November 2026 · 21 picks each month from the Hudson-to-Delaware art circuit
Newark has a serpent. Brooklyn has a greenhouse full of tattooers. In Philly, a shadow cast steps out in front of the screen. November gets dark early around here. Good.
Black Ink Bulletin is RIP Gallery’s monthly edit of the Hudson-to-Delaware art circuit, our stretch of the tri-state region from North Jersey through New York City to Philadelphia. Each edition pulls 21 things worth leaving the house for. This month, from November 9 to 30, that means queer metalsmiths, East German punk on film, art made from what the city throws away, and a few very good reasons to stay up late.
Three dates to circle. See tattooing in progress in Brooklyn November 13–15, catch David Lynch after dark in Manhattan November 20–21, or bring a zine to trade in Tribeca November 21.
North Jersey gallery shows and indie film
1. MUÉSTRAME: el fulgor de lo intangible · Jersey City, NJ
Through November 29 · Deep Space Gallery, 77 Cornelison Ave. · By appointment
Twenty artists with familial roots across Latin America bring magical realism into a Jersey City gallery. Ordinary things slip their usual meanings here. Give yourself a second pass through the room and see what looks different.
See the exhibition and appointment details
2. Lina Puerta: La Sierpe · Newark, NJ
Through January 29, 2027 · Project for Empty Space, 110 Edison Place
In Lina Puerta’s installation, the serpent carries a sense of time that coils back on itself. Her Portales works bring Indigenous Colombian symbolism into contact with the stuff of consumer culture. Go for the texture and the uneasy pleasure of stepping inside someone else’s mythology.
Explore La Sierpe at Project for Empty Space
3. Roadblocks · Montclair, NJ
November 11–December 12 · Studio Montclair’s Leach Gallery, 641 Bloomfield Ave. · Posted gallery hours Thursday–Sunday, 1–5 p.m.
Some barriers are inherited. Some we build ourselves. Studio Montclair’s group show gives both kinds a physical form through collage, photography, sculpture, and less predictable materials. Look at what each artist uses to make a wall feel like a wall.
See the Roadblocks exhibition listing
4. Urban Decay · Jersey City, NJ
Through November 29 · Art House Gallery, 345 Marin Blvd. · Saturdays and Sundays, 1–4 p.m.
Robert Bohn sees a second life in what Jersey City throws away. At his November 15 artist talk, 2–4 p.m., hear what makes a piece of discarded material worth taking back to the studio. The work is available to buy through the gallery.
See Urban Decay and artist talk details
5. Dead of Night · Jersey City, NJ
Opens Friday, November 13 · Sutudu Art House, 186 Griffith St. · Opening-night screenings at 7 and 9:20 p.m.
A small town tries to make sense of a string of murders in Derek Sulek’s thriller. The draw is also the room itself. Sutudu turned a century-old building into a film studio and single-screen cinema. A Friday the 13th spent in a neighborhood art house feels about right.
See Sutudu showtimes and tickets
New York City galleries, tattoo art, and cult cinema
6. PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee · SoHo, Manhattan
Through March 14, 2027 · Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 26 Wooster St.
In Eikoh Hosoe’s staged portraits of novelist Yukio Mishima, even the props have a charge. Jason Wee pulls a hose, a mallet, and a candle out of the photographic margins and gives them their own room in prints on metal and fabric. Look at the edges first.
See PROPS from Barakei at Leslie-Lohman
7. [queerphoria] vol. 6: restoration · Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
November 16–22 · Pratt Institute’s Steuben Gallery, 200 Willoughby Ave.
Queer Metalsmiths brings together jewelry and sculpture by 2SLGBTQIA+ makers through the theme of restoration. Come for the November 16 opening, 6:30–8:30 p.m., or hear the makers talk shop at the November 18 panel, 6:30–8 p.m. Both are free with advance registration.
See the exhibition schedule and RSVP
8. Zine Workshop and Swap · Tribeca, Manhattan
Saturday, November 21, 3–5 p.m. · apexart, 291 Church St. · RSVP
Curator Anh Dao and Accent Sisters make room at the table for anyone who wants to try a zine. The workshop grows out of TRIBUTE, an exhibition on Asian American contributions to DIY and punk culture. Bring a copy to trade or make one there. A folded sheet of paper is a perfectly good introduction.
See the apexart workshop and RSVP
9. The Monument of Lips · SoHo, Manhattan
Through December 19 · Garth Greenan Gallery, 10 Greene St.
Sadao Hasegawa’s first U.S. solo exhibition brings the work of a Tokyo queer magazine illustrator into a SoHo gallery. His erotic drawings and paintings pull from Japanese folklore and Aubrey Beardsley, among other sources. Spend time with the details. There’s a whole visual vocabulary packed into the margins.
See The Monument of Lips at Garth Greenan Gallery
10. Johanna Hedva: Gravity, My / Favorite Enemy · West Village, Manhattan
Through December 13 · Center for Art, Research and Alliances, 225 W. 13th St. · Free admission
A glass vessel drains a dark liquid. A robotic sculpture tangles ribbon. Hedva lets the work drip, twist, and deteriorate in front of you. Stay long enough to catch it in the act.
Explore Hedva’s exhibition at CARA
11. German Punk at Anthology Film Archives · East Village, Manhattan
Tuesday, November 10 · Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. · Screenings at 6:30 and 9 p.m.
Start with Dieter Schumann’s whisper & SHOUT at 6:30 p.m. for live footage and interviews with young fans in East Germany. At 9 p.m., Wolfgang Büld’s Bored Teenagers takes the evening into a second documentary. If you’re drawn to the people who make a scene happen around the music, this is your night.
See Anthology Film Archives’ screening calendar
12. The New York Tattoo Convention · Brooklyn Navy Yard
November 13–15 · Duggal Greenhouse, 63 Flushing Ave., Building 268 · Ticketed
More than 320 tattoo artists converge on the waterfront. Start with Yoichi Tanaka, who designed this year’s poster, and Diogo Nunes if dark surrealism is your thing. Watching someone build an image on skin is reason enough to go. If you want a piece of your own, the convention directs you to contact the artist about booking.
Browse tattoo artists and get convention tickets
13. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me · Greenwich Village, Manhattan
November 20–21 · IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. · Late-night screenings
David Lynch puts Laura Palmer at the center of a film that feels like a town’s secrets turning against it. Go for the sound design as much as the dread. IFC lists after-midnight screenings under the preceding evening, so check the ticket date before heading out.
Check IFC Center’s late-night schedule
Philadelphia art exhibitions, workshops, and midnight-movie culture
14. Paint the Dance Floor: Cut Up · University City, Philadelphia, PA
Friday, November 13, 7–10 p.m. · Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St.
ICA’s annual dance party takes its cue from fall exhibitions that rethink everyday materials. Come see how a room changes when the people in it get to move. The event page links to registration.
See Cut Up and register through ICA
15. An Endless Meeting: Still Taking Minutes · Philadelphia, PA
Through November 15 · Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St., third floor
Curator Logan Cryer asked Philadelphia artists what it takes to join, sustain, and leave a collective. Four Vox members made new work in response. Anyone who’s ever split the rent on a DIY space knows there’s plenty of material in those minutes.
Explore Still Taking Minutes · Check gallery hours and access
16. FiberFest Craft Circle · Roxborough, Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, November 21, 1–4 p.m. · Manayunk-Roxborough Art Center, 419 Green Lane (rear)
The Philadelphia Guild of Handweavers fills the gallery with fiber art. Come to the craft circle to talk with people who know what goes into a good weave, or see how the work moves on a body at the November 15 Weave It! Wear It! fashion show, 1–4 p.m.
17. Molly Metz: Rock Garden · Spring Garden, Philadelphia, PA
November 19–January 16, 2027 · Fleisher/Ollman, 915 Spring Garden St., Suite 215 · Opening November 19, 6–8 p.m.
Molly Metz paints things that could live in a drop of pond water or halfway across the universe. Get close enough to see the tiny marks that make the illusion hold. The opening is a good first stop for collectors with a taste for biological weirdness.
See Rock Garden and opening reception details
18. American Color Print Society Fall Exhibition · Center City, Philadelphia, PA
On view in November · The Plastic Club, 247 S. Camac St.
Queer artist and curator Dave DiMarchi juried this annual printmaking show. At Tetrapak Intaglio on November 15, noon–3 p.m., a used carton becomes a printing plate. Check the event page for workshop registration and confirm gallery hours before visiting.
See the fall exhibition and workshop schedule
19. Proof Testing · Center City, Philadelphia, PA
Through February 15, 2027 · Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Anne Bryan Gallery, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building
Eight artists from Brandywine Workshop and Archives’ PrintLab residency use woodcut, laser cutting, and other processes to work through questions of ancestry, memory, and identity. Look for the marks one tool leaves that another can’t. Take that thought back to your next edition.
20. William Way’s 20th Annual Group Art Exhibition · Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA
Through December 5 · Huddle, 338 Brown St. · Free viewing appointments
Three Philadelphia LGBTQ+ artists, selected by Leslie-Lohman curator Stamatina Gregory, take the room in different directions. Jordan Artim paints the garden he built with his husband. D’Shon McCarthy sets life-size self-portraits in spaces that seem to dissolve around her. Dave Tavacol makes digital assemblages with the intensity of religious iconography. The November 12 artist talk, 6–8 p.m., is free with RSVP and available in person or online.
RSVP for the artist talk or book a viewing
21. The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Philly’s shadow cast · Old City, Philadelphia, PA
Friday, November 20, 10 p.m. · Landmark Ritz Five · Ticketed
The screen has Tim Curry. The room has Philly’s own shadow cast, performing alongside the film. Come for the queer camp and stay for the particular joy of a crowd that knows exactly when to interrupt.
Find the November 20 Ritz Five listing on the cast’s calendar
Find your night on the Hudson-to-Delaware circuit
Where can I meet other artists? Bring a zine to apexart on November 21, hear queer metalsmiths talk process at Pratt on November 18, or join the FiberFest craft circle in Roxborough on November 21.
Where can I find tattoo art, punk, or horror? For live tattooing, head to the Brooklyn Navy Yard November 13–15. For punk on paper, go to apexart. For a Friday the 13th screening, try Sutudu in Jersey City. For cult cinema on November 20, take your pick of Lynch at IFC or Rocky Horror with Philly’s shadow cast.
What’s still up over Thanksgiving weekend? Jersey City’s MUÉSTRAME and Urban Decay both run through November 29. The Monument of Lips in SoHo and Rock Garden in Philly carry into December. Check holiday hours and book ahead where needed.
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