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Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026
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.
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In Christopher Soriano's Suits at the Corner, four jackets in rust, plum, black and camel hang in a shop window, behind a school-crossing sign and an overnight street-cleaning sign. It's the only still life in New York with alternate-side parking rules.
Soriano is one of seventeen New York teenagers in this year's Expanding the Walls, the Studio Museum's photography program, and their prints run along one long wall. Some go close: Yoselyn Lucero's parents' nutrition store in the South Bronx, Isabella Amankwa-Jones's black-and-white portraits of people she recognises on 125th Street. Others blur streets and subways. The teens also chose two James Van Der Zee photographs from the collection to hang beside theirs, one at a time. Step outside afterwards and you are on Amankwa-Jones's street.
No critic has reviewed it. More photographs and each artist's statement are online at expandingthewalls.studiomuseum.org. Admission is pay-what-you-can ($16 suggested, $9 for students and seniors), free on Sundays and for under-16s, and Fridays run to 9pm.
Look for
Christopher Soriano, Suits at the Corner
Four jackets, rust, plum, black and camel, hang on hooks in a shop window, with street signs standing in front of the glass.
James Van Der Zee, Parade on Seventh Avenue in Harlem
Crowds line Seventh Avenue for a 1917 parade, picked by the teens from the museum's Van Der Zee collection; it alternates with his Capital Grill Restaurant, c. 1940.
Yoselyn Lucero, El Corazón del Negocio
Look for Nutrición Siempre Saludable, her parents' store in the South Bronx, and the family and neighbours who come through it.
Isabella Amankwa-Jones's 125th Street portraits
Formal black-and-white portraits of people of colour she recognises on 125th Street, the street the museum stands on.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Evening Visits
- Teenagers
Skip if
You want established names: apart from one Van Der Zee print, every photographer here is a teenager.
With kids
Free for children 16 and under. On the third Wednesday of each month, Teen Studio (4 to 6pm) is a free drop-in art session for ages 14 to 18; preregistration required.
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Image credits
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- Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026Courtesy of The Studio Museum in Harlem
- Splendido, As Seen by Chris RhodesCourtesy of Aperture
- Pierre Huyghe: UUmweltCourtesy of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the SensesRhododendrites / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Studio Museum in Harlem19h00s, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0