April 2027
April at a glance: 3 exhibitions opening, 4 closing, and 26 more on view across the city.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Survey of Colombian fiber artist Olga de Amaral (b. 1932): six decades of woven work, plus the textiles, furnishings and fashion of her studio Telas Amaral, shown together for the first time.

The Frick Collection
The first exhibition devoted to French enameler Susanne de Court, bringing together around fifty of her signed Limoges enamels for the first time.

The Studio Museum in Harlem
The first major survey of Jamaican-born geometric abstractionist Mavis Pusey (1928-2019), spanning fifty years of paintings and works on paper, co-organized with ICA Philadelphia.

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
Presents more than 180 exceptional works exploring art and identity beyond ancient Greece.

Brooklyn Museum
More than 50 modern European works by Cézanne, Modigliani, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Soutine, from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection gift.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Marianne Wex's 1970s feminist photo survey of gendered body language is shown alongside contemporary artists Nona Faustine, Martine Gutierrez, K8 Hardy, Yuki Kihara, Joiri Minaya, Paulina Olowska, and Wendy Red Star, reappraising bodies in public space.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Postwar Japanese photography, from Okinawa and base towns under US occupation, drawn from the Met's collection with rare photobooks and new acquisitions. Gallery 851.

Whitney Museum of American Art
A comprehensive retrospective of roughly 130 works spanning the 1940s through the 1990s, tracing how Roy Lichtenstein transformed mass-culture imagery into iconic Pop art while probing duplication and the circulation of images across media.

The Studio Museum in Harlem
Miami-born Woody De Othello's new ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works and a large bronze, his first institutional solo show in New York, travelling from Pérez Art Museum Miami.

New Museum
The sixth edition of the museum's signature international triennial for early-career artists, co-curated by Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille, examines how artists destabilize fixed notions of territory, identity, gender, and sexuality.
The Morgan Library & Museum
Blockbooks from 1450–80, when woodblock-printed books competed with manuscripts and typeset books, including a rare Ars moriendi, from the largest US collection of blockbooks.
The Morgan Library & Museum
For the 200th anniversary of Blake's death, his Milton-inspired watercolors, illuminated books and paintings reunited, with works by Fuseli and Flaxman.
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.

Whitney Museum of American Art
A focused show of rarely seen works from the final year of the Pop artist's life, including prints, photographs and sculptural maquettes alongside studies for unrealized projects, revealing his late-career experimentation.

Brooklyn Museum
Michael Richards's sculpture of a pilot pierced with nails commemorates the Tuskegee Airmen, the US Air Force's first Black unit.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Beijing-based artist Liu Wei (born 1972) inspires visitors to ponder cycles of rupture and resistance for the 2026 Genesis Facade Commission.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New commission by Herndon and Dryhurst: choral performances with audience participation in the Kravis Studio train AI models, whose audiovisual output shows on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
MoMA's first exhibition devoted entirely to information design, presenting 30 works of digital and analog design — including six new acquisitions — that explore how designers help visualize and shape our understanding of complex data.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
A survey of painter Nilima Sheikh's five-decade practice, tracing her engagement with Kashmir through narrative scroll paintings including a new, site-responsive series debuting at MoMA.
The Morgan Library & Museum
Early printed ragtime and cakewalk music from the John Davis Collection of Early Printed Musical African Americana, setting Ernest Hogan beside Scott Joplin.

Brooklyn Museum
The first exhibition to examine the Hopi kachina doll tradition from the perspective of the women and girls who receive them, presented at the Center for Feminist Art.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The first major survey of Piet Mondrian's final New York years (1940-44), reuniting Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie for the first time in 30 years and tracing boogie woogie's influence on his late compositions.

Whitney Museum of American Art
A video exhibition exploring American industry, oil culture and Arab immigration through the perspective of a jinn, blending documentary footage and personal testimony to examine identity in post-9/11 America.

Whitney Museum of American Art
Nearly two decades of work by Iñupiaq and Koyukon artist Sonya Kelliher-Combs — paintings, sculptures and installations on history, cultural continuity and land use — her first solo museum show in New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
19th-century bark cloth tapa from Fiji, Samoa and Futuna, plus a Niuean hiapo on loan from Te Papa, shown as ceremonial gifts and diplomacy. Gallery 359.

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

National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Examines how comic book and graphic novel artists responded to 9/11, from pre-2001 fictional depictions of the World Trade Center through decades of memoirs, charitable efforts, and educational works.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The first US exhibition on the Savonnerie centers The Met's three monumental Baroque carpets woven for Louis XIV's Grande Galerie at the Louvre, tracing their making and dispersal.

National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Opened for the 25th anniversary, this exhibition explores how individuals and communities transformed grief into service inspired by 9/11, among a generation with no lived memory of the attacks.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.