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A blockchain-powered installation where robotic tongues on iPhones interact with hallucinated images from the museum's collection, triggered by marketplace activity—weird, provocative, and deeply internet-brain.
LAST CHANCE Until May 10
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.
Through May 31
Innovative cut-out animation using multiple glass planes to create depth, showcasing Soviet animation master Yuri Norstein's experimental technique and distinctive visual storytelling.
Through May 31
A playful indie arcade game that transforms typing into competitive multiplayer chaos through nine absurd minigames on dual keyboards in a custom cabinet.
Through Aug 23
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.
Through Jan 3
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Explore Todd Haynes's meticulous creative process through his archival image books, sketches, and notes that transform historical references into formally ambitious films that subvert conventional narratives.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
An annual showcase of student artwork from NYC public schools that celebrates young creative voices and demonstrates how arts education empowers the next generation of artists.
LAST CHANCE Until May 17
A multimedia investigation into extractive capitalism and collective trauma that combines photography, video, textiles, and community embroidery to examine West Virginia mining disasters and labor uprisings.
LAST CHANCE Until May 17
Young artists from five Queens public schools respond to the museum's permanent collection and contemporary exhibitions with fresh, imaginative work that shows how the next generation interprets art today.
COMING SOON Starting May 30
Artists with disabilities collaborate on a window-inspired installation using light projection and shadow tracing, transforming individual perspectives into a unified composition that celebrates diverse voices and community.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 1
Queens teens transform public space into platforms for resistance and care, using imagery, paint, and sculpture to navigate political realities and create room for marginalized voices to be seen and heard.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 1
A layered abstract mural that challenges modernist traditions through colorful forms, invented floor plans, and 3D sculptural elements that blur the boundaries between language, space, and performance.
Through Dec 6
Three community-appointed curators redefine American identity through historical photography, questioning who claims the term "American" and how images negotiate perception, migration, and cultural flow across time.
Through Dec 6
A multi-channel video installation exploring voice as a tool for radical imagination, featuring collaborative performances with the Resistance Revival Chorus and local communities that reimagine how art can build collective hope.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 27
A powerful facade mural celebrating Black trans femme activists and artists, challenging dominant narratives while centering marginalized voices and creating space for representation and visibility.
Ongoing
Student-created artwork from community partnerships showcasing youth voices and creative expression through ceramic tile works.
Through May 24
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.
Ongoing
A documentary photography project that confronts America's history of Japanese American incarceration through portraits of survivors and descendants visiting former WWII concentration camp sites, paired with handwritten letters that bridge past trauma and present healing.
Through May 25
Over 300 iconic fashion photographs by Avedon, Newton, Penn, Warhol and others reveal how YSL transformed fashion into a visual medium through innovative collaboration between haute couture and photographic practice.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 11
A survey of 50+ photobooks showcasing bold design experiments and diverse voices responding to contemporary American life, from political movements to queer identity and environmental crises.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 11
An exhibition showcasing work from ICP's latest graduating class, featuring emerging photographers exploring contemporary approaches to image-making and visual storytelling.
Through Dec 31
Student and community-driven photography showcasing emerging voices and experimental approaches from ICP's educational programs.
Ongoing
Archive of past exhibitions presented at Mana Contemporary showcasing ICP's experimental exhibition program beyond traditional museum spaces.
Ongoing
NYC public school students showcase work created through the Guggenheim's artist-in-residence program, blending art with classroom learning across all five boroughs.
COMING SOON Starting May 8
A real-time dual-channel video portrait that deconstructs celebrity and spectacle by following soccer star Zinédine Zidane through a single match using seventeen synchronized cameras.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 11
Artist Carol Bove transforms the Guggenheim's iconic spiral into an immersive, interactive playground featuring towering steel sculptures, tactile libraries, and artist-made chess tables where visitors can play.
Through Aug 2
Early 20th-century avant-garde artists like Kandinsky and Goncharova broke tradition with vivid color and flattened forms, creating the groundwork for abstraction in response to rapid modernization.
Through Jan 10
Experience Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room alongside iconic Pop art and contemporary artists who remix Pop's visual language to explore identity, consumer culture, and spectacle.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 5
An interactive installation filling the Guggenheim's Rotunda with photography, video, and sculpture that uncovers hidden power structures and narratives during America's 250th anniversary.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 18
A permanent collection of Impressionist and early modernist works feels too traditional and academic for the contemporary creative looking for innovative, challenging exhibitions.
Ongoing
A survey of contemporary artists living and working in NYC, featuring emerging voices and cutting-edge practices from the city's diverse creative communities.
Through Jun 21
Live ephemeral performances across three Saturdays that explore the city as an ecosystem and examine the fluctuating currency of ideas, attention, and value in contemporary life.
Through Jun 27
A Queens-based collective of migrant massage and sex workers transforms dim sum tables into sites of mutual aid, memorializing lost workers while imagining refuge through food, harm reduction, and community care.
Through Aug 17
MoMA PS1's signature survey showcases over 50 emerging multidisciplinary artists responding to surveillance, economic precarity, and shifting technologies through site-specific installations and new productions.
Through Aug 17
A living forest installation featuring an oversized interactive bear sculpture you can walk through, merging exotic flowers, weeds, and multi-sensory experiences in an ever-evolving woodland.
COMING SOON Starting Jul 1
Site-specific works embedded throughout the building form a "second skin" of artistic visions—from Turrell's sky-gazing installation to Pipilotti Rist's floor-embedded lava bath video and Park McArthur's gentrification critique.
Ongoing
An evolving series of activations led by local organizations—from immigrant labor coalitions to Black Trans Liberation—that reimagine the former schoolhouse as a laboratory for care, community learning, and collective resistance.
Ongoing
Turrell's pioneering Skyspace frames the sky as the artwork itself, with a color-shifting lighting program at sunrise and sunset that transforms perception and makes the act of seeing visceral.
Ongoing
Legendary graffiti artist Lady Pink honors demolished 5Pointz with a colossal mural featuring surreal brick structures and iconic tags, reclaiming space in a rapidly gentrifying Queens.
Ongoing
Three generations of Black abstract artists from 1969 to today leverage abstraction's complexity to shape political imagination through painting, sculpture, video, and sound.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 5
A powerful survey examining border violence and femicide through forensic installations, including a monumental barrier built from rubble of an abandoned home in Ciudad Juárez that challenges traditional memorials.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 24
This immersive installation uses projection, shadow, and archival materials to explore how UFO sightings in Zimbabwe reveal the ongoing anxieties of colonial history and expose alternative Indigenous cosmologies.
Through Jun 27
A luminous facade mural blending Indigenous cosmology and contemporary iconography that transforms the building into an Amazonian night, challenging colonial narratives of erasure while connecting urban life to the forest's vital rhythms.
Through Aug 2
Annual fundraising gala at the iconic Grand Central Oyster Bar celebrating architecture and design innovation with NYC's creative community.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 28
A citywide public artwork that transforms handwritten reflections from shelter residents and staff into street signs installed across NYC, centering voices affected by housing insecurity and reimagining civic infrastructure as a platform for listening.
Through Oct 18
This collection showcases nearly 40 recently acquired works spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and video, with a renewed focus on queer artists and Indigenous voices exploring themes of community, resistance, and alternative ways of being together.
Through Jul 5
The first museum survey of pioneering Nuyorican photographer Sophie Rivera features experimental self-portraits, subway graffiti documentation, and layered portraits that challenge traditional representation and celebrate Puerto Rican identity in 1970s-90s New York.
Through Aug 2
Arthur Jafa curates 80+ objects from MoMA's collection to challenge hierarchies between minimalism and maximalism, questioning which art forms institutions have historically valued over Black, queer, and feminine expressions.
Through Jul 5
A fully restored capsule from Tokyo's demolished 1972 Metabolist tower shows how modular architecture evolved from techno-futurist housing into studios, DJ booths, and creative spaces beyond the designer's vision.
Through Jul 12
Striking portraits by Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and others capture vibrant youth culture and music scenes across African cities during decolonization, showing photography's power to build Pan-African solidarity.
Through Jul 25
Brooklyn's experimental performance collective opens their rehearsal process to the public with a performance marathon and collaborative work-in-progress showings.
COMING SOON Starting August 2026
The first U.S. Duchamp retrospective in 50 years features 300 works including the readymade that forever altered what counts as art and who gets to decide.
Through Aug 22
Interactive portrait studio co-designed with Souls in Focus collective explores Black identity, community storytelling, and creative empowerment through photography and archival practices.
Through Aug 30
Works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera presented in a theatrical set designed for the Metropolitan Opera, blurring boundaries between visual and performing arts in an interdisciplinary collaboration.
Through Sep 12
Anime-influenced life-size installations merge UPA animation aesthetics with contemporary urban melodrama, depicting millennial social dynamics in playfully skewed architectural spaces.
Through Sep 30
Digital art pioneer visualizes climate data through immersive vertical journeys into Greenland's ice cores and California's geological layers on a 24-foot screen.
Through Oct 4
Joan Snyder layers rosebuds, straw, and thick paint strokes into experimental abstract compositions that explore fundamental human emotions and sacred natural spaces.
Through Fall 2026
Hovsepian assembles fragmented photographed bodies with ceramics, nylon, and wood into three-dimensional sculptures that challenge how we see bodies as politically charged sites.
Through Fall 2026
Rare architectural drawings and newly commissioned photographs reveal how modern design shaped post-colonial identity across seven West African nations during the 1960s liberation movements.
COMING SOON Starting Jul 5
Na Mira creates phantasmagoric projections using radio frequencies, infrared heat, and holography to challenge state propaganda and explore diasporic memory at the edges of perception.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 14
A floor-to-ceiling kaleidoscope of vibrant abstract patterns inspired by music transforms MoMA's lobby into an immersive communal gathering space.
Through Spring 2027
Marianne Wex's 1972 feminist study of gendered body language meets contemporary artists exploring Black, queer, and feminist reclamations of physical and historical space.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 20
NYC high school students co-created this vibrant mural reimagining the city through community care and collective creativity, part of DonChristian Jones's Adobe Creative Residency.
Ongoing
Abney's signature paper cut-out style remixes NYC street culture with MoMA icons like Dalí and Warhol into a boldly vibrant site-specific composition.
Ongoing
An interactive installation where you construct sound sculptures, explore material acoustics, and experiment with wearable art through hands-on digital and physical play.
Ongoing
Jordan Eagles uses blood from HIV-positive gay men splattered on Mets T-shirts to confront queer exclusion and political divisions in American sports culture.
COMING SOON Starting May 9
An immersive installation where printers continuously produce American military propaganda leaflets, revealing how graphic design and language have been weaponized to justify decades of war.
COMING SOON Starting May 9
A visceral sound installation featuring custom-built architectural machines that transform your body into a conduit for sound, blending performance art, spatial design, and sensory intensity.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 21
Twin artists merge AI-generated landscapes with hand-built ceramics to create hybrid creatures that blur the line between digital innovation and traditional craft.
Through Aug 16
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.
Through Oct 12
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
A multidisciplinary artist transforms digitally rendered female nudes into immersive, technicolor landscapes that reclaim the body from art history's male gaze through feminist theory and cutting-edge digital techniques.
COMING SOON Starting May 30
A powerful collection of queer studio jewelry that celebrates LGBTQ+ identities and relationships through wearable art, featuring personal stories from artists and collectors.
Through Dec 31
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
Kelly Akashi transforms personal loss from the Eaton Fire into powerful outdoor installations that reimagine her destroyed home's chimney in luminous glass brick and cut her grandmother's doily into Cor-Ten steel, challenging masculine art-historical narratives.
Through Aug 23
A graffiti-inspired public artwork by emerging NYC artist Taína H. Cruz transforms the Gansevoort Street billboard with bold, optimistic imagery that brings street art sensibility to the High Line.
Through September 2026
An intimate look at 732 Polaroid snapshots from Warhol's personal archive that reveal how he turned everyday life into art through obsessive image-making.
Through Oct 19
A web-based game commissioned for the Whitney Biennial that merges Latin American surrealism with digital art, where you play as an organic drone cultivating cyberflora in a primordial landscape that challenges conventional gaming mechanics.
Through Dec 31
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.
Ongoing
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 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.
Ongoing
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
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
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
A socialist printmaker's intimate portraits of 1920s-30s NYC life across all neighborhoods, where lithography becomes both democratic art form and political statement about class dignity.
Ongoing
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.
Through Sep 6
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.
Through Sep 6
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.
Through Nov 1
Rare travel posters from newly independent Czechoslovakia reveal how designers weaponized stunning graphic work as soft power diplomacy to reshape national identity after the fall of empire.
Through Nov 1
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
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
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 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
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
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
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.
Ongoing
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.
Ongoing
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
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
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