What's on in New York
July 2026
July at a glance: 6 exhibitions opening, 13 closing, and 45 more on view across the city.
Opening in July
- Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 20261 Jul
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Photography by seventeen teen artists from the Studio Museum's signature Expanding the Walls program, capturing New York's streets alongside intimate moments at home.
- Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa5 Jul
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The first major survey of modern architecture across seven West African nations from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, exploring how building shaped newly independent states. Most objects have never been shown publicly.
- HUMAN10 Jul
The Shed · Free
A new commission in The Shed's Open Call program for early-career, NYC-based artists, presented as part of the 2026 summer season. Free with reservation.
- Helen Marden: Interlude of Joy14 Jul
Gagosian · Free
New paintings by Helen Marden at 541 West 24th Street, including her largest works to date and her first triptychs, made with acrylic, resin, and powdered pigment poured across canvas panels and incorporating found objects like shells and sea glass.
- MOTHER/ROAD17 Jul
The Shed · Free
Avi Amon's Open Call multimedia meditation on grief, memory, family, and borders, drawing on audio from cassette tapes his parents carried when they immigrated to the United States. Free with reservation.
- FITO24 Jul
The Shed · Free
Rudi Goblen's Open Call interactive concert-play fusing live music, storytelling, dance, and spoken word to narrate the immigrant experience of a Nicaraguan man in the United States. Free with reservation.
Last chance
- Gerhard Richter: Landschaften10 Jul
David Zwirner · Free
Richter's photorealist landscapes from the 1960s to the 2000s hang alongside his Abstract Paintings, tracing how representation and abstraction feed each other.
- Life with P. — Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings 1964–197810 Jul
Hauser & Wirth · Free
At the new 18th Street editions space, intimate Guston paintings and 'Poem Pictures' reflecting on his marriage to poet Musa McKim, with three large figurative works never before exhibited.
The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower12 JulMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA)
A focused show on Kisho Kurokawa's landmark 1972 Metabolist tower, centered on a fully restored capsule (A1305) alongside models, drawings, archival film, and tenant interviews tracing the building's 50-year history and 2022 demolition.
Giuseppe Penone: The Reflection of Bronze17 JulGagosian · Free
New sculptures by Italian Arte Povera master Giuseppe Penone exploring the character and possibilities of bronze, curated by Adam D. Weinberg, in the Chelsea gallery.
- Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship19 Jul
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The first exhibition to study Gothic architectural drawings as art, with more than 90 drawings, prints, sculptures, and goldsmith works tracing how master masons visualized cathedrals.
Collection in Focus: Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait19 JulSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's 2006 film portrait of footballer Zinedine Zidane gets its first Guggenheim showing, marking the work's 20th anniversary and the 2026 World Cup in North America.
Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 319 JulCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
An immersive listening room by Brooklyn artist and audio engineer Devon Turnbull (OJAS), featuring handcrafted high-fidelity sound systems, daily playlists, and live operator sessions.
- Allison Katz. Outta the Bag24 Jul
Hauser & Wirth · Free
Allison Katz's first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York, at the Wooster Street space in SoHo, presenting new paintings by the Montreal-born, London-based artist.
- Eliza Douglas: GHOSTS31 Jul
Gagosian · Free
New mixed-media paintings in Eliza Douglas's first solo New York exhibition, curated by Francesco Bonami, at Gagosian's Park & 75 space.
Marcel Duchamp31 JulGagosian · Free
A landmark gathering of Marcel Duchamp's revolutionary readymades, the everyday objects he declared art and that upended the 20th century, on Madison Avenue.
Firelei Báez. feet squelching on wet grass, nourished by uncertainty31 JulHauser & Wirth · Free
Across two floors of the 22nd Street gallery, Firelei Báez shows new paintings, works on paper and large-scale bronzes extending her engagement with colonial legacies and the African diaspora.
Carol Rama. I See You You See Me31 JulHauser & Wirth · Free
The gallery's first exhibition devoted to radical Italian artist Carol Rama (1918-2015), gathering key works in paint, textile, sculpture and bricolage made between 1947 and 1998.
Robert Rauschenberg: Important Early Works from the Cy Twombly Foundation31 JulGagosian · Free
Six important early works by Robert Rauschenberg from the Cy Twombly Foundation, including pieces from his Black Painting, Elemental Sculpture, and Combine series, shown alongside the Duchamp exhibition marking the Rauschenberg centennial.
Also on through July
Carol Boveto 2 AugSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The first museum survey of Carol Bove (b. 1971) fills Wright's spiral rotunda, tracing 25+ years of work from paperback-book assemblages and paper collages to towering, brightly painted steel sculptures.
Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie Antoinetteto 3 AugThe Frick Collection
A Cabinet installation of 24 hand-colored engravings of late-18th-century French fashion from the Gallerie des modes, depicting garments worn under Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
- American Folk Art: Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefellerto 9 Aug
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Nearly 50 works from MoMA co-founder Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's folk-art collection (portraits, weathervanes, wooden toys) return for the first time in over 70 years, shown beside modern American art.
Paul Thek: Dream of Vanishingto 14 AugPace Gallery · Free
Over fifty paintings, sculptures and drawings, including the Technological Reliquaries, survey Paul Thek's preoccupation with disappearance, erasure and the ephemeral, with rarely seen works.
Julian Schnabel: Italy Through Its Treesto 14 AugPace Gallery · Free
Paintings on maps and plate paintings of Italy's umbrella pines open a new chapter in Schnabel's decades-long relationship with the country, drawing on two of his longest-running bodies of work.
David Hockney: The Moon Roomto 14 AugPace Gallery · Free
Fifteen iPad paintings from Hockney's Moon Room series, made in pandemic quarantine at his Normandy farmhouse in 2020, capture the moon's changing phases and nocturnal landscapes.
Emily Kam Kngwarray: The Turning Seasonto 14 AugPace Gallery · Free
A career-spanning survey of the Anmatyerr artist's paintings and textiles from 1981 to 1995, following her 2025 Tate Modern retrospective, rooting abstraction in ancestral connection and ecology.
Art of Noiseto 16 AugCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Organized with SFMOMA, this exhibition explores a century of design's relationship to music through concert posters, album art, phonographs, radios, digital players, and sound systems.
From Now: A Collection in Contextto 16 AugThe Studio Museum in Harlem
An evolving display drawn from across the Studio Museum's collection, putting works from the 19th century to today in dialogue through themes that rotate over the year.
Greater New York 2026to 17 AugMoMA PS1 · Free
MoMA PS1's signature survey of NYC-area artists returns for its sixth edition, spanning the whole building with over 50 multidisciplinary artists in the formative years of their careers.
Homeroom: Red Canary Song: Touch the Heartto 17 AugMoMA PS1 · Free
Queens collective Red Canary Song, led by migrant massage and sex workers across the Asian diaspora, presents dim sum dining tables, portraits, and still lifes on migration, care, and mutual aid.
Marcel Duchampto 22 AugMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The first North American Duchamp retrospective in over 50 years, gathering six decades of paintings, sculpture, readymades, film, and photography by the radical pioneer of conceptual art.
Whitney Biennial 2026to 23 AugWhitney Museum of American Art
The 82nd edition of the Whitney's landmark survey of contemporary American art, gathering fifty-six artists, duos and collectives exploring interspecies kinship, geopolitics, technology and precarious ecologies.
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashito 23 AugWhitney Museum of American Art
Sculptor Kelly Akashi transforms the Whitney's open-air terrace with glass, bronze and stone works, including Monument (Altadena), a glass-brick response to losses from the 2025 Eaton Fire.
To Be A Placeto 30 AugThe Studio Museum in Harlem
A visual timeline of documents, media and ephemera tracing the Studio Museum's nearly sixty-year history, from its first Fifth Avenue loft to its new home on 125th Street.
Fadeto 6 SeptThe Studio Museum in Harlem
The sixth in the Studio Museum's landmark "F" series, this group show gathers seventeen artists of African descent exploring spirituality, surrealism and nonlinear time.
- The Black Mirror Experienceto 6 Sept
The Shed
A 60-minute immersive blend of physical sets and interactive VR that drops groups of up to six into an original Black Mirror story. US debut, produced by Banijay Live Studio with Univrse.
Frida and Diego: The Last Dreamto 12 SeptMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA)
A focused look at MoMA's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera holdings, with six Kahlo paintings plus over a dozen Rivera works, mounted alongside the Met Opera's premiere of El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego.
Collections Spotlight, Summer 2026to 13 SeptThe Morgan Library & Museum
A rotating display in the historic library showcasing treasures from the Morgan's four curatorial departments, refreshed three times a year.
- Goal Zone: Interactive Soccer Experienceto 13 Sept
American Museum of Natural History
An all-ages interactive play space for testing soccer skills, part of the museum's World Cup, World Cultures series celebrating the science and community of sport.
- Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaursto 13 Sept
American Museum of Natural History
A before-and-after look at the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 66 million years ago and reshaped life on Earth.
- Doug Aitken: Lightscapeto 13 Sept
The Shed · Free
Doug Aitken transforms the Level 2 Gallery into an immersive seven-screen environment built around a feature film scored with the LA Phil and LA Master Chorale, activated by live music throughout the run.
The Declaration of Independence: Rare Americana from the Collectionto 13 SeptThe Morgan Library & Museum
The rare Dunlap broadside of the Declaration of Independence shown alongside Revolutionary-era documents and artifacts from the Morgan's collection.
- Musical Bodiesto 27 Sept
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The first major show on the bond between musical instruments and the body brings together some 130 works across 4,000 years, from ancient rattles and Degas to one of Prince's guitars.
Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payneto 27 SeptCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
More than 70 large-format photographs by Christopher Payne documenting American factories and craft, from musical instruments and flags to semiconductors and aerospace components.
Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visionsto 4 OctThe Morgan Library & Museum
A two-part show tracing tarot from a Renaissance courtly card game to its embrace by 20th- and 21st-century artists seeking new symbolic and spiritual languages.
Peggy Weil: Core Memoryto 4 OctMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Two of Peggy Weil's immersive underscapes, 88 Cores and 18 Cores, visualize Earth's deep climatic history on the 24-foot screen in MoMA's lobby.
The Collected Photograph, 1970–1989to 11 OctThe Morgan Library & Museum
Ephemera from Richard L. Menschel's collection — gallery announcements, price lists, and promotional materials — chronicling the 1970s–80s "photo boom" that established photography as a fine art.
- Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americasto 18 Oct
The Met Cloisters
Set in the medieval galleries of The Met Cloisters, this exhibition gathers over 50 works from Europe and the ancient Americas (500 to 1500 CE) exploring myth, hybrid creatures and the imagination.
Andy Warhol Family Albumto 19 OctWhitney Museum of American Art
A collection of Polaroid photographs Andy Warhol shot in 1972–73, drawn from the personal "family albums" he kept documenting collaborators, celebrities, friends and daily life.
Hujar: Contactto 25 OctThe Morgan Library & Museum
Over 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements trace photographer Peter Hujar's creative evolution from the 1950s through 1987.
Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings from John Ashbery's Collectionto 25 OctThe Morgan Library & Museum
About twenty-five works on paper from poet John Ashbery's personal collection, including portraits and collaborations by his artist friends, 1945–2007.
Luminous Colorto 8 NovThe Morgan Library & Museum
Nineteenth-century oil sketches from the Thaw Collection exploring how artists captured light and luminosity through color.
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Sensesto 6 DecBrooklyn Museum
North American debut of Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen, with 140+ sculptural haute couture creations shown alongside contemporary art, design, and natural history specimens.
David Byrne: Stairwell Drawingsto 31 DecPace Gallery · Free
Nine life-size drawings by Talking Heads' David Byrne line the stairwell landings between the flagship's first and seventh floors, reflecting his surreal, playful sensibility.
- Costume Artto 10 Jan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Inaugurating the new Conde Nast Galleries, the Costume Institute pairs nearly 400 garments with paintings and sculpture to explore how art has depicted the dressed body.
Collection in Focus: Modern European Currentsto 10 JanSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Early 20th-century European avant-garde painting drawn from the collection, with works by Kandinsky, Goncharova, Franz Marc and others who reimagined painting for a rapidly changing world.
Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Nowto 10 JanSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum
A sweeping survey of Pop art from the 1960s to today, with works by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Hamilton and Chryssa shown alongside a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room and recent contemporary acquisitions.
David Lamelas: The Machineto 16 JanDia Chelsea · Free
A comprehensive survey of Argentine Conceptual artist David Lamelas, tracing his work from 1965 to today across film, sculpture and performance, unfolding as exhibition, film program and live work.
The Substituteto 31 JanCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's immersive video and sound installation digitally resurrects an extinct male Northern white rhino using AI and visual effects, questioning whether species resurrection is a justified answer to extinction.
New Humans: Memories of the Futureto 22 MarNew Museum
The reopening's museum-wide show gathers more than 200 artists, writers and scientists to trace a century of art reckoning with what it means to be human amid sweeping technological change.
Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEEDto 1 AprThe Studio Museum in Harlem
A site-specific installation by Kapwani Kiwanga reworking the quilting "flying geese" pattern in natural dyes, evoking the Underground Railroad and histories of Black resistance.
- Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anewto 31 May
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Treasured Korean objects are turned around to reveal their interiors, reverses, and hidden details, offering a fuller view of each work's form across two rotations.
- Our Flag Was Still Thereto 28 Feb
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Historic American flags tied to 9/11, including the Ground Zero Flag, paired with personal stories in Foundation Hall to mark the nation's 250th anniversary.
Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Roomto 20 AprBrooklyn Museum
A six-year installation of the Rubin Museum's beloved Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room within the Arts of Asia galleries: over 100 thangkas, sculptures, and ritual objects arranged as an elaborate household shrine, with chanted prayers, butter lamps, and incense.
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