Exhibitions in New York

The Frick Collection · Past

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.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Past

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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Past

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.

MoMA PS1 · Free · Past

MoMA PS1's signature survey of NYC-area artists, in its sixth edition for the institution's 50th anniversary. The main run closed August 17; select galleries continue on view as an extended partial view through September 7, 2026.

Hauser & Wirth · Free · Past

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.

Gagosian · Free · Past

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.

Gagosian · Free · Past

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 · Past

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.

Hauser & Wirth · Free · Past

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.

Gagosian · Free · Past

Four decades of Helen Frankenthaler's pioneering Color Field paintings (1960–1992), with more than twenty of her largest and most ambitious canvases, on West 21st Street.

Whitney Museum of American Art · Past

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 · Past

Maurice Sendak's set and costume designs for Mozart's The Magic Flute, with preparatory sketches and watercolors from the 1980 Houston Grand Opera production.

Brooklyn Museum · Past

Inspired by Gloria Steinem, this Center for Feminist Art show pairs new acquisitions with rarely seen collection works by artists such as Beverly Semmes and Sarah Sze.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Past

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.

National September 11 Memorial & Museum · Past

A special exhibition exploring how young artists from around the world used art to process the trauma of 9/11 and to help heal themselves and others.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Past

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.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Past

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 · Past

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 · Past

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 · Past

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.

Whitney Museum of American Art · Past

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.

New Museum · Past

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.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Past

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 · Past

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

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Past

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) · Past

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.

Whitney Museum of American Art · Past

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 Morgan Library & Museum

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.