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Arthur Jafa curates 80+ objects from MoMA's collection to challenge hierarchies between minimalism and maximalism, questioning which art forms institutions have historically valued over Black, queer, and feminine expressions.
LAST CHANCE Until Jul 5
A surprisingly diverse showcase of work by the museum's own staff across multiple mediums, celebrating the creative practices of the people who make MoMA run.
LAST CHANCE Until Jul 5
A fully restored capsule from Tokyo's demolished 1972 Metabolist tower shows how modular architecture evolved from techno-futurist housing into studios, DJ booths, and creative spaces beyond the designer's vision.
LAST CHANCE Until Jul 12
Striking portraits by Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, and others capture vibrant youth culture and music scenes across African cities during decolonization, showing photography's power to build Pan-African solidarity.
Through Jul 25
Brooklyn's experimental performance collective opens their rehearsal process to the public with a performance marathon and collaborative work-in-progress showings.
COMING SOON Starting August 2026
This exhibition reunites 19th-century folk art with 20th-century modernism, exploring how utilitarian objects like weathervanes and painted portraits influenced American avant-garde artists and challenged what counts as art.
Through Aug 9
The first U.S. Duchamp retrospective in 50 years features 300 works including the readymade that forever altered what counts as art and who gets to decide.
Through Aug 22
Interactive portrait studio co-designed with Souls in Focus collective explores Black identity, community storytelling, and creative empowerment through photography and archival practices.
Through Aug 30
Works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera presented in a theatrical set designed for the Metropolitan Opera, blurring boundaries between visual and performing arts in an interdisciplinary collaboration.
Through Sep 12
Anime-influenced life-size installations merge UPA animation aesthetics with contemporary urban melodrama, depicting millennial social dynamics in playfully skewed architectural spaces.
Through Sep 30
Digital art pioneer visualizes climate data through immersive vertical journeys into Greenland's ice cores and California's geological layers on a 24-foot screen.
Through Oct 4
Joan Snyder layers rosebuds, straw, and thick paint strokes into experimental abstract compositions that explore fundamental human emotions and sacred natural spaces.
Through Fall 2026
Hovsepian assembles fragmented photographed bodies with ceramics, nylon, and wood into three-dimensional sculptures that challenge how we see bodies as politically charged sites.
Through Fall 2026
An AI-powered installation where machine learning interprets brain scans to visualize human imagination, creating a constantly evolving ecosystem that blurs the line between human and artificial intelligence.
COMING SOON Starting Jul 1
Rare architectural drawings and newly commissioned photographs reveal how modern design shaped post-colonial identity across seven West African nations during the 1960s liberation movements.
COMING SOON Starting Jul 5
This exhibition transforms rare books into radical art objects with glass-bound volumes, metallic manifestos, and collaborative experiments that unlock the unconscious through hybrid, interactive designs.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 4
Na Mira creates phantasmagoric projections using radio frequencies, infrared heat, and holography to challenge state propaganda and explore diasporic memory at the edges of perception.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 14
A rare look at Brancusi's Paris studio as both workspace and artwork, featuring sculptures, photographs, films, and hand-carved furniture that reveal how he blurred boundaries between object and pedestal through radical formal experimentation.
COMING SOON Starting Oct 25
A floor-to-ceiling kaleidoscope of vibrant abstract patterns inspired by music transforms MoMA's lobby into an immersive communal gathering space.
Through Spring 2027
Marianne Wex's 1972 feminist study of gendered body language meets contemporary artists exploring Black, queer, and feminist reclamations of physical and historical space.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 20
A deep dive into animation's evolution featuring NYC-based pioneers who balanced MTV and PBS work with personal projects, showcasing how hand-drawn techniques and modernist design challenged Disney's dominance.
COMING SOON Starting Aug 1
This exhibition reimagines Mondrian's iconic grid paintings through the lens of Black musical innovation, featuring immersive audio experiences and reuniting two legendary works for the first time in 30 years.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 21
NYC high school students co-created this vibrant mural reimagining the city through community care and collective creativity, part of DonChristian Jones's Adobe Creative Residency.
Ongoing
Abney's signature paper cut-out style remixes NYC street culture with MoMA icons like Dalí and Warhol into a boldly vibrant site-specific composition.
Ongoing
An interactive installation where you construct sound sculptures, explore material acoustics, and experiment with wearable art through hands-on digital and physical play.
Ongoing
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Ongoing
Young Bronx artists explore identity through hand-crafted papermaking and collaborative art, challenging traditional museum narratives by centering their own perspectives and communities.
LAST CHANCE Until Jul 12
Twenty-eight emerging NYC artists showcase work developed through the Bronx Museum's prestigious career accelerator program, transforming the museum into a collaborative hub that explores how creative community strengthens artistic practice.
Ongoing
A real-time 90-minute film tracking soccer legend Zinédine Zidane through an entire match using 17 synchronized cameras, examining celebrity spectacle and collective memory through experimental video portraiture.
Through Jul 19
A 25-year survey filling the Guggenheim's rotunda with works ranging from paper collages to towering steel sculptures, featuring interactive elements like artist-made chess tables and a tactile library where you can handle studio materials.
Through Aug 2
Pop art's evolution from Warhol to internet culture, featuring Kusama's infinity room, Cattelan's banana, and contemporary artists exploring identity and digital life through advertising aesthetics and mass media.
Through Jan 10
Early 20th-century European paintings exploring how artists like Kandinsky and Goncharova broke from tradition using vivid color, folk art influences, and spiritual themes to birth abstraction.
Through Jan 10
A sprawling interactive installation filling the entire Guggenheim rotunda where you choose your own path through Simon's constellation of photographs, video, sculpture, and text exploring hidden forces shaping American narratives during the country's 250th anniversary.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 18
A permanent collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works including Picasso, Degas, Manet, and Van Gogh assembled by a Jewish art dealer who fled Nazi persecution.
Ongoing
A blockchain-based collaborative work exploring opacity and the right not to be fully visible, where viewers' presence collectively reveals blurred imagery of sacred Senegalese trees through encrypted data.
Through Aug 2
A playful indie arcade game that transforms typing into competitive multiplayer chaos through nine absurd minigames on dual keyboards in a custom cabinet.
Through Aug 23
An interactive installation where you walk through a projected Taiwanese house floor plan, triggering immersive scenes that reveal a couple's unraveling relationship and hidden secrets.
Through Sep 6
A 30-minute VR experience exploring the subconscious through stop-motion animation, where you navigate fragmented thoughts and inner landscapes inspired by Taoism and Jungian psychology.
Through Sep 6
A screening program tracing anime's transformation from niche to global phenomenon through Crunchyroll Award-winning episodes that showcase contemporary styles from action to experimental storytelling.
Through Oct 12
Experimental filmmakers and contemporary artists interrogate medical imaging technologies like X-rays, exposing how tools meant for care can also reinforce systems of control and normative assumptions about bodies.
Through Jan 3
An installation exhibition exploring spatial interventions and site-specific work that disrupts traditional viewing experiences.
COMING SOON Starting Jul 2
An immersive dive into Jim Henson's creative universe featuring 47 iconic puppets, interactive puppeteering experiences, and behind-the-scenes footage revealing the technical innovation and world-building genius behind The Muppets, Sesame Street, and The Dark Crystal.
Ongoing
Explore Todd Haynes's meticulous creative process through his archival image books, sketches, and notes that transform historical references into formally ambitious films that subvert conventional narratives.
Ongoing
Reveals the production design and makeup techniques that transformed an innocent girl and Georgetown townhouse into one of cinema's most terrifying horror landscapes.
Ongoing
Immersive core exhibition featuring hands-on interactive experiences where you can create stop-motion animations, record dialogue, and explore the technical evolution of moving image creation from optical toys to digital tools.
Ongoing
A luminous mural on Storefront's moving facade blending Indigenous Amazonian cosmologies with iridescent colors, challenging colonial narratives while connecting urban life to the forest's rhythm.
Through Aug 2
An annual fundraising gala honoring SO-IL architecture firm, arts leader Deana Haggag, and artist Mel Chin at the historic Grand Central Oyster Bar.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 28
A citywide public artwork transforming shelter residents' handwritten reflections into aluminum street signs, challenging civic infrastructure while centering voices excluded from public discourse on housing.
Through Aug 8
Jordan Eagles uses blood from HIV-positive gay men splattered on Mets T-shirts to confront queer exclusion and political divisions in American sports culture.
Through Aug 9
An immersive installation where printers continuously produce American military propaganda leaflets, revealing how graphic design and language have been weaponized to justify decades of war.
Through Aug 9
A sensory-intensive installation that transforms gym equipment into interactive sonic sculptures, where your body becomes an instrument for experiencing amplified sound through physical movement.
Through Aug 9
Twin artists merge AI-generated landscapes with hand-built ceramics to create hybrid creatures that blur the line between digital innovation and traditional craft.
Through Aug 16
Monumental porcelain wall murals reframe urban plant life through a lens of material innovation, combining French decorative arts influences with hand-modeled botanical forms that celebrate resilience and transformation.
Through Oct 12
Chicago-based artist Hai-Wen Lin creates stunning "couture for the wind"—sculptural kites that double as wearable garments, merging fashion, flight engineering, and elemental performance with hand-dyed fabrics, ceramic beads, and poetic encounters with nature.
Through Oct 12
A deep dive into Nike's five-decade evolution featuring rare prototypes, experimental designs, and iconic collaborations that showcase how sport drives design innovation and global cultural impact.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 12
A multidisciplinary artist transforms the gallery into an immersive, digitally rendered landscape where thousands of female nudes form forests and flowering canopies, reclaiming the female body from patriarchal art history through feminist reimagining and technological precision.
Through Apr 18
A powerful collection of queer studio jewelry that celebrates LGBTQ+ identities and relationships through wearable art, featuring personal stories from artists and collectors.
Through Dec 31
Judith Schaechter reimagines the medieval rose window as a contemporary stained glass kaleidoscope of 200 geometric patterns that transform light into a captivating spiritual experience.
Ongoing
Patrick Jacobs creates hyperrealistic miniature worlds viewed through optical lenses that blur boundaries between sculpture and photography, revealing luminous landscapes hidden in impossibly shallow spaces.
Ongoing
Charles Simonds builds miniature archaeological ruins from tiny clay bricks for fictional "Little People" civilizations, challenging viewers to look beyond museum walls at impermanent urban interventions.
Ongoing
A luminous collection showcasing how American glass artists transformed the traditional Venetian goblet into a canvas for technical innovation and conceptual wit through cross-cultural exchanges.
Ongoing
A Queens-based collective of migrant massage and sex workers transforms dim sum tables into sites of mutual aid, memorializing lost workers while imagining refuge through food, harm reduction, and community care.
Through Aug 17
MoMA PS1's signature survey showcases over 50 emerging multidisciplinary artists responding to surveillance, economic precarity, and shifting technologies through site-specific installations and new productions.
Through Aug 17
An outdoor music series featuring underground electronic and experimental performers from around the world, blending dub techno, baile funk, ambient dance, and noisy experimental sounds across six Friday nights in Queens.
COMING SOON Starting Jul 24
An experimental dive into NYC's underground fashion scene through reconstructed installations that treated clothing as art, challenging conventional museum display with immersive environments by designers like Willi Smith and Betsey Johnson.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 6
A living forest installation featuring an oversized interactive bear sculpture you can walk through, merging exotic flowers, weeds, and multi-sensory experiences in an ever-evolving woodland.
COMING SOON Starting Jul 1
Site-specific works embedded throughout the building form a "second skin" of artistic visions—from Turrell's sky-gazing installation to Pipilotti Rist's floor-embedded lava bath video and Park McArthur's gentrification critique.
Ongoing
An evolving series of activations led by local organizations—from immigrant labor coalitions to Black Trans Liberation—that reimagine the former schoolhouse as a laboratory for care, community learning, and collective resistance.
Ongoing
Turrell's pioneering Skyspace frames the sky as the artwork itself, with a color-shifting lighting program at sunrise and sunset that transforms perception and makes the act of seeing visceral.
Ongoing
Three generations of Black abstract artists from 1969 to today leverage abstraction's complexity to shape political imagination through painting, sculpture, video, and sound.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 5
A powerful survey examining border violence and femicide through forensic installations, including a monumental barrier built from rubble of an abandoned home in Ciudad Juárez that challenges traditional memorials.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 24
A massive plaza mural blending Mesoamerican iconography with labor activism and speculative futures, challenging borders while centering migrant communities and indigenous resistance.
Ongoing
Kelly Akashi transforms personal loss from the Eaton Fire into powerful outdoor installations that reimagine her destroyed home's chimney in luminous glass brick and cut her grandmother's doily into Cor-Ten steel, challenging masculine art-historical narratives.
Through Aug 23
A graffiti-inspired public artwork by emerging NYC artist Taína H. Cruz transforms the Gansevoort Street billboard with bold, optimistic imagery that brings street art sensibility to the High Line.
Through September 2026
An intimate look at 732 Polaroid snapshots from Warhol's personal archive that reveal how he turned everyday life into art through obsessive image-making.
Through Oct 19
A web-based game commissioned for the Whitney Biennial that merges Latin American surrealism with digital art, where you play as an organic drone cultivating cyberflora in a primordial landscape that challenges conventional gaming mechanics.
Through Dec 31
The Whitney's ongoing performance series showcases experimental dance, music, and multidisciplinary work by contemporary artists challenging traditional stage conventions in the museum's galleries.
Ongoing
America's longest-running survey exhibition features emerging and established contemporary artists working across all media, spotlighting the most urgent and innovative voices in art today.
Ongoing
A collection showcase questioning the evolving concept of "America" through iconic works from Hopper to Basquiat, featuring Felix Gonzalez-Torres's light installation that reflects on democracy as collective work and bridges the museum with the city beyond.
Ongoing
Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles form a stunning mosaic that centers Lakota abstraction and challenges the whitewashed narratives of American Modernism by honoring Indigenous artistic lineages.
Ongoing
The longest-running survey of American art returns with emerging and established artists charting what's happening right now in contemporary culture.
Ongoing
A nonlinear digital narrative exploring xenoformalism through gaming aesthetics, sci-fi references, and interactive sound design that reimagines how cultural meaning is constructed.
Ongoing
A participatory AR creature hovering over the Whitney that evolves through collective audience interaction, addressing climate crisis through interspecies cooperation and bio-engineered futures.
Ongoing
Hammons' monumental skeletal structure hovering over the Hudson River pays tribute to Gordon Matta-Clark's demolished 1975 intervention while honoring the site's LGBTQ history and the Meatpacking District's artistic legacy.
Ongoing
Johnson's illuminated steel-grid sculpture bridges indoor and outdoor spaces, condensing living plants, ceramics, shea butter, poetry books, and video into a brain-like structure that generates unexpected connections and challenges institutional boundaries.
Ongoing
A comprehensive look at the pop art icon who transformed comic book aesthetics into high art through Ben-Day dots and bold graphic composition.
Ongoing
A time-based digital animation series that subverts racist "Yellow Peril" imagery through a playful yet haunting floating dragon and the artist's own morphing face, exploring transnational identity and cultural displacement with experimental 3D animation that changes throughout the day.
Ongoing
An interactive browser-based work that merges autobiography with game design, letting you navigate between multiple worlds through AI-driven characters and narrative puzzles that blur the boundaries between player identity and digital avatars.
Ongoing
An interactive web-based artwork that simulates a fluid underwater environment that shifts between oceanic physics and computational logic, challenging viewers to recognize the intelligence embedded in natural systems beyond human-mimicking machines.
Ongoing
A socialist printmaker's intimate portraits of 1920s-30s NYC life across all neighborhoods, where lithography becomes both democratic art form and political statement about class dignity.
Ongoing
A rare look at graphic design history through theater and film posters from the 1870s-1940s that document Black performers and storytelling when most of these productions no longer exist.
Through Sep 6
Urgent, grassroots graphic design that powered NYC's AIDS activism from 1979-2003, showcasing how posters became survival tools when institutions stayed silent.
Through Sep 6
Travel posters from Czechoslovakia's golden age that doubled as soft power diplomacy, featuring striking modernist design from a nation building its identity after empire.
Through Nov 1
WWII-era posters promoting books as weapons of democracy and mental escape for soldiers, revealing how nations mobilized graphic design to boost morale through reading.
Through Nov 1
Native designers reclaiming their visual narratives across two centuries, challenging colonial mythmaking with dynamic, subversive work that centers Indigenous innovation and resistance.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 25
An exploration of postwar French visual culture through the work of female design duo Lefor-Openo, whose bright optimistic posters chronicled dramatic social changes with unexpected cuteness.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 25
Günther Kieser's wildly inventive concert posters blend physical collage and sculpture with bold typography, creating three-dimensional designs for jazz and rock legends that look like nothing else from the era.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 12
Soviet propaganda at its most desperate—blunt anti-alcohol posters from Gorbachev's failed campaign to save Russia from its drinking problem.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 12
Art Chantry's raw, DIY poster designs captured the underground spirit of 1980s-90s Seattle through experimental collage, Xerox techniques, and eclectic typography for punk bands, theaters, and counterculture movements.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 12
Golden Age magic posters featuring stunning lithographic design and theatrical typography from P.T. Barnum's era through Houdini showcase how visual deception became high art.
COMING SOON Starting Mar 12
Venezuelan photojournalist documents the Huöttöja people in the Amazon through a collaborative approach that centers indigenous worldviews and resists extractive storytelling practices.
Through Sep 13
Over 300 iconic fashion photographs by Avedon, Newton, Penn, Warhol and others reveal how YSL transformed fashion into a visual medium through innovative collaboration between haute couture and photographic practice.
Through Sep 28
A survey of 50+ photobooks showcasing bold design experiments and diverse voices responding to contemporary American life, from political movements to queer identity and environmental crises.
Through Sep 28
Student and community-driven photography showcasing emerging voices and experimental approaches from ICP's educational programs.
Ongoing
Archive of past exhibitions presented at Mana Contemporary showcasing ICP's experimental exhibition program beyond traditional museum spaces.
Ongoing
A collaborative installation revisiting Papo Colo's 1982 accordion-book sculpture project, showcasing how artists and poets from NYC's uptown and downtown scenes transformed the book form into participatory art addressing social and environmental concerns.
COMING SOON Starting Aug 6
An exhibition exploring the work of artist Teddy Sandoval and the influential Butch Gardens School of Art collective.
Ongoing
A five-layer commissioned mural that transforms the museum wall into an experimental stage set, combining abstract painting with 3D wooden sculptures to create a playful exploration of space, language, and domestic architecture.
Through Dec 6
Three Queens-based curators from diverse backgrounds interrogate what makes art American through vintage photographs spanning migration, identity, and intimacy, challenging who gets to claim the term and how visual culture shapes national mythology.
Through Dec 6
An immersive installation created from filmed community gatherings that explores collective voice and radical imagination, featuring the Resistance Revival Chorus and local New Yorkers in layered video, photographs, and kaleidoscopic wallpaper celebrating how we demand change together.
Through Jan 31
Behind-the-scenes footage and architectural plans revealing the creation and 1990s restoration of the iconic Panorama of the City of New York, offering a rare look at the technical process behind maintaining this massive urban scale model.
Through Jan 31
A powerful public mural celebrating historic and contemporary Black trans activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Ceyenne Doroshow, challenging prevailing narratives while centering Black trans voices and reclaiming their contributions to social justice movements.
Ongoing
A kinetic interactive installation spanning be-bop to K-pop that lets you explore NYC's sonic identity through 100 artists and iconic music photography.
Through Dec 31
Contemporary photographers capture the electric energy and diverse cultures of NYC's nightlife in this triennial showcase that documents the city's after-hours transformation.
COMING SOON Starting Nov 20
This evolving exhibition with rotating modules chronicles NYC activism from the 17th century to today through interactive components and multimedia storytelling, featuring recent case studies on housing justice and the Movement for Black Lives.
Ongoing
This 28-minute multimedia documentary uses animated maps and archival imagery to compress 400 years of NYC history into an award-winning feat of digital storytelling narrated by Stanley Tucci.
Ongoing
A stunning suspended light installation featuring 5,283 programmable LED points that hover above the museum's rotunda, merging cutting-edge energy-efficient technology with the building's 1932 neo-Georgian architecture.
Ongoing
Opening May 2026, this 7,000-square-foot immersive experience transforms the third floor into Revolutionary-era NYC with recreated 18th-century environments and digital dramatizations that center the contested stories of enslaved people, women, and Native peoples during the British occupation.
Ongoing
A Queens artist spent 21 years building a massive 55-by-30-foot handmade model of NYC from balsa wood and cardboard, showcasing obsessive craft and personal vision in an impressive physical tribute to the city's architecture.
Ongoing
A restored WPA-era mural cycle reimagines Alice in Wonderland characters exploring 1930s NYC—from subways to Coney Island—originally created to bring joy to a children's hospital ward.
Ongoing
A community-centered exhibition featuring contemporary Lenape artists, interactive installations, and rarely seen cultural objects that challenge colonial narratives and center Indigenous voices in reimagining NYC's past and future.
COMING SOON Starting Sep 25
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