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A film screening featuring artist Alison Nguyen's newly commissioned cinema cut alongside shorts exploring censorship, memory, and decoding from diverse geopolitical perspectives.
LAST CHANCE COMING SOON Starting Feb 20
Artist Mariam Ghani screens a work-in-progress film about her architect great-uncle Raymond Ghosn, examining post-colonial Lebanese architecture, civil war ruptures, and diasporic relationships to home through archival footage and modernist buildings.
LAST CHANCE COMING SOON Starting Feb 24
A participatory workshop reimagining systems of power through creative activism, where artists replicate historic anti-homelessness stencils and collaborate with Art Against Displacement to challenge gentrification and predatory development.
COMING SOON Starting null 2026
A multi-channel video installation exploring Vietnamese diaspora through 16mm film, banned bolero music, and suspended arrows that question how cultural memory and homeland are constructed under censorship and displacement.
Through Mar 28
Indigenous Brazilian artist Denilson Baniwa transforms Storefront's iconic moving facade into a luminous Amazonian night forest with iridescent colors and shifting panels, blending ancestral cosmology with contemporary art to challenge colonial narratives and connect urban life to the Amazon's ecological crisis.
Through Aug 2
Artist-in-residence Alex Strada transforms handwritten reflections from NYC shelter residents and staff into upcycled aluminum street signs installed across all five boroughs, turning bureaucratic infrastructure into powerful public testimony about housing insecurity and the right to shelter.
Through Oct 18
An immersive exploration of 200 years of NYC social dance—from lindy hop to litefeet—celebrating how dance floors become spaces for joy, resistance, and reimagined futures.
LAST CHANCE Until Feb 22
A centennial celebration showcasing Rauschenberg's experimental photography and assemblage work that blurred boundaries between found objects, street imagery, and fine art, revealing his raw documentary eye for NYC's discarded remnants and urban symbols.
Through Apr 19
A 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.
COMING SOON Starting May 1
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
Rare engineering drawings from the Brooklyn Bridge's construction get the scientific analysis treatment, revealing the technical innovation and collaborative process behind one of NYC's most iconic structures.
LAST CHANCE Until Feb 22
Fifth-graders from a local school reimagine medieval creatures through bold printmaking, layering textures and patterns inspired by dragons, griffins, and unicorns from The Cloisters' collection.
LAST CHANCE Until Mar 3
Newly rediscovered watercolors expose how gender shaped artistic careers in the late 19th century, contrasting a talented woman's hidden practice with her famous brother's celebrated portraits.
Through Mar 8
A showcase of over 100 vintage baseball cards from the 1880s to 1950s featuring diverse printing techniques and graphic design styles from an era when sports ephemera doubled as commercial art.
Through Mar 8
Medieval art gets radically recontextualized through queer theory, revealing overlooked narratives of desire, fluid gender identities, and diverse relationships in illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, and sculptures from the 13th–15th centuries.
Through Mar 29
A rare, ornately decorated jousting armor made for a 15-year-old Habsburg ruler showcases exceptional medieval metalworking and the role of tournament armor in shaping political power and public image.
Through Apr 1
Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck's bold modernist evolution from realism to radically simplified abstraction gets its first major U.S. showcase with 60 sparse, powerful works.
Through Apr 5
Over 6,500 works from a pioneering photography collection explore how contemporary artists use cameras as tools for social critique, capturing overlooked spaces from Nairobi sidewalks to Tokyo parks.
Through May 3
French Impressionists like Degas and Pissarro adopted the hand-held fan as an experimental artistic format, exploring gender, consumerism, and Asian appropriation through this unexpected medium.
Through May 12
An Abstract Expressionist pioneer from the Grand Portage Chippewa community reshapes mid-century modernism through industrial landscapes and jazz-infused imagery, challenging the mainstream art establishment from within.
Through May 31
Senegalese Modernist Iba Ndiaye's powerful painting Tabaski III recontextualizes European art history through West African cultural experience, bridging old masters with underrepresented African voices.
Through May 31
A chronologically arranged journey through 1,500 years of Chinese brush arts, featuring rarely-seen fans from the 1940s that served as teaching tools between master calligrapher Li Jian and his prodigy student Wen C. Fong, who later shaped The Met's Asian Art collection.
Through May 31
Jeffrey Gibson transforms The Met's facade with four large-scale animal sculptures that fuse Indigenous worldviews with bold abstraction and color, challenging how we perceive non-human life and our connection to the environment.
Through Jun 9
Turn-of-the-century European ceramics that experimented with decoration and form, breaking from tradition with nature-inspired artistic expression.
Through Jun 14
Over a hundred jade and hardstone carvings from the Qing dynasty reveal sophisticated Chinese gemstone artistry alongside traditional stone-working tools and workshop illustrations that demystify ancient carving techniques.
Through Jun 28
Chinese enamel works demonstrate how artists actively transformed Western techniques into bold new color palettes and styles during two pivotal moments of cultural exchange in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Through Jun 28
The first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of Renaissance master Raphael features over 200 works, including scientific discoveries about his pioneering use of nude female models in Western art history.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 29
Intricate medieval architectural drawings reveal the design thinking behind Gothic cathedrals, offering a rare look at how complex spatial visions were communicated through technical draftsmanship centuries before CAD software.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 16
A pioneering fashion photographer who pushed abstraction to radical extremes in 1950s Harper's Bazaar, using darkroom techniques with bleach and brushes to dissolve garments into atmospheric blur and gestural silhouettes.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 2
Prints and artworks explore contested narratives of American independence, centering Indigenous resistance, African American voices, and the global circulation of revolutionary ideas beyond the standard founding fathers mythology.
Through Aug 6
An expansive exploration of how musical instruments mirror and embody the human form, featuring 4,000 years of artifacts from ancient Egyptian rattles to Prince's iconic guitars alongside paintings by Titian and Degas.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 7
Medieval hybrid creatures from both sides of the Atlantic reveal how ancient cultures used fantastical imagery to express power, identity, and the unknown through stunning gold work, sculptures, and textiles.
COMING SOON Starting May 18
Contemporary installations and sculptures from the 1960s to present dialogue with Byzantine funerary artifacts in an atmospheric underground crypt space, exploring death, memorials, and the afterlife through a transhistorical lens.
Through Jan 10
An innovative pairing of historical garments with artworks across mediums explores how clothing shapes and reflects the body, revealing unexpected conceptual and political connections between fashion and art through time.
COMING SOON Starting May 10
Explore how horses shaped Chinese civilization through ceramics, jade, and metalwork that reveal their roles in warfare, trade, and spiritual life—from Tang dynasty power symbols to divine guardian mounts.
Through Jan 26
This exhibition reimagines how we experience Korean artifacts by revealing their hidden sides, interiors, and overlooked details through innovative display methods that challenge traditional museum presentation.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 16
Beijing conceptual artist Liu Wei transforms The Met's Fifth Avenue facade with four large-scale sculptures that remix urban fragments, historical motifs, and bodily forms to challenge perceptions of reality and cycles of rupture.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 17
Early chromolithographic prints from India that revolutionized mass-produced devotional imagery during the Independence movement, showcasing vibrant graphic design and the intersection of traditional iconography with emerging printing technologies.
Through Jun 27
A comprehensive journey through 12,000 years of Japanese pottery featuring 350 works that showcase innovative techniques like kintsugi gold repair and vessels designed to harmonize with food aesthetics, offering fresh perspectives on how craft and design intersect with daily life.
Through Aug 8
An in-gallery conservation studio lets you watch textile experts restore massive Baroque carpets that were woven by orphans for a king's palace but never used, now stripped of royal symbols and scattered across collections.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 8
A reimagined wing showcasing over 650 artworks from 140 Pacific cultures with innovative digital narratives featuring Indigenous voices, spectacular ritual regalia like turtle shell masks and crocodile reliquaries, and stunning natural-lit gallery design by Kulapat Yantrasast.
Ongoing
Nearly 700 ancestral Indigenous artworks from pre-1600 CE Americas presented with contemporary research, incorporating Indigenous perspectives and featuring the first ancient Andean textile gallery in the US with state-of-the-art rotating displays of intricate 2,000-year-old weavings.
Ongoing
A bold reinstallation of 500 sub-Saharan African works (one-fourth never before shown) spotlighting named artists from medieval times to today, enhanced by digital films on Africa's cultural landmarks created with the World Monuments Fund and featuring diverse voices from historians to musicians.
Ongoing
A focused look at shields as objects of both protection and visual power, exploring how their forms reflected cultural identity and served to intimidate, dazzle, and command attention across battlefields and ceremonial spaces worldwide.
Ongoing
Repatriated Early Bronze Age marble sculptures showcasing minimalist forms and subtle variations that influenced modernist aesthetics over a thousand years.
Ongoing
Historical and contemporary works from 50+ Indigenous groups across seven regions challenge colonial narratives and center Native perspectives on sovereignty, identity, and cultural resilience.
Ongoing
Rare illuminated Hebrew manuscripts reveal cross-cultural collaboration between Jewish scribes and Christian artists in 15th-century Italy.
Ongoing
Street-poster-inspired installation overtakes the Great Hall escalator with enlarged Qing porcelain imagery, inverting the relationship between European architecture and Asian art as ornament.
Ongoing
An immersive Afrofuturist installation reimagines Seneca Village—a displaced Black community from Central Park—through speculative design, contemporary commissions, and historic artifacts that challenge traditional museum storytelling.
Ongoing
A display of ornate wedding garments from China, Japan, and Ottoman Turkey showcasing intricate craftsmanship and evolving cross-cultural aesthetics from the 18th to early 20th century.
Ongoing
Bold Futurist posters reveal how Mussolini's regime weaponized modernist design to blur art and propaganda across Italian culture.
LAST CHANCE Until Feb 22
A pioneering female modernist designer created the first major government poster campaign, establishing a visual language for America's national parks during the Depression.
LAST CHANCE Until Feb 22
Molly Crabapple's whimsical yet haunting illustrations center solidarity and resistance, from anti-Muslim activism to Puerto Rican culture and global justice movements.
Through Apr 12
Bold, hand-printed linocut cinema posters from a German refugee who created over 300 striking designs for London's pioneering art house theater, celebrating cult directors like Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bergman with a deceptively simple visual language.
Through Apr 12
Graphic design as survival technology, exploring how posters became lifelines during NYC's AIDS crisis, mapping grassroots activism from ACT UP to Keith Haring before the state would respond.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 12
Rare posters documenting Black performers and storytellers who fought dehumanizing stereotypes from the 1880s to 1940s, often serving as the only surviving evidence of lost films and innovative theatrical productions centered on authentic Black experiences.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 12
Book-related propaganda from WWI and WWII exploring how nations weaponized reading as a symbol of freedom and soldier morale, mobilizing public donations through striking poster campaigns.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 23
Travel posters as soft power diplomacy from a newly independent nation, showcasing Czechoslovakia's golden age through rare designs that rebranded former imperial territories as symbols of progress and opportunity.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 23
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
Indigenous artists from around the world explore environmental stewardship through storytelling, video, photography, and traditional practices like weaving and carving, presented around a 1939 topographical map of NYC's water system.
LAST CHANCE Until null 2026
A Queens-based collective centers Indigenous and immigrant communities through collaborative weaving, photography, and video, using traditional corn processing as a metaphor for collective healing and transformation.
LAST CHANCE Until null 2026
Backström's visual docu-poetry investigates extractive capitalism and collective trauma in West Virginia through layered photography, embroidery circles, and experimental installations that push the limits of visibility.
Through May 17
Three Terra Foundation Fellows from Queens curate collections of photographs exploring what "American" means through personal narratives, migration stories, and archival images spanning the mid-1800s to 1979.
COMING SOON Starting Feb 28
A powerful public mural honoring Black trans activists like Marsha P. Johnson and contemporary figures, challenging prevailing narratives while centering Black trans voices in social justice and art movements.
Ongoing
Intimate photography documents life in Greenland's Arctic communities navigating climate crisis, colonialism, and globalization by the first Greenlandic artist to represent Denmark at Venice Biennale.
LAST CHANCE Until Feb 23
Artist-run platform LA ESCUELA___ transforms PS1's Homeroom into a collaborative learning space featuring a large chalkboard stage for programming, visual archives of Latin American collective pedagogies, and participatory residencies bridging diasporic communities across Queens with socially engaged practices from the Global South.
LAST CHANCE Until Feb 23
Sculpture and installation from dance, film, and sound practices challenge digital time management through distortion and recursion, reconsidering what "now" means under technocratic systems.
LAST CHANCE Until Mar 2
Five decades of countercultural work by underground queer icon and "Blacktress" Vaginal Davis spanning performance, video, zines, and cross-disciplinary collaborations that challenge norms with uncompromising glamour.
LAST CHANCE Until Mar 2
Powerful video installation capturing the breaths, sighs, and sounds between survivor testimonials of patriarchal violence, challenging notions of voice and silence across global contexts.
Through Mar 16
US debut of a trilogy blending generative AI, videogame engines, and live footage to explore gig economy labor through the stories of female delivery drivers in pandemic-era Korea.
Through Mar 16
A multidisciplinary survey of emerging NYC artists featuring site-specific commissions and performances that explore surveillance culture, economic precarity, and technological shifts through the lens of contemporary urban life.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 16
Towering, colorful concrete block sculptures inspired by Moroccan acrobatic formations transform the courtyard into an interactive installation that excavates hidden histories of architecture, performance, and resistance.
Through Dec 31
Site-specific installations embedded throughout the building since 1976 form a "second skin" including James Turrell's skyspace, charging stations as art, and works that challenge how institutions function.
Ongoing
Community-driven program amplifying local partnerships and grassroots collectives from Queens and NYC working on social justice, prison abolition, immigrant rights, and trans liberation through rotating activations.
Ongoing
James Turrell's iconic Skyspace transforms light and sky into a mesmerizing perceptual experience with a synchronized multicolored lighting program at sunrise and sunset.
Ongoing
Pioneering graffiti artist Lady Pink honors the demolished 5Pointz with a bold mural featuring NYC skylines, the 7 train, and tags from iconic Queens street artists.
Ongoing
A photographer from Queens reimagines Renaissance pietà compositions with Black mothers and sons, addressing police violence while exposing the archival research, maps, and creative process behind the powerful long-term project.
LAST CHANCE Until Feb 28
Explores how photographer Berenice Abbott shaped the posthumous reputation of Atget's enigmatic early-hours Paris documentation, reframing historical photography through a contemporary lens on legacy and influence.
Through May 4
A group show using photocopied images to challenge digital proliferation and celebrate the tactile, democratic power of physical photography in an age of endless scrolling.
Through May 4
Spotlights underrepresented photographers from Côte d'Ivoire through a new international program, featuring spiritually-charged seascapes and architectural explorations of colonial memory and social transformation.
Through May 4
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
Experience Art Clokey's iconic clay animation in gorgeous 4K restorations inside a working movie theater art installation, showcasing how stop-motion techniques from the 1950s still captivate with their handmade, shape-shifting charm.
LAST CHANCE Until Mar 1
Experience this intricate video game-meets-Buddhist cosmology journey either as a projected film or playable interactive game where an androgynous protagonist navigates through cycles of death and rebirth in a stunning blend of anime aesthetics, science fiction, and spiritual philosophy.
Through Mar 22
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
Experimental filmmakers and contemporary artists interrogate medical imaging technologies like X-rays, exposing how tools meant for care can also reinforce systems of control and normative assumptions about bodies.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 14
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
Calder's iconic miniature circus made from wire, fabric, and found objects comes alive as a radical early work of performance art that laid the groundwork for his kinetic sculptures and mobiles.
Through Mar 9
Amy Sherald's monumental public facade portraits reimagine subjects across diverse backgrounds and generations coexisting in a shared moment, challenging linear notions of time and identity.
Through Mar 31
Drawings from the 1960s that reveal how Oldenburg's iconic soft sculptures and colossal monuments originated on paper, transforming everyday objects through bold lines and playful reimagining of urban spaces, stores, and domestic life.
Through Apr 30
The Whitney's ongoing performance series showcases experimental dance, music, and multidisciplinary work by contemporary artists challenging traditional stage conventions in the museum's galleries.
Ongoing
America's longest-running survey exhibition features emerging and established contemporary artists working across all media, spotlighting the most urgent and innovative voices in art today.
Ongoing
A collection showcase questioning the evolving concept of "America" through iconic works from Hopper to Basquiat, featuring Felix Gonzalez-Torres's light installation that reflects on democracy as collective work and bridges the museum with the city beyond.
Ongoing
Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles form a stunning mosaic that centers Lakota abstraction and challenges the whitewashed narratives of American Modernism by honoring Indigenous artistic lineages.
Ongoing
The longest-running survey of American art returns with emerging and established artists charting what's happening right now in contemporary culture.
COMING SOON Starting March 2026
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 design-focused exploration of 150 years of reproductive health through 250+ objects that interrogates how manufactured products, medical devices, and speculative design projects have shaped experiences of fertility, pregnancy, and parenthood.
Through Mar 15
Seventy-five boldly sculptural jewelry pieces in brass, gold, and semi-precious stones by the self-taught designer behind Black Panther's iconic aesthetics, bridging African diaspora histories through Afrofuturist design.
Through Mar 15
A playful, irreverent journey through the witty universe of potter-turned-designer Jonathan Adler, who curates 60+ works from MAD's collection alongside his own iconic ceramics in a glam installation designed by his husband Simon Doonan.
Through Apr 19
Monumental hand-formed fiber sculptures in merino, yak, and silk create a tactile environment exploring material metamorphosis, plus an immersive recreation of the artist's Lower East Side studio where you can participate in drawing exercises.
Through Oct 11
Monumental porcelain wall murals reframe urban plant life through a lens of material innovation, combining French decorative arts influences with hand-modeled botanical forms that celebrate resilience and transformation.
COMING SOON Starting Feb 28
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
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
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya's participatory textile installation reimagines Southeast Asian wrapping traditions as collaborative care rituals using reclaimed textiles to explore immigrant knowledge, inherited trauma, and collective repair.
Through Mar 15
A Cuban-Chinese artist's radical reimagining of modernism through Afro-Caribbean culture and formal experimentation, explicitly framing his transformative paintings as acts of decolonization that challenge colonial structures.
Through Apr 11
Cuban artist of African and Chinese descent reimagines modernism through Afro-Caribbean histories in what he called "an act of decolonization," challenging colonial structures through transformative figures and experimental forms.
Through Apr 11
A floor-to-ceiling immersive installation where vibrant abstract patterns painted across MoMA's lobby are directly inspired by music, transforming the space into a communal gathering place that pulses with color and rhythm.
Through Apr 15
An infinite AI-generated poem that rewrites itself every hour using custom language models and a typeface fusing human handwriting with binary code, exploring what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence.
Through Apr 15
Stephen Prina transforms Billboard Hot 100 hits into hourly clock chimes using a carillon, creating a wry monument to pop culture's fleeting nature that questions how we measure taste and time.
Through Apr 15
A Santa Clara Pueblo artist reimagines her heritage through lowrider culture, showcasing a striking lithograph of her customized 1985 El Camino painted in traditional black-on-black pottery glaze style as a statement on identity and empowerment.
Through Apr 15
NYC teens curate their own exhibition exploring visions of the future through art that reflects their communities, identities, and hopes for tomorrow.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 7
A refreshed sculpture garden installation featuring figurative and abstract works from the late 19th century to present, including a returning monumental Dubuffet piece alongside modern sculptures in an outdoor urban sanctuary.
Through May 2026
A revealing look at pre-digital image manipulation showing how Hollywood studios physically altered celebrity photographs through cropping, silhouetting, and collage—exposing the constructed nature of fame before Photoshop and social media.
Through Jun 21
Cinematographer and video artist Arthur Jafa curates nearly 100 works from MoMA's collection to dismantle modernist hierarchies and binary thinking, creating powerful juxtapositions that champion Black, queer, and feminine excess over institutional order.
Through Jul 5
This multimedia installation reclaims the censored history of a revolutionary Guatemalan play through drawings, costumes, and performance, using theater as a tool for resistance against state violence during the civil war.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 28
Step inside a fully restored capsule from Tokyo's iconic 1972 Metabolist tower to explore how this modular architectural experiment evolved from businessman crash-pad to creative community hub before its controversial 2022 demolition.
Through Jul 12
Mid-century portraits from African photographers like Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé explore Pan-African identity and decolonial resistance, connecting African independence movements to contemporary works that reimagine political imagination through stunning portraiture.
Through Jul 25
The first U.S. Duchamp retrospective in 50 years traces how the inventor of the readymade fundamentally questioned what art can be, from scandalous urinals to portable museums, establishing the conceptual foundations of contemporary practice.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 12
An artist-run Brooklyn performance collective transforms the Kravis Studio into a working rehearsal space and live stage, blurring boundaries between process and presentation with experimental movement-based work and a performance marathon.
COMING SOON Starting Aug 8
A theatrical collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera featuring works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, displayed within elaborate stage sets designed by the opera's set designer that weave visual references from the artists' lives into an immersive installation.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 29
Ceccaldi channels underground comix, 90s anime, and mid-century animation aesthetics into life-size geometric scenes of flirtatious thirty-somethings navigating NYC's social drama.
Through Sep 30
A digital art pioneer uses immersive data visualization to make climate change visible by translating 110,000 years of Greenland ice cores and California geological sediment into stunning vertical time-lapse portraits.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 7
Korean shamanism meets structural filmmaking in phantasmagoric installations using radio frequencies, infrared heat, and holography to rupture state propaganda and explore diasporic consciousness at the edges of perception.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 14
Marianne Wex's 1970s photographic study of gendered body language meets contemporary artists like Nona Faustine and Wendy Red Star who reclaim physical and narrative space through Black, queer, and feminist lenses.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 20
NYC high school students reimagine Gotham through a collaborative mural featuring their own characters and stories, created with DonChristian Jones during his Adobe Creative Residency focused on community care and belonging.
Ongoing
Abney remixes iconic NYC references and modernist artworks through her signature paper cut-out technique, creating a vibrant site-specific composition that filters Dalí, Warhol, and Duchamp through contemporary street energy.
Ongoing
An interactive hands-on space where visitors construct sound sculptures, create wearable art, and experiment with color and sound through digital displays that explore materiality and sensory experience.
Ongoing
A collaborative showcase by twelve teen artists exploring Bronx culture across generations through new media and community storytelling, paired with a zine reflecting on 100 years of local music, art, and politics.
Through null 2026
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