Exhibitions in New York

David Zwirner · Free · Past

A group exhibition of donated works by more than 40 artists, with all proceeds supporting the American Immigration Council and Journey's End Refugee Services.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Freestanding screens throughout the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden use machine learning and fMRI-derived data to generate hallucinatory images in real time, exploring nonhuman and machine cognition.

The Studio Museum in Harlem

Photography by seventeen teen artists from the Studio Museum's signature Expanding the Walls program, capturing New York's streets alongside intimate moments at home.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The first major survey of modern architecture across seven West African nations from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, exploring how building shaped newly independent states. Most objects have never been shown publicly.

The Shed · Free · Past

A new commission in The Shed's Open Call program for early-career, NYC-based artists, presented as part of the 2026 summer season. Free with reservation.

Gagosian · Free · Past

New paintings by Helen Marden at 541 West 24th Street, including her largest works to date and her first triptychs, made with acrylic, resin, and powdered pigment poured across canvas panels and incorporating found objects like shells and sea glass.

The Shed · Free · Past

Avi Amon's Open Call multimedia meditation on grief, memory, family, and borders, drawing on audio from cassette tapes his parents carried when they immigrated to the United States. Free with reservation.

The Shed · Free · Past

Rudi Goblen's Open Call interactive concert-play fusing live music, storytelling, dance, and spoken word to narrate the immigrant experience of a Nicaraguan man in the United States. Free with reservation.

MoMA PS1 · Past

MoMA PS1's signature outdoor music series returns for its 28th season, bringing underground and emerging talent from around the world to the Queens courtyard over six Fridays, marking the institution's 50th anniversary.

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.

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.

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.

David Zwirner · Free · Past

Richter's photorealist landscapes from the 1960s to the 2000s hang alongside his Abstract Paintings, tracing how representation and abstraction feed each other.

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.

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.

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.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Past

Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's 2006 film portrait of footballer Zinedine Zidane gets its first Guggenheim showing, marking the work's 20th anniversary and the 2026 World Cup in North America.

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

New mixed-media paintings in Eliza Douglas's first solo New York exhibition, curated by Francesco Bonami, at Gagosian's Park & 75 space.

Hauser & Wirth · Free · Past

The gallery's first exhibition devoted to radical Italian artist Carol Rama (1918-2015), gathering key works in paint, textile, sculpture and bricolage made between 1947 and 1998.

Hauser & Wirth · Free · Past

Across two floors of the 22nd Street gallery, Firelei Báez shows new paintings, works on paper and large-scale bronzes extending her engagement with colonial legacies and the African diaspora.

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.

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

Nearly 50 works from MoMA co-founder Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's folk-art collection (portraits, weathervanes, wooden toys) return for the first time in over 70 years, shown beside modern American art.

Pace Gallery · Free · Past

A career-spanning survey of the Anmatyerr artist's paintings and textiles from 1981 to 1995, following her 2025 Tate Modern retrospective, rooting abstraction in ancestral connection and ecology.

Pace Gallery · Free · Past

Fifteen iPad paintings from Hockney's Moon Room series, made in pandemic quarantine at his Normandy farmhouse in 2020, capture the moon's changing phases and nocturnal landscapes.

Pace Gallery · Free · Past

Over fifty paintings, sculptures and drawings, including the Technological Reliquaries, survey Paul Thek's preoccupation with disappearance, erasure and the ephemeral, with rarely seen works.

Pace Gallery · Free · Past

Paintings on maps and plate paintings of Italy's umbrella pines open a new chapter in Schnabel's decades-long relationship with the country, drawing on two of his longest-running bodies of work.

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.

The Shed · Past

Remembrance and movement, in a free exhibition on The Shed's outdoor Plaza.

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.

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.

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.

The Shed · Past

A 60-minute immersive blend of physical sets and interactive VR that drops groups of up to six into an original Black Mirror story. US debut, produced by Banijay Live Studio with Univrse.

The Studio Museum in Harlem · Past

The sixth in the Studio Museum's landmark "F" series, this group show gathers seventeen artists of African descent exploring spirituality, surrealism and nonlinear time.

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.

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

An all-ages interactive play space for testing soccer skills, part of the museum's World Cup, World Cultures series celebrating the science and community of sport.

The Morgan Library & Museum · Past

A rotating display in the historic library showcasing treasures from the Morgan's four curatorial departments, refreshed three times a year.

American Museum of Natural History · Past

A before-and-after look at the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 66 million years ago and reshaped life on Earth.

The Shed · Free · Past

Doug Aitken transforms the Level 2 Gallery into an immersive seven-screen environment built around a feature film scored with the LA Phil and LA Master Chorale, activated by live music throughout the run.

American Museum of Natural History · Past

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

The Morgan Library & Museum · Past

The rare Dunlap broadside of the Declaration of Independence shown alongside Revolutionary-era documents and artifacts from the Morgan's collection.

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.

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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Past

The first major show on the bond between musical instruments and the body brings together some 130 works across 4,000 years, from ancient rattles and Degas to one of Prince's guitars.

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.

Brooklyn Museum · Free · Past

In this site-specific installation, Keisha Scarville overlays portraits and still lifes onto abstract patterns, many sourced from garments owned by her late mother, Alma. Several images come from her series Mama's Clothes.

The Morgan Library & Museum · Past

A two-part show tracing tarot from a Renaissance courtly card game to its embrace by 20th- and 21st-century artists seeking new symbolic and spiritual languages.

The Morgan Library & Museum · Past

Ephemera from Richard L. Menschel's collection — gallery announcements, price lists, and promotional materials — chronicling the 1970s–80s "photo boom" that established photography as a fine art.

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 Met Cloisters · Past

Set in the medieval galleries of The Met Cloisters, this exhibition gathers over 50 works from Europe and the ancient Americas (500 to 1500 CE) exploring myth, hybrid creatures and the imagination.

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

About twenty-five works on paper from poet John Ashbery's personal collection, including portraits and collaborations by his artist friends, 1945–2007.

The Morgan Library & Museum · Past

Over 110 contact sheets and 20 enlargements trace photographer Peter Hujar's creative evolution from the 1950s through 1987.

The Morgan Library & Museum

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

Brooklyn Museum

An exhibition that puts America's past in dialogue with its present.

Brooklyn Museum

North American debut of Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen, with 140+ sculptural haute couture creations shown alongside contemporary art, design, and natural history specimens.

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

A sweeping survey of Pop art from the 1960s to today, with works by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Hamilton and Chryssa shown alongside a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror Room and recent contemporary acquisitions.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inaugurating the new Conde Nast Galleries, the Costume Institute pairs nearly 400 garments with paintings and sculpture to explore how art has depicted the dressed body.

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.

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.

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

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.