This week zingrecsNY: Cat Videos, Charm Bracelets & Closings-to-Know (Aug 5-11)

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no one has ever looked more stylish while stoned
than this black leopard with catnip

Openings / Events
Meanwhile, the Mise-en-scene: group exhibit at LATITUDE Gallery, Tribeca, Aug 5, thru Sep 5
Before Time: group exhibit at Lichtundfire, LES, Aug 5, 6-8pm, thru Aug 21
Jimena Velarde-Alvarez: La sombra del tiempo at Margot Samel, Tribeca, Aug 5, thru Aug 28
Oren Fischer: Hallel in collaboration with Havurah at 81 Leonard Gallery, Tribeca, Aug 6, 6-9pm
Blizzard: group exhibit at DIMIN, Tribeca, Aug 6, 6-8pm, thru Aug 28
Second Nature: Gwen Yip & Spencer Patrick at collective z, Bowery, Aug 6, thru Aug 29
No Place: group exhibit at Silverlens, Chelsea, Aug 6, thru Aug 29
CJ Hendry: Pastel at Salon 94 Design, UES, Aug 6, thru Aug 16—interactive make your own charm bracelet!
Papo Colo: Octopus & Others: Acts of Collaboration & Poetics at El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, Aug 6, thru Nov 15
Space Shifters: group exhibit at Tappeto Volante, Park Slope, Aug 6, 6-8pm, thru Sep 12
502 Bad Gateway: Error is Shadow at Flux IV, LIC, Aug 6, 6-9pm, thru Aug 30
Becoming Material: group exhibit at Sofia Sominski, Tribeca, Aug 7, thru Sep 3
Artifact as Memory Archive: group exhibit at underdonk, LES, Aug 7, 6-8pm
Satellite Systems: group exhibit at multiple locations across the LES, Aug 7, 7-9pm, thru Aug 30
Akiva Listman: I Appreciate You and Patrick O’Hare: Views from the Skeletal City at The City Reliquary, Williamsburg, Aug 7, 7-10pm
Before We Know What to Call It: juried show curated by Hanitian Zhang at A Space Gallery, Bushwick, Aug 7, thru Aug 14
Shuyao Huang: Still Becoming at Art Cake, Sunset Park, Aug 7, 6pm, thru Aug 30
The cataclysm of binary star systems: group exhibit at Nunu Fine Art, Little Italy, Aug 8, thru Aug 29
Critics Choice: group exhibit at Ki Smith, LES, Aug 8, 6-8pm
D Dominick Lombardi: The (Il)Logic of Things at Whitebox Portable, 42 St-8 Av Subway Station, Aug 8, 3-6pm, thru Sep 9
TRASH: A Special Summer Exhibition at 440 Gallery, Park Slope, Aug 8, 4-6pm, thru Aug 30
Frédérique Q.R. Zacharia: (Im)perfect rhythm, Susanne Kessler: Between Continents, Across the Seas, and Julia Roshkow: Keep Me in The Loop at A.I.R., DUMBO, Aug 8, thru Aug 30
Bernadette Van-Huy and Danny McDonald: Drawings & Objects at LETAS, LES, Aug 9, 3-6pmClosing Soon
Toshihisa Yoda: Continuum, 1967-Today at Nowhere, Tribeca, thru Aug 7
Lola Stong-Brett: Sometime Somewhere Someone Is Dancing at James Fuentes, Tribeca, thru Aug 7
Plants, Animals and Sky at CANADA, Tribeca, thru Aug 7
Cosima zu Knyphausen: Gute Nacht at Sebastian Gladstone, Tribeca, thru Aug 8
Wetware: curated by Spine at Rainrain, Tribeca, thru Aug 7
Lucy Lie and Thomas Laprade: I counted to 100,000 at Kai Matsumiya, Tribeca, thru Aug 8
Ryan McGinley: Night Shift at Jeffrey Deitch, Tribeca, thru Aug 8
Alley Cats: group exhibit at Ruttkowski;68, Tribeca, thru Aug 8
New Humans: Memories of the Future at New Museum, thru Aug 9
Double Bind: Belonging and Its Discontents at Fridman, LES, thru Aug 7
Ana Cristina & Louis Eilshemius: Primitive Romanticist at Jarvis Arts, LES, thru Aug 7
A House Is Not a Home: group exhibit at Malloy Jenkins, Chelsea, thru Aug 7
Manifest and Sublime: group exhibit at Yancey Richardson, Chelsea, thru Aug 7
Summer Wheat: Forbidden Fruit at A Hug from the Art World, Chelsea, thru Aug 8
The Vandals: group exhibit at Gladstone, Chelsea, thru Aug 8
Shahryar Nashat: Beast in Both Palms at Gladstone, UES, thru Aug 8
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: Clinamen at Park Avenue Armory, UES, thru Aug 9
Sorores Liquidae: group exhibit at CARVALHO, Williamsburg, thru Aug 8
Ash Fure and Xavi Aguirre: ANIMAL [a listening gym] at Pioneerworks, Red Hook, thru Aug 9

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A quick snapshot of what Dikeou Collection artists have been up to over the past couple months, and what to look forward to in the months ahead. by Hayley Richardson
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Agathe Snow tends to her mushroom farm.

What’s On—check galleries for summer hours

Tribeca
Five Below: group exhibit at MARINARO, thru Aug 14
Under the Skin: group exhibit at Asya Geisberg, thru Aug 14
Bix Archer and Mason Owens at Hesse Flatow, thru Aug 14
Esther Ruiz & Vincent Szarek at CHART, thru Aug 14
Immensity of Blue: group exhibit at Jane Lombard, thru Aug 14
Blair Saxon-Hill: Peace Peace at Shrine, thru Aug 21
No Neutral: group exhibit at YveYANG, thru Aug 21
Richard Estes: My Camera is My Sketchbook at Schoelkopf, thru Aug 21
Curtis Kulig: Studio Visit at The Hole, thru Aug 22
Interstitial (group exhibit) at Deanna Evans, thru Aug 27
Sarah Gamble: Trip the Light Fantastic at Derek Eller, thru Aug 28
Anna Leonhardt: Resonance at Marc Straus, thru Aug 29
Shirin Mirjamali and Lily Sage at Anita Rogers, thru Aug 29
Wilson Miller and Sebastian Maseri: Laurentia by Morning at Turquoise, thru Sept 8
Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.L at The Drawing Center, thru Sep 27

Noho
New Traditionalists: group show in collaboration with Adam D Miller at The Hole, thru Aug 23

LES
Non-Zero Target: group exhibit at Half Gallery, thru Aug 13
Midsummer: group exhibit at McBride / Dillman, thru Aug 14
Moira Dryer, Karin Davie, Martha Diamond at Magenta Plains, thru Aug 14
Good Bunny: group exhibit at Frosch & Co, thru Aug 15
Nabilah Nordin: Deadweight at Island 83, thru Aug 15
A View All Their Own: group exhibit at Hollis Taggart, thru Aug 15
Memento: group exhibit at Scroll, thru Aug 15
Sheyla Baykal: Horizontal Thinking at Participant Inc, Chinatown, thru Aug 16
The Clowns: group exhibit at Hyacinth, thru Aug 16
Don’t Stop: group exhibit at Whaam!, thru Aug 21
Joey Gonnella: Love Will Return in a Different Way at Parent Company, thru Aug 22
Grant Whipple: Redwood Ripples at Amos Eno, thru Aug 23
Pastime: group exhibit at PLATO, thru Aug 26
Fool’s Privilege: group exhibit at Uffner & Liu, thru Aug 28
Escape-Velocity: group exhibit at Ghostmachine, thru Aug 29
Yves Saint Laurent and Photography at ICP, thru Sep 28

Chelsea
For it is our battle: group exhibit at Galerie Lelong, thru Aug 14
Frank Paulin: Unseen Color 1956-2008 at Bruce Silverstein, thru Aug 15
Circle of Stones: group exhibit at Field Projects, thru Aug 15
Navot Miller: Sweet Liberty at Yossi Milo, thru Aug 21
Niu Systems: group exhibit at Ryan Lee, thru Aug 21
Spell It Out: group exhibit at Pace Prints, thru Aug 28
Peter Bradley: Burning On at Karma, thru Aug 28
Chang Yuchen: a dictionary, a loom, a manifesto . . . at Printed Matter, Inc., thru Aug 30
Endangered Spirits: Art from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Iran and the Southern United States at Cavin-Morris, thru Sep 4
Beyond Digital: Living Systems & Distributed Intelligence: group exhibit at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, thru Sep 5
Caroline Burdett: Quiet Truth at Benrubi, thru Sep 12
Bev Grant: Photographs from CUBA in 1969 at Osmos, thru Sep 12
Mari Nagem: The Tropics The Moon and Mars at Cue, thru Sep 26

Midtown
Baoying Huang, Alexandria Mento, Nina Molloy, Cate Pasquarelli at Alexander Berggruen, thru Aug 20
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, thru Aug 22
Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions at The Morgan, thru Oct 4

UES
Sara Flores: Akinananti at White Cube, thru Aug 14
Natural Responsibility: group exhibit at Van Doren Waxter, thru Aug 21
Fernando Botero at Sotheby’s, thru Sep 7
Roger Brown: Weathervane at GRAY, thru Sep 12
The Shape of Things—American Abstract Art: group exhibit at Rosenberg & Co, thru Sep 30
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstatte at Jewish Museum, thru Nov 15
Guggenheim Pop: 1960-Present (Part I 1960-1990s) at Guggenheim, thru Jan 10

Brooklyn
Poppy DeltaDawn: The Trial of Socrates at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Bushwick, thru Aug 16
Do I know you from somewhere?: group exhibit at Transmitter, Bushwick, thru Aug 16
Total Eclipse: group exhibit at Interrobang, Greenwood Heights, thru Aug 29—open by appt
Killers Part I: Memento Mori at “B” Dry Goods, Crown Heights, thru Sep 26
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses at Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, thru Dec 6
Precious Okoyomon: Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation at MoMA PS1 Courtyard, LIC, thru 2028

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Parks
You can now camp in NYC Parks

Film
CatVideoFest2026 at MoMI, Astoria, Aug 8-16
Doug Aitken: Lightscape at The Shed, Hudson Yards, thru Sep 13

Performance
Liz Glynn: Folly (1-2-3) at Storm King, Upstate, Aug 7, 6:30-7:30pm
Shakespeare in the Park: The Winter’s Tale at Delacorte Theater, Central Park, thru Aug 23
Warm Up: outdoor music series featuring underground artists at MoMA PS1, LIC, thru Aug 28

Talk
True Colors artist talk at Freight + Volume, Tribeca, Aug 8, 6-7:30pm

Summer
Summer for the City at Lincoln Center, thru Aug 8
Restaurant Week, thru Aug 16
Summer Streets, thru Aug 22

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