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A wheat-pasted mural installation showcasing rescued Colombian cinema lobby cards from the 1960s-80s, blending original silver gelatin prints with risograph-printed fire scenes and video projections to explore the material afterlife of images.
LAST CHANCE Until Sep 27
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.
LAST CHANCE Until Sep 28
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.
LAST CHANCE Until Sep 28
An emerging photographer documents the indigenous Huöttöja people of the Amazon through a community-centered lens, exploring how they navigate cultural preservation against extractive industries while challenging exploitative documentary traditions.
Through Oct 11
An intergenerational showcase of over 25 Japanese women photographers spanning seven decades, challenging traditional narratives and centering underrepresented voices through innovative approaches that blur the boundaries between photography, installation, and printed matter.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 15
A powerful multimedia investigation combining photography, video, sound, and archival materials to expose how institutions perpetuate rape culture and protect offenders rather than victims.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 15
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
A cross-disciplinary exploration of how instruments mirror and extend the human body, spanning 4,000 years from ancient Egyptian rattles to Prince's guitars and instrument-inspired fashion design.
LAST CHANCE Until Sep 27
A rotating showcase of up to 100 prints and drawings exploring autonomy through WPA graphics, Lichtenstein's Cathedral series, and American Revolution visual culture, with bold experimental work by Degas, Cassatt, and Joseph Vogel.
LAST CHANCE Until Sep 29
This annual showcase features 125 works by NYC public school students from prekindergarten through grade 12, highlighting diverse voices and creative processes across photography, collage, painting, and sculpture from all five boroughs.
Through Oct 26
This exhibition explores how artists in Nanjing processed trauma and nostalgia after the violent fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644, working among layers of historical memory and creating art shaped by loss and cultural transformation.
Through Jan 3
A wordless narrative of 63 drawings created by Holocaust survivor and Ritchie Boy Si Lewen that transforms military pageantry into a haunting meditation on war's persistent cycles of violence.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 1
Contemporary installations and sculptures from the 1960s to today confront death and the afterlife alongside Byzantine funerary objects in an atmospheric crypt setting.
Through Jan 10
Garments from prehistory to Maison Margiela are paired with sculptures and artworks to explore the dressed body through formal, conceptual, and political lenses—from the playful to the profound.
Through Jan 10
European paintings from 1525-1775 reexamined through an ecological lens, exploring how artists depicted humanity's shift from embeddedness in nature to dominance over it—timely for conversations about climate and our relationship with natural systems.
Through Jan 17
Ancient Chinese ceramics, jade, and metalwork explore the horse's symbolic power across dynasties, from Tang military strength to spiritual guardians.
Through Jan 26
This overdue reevaluation pairs Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock as equals, exploring how their distinct backgrounds and artistic approaches converged to reshape mid-century abstraction and question what art could be after WWII.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 4
Nearly 120 luminous watercolor design drawings reveal the collaborative process behind Tiffany's iconic lamps and stained glass, spotlighting the often-overlooked immigrant and women artists who transformed initial sketches into legendary works of the Gilded Age.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 22
Canadian artist David Hartt transforms a 19th-century panorama into an immersive LED installation that redirects viewers from center to margins, using French New Wave cinema language and an original score to challenge established perspectives on cultural memory and urban spaces.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 25
This exhibition critically examines how 19th-century European artists imagined and depicted the Middle East through a colonial lens, featuring paintings, photography, textiles, and Islamic design objects that reveal the complex power dynamics between cultural exchange and imperial exploitation.
Through Feb 28
This exhibition traces how artists and photographers competed to capture the sky, from early painted composites to Stieglitz's groundbreaking cloud studies that merged scientific observation with poetic abstraction.
Through Feb 28
Over 180 ancient Mediterranean objects trace how Greek artists adapted techniques and imagery from diverse cultures they encountered through trade networks, challenging singular narratives of Western art.
COMING SOON Starting Dec 20
Historic baseball cards from the 1880s onward showcase vintage lithographic design and American ephemera culture from one collector's massive 300,000-piece archive.
Through Spring 2027
Eleanor Roosevelt's women-led furniture collective gets celebrated for merging craft, design, and social reform through immigrant and rural artisans who reimagined American furniture traditions.
Through May 9
This exhibition flips the script on traditional museum display by revealing hidden interiors, reverses, and concealed details of Korean objects—offering fresh perspectives on construction, function, and craftsmanship rarely seen by viewers.
Through May 31
Beijing-based conceptual artist Liu Wei transforms The Met's facade with monumental sculptures mixing urban fragments, historical references, and bodily forms to challenge perceptions and disrupt traditional museum experiences.
Through Jun 8
Mass-produced chromolithographic prints from India's pioneering presses reveal how new print technology democratized religious imagery during the Independence movement.
Through Jun 27
Over 350 Japanese ceramics spanning 12,000 years reveal kintsugi repair techniques, food-inspired vessel design, and contemporary sculptural forms in dialogue with textiles and prints.
Through Aug 8
Renaissance glazed terracotta sculptures pulled from storage and revived through conservation meet cutting-edge 3D scanning technology in an animated virtual reconstruction of a 10-foot altarpiece unseen for 70 years.
Through Jan 17
While primarily historical, this exhibition offers a behind-the-scenes look at 17th-century production realities—orphan labor and massive workshops—alongside live textile conservation work you can watch in the galleries.
Through Mar 5
A powerful collection spanning 50+ Indigenous nations that centers Native sovereignty and creativity through beadwork, textiles, and ceramics—challenging colonial narratives with contemporary and historical works in conversation.
Through Dec 31
Two rare Hebrew illuminated manuscripts reveal cross-cultural collaboration between Jewish scribes and Christian artists in 15th-century Italy, showcasing exquisite design and cultural exchange.
Through Dec 31
A site-specific escalator installation that blows up Qing-dynasty porcelain patterns to monumental scale with street-poster aesthetics, interrogating how Asian art has been framed within Western museum architecture.
Through Dec 31
An Afrofuturist reimagining of Seneca Village—a thriving Black community destroyed for Central Park—featuring immersive video, commissioned works, and speculative design that centers Black imagination and self-determination.
Through Dec 31
Eighty works from 1900 to the 1960s redefine portraiture through avant-garde experimentation by Neel, Picasso, Matisse, and Catlett, questioning how we document identity and lived experience beyond traditional representation.
Through Dec 31
Explores the visual language of wedding fashion across China, Japan, and Ottoman Turkey through intricate textiles and accessories that balance tradition with modernization.
Ongoing
A reimagined wing featuring over 650 works from 140 Pacific cultures with digital storytelling by Indigenous voices, monumental sculptures, and navigation artifacts exploring ancestral connections.
Ongoing
Nearly 700 Indigenous artworks from pre-1600 Americas presented through contemporary research and collaboration with Latin American scholars, featuring a first-in-US ancient Andean textiles gallery.
Ongoing
A renovated wing showcasing 500 sub-Saharan African works from the Middle Ages to today with digital films on cultural landmarks, highlighting 40 recognized artists and centering Indigenous authorship.
Ongoing
Examines shields as objects of visual power and design across cultures, exploring how their forms and decoration served both battlefield utility and social display.
Ongoing
A century-spanning reinstallation reimagining American art beyond traditional narratives, foregrounding hemispheric connections and diverse maker voices across 75+ galleries.
Ongoing
A focused look at the sculptural and sensual dimensions of mid-18th-century furniture design, emphasizing materials and ergonomics over historical context.
Ongoing
Repatriated Early Bronze Age marble sculptures showcasing minimalist Cycladic forms that influenced modern art, displayed through an innovative international partnership.
Ongoing
A radically recontextualized presentation of 700+ European masterworks that centers women artists and examines colonial relationships, class, gender, and race.
Ongoing
Decorative arts and design objects reframed through the lens of imperial power, colonial exploitation, and religious upheaval in early modern northern Europe.
Ongoing
A reimagined space showcasing four centuries of British design and decorative arts through bold, immersive displays including a towering wall of 100 teapots and meticulously restored historic interiors.
Ongoing
Three Imperial Easter Eggs and Fabergé's floral masterpiece demonstrate the extraordinary technical virtuosity and luxury design of Russia's most celebrated jewelry house.
Ongoing
A cross-medium exploration challenging fine art versus decorative art distinctions through masterfully crafted Chinese objects embedded with visual puns, symbolism, and cultural narratives spanning a millennium.
Ongoing
Ancient ceremonial weapons meet 20th-century innovative jade carvings in a display tracing American collectors' evolving fascination with China's most revered gemstone art.
Ongoing
An annual fundraising gala at the iconic Grand Central Oyster Bar celebrating architecture and design, bringing together creative professionals to support experimental architectural programming.
LAST CHANCE COMING SOON Starting Sep 28
A citywide public artwork transforming handwritten reflections from shelter residents into upcycled street signs across NYC, centering voices of housing insecurity while reimagining civic infrastructure as platforms for listening.
Through Oct 18
Artist Petrit Halilaj and the Hajde! Foundation reimagine a war-damaged cultural center in Kosovo through archival materials, oral histories, and an architectural proposal that bridges memory, community, and social transformation.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 25
Anime-influenced life-size installations merge UPA animation aesthetics with contemporary urban melodrama, depicting millennial social dynamics in playfully skewed architectural spaces.
LAST CHANCE Until 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
A choreographer transforms MoMA's atrium into a daily workspace where she performs alongside dancers, blurring the line between art-making and exhibition while integrating video, painting, and sound into contemporary dance.
Through Oct 11
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
Young artists respond to contemporary themes like Constructing Reality Through Images and Shelter through experimental mark-making and collaborative installations that challenge traditional museum spaces.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 19
An interactive installation inviting visitors to collaboratively map relationships between people, wildlife, and urban infrastructure through the lens of ecological interdependence and community care.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 19
This outdoor installation uses machine learning and fMRI scans to visualize the strange space where human imagination meets AI interpretation, creating hallucinatory images that shift in real-time based on visitor gazes and cancer cell mutation data.
Through Nov 29
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.
Through Jan 2
Surrealists turned books into subversive art objects with glass-shard bindings and sculptural covers, merging poetry with experimental photography to create enchanted portals that challenge conventional reading experiences.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 4
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 rare opportunity to see Brancusi's groundbreaking sculptures alongside his photographs, films, and hand-carved furniture from his legendary Paris studio, exploring how he transformed a working space into an immersive artistic environment.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 25
A mesmerizing digital swamp that reimagines Berlin's lost wetlands using 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and game engine technology, collaborating with musician Arca to transform ecological research into an immersive audiovisual experience.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 12
An interactive bookmaking lab where you can create visual narratives using drop-in workshops, experimental publishing techniques, and a library of artists' books in collaboration with NYC's Center for Book Arts and Dieu Donné.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 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
Yoko Ono transforms peace activism into multidisciplinary art, spreading messages like "WAR IS OVER!" through billboards, clothing, and digital platforms in a participatory installation that challenges traditional museum experiences.
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
A deep dive into how designers transform raw data into visual narratives, revealing invisible systems and power structures through both digital and analog projects that challenge how we understand information in the age of AI and big data.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 27
A South Asian artist transforms narrative painting through multilayered scroll formats that bear witness to displacement and violence in Kashmir, weaving together image, text, and pattern into interconnected visual stories.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 27
This exhibition traces NYC's animation legacy from Felix the Cat to MTV-era indie filmmakers, celebrating hand-drawn techniques and experimental aesthetics that challenged Disney's classical style and shaped pop culture worldwide.
Through Summer 2027
Mondrian's iconic late works meet the syncopated rhythms of Black American boogie woogie music in an immersive audio experience that reveals how migration, cultural exchange, and improvisation transformed his grid-based compositions into dynamic celebrations of New York City.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 21
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, hands-on lab where visitors create creatures and whimsical worlds inspired by MoMA's collection, challenging traditional museum passivity with experimental play.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 19
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.
LAST CHANCE Until 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
A focused collection of visionary watercolors that transform natural observation into deeply psychological, emotionally charged compositions exploring nature's elemental forces.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 22
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 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 visionary self-taught artist's luminous drawings and collages blend dreams, spirituality, and nature into radiant, pattern-dense worlds that challenged Jim Crow-era constraints through imagination.
Ongoing
Rare late-career works from the Pop artist's final year reveal his restless experimentation and response to the digital age through prints, photos, and unrealized project studies.
Ongoing
An immersive installation by a Senegalese American artist deconstructs modernist forms to expose how nuclear power and African resource extraction sustain the U.S. military-industrial complex.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 19
A quarter-century of net art commissions exploring code, data visualization, AI, and gaming environments reveals how artists have reshaped our understanding of privacy, identity, and online life.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 21
A jinn-narrated video work weaves fictionalized storytelling with documentary footage to trace connections between American car culture, oil industry, and Arab immigration in post-9/11 America.
COMING SOON Starting Jan 30
An Iñupiaq and Koyukon artist blends traditional Indigenous materials like marine mammal gut and reindeer fur with innovative acrylic polymer techniques to explore colonialism's marks and cultural continuity.
COMING SOON Starting Feb 6
A pioneering Latinx artist's four-decade retrospective tackles colonialism, resistance, and Puerto Rican identity through mixed-media work that merges autobiography with political urgency.
COMING SOON Starting Fall 2027
A site-specific installation blanketing the museum's plaza with striking black-and-white photographic portraits layered over abstract patterns from the artist's late mother's garments, exploring healing, memory, and the threshold between immigrant identity and homeland.
Through Oct 4
Contemporary artists like Kara Walker and Hank Willis Thomas reimagine Thomas Paine's revolutionary texts through graphic design and socially engaged art that challenges current power structures and celebrates community-driven democracy.
Through Nov 8
A stunning showcase of haute couture that fuses biomimicry, fractal geometry, and cutting-edge 3D printing with traditional craftsmanship, featuring over 140 sculptural garments alongside contemporary art and scientific specimens in an immersive multisensory experience.
Through Dec 6
The first major manga exhibition in the Americas brings over 600 original drawings from iconic series like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and ONE PIECE, exploring how mangaka tackle LGBTQ+ rights, gender roles, and socioeconomic inequality through visual storytelling.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 3
Tracing 900 years of Japanese visual storytelling techniques that shaped modern manga, featuring proto-speech bubbles from the 15th century and works by Hokusai that reveal the graphic design roots of contemporary comics.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 3
A celebratory exhibition marking the Brooklyn Museum's 200th anniversary that showcases contemporary Brooklyn artists like Rashid Johnson and Tourmaline alongside diverse mediums from video to ceramics, challenging traditional museum narratives with fresh perspectives on local creative culture.
Through Feb 7
An immersive sound installation that recontextualizes Representative John Lewis's 1998 impeachment speech, creating a powerful meditation on democracy, division, and collective resilience that resonates in today's political climate.
Through Apr 11
Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa transforms the gallery into an immersive, hypercolorful installation where visitors can touch vivid photographic prints of flowers inspired by manga and anime aesthetics.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 2
The first exhibition to center Hopi women's perspectives on kachina dolls showcases Indigenous artistry from baskets to jewelry, amplifying marginalized voices through video interviews with contemporary Hopi artists about cultural resilience and creativity.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 2
A collection of modern European masterpieces that disrupted academic traditions, presented through the lens of the immigrant collectors who assembled them in Brooklyn.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 2
A powerful sculpture honoring the Tuskegee Airmen featuring a pilot pierced with nails, blending references to Kongolese protective figures and Christian martyrdom to explore Black military service and systemic racism.
Through Jun 6
A newly renovated permanent collection showcasing Asian art across diverse cultures and time periods, with a notable focus on modern Japanese ceramics by contemporary masters and one of America's largest historical collections of Ainu art.
Through Dec 31
A transparent behind-the-scenes look at museum operations featuring 2,000 American art objects displayed in glass-walled bays and rolling racks, offering an unconventional way to experience art through the lens of collection management and storage.
Through Dec 31
An immersive sanctuary featuring over 100 Tibetan Buddhist artworks from the 12th to 21st century arranged as an elaborate household shrine, offering a multisensory refuge with chanted prayers and ritual objects.
Through Apr 20
Fourteen centuries of Islamic art from ceramics to contemporary works, exploring the dialogue between religious and secular traditions across Asia, Africa, Europe, and diaspora communities worldwide.
Ongoing
Ancient palace reliefs from 879 BCE featuring supernatural winged beings and divine imagery, now carrying additional weight after ISIS destroyed the original Nimrud site in 2015.
Ongoing
From Gothic Revival to cutting-edge contemporary design, this collection challenges definitions of craft versus design through 150+ objects spanning handmade luxury to Machine Age industrial innovation.
Ongoing
Historic interiors from 17th to mid-20th century that critically examine notions of authenticity and whose stories get told in museum spaces.
Ongoing
Iconic 1970s feminist installation featuring a triangular banquet table with 39 place settings honoring influential women through vulvar-inspired porcelain plates and embroidered runners.
Ongoing
A Renaissance glazed terracotta masterpiece restored by the same Italian family who commissioned it 500 years ago—traditional craft meets contemporary conservation.
Ongoing
An installation dismantling colonial Egyptology by centering Egypt and Nubia as African civilizations, highlighting early Black scholars like W.E.B. Du Bois who challenged racist archaeological narratives.
Ongoing
Relief blocks from Tutankhamun's childhood palace reunited for the tomb's centennial, showcasing the naturalistic imagery of the Amarna Period and debates around his royal lineage.
Ongoing
Step inside a 1949 trailer where every surface—guns, whiskey, magazines—is meticulously rendered in glass beads, creating a noir-inspired examination of toxic masculinity and obsessive labor.
Ongoing
A meticulously restored 21-foot gilded ancient Egyptian papyrus gets its first-ever public debut alongside gold amulets and artifacts, showcasing both cutting-edge conservation techniques and the artistic mastery behind one of the world's finest Books of the Dead.
Ongoing
A radically redesigned 6,400-square-foot wing connects African and Egyptian art for the first time, showcasing over 300 works from antiquity to today in a fluid installation that traces global connections and challenges how American museums present African creativity.
COMING SOON Starting Fall 2027
Free outdoor and lobby installations including works by contemporary artists like Deborah Kass, KAWS, Kehinde Wiley, and Hank Willis Thomas that transform public spaces before you even reach the admissions desk.
Ongoing
A radical reinstallation of over 400 American artworks centered on Black feminist and BIPOC perspectives, featuring immersive themed galleries like bloom-covered walls and a runway with seated portrait audiences that challenge traditional museum displays.
Ongoing
While traditional in subject, this reframed collection emphasizes Egypt as an African civilization with a multicultural society, showcasing over 1,200 objects including a complete gilded Book of the Dead displayed publicly for the first time.
Ongoing
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
Rare prototypes and iconic collaborations reveal how Nike evolved from Oregon startup to global design powerhouse, showcasing sport as a driver of innovation and cultural change.
Through Mar 7
Digitally rendered female nudes coalesce into immersive, technicolor landscapes in this feminist reimagining that challenges art history's patriarchal gaze through technological precision and speculative world-building.
Through Apr 18
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
A rotating showcase of award-winning anime episodes from the past decade, highlighting how the medium evolved from niche to global cultural force through streaming and fan communities.
Through Oct 12
A real-time digital artwork that merges blockchain data from top art collectors with live tracking of whales at sea, creating an autonomous simulation that critiques labor, agency, and the absurdity of professional identity in networked systems.
Through Oct 25
A meta exhibition exploring slasher film aesthetics through screen-used props from Jane Schoenbrun's fictional horror franchise, paired with vintage horror posters that interrogate gender, desire, and queerness in the genre.
Through Nov 8
Restored 1920s Felix the Cat cartoons screening in a working movie theater installation that doubles as an artwork, blending animation history with immersive, playful exhibition design.
Through Nov 12
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
Artist commissions that hack the museum's website and physical spaces, featuring projects that turn the homepage into deceptive browser hijackers, explore spam and sensors, and blur the line between online and offline experiences.
Through Jul 18
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
A historical look at how posters mobilized book donations for soldiers during WWI and WWII, revealing how graphic design transformed reading materials into symbols of freedom and democracy.
Through Nov 1
Rarely-seen Czech travel posters from the 1920s-30s that showcase striking graphic design and typography as tools of soft power and national identity during a transformative era.
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 visual exploration of how Golden Age magicians sold theatrical deception through stunning lithographic posters from the mid-1800s onward.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 12
A dive into Art Chantry's raw, DIY graphic design that defined Seattle's underground music and counterculture scene in the '80s and '90s using collage, Xerox, and eclectic typography.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 12
A groundbreaking showcase of self-taught designer Jacqueline Casey's iconic MIT posters that defined American modernism through bold typography and limited color palettes on tight deadlines.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 22
A collaborative documentary photography project centering immigrant narratives through Oscar B. Castillo's portraits and stories, affirming the essential role of immigrants in driving New York's innovation and creativity.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 29
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.
Through Jan 31
Behind-the-scenes footage and archival materials reveal how the iconic NYC architectural model was restored in the 90s, offering a meta look at preservation and urban representation.
Through Jan 31
Twenty immigrant artists transform grief and memory into altars of resistance, building archives of displacement through art and ritual that honor ancestors and challenge state violence with collective care.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 7
Six emerging Korean artists explore the body through queer, feminist, and post-capitalist lenses using video, installation, and sculpture that challenge identity and perception.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 20
A citywide public art project transforms handwritten reflections from shelter residents into street signs, reimagining civic infrastructure as a platform for amplifying marginalized voices on housing insecurity.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 20
Salvaged architectural steel fragments from Queens ironwork shops are intuitively welded into a new visual lexicon that speaks to diasporic resilience and transformation.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 30
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
A radical reimagining of the book as sculpture and public action, this show explores cross-generational collaborations between artists and poets while examining social and political concerns through experimental forms.
Through Nov 15
A major retrospective exploring queer Chicane artist Teddy Sandoval's boundary-pushing work on gender, sexuality, and identity alongside multigenerational Latine and Latin American artists challenging art world structures.
Through Jan 10
A mechanized conveyor belt brings art to you so you can sit and experience works by NYC disability artists through touch, sound, and sight—challenging how we move through exhibitions.
Through Nov 22
Immersive 8K video of shapeshifting octopuses meets spatial audio tentacles and blown-glass sculptures in this neuroscience-meets-art meditation on non-human intelligence.
Through Nov 22
An interactive installation merging oceanic science with extended reality, featuring hand-gesture-controlled visuals that zoom from phytoplankton to satellite imagery while challenging historical scientific racism through a virtual oracle and immersive sound design.
Through Dec 20
Contemporary artists like Maurizio Cattelan and Alex Da Corte reimagine Pop art's visual language through internet culture and identity politics, alongside Kusama's infinity room and historic works by Warhol and Lichtenstein.
Through Jan 10
Early 20th-century European avant-garde paintings explore spirituality, nature, and abstraction through vivid color and flattened forms by artists like Kandinsky and Goncharova.
Through Jan 10
An immersive, choose-your-own-path installation filling the Guggenheim's entire Rotunda with unseen photographs, video, sculpture, and text that uncovers hidden forces shaping contemporary America.
Through Mar 14
A permanent collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks including Picasso, Degas, and Van Gogh from art dealer Justin Thannhauser's holdings.
Ongoing
A multi-disciplinary exhibition of posters, design, film, photography, and sculpture advocating for nuclear disarmament, featuring contemporary artists like Frieda Toranzo Jaeger and Regina José Galindo who use art as activism to challenge global power structures.
Through Feb 8
An architectural meditation on NYC's transformation through photographs of tenement windows from the 1970s to now—capturing the city's changing streetscapes and the quiet theater of everyday life.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 5
An archival deep dive into PS1's radical early fashion program that challenged commercial display conventions—featuring experimental installations by Willi Smith, Betsey Johnson, and curator Hollywood Di Russo.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 5
A new plaza mural blending Mesoamerican iconography with labor activism and speculative futures, imagining migrant advocacy through syncretic symbols of resistance and indigenous deities.
Through Spring 2027
A mid-career survey of Swedish artist Klara Liden who transforms urban infrastructure—street lamps, junction boxes, cardboard—into powerful installations that expose the decay of city systems and material precarity.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 18
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.
Through 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
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 forensic artist materializes transnational violence and loss through monumental installations including tons of rubble from an abandoned home in Ciudad Juárez—rethinking memorials for femicide victims and disappeared communities.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 24
Artist Saya Woolfalk transforms the museum into a laboratory where her speculative WoodsWoman project reimagines relationships between humans and nature through both her own work and curated selections from the permanent collection.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 9
NYC high school students curate an exhibition exploring how artists use their work as resistance and defiance, selecting pieces from the permanent collection that challenge convention and experiment with materials.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 9
A civic intervention project that transforms NYC DOT signage to amplify voices of people living in homeless shelters, reimagining public infrastructure as a platform for social dialogue.
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.
Ongoing
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
An annual community exhibition where bakers from all five boroughs compete to recreate iconic NYC landmarks entirely in gingerbread, transforming the museum into an edible cityscape.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 6
This immersive exhibition traces 250+ years of NYC activism through tactics like demonstrations, organizing, art/media, and direct action, featuring interactive elements like a poster-making station and digital neighborhood map.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 25
Contemporary photographers capture NYC's nocturnal energy across work, nightlife, and hidden moments when the city transforms after sunset.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 20