Went to the Spring Open house on Sunday. Great weather. Been wanting to visit an open house day…read morehere for a while and glad we were able to go. Loved the spaces, artwork and people. A true hidden urban gem. A great place to get lost in. We had some empanadas from the truck. Not super, lacked flavor and cost $5 per. Better selections and places around the area. This will be one of my favorite places in Jersey City. We will visit them in future events and get lost again. Planning to visit them soon. Highly recommended!

Blown away by the amazing art they have on display!…read more Went on a guided tour and our tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and friendly. I believe they offer free tours once a day - call and inquire as you can't walk around freely. Especially loved the John Chamberlain photographs where he used a wide lux camera to create "self-portraits of the nervous system." Would definitely recommend!

They appear to be running an art contest scam, baiting and switching, and inducing artists to…read moreapply, but not stating that there is a large application fee. They manage a shell nyartcompetitions.com This is a formal complaint regarding NY Art Competitions due to a lack of clear and prominent disclosure of a mandatory $55 submission fee during the initial stages of the application process. The fee was only revealed at the final step after I had already invested significant time completing the submission. This created the impression of a bait-and-switch or drip pricing structure, where material cost information was not clearly presented upfront, resulting in applicants proceeding through a lengthy submission process without full awareness of the financial requirement. I spent a significant amount of time completing the application under the assumption that all key participation requirements, including fees, would be clearly disclosed at the outset. This lack of upfront transparency led to unnecessary time expenditure and confusion regarding the true cost of participation. I am requesting improved disclosure practices so that all mandatory fees are clearly and prominently stated at the beginning of the application process before users are required to invest time or submit materials. I am also requesting deletion of my submitted materials and personal information from their system and confirmation that this has been completed.

Agora Gallery exhibited the 40th Chelsea Fine Art Competition recently. The art works here were…read morevaried and interesting. Out of all, three were particularly fascinating. "Fault Line" was a face that to me resembled a Russian ballet dancer. Composed with fine bone structure. I couldn't help looking at this painting. "Immersion 3" shows a woman with her slim damp arm and evening wear. "Beauty is the Beads" shows an African man presumably a Masai with a spear and a multitude of necklaces with beautifully colored beads. Sculptors and paintings were all here and I enjoyed this show.

I'll be honest - before the Jeremy Fish exhibit, I'd never heard of this Chelsea gallery. I'm…read morepleased to say that I had a great time - fantastic layout - very friendly people. I will be back again for upcoming showings. This is how contemporary art should be seen - in a super chill environment. No pretense.

Made it a gallery day not really into art but decided to stop in and look around some interesting…read morepieces on display free to go in and walk around unless your an expert or love are your in and out in a few minutes but I was nice to take advantage of the local galleries and take in some culture

I visited Lévy Gorvy Dayan last Saturday for the first time after reading about their current…read moreexhibit in the New York Times. The gallery is located in a very grand, very beautiful Beaux-Arts townhouse on East 64th. It's so beautiful, the building itself is a highlight of any visit to the gallery. But the exhibits when I visited were great, too. I was able to see two exhibits during my visit on Saturday. "The Adventure of Domenico Gnoli," the exhibit I read about in the Times, closes on May 23, 2026. It's the largest exhibit of the artist's works in the United States in more than 5 decades (since his solo show in NYC in 1969). (Gnoli died of cancer at age 36 in 1970, so he only produced ~ 150 paintings in his short life.) The other exhibit I saw (you have to take an elevator from the second floor) was Armig Santos: Baladas, which closes on June 13. I appreciate the clean look of the galleries, which they are able to achieve by not having any wall labels by the pieces. They do have a few printed gallery guides at the desk where you enter that you can grab or you can scan QR codes on the wall as you enter each gallery. But I did miss the additional context and information that other galleries and museums include at the beginning of and throughout an exhibit. Still, the galleries are beautiful, and the works were very interesting. The Gnoli works surprised me and made me smile. And I appreciated learning about Armig Santos, a very young artist from Puerto Rico. It's a beautiful gallery with some great exhibits. I enjoyed my visit and have already signed up for their email list so I can visit upcoming shows!

It's only been about four months since my last visit to this (free!) gallery, with the gorgeous…read moretile and beautiful architecture, but they managed to come up with another riveting show that I just had to check out. This time the show focuses on New York art in the 80s, highlighting Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and over 20 more artists. Some things you can expect--Basquiat's pieces bursting at the seams with color, accompanying dark social undertones. Andy Warhol's pop art portraits of himself. Keith Haring's chunky shapes and figures. There are paintings, sculptures and multi-media pieces, as well as photographs (some a little alarming, like how old is that naked person, were they old enough to give consent?!). All the pieces are edgy, raw, colorful, just like the 80s. While there is a virtual guide to tell you which artist created which piece, there is not history or explanation, and that's a little frustrating for some of the more abstract or controversial pieces. This gallery has now impressed me twice in a short period of time, so it'll be on my regular rotation list to check out every time I'm on museum row.

Have had a couple of things framed here, never disappointed. A small shop on Second Avenue, the…read moreowner is always willing to help/suggest frames to go with the work. Wide variety of frames to choose from and the price is also pretty decent. Turn around depending on the work is about a week. I've also had the work delivered to my door but I don't live too far away from the shop. Definitely my local go to spot for my framing needs!

This is my favorite frame shop. Bob has a huge selection of frames and a great eye. I have a lot of…read moreart in my home and I'm picky, and he does an excellent job all around. There's cool art for sale in his shop, too. His prices are reasonable.

In the center of the Chelsea Gallery district, Lohin Geduld is a great gallery on the ground floor…read morewith a eclectic but innovative collection of art. Not to big, and not to small, this Goldilocks sized gallery always has a great show on the walls.

A gallery chain (this one is located in Chelsea, NYC) strongly dedicated to Latin American art. The…read morePraxis Chelsea usually features bright selections of contemporary artists of various media. Worth going to view contemporary Latin American art of today.

I wandered into this gallery by accident a few weeks ago and was so glad I did. It's a nice size,…read moreand the featured artist was an unknown to me, but very talented. I preferred this place to many other Chelsea galleries, and I would go again if I were in the area. The crowd was unassuming and most seemed to have chanced upon this spot as I did.

I had never heard of this gallery before but several people told me that the Albert York show there…read morewas a must-see and so I went to check it out. I hardly even ever go to galleries on the Upper East Side but maybe I should do it more because being situated in townhouses they tend to have a very relaxed, homie vibe, that the big boxes in Chelsea lack. This is especially true at Davis & Langdale where the floors are a dark and uneven old parquet, and when you go to the basement to see the second half of the exhibition there's a door open into the workshop, revealing a wall hung with frames--the heart of the operation, exposed! When I was there a little boy was drawing in his sketchbook, and the elderly people who run the gallery were walking around the space and talking about the show ("These paintings are hung low, aren't they?" "It's a little late for that") and even though they weren't related I felt as if I'd walked in on a family gathering. As for the exhibition the paintings were incredibly delicious. Albert York used very forceful physical brushstrokes to make simple, fresh, compositions and there's a satisfying tension to how it all comes together... you can see how the paint was applied and it looks like the painter added paint from the outside as the image itself emerged from within--from within the paint or the surface or the painter's imagination (which is organically fused with the surface), I don't know, but it's amazing. Amazing! For example, there's one landscape with a long brown snake slithering along the bottom. It's just a green space with some ordinary deciduous trees, not a jungle where you would expect to see a huge snake, and yet there the snake is, its sinewy curves looking right at home in their natural habitat of S-curve brushstrokes. In another painting a cartoonish, scribbled-in alligator grins out at you from under a patch of bushes. I can't remember the last time I felt really excited about a still life with flowers but in York's floral paintings each petal is every bit as surprising as an alligator or a snake. Unfortunately this show will be closing soon but I plan to follow up and see what this gallery is showing in the future.

This gallery is truly one of the best hidden gems in New York. I have seen a few shows there and…read morethe work is incredible. The art is unique--not trendy, just really beautiful with an eclectic selection. The building is old and really cool. I really like the small intimate space. I would highly recommend a visit to this vestige of "disappearing New York."