Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in the Lower East Side, Manhattan next weekend, Sep 11–13, 2026: 12 picks, refreshed weekly.
12 picks · checked Sep 2
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanA 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, ManhattanA closing-soon solo presentation on ICP's first floor, included with the ticket you are already buying for the building's other shows.
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, 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.
International Center of Photography, Lower East Side, ManhattanICP 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, ManhattanICP traces how Yves Saint Laurent's clothes reached the world through the camera, from studio portraiture to editorial fashion imagery.
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, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsZu, Don't Play with Fire, Knock Off and Time and Tide play Metrograph in an 11-film Tsui Hark survey — two of them on 35mm prints.
Metrograph, Lower East Side, ManhattanShane Fleming · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsZu, Don't Play with Fire, Knock Off and Time and Tide play Metrograph in an 11-film Tsui Hark survey — two of them on 35mm prints.
Xi Hu, Lower East Side, ManhattanHuaiyang-style eel and dongpo pork land on East Houston — a new Jiangsu and Zhejiang kitchen bringing river-country cooking to the Lower East Side.
Xi Hu, Lower East Side, ManhattanHuaiyang-style eel and dongpo pork land on East Houston — a new Jiangsu and Zhejiang kitchen bringing river-country cooking to the Lower East Side.
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.
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.
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.
Big weekends coming up — save them now, plan later.
