Friday, July 18, 6-9pm: BAM Red Dots Art Experience in Tribeca

Just in from subscriber Klay-James Amos [above]: This Art Exhibition will feature works by 40  local and international artists, presented in the heart of TriBeCa, Lower Manhattan, with free refreshments and artmaking events all 3 days of the show. Contemporary Art featuring: Pretty Paintings, Daring Drawings, Cool Comic Art, Super Sculptures, Pristine Photography, Powerful Prints, Amazing Animation, Mixed Media & NFT art. You will have the opportunity to meet the creative creators, ask them questions about their art and discover their stories and the stories behind their art! Please register for the day you'd like to attend.

One Art Space Gallery, 23 Warren Street, New York, NY Info

Thursday, July 17-Sunday, July 20: Upstate Art Weekend

Since its inception in 2020, Upstate Art Weekend has grown from a relatively intimate event with 23 participants to the region-wide affair that it is today, featuring over 155 local arts contributors. The annual event, also known as UAW, seeks to celebrate and showcase the cultural vibrancy of the Hudson Valley for residents and tourists alike. Spanning the region’s 10 counties, art shows and exhibitions stretch from the lower Hudson Valley to the Catskill Mountains to the Capital District 

From the well-known artistic pilgrimages frequently taken by New Yorkers, like Dia Beacon and Storm King Art Center, to the thought-provoking institutions that demonstrate the depth of the art world across New York State, including KinoSaito and the Wassaic Project, Upstate Art Weekend acts as a platform of unification. For its sprawling sixth edition, more than 155 museums, galleries, universities, residencies, and temporary events will come together as one community—headquartered at “Upbringing,” an exhibition dedicated to the concept of presence in Kingston, New York. Founded by Helen Toomer, the collective annual experience isn’t only for art-hungry adventurers but also the residents of all ten counties taking part. 

“This year’s lineup is rich with vibrant group exhibitions, celebrating both regional talent and international voices,” says Toomer. “With so much to explore—and most of it free to the public—there’s truly something for everyone. We can’t wait for visitors to experience the creative magic of the Catskill Mountains and Hudson Valley.” Group exhibitions stretch from Garrison’s MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center to Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School in Kinderhook and include shows from River Valley Arts Collective and Marie’s at the Catskill Octagon House to ADS Warehouse, Bill Arning Exhibitions, Good Black Art and Creative Legion, as well as the second annual show at The Campus in Hudson. See UAW Spotlight for artist interviews.

If meeting artists in person is more your vibe, upstate open studios is a new addition this year. Over 185 artists are opening their studio doors on Saturday and Sunday as part of UAW. Get an inspiring glimpse behind the scenes and the potential opportunity to buy an original piece of artwork directly from a participating artist.-

You can download the official UAW Map, which “is key for planning your very own Upstate Art Weekend adventures as it has all program information, location and hours—plus you can save and customize your own map and itinerary,” says Toomer. And if you don’t have time to see everything over the five days, most of the participating venues are open for experiencing art throughout the year.

Click or scroll down to see the list of participants. 

DART subscriber events:

Thursday, July 17, 6:00–8:00 PM on the Bridge in Cornwall, New York  

Threshold, Cornwall is a public art exhibition curated by Karin Bravin of BravinLee programs. This inaugural exhibition—Cornwall’s first curated public art group show—features six contemporary artists: Michele Brody, Vivien Collens, Jack Henry, Alison McNulty, Aurora Robson, and Michael Wolf. Their works, installed across seven outdoor locations, invite viewers to engage with the landscape in new and unexpected ways. The exhibition explores the idea of a “threshold”—a point of entry or a portal between the familiar and the unknown—encouraging fresh perspectives on place, perception, and presence. Tickets and Info

Following the tour, guests are invited to explore “T” Space Gallery down the road, an extraordinary architectural experience immersed in lush woodland

SMHF Main Campus, 60 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck NY 12572 .

‘T’ Space Gallery,125 1⁄2 Round Lake Road, Rhinebeck NY 12572

Above: The Camupus, in Hudson

Hudson Valley Magazine’s picks include:

Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, July 19-20

In Rockland County, Garner Arts Center exhibits contemporary and experimental art within a repurposed textile mill complex. This July, the venue will host its ongoing exhibitions in the galleries, along with two pop-up exhibitions during Upstate Art Weekend. Catch Between Worldsby Susan Sabiston for transcendent landscapes that explore narrative and technique, and Kaleidoscopic Intestine by Rosalie Smith, which is a sculpture made using found materials and science fiction invention. Also, enjoy outdoor sculpture on the Creekside Sculpture Trail and an outdoor film screening of Stop Making Sense by Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads at 8 p.m. on July 19.

Hudson Hangar, Kerhonkson, July 17-21

In partnership with Whimsy Flowers and Gray Nivas, the Kerhonkson venue will host a new group exhibition that brings together international and regional artists. Featured artists include Veronika Drahotová, Štpánka Šimlová, Andrea Loefke, Ritika Bhattacharya, Jadina Lilien, and Petra Valentová. Hudson Hangar will also host an opening reception for the weekend in collaboration with the farm, meshing floral design with raw architecture.

Mother-in-Law’s Gallery, Germantown, July 17-21

In Columbia County, artist Jessica Hargreaves runs this experimental 500-acre sculpture park and installation project space. Mother-in-Law’s Gallery encompasses a converted carriage house and outdoor space that opens with new shows every Upstate Art Weekend, lasting through the duration of the summer. Above: Installation by Eric Araujo 

This year, enjoy works by Kevin Beasley, Sonia Gomes, and Dionne Lee on the art center’s Museum Hill and South Fields, and peruse the permanent collection that includes artists like Alexander Calder, Martin Puryear, Mark di Suvero, Maya Lin, and more. Also during UAW, book a walking tour of the grounds and catch performance Growth: The Watch by artist Kevin Beasley on July 19-20.

Wassaic Project, July 19, 12-11 p.m [above]

This nonprofit organization uses art and arts education to foster positive change in Dutchess County and beyond. For this year’s UAW, the Wassaic has a full day of programming planned for July 19 throughout the town. Visit Maxon Mills for gallery hours, readings, panels, artist talks, and workshops, then head to the Gridley Chapel for a film screening and the Gridley Chapel lawn for an interactive installation, and finish the night at Luther Barn for open studios and a 21-plus dance party. 

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Chronogram Magazine’s picks incude:

Life, Still at ADS Warehouse, Newburgh

Curated by Colin Beattie, the group photography show at the ADS Warehouse in Newburgh is less a meditation on stillness than a collective act of refusal—of crisis fatigue, of genre convention, of the illusion that the image is ever neutral. Caleb Stein’s decade-long documentation of a single swimming hole in the Hudson Valley suggests that place, like the human body, is always in flux. Hannah Altman’s images channel Yiddish folklore into an eerily present now, while Asger Carlsen’s AI-generated work tests what happens when the human is only half the author. 

Pairings: Drawings from the Jack Shear Collection, Spencertown

On Saturday, July 19, from 1-4pm, Jack Shear, one of the world's foremost collectors of drawings, is opening his collection of 1,800 drawings from the 15th to the 21st centuries, across multiple galleries within the Ellsworth Kelly Studio in Spencertown. The event is free but registration is required.  At 11am, Shear will join Jennifer Tonkovich, curator from Morgan Library & Museum, for an informal conversation about the collection. The event is free but registration is required.

Half the Sky at KuBe Art Center, Beacon

This show at Kube Art Center in Beacon brings together 11 groundbreaking Chinese women artists in a long-awaited exhibition first envisioned by curator Joan Lebold Cohen. From Lin Tianmiao’s string-wrapped bicycle to Xiao Lu’s bullet-pierced self-portraits, the show spans mediums and generations, reclaiming space for voices too long overlooked. Curated by Ethan Cohen and Donna Mikkelsen, “Half the Sky” is both homage and upheaval—an urgent testament to power, memory, and transformation.

Tomokazu Matsuyama: Morning Sun at the Edward Hopper House, Nyack [above]

Matsuyama’s dazzling, anime-inflected dreamscapes hang like technicolor ghosts in Edward Hopper’s boyhood home in Nyack [above], a time-slip dialogue between two artists separated by oceans and a century, but united by a fascination with the figure adrift. Matsuyama’s paintings thrum with energy—blending Edo-era iconography, global pop, and fractured consumer mythologies—and manage to make Hopper’s stillness feel more haunted in contrast. 

UAW launched in 2020 with 23 organizations and expanded to more than 155 participants in 2025. Participants are local arts organizations, galleries, museums, residencies and creative projects, mixed with temporary exhibitions and events staged especially for UAW. 

Links to participants:

1053 GALLERY / 386 Taylor Road / 68 PRINCE ST. GALLERY, KINGSTON / ABRI MARS / Accord Market / ADS Warehouse / Akin Free Library / All One One All (AOOA) Farm / Alpana Bawa / Ann Street Gallery / AR at Weird Specialty / Army Of Frogs Studio / Art at Bull Farm / Art Fort / Art Omi / Art Sales & Research / Art@GoshenGreenFarm / ArtPort Kingston / Art&Rec / OSMOS Station / Ashley Garrett & Brian Wood Studio /Assembly / Athens Cultural Center / Atlas Studios / BalletCollective /  Bank Art Gallery / Bard MFA / BAU Gallery / BCMT GALLERY / Beattie Powers Place / Bill Arning Exhibitions / Bird Room / Borscht Belt Museum / Boscobel House and Gardens / Büro Koray Duman Architects / Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts / Carrie Haddad Gallery / Catskill Art Space / Catskill Mountain Shakespeare / Charlotte Woolf at Foxtrot Farm & Flowers / ChaShaMa North (ChaNorth) / Chatham Soccer at the Paper Mill / Color Wheels / Cornwall Chamber Public Art Program / CPW / CUT TEETH / Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) / Dia Art Foundation / Distortion Society / Ed. Varie / Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center / Foreland / Friends of River Hook / Gallery 495 /  GARNER Arts Center / Garrison Art Center / Gatherwild Ranch / Glasshouse Project / Good Black Art / Good Naked Gallery / Hawk + Hive / Headstone Gallery / Hero's Hill / Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College / Howland Cultural Center / Hudson Hall / Hudson Hangar x Gray Nivas Collective at Whimsy Flowers Farm / Hudson Valley Seed Company / INNESS / Interlude Artist Residency / INTERVENTIONS 5 / Jack Shainman Gallery / The School / Jack Shear Collection at the Ellsworth Kelly Studio / Jasper Richmus / Kaatsbaan Cultural Park / Kayrock Editions / KinoSaito / Kube Art Center - Ethan Cohen Gallery / Lexington Arts + Science / Ligenza Moore Gallery, Cold Spring, NY / Loose Parts / Lynn & Lorraine / Magazzino Italian Art Museum / Magenta art projects / Make Your Own Art / Manitoga / The Russel Wright Design Center / Marie's at the Catskill Octagon House / Mary MacGill / Material Projects Space / Millbrook Arts & Open Studios / Mother-in-law’s hosting Field Projects and Elijah Wheat Showroom / N/A Project Space / NAMAI STUDIO / NOISE FOR NOW /North River Electric House / OLANA / One Mile Gallery / Peep Space / Perry Lawson Fine Art / Pinkwater Gallery at Kingston Social / Private Public Gallery / PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance / PUF Community Printmaking Studio at the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory and The Poughkeepsie Trolley Barn / RAVENWOOD / River Valley Arts Collective / Roost Arts Hudson Valley / RUTHANN / Say Collie / SEPTEMBER / Shadow Walls / Shigeko Kubota Video Art Foundation / Sky High Farm / Sleepy Hollow Mermaid Festival / Soon is Now / Spencertown Academy Arts Center / Sqrypt Atelier: Inn Way Art-Coop / steven harvey fine art projects / Stony Kill Studios / Storm King Art Center / STRONGROOM / Studio Tashtego / Stuhl Werner Studio / Sunfair / T' Space | Steven Myron Holl Foundation / The Barn on Berme / The Callicoon Depot / THE CAMPUS / The Capa Space / The Catskills Barn / The Church in Staatsburg / The Cronin Gallery / The Department of Things / The Dorsky Museum / The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center / The Gallery at Citiot / The Gallery at Yellow Studio / The Green Lodge / The Hudson Eye / The Lace Mill / The Lockwood Gallery / The Lovebugs / The Macedonia Institute / The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund / The Post Office / The Source / Thomas Cole National Historic Site / TRANSART / Tree At My Window Collective / UAP in collaboration with Elijah Wheat Showroom / Unison Arts /upbringing / UTOPIA / VERSE Work/Shop / Wassaic Project / Weird Specialty Studio / Wild Minded / Woodstock Artists Association & Museum / Woodstock byrdcliffe guild / Woodstock School of Art