Exhibitions in New York

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

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.

Hauser & Wirth · Free · Past

At the Wooster Street space in SoHo, Rita Ackermann's Chemical Alphabet paintings take letters from a Semitic alphabet as compositional anchors, built up in acrylic chalkboard paint over silkscreened canvas and repeatedly erased and redrawn.

Hauser & Wirth · Free · Past

The first New York exhibition in nearly fifteen years devoted to Jean Arp, curated by Alexis Lowry with the Stiftung Arp, taking his late Threshold sculptures as a point of departure and tracing a line from his early cut-outs and reliefs to his mature work.

Hauser & Wirth · Free

At the 18th Street editions space, a survey spanning sixty years of the Brazilian artist's practice in three chapters — early prints and works on paper from the 1960s-70s, photography from the late 1970s-80s, and sculpture from 1990 to today — released alongside a documentary of the same title.

The Studio Museum in Harlem

A group exhibition exploring geometry as an organizational principle, translating sources from city maps to West African textiles into a shared visual vocabulary spanning figuration and abstraction.

Hauser & Wirth · Free · Past

London-based artist George Rouy's latest body of work, shown in sequential exhibitions with Hannah Barry Gallery, exploring the human body in states of transformation, reconstruction and becoming.

David Zwirner · Free · Past

New and recent landscape paintings by Scott Kahn, blending representational and surreal elements—billowing clouds, ominous moonscapes, and bare trees electrified by unexpected hues.

David Zwirner · Free · Past

Twelve large-format works from Ruff's jpegs ny series, pixelated images of the September 11 attacks, shown for the twenty-fifth anniversary.

David Zwirner · Free · Past

New shaped canvases, paintings, and works on paper, including key-shaped pieces, in which Lowman reworks imagery from art history, news, and pop culture to probe access and exclusion.

Hauser & Wirth · Free · Past

The gallery's first exhibition with Lee Bul, guest-curated by Dr. Jiyoon Lee, bringing together major new sculptures with recent bodies of work that examine humanity's drive to transcend nature through technology and systems of control.

Gagosian · Free · Past

Deana Lawson's first solo exhibition with the gallery, at 541 West 24th Street: mirror-framed photographs and holograms from her Edge Control series, which reimagines beauty-supply-store surveillance imagery.

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.

Pace Gallery · Free · Past

New monumental metal sculptures and intimately scaled ceramic works exploring "lightness, precarity, color, and construction" in aluminum, Cor-Ten steel, and clay, including a revived terra sigillata series.

Pace Gallery · Free · Past

Sculptures by Lynda Benglis spanning over five decades, in glazed ceramic, bronze, glass, and paper, exploring knotting, pleating, and folding across materials.

Brooklyn Museum

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

Pace Gallery · Free · Past

New paintings by Torkwase Dyson drawn from her experiences as a deep-sea diver, exploring the "boundless state change of water" through distance, light, perception, and planetary transformation.

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.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Past

Choreographer Sarah Michelson performs a daily dance in the Marron Family Atrium, treating it as her working studio alongside a rotating cast of dancers.

Gagosian · Free

A comprehensive survey of Brice Marden's paintings spanning six decades at the West 21st Street gallery, the first such show of his work in New York in twenty years, with major loans from the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney, and other collections.

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.

Gagosian · Past

New uniformly scaled sculptures by Jordan Wolfson incorporating emblematic color and black-and-white photographs sourced online and from personal and academic archives, at 555 West 24th Street — the artist's first exhibition with the gallery in New York.

David Zwirner · Free · Past

Abstract paintings and works on paper by the New Zealand-born, LA-based artist's third solo show with the gallery, pouring oils and unconventional materials like oxidized iron and copper to balance spontaneity and control.

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

The inaugural solo museum presentation of Senegalese American artist Coumba Samba, an immersive installation examining nuclear power and African resource extraction through symbols of the U.S. military-industrial complex.

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.

Gagosian · Free

Bea Scaccia's debut exhibition with the gallery, at the Park & 75 space: seven new paintings of nocturnal, sumptuous scenes assembled from fabric, wigs, jewelry and other accoutrements of feminine style, curated by Francesco Bonami.

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.

New Museum

Jafa's inaugural US museum survey spans nearly four decades of work, including "Love is the Message, The Message is Death" and the Golden Lion-winning "The White Album," alongside new pieces exploring Black life in America.

The Shed · Past

A live performance honouring the activism of a civil rights legend.

New Museum

A new site-specific video work by Singapore-based artist Ho Tzu Nyen installed in the museum's OMA-designed elevators, part of an ongoing series exploring power, endurance, and transformation.

New Museum

The US institutional debut of London- and Tokyo-based artist Umi Ishihara, bringing together three recent films exploring precarity and collective life through personal memory and social realities.

New Museum

The Italian artist's first solo New York museum show presents three recent films alongside the newly commissioned "Krapfen" (2025), blending horror, comedy, and animation to explore desire, memory, and perception.

New Museum

The inaugural exhibition traces five centuries of the Bowery's history, from Lenape footpath through skid row to thriving arts community, examining the street as a site of ongoing reinvention.

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.

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.

David Zwirner · Free · Past

A benefit exhibition of new and recent works by more than 50 contemporary artists, with proceeds supporting the Ali Forney Center's work with homeless LGBTQ+ youth in New York City — last year's edition raised nearly $1 million.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whitney Museum of American Art

A touring retrospective of self-taught artist Minnie Evans's work from 1935-1981 — vibrant drawings, paintings and collages blending spiritual imagery with natural motifs, made in North Carolina during the Jim Crow era.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.