other shows.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA closing-soon solo presentation on ICP's first floor, included with the ticket you are already buying for the building's other shows.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTwenty-five years of American photobooks at ICP, the format where most contemporary photography actually lives and gets argued over.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTwenty-five years of American photobooks at ICP, the format where most contemporary photography actually lives and gets argued over.
The Slipper Room, Lower East Side, ManhattanNew York's longest-running variety show has been going since 1999, stacking burlesque, comedy and neo-vaudeville acts across a whole evening.
The Slipper Room, Lower East Side, ManhattanNew York's longest-running variety show has been going since 1999, stacking burlesque, comedy and neo-vaudeville acts across a whole evening.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsEric Rohmer's 1981 comedy The Aviator's Wife opens at Metrograph in a new digital restoration, part of the theater's Rohmer x 3 series.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsEric Rohmer's 1981 comedy The Aviator's Wife opens at Metrograph in a new digital restoration, part of the theater's Rohmer x 3 series.
Loreley Beer Garden, Lower East Side, ManhattanSix weeks of liter steins, twelve sausages and a heated Rivington Street garden, with free keg tappings Saturdays and a pig roast Sundays.
Loreley Beer Garden, Lower East Side, ManhattanSix weeks of liter steins, twelve sausages and a heated Rivington Street garden, with free keg tappings Saturdays and a pig roast Sundays.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanVancouver dream-pop band Meltt headline Bowery Ballroom, still the best-sounding mid-size room downtown.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanVancouver dream-pop band Meltt headline Bowery Ballroom, still the best-sounding mid-size room downtown.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsWong Kar-wai's slow-burn Hong Kong romance screens on 35mm at Metrograph — Maggie Cheung's cheongsams in full dye.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsWong Kar-wai's slow-burn Hong Kong romance screens on 35mm at Metrograph — Maggie Cheung's cheongsams in full dye.
Seward Park, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Sheila as part of the Commons:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan project on April 4,... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSmurfs screens free in Seward Park at East Broadway and Essex — a Lower East Side blanket-on-the-grass night, starting at dusk.
Seward Park, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Sheila as part of the Commons:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan project on April 4,... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSmurfs screens free in Seward Park at East Broadway and Essex — a Lower East Side blanket-on-the-grass night, starting at dusk.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsRobert Zemeckis doing Hitchcock with Michelle Pfeiffer and a very bad bathtub — What Lies Beneath on 35mm at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsRobert Zemeckis doing Hitchcock with Michelle Pfeiffer and a very bad bathtub — What Lies Beneath on 35mm at Metrograph.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanKimberly Smith from Richmond, Virginia . Patti Smith 's sister. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsVancouver psych-pop band Meltt headline Bowery Ballroom, the balconied Delancey Street room widely called the best-sounding club in the city.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanKimberly Smith from Richmond, Virginia . Patti Smith 's sister. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsVancouver psych-pop band Meltt headline Bowery Ballroom, the balconied Delancey Street room widely called the best-sounding club in the city.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNicole Kidman, a fog-locked island manor and a twist worth protecting, restored in 4K at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsNicole Kidman, a fog-locked island manor and a twist worth protecting, restored in 4K at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTwo unemployable actors, one Camberwell carrot and the finest drinking film in English, screening at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTwo unemployable actors, one Camberwell carrot and the finest drinking film in English, screening at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsAntonioni's night of a marriage quietly ending in Milan, with Jeanne Moreau walking, screening at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsAntonioni's night of a marriage quietly ending in Milan, with Jeanne Moreau walking, screening at Metrograph.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTwo sharp country-folk songwriters share the early bill at Mercury Lounge — Brittany Ann Tranbaugh and West Virginia's Olivia Ellen Lloyd.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTwo sharp country-folk songwriters share the early bill at Mercury Lounge — Brittany Ann Tranbaugh and West Virginia's Olivia Ellen Lloyd.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThree local bands — SAMSARA., Rohna and Warphole — take the back room at Mercury Lounge, where the Strokes played before anyone knew them.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThree local bands — SAMSARA., Rohna and Warphole — take the back room at Mercury Lounge, where the Strokes played before anyone knew them.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTarantino's script, Tony Scott's neon, Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette on the run — True Romance at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTarantino's script, Tony Scott's neon, Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette on the run — True Romance at Metrograph.
213 Bowery, Lower East Side, ManhattanReddit's first-ever immersive community pop-up turns 213 Bowery into a corner store of its communities for one weekend — with a free Snoo plushie for every attendee, scratchers, zines and a bodega cat named.
213 Bowery, Lower East Side, ManhattanReddit's first-ever immersive community pop-up turns 213 Bowery into a corner store of its communities for one weekend — with a free Snoo plushie for every attendee, scratchers, zines and a bodega cat named.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanICP's photobook club opens rare volumes on the table, pairing collector obsessions with its Photobooks USA survey on Essex Street.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanICP's photobook club opens rare volumes on the table, pairing collector obsessions with its Photobooks USA survey on Essex Street.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanSpielberg's E.T. screens in 4K in an 11am Metrograph matinee, programmed alongside The Jungle Book.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanSpielberg's E.T. screens in 4K in an 11am Metrograph matinee, programmed alongside The Jungle Book.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanJAYO brings The Anti-Depressants Tour to Mercury Lounge, the 250-capacity back room that has launched three decades of bands.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanJAYO brings The Anti-Depressants Tour to Mercury Lounge, the 250-capacity back room that has launched three decades of bands.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsDavid Lynch's Mulholland Drive screens on 35mm at Metrograph in a slot built for exactly this film.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsDavid Lynch's Mulholland Drive screens on 35mm at Metrograph in a slot built for exactly this film.
Nublu, Lower East Side, ManhattanBanjoZebra · CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsMelanie Charles hosts the Make Jazz Trill Again mega jam at Nublu with Kassa Overall, closing Charlie Parker weekend.
Nublu, Lower East Side, ManhattanBanjoZebra · CC0 · Wikimedia CommonsMelanie Charles hosts the Make Jazz Trill Again mega jam at Nublu with Kassa Overall, closing Charlie Parker weekend.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanA two-night punk gathering takes over the Bowery Ballroom, with a combined pass for anyone planning to do both evenings.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanA two-night punk gathering takes over the Bowery Ballroom, with a combined pass for anyone planning to do both evenings.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanTsui Hark's 1984 screwball-musical-romance in a 40th-anniversary 4K restoration he supervised himself, anchoring Metrograph's Tsui Hark series.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanTsui Hark's 1984 screwball-musical-romance in a 40th-anniversary 4K restoration he supervised himself, anchoring Metrograph's Tsui Hark series.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanFour local bands share the Mercury Lounge back room in an early-evening bill that ends in time for whatever you had planned after.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanFour local bands share the Mercury Lounge back room in an early-evening bill that ends in time for whatever you had planned after.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanWiseman's 1981 plunge into the Manhattan fashion machine, with a live introduction by film scholar Genevieve Yue, as part of a two-week citywide Wiseman celebration.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanWiseman's 1981 plunge into the Manhattan fashion machine, with a live introduction by film scholar Genevieve Yue, as part of a two-week citywide Wiseman celebration.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanRay Harryhausen's skeleton army on a 35mm print at noon opening Metrograph's Classical Cinema strand of myth-on-screen.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanRay Harryhausen's skeleton army on a 35mm print at noon opening Metrograph's Classical Cinema strand of myth-on-screen.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe Northern Irish band whose bodhran and accordion shaped Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl plays an early-evening Lower East Side set.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe Northern Irish band whose bodhran and accordion shaped Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl plays an early-evening Lower East Side set.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanLes Greene and his band close out the Labor Day weekend at Mercury Lounge with a soul and R&B set in the club's back room.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanLes Greene and his band close out the Labor Day weekend at Mercury Lounge with a soul and R&B set in the club's back room.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanEric Nam plays Bowery Ballroom — an arena-touring artist in a 575-capacity room.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanEric Nam plays Bowery Ballroom — an arena-touring artist in a 575-capacity room.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanMetrograph opens its Anja Breien retrospective with the 1973 Oslo talk-and-drift comedy Wives, in a 2K restoration. A conversation with film scholar Jane Gaines follows the screening.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanMetrograph opens its Anja Breien retrospective with the 1973 Oslo talk-and-drift comedy Wives, in a 2K restoration. A conversation with film scholar Jane Gaines follows the screening.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe 1983 omnibus that broke Taiwanese cinema out of studio sentimentality, with an early Hou Hsiao-hsien segment. One noon screening this weekend.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanThe 1983 omnibus that broke Taiwanese cinema out of studio sentimentality, with an early Hou Hsiao-hsien segment. One noon screening this weekend.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanTsui Hark's 1986 genre-scrambling caper in a 4K restoration, with Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh and Cherie Chung. Part of Metrograph's Tsui Hark retrospective.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanTsui Hark's 1986 genre-scrambling caper in a 4K restoration, with Brigitte Lin, Sally Yeh and Cherie Chung. Part of Metrograph's Tsui Hark retrospective.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanMario Bava's 1961 peplum, with Christopher Lee presiding over the underworld, on a 35mm print. One Sunday-afternoon screening at Metrograph.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanMario Bava's 1961 peplum, with Christopher Lee presiding over the underworld, on a 35mm print. One Sunday-afternoon screening at Metrograph.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMontreal psych-rockers Elephant Stone swirl sitar into fuzzed-out grooves at Mercury Lounge, the LES's essential 250-cap rock room.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMontreal psych-rockers Elephant Stone swirl sitar into fuzzed-out grooves at Mercury Lounge, the LES's essential 250-cap rock room.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanKimberly Smith from Richmond, Virginia . Patti Smith 's sister. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBrazilian singer-songwriter Mari Froes casts a hushed spell at Bowery Ballroom, NYC's gold-standard 575-cap room for breakout artists.
Bowery Ballroom, Lower East Side, ManhattanKimberly Smith from Richmond, Virginia . Patti Smith 's sister. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBrazilian singer-songwriter Mari Froes casts a hushed spell at Bowery Ballroom, NYC's gold-standard 575-cap room for breakout artists.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Voice standout bodie plays an early-evening Sellout Tour stop at Mercury Lounge — big TV-honed vocals in a 250-cap room.
Mercury Lounge, Lower East Side, ManhattanThis photo was taken by participant/team Team Dustizeff as part of the Commons:Wikis Take Manhattan project on Octobe... · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Voice standout bodie plays an early-evening Sellout Tour stop at Mercury Lounge — big TV-honed vocals in a 250-cap room.
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