The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now on the East End

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Thursday May 15, 2025

The Space In Between

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

INSTAGRAM 45 POSTER

2 – 6 pm

LOUISE EASTMAN & JANIS STEMMERMANN: Black and White and Red All Over

Arts Center at Duck CreekEast Hampton

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2 – 6 pm

Ralph Stout: Commuter Drawings

The Art Center at Duck CreekEAST HAMPTON

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3:30 – 5 pm

Cross Stitch Circle

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Classes
Family

The New York HistoricalUpper West Side

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5:30 – 8:30 pm

Life in Color – A Tribute to Maxine Jurow: Art Sale & Fundraiser

Suite PiecesHuntington Station

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6:30 – 8 pm

Learn to write a thriller at Sands Point Preserve

Sands Point PreserveSands Point

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6:30 – 10 pm

Max Rosen’s VIP Opening + Benefit

Art
Free

Picto NYBrooklyn

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

AANI Fresh Air Neshome Release Show Poster (1)

7 – 11 pm

AANI Album Release feat. AANI, Brass Queens and MIRA MIRA

Art
Holiday

Market HotelBrooklyn

3 – Florencia Cuenca and Company

7 – 9:30 pm

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical

Art
Comedy

James Earl Jones Theatre

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7:30 – 9:30 pm

O.K.!

Art
Comedy

INTARHell’s Kitchen

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8 – 10 pm

Take Root: D.I.G 2025

Art
Dance

Green SpaceLong Island City

Friday May 16

Unknown

All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade Center

All day

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS UNIQLO Friday Nights Fridays from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Art
Free

The Museum of Modern Art

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors Lobby

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7 am – 8:30 pm

FUENTEOVEJUNA: EAST END

Guild HallEast Hampton

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS The Lady at 100: Columbia Classics from the Locarno Film Festival APRIL 16 – MAY 24, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction APRIL 20 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause MAY 3 – JULY 6, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS The Red Thread: Larry Gottheim’s Films MAY 15 – MAY 27, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers MAY 11 – SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Carte Blanche: Rosa Barba MAY 13 – MAY 18, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

9 am – 5 pm

Perceptions of Sentience

Art
Free

United NationsEast Side Midtown

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9 am – 7 pm

UNBANNED: Exploring Censorship in Books, Art, & Media

FDR Four Freedoms State Park

THE LIGHT SHOW – SQUARARTISTS CARD (3000 x 3000 px)

9 am – 5 pm

The Light Show: A Celebration of Illuminating Ceramics

Art
Free

A.MANO BrooklynBrooklyn

Light From Darkness (6)

9:30 am – 5 pm

Light from Darkness

Art

BAFFA GallerySayville

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10 am – 6 pm

Poster House Spring 2025 Exhibition: Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar

Art

Poster HouseChelsea

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10 am – 6 pm

Poster House Spring 2025 Exhibition: Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace

Art

Poster HouseChelsea

Release the Kraken Scavenger Hunt

11 am – 4 pm

Release the Kraken! Scavenger Hunt

Ages: 3 and up
Art
Attractions
Family

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

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11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausBrooklyn

April – May Recycled Ecosystems (1)

11 am – 4 pm

Up-Cycled Ocean Crafts

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBrooklyn

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