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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.
LAST CHANCE Until 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.
Through Jan 2027
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.
Through Jan 2027
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 2027
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 2027
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.
Through April 2027
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.
Through Apr 2027
A collection of modern European masterpieces that disrupted academic traditions, presented through the lens of the immigrant collectors who assembled them in Brooklyn.
Through Apr 2027
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 2027
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 2031
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
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
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.
Ongoing
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.
Ongoing
Twelve monumental 9th-century B.C.E. palace reliefs carved to project royal power and summon supernatural beings, with a contemporary twist: the story of Nimrud's destruction by ISIS in 2015 raises questions about cultural heritage, propaganda, and who gets to protect history.
Ongoing
Joan Snyder layers rosebuds, straw, and thick paint strokes into experimental abstract compositions that explore fundamental human emotions and sacred natural spaces.
LAST CHANCE Until Nov 8
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.
LAST CHANCE Until Nov 15
An interactive installation inviting visitors to collaboratively map relationships between people, wildlife, and urban infrastructure through the lens of ecological interdependence and community care.
LAST CHANCE Until Nov 15
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 Nov 18
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 2027
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.
Through Jan 2027
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.
Through Feb 2027
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.
Through Mar 2027
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.
Through Mar 2027
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
A print portfolio pairing Buckminster Fuller's patent drawings with the real-world objects they became, from geodesic domes to a three-wheeled car, offering a "do more with less" blueprint for design thinkers.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 12
Marianne Wex's 1972 feminist study of gendered body language meets contemporary artists exploring Black, queer, and feminist reclamations of physical and historical space.
Through May 2027
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.
Through Jun 2027
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.
Through Jun 2027
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 2027
A deep dive into Eva Hesse's restless drawings, paintings, and latex-and-fiberglass sculptures, showing how a 1960s experimenter treated materials as unpredictable collaborators, which still shapes process-driven art today.
COMING SOON Starting May 2027
Sofía Sinibaldi turns scanned city debris and tabletop remnants into monumental, painterly collages, using a handheld flatbed scanner and hand-manipulated tissue prints to make a wine stain and orange peel feel like a street-level poem about connection.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 6
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.
Ongoing
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.
LAST CHANCE Until 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.
LAST CHANCE Until Nov 12
Tsai Ming-liang's dreamy short turns a worn, nearly empty cinema into a hushed meditation on childhood memory, ritual, and the communal magic of moviegoing, reimagined as a museum installation.
Through Nov 29
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 2027
A photography exhibition examining movie theaters as architectural spaces and cultural sites through panoramic exteriors, long-exposure auditoriums, drive-in documentation, and projectionist portraits that collectively explore the ritual of gathering to watch films.
Through Mar 2027
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 2027
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
For the 25th anniversary, a small library display of ephemera (MTA service notices, aid-agency flyers, and children's handmade cards to rescue workers) shows what daily life in New York looked like after the attacks.
LAST CHANCE Until Nov 8
Timed to the US 250th anniversary, this show uses protest, speech, symbols, and petitioning, with multi-sensory interactives, to ask who democracy represents and how conflicts over it have redrawn its boundaries.
Through Nov 29
A small, sharp case show that uses a Colonial Revival dress and sewing patterns to question how fashion sold a whitewashed, domesticated version of 1776 during the Bicentennial, while the Sexual Revolution and women's liberation pushed back.
Through Dec 13
Queer Black artist Margaret Vendryes paints James Baldwin wearing a Chokwe Mwana Pwo mask, linking African traditions to Western pop culture and exploring race, power and beauty, in a single-work installation of a new acquisition.
Through Jan 2027
Posters, costumes, and ephemera trace how women actors, designers, and managers built careers in NYC theatre, from 19th-century pioneers to the collaborative networks of the 1960s downtown scene.
Through Jan 2027
More than 135 rare books, manuscripts, broadsheets, and playbills show how Irish writers used myth and formal experimentation to drive political change and imagine alternative histories during times of crisis.
Through Jan 2027
Graffiti and street art that began as defiance and became a global force, with Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Red Grooms, plus New Yorkers' own voices responding to the scenes.
Through Jan 2027
A small installation on the parade's 100th edition. It traces the spectacle from its 1924 start with zoo animals to giant balloons, using artworks, collection pieces and production materials from the parade's longtime executive producer.
Through Jan 2027
A nostalgic holiday display of vintage model trains, toy stations, and miniatures tracing early 20th-century design through WWII, with a family scavenger hunt and train-themed storytimes.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 13
Marking Monroe's 100th birthday, this show uses Lawrence Schiller's set photos and her own marked-up contact sheets to look at how she shaped her image and fought for control over her celebrity brand.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 20
A club-style deep dive into the 1970s birth of punk, disco, and hip hop in a broke, defiant NYC, with Ramones and Talking Heads guitars, the CBGB awning, handwritten lyrics, and the turntables where Grandmaster Flash developed the Quik Mix Theory.
Through Apr 2027
The first Quidor show in over 50 years, featuring offbeat, fable-driven paintings inspired by Washington Irving that treat history as speculation and storytelling, plus fire engine panel paintings.
Through Apr 2027
Drawing on the newly acquired Fred W. McDarrah photo archive, this show treats dance floors, parties, and street scenes of late-20th-century queer life as acts of resistance, community-building, and political power.
Through Jun 2027
Over 50 works by Keith Haring, Saul Steinberg, Thomas Hart Benton and others trace the city's rhythms from graffiti art to Pop and Abstract Expressionism, layered with commentary from everyday New Yorkers.
Through Aug 2027
Textiles, toys and printed ephemera show how women shaped, and contested, the story of the American Revolution at the 1876 Centennial. The show looks at nostalgia, gender and race through the material culture of the time.
Through Aug 2027
Garments, ephemera and photos trace how two famous people, a tennis champion and a pop star, used their friendship and platforms to push for gender parity, LGBTQ+ rights and HIV/AIDS awareness.
Through Sep 2027
Stuart Weitzman's footwear collection, from historic workaday shoes to artist-made "fantasy shoes" from his store windows, reads shoes as sculpture and as a lens on femininity, power, consumption, and celebrity.
Ongoing
A peek into the research process behind The Power Broker, with handwritten interview notes, notebooks, manuscript pages, and Caro's typewriter, offering a look at how one writer investigates power and shaped how we see NYC.
Ongoing
One hundred glowing Tiffany lamps in a dramatically lit space, with interactive Design-a-Lamp stations and a story that credits Clara Driscoll and the uncredited "Tiffany Girls" behind the iconic designs.
Ongoing
A detailed Reagan-era Oval Office re-creation with presidential audio recordings and a gallery on how the presidency has evolved, a kitschy, immersive look at the staging of power.
Ongoing
Audubon's original watercolor models for Birds of America are shown alongside their engraved plates, but the gallery also confronts his history as a slaveholder and his ties to scientific racism, which makes it a good prompt for a conversation about whose legacy we celebrate.
Ongoing
Themed displays pull artifacts from the permanent collection, including a Simone Leigh sculpture, a Haudenosaunee Two Row wampum belt, and 9/11 relics, to give less familiar angles on slavery, war, infrastructure and the pandemic.
Ongoing
A rare hand-carved prancing horse, likely from Charles Looff's Brooklyn workshop, shows off the flamboyant craftsmanship behind the birth of the Coney Island carousel.
Ongoing
A theatrically designed installation brings Frederick Douglass's call for a plural, equal democracy to life, using artifacts and period media to connect his vision of citizenship to today's fights over who belongs.
Ongoing
Nine oversized touchscreens layer video, audio, music, and archival imagery to surface the hidden connections between famous and overlooked women, from Audre Lorde to Misty Copeland, who shaped New York and the nation.
Ongoing
Life-size bronze figures of Lincoln and Douglass, made by Brooklyn's StudioEIS, flank the museum entrances and prompt reflection on the complicated, shared fight for freedom in American history.
Ongoing
Jamaican-born New York artist Nari Ward spells out the Constitution's opening words in a monumental piece made of shoelaces donated by the public, asking who gets counted as "the people."
Ongoing
A collection of New York silver, from Dutch colonial teapots to Tiffany & Co. pieces, tracing the city's shifting identity through decorative objects. It's a more traditional, historical show.
Ongoing
The only surviving piece of Keith Haring's black-and-white SoHo Pop Shop mural, this all-over graphic ceiling embodies his idea of making art accessible to everyone through affordable merch and public-facing design.
Ongoing
Two short theatrical media films blend projection mapping, immersive surround sound, and a screen that stretches from 25' to 73' wide, spotlighting the women (Lillian Wald, Clara Lemlich, Addie Hunton and others) who fought for suffrage and social justice, alongside a sweeping portrait of NYC's rise.
Ongoing
A single brick from the Stonewall Inn's original facade serves as a small but powerful relic of the 1969 uprising that sparked the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement, previewing the American LGBTQ+ Museum's arrival in the building.
Ongoing
Richard Haas' trompe l'oeil mural panels, originally made to give corporate basement diners a fake skyline view of Manhattan, play with illusion and the built environment, and feature the pre-9/11 World Trade Center skyline.
Ongoing
Picasso's monumental 1919 painted ballet curtain, which hung in the Four Seasons restaurant for 55 years, is a piece of avant-garde stage design and NYC lore now on permanent view.
Ongoing
Life-size sculptures freeze the Hamilton–Burr duel at its tensest moment, letting you stand in the middle of one of America's most dramatic political showdowns, a fitting pick for Hamilton fans.
Ongoing
A corridor showcase of recent acquisitions featuring living portraitists like Oscar yi Hou, Tim Okamura (a COVID-era Rosie the Riveter remix), Del Curfman and Anthony Cudahy, offering a snapshot of contemporary identity and community.
Ongoing
Weathervanes, chalkware figures, toys and food prints from a modernist sculptor's 15,000-object folk art trove, which makes a nice study in how early modernists looked at vernacular design and objects.
Ongoing
A behind-the-scenes look at the institution's own Upper West Side story through archival minutes, photographs and architectural drawings, timed to the opening of the Tang Wing for American Democracy.
Ongoing
The story of Hercules Posey, the dandyish head chef enslaved by the Washingtons who self-emancipated in 1797, told through food, spices and everyday life. It's an underrepresented Black history narrative that connects to the origins of American cuisine.
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.
LAST CHANCE Until 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 2027
This show recovers the work of about 30 Jewish women designers and artists who helped define early 20th-century modernist design. More than 200 objects across ceramics, textiles, posters and more put the spotlight on figures long overlooked in design history, including Vally Wieselthier and Felice Rix-Ueno.
LAST CHANCE Until Nov 15
These small, hand-carved wooden sculptures from the 1970s look like ladders and windows. They are studies for Halahmy's monumental works and draw on his memories of displacement from Baghdad and the Mesopotamian cultures that shaped his art.
Through Jan 2027
More than 160 medieval and early modern Jewish and Christian sacred objects sit side by side to show how shared architecture and craft shaped both traditions. They include buried hoards from periods of persecution, an Edmund de Waal ceramic installation, and new contemporary responses from Hannah Altman and Afruz Amighi.
Through Feb 2027
Hannah Altman's photographs turn everyday objects and scenes into charged images of ritual, folklore and inheritance. They include new commissions and hang alongside medieval treasures from St. Vitus Cathedral, giving a contemporary response to the objects around them.
Through Feb 2027
Steel-framed sculptures and glowing alabaster eyes, teeth, and claws form a mythic, heartbeat-pulsing environment that treats destruction and fragmentation as sources of transformation.
Through Feb 2027
A traveling show at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, featuring 130+ Jewish ceremonial objects from around the world that survived against the odds; it's more traditional and historical, though it's built with community collaboration.
Through Feb 2027
A multi-channel video work from the Venice Biennale uses animated Iron Age fertility figurines as avatars to confront reproductive rights, medicalization, and state control over bodies, in its U.S. premiere.
COMING SOON Starting Dec 18
A single monumental triptych on Hiroshima, in which Ardon turns trauma, witness, and anti-nuclear advocacy into glowing geometric and cosmic abstraction, with his own handprints left on the canvas.
Through Aug 2027
The first major U.S. museum show for the Polish Romani artist presents monumental textile collages sewn from recycled community clothing, building a joyful, dignified visual identity for Romani people that counters stereotypes and erasure.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 2027
The reimagined collection galleries use migration, assimilation and endurance to frame 200+ works, from ancient artifacts to pieces by Nicole Eisenman, Eva Hesse and Mark Rothko. The fourth floor adds a wall of 130+ Hanukkah lamps, hands-on studios and a new mural by Talia Levitt.
Ongoing
A rolling series of installations by 30+ queer and trans fellowship alumni spanning digital and media art, film, performance, and painting, exploring softness, vulnerability, and experimentation as forms of safety and liberation.
LAST CHANCE Until Nov 15
Net-art pioneer Shu Lea Cheang's four-channel film, made with trans and gender-nonconforming performers in Tucson, lets you shove movable screens through projector beams to trigger a soundtrack and remix the work in real time, a transhuman tale of survival and intimacy.
Through Jan 2027
Painter Hortensia Mi Kafchin takes over the museum facade with a three-channel synchronized video where eyes morph from human to cyborg to cells to planets, a techno-surreal meditation on machine-augmented vision and the third eye.
Through Jan 2027
Jason Wee's new commissioned sculptural installation and performance riffs on the props in Eikoh Hosoe's iconic Mishima photos, using rope patterns encoded from a lecture script and headphone audio, while tracing the photobook's three landmark graphic designs by Sugiura, Yokoo, and Awazu.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 6
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
Sound-driven installations link the Bronx, New Orleans, and the Sonoran Desert, from an orchestra of FM radios channeling Toscanini's conducting hands to cut-up early hip-hop lyrics and a porch-to-porch neighborhood score responding to climate change.
Through Nov 29
A queer, surrealist installation staged as the aftermath of an invented yoga cult, where a woman becomes an ouroboros, and banners, ceramics, and flea-market relics poke at the limits of modern wellness culture.
Through Nov 29
Three artists treat the musical score as a visual language, turning birdsong, Virginia Woolf's prepositions, and a ruined conservatory's window grid into drawings, textiles, and ice-cast language sculptures that question what's legible and who gets to listen.
Through Jan 2027
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 2027
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 2027
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.
Through Feb 2027
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 2027
Hand-knotted hammocks that deliberately can't hold weight anchor this show about rest as resistance. Weaving, sculpture, prints and a zine take on colonial and capitalist ideas of labor, extraction and productivity, with the labor strike's power of withholding as a guide.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 2027
Interactive archways with motion sensors trigger and warp sound in this installation. It reimagines doorways as porous thresholds, drawing on research into the Door of No Return and on how colonial borders get drawn. Carbon paper constellation works accompany it.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 2027
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 2027
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 2027
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
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.
Through Dec 13
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 2027
Aziz Hazara tracks down the junk left behind at Bagram Airfield, including uniforms, electronics and gym gear, then ships it back to where the US military's supply chain started. It's a sharp look at war's leftovers, logistics and surveillance.
Through Dec 28
Yining Fei, a Parsons Design and Technology alum, imagines the inner life of the milu deer. She makes glazed ceramic viscera that echo aerial views of industrial landscapes, and she uses the animal to ask what freedom means after centuries of captivity.
Through Dec 28
Architect, sound engineer and musician Cevdet Erek turns space into a score. He remixes five site-specific sound installations into one new environment, including a piece that samples 1980s NYC thrash metal and the 1984 Sound/Art show that helped define sound art as a genre.
Through Dec 28
Jianxin Tian hammers mythic, sensual reliefs into mass-produced metal kitchenware and industrial parts. The result gives everyday design objects a strange, enchanted feel that breaks from assembly-line looks.
COMING SOON Starting Jan 2027
Thomas Tait builds a DIY marionette pulley system around a central armature, using puppetry, set design and kinetic engineering to ask whether a "ghost" can emerge from a machine.
COMING SOON Starting March 2027
Sosunova builds a moody, Eastern European-futurist environment out of Lithuanian DIY hardware-store culture, tying the myth of self-sufficiency to precarious economies and the defense industry's squeeze on building supplies.
COMING SOON Starting May 2027
Moniz explores the politics of not being seen, using sculpture, video, installation, and text made with collaborators in war zones, precarious labor, and activism who can't or won't be identified, and she asks hard questions about trust, safety, and solidarity.
COMING SOON Starting July 2027
Popov turns discarded materials and the leftover traces of everyday objects into an elegiac yet speculative installation about what remains once value has been extracted, and about the possibility of renewal.
COMING SOON Starting September 2027
Wilson repurposes salvaged NYC taxi-top LED ads with custom mapping software and CG animation, giving the ad-targeting machines an emotional inner life, like a cartoon MRI of a device processing and transmitting.
COMING SOON Starting November 2027
Abstract acrylic paintings by older adult artists blur boundaries between representation and abstraction, exploring themes of body, kinship, and emotion through bold contemporary visual language.
Through Dec 30
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.
Through Winter 2027
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.
Through Winter 2027
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
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.
Through Dec 31
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 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.
Through Jan 2027
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.
Through Jan 2027
A focused collection of visionary watercolors that transform natural observation into deeply psychological, emotionally charged compositions exploring nature's elemental forces.
Through Jan 2027
A comprehensive look at the pop art icon who transformed comic book aesthetics into high art through Ben-Day dots and bold graphic composition.
Through May 2027
A massive vinyl billboard that reimagines a Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art hot dog with a messy, theatrical ketchup gesture—blending art history critique with playful street-level engagement on the High Line.
Through May 2027
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.
Through Jun 2027
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
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
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 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
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 2027
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 2027
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 browser-based game and electronic manuscript that turns a twelve-year World of Warcraft obsession into a narrative you play through. You talk to AI-driven characters whose memories evolve, and you move between Earth, Azeroth and Middle-earth behind a retro desktop interface.
Ongoing
A browser-based artport commission from artist-technologist Jazsalyn that extends her Warpmode card kit into an anonymous, participatory experience. It imagines an alternative AI built on "Ancestral Intelligence" and explores Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse.
Ongoing
Seventy standout Asian bronzes, ceramics, and metalworks from the Rockefeller collection mark Asia Society's 70th anniversary, and the show treats collecting as cultural diplomacy. It's a traditional, object-focused show, but it gives you plenty to talk about over dinner: who gets to collect, who gets to display, and what soft power looks like.
Through Jan 2027
A small, focused look at Blanchette Rockefeller's role in building Asia Society's collection, including her own bequests of bronzes, Nepalese gilt copper, and Japanese porcelain. It's a fairly historical show, and its main appeal is the story of a patron who shaped a museum.
Through Jan 2027
This display shows new family gifts to the museum, including Chola bronzes, gilt Chinese Buddhist statues, Thai works, and a Rajput painting. They return to the institution that grew out of the Rockefellers' collecting. It's a quiet, traditional show about how collections grow and what provenance means.
Through Jan 2027
Seven video works by Song Dong, Chen Shaoxiong, Tromarama, and Chen Chieh-jen use stop-motion animation of woodcuts, ink, and embroidery, along with other methods. They look at gentrification, consumerism, industrial collapse, and environmental change in Asian cities. This is the show on the list to see if you want contemporary moving image work with real political and urbanist ideas.
Through Jan 2027
A look at how silent-era Hollywood invented the movie costume designer and turned clothing into visual storytelling, with rare surviving garments, film clips, posters and design sketches that trace the roots of screen glamour and today's celebrity style culture.
Through Jan 2027
A deep dive into the Arts and Crafts architect and Morris & Co. co-founder who argued that honest materials and craftsmanship could counter industrial excess. It shows furniture, stained glass, textiles and archival drawings, and it's a good fit for anyone interested in design ethics and the social value of making.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 2027
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 2027
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.
Through Jan 2027
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 2027
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 2027
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 2027
Ancient Chinese ceramics, jade, and metalwork explore the horse's symbolic power across dynasties, from Tang military strength to spiritual guardians.
Through Jan 2027
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.
Through Jan 2027
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.
Through Feb 2027
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.
Through Feb 2027
A peek at how Tiffany built a luxury brand a century ago, through illustrated pamphlets, catalogs and photo-driven print marketing that read like early brand-identity design.
Through Feb 2027
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 2027
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 2027
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
Postwar Japanese photographers and photobook makers, including Tōmatsu Shōmei, Ishikawa Mao and Ishiuchi Miyako, confront the legacy of US military occupation, with women's experiences and contemporary Okinawan artist Yamashiro Chikako carrying the story into the present.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 12
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 2027
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 2027
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 2027
Mass-produced chromolithographic prints from India's pioneering presses reveal how new print technology democratized religious imagery during the Independence movement.
Through Jun 2027
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 2027
Conceptual installations by Felix Gonzalez-Torres transform everyday materials into poetic meditations on love and loss, scattered throughout The Met's permanent collection in an innovative display that challenges traditional museum experiences.
COMING SOON Starting Jun 2027
Bold geometric bark-cloth designs made by collectives of Polynesian women double as a visual language of diplomacy and gift-giving, and a contemporary painting by Niuean artist John Puhiatau Pule shows how the grid-like patterns still shape art today.
Through Dec 2027
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 2028
A Met–Louvre collaboration with more than 125 works looks at how Rembrandt reworked ancient Greek and Roman themes in strikingly modern ways. It's a classical-master blockbuster, so expect crowds.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 2027
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 2028
Norwegian-Congolese artist Sandra Mujinga takes over the Met's Great Hall with two sculptural works that blend Afrofuturism, sci-fi, and post-human theory to ask who gets seen, who opts out, and what a body leaves behind.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 2027
Vietnamese-born artist Danh Vo creates four new sculptures for the Met's Beaux-Arts facade, using objects with layered, unresolved histories to link the present with thousands of years of art.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 2027
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 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.
Ongoing
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.
Ongoing
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.
Ongoing
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.
Ongoing
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.
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
The Met's new permanent guitar gallery opens with more than 500 iconic instruments, including Leo Fender's prototype and Les Paul's "Klunker," and treats the guitar as a piece of industrial design and a tool for cultural change.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 2027
The first full-scale US museum survey of Arthur Jafa spans two floors of the newly expanded New Museum, with his kinetic, music-driven video work (Love is the Message, The Message is Death), new premieres, paintings, and sculpture remixing Black life, violence, and pop culture in the age of endless "content."
Through Jan 2027
Ho Tzu Nyen turns the New Museum's OMA-designed elevators into a site-specific machine-learning-driven artwork, where digitally rendered Singaporean children pose riddles and mantras about political and technological power.
Through Jan 2027
Diego Marcon's first NYC solo museum show hijacks horror, slapstick, and cartoon tropes in meticulously staged, unsettling films and animations, including the newly commissioned Krapfen, that blur the line between childhood nostalgia and nightmare.
Through Jan 2027
A look at New York's oldest thoroughfare as a street, neighborhood, and state of mind, tracing its reinvention from Lenape footpath to skid row to artist haven through art and artifacts from Weegee to Keith Haring, right in the museum's own backyard.
Through Jan 2027
The US institutional debut of Tokyo/London filmmaker Umi Ishihara, whose experimental narrative films, shaped by Japan's underground rave scene and made with non-professional actors, center communities of precarity, desire, and belonging outside dominant social structures.
Through Jan 2027
The New Museum's early-career global survey, with 30+ emerging artists from Jota Mombaça to Sin Wai Kin, takes cues from a 1979 Brazilian anti-dictatorship gallery intervention to explore life beyond institutions and reimagine identity, gender, kinship and alternative futures.
COMING SOON Starting Feb 2027
Sarah Lucas's cheeky, body-centered sculpture claims the New Museum's brand-new Bowery plaza as the first pick in a 10-year commission series, celebrating women taking up space in public life, with a jury of Cindy Sherman, Julie Mehretu and other artist heavyweights.
Ongoing
Tschabalala Self's bold, patchwork-style figuration wraps the museum's facade with an embracing couple that plays off the architectural "kiss point" where the SANAA and OMA buildings meet, turning the Bowery into a public love story.
Ongoing
Klára Hosnedlová's first US museum project pairs sandstone, glass and a pelt-like flax textile with intricate embroidery, mixing Eastern Bloc architecture and craft traditions to probe labor, gender and memory along the museum's new stairwell.
Ongoing
The first Noguchi design retrospective in nearly 25 years spans furniture, lighting, stage sets, and playgrounds, making the case for him as an interdisciplinary, multinational creator of a more open world (offsite at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA).
Through Jan 2027
Six Japanese American artists and designers, including graphic designer S. Neil Fujita and sculptor Ruth Asawa, are united to show how their work shaped postwar modern design, and how the experience of wartime incarceration influenced it (on view offsite at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia).
Through Jan 2027
An archival deep dive into Noguchi's rule-breaking 1986 Venice Biennale pavilion, where a giant marble slide and commercial Akari lamps blurred the lines between art, design, and play, and sparked a debate that still resonates.
Through May 2027
Noguchi's never-built sculptural landscape for Park Avenue's iconic glass tower finally gets its moment, with models, drawings, play sculptures, and glowing Akari lights in the lobby and courtyard of a modernist landmark.
Through Aug 2027
Celebrating 75 years of Noguchi's paper-and-bamboo Akari lamps, this show stages them in settings from the Eames House tea ceremony to the Venice Biennale, treating a design classic as living, site-responsive sculpture.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 4
A cross-media group show led by Black and diasporic artists like Zanele Muholi, Lorna Simpson, Glenn Ligon and Kerry James Marshall that treats black, white, and every shade between as a material language, with a contrast-obsessed lens that's catnip for anyone who thinks in values and visual rhythm.
Through Jan 2027
Bradford turns sanded-down, layered local ads with messages like "Stop Evictions" into a 26-letter alphabet of abstracted typography, a sharp piece of type-as-social-commentary about the economic forces shaping a neighborhood.
Through Jan 2027
Emerging artists Derriann Pharr, Simonette Quamina and Taylor Simmons, the first residency cohort in the museum's new building, mix painting, collage, printmaking and sculpture into dreamlike figuration rooted in cultural memory and imagined futures.
Through Jan 2027
Seventeen NYC teen photographers capture the city's blur and hush, from subway streaks to tender close-ups at home, offering a fresh, unfiltered view of young New Yorkers' lives.
Through Jan 2027
Julie Mehretu, Torkwase Dyson, Adam Pendleton and other artists of African descent reclaim geometric abstraction, drawing on city grids, West African textiles and sonic vibrations, and question the supposed neutrality of modernist form.
Through Feb 2027
A look at the collecting practice of a civil rights activist who treated buying art as a political act, with work by Kerry James Marshall, Simone Leigh, Wangechi Mutu, Nick Cave, Tschabalala Self and many other Black artists, several of them early in their careers.
Through Feb 2027
Kiwanga's new site-specific textile piece turns the Underground Railroad "flying geese" quilt code into undulating black, blue and crimson forms. She dyed the fabric with Atlantic seawater, pokeberry and indigo, and the colors are fugitive, so they will shift over time.
Through Apr 2027
Woody De Othello's first NYC institutional solo show brings quirky, spiritually charged ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works, and a large bronze that draw on African diasporic ritual objects and hermetic philosophy.
COMING SOON Starting Feb 2027
The first major survey of overlooked Jamaican-born geometric abstractionist Mavis Pusey explores her paintings and prints shaped by fashion and city life, with a catalogue designed by Miko McGinty Inc. that is a treat for design lovers.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 2027
A visual timeline of nearly 60 years of the Studio Museum, built from archival documents, media and ephemera. It shows how the institution and its Harlem community have changed alongside cultural and political shifts.
Ongoing
A wall-mounted metal installation in the museum's new Education Workshop that turns Harlem figures such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Thelonious Monk and Count Basie into mythic hybrid beings. It's playful, and it asks what inner stories people can tell through making art together.
Ongoing
A hand-woven brass sculpture and sound installation on the museum's terrace staircase. It looks like a cross between a pipe organ and a raft, and uses "social heliotropism" to think about migration and the search for harmony within dissonance. Norment's practice is rooted in sound and she trained in interactive telecommunications.
Ongoing
Long-term works by Glenn Ligon, David Hammons, and Houston E. Conwill turn the museum into a living archive, with a flashing "Me/We" neon text piece, a remixed Pan-African/US flag, and bronze time capsules from Black luminaries that won't be opened until 2034.
Ongoing
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.
Through Jan 2027
A powerful multimedia investigation combining photography, video, sound, and archival materials to expose how institutions perpetuate rape culture and protect offenders rather than victims.
Through Jan 2027
Years of intimate portraits of Chicago public school students, capturing adolescent identity, community, and pressing social issues with tenderness and humor in a free ground-floor show.
Through Jan 2027
Archive of past exhibitions presented at Mana Contemporary showcasing ICP's experimental exhibition program beyond traditional museum spaces.
Ongoing
A rolling showcase of work by students, faculty and alumni of ICP's education programs, including recent graduate shows and an online documentary exhibition, offering a look at emerging photographers and visual storytellers.
Ongoing
Fifty juried botanical works in watercolor, colored pencil, and gouache from artists across nine countries, a quiet and meticulous counterpoint to screen-heavy life, with hyper-detailed observation that designers and illustrators can study up close.
Through Jan 2027
Nearly 200 original works from the year's best children's book illustration, culled from over 800 submissions, offering a close-up look at the range of visual storytelling styles, with David Wiesner and James Marshall receiving lifetime honors.
Through Jan 2027
A playful members' show where illustrators, including Red Nose Studio's handmade, tactile approach, reimagine frogs and reptiles as symbols of transformation and resilience across comics, fantasy, and environmental storytelling.
Through Feb 2027
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 2027
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 2027
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 2027
A permanent collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterworks including Picasso, Degas, and Van Gogh from art dealer Justin Thannhauser's holdings.
Ongoing
A Renaissance deep-dive into the technical wizardry and political stakes behind Siena's bronze casting, with nearly forty rarely-traveled works by Donatello and peers; more historical than cutting-edge, but a fit for anyone into craft and materials innovation.
Through Jan 2027
Cree artist Kent Monkman sends his time-traveling, gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief into a Vermeer-inspired series of new paintings that flip colonial art history into a sharp, funny Indigenous counter-narrative about trade, power, and imagined futures.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 12
The first-ever show on Susanne de Court, likely the only woman to run a Limoges enamel workshop around 1600, spotlighting her jewel-toned, layered-foil techniques and a long-overlooked female maker in a male-dominated craft world.
COMING SOON Starting Apr 2027
Around forty moody, hushed paintings of the same Copenhagen apartment explore space, light, repetition, and seriality, prompting fresh questions about what home means today, shown inside the Frick's own domestic interiors.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 2027
A 2026–27 season show at The Drawing Center whose title points to drawing as a way of capturing volume, light and movement. The page gives few details, so check the museum site before you go.
Through Jan 2027
The first U.S. retrospective of Caldecott-winning illustrator Ed Young shows his pastel, cut-paper, and collage originals, sketchbooks, and family photos, and tells an immigrant creative's story from Shanghai to New York.
Through Jan 2027
Brooklyn artist Hilda Shen kicks off MOCA's new Solo Artist Projects series with ceramic sculptures and prints that look both ancient and futuristic, mixing post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.
Through Jan 2027
A long-running look at Chinese American life that links exclusion laws, "yellowface" pop culture, and a rebuilt Chinatown general store to today's immigration debates, with audio commentary in a free app.
Through Dec 2028
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.
Through Feb 2027
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 2027
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
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 2027
Fred Wilson's black Murano glass chandelier, To Die Upon A Kiss, reclaims the erased presence of Africans in Venetian history and ties it to Othello's tragic closing lines.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 5
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 2028
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
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg uses AI and CGI to digitally resurrect the extinct male northern white rhino as a glitchy, pixelated creature that gradually learns to exist, raising the question of whether we should bring back species we couldn't keep alive.
Through Feb 2027
Over 60 of Frederic Church's 1865 Jamaica sketches, framed by personal grief and British colonial rule over Black Jamaicans. A more historical show, but it offers a critical context to talk about.
Through Feb 2027
A thematic, non-chronological romp through 125 objects, from ancient Egyptian faience to Bungee typeface, a Malcolm X poster and Harlem Toile wallpaper, staged with a silhouette-driven graphic system by Pacific.
Through Oct 2028
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.
Through Feb 2027
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.
Through Feb 2027
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 2027
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 2027
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 2027
Soviet space propaganda posters showcase bold Cold War-era graphic design that turned rockets and cosmonauts into symbols of ideological power.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 2027
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 2027
This designer transforms bent ash wood into sinuous light sculptures and organic furniture with embedded LEDs, where each piece follows nature's curves through an intuitive, slow-building process.
Through Apr 2027
Monumental porcelain wall murals reimagine scrappy urban "pioneer" plants as living, tapestry-like landscapes, turning a delicate material into an immersive, texture-rich experience of resilience and growth.
Through Apr 2027
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 2027
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
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.
Through Mar 2027
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.
Through Apr 2027
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
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.
Ongoing
Contemporary photographers capture NYC's nocturnal energy across work, nightlife, and hidden moments when the city transforms after sunset.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 20
A rooftop roller rink with a soundtrack that honors Brooklyn's Empire Roller Rink, the community institution where roller disco was born, and ties local cultural history to a social, music-driven experience.
Through Apr 2027
A hands-on, kid-focused look at BMX through the physics of speed, balance and friction, plus track design and helmet engineering, which makes it a playful pick if you like design and engineering or have kids in tow.
Ongoing
A recovered WWII fighter engine and wing section anchor a human story about a 21-year-old pilot, and the preservation science that kept the wreckage intact.
Ongoing
An interactive 3D scan of the carrier's decaying operating room and pharmacy, plus sailor-made art and plans for AR/VR, shows how a historic space is being digitally revived.
Ongoing
Set inside the ship's real crew spaces, this show uses artifacts, film clips and veteran oral histories to tell firsthand stories of the Vietnam War.
Ongoing
Artifacts, oral histories and immersive displays explore the design and Cold War tension of an early nuclear-missile submarine. You can then walk through the real sub.
Ongoing
An intense multimedia installation with flashing lights, fog and explosive sound pairs survivor interviews from both the US and Japan to humanize the WWII kamikaze attacks.
Ongoing
A recreated shipboard darkroom pays tribute to the overlooked photographer's mates who documented life aboard the Intrepid. It has vintage cameras, 1948 Navy training films and touch-screen interactives for flipping through archival photos.
Ongoing
Salish artist Jeffrey Veregge fuses Northwest Coast formline with Marvel pop-culture heroes in a site-specific mural-style epic, where Black Panther, Thor and Captain Marvel battle invading aliens across the streets of New York.
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A journey through 12 places across New York State that reframes the city and region as a Native place, from Haudenosaunee ironworkers who built the skyline to Lenape teens reconnecting with their ancestral homeland.
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A permanent show of about 700 Native works from across the Americas, from feathered headdresses and beaded parkas to a Mapuche cosmos drum. It ends with contemporary Native artists like Allan Houser and Rick Bartow, and it puts Indigenous sovereignty and artistry at the center.
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Ten contemporary Native artists draw on heritage, homelands, and remembered ancestors to make new work. The show looks at how tradition fuels present-day Indigenous expression, in pieces like Jeri Redcorn's Caddo pottery and Marvin Oliver's glass.
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A look at Staten Island history, from Lenapehoking to today, drawn from more than 100 rarely seen objects, photos, oral histories, and archival pieces. It includes a spotlight on Park Hill and timed to America's 250th anniversary.
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An exhibition on extinction, biodiversity, and preservation, with fossils, lost bird species, and a full-size mastodon replica that bursts out of the wall. It's a playful but sobering look at what we lose.
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A permanent gallery of art objects from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, spanning 5,000 years. It's a quick cross-cultural survey of making across eras and continents.
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AI artist Stephanie Dinkins returns to her Staten Island roots with an immersive, participatory installation where AI processes community stories into a living narrative, asking who gets to shape AI's future and how to build equitable, care-centered systems.
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