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Create protest posters about housing displacement using printmaking techniques inspired by the Black Panther Party's radical visual activism in this hands-on workshop led by Brazilian artist Augusto Cesar.
LAST CHANCE COMING SOON Starting Nov 8
A hands-on ceramics workshop grounded in Afro-Indigenous knowledge systems where participants create vessels and offerings that carry personal memory, myths, and gestures connected to their lineages and relationships to the land.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 22
A bi-weekly film screening series curating Black Brazilian cinema with an emphasis on women filmmakers, exploring quilombola communities, intergenerational relationships, and decolonial resistance through contemporary short films and documentaries.
Sep 25 — Dec 4
Sertão Negro—an art school and collective rooted in Brazilian quilombo traditions—transforms the gallery into an active extension of Black resistance through artworks, films, and embodied programs including Capoeira sessions, ceramics workshops, and film screenings that center communal care and decolonial knowledge.
Sep 13 — Dec 6
Indigenous Brazilian artist Denilson Baniwa transforms Storefront's iconic moving facade into a luminous Amazonian night forest with iridescent colors and shifting panels, blending ancestral cosmology with contemporary art to challenge colonial narratives and connect urban life to the Amazon's ecological crisis.
Aug 23 — Aug 2
Artist-in-residence Alex Strada transforms handwritten reflections from NYC shelter residents and staff into upcycled aluminum street signs installed across all five boroughs, turning bureaucratic infrastructure into powerful public testimony about housing insecurity and the right to shelter.
Oct 18 — Oct 18
Palestinian artist codes luminous digital abstractions on a 1986 Commodore Amiga, teaching herself programming languages to create "kinetic paintings" that push abstraction beyond the canvas through movement, time, and generative sound.
LAST CHANCE May 8 — Nov 9
An exploration of how everyday objects from Post-Its to emoji radically transformed design and daily life through material innovation and cultural impact.
LAST CHANCE Jan 25 — Nov 15
A five-decade survey of an artist who radically remixes cultural artifacts from Joni Mitchell to Manet through orchestral performances and conceptual installations.
Sep 12 — Dec 13
Brooklyn nonprofit collaborates with high school students, community organizers, and designers to create accessible visual tools that empower marginalized New Yorkers to understand policy and participate in shaping their city.
Through Dec 14
Thirteen artists from Johannesburg to New Orleans reimagine archives and intergenerational memory to counter algorithmic speed with care and slowness.
Sep 14 — Jan 17
Three hundred works reveal how an artist transformed wire and paper into mesmerizing sculptures that dissolve boundaries between abstraction and figuration.
Oct 19 — Feb 7
Decades of material innovation traced through monumental canvases, from groundbreaking stain techniques with thinned paint to moodily resonant late compositions that treat abstract forms as geographic territories.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 18
A composer-filmmaker uses sonic layering, choral performance, and film to challenge the prison industrial complex, collaborating with community organizations to build healing spaces that imagine a world beyond punishment.
COMING SOON Starting Jan 24
A journey through photography's evolution from Fox Talbot's 1800s experiments to contemporary visions, exploring how experimental techniques and diverse perspectives transport viewers across time and space.
Oct 31 — Feb 16
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya's participatory textile installation reimagines Southeast Asian wrapping traditions as collaborative care rituals using reclaimed textiles to explore immigrant knowledge, inherited trauma, and collective repair.
A Cuban-Chinese artist's radical reimagining of modernism through Afro-Caribbean culture and formal experimentation, explicitly framing his transformative paintings as acts of decolonization that challenge colonial structures.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 10
Cuban artist of African and Chinese descent reimagines modernism through Afro-Caribbean histories in what he called "an act of decolonization," challenging colonial structures through transformative figures and experimental forms.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 10
A floor-to-ceiling immersive installation where vibrant abstract patterns painted across MoMA's lobby are directly inspired by music, transforming the space into a communal gathering place that pulses with color and rhythm.
Through Apr 15
An infinite AI-generated poem that rewrites itself every hour using custom language models and a typeface fusing human handwriting with binary code, exploring what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence.
Sep 10 — Apr 15
Stephen Prina transforms Billboard Hot 100 hits into hourly clock chimes using a carillon, creating a wry monument to pop culture's fleeting nature that questions how we measure taste and time.
Sep 11 — Apr 15
A refreshed sculpture garden installation featuring figurative and abstract works from the late 19th century to present, including a returning monumental Dubuffet piece alongside modern sculptures in an outdoor urban sanctuary.
Jul 3 — May 1
A revealing look at pre-digital image manipulation showing how Hollywood studios physically altered celebrity photographs through cropping, silhouetting, and collage—exposing the constructed nature of fame before Photoshop and social media.
Through Jun 21
Cinematographer and video artist Arthur Jafa curates nearly 100 works from MoMA's collection to dismantle modernist hierarchies and binary thinking, creating powerful juxtapositions that champion Black, queer, and feminine excess over institutional order.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 19
This multimedia installation reclaims the censored history of a revolutionary Guatemalan play through drawings, costumes, and performance, using theater as a tool for resistance against state violence during the civil war.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 28
Step inside a fully restored capsule from Tokyo's iconic 1972 Metabolist tower to explore how this modular architectural experiment evolved from businessman crash-pad to creative community hub before its controversial 2022 demolition.
Through Jul 12
Mid-century portraits from African photographers like Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé explore Pan-African identity and decolonial resistance, connecting African independence movements to contemporary works that reimagine political imagination through stunning portraiture.
COMING SOON Starting Dec 14
The first U.S. Duchamp retrospective in 50 years traces how the inventor of the readymade fundamentally questioned what art can be, from scandalous urinals to portable museums, establishing the conceptual foundations of contemporary practice.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 12
An artist-run Brooklyn performance collective transforms the Kravis Studio into a working rehearsal space and live stage, blurring boundaries between process and presentation with experimental movement-based work and a performance marathon.
COMING SOON Starting Aug 8
Ceccaldi channels underground comix, 90s anime, and mid-century animation aesthetics into life-size geometric scenes of flirtatious thirty-somethings navigating NYC's social drama.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 14
Korean shamanism meets structural filmmaking in phantasmagoric installations using radio frequencies, infrared heat, and holography to rupture state propaganda and explore diasporic consciousness at the edges of perception.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 14
Marianne Wex's 1970s photographic study of gendered body language meets contemporary artists like Nona Faustine and Wendy Red Star who reclaim physical and narrative space through Black, queer, and feminist lenses.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 20
NYC high school students reimagine Gotham through a collaborative mural featuring their own characters and stories, created with DonChristian Jones during his Adobe Creative Residency focused on community care and belonging.
Ongoing
Abney remixes iconic NYC references and modernist artworks through her signature paper cut-out technique, creating a vibrant site-specific composition that filters Dalí, Warhol, and Duchamp through contemporary street energy.
Ongoing
An interactive hands-on space where visitors construct sound sculptures, create wearable art, and experiment with color and sound through digital displays that explore materiality and sensory experience.
Ongoing
This generative digital art project transforms dithering algorithms into mesmerizing abstract patterns using machine learning and custom pixel geometries, with a public interface letting visitors create their own computational compositions on the Media Wall.
LAST CHANCE Aug 28 — Nov 9
Fleischer Studios' iconic 1940s Superman cartoons get the 4K restoration treatment and screen continuously in an actual working movie theater that's also an art installation.
Jul 10 — Nov 23
Deep dive into Tom Cruise's commitment to practical stunts across the franchise, showcasing the technical ingenuity and behind-the-scenes process of creating death-defying action sequences with production artifacts.
Apr 18 — Dec 14
An interactive arcade cabinet featuring six playable games that use real-time global weather data to create absurdist climate crisis management scenarios, blending bureaucratic tedium with planetary chaos in a darkly humorous commentary on environmental response systems.
Jul 24 — Jan 4
Experience this intricate video game-meets-Buddhist cosmology journey either as a projected film or playable interactive game where an androgynous protagonist navigates through cycles of death and rebirth in a stunning blend of anime aesthetics, science fiction, and spiritual philosophy.
Sep 26 — Mar 22
A rare 19th-century triunial magic lantern with three lenses showcases early projection technology's special effects capabilities, bridging historical media innovation with contemporary moving image practice through evocative video performance.
Aug 29 — Mar 22
An immersive dive into Jim Henson's creative universe featuring 47 iconic puppets, interactive puppeteering experiences, and behind-the-scenes footage revealing the technical innovation and world-building genius behind The Muppets, Sesame Street, and The Dark Crystal.
Ongoing
Explore Todd Haynes's meticulous creative process through his archival image books, sketches, and notes that transform historical references into formally ambitious films that subvert conventional narratives.
Ongoing
Reveals the production design and makeup techniques that transformed an innocent girl and Georgetown townhouse into one of cinema's most terrifying horror landscapes.
Ongoing
Immersive core exhibition featuring hands-on interactive experiences where you can create stop-motion animations, record dialogue, and explore the technical evolution of moving image creation from optical toys to digital tools.
Ongoing
Lorna Simpson's screen-printed collages merge found imagery from Black cultural archives with abstraction, creating powerful explorations of race, gender, and identity where bodies emerge and dissolve across inky surfaces.
Through Nov 30
Matisse's vibrant Jazz series and Bourgeois's psychological self-portraits merge color, pattern, and symbolism to encode wartime trauma and internal drama into bold visual narratives.
Jan 1 — Dec 9
Twenty-four works spanning sculptures, paintings, musical instruments, ritual objects, and photography trace the exuberant depictions of the Hindu deity Ganesha across centuries and regions from India to Southeast Asia.
Through Jan 4
Ancient Egypt's visual language for depicting over 1,500 deities comes alive through 250 works exploring how subtle design choices—posture, symbols, attire—created a complex iconographic system connecting humans with the divine.
Through Jan 19
Historic baseball cards showcase diverse printing techniques and graphic design evolution from the 1880s to 1950s, revealing vernacular visual culture and mass-produced ephemera aesthetics.
Jan 1 — Jan 20
Rediscovered snapshots from a clandestine 1960s cross-dressing community challenge rigid gender norms and reveal a pre-Stonewall network that used photography to create and affirm queer identities.
Jan 1 — Jan 25
Man Ray's groundbreaking rayographs—cameraless photographs made by placing objects on light-sensitive paper—showcase radical experimentation at the intersection of Dada, Surrealism, and early photographic innovation.
Through Feb 1
Ancient Chinese zodiac tradition explored through 3,000 years of artifacts including bronze vessels and folk pottery celebrating the snake's cultural symbolism.
Through Feb 1
Over 100 works by John Wilson center Black American experiences through powerful figurative art addressing racial violence, labor, civil rights, and family life—a long-overdue first solo NYC museum show for this social justice pioneer.
Through Feb 8
Vibrant Korean material culture from everyday life including bold patchwork textiles and auspicious objects that challenge traditional literati art norms.
Through Feb 15
Newly rediscovered watercolors expose how gender shaped artistic careers in the late 19th century, contrasting a talented woman's hidden practice with her famous brother's celebrated portraits.
Jul 1 — Mar 8
Medieval art gets radically recontextualized through queer theory, revealing overlooked narratives of desire, fluid gender identities, and diverse relationships in illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, and sculptures from the 13th–15th centuries.
Through Mar 29
A rare, ornately decorated jousting armor made for a 15-year-old Habsburg ruler showcases exceptional medieval metalworking and the role of tournament armor in shaping political power and public image.
Through Apr 1
Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck's bold modernist evolution from realism to radically simplified abstraction gets its first major U.S. showcase with 60 sparse, powerful works.
COMING SOON Starting Dec 5
Over 6,500 works from a pioneering photography collection explore how contemporary artists use cameras as tools for social critique, capturing overlooked spaces from Nairobi sidewalks to Tokyo parks.
Oct 28 — May 3
French Impressionists like Degas and Pissarro adopted the hand-held fan as an experimental artistic format, exploring gender, consumerism, and Asian appropriation through this unexpected medium.
COMING SOON Starting Dec 11
An Abstract Expressionist pioneer from the Grand Portage Chippewa community reshapes mid-century modernism through industrial landscapes and jazz-infused imagery, challenging the mainstream art establishment from within.
Jan 1 — May 31
Senegalese Modernist Iba Ndiaye's powerful painting Tabaski III recontextualizes European art history through West African cultural experience, bridging old masters with underrepresented African voices.
Through May 31
Jeffrey Gibson transforms The Met's facade with four large-scale animal sculptures that fuse Indigenous worldviews with bold abstraction and color, challenging how we perceive non-human life and our connection to the environment.
Through Jun 9
Turn-of-the-century European ceramics that experimented with decoration and form, breaking from tradition with nature-inspired artistic expression.
Through Jun 14
Over a hundred jade and hardstone carvings from the Qing dynasty reveal sophisticated Chinese gemstone artistry alongside traditional stone-working tools and workshop illustrations that demystify ancient carving techniques.
Through Jun 28
Chinese enamel works demonstrate how artists actively transformed Western techniques into bold new color palettes and styles during two pivotal moments of cultural exchange in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Through Jun 28
The first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of Renaissance master Raphael features over 200 works, including scientific discoveries about his pioneering use of nude female models in Western art history.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 29
Contemporary installations and sculptures from the 1960s to present dialogue with Byzantine funerary artifacts in an atmospheric underground crypt space, exploring death, memorials, and the afterlife through a transhistorical lens.
Through Jan 10
Beijing conceptual artist Liu Wei transforms The Met's Fifth Avenue facade with four large-scale sculptures that remix urban fragments, historical motifs, and bodily forms to challenge perceptions of reality and cycles of rupture.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 17
A reimagined wing showcasing over 650 artworks from 140 Pacific cultures with innovative digital narratives featuring Indigenous voices, spectacular ritual regalia like turtle shell masks and crocodile reliquaries, and stunning natural-lit gallery design by Kulapat Yantrasast.
Ongoing
Nearly 700 ancestral Indigenous artworks from pre-1600 CE Americas presented with contemporary research, incorporating Indigenous perspectives and featuring the first ancient Andean textile gallery in the US with state-of-the-art rotating displays of intricate 2,000-year-old weavings.
Ongoing
A bold reinstallation of 500 sub-Saharan African works (one-fourth never before shown) spotlighting named artists from medieval times to today, enhanced by digital films on Africa's cultural landmarks created with the World Monuments Fund and featuring diverse voices from historians to musicians.
Ongoing
A focused look at shields as objects of both protection and visual power, exploring how their forms reflected cultural identity and served to intimidate, dazzle, and command attention across battlefields and ceremonial spaces worldwide.
Ongoing
A centennial reinstallation across 75 galleries that redefines American art through hemispheric connections and diverse community voices, juxtaposing canonical works with fresh acquisitions and external loans spanning the 17th to 20th centuries.
Ongoing
A fresh look at 1720-1770 American furniture design through sculptural form and material craft, presented outside traditional period room contexts.
Ongoing
Repatriated Early Bronze Age marble sculptures showcasing minimalist forms and subtle variations that influenced modernist aesthetics over a thousand years.
Ongoing
Historical and contemporary works from 50+ Indigenous groups across seven regions challenge colonial narratives and center Native perspectives on sovereignty, identity, and cultural resilience.
Ongoing
Rare illuminated Hebrew manuscripts reveal cross-cultural collaboration between Jewish scribes and Christian artists in 15th-century Italy.
Ongoing
Street-poster-inspired installation overtakes the Great Hall escalator with enlarged Qing porcelain imagery, inverting the relationship between European architecture and Asian art as ornament.
Ongoing
An immersive Afrofuturist installation reimagines Seneca Village—a displaced Black community from Central Park—through speculative design, contemporary commissions, and historic artifacts that challenge traditional museum storytelling.
Ongoing
De Nieves transforms Pioneer Works into a kaleidoscopic cathedral with 50 handmade faux stained-glass panels and a monumental lightbox mural, using tarot symbolism and everyday materials to reimagine Catholic iconography as a fluid, inclusive sanctuary of transformation.
Sep 13 — Dec 14
Artists hack climate capitalism with provocative tech interventions including a carbon credit marketplace funding climate activists, a botnet that manipulates ad revenue, and installations that subvert police surveillance while imagining alternative digital networks guided by environmental intelligence.
Sep 13 — Dec 14
Towering, colorful concrete block sculptures inspired by Moroccan acrobatic formations and Brutalist architecture create an interactive courtyard installation exploring hidden histories and architectural resistance.
Apr 25 — Jan 1
Intimate photography documents life in Greenland's Arctic communities navigating climate crisis, colonialism, and globalization by the first Greenlandic artist to represent Denmark at Venice Biennale.
Oct 9 — Feb 23
Artist-run platform LA ESCUELA___ transforms PS1's Homeroom into a collaborative learning space featuring a large chalkboard stage for programming, visual archives of Latin American collective pedagogies, and participatory residencies bridging diasporic communities across Queens with socially engaged practices from the Global South.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 6
Sculpture and installation from dance, film, and sound practices challenge digital time management through distortion and recursion, reconsidering what "now" means under technocratic systems.
Oct 23 — Mar 2
Five decades of countercultural work by underground queer icon and "Blacktress" Vaginal Davis spanning performance, video, zines, and cross-disciplinary collaborations that challenge norms with uncompromising glamour.
Oct 9 — Mar 2
Powerful video installation capturing the breaths, sighs, and sounds between survivor testimonials of patriarchal violence, challenging notions of voice and silence across global contexts.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 6
US debut of a trilogy blending generative AI, videogame engines, and live footage to explore gig economy labor through the stories of female delivery drivers in pandemic-era Korea.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 6
Site-specific installations embedded throughout the building since 1976 form a "second skin" including James Turrell's skyspace, charging stations as art, and works that challenge how institutions function.
Ongoing
Community-driven program amplifying local partnerships and grassroots collectives from Queens and NYC working on social justice, prison abolition, immigrant rights, and trans liberation through rotating activations.
Ongoing
James Turrell's iconic Skyspace transforms light and sky into a mesmerizing perceptual experience with a synchronized multicolored lighting program at sunrise and sunset.
Ongoing
Pioneering graffiti artist Lady Pink honors the demolished 5Pointz with a bold mural featuring NYC skylines, the 7 train, and tags from iconic Queens street artists.
Ongoing
Four Brooklyn-connected artists—Maya Hayuk, José Parlá, Kennedy Yanko, and Leon Polk Smith—transform the Beaux-Arts Court with tactile modular pieces, environmental paintings, and metal sculptures that engage space in innovative ways.
Aug 12 — Jan 4
Monet's luminous Venice paintings are paired with sonic installations by composer-in-residence Niles Luther and immersive elements that transport you to the city's haunting, hauntingly empty atmosphere.
Oct 11 — Feb 1
A celebration of the Brooklyn Museum's 200th anniversary showcasing collection highlights from Delaware youth moccasins to contemporary works by KAWS, Duke Riley, and Tourmaline, revealing how art created in Brooklyn continues to reflect our changing world.
Feb 28 — Feb 22
Over 280 works from legendary Malian photographer Seydou Keïta document Bamako's political transformation through bold studio portraits that blend traditional and European aesthetics with a custom soundtrack by Nile Rodgers.
Oct 10 — Mar 8
A mesmerizing cinematic loop from the Golden Lion-winning artist of The Clock, splicing together decades of film clips into an endless journey through doorways that morphs actors and scenes into a meditation on thresholds and film's limitless possibilities.
Jun 13 — Apr 12
An immersive underwater installation by the award-winning artist and climate advocate where visitors create paper marine life to transform a lonely ocean into a bustling ecosystem while exploring climate change's ripple effects.
Sep 19 — Apr 26
A wildly satirical sculptural comic book of 1970s NYC featuring a high-heeled Statue of Liberty and a burning Financial District that captures the chaos, corruption, and creativity of New York with humor and visual metaphors.
Jun 13 — Jun 5
Contemporary artists from Beverly Semmes to Sarah Sze infuse daily life with creative defiance through surprising pairings that challenge narratives—including Nicole Eisenman's satirical take on protest facing off with Rodin's classical heroism.
Oct 10 — Jul 5
A lamplit sanctuary featuring over 100 ritual objects and artworks from the 12th to 21st century arranged as an elaborate household shrine, offering a multisensory refuge for reflection with chanted prayers by monks and nuns.
Jun 11 — Apr 20
Black feminist and BIPOC perspectives radically reframe 400 works of American art across eight distinct gallery experiences, from bloom-covered walls to runway-ready portrait encounters, centering historically marginalized voices in a joyful celebration that challenges traditional museum displays.
Ongoing
Newly renovated galleries showcase one of America's foremost Asian art collections spanning Japan, Korea, China, South and Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas, featuring traditional forms alongside modern ceramic masters and prominent historical Ainu art.
Ongoing
Fourteen centuries of Islamic artistic traditions from Asia, Africa, and Europe are reimagined through thematic displays that bridge historical and contemporary works, challenging conventional narratives with focused perspectives on religious practice, palatial life, and diasporic communities.
Ongoing
Majestic palace reliefs from ancient Assyria reveal supernatural worlds of kings and magical beings, with renewed urgency following ISIS destruction of the original archaeological site in 2015.
Ongoing
This renovated gallery dismantles Eurocentric design narratives by juxtaposing competing visions of modernity, exposing cultural appropriation through critical pairings like Brooklyn vases from 1880s versus 2019 that tell vastly different histories of who gets centered in design.
Ongoing
A chronological journey through American period rooms spanning the 17th to 20th centuries, showcasing how domestic design and decorative arts evolved across social classes and historical moments.
Ongoing
Judy Chicago's monumental feminist installation features a triangular banquet table with 39 hand-crafted place settings honoring overlooked women throughout history, using vulvar and butterfly imagery to reclaim female iconography.
Ongoing
A transparent, behind-the-scenes museum experience where 2,000 American artworks are displayed in working storage conditions with glass-walled bays and rolling racks, demystifying how institutions actually preserve and organize collections.
Ongoing
Giovanni della Robbia's 1520 glazed terracotta masterpiece depicting the Resurrection, restored by the same Italian family who originally commissioned it 500 years ago, blends religious iconography with vibrant naturalistic details.
Ongoing
This installation directly challenges colonial Egyptology by highlighting ancient Egypt and Nubia as African civilizations, centering the scholarship of W.E.B. Du Bois and other Black intellectuals who were dismissed by racist Western archaeologists.
Ongoing
A stylish exploration of mid-century design featuring iconic works by Charles and Ray Eames, Isamu Noguchi, and others that examines the tension between handmade craft and industrial production.
Ongoing
A centennial spotlight reuniting ancient relief blocks that reveal the radical naturalistic style of the Amarna Period and explores Tutankhamun's royal lineage through colorful palace decorations.
Ongoing
A critical reexamination of a problematic 1923 exhibition that centers multiple perspectives on African art while incorporating early twentieth-century African modernists to challenge colonial narratives.
Ongoing
A meticulously beaded 1949 trailer interior transforms invisible labor into a noir-inspired installation that interrogates masculinity, power, and obsession through painstaking craft.
Ongoing
A sweeping collection showcasing 8,000 years of Indigenous African art from the Nile Valley, recontextualizing ancient Egypt as a multicultural African civilization with over 1,200 objects including sculpture, pottery, and an elaborately decorated 25-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll.
Ongoing
A self-taught artist who channels healing and resilience through intimate ceramic sculptures that document her journey from addiction and HIV diagnosis to ordained ministry, creating testimonial art that transforms personal trauma into spiritual grace.
Sep 5 — Jan 11
Twenty-eight emerging NYC artists showcase work developed through the Bronx Museum's prestigious career accelerator program, transforming the museum into a collaborative hub that explores how creative community strengthens artistic practice.
COMING SOON Starting Jan 1
First major U.S. survey in 25 years of interdisciplinary artist whose piercing performances, films, and installations interrogate politics, power, and representation across three decades
Sep 18 — Jan 11
Recent acquisitions showcase expanded perspectives from Puerto Rican, Nuyorican, queer, and Indigenous artists through dynamic installations that challenge traditional museum hierarchies
Aug 28 — Jul 15
A live software-driven animation responding to real-time weather and seasons, depicting the Hudson River's ecology above and below water while weaving in the Meatpacking District's layered histories from Lenape trading to queer nightlife.
Apr 9 — Jan 11
Software-driven animations visualize ecological collapse and resource extraction through constantly shifting, code-based compositions that reflect the fragility of environmental and social systems.
Apr 9 — Jan 11
A radical reframing of 1960s American art featuring over 100 artists including Kusama, Hammons, and Bourgeois, exploring psychosexual and revolutionary aesthetics that mirror today's sociopolitical extremes while centering underrecognized voices alongside canonical figures.
Sep 24 — Jan 19
Mary Heilmann transforms the Whitney's fifth floor into a vibrant, interactive hangout space with a massive hand-painted wave mural and colorful sculptural chairs that blur the lines between art, furniture, and social design.
Apr 9 — Jan 19
This sprawling collection exhibition redefines landscape beyond pretty views, gathering works from the 1960s to now that tackle borders, ecological damage, urban transformation, and imagined worlds where identity and environment merge.
Nov 1 — Jan 25
An Indigenous artist layers acrylic, spray paint, and personal objects into densely textured abstractions that resist reductive stereotypes while connecting ancestral petroglyphs to contemporary urgencies.
Oct 18 — Feb 8
A conceptual photography project from the 1970s where an artist mailed his camera to strangers across America, creating a crowdsourced, democratized portrait that challenges traditional authorship and reveals everyday life through participant-generated images.
Oct 10 — Feb 8
Calder's iconic miniature circus made from wire, fabric, and found objects comes alive as a radical early work of performance art that laid the groundwork for his kinetic sculptures and mobiles.
Oct 18 — Mar 9
Amy Sherald's monumental public facade portraits reimagine subjects across diverse backgrounds and generations coexisting in a shared moment, challenging linear notions of time and identity.
Through Mar 31
Drawings from the 1960s that reveal how Oldenburg's iconic soft sculptures and colossal monuments originated on paper, transforming everyday objects through bold lines and playful reimagining of urban spaces, stores, and domestic life.
Jul 5 — Apr 30
The Whitney's ongoing performance series showcases experimental dance, music, and multidisciplinary work by contemporary artists challenging traditional stage conventions in the museum's galleries.
Ongoing
America's longest-running survey exhibition features emerging and established contemporary artists working across all media, spotlighting the most urgent and innovative voices in art today.
Ongoing
A collection showcase questioning the evolving concept of "America" through iconic works from Hopper to Basquiat, featuring Felix Gonzalez-Torres's light installation that reflects on democracy as collective work and bridges the museum with the city beyond.
Ongoing
Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles form a stunning mosaic that centers Lakota abstraction and challenges the whitewashed narratives of American Modernism by honoring Indigenous artistic lineages.
Ongoing
The longest-running survey of American art returns with emerging and established artists charting what's happening right now in contemporary culture.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 1
A nonlinear digital narrative exploring xenoformalism through gaming aesthetics, sci-fi references, and interactive sound design that reimagines how cultural meaning is constructed.
Ongoing
A VR experience created with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team that transforms modernist paintings into navigable 3D worlds using gravitational lensing physics.
Ongoing
A web-based work deconstructing TikTok's "day in my life" genre that questions authenticity and performance in social media self-representation.
Ongoing
A participatory AR creature hovering over the Whitney that evolves through collective audience interaction, addressing climate crisis through interspecies cooperation and bio-engineered futures.
Ongoing
Hammons' monumental skeletal structure hovering over the Hudson River pays tribute to Gordon Matta-Clark's demolished 1975 intervention while honoring the site's LGBTQ history and the Meatpacking District's artistic legacy.
Ongoing
Johnson's illuminated steel-grid sculpture bridges indoor and outdoor spaces, condensing living plants, ceramics, shea butter, poetry books, and video into a brain-like structure that generates unexpected connections and challenges institutional boundaries.
Ongoing
A comprehensive look at the pop art icon who transformed comic book aesthetics into high art through Ben-Day dots and bold graphic composition.
COMING SOON Starting Jan 1
A time-based digital animation series that subverts racist "Yellow Peril" imagery through a playful yet haunting floating dragon and the artist's own morphing face, exploring transnational identity and cultural displacement with experimental 3D animation that changes throughout the day.
Ongoing
Nearly 200 striking black-and-white photographs spanning five decades document indigenous Mexican communities and the intersections of nature, culture, and feminist resistance.
Oct 16 — Jan 12
Experimental self-portraits using historical printing techniques challenge conventional narratives around pregnancy and motherhood in America, blending documentary and performance with a site-specific installation.
Oct 16 — Jan 12
Rarely seen humanist photography from the Magnum archive captures the spiritual and material drama of urban life in Valparaíso, Santiago, Paris, and London with inventive compositional style.
Oct 16 — Jan 12
A powerful visual response to police violence against Black men, pairing photographs of Black mothers holding their sons in pietà-like poses with archival materials that reveal the creative process behind this urgent, long-term documentary project.
Oct 30 — Jan 12
Amateur and professional bakers reimagine iconic NYC buildings and places—from bodegas to bridges—entirely in edible gingerbread creations celebrating neighborhood identity.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 7
An immersive exploration of 200 years of NYC social dance—from lindy hop to litefeet—celebrating how dance floors become spaces for joy, resistance, and reimagined futures.
Jan 1 — Feb 22
Rauschenberg's radical photographic practice reveals how he transformed street-level NYC imagery into bold mixed-media works that blurred painting, sculpture, and assemblage.
Jan 1 — Apr 19
A centennial celebration showcasing Rauschenberg's experimental photography and assemblage work that blurred boundaries between found objects, street imagery, and fine art, revealing his raw documentary eye for NYC's discarded remnants and urban symbols.
Through Apr 19
A meticulously crafted miniature world featuring tiny Marcel Duchamp artworks that captures 1920s NYC's avant-garde salon culture through intricate design and detail.
Jan 1 — Dec 31
A kinetic interactive installation spanning be-bop to K-pop that lets you explore NYC's sonic identity through 100 artists and iconic music photography.
Jan 1 — Dec 31
Contemporary photographers capture the electric energy and diverse cultures of NYC's nightlife in this triennial showcase that documents the city's after-hours transformation.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 20
This evolving exhibition with rotating modules chronicles NYC activism from the 17th century to today through interactive components and multimedia storytelling, featuring recent case studies on housing justice and the Movement for Black Lives.
Ongoing
An immersive 16-screen video installation that remixes hundreds of films shot in NYC over the past century—from Hollywood blockbusters to experimental works—into a dazzling montage that reveals how cinema has shaped our collective imagination of the city.
Ongoing
This 28-minute multimedia documentary uses animated maps and archival imagery to compress 400 years of NYC history into an award-winning feat of digital storytelling narrated by Stanley Tucci.
Ongoing
A stunning suspended light installation featuring 5,283 programmable LED points that hover above the museum's rotunda, merging cutting-edge energy-efficient technology with the building's 1932 neo-Georgian architecture.
Ongoing
Opening May 2026, this 7,000-square-foot immersive experience transforms the third floor into Revolutionary-era NYC with recreated 18th-century environments and digital dramatizations that center the contested stories of enslaved people, women, and Native peoples during the British occupation.
COMING SOON Starting May 1
Bold Futurist posters reveal how Mussolini's regime weaponized modernist design to blur art and propaganda across Italian culture.
Sep 27 — Feb 22
A pioneering female modernist designer created the first major government poster campaign, establishing a visual language for America's national parks during the Depression.
Sep 27 — Feb 22
Molly Crabapple's whimsical yet haunting illustrations center solidarity and resistance, from anti-Muslim activism to Puerto Rican culture and global justice movements.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 13
Bold, hand-printed linocut cinema posters from a German refugee who created over 300 striking designs for London's pioneering art house theater, celebrating cult directors like Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bergman with a deceptively simple visual language.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 13
Graphic design as survival technology, exploring how posters became lifelines during NYC's AIDS crisis, mapping grassroots activism from ACT UP to Keith Haring before the state would respond.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 12
Rare posters documenting Black performers and storytellers who fought dehumanizing stereotypes from the 1880s to 1940s, often serving as the only surviving evidence of lost films and innovative theatrical productions centered on authentic Black experiences.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 12
Book-related propaganda from WWI and WWII exploring how nations weaponized reading as a symbol of freedom and soldier morale, mobilizing public donations through striking poster campaigns.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 23
Travel posters as soft power diplomacy from a newly independent nation, showcasing Czechoslovakia's golden age through rare designs that rebranded former imperial territories as symbols of progress and opportunity.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 23
Gorbachev's blunt, desperate anti-alcohol propaganda campaign uses exceptionally direct Soviet graphic design to examine how a government tried and failed to curb a nation's alcoholism crisis.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 12
A design-focused exploration of 150 years of reproductive health through 250+ objects that interrogates how manufactured products, medical devices, and speculative design projects have shaped experiences of fertility, pregnancy, and parenthood.
Oct 1 — Mar 15
Seventy-five boldly sculptural jewelry pieces in brass, gold, and semi-precious stones by the self-taught designer behind Black Panther's iconic aesthetics, bridging African diaspora histories through Afrofuturist design.
Oct 1 — Mar 15
A playful, irreverent journey through the witty universe of potter-turned-designer Jonathan Adler, who curates 60+ works from MAD's collection alongside his own iconic ceramics in a glam installation designed by his husband Simon Doonan.
Jun 1 — Apr 19
Monumental hand-formed fiber sculptures in merino, yak, and silk create a tactile environment exploring material metamorphosis, plus an immersive recreation of the artist's Lower East Side studio where you can participate in drawing exercises.
Jun 1 — Oct 11
Seventy-eight studio and contemporary jewelry pieces spanning the 1950s to present amplify queer voices and histories through deeply personal adornments, featuring The Porter Price Collection and audio narratives from artists and collectors.
Ongoing
Judith Schaechter reimagines the medieval rose window as a contemporary stained glass kaleidoscope of 200 geometric patterns that transform light into a captivating spiritual experience.
Ongoing
Patrick Jacobs creates hyperrealistic miniature worlds viewed through optical lenses that blur boundaries between sculpture and photography, revealing luminous landscapes hidden in impossibly shallow spaces.
Ongoing
Charles Simonds builds miniature archaeological ruins from tiny clay bricks for fictional "Little People" civilizations, challenging viewers to look beyond museum walls at impermanent urban interventions.
Ongoing
A luminous collection showcasing how American glass artists transformed the traditional Venetian goblet into a canvas for technical innovation and conceptual wit through cross-cultural exchanges.
Ongoing