MUSEUMS in NYC

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Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols

Saturday May 13 Through Sunday Aug 11

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

"Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols" explores the interesting histories behind many of the symbols that instruct, p...

Women’s Work

Friday Jul 21 Through Sunday Aug 25

New-York Historical Society

New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street New York, NY, 10024 United States

What is 'women's work'? This exhibition showcases approximately 45 objects to demonstrate how “women’s work” eschews cat...

The Museum of Modern Art Presents Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design

Saturday Sep 02 Through Sunday Jul 07

The Museum of Modern Art

45 Rockefeller Plaza

The Museum of Modern Art will be opening the focused exhibition Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design at The...

Enchanting Imagination: The Objets d’Art of André Chervin and Carvin French Jewelers

Friday Sep 08 Through Sunday Jan 05

New-York Historical Society

New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street New York, NY, 10024 United States

"Enchanting Imagination: The Objets d’Art of André Chervin and Carvin French Jewelers" celebrates André Chervin, who, wi...

An Atlas of Es Devlin

Tuesday Nov 21 Through Sunday Aug 11

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

"An Atlas of Es Devlin" is the first monographic museum exhibition dedicated to British artist and stage designer Es Dev...

Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard

Friday Feb 02 Through Sunday Jul 07

Museum of the Moving Image

36-01 35 Avenue

This exhibition showcases more than 40 works by net artist and sculptor Auriea Harvey, including her net-based interacti...

Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Saturday Feb 10 Through Sunday Jul 07

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Pkwy

See artwork from the collection of cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys in this exhibition that fol...

COAL + ICE

Tuesday Feb 13 Through Sunday Aug 11

Asia Society Museum

725 Park Avenue

"COAL + ICE" is an immersive photography and video exhibition that visualizes the causes and consequences of the climate...

Aspects of Appearance: Portraits from the Collection in Context

PAST Through Sunday Jun 30

Derfner Judaica Museum

5901 Palisade Ave

Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale is pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition, ...

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

Sunday Feb 25 Through Sunday Jul 28

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, this exhibit explores the impact of Black cul...

Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection

Tuesday Feb 27 Through Monday Sep 02

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

"Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection" highlights how Cooper Hewitt acquires new work to shape the collectio...

Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962

Saturday Mar 02 Through Saturday Jul 20

Grey Art Museum

18 Cooper Square

Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962, the first major exhibition to examine the historical i...

In The Now

Friday Mar 08 Through Sunday Jul 07

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Pkwy

"In the Now" showcases almost fifty female artists who subvert traditional ideas of gender and nationality. With seventy...

Nona Faustine: White Shoes

Friday Mar 08 Through Sunday Jul 07

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Pkwy

In White Shoes, artist Nona Faustin asks “What does a Black person look like today in those places where Africans were o...

The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography

Monday Mar 11 Through Sunday Aug 04

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Learn about the connection between art and commodification in this exhibit, which highlights the first century of photog...

I'm a thousand different people—Every one is real

Friday Mar 15 Through Sunday Jan 05

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

26 Wooster Street

Showcasing artists such as Ana Benaroya, Aziz + Cucher, Genesis Breyer P. Orridge, Angela Dufresne, and Jeffrey Gibson, ...

The Plural of He

Friday Mar 15 Through Sunday Jul 21

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

26 Wooster Street

The Plural of He explores the life and work of Colin Robinson, a Trinidadian American poet and critic who was an unsung ...

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection

Friday Mar 15 Through Sunday Jan 12

The Guggenheim

By Way Of examines artmaking after World War II, particularly how artists continued to expand the boundaries of creativi...

New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam

Friday Mar 15 Through Wednesday Jul 24

New-York Historical Society

2 West 77th Street

This installation is organized around the Castello Plan, a map depicting New Amsterdam c. 1660, right before the English...

Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning

Sunday Mar 17 Through Saturday Jul 06

Museum of Modern Art

11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues

Good Night Good Morning highlights the work of Joan Jonas, a multidisciplinary artist who has redefined boundaries betwe...

Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within

Wednesday Mar 20 Through Sunday Jul 28

The Noguchi Museum

This exhibit follows the work and life of artist Toshiko Takaezu, featuring approximately 200 objects from public and pr...

Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other

Friday Mar 22 Through Sunday Sep 22

Museum of Arts and Design

2 Columbus Circle

Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other highlights thirty years of artmaking dedicated to the Black experience in America by mixe...

ASE: Afro Frequencies

Friday Mar 22 Through Monday Sep 02 | 10 am

ARTECHOUSE NYC

439 W 15th Street

Bold, beautiful, powerful; step into this vibrant Afrosurrealist exhibition, featuring the work of London-based Afro-sur...

Beatrice Glow: When Our Rivers Meet

Friday Mar 29 Through Sunday Aug 18

New-York Historical Society

2 West 77th Street

In this new exhibition, artist-in-residence Beatrice Glow reckons with the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the...

Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

Tuesday Apr 02 Through Sunday Jul 07

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This exhibit includes works by Renaissance artists such as Hans Memling, Lucas Cranach, Lorenzo Lotto, and Titian, explo...

Pacita Abad

Thursday Apr 04 Through Monday Sep 02

22-25 Jackson Ave

MoMA PS1 is showcasing the first-ever retrospective of Filipina-American artist Pacita Abad, who is self-taught and know...

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