What's on in New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Results from a collaborative exchange among curators, conservators, and digital specialists studying The Met's Della Robbia sculptures.

The Shed

A live musical performance by the Sun Ra Arkestra inside Doug Aitken's film-based installation Lightscape. 13 August 2026, 8pm.

The Studio Museum in Harlem

The first exhibition to tell the story of arts advocate Peggy Cooper Cafritz as a collector, drawing on her bequest of over 200 artists of African descent across multiple media.

Whitney Museum of American Art

A touring retrospective of self-taught artist Minnie Evans's work from 1935-1981 — vibrant drawings, paintings and collages blending spiritual imagery with natural motifs, made in North Carolina during the Jim Crow era.

Pace 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.

Pace 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.

Pace 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.

Pace 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.

Cooper 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.

Cooper 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.

The 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.

MoMA 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.

MoMA 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.

The Shed

Remembrance and movement, in a free exhibition on The Shed's outdoor Plaza.

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.

Museum 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 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.

Gagosian · 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.

Gagosian · 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.

MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1's signature outdoor music series returns for its 28th season, bringing underground and emerging talent from around the world to the Queens courtyard over six Fridays, marking the institution's 50th anniversary.

The 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.

The 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 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.

Museum 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.

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.

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.

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 Morgan Library & Museum

A rotating display in the historic library showcasing treasures from the Morgan's four curatorial departments, refreshed three times a year.

The Morgan Library & Museum

The rare Dunlap broadside of the Declaration of Independence shown alongside Revolutionary-era documents and artifacts from the Morgan's collection.

American Museum of Natural History

Curated by filmmaker Michael Bourquin of Iskut First Nation, featuring multimedia works by Indigenous artists.

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.

Cooper 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.

Museum 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 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.

Brooklyn Museum · Free

In this site-specific installation, Keisha Scarville overlays portraits and still lifes onto abstract patterns, many sourced from garments owned by her late mother, Alma. Several images come from her series Mama's Clothes.

The 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.

Whitney 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.

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.

Whitney 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.

The Morgan Library & Museum

Over 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements trace photographer Peter Hujar's creative evolution from the 1950s through 1987.

The 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.

Brooklyn Museum

An exhibition that puts America's past in dialogue with its present.

The Morgan Library & Museum

Nineteenth-century oil sketches from the Thaw Collection exploring how artists captured light and luminosity through color.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Freestanding screens throughout the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden use machine learning and fMRI-derived data to generate hallucinatory images in real time, exploring nonhuman and machine cognition.

Brooklyn 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.

Pace 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.

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.

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.

Solomon 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.

Solomon 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.

Dia 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 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.

Cooper 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.

Brooklyn Museum

Three chapters of longtime favorites and new standouts, bringing fresh narratives to the fore while exploring the collection's history and future evolution. Marks the Museum's bicentennial.

The 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.

Brooklyn Museum

An immersive sound installation built around Representative John Lewis's speech on the floor of the US House during the December 1998 impeachment debate.

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.

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.

Brooklyn 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.