February 2027
February at a glance: 4 exhibitions opening, 12 closing, and 31 more on view across the city.

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.

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
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.
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
The dazzling stained-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, and interiors from Tiffany's studios began as drawings created by the many talented designers who worked there.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Multidisciplinary artist David Hartt transforms John Vanderlyn's 19th-century painting Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles into a site-specific installation exploring place and perspective.

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.

MoMA PS1 · Free
An international artistic campaign in support of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, presenting posters, film, photography, sculpture and ephemera by artists including Regina José Galindo and Carlos Amorales, organized by Estudio Pedro Reyes and ICAN.

MoMA PS1 · Free
Trained as a forensic pathologist and photographer, Margolles examines transnational violence, with particular attention to the US-Mexico border, through work that traces disappearances, femicides and displacement and rethinks the memorial.

Dia Chelsea · Free
Co-organized with Blank Forms, this show restages French composer Éliane Radigue's pulsating 1970s sonic installations in Dia's program space, with live synthesizer and acoustic performances.

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.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Over 60 oil and graphite sketches from Church's 1865 trip to Jamaica, documenting plant life and landscapes, drawn from Cooper Hewitt's collection of the artist's work.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Na Mira's first solo museum exhibition in New York: a newly commissioned media installation in the Kravis Studio using radio frequencies, infrared heat and holography, drawing on Korean shamanism and structural filmmaking.

The Frick Collection
New paintings by contemporary artist Kent Monkman responding to Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl, examining trade, colonization and Indigenous-European encounters through his alter ego Miss Chief.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
For the first time in decades, rarely lent sculptures leave Brancusi's Paris atelier (closed for renovation) to join MoMA's Brancusi collection, alongside his photographs, films, hand-carved furniture, tools and archival materials.

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.
American Museum of Natural History
An interactive exhibition on what color reveals about the natural world and ourselves, from how animals and plants use it to how it shapes mood.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Digital installation Berl-Berl reimagines Berlin's lost wetlands as a singing, digital swamp, blending ecological research, Slavic folklore and game-engine technology to explore human and more-than-human worlds.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
A major new commission premieres never-before-seen photographs, text, video, and sculpture in a single interactive installation spiraling through the entire rotunda.

MoMA PS1 · Free
A major exhibition examining the legacy of abstract painting by Black artists in the US from 1969 to today, featuring over forty artists across three generations.

MoMA PS1 · Free
Archive material and partial reconstructions of the fashion installations curator Hollywood Di Russo staged at PS1 with Julio, Charles James, Willi Smith and Betsey Johnson.

MoMA PS1 · Free
First US museum show of Masao Gozu: photographs from the 1970s to today, from his Windows series of tenement residents and the Harry's Bar series, with recent returns to the same sites.

Whitney Museum of American Art
Marking the 25th anniversary of the Whitney's artport platform, this show gathers over 100 commissioned net-art works charting the evolution of internet art from 2001 to 2024.

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 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 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)
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.

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.

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.