Hundreds of Greenpoint artists will throw open their studios this weekend, May 30 and 31, for the 2026 edition of Greenpoint Open Studios, the neighborhood’s annual self-guided art crawl. The organizers, who describe Greenpoint Open Studios as a sponsored project of the nonprofit arts service organization Fractured Atlas, announced the dates and said volunteer and artist-signup details would follow, urging participants to follow the group on Instagram for updates. The free weekend is the most accessible entry point into a spring and early-summer arts season that has filled galleries across Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan with new openings, fair debuts and a marquee museum retrospective.

The weekend also coincides with a new arrival in Bushwick. ALIUME Art Management said Brooklyn-based artist Alex Aliume is opening ALIUME Art Gallery at 41 Porter Ave., near the Morgan Avenue L stop, with a grand-opening weekend running May 28 through 30. According to the management, the space features more than 35 original works that transform under visible light, ultraviolet light and phosphorescent afterglow to create a glow-in-the-dark immersive environment, and it marks Aliume’s first dedicated public gallery after more than eight years of full-time studio practice. The publicist noted that Gothamist published a feature on Aliume’s work, headlined “A one-man psychedelic art empire thrives in Brooklyn,” about two months earlier, and offered Bushwick Daily a private press viewing.

In nearby East Williamsburg, the Bushwick-area gallery Synesthesia, at 43 Porter Ave., ran a compressed run of programming through May. The gallery presented “Regenerated,” a solo exhibition the gallery said gathered a decade of work by New York artist Seungjin Lee across painting, drawing and performance, with an opening reception May 7 and a live performance by the artist; Synesthesia described the show as an exploration of daily life “shaped and disturbed by digital technology,” from AI-generated imagery to algorithmic feeds. The gallery followed it with “Timelines,” a solo show opening May 16 by Robb Kramer, whom the gallery described as an abstract expressionist painter and figurative sculptor of more than 30 years who worked as lead sculptor and set designer on the Oscar-nominated stop-motion film “Coraline.” In his statement, Kramer said his goal is “to create paintings that act as a portal, allowing the viewer to enter into a new world, akin to a psychedelic journey.”