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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) September 2026

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Late summer is arguably the best time in the Hudson Valley, with mild temperatures, sunny skies, flowers blooming everywhere, and loads of fresh produce at local markets. There is a similar sense of abundance in the galleries. Openings on September 5 include Escape Hatch: Felix Beaudry, Samantha Bittman, Chris Edwards at Roundabouts Now; Dirty Joke at Utopia, Amy Jacobs at Headstone; Jim Denney and Dennis Gordon at Time and Space Limited; knee deep in this body of water at The Re Institute; Brett De Palma, RM Fischer, and Judy Glantzman at CAS; Joseph Fucigna and group show Material Culture at G-Town Arts, and Ted Dixon at WAAM.

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, August 2026

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In August, it seems as though many gallerists and artists are anywhere but NYC. But there are stalwart exceptions like Spencer Brownstone (LES) , with a clutch of artists in “second material” through August 14, and Susan Inglett (Chelsea), showing Ryan Wallace until early September. “Between the Lines,” featuring Johanna Calle, Jonathan Callan, Steven McClure, Glenda León, Ivan Lam, Sean Micka, Nobuhira Narumi, Ed Ruscha, Analia Saban, and Adam Winner, opened last week at Bienvenu Steinberg & C (Tribeca). At Frisson (LES), Parker Conrad and Guy Grabowsky consider how images are being produced and reproduced these days. We can always count on wonderful small-scale abstraction at 57W57 Arts (5th at 42nd Street), probably the best office-gallery in the city. Have you ever been to Ptolemy in Glendale, a residential village in Queens? Maybe now is the time to go. Their big summer group show “Paragon Park Observatory” is on view through August 16. In DUMBO, Stephen Deffet has a solo at Stump Gallery through August 16. Head out to 56 Bogart in Bushwick for Incubator Studio Gallery’s “Literature of the Land.” Let’s agree not to talk about any gallery closings until September and just salute the last batch of group shows on view in the dog days of summer!

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) August 2026

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The Hudson Valley’s artistic momentum shows no signs of slowing as galleries across the region open new exhibitions on Saturday, August 1. Highlights include solo shows with Henry Klimowicz and Summers Moore at Geary; Bruce Edelstein: Sculpture at Time and Space Limited; the group exhibition Leviathan River, Whales and the Making of Hudson at Front Room Gallery; Wendy White: Laguna Seca at Gaa, a new gallery in Catskill; Hot House II at Utopia; and Samantha Haring at Elijah Wheat Showroom. Notable exhibitions continuing in August include Steve DiBenedetto, Nicole Hayes, Alexander Ross, and Matt Tiernan at Tanja Grunert; Animal Bodies: Elana Herzog, Jean Shin, and Brigitta Váradi at Athens Cultural Center; Melora Kuhn: The Legacy of Disembodiment at Private Public Gallery; Jason Middlebrook: Fun with Fungi at LABspace; Todd Strong at Headstone; In Light of Present Boundaries: Nicole Cherubini, Kathryn Lynch, Matt LaFleur, Ryan Scails, Vincent Pidone, Brian Lynch, and Evan Giller at Maiden Lane Gallery; CANTILEVERS: Katy Fischer and Marie Lorenz at Roundabouts Now; Invasive Species at Rohmer Gallery, and Catching Fire at Ann Street Gallery.

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, July 2026

Contributed by Sharon Butler/ July and August are the slowest months for NYC galleries. Many limit summer hours to weekdays, and close early on Friday, so check and see when they are open before you go. A few galleries have announced that they are relocating or closing. In DUMBO, AIR Gallery and Platform Project Space lost their Two Trees space subsidies. AIR is relocating to Greenwich Village while Platform is closing as director Elizabeth Hazan moves her studio to Long Island City. Lyles & King, one of the oldest and most prominent of the Henry Street galleries, is also closing. Marinaro, after briefly sharing LES space with Candice Madey, has signed a lease at 86 Walker Street in Tribeca. Most readers will have heard that Pace is downsizing. On the bright side, Ruby/Dakota is back in business this month with pop-up shows at Kravets Wehby in Chelsea and Art Cake in Brooklyn. In general, look for a mix of…

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, July 2026

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The art scene was buzzing in June for Upstate Art Weekend, and it’s not slowing down in July. New exhibitions are opening throughout the month, starting on July 4 with  Todd Stong: This World May Never Change at Headstone. On July 11, notable openings include Jason Middlebrook at LABspace, Reginald Madison at SEPTEMBER, Holly McCabe at Distortion Society, Going Upstate: The Avery Family in New York at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, and CANTILEVERS: Katy Fischer and Marie Lorenz at Roundabouts Now. If you are interested in collage, don’t miss the series of ten exhibitions organized by Transforming Collage: Hudson Valley, including Uncollage – Seamless Unison at Dutchess Community College; Shapeshifters: Collage to Form at Palmer Gallery, Vassar College; PLACE / MEANT at Millbrook Arts Project; and more. Finally, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States, One Mile Gallery in Kingston presents A Complicated Union: Art & Protest at America’s 250th Anniversary with a reception on July 18.

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, May 2026

Yes, we have art fairs in town this month, and I’m looking forward to swinging by ESTHER III, a kind of alternative embodiment of the concept at Estonian House on 243 E. 34th Street from May 13–16. Thomas Erben is bringing work by Mike Cloud and a few of my other favorite NYC galleries will be there, King’s Leap among them. Reserve free tickets now. Also on the must-see list this month is “The Moment and the Distance,” a big Helen Frankenthaler solo at Gagosian,…

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, May 2026

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / The Hudson Valley art scene is ramping up for the summer season with some great exhibitions opening this month. Requited Configurations opens at RUTHANN on May 1 with work by Natalie Beall, Charlotte Beckett, Damien Davis, Mark Dion, Shanti Grumbine, Nicholas Hamilton, Peter Hoffmeister, Jessi Li, David Lukowski, Scott Penkava, Monika Zarzeczna, and Steph Zimmerman. On May 2, openings include…

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, April 2026

Contributed by Sharon Butler / In “New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art,” an article that recently appeared in the winter issue of October, artist Josh Kline points out that art has long been curated, funded, and institutionalized by the very galleries and collectors who profit from it and the schools that train its participants, without necessarily serving the majority of artists. Most NYC artists are familiar with the story Josh is telling, as many have weathered previous market downturns. Some can remember the 1989 stock market crash, the devastation of 9/11, and the 2008 recession. Now, after what has become a years-long rout, even A-listers like Josh feel compelled to rethink the cost of maintaining a NYC studio as the market for their work has changed.

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, April 2026

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Every month, it seems there is one day when there are so many openings and events in the Hudson Valley that it is physically impossible to attend them all. For upstate art lovers, this challenging experience is happening twice, on both Saturday, April 4 and Saturday, April 11. The first Saturday in April brings new exhibitions at SEPTEMBER, Philip Douglas Fine Art, Front Room Gallery, Jane Street Art Center, Headstone…

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, March 2026

I was doing an artists talk with Jason Travers at 68 Prince Street Gallery in Kingston, NY, two weeks ago, and the subject of politics came up. Jason said he kept going back to sinking ship analogies. “It’s sometimes lost that even on the sinking Titanic there was hope for humanity. While it was sinking, there was a string quartet playing for panicked passengers. These musicians kept playing while the ship went down. The man who led that quartet was Wallace Hartley. I don’t want his name to be forgotten. There was a time when I would think about him and feel angry— why are you playing music when you should be getting on one of those boats? Now I look back at his contribution differently, and I do think it was a contribution. He was doing the only thing he could do. He was restoring a sense of humanity at the moment it was most needed — even if no one was listening. In a way, that’s the analogy for the artist today. I feel like Wallace Hartley — playing music while the whole world is falling apart and nobody’s paying attention.”

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, February 2026

Contributed by Sharon Butler / It’s February and my head is already spinning. I saw a few shows yesterday and recommend a trip to 15 Orient on 72 Walker Street (enter on Cortlandt Alley) to see Mitchell Kehe’s show “Bonded by the Spirit of Doubt,” in which enigmatic composition seems to affirm and concretize the pit I feel in my stomach. If narrative is more your jam, stop by LUNCH, a pop-up space downstairs from NADA headquarters at 311 East Broadway. Bill Arning has curated a show called “Ambiguous Storytellers” featuring Hannah Barrett, Tyler Brandon, Ario Elami, Matthew Gilbert, T.J. Griffin, Paula Hayes, Brian Kenny, Phil Knoll, Steven Lack, Jean Paul Mallozzi, Daniel Morowitz, Donna Moylan, Rajab Ali Sayed, and Erik Daniel White. Don’t miss Hilary Harnischfeger’s “Song for Clouds,” the artist’s fifth exhibition at Uffner & Liu. She crafts handmade objects that uncannily reflect the geological processes of tectonic pressure, sediment layering, and mineral buildup. Two Coats fave Alex Kwartler returns to Magenta Plains with “Off-Peak,” a solo show in which he presents “an inventory of passing attentions” that perfectly capture this age of distraction.

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, January 2026

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / Happy New Year! January is a quieter month in the Hudson Valley, but there is still plenty of great art to see around the region. From north to south, Barbara Todd: Undoings opens at Opalka Gallery in Albany on January 20. Three solo shows open at Catskill Art Space in Livingston Manor on January 17: Richard Barlow, Lisa Craft and Ellen Driscoll. Yura Adams’ solo exhibition Marvel’s Cabinet opens at WAAM in Woodstock on January 23. At the Millbrook Library The Color of Growth with Irja Bodén, JoAnne Lobotsky, Patrick Neal, and Colin O’Con opens on January 9, and on January 10, a two person show with Susan English and Laura Moriarty opens at Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and CRAZY, a group show curated by Jaime Ransome opens at BAU in Beacon. Also on January 10, Boundaries: Beth Dary, Amy Kupferberg, Rita Maas, and Mary Negro opens at Yellow Studio in Cross River, NY.

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, December 2025

Hello, December! I’m grateful to everyone who has already supported Two Coats of Paint 2025 Year-end Fundraising Campaign. With roughly four weeks left, we still need additional contributions to fund 2026. If you haven’t yet donated, I encourage you to consider making your tax-deductible gift now. For two decades, I’ve managed to sustain Two Coats of Paint on a lean…

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide, December 2025

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / December brings numerous group exhibitions, making it the perfect time to collect art by local artists and purchase holiday gifts. On December 12-14, the pop up show Glögg Glögg features affordable work by over 30 artists at artist Melissa Dadourian’s studio near Woodstock, NY. Also in Woodstock, the 26th Annual 5 by 7 Show opens December 5 at the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts and features hundreds of small works by local artists. Notable exhibitions this month include Beth Dary at Front Room Gallery, Kylie Heidenheimer at Private Public Gallery, and Jim Denney and Jennifer Wynne Reeves at Philip Douglas Fine Art, all in Hudson. In Kingston don’t miss Julie Evans, Murray Hochman, Catherine Howe at 68 Prince Street…

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide November 2025

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / November is starting out with a busy weekend of openings all across the region. On November 1, Dogs & Cats opens at SEPTEMBER with over 80 artists participating. 10% of all sales are being donated to the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, a local organization committed to supporting and resourcing immigrants. Richard Boseman opens on Saturday, November 1 at Headstone, and in the Catskills…

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, October, 2025

Welcome to the Two Coats of Paint October selected guide to painting-centric exhibitions in New York, Brooklyn, and Queens. We’ll be updating the listings around mid-month, so if you want your show considered for inclusion, please send info about the show to staff@twocoatsofpaint.com. NOTE: The year-end fundraising campaign starts in a few weeks, but readers who want to get a headstart can make a tax-deductible contribution here. Thank you!

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Hudson Valley (+ Vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide October 2025

Contributed by Karlyn Benson / October is the most beautiful month to visit the Hudson Valley and surrounding regions. Don’t miss seeing the brilliant foliage and enjoying cooler days and clear blue skies. Special events this month include the O+ music and art festival in Kingston on October 10-12 and the WAAM Members Open Studio Tour October 11-12. In Hudson, Farrell Brickhouse is giving an artist’s talk at Philip Douglas on October 11….

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NYC Selected Gallery Guide, September, 2025

Contributed by Sharon Butler / Make today a day you, like me, refrain from doomscrolling in despair or listening to pundits vainly in search of packaged optimism. Cued by this guide, you might instead opt for art feeds on Instagram and ultimately the shows themselves because nothing is more hopeful than art in the fall in New York. We kick off the first week with the art fairs and then turn our attention to gallery exhibitions, hopping from neighborhood to neighborhood, absorbing new work by artists we’ve known for years and others we’ve never met. For a good time, this is the place to scroll.