LES art

Last night, art lovers and fashionistas joined forces for Lower East Side Opening Night: Art + Fashion. The event, under the auspices of the LES Business Improvement District, drew nearly  30 participating galleries and more than a dozen boutiques...

This weekly feature spotlights a wide variety of people who live and work on the Lower East Side. If you know someone you would like to suggest be featured in “My LES,” please email us here. What do you...

Broome Street, near Elizabeth -- Olek is at it again. Partly cloudy and 43 today. 54 and cloudy tomorrow. Rain showers on Sunday with a high of 55. Lots going on this weekend, including "Canned Ham" at...

With so many new galleries popping up on the Lower East Side, it can be hard to keep track of this emerging art "scene".  A great way to sample what's showing these days is a gallery walking tour.  Our...

This month's Featured Artist is photographer Mark La Rosa. We have always been big fans of his series of photographs taken along the East River.  It's hard to believe a geographic entity with such a bad reputation...

The New York Post features a story about "Unlikely Art Spaces" featuring the local Gallery Bar and others that use their art spaces as bars and use their bars as art space. Invisible Exports will host the opening...

An opening of interest that caught our eye: Greene Contemporary's solo exhibition of new work by Hanna Cole, titled Instant Sublime. The press release notes:Hanna Cole's work explores the distracted American state of mind. In Instant Sublime, she investigates...

Here are two recent videos in which the LES neighborhood is the star (or at least has a cameo).  They both, of course, tout clothing labels but they reflect the roots of the neighborhood skate and graffiti scene that...