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Thursday May 8, 2025

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Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

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 LobbyManhattan

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 ArtManhattan

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 ArtManhattan

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 ArtManhattan

9 am – 5 pm

Perceptions of Sentience

Art
Free

United NationsEast Side Midtown

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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

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10 am – 12:30 pm

Dewdrop Discoveries for Preschool Aged Children

Ages: 3 – 4
Animals
Art
Family

CEEDBrookhaven,

3-20 Quincy Egginton by Christine Sampson

10 am – 12:30 pm

Watercolor Painting… Expansive Landscapes with Instructor Dr. Quincy Egginton

Art
Classes

The Nathaniel Rogers HouseBridgehampton

Bash Bish Falls Remembered III

10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

Art
Free

Derfner Judaica MuseumRiverdale

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

BEAUTIFUL.WSA – 1

Noon – 4 pm

Beautiful

Art
Free

BAFFA GallerySayville

7:00PM by Donna Corvi at Alex Ferrone Gallery

Noon – 5 pm

Arborescent: Art Exhibition Honoring Trees

Alex Ferrone GalleryCutchogue

Functional Relationships – John Chamberlain

Noon – 5 pm

FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: ARTIST-MADE FURNITURE

Guild HallEast Hampton

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Noon – 5 pm

ALMOND ZIGMUND: WADING ROOM

Guild HallEast Hampton

4 Artists

12:30 – 5 pm

TABLA RASA GALLERY’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION: IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

Art

Tabla Rasa GalleryBrooklyn

The Space In Between

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

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1 – 6 pm

Exhibition Opening: ‘Five Miles of VHS Tape’

FiveMylesBrooklyn

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

Ceramics Now Exhibition-Announcement-2025

5 – 7 pm

Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery presents ‘Ceramics Now’ featuring Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno and Gina Tibbott

Greenwich House PotteryManhattan

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5:30 – 8 pm

IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

Art

Tabla Rasa GalleryBrooklyn

6 – 9 pm

Clio Art Fair, 18th & 19th Editions, May 1-4 & May 8-11, 2025

Art

528-532 W 28th st, New York, NY 10001Chelsea

6 – 8 pm

Opening Reception of “Compulsive Genius”

Fountain House GalleryHell’s Kitchen

6 – 8 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

Art
Free

410 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221Brooklyn

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6 – 10 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community
Family

ZeroSpace BrooklynBrooklyn

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6:30 – 8 pm

Learn to write a thriller at Sands Point Preserve

Sands Point PreserveSands Point

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Manhattan

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