February 2027
February at a glance: 1 exhibition opening, 9 closing, and 18 more on view across the city.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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)
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.

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.

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
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.
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.

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.