Museo

Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200

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.

Through Feb 22

Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens

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.

Through Mar 8

Brooklyn Abstraction: Four Artists, Four Walls

Four Brooklyn-connected artists transform the museum's Beaux-Arts Court with immersive abstract works ranging from Maya Hayuk's tactile modular pieces to Kennedy Yanko's sculptural metal and paint assemblages.

Through Mar 8

Christian Marclay: Doors

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.

Through Apr 12

Oliver Jeffers: Life at Sea

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.

Through Apr 26

Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from "Ruckus Manhattan"

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.

Through Jun 5

Everyday Rebellions: Collection Conversations

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.

Through Jul 5

Fashion

Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses

A pioneering fashion designer merges haute couture with cutting-edge tech like 3D printing and biomimicry, creating sculptural gowns inspired by everything from fractal geometry to neuroscience, displayed alongside contemporary art and scientific specimens in an immersive, multisensory experience.

COMING SOON Starting May 16

Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection

Over 50 European modernist works that disrupted academic traditions, including pieces by Cézanne, Modigliani, and Degas, contextualized through the lens of the collectors' immigrant Brooklyn story and commitment to accessibility.

COMING SOON Starting Oct 2

Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room

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.

Through Apr 20

Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art

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

Arts of Asia

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

Arts of the Islamic World

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

Assyrian Art

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

Design: 1880 to Now

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

Period Rooms

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

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago

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

Visible Storage and Study Center

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

The Brooklyn Della Robbia

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

African Ancestors of Egypt and Nubia: From the Green Sahara to the Nile

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

Mid-Century Decorative Arts and Design

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

Growing Up Tutankhamun

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

Sakimatwemtwe: A Century of Reflection on the Arts of Africa

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

Liza Lou: Trailer

A meticulously beaded 1949 trailer interior transforms invisible labor into a noir-inspired installation that interrogates masculinity, power, and obsession through painstaking craft.

Ongoing

Ancient Egyptian Art

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

Unrolling Eternity: The Brooklyn Books of the Dead

A rare, fully restored 21-foot gilded Egyptian papyrus is unveiled for the first time, showcasing cutting-edge conservation techniques that reveal ancient burial rituals and the scroll's original owner from over 2,000 years ago.

Ongoing

[44] Exhibitions

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Man Ray: When Objects Dream

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

Celebrating the Year of the Snake

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

Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson

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.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 8

Textiles

Colorful Korea

Vibrant Korean material culture from everyday life including bold patchwork textiles and auspicious objects that challenge traditional literati art norms.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 15

The Brooklyn Bridge Up Close

Rare engineering drawings from the Brooklyn Bridge's construction get the scientific analysis treatment, revealing the technical innovation and collaborative process behind one of NYC's most iconic structures.

Through Feb 22

Impressions of the Imagination: New Medieval Beasts in Print

Fifth-graders from a local school reimagine medieval creatures through bold printmaking, layering textures and patterns inspired by dragons, griffins, and unicorns from The Cloisters' collection.

COMING SOON Starting Feb 5

Emily Sargent: Portrait of a Family

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.

Through Mar 8

Baseball Cards from the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick

A showcase of over 100 vintage baseball cards from the 1880s to 1950s featuring diverse printing techniques and graphic design styles from an era when sports ephemera doubled as commercial art.

Through Mar 8

Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages

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

The Jousting Armor of Philip I of Castile

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

Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

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.

Through Apr 5

View Finding: Selections from The Walther Collection

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.

Through May 3

Fanmania

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.

Through May 12

The Magical City: George Morrison's New York

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.

Through May 31

Iba N'diaye: Between Latitude and Longitude

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

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: Selections from the Collection

A chronologically arranged journey through 1,500 years of Chinese brush arts, featuring rarely-seen fans from the 1940s that served as teaching tools between master calligrapher Li Jian and his prodigy student Wen C. Fong, who later shaped The Met's Asian Art collection.

Through May 31

The Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson

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

Ceramics

Making It Modern: European Ceramics from the Martin Eidelberg Collection

Turn-of-the-century European ceramics that experimented with decoration and form, breaking from tradition with nature-inspired artistic expression.

Through Jun 14

Craft

Passion for Jade

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

Embracing Color

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

Raphael: Sublime Poetry

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

Drawing

Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship

Intricate medieval architectural drawings reveal the design thinking behind Gothic cathedrals, offering a rare look at how complex spatial visions were communicated through technical draftsmanship centuries before CAD software.

COMING SOON Starting Apr 16

Revolution

Prints and artworks explore contested narratives of American independence, centering Indigenous resistance, African American voices, and the global circulation of revolutionary ideas beyond the standard founding fathers mythology.

Through Aug 6

Musical Bodies

An expansive exploration of how musical instruments mirror and embody the human form, featuring 4,000 years of artifacts from ancient Egyptian rattles to Prince's iconic guitars alongside paintings by Titian and Degas.

COMING SOON Starting Jun 7

Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas

Medieval hybrid creatures from both sides of the Atlantic reveal how ancient cultures used fantastical imagery to express power, identity, and the unknown through stunning gold work, sculptures, and textiles.

COMING SOON Starting May 18

Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt

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

Fashion

Costume Art

An innovative pairing of historical garments with artworks across mediums explores how clothing shapes and reflects the body, revealing unexpected conceptual and political connections between fashion and art through time.

COMING SOON Starting May 10

Celebrating the Year of the Horse

Explore how horses shaped Chinese civilization through ceramics, jade, and metalwork that reveal their roles in warfare, trade, and spiritual life—from Tang dynasty power symbols to divine guardian mounts.

COMING SOON Starting Feb 7

Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew

This exhibition reimagines how we experience Korean artifacts by revealing their hidden sides, interiors, and overlooked details through innovative display methods that challenge traditional museum presentation.

COMING SOON Starting Mar 16

The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei

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

Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930

Early chromolithographic prints from India that revolutionized mass-produced devotional imagery during the Independence movement, showcasing vibrant graphic design and the intersection of traditional iconography with emerging printing technologies.

Through Jun 27

Ceramics

The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics

A comprehensive journey through 12,000 years of Japanese pottery featuring 350 works that showcase innovative techniques like kintsugi gold repair and vessels designed to harmonize with food aesthetics, offering fresh perspectives on how craft and design intersect with daily life.

Through Aug 8

Textiles

A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie

An in-gallery conservation studio lets you watch textile experts restore massive Baroque carpets that were woven by orphans for a king's palace but never used, now stripped of royal symbols and scattered across collections.

COMING SOON Starting Sep 8

Arts of Oceania

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

Arts of the Ancient Americas

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

Arts of Africa

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

Defensive Display: Shields from The Met Collection

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

The American Wing at 100

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

The Calculated Curve: Eighteenth-Century American Furniture

A fresh look at 1720-1770 American furniture design through sculptural form and material craft, presented outside traditional period room contexts.

Ongoing

Cycladic Art: The Leonard N. Stern Collection on Loan from the Hellenic Republic

Repatriated Early Bronze Age marble sculptures showcasing minimalist forms and subtle variations that influenced modernist aesthetics over a thousand years.

Ongoing

Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

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

Renaissance Masterpieces: Hebrew Manuscripts from the Italian Renaissance

Rare illuminated Hebrew manuscripts reveal cross-cultural collaboration between Jewish scribes and Christian artists in 15th-century Italy.

Ongoing

Michael Lin: Pentachrome

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

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room

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

[25] Exhibitions

MoMA

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Three hundred works reveal how an artist transformed wire and paper into mesmerizing sculptures that dissolve boundaries between abstraction and figuration.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 7

Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep

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.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 8

Samora Pinderhughes: Call and Response

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.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 15

Creativity Lab: Tender Commons

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.

Through Mar 15

Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream

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.

Through Apr 11

Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream (en Español)

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.

Through Apr 11

Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life

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

Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM

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.

Through Apr 15

Stephen Prina

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.

Through Apr 15

Hyundai Card First Look: Rose B. Simpson

A Santa Clara Pueblo artist reimagines her heritage through lowrider culture, showcasing a striking lithograph of her customized 1985 El Camino painted in traditional black-on-black pottery glaze style as a statement on identity and empowerment.

Through Apr 15

Oasis in the City

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.

Through May 2026

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

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

Artist's Choice: Arthur Jafa—Less Is Morbid

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.

Through Jul 5

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Lugar de Consuelo (Place of Solace)

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

The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower

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

Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination

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.

Through Jul 25

Marcel Duchamp

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

Performance

Studio Residency: Pageant

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

Frida and Diego: The Last Dream

A theatrical collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera featuring works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, displayed within elaborate stage sets designed by the opera's set designer that weave visual references from the artists' lives into an immersive installation.

COMING SOON Starting Mar 29

Julien Ceccaldi: The Modern Window

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.

Through Sep 30

Na Mira: NO SMOKING

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

Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives

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

The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go

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

Nina Chanel Abney's LOVE NYC

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

Sound Art

Art Lab: Sound

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

[18] Exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art

Grace Rosario Perkins: Circles, Spokes, Zigzags, Rivers

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.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 8

Ken Ohara: CONTACTS

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.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 8

High Wire: Calder's Circus at 100

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.

Through Mar 9

Amy Sherald: Four Ways of Being

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

Drawing

Claes Oldenburg: Drawn from Life

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.

Through Apr 30

Performance

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

The Whitney Biennial

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

"Untitled" (America)

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

Dyani White Hawk: Nourish

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

Whitney Biennial 2026

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 March 2026

INFANT: BANNED SKILLS

A nonlinear digital narrative exploring xenoformalism through gaming aesthetics, sci-fi references, and interactive sound design that reimagines how cultural meaning is constructed.

Ongoing

Nancy Baker Cahill: CENTO

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

David Hammons: Day's End

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

Rashid Johnson: New Poetry

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

Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective

A comprehensive look at the pop art icon who transformed comic book aesthetics into high art through Ben-Day dots and bold graphic composition.

Ongoing

Frank WANG Yefeng: The Levitating Perils #2

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

Robert Nideffer: 12 Years in Azeroth – The Journey Begins

An interactive browser-based work that merges autobiography with game design, letting you navigate between multiple worlds through AI-driven characters and narrative puzzles that blur the boundaries between player identity and digital avatars.

Ongoing

Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean

An interactive web-based artwork that simulates a fluid underwater environment that shifts between oceanic physics and computational logic, challenging viewers to recognize the intelligence embedded in natural systems beyond human-mimicking machines.

Ongoing

[10] Exhibitions

Museum of the Moving Image

Contingent

A generative collaboration between 1960s photography pioneer Gottfried Jäger and digital artist James Bloom that transforms analog pinhole photos into live code-based animations you can interact with online, completing a mesmerizing cycle from light to data and back.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 15

Gumby Adventures: Restored Animated Classics from The Gumby Show

Experience Art Clokey's iconic clay animation in gorgeous 4K restorations inside a working movie theater art installation, showcasing how stop-motion techniques from the 1950s still captivate with their handmade, shape-shifting charm.

Through Mar 1

Lu Yang: The Great Adventure of Material World

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.

Through Mar 22

Dissolving Views: Magic Lantern Performance

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.

Through Mar 22

Stories and Sets for The Sopranos

An intimate dive into David Chase's personal archive revealing how The Sopranos revolutionized TV storytelling through original scripts, concept art, and production designs for iconic sets like Dr. Melfi's office and the Bada Bing.

COMING SOON Starting Feb 14

Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body

Experimental filmmakers and contemporary artists interrogate medical imaging technologies like X-rays, exposing how tools meant for care can also reinforce systems of control and normative assumptions about bodies.

COMING SOON Starting Mar 14

The Jim Henson Exhibition

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

Reflected Forms: Story and Character in the Films of Todd Haynes

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

Horrible Sites: Makeup and Production Design for The Exorcist

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

Behind the Screen

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

[6] Exhibitions

Queens Museum

Of the Earth: Connections

Indigenous artists from around the world center water and land stewardship through traditional practices, presented alongside a 1939 relief map to globalize conversations about environmental conservation and ancestral knowledge.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 15

Textiles

Mazorca Colectiva: Entre Semilla y Fibra: Threads of Memory, Seeds of Land

Queens-based collective transforms ancestral weaving and land cultivation into community healing practices, with textiles that embody intergenerational stories and collective care among immigrant and Indigenous peoples.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 15

Fia Backström: The Great Society

Backström's visual docu-poetry investigates extractive capitalism and collective trauma in West Virginia through layered photography, embroidery circles, and experimental installations that push the limits of visibility.

Through May 17

About Us: The American Imaginary

Three Terra Foundation Fellows from Queens curate collections of photographs exploring what "American" means through personal narratives, migration stories, and archival images spanning the mid-1800s to 1979.

COMING SOON Starting Feb 28

Tiffany's Lamps: Lighting Luxury

An ongoing display of Tiffany Studios' iconic leaded-glass lamps from The Neustadt Collection, showcasing the intersection of decorative arts, craftsmanship, and early electric lighting design.

Ongoing

Black, Trans, & Alive (Qweens Song)

A powerful public mural honoring Black trans activists like Marsha P. Johnson and contemporary figures, challenging prevailing narratives while centering Black trans voices in social justice and art movements.

Ongoing

[6] Exhibitions

International Center of Photography

Jon Henry: Stranger Fruit

A powerful photo series reimagining Pietà compositions with Black mothers and sons, confronting police violence with Renaissance-inspired portraiture backed by archival materials revealing the project's creative process.

LAST CHANCE Until Feb 17

Eugène Atget: The Making of a Reputation

Explores how photographer Berenice Abbott shaped the posthumous reputation of Atget's enigmatic early-hours Paris documentation, reframing historical photography through a contemporary lens on legacy and influence.

Through May 4

HARD COPY NEW YORK

A group show using photocopied images to challenge digital proliferation and celebrate the tactile, democratic power of physical photography in an age of endless scrolling.

Through May 4

Latitudes: Nuits Balnéaires and François-Xavier Gbré

Spotlights underrepresented photographers from Côte d'Ivoire through a new international program, featuring spiritually-charged seascapes and architectural explorations of colonial memory and social transformation.

Through May 4

Education & Community Exhibitions

Student and community-driven photography showcasing emerging voices and experimental approaches from ICP's educational programs.

Ongoing

ICP at Mana Exhibitions

Archive of past exhibitions presented at Mana Contemporary showcasing ICP's experimental exhibition program beyond traditional museum spaces.

Ongoing

[15] Exhibitions

Museum of the City of New York

Urban Stomp: Dreams & Defiance on the Dance Floor

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.

Through Feb 22

Robert Rauschenberg's New York: Pictures from the Real World

Rauschenberg's radical photographic practice reveals how he transformed street-level NYC imagery into bold mixed-media works that blurred painting, sculpture, and assemblage.

Through Apr 19

Robert Rauschenberg's New York

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

The Stettheimer Dollhouse in a New Light

A meticulously crafted miniature world featuring tiny Marcel Duchamp artworks that captures 1920s NYC's avant-garde salon culture through intricate design and detail.

Through Dec 31

Songs of New York: 100 Years of Imagining the City Through Music

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.

Through Dec 31

New York Now: After Dark

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

Activist New York

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

Timescapes

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

Starlight

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

The Occupied City

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

He Built This City: Joe Macken's Model

A Queens artist spent 21 years building a massive 55-by-30-foot handmade model of NYC from balsa wood and cardboard, showcasing obsessive craft and personal vision in an impressive physical tribute to the city's architecture.

COMING SOON Starting Feb 12

Another Wonderland: Abram Champanier's Alice Mural

A restored WPA-era mural cycle reimagines Alice in Wonderland characters exploring 1930s NYC—from subways to Coney Island—originally created to bring joy to a children's hospital ward.

COMING SOON Starting Jun 6

Halumii Ktapihna: Lenape Legacies and Futures

A community-centered exhibition featuring contemporary Lenape artists, interactive installations, and rarely seen cultural objects that challenge colonial narratives and center Indigenous voices in reimagining NYC's past and future.

COMING SOON Starting Sep 25

Raise Your Voice

Brooklyn artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya blends immersive installation with augmented reality and participatory elements, mixing her viral "We Are More" public art campaign with portraits of activists Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X to explore AAPI resilience and community power.

Ongoing

[12] Exhibitions

Poster House

The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy

Bold Futurist posters reveal how Mussolini's regime weaponized modernist design to blur art and propaganda across Italian culture.

Through Feb 22

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh's National Parks Posters

A pioneering female modernist designer created the first major government poster campaign, establishing a visual language for America's national parks during the Depression.

Through Feb 22

Utopia in Our Time: The Posters of Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple's whimsical yet haunting illustrations center solidarity and resistance, from anti-Muslim activism to Puerto Rican culture and global justice movements.

Through Apr 12

Art for Art House: The Posters of Peter Strausfeld

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.

Through Apr 12

Love & Fury: New York's Fight Against AIDS

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

Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen

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

Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime

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

From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)

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

Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works

Native designers reclaim their visual narratives through nearly two centuries of bold, subversive graphic work that challenges colonial mythmaking and celebrates Indigenous innovation across 44+ tribes.

COMING SOON Starting Sep 24

Cuteness, Conservatism, & Consumption: Lefor-Openo and Postwar France

A female design duo's colorful postwar French posters reveal how optimistic advertising masked the turbulent political landscape of de Gaulle's France through charming visuals and innovative graphic design.

COMING SOON Starting Sep 24

Just Say Nyet: The Soviet Battle Against Booze

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

Sculpting Sound: Günther Kieser's Music Posters

A rare showcase of Günther Kieser's wildly inventive concert posters that blend sculpture, collage, and bold typography to visualize music from jazz to psychedelic rock in ways that feel completely fresh and experimental.

COMING SOON Starting Nov 12

[12] Exhibitions

MoMA PS1

Inuuteq Storch: Soon Will Summer Be Over

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.

Through Feb 23

Homeroom: LA ESCUELA___

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.

Through Feb 23

Four Dilations

Sculpture and installation from dance, film, and sound practices challenge digital time management through distortion and recursion, reconsidering what "now" means under technocratic systems.

Through Mar 2

Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product

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.

Through Mar 2

Gabrielle Goliath: Personal Accounts

Powerful video installation capturing the breaths, sighs, and sounds between survivor testimonials of patriarchal violence, challenging notions of voice and silence across global contexts.

Through Mar 16

Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex

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.

Through Mar 16

Greater New York 2026

A multidisciplinary survey of emerging NYC artists featuring site-specific commissions and performances that explore surveillance culture, economic precarity, and technological shifts through the lens of contemporary urban life.

COMING SOON Starting Apr 16

Yto Barrada: Le Grand Soir

Towering, colorful concrete block sculptures inspired by Moroccan acrobatic formations transform the courtyard into an interactive installation that excavates hidden histories of architecture, performance, and resistance.

Through Dec 31

Artist Interventions

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

Homeroom

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: Meeting

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

Lady Pink: MoMA PS1 Plaza Mural

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

[11] Exhibitions

Museum of Arts and Design

Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births

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.

Through Mar 15

Douriean Fletcher: Jewelry of the Afrofuture

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.

Through Mar 15

The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler

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.

Through Apr 19

Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures

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.

Through Oct 11

Ceramics

Alice Riehl's Porcelain Florilegium

Monumental porcelain wall murals reframe urban plant life through a lens of material innovation, combining French decorative arts influences with hand-modeled botanical forms that celebrate resilience and transformation.

COMING SOON Starting Feb 28

Fashion

2025 Burke Prize: Hai Wen Lin

Chicago-based artist Hai-Wen Lin creates stunning "couture for the wind"—sculptural kites that double as wearable garments, merging fashion, flight engineering, and elemental performance with hand-dyed fabrics, ceramic beads, and poetic encounters with nature.

Through Oct 12

OUT of the Jewelry Box

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

Seeing is Believing

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

Dandelion Cluster #3

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

Dwelling

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

Craft

Goblets from the Permanent Collection

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

[4] Exhibitions

Storefront for Art and Architecture

Perforation, Ellipse by Alison Nguyen

A multi-channel video installation exploring Vietnamese diaspora through 16mm film, banned bolero music, and suspended arrows that question how cultural memory and homeland are constructed under censorship and displacement.

Through Mar 28

Na floresta à noite (In the Forest of the Night) by Denilson Baniwa

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.

Through Aug 2

Public Address by Alex Strada

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.

Through Oct 18

Open Session #19: Hosted by Nabil Ahmed

A forensic investigation agency celebrates their new digital publication documenting spatial and visual techniques used to produce evidence for international legal actions on environmental destruction and ecocide.

Ongoing

[1] Exhibitions

Pioneer Works

The Endless Garment: Atlantic Basin

A transnational exhibition examining Asian fashion production through contemporary artists who explore garment labor, counterfeit culture, and diasporic identity using installation, photography, and archival research that challenges stereotypes and reimagines fashion as a site for community building.

Through Apr 12

[1] Exhibitions

El Museo del Barrio

Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025

Recent acquisitions showcase expanded perspectives from Puerto Rican, Nuyorican, queer, and Indigenous artists through dynamic installations that challenge traditional museum hierarchies

Through Jul 15

[1] Exhibitions

Bronx Museum of the Arts