Whether you’re hosting guests over Thanksgiving weekend, or just catching up on sleep, you know that 4 days is a lot of time to entertain and be entertained.  So we suggest you spend the Saturday afternoon after Thanksgiving on our Lower East Side gallery tour Sat. Nov. 26 at 1:00 PM.  Bring your family and friends – or come solo.  As always, the exhibits we visit that day will be ALL-NEW.  This is NYC’s hottest, edgiest art spot, growing from 10 galleries 5 years ago to over 115 galleries today.  The artists and gallery owners in this neighborhood are younger on average than in any other New York gallery area, so you’re going to see the freshest contemporary art anywhere.

While the galleries will of course be closed on Thanksgiving Day, the ones with this month’s best exhibits are all open the Saturday after – I personally checked with all those galleries.  So this is not going to be a watered down tour at all.  The exhibits are going to be extraordinary, and they will include a mix of painting, sculpture, electronic media, and photography.

The museums over the holiday weekend are going to be PACKED, with huge lines to get in.  This is also true of all the New York tourist spots.  NOT SO with the galleries, which are typically LESS crowded on Thanksgiving weekend than almost any time in the Fall.  So our group is gong to have the galleries practically to ourselves.

And after the tour ends at around 3:15 PM, you’ll be in the heart of the Lower East Side, one of the most magically transformed city neighborhoods of the past several years.  Besides the dozens of galleries that populate the area, there are now scads of new boutiques, tea shops, cafes and restaurants intermingled with old-world clothing stores and food shops from different generations of immigrants that settled there.

As of this writing, the weather on Saturday is going to be mostly sunny in the 50s.  It will be a glorious day for edgy, world-class gallery hopping and more!

Rafael Risemberg, Ph.D.
Founder and Director
New York GalleryTours