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A luminous mural on Storefront's moving facade depicting an Amazonian night forest with iridescent colors, blending Indigenous cosmologies to challenge colonial narratives and connect urban life with ecological consciousness.
Through Aug 2
A performance-installation examining mass deportations from British-ruled Malaya through film, photography, archival intervention, and a ritual effigy boat that confronts colonial erasure and intergenerational silence.
COMING SOON Starting Aug 8
An annual fundraising gala at the iconic Grand Central Oyster Bar celebrating architecture and design, bringing together creative professionals to support experimental architectural programming.
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
This exhibition reimagines 19th-century American folk art through a contemporary lens, showing how these functional yet visually striking objects influenced modernist thinking about cultural production and artistic tradition.
LAST CHANCE Until Aug 9
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
An artist-run performance collective from Brooklyn takes over MoMA's Kravis Studio for experimental movement-based works that blur rehearsal and presentation.
Through August 2026
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
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 15
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
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 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
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
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 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.
LAST CHANCE Until Aug 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.
LAST CHANCE Until Aug 9
Ash Fure transforms gym equipment into interactive sonic sculptures that you activate through touch and movement, creating an immersive bodily listening experience with spatialized audio and dynamic lighting.
LAST CHANCE Until Aug 9
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 12
Immersive 8K video of shapeshifting octopuses meets spatial audio tentacles and blown-glass sculptures in this neuroscience-meets-art meditation on non-human intelligence.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 12
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 12
Twin artists merge AI-generated landscapes with hand-built ceramics to create hybrid creatures that blur the line between digital innovation and traditional craft.
LAST CHANCE Until 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
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 12
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 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.
LAST CHANCE Until 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.
LAST CHANCE Until Aug 17
The legendary outdoor music series returns with underground electronic acts spanning dub techno, baile funk, experimental noise, and drill—featuring international DJs and a stage designed by NYC artist Somnath Bhatt.
Through Aug 28
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
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
An interactive installation where visitors move through a Taiwanese house's floor plan, triggering projections that reveal the intimate fragments of a couple confronting secrets as their relationship ends.
Through Sep 7
A VR journey into the subconscious that transforms zoning out into a tangible experience, blending stop-motion animation with Taoist and Jungian concepts to explore how we drift and return to awareness.
Through Sep 7
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 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
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
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
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.
COMING SOON Starting Aug 22
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 5
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 wheat-pasted mural installation transforms a rescued archive of Colombian movie lobby cards into an experimental meditation on cinema, fire, and the afterlife of analog images through risograph printing and projection.
Through Sep 1
An emerging photographer documents the indigenous Huöttöja people resisting extractive mining industries in the Amazon, centering their spirituality and challenging the exploitative documentary tradition.
Through Sep 13
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.
Through 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.
Through Sep 28
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
Workshop participants ages 55+ use collage, screen printing, and cyanotype to transform personal photographs and memories into artworks that challenge institutional definitions of what's worth archiving.
Through Sep 6
A speculative world-building project exploring hybrid futures where humans and nature merge, functioning as both exhibition and experimental laboratory for a future lobby installation.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 9
NYC high schoolers curate from the museum's collection exploring resistance, material experimentation, and defying convention—fresh perspectives challenging traditional institutional voice.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 9
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 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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 14
A dynamic celebration of the museum's 200th anniversary featuring Brooklyn-made works from KAWS, Duke Riley, and Tourmaline alongside contemporary pieces by Derrick Adams and Julie Mehretu that reveal how the collection reflects our changing world.
Through Sep 6
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
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
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 11
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
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 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
Giacometti's elongated bronze figures inhabit the Temple of Dendur platform in a site-specific installation that activates dialogue between 20th-century modernist sculpture and ancient Egyptian forms that inspired the artist.
Through Sep 8
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.
Through 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.
Through 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
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
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 17
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
A comprehensive look at Galliano's transformative fashion design process that directly confronts his past antisemitic and racist conduct while exploring how creative achievement intersects with ethical accountability.
COMING SOON Starting May 9
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.
COMING SOON Starting Aug 10
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 8
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
A collaborative exhibition anchored by Papo Colo's 1982 outdoor book-sculpture project featuring interdisciplinary works by artists and poets exploring the book as subversive form and social action.
COMING SOON Starting Aug 6
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 10
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
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
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.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 18
A permanent collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks including Picasso, Degas, and Van Gogh from art dealer Justin Thannhauser's holdings.
Ongoing
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 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