Awita's Williamsburg studio is worth building a stop around this weekend, more on that below. And if you're willing to cross the bridge, Wednesday's ADAA Tribeca Gallery Walk is worth a look too.
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Min Park's solo show, Navigating In-Between Spaces, works in ink, watercolor, installation, and projected media around identity and memory. It's been up since the start of the month and runs through July 30, so there's real time to see it. The same studio runs its artist market this weekend, further down this list, if you want to make a day of it.
On view through Jul 30 -
The drawing and craft studio on N 10th Street is extending its drop-in hours for the summer, no class registration required. I like that it's built as a place to show up and make something, not a program you have to commit to in advance.
Starting Fri Jul 17 -
A market of local artists and makers at Awita's Williamsburg studio, the same space showing Min Park's work above. Sip & Shop runs the last two hours if you want a reason to linger.
Sat-Sun Jul 18-19, 12-6p (Sip & Shop 4-6p) -
A drop-in figure drawing class at Janes Studios in Sunset Park, one drink included with the ticket. A live model poses, and no experience is necessary.
Fri Jul 17 -
Choplet's Greenpoint studio runs a beginner wheel-throwing class, centering and shaping clay into a finished piece that comes back glazed and fired.
Sat Jul 18 -
An opening marking ten years of Recess's Assembly youth art program, with 67 works from 24 young artists. Performances and workshops run alongside the show.
Sat Jul 18, 5-7p -
Take Van headlines Zone One with support from Bitgurl and Hannah Hannah. Her sound moves between alternative pop and drum and bass, tracks that swing from vulnerable to kinetic within the same song.
Sat Jul 18, 7p -
WONNY JANE headlines a four-act bill at Hart Bar with Alex Plain, Apt Men, and Anjoli Simone.
Sat Jul 18, 8p
Palosanto is doing a rooftop night at Arlo Williamsburg
Paolo Ferrara headlines Refuge's Thursday night residency with his hard techno and metal fusion
A self-guided walk through ADAA member galleries in Tribeca. This is the inaugural Tribeca edition, pairing 58 member galleries across Chelsea and Tribeca with doors open until 8. I'd make the trip for this one if I only had time for one thing in Manhattan this week.
A group show on Governors Island built around five international resident artists working through ideas of house, home, and vulnerability. Petra Janda performs Hungry Plants during Saturday's opening hours.
An artist talk on digital images, memes, and cultural memory, tied to the exhibition time is a flat circle. bitforms is on the Lower East Side, not Brooklyn, but the digital-art crowd it draws overlaps with ours.
Nicole and Mishel Feldman are Ukrainian twin street artists making their New York debut this month at The Boiler. They're known throughout Europe for large-scale murals painted on bomb shelters, a gritty, explosive style shaped by living through Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Their new show, SESTRY FELDMAN WORLD, sets a domestic interior in the year 2050, where a woman is married to artificial intelligence. I like that they're using a speculative future to ask a real question about the present, not just build a fantasy. On view now, presented with Pulse Ukraine.
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Sam