Coinciding with TEFAF New York, the AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show and Christie’s Classic Art Week of auctions and selling exhibitions, the fourth edition of October Art Week will kick off on Wednesday, October 30th. On that evening, from 5 to 9 p.m., fifteen blue-chip galleries along with the AADLA Show will be hosting open houses and gallery receptions on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Open to the public and within walking distance from one another, the art galleries of October Art Week (which runs through November 5) take on a festive and convivial atmosphere—welcoming art lovers of all stripes to the Upper East Side and contributing to the overall excitement of autumn in New York City. Participating galleries, several of which are also exhibiting at TEFAF, include:

• Didier Aaron
  Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings, 32 East 67th Street
• Ambrose Naumann Fine Art
  19th and 20th Century Paintings and Works on Paper, 74 East 79th Street
• Christopher Bishop Fine Art
  Old Master Drawings and Paintings, 1046 Madison Avenue
• Driscoll Babcock
  American and European Modern Masters, 22 East 80th Street, Second Floor
• Richard L. Feigen & Co. with W.M. Brady & Co.
  Old Master Paintings and 19th Century Drawings and Paintings, 16 East 77th Street
• Hammer Galleries
  19th and 20th Century European and American Masters, 32 East 67th Street
• Jill Newhouse Gallery
  19th and 20th Century European works, 4 East 81st Street
• Les Enluminures
  Manuscripts and Miniatures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 23 East 73rd Street
• Mark Murray Fine Paintings
  19th Century, Early 20th Century and Impressionist Art, 159 East 63rd Street,
• Pia Gallo Old Master and Modern Prints and Drawings, 53 East 64th Street
• Shepherd W & K Galleries
  Vienna Secession to Classic Modern, 58 East 79th Street
• Robert Simon Fine Art
  Old Master Paintings and Sculpture, 22 East 80th Street, Fourth Floor
• Tambaran Galleries
  African, Oceanic and Northwest Coast American, 5 East 82nd Street
• Waterhouse & Dodd
  Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, 15 East 76th Street

Rounding out the gallery roster is first-time participant AADLA Fine Art & Antique Fair which features 25 art and antique galleries under one roof at Wallace Hall in the Ignatius Loyola Church at 980 Park Avenue.

Most of the galleries participating in October Art Week will be open during TEFAF NY FALL and AADLA Fine Art & Antique Show hours.  For each gallery’s hours and a map of the Art Walk, please visit www.octoberartweek.com.