Featured Events in New York in May 2025 (June Updated)

Textiles touch every aspect of our lives and connect us to history. “Threads were among the earliest transmitters of meaning,” the artist Anni Albers wrote in 1965. Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction reveals the links between this art form and abstraction. Incorporating basketry, apparel, and more than a century of other textile works that challenge accepted divisions between fine art and craft, this exhibition broadens the story of abstraction, suggesting that not only ideas but materials—like woven, knotted, and braided fabric—are crucial to its understanding and success. Spanning early-20th-century works by Sonia Delaunay, Hannah Hoch, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, whose textile practices parallel their painting and drawing, mid-century works by Albers and Ed Rossbach, and contemporary works by Rosemarie Trockel, Andrea Zittel, and Igshaan Adams, this exhibition brings together more than 150 diverse, interdisciplinary objects. Highlighting issues of labor and identity that are intertwined with modern textile production, Woven Histories argues that weaving and textiles are the quintessential link between lived experience and art.

The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) opened New York City’s original underground subway line in October 1904. While the city was one of the most diverse in the country, before the introduction of the subway, most New Yorkers were not in regular contact with people outside their own neighborhoods. Initially extending from the Bronx to Lower Manhattan (with service to Brooklyn beginning in 1908) and forming part of the wider transit system, the convenient and affordable IRT encouraged riders to travel beyond their communities for both work and leisure. In order to entice people to regularly use the subway, the IRT printed two in-car poster campaigns, The Elevated Express and The Subway Sun, that highlighted each borough’s unique attractions. Of these, The Subway Sun was especially successful.

Anita Shapolsky Gallery, renowned for its dedication to Abstract Expressionism, presents “A Dialogue Between Ernest Briggs and Peter Bonner.” This exhibition brings together two generations of abstraction, juxtaposing the bold, gestural work of Ernest Briggs with the introspective, process-driven paintings of Peter Bonner. A key figure in the second generation of Abstract Expressionism, Briggs embodied the movement’s raw energy and spontaneity, using vigorous brushwork to express emotion and the rugged intensity of human nature. In contrast, Bonner explores perception, identity, and memory through layered compositions that invite contemplation beyond the surface.

This spring, the presentation of late works by French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) travels from Hauser & Wirth’s Paris gallery to 22nd Street in New York. Organized in collaboration with Comité Picabia, and co-curated by its President, Beverley Calté, and art historian Arnauld Pierre, ‘Eternal Beginning’ is the first major exhibition to focus on Picabia’s compelling final period. It features close to 30 paintings created by Picabia between 1945—when he returned to Paris from the South of France—and 1952, the penultimate year of his life. As a complement to the exhibition, Hauser & Wirth Publishers has released a catalogue with fresh scholarship in both English and French on Picabia’s late work.

Nicola Vassell presents Where The I Settles, an exhibition of new and recent work by Che Lovelace, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Across a group of multi-paneled paintings, the exhibition radically expands his exploration into the relationship between nature and society in his native Trinidad. Lovelace attends to the many ways that these worlds contrast with one another before eventually reaching a state of unity, which he expresses above all through the act of painting itself.

For Rosa Barba, cinema “allows time and space to vibrate, collapse, overlap, and extend.” Barba’s conceptual explorations of film probe historical records, personal narratives, and the sensory experience of celluloid, often by documenting natural landscapes and human-made changes to the environment. This installation spans 15 years of Barba’s work, featuring film, kinetic sculpture, and sound. A newly commissioned work, Charge, forms the core of the installation and examines light as a source of ecological change and scientific innovation. Accompanying these works is a series of performances conceived by Barba as an “exploded poem.” In each event, the sonic frequencies of percussionist Chad Taylor, vocalist Alicia Hall Moran, and artist Rosa Barba will activate a symphony of images throughout the installation.

Lincoln Glenn Gallery presents Herself: American Artists of the 20th Century. This eclectic grouping of 24 artists shares a kaleidoscope of influence that unites them across nearly 100 years of artistic production. The women represented in Herself had varying degrees of commercial success, some achieving major museum shows and earning a place on the rosters of well-known galleries, while others are still seeking institutional recognition. Regardless of their notoriety, each of these artists had a hand in the greater cultural development of visual art in 20th century America. Enterprising and bold, they made strides not only for women artists to have a seat at the table, but for women to be respected for their contributions in any field.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York presents a display of works by Aki+Arnaud Cooren, the multidisciplinary design studio known for serene, dreamy, creations that evoke poignant and harmonious confluences with the natural world. The exhibition features new pieces that add to the duo’s acclaimed Ishigaki Lamp series, which won a Créateurs Design Award in 2025 and is inspired by freediving experiences off the coast of Ishigaki island, southern Japan.

In a celebration of modern and contemporary Italian design, Forma & Estetica at Carpenters Workshop Gallery brings together leading figures in the field, exploring how beauty and function intersect in a world shaped by industry, urbanisation and cultural tradition. The exhibition features contemporary artists Vincenzo De Cotiis and Giacomo Ravagli alongside iconic 20th-century designers such as Gio Ponti, Gabriella Crespi, Emilio Lancia, Cesare Leonardi, Franca Stagi, Mario Gottardi, Studio BBPR, and Ico and Luisa Parisi.

D’Lan Contemporary presents the tenth anniversary edition, and the first international edition of SIGNIFICANT, the flagship exhibition which presents the finest works of art by Australia’s preeminent First Nations artists to market every year. SIGNIFICANT 2025 takes place across all three D’Lan Contemporary galleries - Melbourne, Sydney, and New York - in a pivotal new format that will provide collectors a unique opportunity to view and acquire a diverse selection of exceptional works of art on the market in person, and online.

TEMPLON New York presents its first exhibition by American painter Will Cotton. In this new body of work, Between Instinct and Reason, the artist continues to reflect on pop culture and a new American mythology. In Cotton’s world of sugary treats, pink unicorns, and hypermasculine cowboys, he is now introducing a new player: the mermaid.

Lévy Gorvy Dayan presents Half Way Home by Los-Angeles based artist Austyn Weiner. Weiner’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery comprises three monumental paintings that form an immersive installation, representing the emotional, physical, and spiritual odyssey she traversed over the past year.

Michael Werner Gallery, New York presents Scarecrow, an exhibition of new works by Sanya Kantarovsky (b. 1982 in Moscow).“The painter is condemned to please. By no means can he transform a painting into an object of aversion. The purpose of a scarecrow is to frighten birds from the field where it is planted, but the most terrifying painting is there to attract visitors. Actual torture can also be interesting, but in general that can’t be considered its purpose.”

Nohra Haime Gallery presents ATLAS TO THE SELF, a group exhibition exploring the ways in which identity is constructed, performed, and resisted through the interplay of memory, landscape, language, and the body. Featuring works by Hugo Bastidas, Lesley Dill, Ruby Rumié, Pedro Ruiz, Gregg Louis, Carol K. Brown, Adam Straus, and Julie Hedrick, the exhibition brings together photography, drawing, painting, and text to chart an intimate and political topography of the self—where each artist acts as both cartographer and witness.

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery presents Bienvenue: African American Artists in France, a historical survey of seventeen Black American artists who lived and worked in France from the late nineteenth century through the present.

The Coney Island History Project will open for the season on May 24th with new exhibits by Charles Denson and Amanda Deutch. Coney Island Streets: 1965–1975 and Brooklyn Wilds combine street photography, cyanotypes, native plants, and poetry to explore the natural and urban sides of Coney Island that are not well known. Through the medium of photography, both shows complement each other by exploring the complexity of this New York City neighborhood. With this exhibit, we are introducing our new Wonder Gallery, a collaboration between Charles Denson and Amanda Deutch. More info on our website. Link in bio.

Yancey Richardson presents Self-Portraits While Buried, an exhibition featuring works from Jenny Calivas’ titular series and the artist’s debut with the gallery. Combining photography and performance, Calivas produces her photographs using analog processes and experimental darkroom techniques, prioritizing embodied ways of thinking and making. In photographs which show her partially or almost completely submerged in the landscape, Calivas explores the relationship between the female body and a feminized understanding of the Earth, while also reflecting on the power of looking and the vulnerability of being looked at.

Stephen Friedman Gallery, New York presents Uncommon Sight, an exhibition of new paintings by Korean artist Yooyun Yang. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York, following her ambitious US debut in the 58th Carnegie International in 2022.

Yancey Richardson presents Conjurer, an exhibition by Greek artist Maria Antelman, her first with the gallery. Bringing together work made over the past five years, the exhibition highlights Antelman’s unique approach to photography in which her lyrical and experimental approach to imagery and montage is combined with a sculptural sensibility and attention to the photograph as an object in three dimensions. Through her merging and splicing together of images—those from the body and from nature—Antelman endeavors to re-mystify our understanding of the natural world.

“Into the Dimensional Corridor” is a phrase borrowed from a first season episode of the Star Trek series and refers to a magnetic corridor that allows travel between parallel universes, one of matter and one of anti-matter. In the years leading up to the first installation of “Into the Dimensional Corridor”, Lutz Bacher slowly amassed sheets of Plexiglas from salvage stores throughout Brooklyn and Queens. As the number of sheets grew, she wrote in her notes: “So there was a sense that [this] was something to ‘follow’– wherever it might lead me – ”. As was often the trajectory of her later installations, she did not know where the path would lead or what other objects might finally come together.

Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron explores the path-breaking career of photography’s first widely recognized artist. Cameron (1815–1879) was born in Calcutta to a French mother and an English father; in 1848, with her husband and children, she moved to England, where her sisters introduced her to the elite cultural circles in which they traveled. Residing on the Isle of Wight, where she was close neighbors with the poet Alfred Tennyson, Cameron acquired her first camera at age 48. In only eleven years she would create thousands of exposures and leave an enduring image of the Victorian era as an age of intellectual and spiritual ambition. Her own prodigious drive helped Cameron become a probing portraitist of leading figures such as Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle, G.F. Watts, and Charles Darwin, while her absorption with fine art, notably Renaissance painting, led her to create staged tableaux in a mode that has been perpetually rediscovered by photographers down to the present. Most distinct of all was Cameron’s wholly personal handling of her medium. Heedless of a large camera’s technical limitations, alert to the happy effects of accident, and indifferent to critical scorn, she embraced a style of spontaneous intimacy that distanced her from the photographic establishment of her time and class. Motion blur, highly selective focus, and even fingerprints on the glass negatives (which required developing before their emulsions dried) are among the idiosyncrasies of her singular oeuvre. Cameron was quick to exploit publishing and promotional opportunities: at London’s South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria & Albert Museum) she secured not only an exhibition in 1865 but, a few years later, studio space, and she was the first photographic artist to be collected by the institution. Arresting Beauty features prints from its initial purchase and from subsequent additions to its holdings, which have grown to number nearly one thousand. The exhibition includes Cameron’s large if optically primitive lens (all that survives of her apparatus), pages from her memoir manuscript Annals of My Glass House, and portraits she made in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) after Cameron and her husband moved there in 1875.

The annual tasting event returns to City Winery in 2025! We’re thrilled to host this special evening for the WSJ Wine community. You’ll sip and sample your way through over 60 wines, all while chatting with our most-loved winemakers from Tuscany, Bordeaux, California and beyond. Our tastings are known for their relaxed, cocktail party atmosphere. Taste at your own pace with friends, meet the experts and enjoy exclusive discounts on the wines you try. Join us on May 30, 2025 from 6-9pm at City Winery—located in Pier 57 at Hudson River Park. Here’s what you can look forward to: • Taste over 60 wines —including premium selections from our inner cellar. • Meet and mingle with exciting producers like California’s iconic Boisset Collection, Rioja’s famed Altos de la Guardia estate, Tuscany’s Paolo and Annarita Masi and France's legendary Jean-Marc Diffonty. • NEW highlights this year include Greek wines, Wines Across America, the official JETS Sonoma Cabernet and an Italian fine wine table. • Enjoy light snacks such as cheese, charcuterie and desserts. • The dynamic teams from Château La Clarière in Bordeaux and RedHeads in Australia will also be on-hand, pouring their beloved boutique wines. • NEW expanded Vineyard Partner lounge. We’ll uncork special releases, offer light bites and have a few additional surprises. New location this year! The VP lounge has moved from the main stage to the waterfront terrace directly outside the event space, giving you beautiful views of the Hudson River. • Our in-house wine experts will be floating around all evening to answer your questions. • Enjoy 20% off and free shipping on any wine order (of 12+ bottles) placed at the event. (Advantage members get an additional $20 discount on wine orders.) With beautiful views, world-class wines and great company, there’s no better way to spend an evening in the city. See you there! Please note, this is a private tasting event. Tickets must be purchased in advance and will not be available at the door. Must be 21+ to attend this event. Attendees can receive refunds up to 7 days prior to the day of the event (Eventbrite fees are nonrefundable). By attending this event, you agree to be photographed and/or filmed and give permission to use your likeness in promotional and/or marketing materials. Information Source: WSJ Wine | eventbrite

Get ready for fashion’s biggest night of the year — Met Gala 2025 is making its grand return on May 5 at the iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City! Known as the “Oscars of fashion,” this exclusive event brings together the world’s most influential designers, celebrities, and cultural icons for a night where art, identity, and style collide. This year’s theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” shines a spotlight on the elegance, resilience, and creativity of Black dandyism — from its historical roots in 18th-century tailoring to its bold influence on today’s streetwear and haute couture. Over 30 groundbreaking designers will be featured, including Virgil Abloh, Grace Wales Bonner, and Olivier Rousteing, alongside curated photography, portraits, and fashion pieces that tell a powerful story of self-expression and cultural pride. Expect the red carpet to be more dazzling than ever, with stars like Rihanna, Zendaya, A$AP Rocky, and Pharrell Williams anticipated to make show-stopping appearances. This year’s co-chairs include Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, and LeBron James — a lineup that speaks volumes about the intersection of fashion, identity, and impact. Met Gala 2025 isn’t just a glamorous event — it’s a cultural moment. Whether you’re a fashion devotee, a culture lover, or simply curious about the stories behind the style, this year’s gala and exhibition promise a deeply meaningful experience. The exhibit will be open to the public from May 10 through October 26, inviting visitors from around the globe to explore a beautifully curated journey through fashion and history. Planning your trip to New York for Met Gala 2025? Stay tuned with Trip.com for the latest updates on tickets, travel tips, and everything you need to experience this unforgettable celebration of art and elegance.

Experience the magic of a magical evening at our Loy Krathong Festival! Join us as we gather at the water's edge to celebrate love, hopes and dreams, all illuminated by the soft glow of floating lanterns.

︎Picture this: you and your crew, decked out in your sharpest all-white outfits, stepping aboard for an evening of pure vibes. We’ll cruise around Manhattan, dancing to killer beats from Dj Dharak spinning fusion and desi hits, all while the stunning NYC skyline glows under the sun. You will glide past many legendary landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, Freedom Tower, Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge. Sip your drinks, feel the breeze, and let loose on this stylish nautical adventure. Your Cruise Experience Will Include: Dj Dharak & Friends playing all styles of Bollywood, Top 40 & more. Scenic Bollywood Party Cruise of the NYC harbor. Captivating views of the Manhattan skyline including the Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, Ellis Island, the Freedom Tower and more. Open-Air deck and climate-controlled indoor cabins. Expect to dance away on our nightclub on the water and take plenty of snaps of the view! This Event is Strictly For 21 & Over. Proper Physical ID Will Be Required To Board. Our White Dress Code Policy exudes sophistication and unity among guests. It’s essential to adhere to this theme to honor the event’s aesthetic and make a lasting impression. Whether you're going for casual elegance or glamorous sophistication, sticking to the dress code allows you to blend seamlessly into the party atmosphere. We're talking chic sundresses, fashionable short sleeve button downs, vibrant kurtas, and everything in between! Event Information : Boarding: 5:30PM // Departure: 6:30PM // Returns : 10:30PM Information Source: DesiSaturdays.Com | eventbrite

The New York Knicks, established in 1946 and based in New York City, New York, USA, play their home games at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks have won the NBA Championship twice, in 1970 and 1973. Current key players include Jalen Brunson. The Indiana Pacers, established in 1967 and based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, play their home games at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. The Pacers have won three ABA Championships but have not won an NBA Championship. Current key players include Tyrese Haliburton.

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If you are a woman who is looking for a younger, more energetic man then this event is for you! And if you are a man looking for an attractive older woman with experience, then your search stops here! How does it work? You will go on about 10 dates with someone of the opposite sex, each date will be 5 minutes long/short. We will provide you with materials to tell us who you liked. If the same person(s) you pick also pick you, you will be a "Match" and we will give you each others' contact information - then the rest is up to you! Call each other up and make plans to go out! Ages: Men 30-40, Women 40-55 Cubs you must be within the ages of 30-40 to attend this event. We will check ID at the door and turn anyone away who is outside of the age range. FAQs Dress code? There is no strict dress code, but we recommend you dress to make a good first impression. What time should I arrive? Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to sign in and get situated. You must RSVP to attend. We cannot accept walk-ins because we need to ensure an equal number of men and women. Speed dating is a fun and pressure free way to meet singles in NYC! Information Source: Speed Dating & Singles Events | eventbrite

Timothy Taylor mounts a solo exhibition of new paintings by British figurative painter Antonia Showering at its New York gallery this spring. Showering is known for her enigmatic, psychologically fraught paintings with single or coupled subjects set against hazy mountain ranges or in scenes of aqueous, ambiguous domesticity. This presentation marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in New York.

Join us for an in-person event with Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li for the launch of her new book Things in Nature Merely Grow. Joining Yiyun in conversation is President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Mitzi Angel. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street. Can’t make the event? Purchase a signed copy of Things in Nature Merely Grow here. ACCESSIBILITY: Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator. Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by 5/6 to request. For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact events@strandbooks.com . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Pulitzer Prize finalist Yiyun Li’ s Things in Nature Merely Grow is a remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance that considers the loss of Li’s son James. It is a book that weaves clarity of thought out of an unfathomable experience, a book that matters immensely. “There is no good way to state these facts, which must be acknowledged,” Li writes at the beginning of Things in Nature Merely Grow. “My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide, and both died not far from home.” There is no good way to say this—because words fall short. It takes only an instant for death to become fact, “a single point in a timeline.” Living now on this single point, Li turns to thinking and reasoning and searching for words that might hold a place for James. Li does what she can: “doing the things that work,” including not just writing but gardening, reading Camus and Wittgenstein, learning the piano, and living thinkingly alongside death. This is a book for James, but it is not a book about grieving or mourning, about something that has an afterwards or an endpoint. As Li writes, “The verb that does not die is to be. Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later, only, now and now and now and now.” Things in Nature Merely Grow tells the truth about loss as best words can, and challenges us to live with a measure of Li’s rigor, grace, and understanding. It is a book that testifies to its author’s indomitable spirit. Photo credit: Basso Cannarsa Agence Opale Yiyun Li is one of our greatest living writers, the author of several works of fiction— Wednesday’s Child; The Book of Goose; Must I Go; Where Reasons End; Kinder Than Solitude; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl; The Vagrants ; and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers —and the memoir Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life. She is the recipient of many awards, including a PEN /Faulkner Award, a PEN /Malamud Award, a PEN /Hemingway Award, a PEN /Jean Stein Book Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Windham-Campbell Prize, and she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, The Best American Short Stories , and The PEN/O . Henry Prize Stories, among other publications. She teaches at Princeton University and lives in Princeton, New Jersey. Mitzi Angel is President and Publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Previously, she was publisher of Faber and Faber in London. The authors she has worked with include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Rachel Cusk, Garth Greenwell, Sheila Heti, Ben Lerner, Yiyun Li, Édouard Louis, Paul Murray, Sally Rooney, and Amia Srinivasan. Forthcoming projects include books by Hilton Als, James Gleick, and Bryan Washington. Information Source: The Strand Book Store | eventbrite