Summer usually means a slower art world, but that's not what we're seeing right now. With a strong lineup of group shows across the city, there's so much to see. Download the Showrunner app and get out there!
Featured Show, On View Now:
📌Skins, Group Show, at Franklin Parrasch
Franklin Parrasch Gallery’s exhibition “Skins” features eight artists exploring surface as a transformative medium, addressing themes of memory and permeability in their artworks.
Opening This Week
Wednesday, July 15th
🗓️East Village
Non-Zero Target · Half Gallery · 235 East 4th Street
Alex Maceda · Half Gallery · 235 East 4th Street
Group Show · Half Gallery · 235 East 4th Street
Tribeca
Richard Estes · Schoelkopf · 390 Broadway, 3rd Floor
Sarah Gamble · Derek Eller Gallery · 38 Walker St
🗓️Thursday, July 16th
Chelsea
Mirroring Nature · Nara Roesler · 511 W 21st St
Leitmotif · Berry Campbell Gallery · 524 W 26th Street
Monumental · Sundaram Tagore Gallery · 542 West 26th Street
Where We Meet In Color · Pleiades Gallery · 547 West 27th Street, Suite #304
Imagined Worlds · Atlantic Gallery · 548 West 28th Street, Suite 540
Robert Rauschenberg · Viridian Artists · 548 West 28th Street, Suite #632, 6th Floor
Lower East Side
Ancient History · Market Gallery · Market Street, Chinatown, DM for address
Good Bunny · Frosch&Co · 34 E Broadway
Five Below · Marinaro · 86 Walker Street, Floor 4 (trending)
Queens
Michaela Bathrick · Sculpture Center · 44-19 Purves St, Long Island City
SoHo-NoHo
Pastime · Plato Gallery · 202 Bowery (trending)
🗓️Friday, July 17th
East Village
We Had Been Citizens Of No Country · Nguyen Wahed · 504 E 12th St
Lower East Side
Otis Jones · Marc Straus · 299 Grand St
Memento · Scroll Nyc · 291 Grand Street, 4th Floor
Midtown
Al Satterwhite · C+C Photography Gallery · 3 West 57th Street, 4th Floor
North Brooklyn
Poppy Deltadawn · Tiger Strikes Asteroid · 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Suite #2A
Do I Know You From Somewhere? · Transmitter · 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Unit #2A
Tribeca
Don’t Stop · Whaam! · 15 Elizabeth Street, #113 (trending)
En Plein Air · Hesse Flatow · 77 Franklin Street
Pauline-Rose Dumas · Hesse Flatow · 77 Franklin Street
Ladder / Chain · Hesse Flatow · 77 Franklin St
Weekend Openings
🗓️Saturday, July 18th
Lower East Side
Chris Rwk · Krause Gallery · 149 Orchard Street
North Brooklyn
Natalia Nakazawa · Koda · Governors Island, Colonels Row #407B
After Hours Recap
What better way is there to enjoy New York’s long, bright summer evenings than to go on a gallery crawl?
A few weeks ago, 65 galleries across lower Manhattan kept their doors open from 6-8 p.m. for After Hours, Showrunner’s first Downtown Gallery Night, in collaboration with YveYANG. The exhaustive list of participating institutions spanned everything from art world heavyweights like Sebastian Gladstone to grassroots organizations. In short, there was something for everyone.
Here’s just one out of the many routes you could’ve taken.
Stephen Lichty’s Ghost Stone at YveYANG
You don’t see this show so much as you hear and feel it. Intended as a response to humans’ destructive impact on the natural world, Ghost Stone is a quiet, yet profound act of material storytelling in the heart of New York.
One work, Stone, is inspired by the plight of Liberty Hill Diggings in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, an otherwise pristine natural site ruined by dynamite blasting and hydraulic mining. The quartz boulder featured comes from Liberty Hill, a physical reminder of these damaging practices.
Lichty, however, keeps it shrouded in the semi-darkness of the unlit central room as if it were still in the earth at Liberty Hill. Instead of forcibly shaping it like we forcibly shaped the land there, the artist mimicked the natural process of erosion using implements such as water guns and dental tools, allowing the pre-existing crevices and textures of the stone to shape the final product.
The other two works on display aren’t immediately apparent. One of them is Bell, which hangs from the gallery’s door, made from iron ore that washed from the Sierra Nevada down to San Francisco. Extracted, smelted, and cast in collaboration with pre-industrial metallurgist Jeff Pringle, Bell speaks with its Liberty Hill quartz clapper, recounting the story of its extraction and making.
Forest subtly dominates the last room as a pine rosin and glass panel installed in the ceiling. The rosin was made from Liberty Hill pine resin, a substance that scabs over broken tree branches to protect against infection and infestation. Forest can then be seen as a symbol of healing, beautifully scabbing over and protecting the natural narratives present in the rest of the show. *Ghost Stone has now closed but go by YveYANG to see group show No Neutral, alongside paintings by Anna‑Maria Škroba.
Little Birds and Our Daily Prayers at The Locker Room
Kingdom (2025), Robert Martin, acrylic and oil on canvas
In a whirlwind celebration of Pride Month, The Locker Room brings together two otherwise disparate themes: religion and queer art. The show title reclaims the Yiddish slur for “girly” boys, “faygeleh,” or “little bird,” as a testament to queer people’s ability to flock together in the most dire of times, and serves as a testament to the unwavering faith behind queerness.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Robert Martin’s Kingdom (2025), in which they paint every hair, mole, and inch of skin like a prayer.
The same holds true for Abbey Gilbert’s Reaching Out (2026), a remarkable cyanotype printed over lines of poetry and classified ads. What could be seen as a lover’s hand holding a cigarette could also be read in the context of the show as a symbol of benediction. *These shows have now closed, stop by Locker Room to see photographs by Summer Wagner.
I Will Never Enter this Room at Underdonk
For those worried about the vulnerability of art world jobs, don’t worry — Claude certainly won’t be replacing you (yet).
Presented by Claude’s human, Marcos Valella from Underdonk, I will Never Enter this Room is a case study in whether a robot with no eyes and no perception of physical space could ever curate a show.
The AI-generated press release was admittedly well written, and the overarching theme — art where each piece “engages with something Claude fundamentally lacks” — was intriguing, but the final result was… well, to be expected.
Take, for example, Cordy Ryman’s untitled (CLACKERS) (2026), a chain of colorfully painted wooden blocks. In Ryman’s other shows, his work zings across gallery walls and around corners, brightening and transforming the space it’s shown in. Here, Claude wanted it to be a static, straight line across the floor — and frankly, a trip hazard. Leave it to a digital agent without feet to figure that out. *I Will Never Enter this Room at Underdonk is now closed. Stop by the gallery to see their current exhibition by Brian Zeeger.
Show review by Mia Shou. Mia is a current junior studying art history and journalism at NYU.
We get it — New York’s art scene is a lot to sort through. But with a little time, patience, and of course, the Showrunner app, you too can find countless shows to love. There’s a lot more where this came from :)