About What's On
A personal, taste-curated calendar of art exhibitions in New York City — museums, blue-chip galleries, downtown indies, Brooklyn alt-spaces, and a daily-paper press section. NYC only. Walk-in only. No appointment-only galleries.
How it works
A swarm of Claude agents — one per slice of the art world (NYC museums, NYC blue-chip galleries, LES/Tribeca indies, Brooklyn alt-spaces, UES townhouse secondary-market) — crawls each venue's exhibitions page with web_search and web_fetch. Raw shows go to a curator agent, which applies a taste profile, drops anything off-lane (NFT shows, immersive-Van-Gogh, brand activations), verifies the show is at the New York location for multi-location galleries, classifies by status (closing soon / opening soon / on view), and ranks within each group.
Each exhibition's images are pulled from the venue's og:image meta tags, or from press coverage when the venue bot-blocks scrapers. Every image is HEAD-checked before being written into the feed so dead URLs don't slip through.
The taste profile lives in taste.default.md. You can heart any show — that lives in your browser only (localStorage), not on any server.
Press sources (live)
Venue lanes the scout crawls
- NYC museums — Met, MoMA, MoMA PS1, Whitney, Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim, New Museum, Morgan, Neue Galerie, Frick, Studio Museum, Noguchi, Drawing Center, Asia Society, ICP, Jewish Museum.
- NYC blue-chip galleries — Gagosian, Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, Pace, Lehmann Maupin, Marian Goodman, Matthew Marks, Paula Cooper, 303, Petzel, Sean Kelly, Luhring Augustine, Andrew Kreps, Sprüth Magers, Lisson, Skarstedt, Mnuchin, Acquavella, Gladstone.
- UES townhouse / secondary-market — Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Sperone Westwater, Helly Nahmad, Robilant + Voena, Ortuzar Projects, Eykyn Maclean, Van de Weghe, Edward Tyler Nahem, Galerie St. Etienne.
- Indie LES / Tribeca — Bridget Donahue, Chapter NY, James Fuentes, JTT, Magenta Plains, Foxy Production, Maxwell Graham, Bureau, 56 Henry, Andrew Edlin, Canada, Bortolami, White Columns, Artists Space, Apexart, Swiss Institute.
- LES / Chinatown underground — King's Leap, Lubov, Tara Downs, PAGE (NYC), New Release Gallery, Jeffrey Stark, Tramps, The Hole, Hesse Flatow.
- Brooklyn alt-space + experimental — Pioneer Works, Smack Mellon, Amant, Cleopatra's, BRIC, Storefront, Light Industry, A.I.R., Jack Hanley, SculptureCenter, Socrates, Eyebeam, Knockdown Center, C L E A R I N G, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Transmitter, Amos Eno.
What gets dropped
NFT shows, "immersive Van Gogh / Monet / Klimt" projection productions, brand activations posing as exhibitions, vanity gallery shows, appointment-only galleries, and any show outside New York City — even by an artist on the taste profile. The user's taste profile is the gate, not popularity.
Stack
Static HTML + a single feed.json on Vercel. Build pipeline in Node 20+ uses the Anthropic SDK with web_search and web_fetch server-side tools. No backend, no database, no analytics. The whole site is one file you can read.
Source on GitHub: joonasvir/whatson