Museums in New York: Current Exhibitions & Picks

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On view · The Frick Collection · Upper East Side

Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500 at The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection presents the first exhibition devoted to Siena as a center of Renaissance bronze sculpture. Nearly forty works by Donatello, Vecchietta, Francesco di Giorgio and others are on view through January 18, 2027, many shown outside Tuscany for the first time.

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On view · The Drawing Center · SoHo

Form, Shadow, Motion: Selections from the Burger Collection, Hong Kong at The Drawing Center

The Drawing Center in SoHo opens a show of about fifty works on paper from Hong Kong's Burger Collection, by 29 artists including Tadanori Yokoo, Hiroshi Sugito and Isabella Séville Fürnkäs, with Hong Kong and New York as twin reference points.

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On view · The Studio Museum in Harlem · Central Harlem

Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026 at the Studio Museum in Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem presents photographs by the seventeen teens in this year's Expanding the Walls cohort. Street scenes and quiet home moments sit side by side, tracing motion and repose in young New Yorkers' lives. On view through January 31, 2027.

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On view · The Studio Museum in Harlem · Central Harlem

Geometries at The Studio Museum in Harlem: 30 Artists on Line, Shape and Space

Geometries, on view through February 7, 2027 at the Studio Museum in Harlem, brings together 30 artists, from Alma Thomas to Julie Mehretu, who use line, shape and space to address emotion, identity and form.

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On view · MoMA PS1 · Long Island City

Homeroom: Artists Against the Bomb at MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1's Homeroom space hosts Artists Against the Bomb, an international art campaign backing ICAN and the nuclear weapons prohibition treaty. Posters, film, music, sculpture and new commissions are on view through February 8, 2027.

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On view · MoMA PS1 · Long Island City

Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene) at MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1 presents the first large-scale US museum exhibition of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, with room-sized installations and a new commission. The centerpiece, La promesa, is a barrier built from 14 tons of rubble from a house in Ciudad Juárez. On view through February 8, 2027.

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On view · The Studio Museum in Harlem · Central Harlem

Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz at the Studio Museum in Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem presents works from Peggy Cooper Cafritz's bequest, telling her story as a collector for the first time. Forty-seven artists, including Kerry James Marshall and Simone Leigh, are on view through February 28, 2027.

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On view · The Studio Museum in Harlem · Central Harlem

Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEED at The Studio Museum in Harlem

Kapwani Kiwanga's site-specific commission BLEED fills the second-floor project gallery at the Studio Museum in Harlem through April 1, 2027. A quilt motif tied to the Underground Railroad is rendered in fabric dyed with Atlantic seawater, pokeberry and indigo.

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On view · The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City

Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale at The Noguchi Museum

The Noguchi Museum marks forty years since Isamu Noguchi's solo U.S. Pavilion at the 1986 Venice Biennale with a one-gallery archival show of photographs, sketches, a Slide Mantra model and Akari, on view through May 9, 2027.

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On view · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

Roy Lichtenstein: Like New at the Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney presents Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the first New York retrospective of the Pop artist since 1993. On the fifth floor through May 10, 2027, it spans six decades of painting, drawing, sculpture, film and prints, plus four re-created murals.

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On view · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

Alex Da Corte: Hot Dog With Ketchup at the Whitney Museum

Alex Da Corte covers a printout of Roy Lichtenstein's Hot Dog with a sweep of ketchup, then scales it into a 17-by-29-foot billboard on Gansevoort Street, across from the Whitney and the High Line. On view through May 10, 2027.

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On view · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 at the Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney's third floor looks at Roy Lichtenstein's final year, 1997, through materials for mural, sculpture and print projects, many from the museum's collection. It shows a late-career artist widening his palette and responding to early digital imagery. On view through June 1, 2027.

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On view · MoMA PS1 · Long Island City

Courtyard Commission: Precious Okoyomon at MoMA PS1

Precious Okoyomon turns the MoMA PS1 courtyard into a living forest of plants, a climbable teddy bear sculpture and sound, inaugurating the museum's Courtyard Commission series. On view July 31, 2026 through 2028, with free admission.

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On view · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

Charles Burchfield: Elemental at the Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney presents ten watercolors by Charles Burchfield from its own collection, made between 1916 and 1960. Marking seventy years since the museum's 1956 retrospective, the show follows his visionary treatment of nature. It opens October 22, 2026.

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On view · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

"Untitled" (America) at the Whitney Museum of American Art

On the Whitney's seventh floor, a collection-based show surveys American art from 1900 to the early 1980s, with Hopper, Warhol, Johns, Kusama, Noguchi and others, tracing how artists have pictured "America" and how the idea has shifted.

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On view · MoMA PS1 · Long Island City

Esteban Cabeza de Baca: Ancestral Dreams, the MoMA PS1 Plaza Mural

At MoMA PS1, painter Esteban Cabeza de Baca presents Ancestral Dreams, a plaza mural combining Mesoamerican imagery, labor history and speculative futures. The second in the museum's annual commission, it stays up through spring 2027, with free admission.

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Upcoming · Neue Galerie · Upper East Side

25th Anniversary Exhibition: Masterworks from the Neue Galerie

Neue Galerie New York marks its 25th year by reopening all galleries on November 12 after a building restoration. Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I anchors a presentation of Austrian and German fine and decorative arts filling the whole building.

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Upcoming · The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City

No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75 at The Noguchi Museum

The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City marks 75 years of Isamu Noguchi's Akari light sculptures with an exhibition opening November 4, 2026. Akari appear alongside stone, metal and clay works, in settings from domestic interiors to monumental installations.

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Upcoming · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

artport: A History of Internet Art at the Whitney Museum

The Whitney marks 25 years of artport, its online space for net art commissions, with a 6th-floor exhibition of more than 100 works, online and in the galleries. Operator's live performance Human Unreadable Act III premieres alongside it. Opens November 21, 2026.

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Event · Studio Museum in Harlem · Central Harlem

At Harlem's Studio Museum, NYC: Dreams of This Future Shows the Peggy Cooper Cafritz Collection

The Studio Museum in Harlem presents works bequeathed by arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz, including pieces by Kerry James Marshall and Simone Leigh. The show runs through February 28, 2027, with free admission on Sundays.

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Event · Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators · Upper East Side

The Original Art 46th Exhibition Opens at Society of Illustrators, Upper East Side, NYC

The Society of Illustrators' 46th Original Art show runs Oct. 31, 2026 to Jan. 30, 2027 on East 63rd Street. It presents nearly 200 works from over 800 submissions, drawn from the year's best U.S. children's books, with medal winners and related talks.

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Event · The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City

At Long Island City's Noguchi Museum, NYC Marks 75 Years of Akari Light Sculptures

The Noguchi Museum opens No Ordinary Light: Akari at 75 on November 4, tracing Isamu Noguchi's paper-and-bamboo light sculptures alongside his stone, metal and clay works, with displays inspired by the 1951 Eames House tea ceremony and Venice 1986.

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Event · Balloon Museum at the Tin Building · Financial District

New at NYC's Seaport: Balloon Museum Opens Its First Permanent Home With "Daydream"

Balloon Museum's first permanent U.S. flagship opens at the Tin Building in Seaport with Daydream – Air Becomes Art, an all-ages show of inflatable sculptures and light installations meant to be touched and walked through.

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Event · Neue Galerie New York · Upper East Side

Upper East Side, NYC: Neue Galerie Reopens All Galleries Nov. 12 With 25th Anniversary Show

Neue Galerie New York, the Fifth Avenue museum known for its Klimt works, opens all galleries again on November 12 after construction. A 25th anniversary exhibition marking its 2001 founding runs through January 11, 2027.

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Event · The Museum of Sex · Midtown East

At NYC's Museum of Sex in Flatiron, "The Life Force" Pairs Eros and Mortality

The Museum of Sex shows large-scale portraits from Mexico City's Amparo & Manuel Foundation, in their US debut. Works by Tracey Emin, Lisa Yuskavage and others explore Eros and Thanatos, intimacy and fragility. On view through November.

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Event · Mori Art Museum (Tokyo) — announced by Sean Kelly Gallery (NYC)

NYC-Linked Retrospective: Mariko Mori's "All That Shines" Opens in Tokyo, Co-Curated with the Guggenheim

Mori Art Museum in Tokyo opens "Mariko Mori: All That Shines" on Oct. 31, Japan's first major Mori retrospective since 2002. About 40 works, organized with the New York-based Guggenheim Foundation and co-curated by Alexandra Munroe and Mami Kataoka.

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Event · MoMA · Midtown West

At MoMA in Midtown, NYC: "Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio" Brings Rarely Loaned Works from Paris

MoMA opens "Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio" on October 25. Rarely lent sculptures from his Paris studio join photographs, films, hand-carved furniture, pedestals and tools, presenting the studio as a place of work and play. It runs through February 27, 2027.

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Event · Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at New York's Met Puts Two Abstract Pioneers in Conversation

The Met's "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous" is now open, setting Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock side by side. It runs from Pollock's drip paintings to Krasner's reinventions of abstraction, including her 1947 Mosaic Table and her "Little Image" paintings. On view through January 2027.

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Event · Balloon Museum (Tin Building) · Financial District

Balloon Museum Opens Permanent U.S. Flagship in the Tin Building, Seaport, NYC

Balloon Museum has opened its first permanent U.S. home in the Tin Building at the Seaport. The inaugural show, Daydream – Air Becomes Art, brings together Marina Abramović, Martin Creed and others in inflatable, light and sound works made to be touched and walked through.

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Event · Poster House

Designed to Be Red at Poster House in Chelsea, NYC: Two Centuries of Native Graphic Art

Poster House in Chelsea is showing Designed to Be Red, a survey of Native American and Indigenous poster works spanning nearly two centuries and more than 60 tribes and nations. Curated by Brian Johnson of the Monacan Indian Nation, it runs through February 21, 2027.

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Event · Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Upper East Side

At New York's Guggenheim, Taryn Simon’s “Father Country I Do Love You” Fills the Rotunda

Taryn Simon fills the Guggenheim rotunda with a decade-long project tracing an unnamed federal agent’s life in 42 chapters, shadowed by her father’s story. Through March 14, 2027.

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Event · MoMA · Midtown West

At MoMA in Midtown, NYC: "It's Alive!" Traces a Century of Animation, From Gertie to MTV

MoMA's It's Alive! gathers more than 200 drawings, cels and films from 1908 to 2020, centered on over 35 artists working largely in New York. On view since August 1 and running into summer 2027, it is joined by a matinee screening series that began October 21.

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Event · Powerhouse Arts · Gowanus

Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus, NYC: Step Inside Five Prado Paintings in VR

Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus hosts the US premiere of Masterpieces, a multi-user VR exhibition that walks visitors into five Museo del Prado paintings, narrated by a security guard on his last night shift before retirement. Open through December 20; adults $30.

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Event · Brooklyn Public Library Central Library · Prospect Park

At Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library in Prospect Heights, Christopher Myers Sets Banned Books Loose in Giant Tapestries

Christopher Myers: Unbound fills Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library with two 40-foot tapestries drawn from often-banned books and stained-glass sculptures of kids cycling through New York at night. Free, through January 15, 2027, with works across the facade, lobby, Youth Wing and balcony.

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Event · Whitney Museum of American Art · Meatpacking District

Roy Lichtenstein: Like New at the Whitney in Meatpacking District, NYC

The Whitney's fifth floor holds Roy Lichtenstein: Like New through May 10, 2027, the first New York retrospective of the Pop artist since 1993. It rebuilds his 1962 Castelli Gallery show, includes a hand-remade 96-foot mural, and comes with a Gap collaboration and a Pop Party on October 28.

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Event · Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Upper East Side

Frederic Church in Jamaica at Cooper Hewitt, Upper East Side, NYC

Cooper Hewitt on the Upper East Side opens "Frederic Church in Jamaica" on October 30, showing more than 60 oil studies and graphite sketches from the painter's 1865 trip. Part of his 200th-birthday celebrations, it runs through February 15, 2027.

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Event · ICP (International Center of Photography) · Lower East Side

At ICP on NYC's Lower East Side, Laia Abril Takes On Rape and Institutional Failure

At ICP through January 11, 2027, Laia Abril's On Rape and Institutional Failure draws on photographs, testimonies, archives and sound-and-video installations to examine how institutions have sustained rape culture and let offenders and enablers avoid justice.

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Ended · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

Whitney Biennial 2026: Fifty-Six Artists Tune In to the Mood of American Art

The 82nd Whitney Biennial ran from March 8 to October 12, 2026, bringing fifty-six artists, duos and collectives together, including Japan's Mao Ishikawa and Akira Ikezoe, to ask what "American" art means and to explore shared moods and unlikely alliances.

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Ended · The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City

Noguchi Museum × Ikenobo: 40 Years in New York — A Living Tradition of Flowers and Space

On October 17 and 18, The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City hosts a two-day exhibition marking 40 years of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society's New York City Chapter, with about 45 arrangements set in dialogue with Isamu Noguchi's sculptural vision.

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Ended · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

Andy Warhol Family Album at the Whitney Museum

On the Whitney's seventh floor, a focused show presents Andy Warhol's 1972–73 Polaroids from his personal "family album": portraits, guests at Montauk, European travels and his dog Archie. It closes October 19, 2026.

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Ended · International Center of Photography · Lower East Side

The GFX Challenge Grant: Five Years, Five Projects at ICP

At the International Center of Photography through October 19, this free show picks one project from each of the first five years of Fujifilm's GFX Challenge Grant, including Kobe-born Shina Peng's family story, all shot on large-format digital cameras.

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Event · The Noguchi Museum, Education Studio (Level C) · Long Island City

Ikenobo Ikebana NYC Marks 40 Years at The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, NYC

The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City hosted a two-day exhibition on October 17–18 for the 40th anniversary of the Ikenobo Ikebana Society's New York City chapter. About 45 arrangements by masters and members filled the Education Studio on Level C, free with museum admission.

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Event · The Noguchi Museum, Education Studio (Level C) · Long Island City

Ikenobo Ikebana Marks 40 Years in New York at the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City

The Ikenobo Ikebana Society's New York City chapter marked its 40th anniversary with a two-day show, October 17–18, in the Noguchi Museum's Education Studio in Long Island City. About 45 arrangements by masters and members were on view, included with museum admission.

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Event · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

At the Whitney in the Meatpacking District, NYC: Pop Party Member Night for Lichtenstein's 103rd Birthday

On Wednesday, October 28, the Whitney Museum of American Art turns Member Night into a costume party for Roy Lichtenstein's 103rd birthday. Expect after-hours galleries, a mini talk, drop-in screenprinting for a tote bag and a live jazz trio in the Lobby.

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Event · Museum of Sex · Midtown East

At NYC's Museum of Sex in Flatiron, The Life Force Brings Amparo & Manuel Foundation Portraits to the US

The Museum of Sex's The Life Force shows large-scale figurative works from the Amparo & Manuel Foundation for the first time in the US, with Tracey Emin, Lisa Yuskavage and more than 30 other artists, exploring Eros and Thanatos.

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Event · Whitney Museum of American Art · West Village

Halloween at the Whitney in NYC's Meatpacking District: Dance Party, Pumpkin Carvers and Open Studio on Oct. 31

On Oct. 31, the Whitney hosts a family Halloween: a costume-friendly dance party, the return of the Maniac Pumpkin Carvers with a special gourd, and an open studio inspired by the Roy Lichtenstein exhibition.

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On view · New Museum · Lower East Side

Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony at the New Museum

Arthur Jafa: I Am Tony is on view at the New Museum on the Bowery from September 25, 2026, through January 4, 2027, bringing the filmmaker and artist's work to the Lower East Side.

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On view · Dia Chelsea · Chelsea

David Lamelas: The Machine

Dia Chelsea presents the first major New York solo show of Argentine artist David Lamelas, tracing his work from 1965 to today. Sculptures, light installations, drawings and a recreated 1968 news office sit alongside a four-chapter film program and scheduled performances. Throughout, Lamelas treats information, time and perception as materials, which makes this a useful introduction to a Conceptual artist long overlooked in the city.

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On view · New Museum · Lower East Side

Hyundai Translocal Series: Ho Tzu Nyen at the New Museum

The New Museum presents a Hyundai Translocal Series exhibition devoted to Ho Tzu Nyen, on view at 235 Bowery on the Lower East Side from September 25, 2026 through January 25, 2027.

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On view · New Museum · Lower East Side

Diego Marcon: Arrivederci, Piggies! at the New Museum

Diego Marcon's exhibition Arrivederci, Piggies! runs at the New Museum on the Bowery from September 25, 2026 through January 31, 2027, bringing the Italian artist's moving-image practice to the Lower East Side.

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On view · New Museum · Lower East Side

The Bowery: Devil's Mile at the New Museum

The New Museum presents The Bowery: Devil's Mile, on view from September 25, 2026 through January 31, 2027. The exhibition takes its name and subject from the Lower East Side street on which the museum stands.

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On view · New Museum · Lower East Side

Screens Series: Umi Ishihara at the New Museum

The New Museum's Screens Series presents Japanese artist Umi Ishihara from September 24, 2026 through January 31, 2027, at 235 Bowery on the Lower East Side.

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On view · New Museum · Lower East Side

Facade: Tschabalala Self—Art Lovers at the New Museum

Tschabalala Self takes over the exterior of the New Museum on the Bowery with Art Lovers, part of the museum's Facade series. The project opened March 21, 2026 and runs through March 22, 2028, visible from the street.

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On view · New Museum · Lower East Side

Atrium Stair: Klára Hosnedlová at the New Museum

Czech artist Klára Hosnedlová takes over the New Museum's Atrium Stair on the Bowery. The project opened March 21, 2026, and stays in place until March 22, 2028, giving visitors a rare two-year window to see it.

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On view · New Museum · Lower East Side

Plaza: Sarah Lucas—VENUS VICTORIA at the New Museum

Sarah Lucas's VENUS VICTORIA occupies the Plaza at the New Museum on the Bowery, on view from May 12, 2026 through May 12, 2028, a two-year presentation by one of Britain's most influential contemporary artists.

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Upcoming · The Frick Collection · Upper East Side

Kent Monkman: Officer and Laughing Girl at The Frick Collection

Kent Monkman, who reads European art history from an Indigenous perspective, shows new paintings in the Frick's Cabinet Gallery, inspired by Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl. On view November 12, 2026 to February 22, 2027.

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Event · Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn

Brooklyn Museum NYC: Iris van Herpen Show Extended to January 3, 2027

Brooklyn Museum has extended "Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses" through January 3, 2027. The North American debut of the retrospective shows more than 140 haute couture designs, and the designer's final participatory performances run through November 1.

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Event · The Shed · Chelsea District

Virgil Abloh: The Codes Opens at The Shed in Hudson Yards, NYC, This December

Nike and the Virgil Abloh Foundation bring a show of nearly 1,000 objects to The Shed in Hudson Yards, running December 10, 2026 through January 18, 2027. Public tickets go on sale October 23, reportedly from $25.

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Event · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

At New York's Met Museum, Costume Art Runs Through January 10, 2027

The Costume Institute's "Costume Art" is on view at the Met on Fifth Avenue through January 10, 2027. The show treats the clothed body as central to artistic expression, and a companion book from MetPubs examines it through age, size, gender and disability.

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Event · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

At New York's Met, "Rembrandt and the Ancients" Is Set for November 2027

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre are co-organizing "Rembrandt and the Ancients," opening in New York in November 2027. It is the Met's first major Rembrandt show in about 20 years, with US debuts among more than 120 works, before it travels to Paris.

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Event · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Central Park

Rembrandt and the Ancients: The Met and the Louvre's Rembrandt Exhibition (2027–28)

Co-organized by The Met and the Musée du Louvre, "Rembrandt and the Ancients" traces Rembrandt's lifelong engagement with the history, art and literature of ancient Greece, Rome and the Mediterranean. At The Met November 7, 2027–February 6, 2028.

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Event · American Museum of Natural History · Upper West Side

At New York's American Museum of Natural History, "For the Win" Puts Sports Treasures on the Upper West Side

The American Museum of Natural History opened "For the Win: Objects of Sports Excellence" on May 15. More than 70 objects, including a Jesse Owens gold medal from the 1936 Berlin Games, are on view in the Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals into early 2027.

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Event · Museum of the Moving Image · Astoria

Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, NYC, Shows Props and Posters From Camp Miasma, Free Through Nov. 8

Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria is showing screen-used props from Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma beside horror posters the director chose, with her own captions. About 35 objects, free admission, on view through November 8.

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Event · Museum of the Moving Image · Astoria

Seeing the Cinema at Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image, NYC: Sugimoto and Three Others Photograph the Movie Theater

Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria is showing Seeing the Cinema, a photography exhibition on the movie theater. Works by Thomas R. Schiff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, John Margolies and Joseph Holmes fill the Amphitheater Gallery through March 21, 2027, with a companion screening series.

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Event · American Folk Art Museum · Upper West Side

At New York's American Folk Art Museum, Locating Girlhood Reads Schoolgirl Needlework as Landscape Art

The American Folk Art Museum near Lincoln Center presents Locating Girlhood, a survey of needlework and ornamental art made by American girls in the 18th and 19th centuries. It runs through February 28, 2027, with free admission.

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Event · Studio Museum in Harlem · Central Harlem

Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC: 17 Teen Photographers in "Through Motion and Repose"

At the Studio Museum in Harlem, seventeen teens from the Expanding the Walls program show photographs of New York street life and quiet moments at home. The exhibition, Through Motion and Repose, runs through January 31, 2027. Suggested admission is $16; Sundays are free.

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Event · The Met Fifth Avenue

A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie

The Met Fifth Avenue presents A King's Carpet, an exhibition on the Savonnerie carpets made in the era of Louis XIV.

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Event · Museum of Modern Art · Midtown East

Sundays with Steven

Pairs Steven Spielberg's own films with the works that influenced them, screened as Sunday double features at MoMA through Dec. 6. Tickets are $14 general, $12 seniors, $10 students.

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Event · Museum of the Moving Image · Queens

Criterion Presents: Kubrick, a Complete Film Retrospective

A complete retrospective of Stanley Kubrick's films at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, running through Dec. 27. Tickets are $17.50 general and $12 for seniors and students.

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Event · The Met Fifth Avenue

Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany

Drawings from the studios of Louis C. Tiffany are on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through February 28, 2027, with a conservation video of one watercolor from the show.

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Event · Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn

Iris van Herpen's Sculpting the Senses at the Brooklyn Museum, NYC: 140+ Couture Pieces Through Dec. 6

The North American debut of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses is on at the Brooklyn Museum through December 6, 2026. The retrospective gathers more than 140 haute couture designs alongside artworks, natural history specimens and a soundscape.

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Event · New York Sign Museum

New York Sign Museum in East New York, NYC, Opened for Open House New York

The New York Sign Museum in East New York, Brooklyn, took part in Open House New York on October 17 and 18, showing preserved hand-painted and craft signs from across the 20th century. It was one of 300-plus sites in the festival.

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Event · MoMA PS1 · Court Square

MoMA PS1's New School Nite Series Opens in Long Island City, NYC, With Isabella Lovestory

MoMA PS1 launches School Nite, an after-hours music series, tonight from 7 to 11 p.m. The opening bill features Isabella Lovestory, B0YG1RL and DJ ali rq. Galleries stay open until 9 p.m., and a cash bar is on site.

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Event · Studio Museum in Harlem · Harlem

A Vision of Rebirth (Studio Museum in Harlem Exhibition)

The Studio Museum in Harlem's exhibition A Vision of Rebirth presents work by its latest cohort of artists-in-residence. It is on view through January 3, 2027.

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Event · Studio Museum in Harlem (new building, West 125th Street) · Harlem

Studio Museum in Harlem 2026–27 Artists-in-Residence

Turiya Adkins, Timothy Yanick Hunter and Clifford Prince King are the Studio Museum in Harlem's 2026–27 artists-in-residence. Each gets an individual studio, material support and a group show at the end.

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Event · Museum of the Moving Image · Queens

Museum of the Moving Image Halloween Screenings

Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria screens The Exorcist, The Wolf Man and Nosferatu, the last with live piano, from October 24 through 31. $17.50 general, $12 seniors and students.

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Event · The Met Fifth Avenue

Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy

A group exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue examines Orientalism between fact and fantasy. It is on view through January 10, 2027.

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Event · The Met Fifth Avenue

David Hartt: Peripheries

David Hartt: Peripheries is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through February 28, 2027, giving visitors a long window to see the exhibition across the holidays.

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Event · The Met Fifth Avenue

Chasing Clouds

Chasing Clouds is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through February 7, 2027, a run that stretches well into winter and gives visitors plenty of time to plan a visit.

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Event · Brooklyn Museum mobile Airstream · Kensington

Brooklyn Museum's Museum on Wheels Airstream Heads to Kensington, NYC, for Día de los Muertos on Oct. 24

The Brooklyn Museum's Museum on Wheels, a custom Airstream trailer, is in its second season, running May through October 2026. Its closing stop is Kensington on October 24, where it joins Casa Cultural's 10th annual Día de los Muertos celebration with art making and a communal ofrenda.

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Event · American Museum of Natural History · Upper West Side

Free General Admission for Marathon Runners at AMNH

Runners can show their marathon medal at the ticket desk for free general admission to the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side, November 1 through 8.

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Event · 9/11 Memorial & Museum

9/11 Memorial & Museum Marathon Promo

Enter code NYRR26 when buying a ticket to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and receive a second ticket free. The offer covers purchases made October 31 through November 7.

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Event · Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

Vacheron Constantin and Met Artisan Residency Artworks

Works by Aspen Golann, Ibrahim Said and Joy Harvey, made during the 18-month Artisan Residency Programme between the Met and Swiss watchmaker Vacheron Constantin, were unveiled in October 2026.

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Event · Museum of Sex · NoMad

Museum of Sex in NoMad, NYC Shows Mexico City's Amparo & Manuel Foundation in a US First

The Museum of Sex in NoMad is showing "The Life Force," 45 works from Mexico City's Amparo & Manuel Foundation, in the collection's first US presentation. Paintings, sculpture, drawings and photographs examine the fragile body through the pairing of Eros and Thanatos.

Oct 12, 2026

Lichtenstein at the Whitney: Six Decades, from Mickey to Mirrors

The Whitney Museum of American Art opens Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, the artist's first New York retrospectiv…

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Edward Hopper's New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Edward Hopper's at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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The Whitney Museum of American Art, one of the leading museums of modern art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking Di…

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The museum is an art museum specializes in modern and contemporary art and a World Heritage Site

Located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, this museum specializes in modern and contempor…

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New Museum, a cutting-edge contemporary art museum featuring innovative artwork

Located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, this museum specializes in contemporary art. The …

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one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan that plays a major role in deve…

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MoMA PS1, a contemporary art museum in a renovated elementary school affiliated with MoMA.

MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution that has been affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art since Janua…