August 2027
August at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 2 closing, and 13 more on view across the city.

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.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Artist-centred history of modern African art in the independence years, built around congresses and festivals in Zimbabwe, Senegal, Algeria, Nigeria and South Africa.

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 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.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York's first major Eva Hesse museum show in over 20 years, centred on her drawings, with key paintings and major sculptures including Contingent (1969).
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art
First New York museum survey in 30 years: over 40 works placed across the Met in 14 departments, from a British dining room to the American Wing's Engelhard Court.

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
The Costume Institute's spring 2027 exhibition examines the career of John Galliano, one of the most inventive and influential designers of the past four decades.

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.