About Friday Arts
Friday Arts is a digital platform and nomadic, artist-run gallery for discovering and collecting contemporary art.
We believe artists reveal new ways of seeing and engaging with the world—and that living with art is transformative. Through curated exhibitions, intimate studio visits, and cinematic films, Friday Arts offers a deeper, more personal way to experience and collect contemporary art.
We're a husband-and-wife team—an award-winning filmmaker and the former Head of Digital at the Guggenheim Museum—drawing on decades of experience in visual culture, storytelling, and technology. With a refined curatorial sensibility shaped over a lifetime in the arts, we created Friday Arts to amplify artists’ visions, illuminate their processes, and make collecting art a personal and enriching experience.
We invite you to visit often, and stay awhile. Explore curated artworks and exhibitions, watch films, read interviews, and step inside the story behind the work. Whether you're art-curious or a seasoned collector, we’re here as your trusted partners on your journey with art.
Laura and Justin
Founders and Directors
Friday Arts
About Us
We’re Laura Kleger and Justin Schwarz. We met starting a rock band as Yale undergrads, earned our M.F.A.s from Columbia, had two kids, and never stopped making things. Between us, we have nearly fifty years of combined experience across contemporary art, filmmaking, design, and tech. We’ve run museum departments, curated museum and gallery exhibitions, published art books, taught college classes, written for Hollywood, directed and produced award-winning films, and built digital experiences to help people fall deeper in love with art.
Our work has reached tens of millions online, and has been shown at Cannes, Berlin, MoMA, the Museum of the Moving Image, and arthouses, film festivals, and galleries around the world. Along the way, we’ve picked up Webbys, Anthem Awards, and dozens of film and design awards. You might have seen our projects in The New York Times, Artforum, NPR, or Vanity Fair—or maybe just somewhere unexpected doing what art does best: making you feel something.
Laura Recommends
Body / Body / Body offers an intimate counterpoint to an age of control: works that reclaim the body as a site of autonomy, performance, pleasure, and lived experience. With an unconventional use of materials, artists Jamie Isenstein, Fabienne Lasserre, and Sophy Naess reflect upon bodies through the lenses of feminism, humor, and imagination.
Introducing Friday Arts Editions: limited-edition prints and sculptures that make exceptional art accessible. Founders Laura Kleger and Justin Schwarz discuss their vision for bringing art to more collectors through collaborations with artists Grace DeGennaro, Grace Hager, Stephen Hendee, and Sophy Naess, and the craft behind each edition.
Justin Recommends
Step into the darkroom with Joseph Minek and witness his experimental, camera-less process transform light-sensitive materials into abstract fields of electric color. His unconventional practice pushes the material limits of photography, inviting us to reconsider what defines the medium.
Step inside Grace DeGennaro's Maine studio and witness her slow art practice of marking time with universal geometric forms, complex beaded lattices, and luminous washes of color.