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MUSEUMS
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Robert Frank’s Scrapbook Footage
PAST
Through Saturday Mar 01
Museums
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
Robert Frank is best known for his pictures of a postwar America riven by social and political discord, and for the film...
Just Frame It: How Nike Turned Sports Stars into Superheroes
PAST
Through Sunday Feb 23
Museums
Poster House
119 W 23rd st
For a handful of decades at the end of the last century, one of the most popular ways for a superstar professional athle...
Poster House Presents Fall 2024 Exhibition: Lester Beall & A New American Identity
PAST
Through Sunday Feb 23
Museums
Poster House
119 West 23rd Street
Poster House, the first museum in the United States dedicated to the global history of posters, will open to the publi...
Designer’s Choice: Norman Teague—Jam Sessions, the Inaugural Exhibition in a New Series OCTOBER 10TH – MAY 11TH
Thursday Oct 10
Through Sunday May 11 | 6:30pm
Museums
MoMA
11 West 53rd Street New York, NY, 10019 United States
The Museum of Modern Art presents Designer’s Choice: Norman Teague—Jam Sessions, the Inaugural Exhibition in a New Serie...
Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans
Monday Oct 14
Through Sunday May 11
Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
Nothing in Florida is quite what it seems. A popular tourist destination since the early twentieth century, it is a plac...
Barbie®: A Cultural Icon
PAST
Through Sunday Mar 16
Museums
Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
2 Columbus Circle
"Barbie: A Cultural Icon" traces the 65-year evolution of Barbie and the doll’s global impact on fashion and popular cul...
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy
Friday Oct 25
Through Sunday May 04
Museums
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Ave
To mark the 2024 centenary of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum will present a major exhibit...
A Room of Her Own: The Estrados of Viceregal Spain
PAST
Through Saturday Mar 01 | 12 PM
Free
Museums
The Hispanic Society Museum & Library
3741 Broadway
A Room of Her Own delves into the rich, forgotten history of the estrado, a women’s private drawing room found throughou...
Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial
Saturday Nov 02
Through Tuesday Jul 01
Museums
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St
Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial explores design’s...
Vital Signs: Artists and the Body
PAST
Through Saturday Feb 22
Museums
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
“Behind this mask, another mask; I will never be done with removing all these faces,” wrote artist and poet Claude Cahun...
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
PAST
Through Sunday Mar 09
Museums
The Guggenheim
1071 5th Ave
Featuring around 100 artworks to be presented in the museum’s iconic rotunda, this major exhibition will examine the vib...
The Museum of Modern Art Presents Christian Marclay: The Clock November 10, 2024 – Spring 2025
Sunday Nov 10
Through Monday May 05 | 10:30am
Museums
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues New York, NY 10019
Encapsulating 100 years of moving-image history, Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour montage composed from...
Munich 1972: Sports Posters of the 20th Olympic Games
Thursday Nov 14
Through Sunday Apr 13
Museums
Poster House
119 W 23rd st
Experts debate which Olympics were the best designed, with Mexico City, Los Angeles, Barcelona, and Grenoble drawing ent...
Leaving the Smoke Behind: Enjoying an Awayday
Thursday Nov 14
Through Sunday Apr 13
Museums
Poster House
119 W 23rd st
The majority of the posters in this exhibition date from the Golden Age of London Passenger Transport Board posters, whe...
Solid Gold
Friday Nov 15
Through Sunday Jul 06
Museums
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy
Behold the majesty of gold in a shimmering exhibition dedicated to the element that has inspired countless works of art,...
The Museum of Modern Art Presents: Light: Rafaël Rozendaal, November 16, 2024 – Spring 2025
Saturday Nov 16
Through Friday May 16 | 10:30am
Museums
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
The Museum of Modern Art announces Light: Rafaël Rozendaal, an immersive digital artwork, on view from November 16, 2024...
The Museum of Modern Art Presents Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern November 17, 2024 – March 29, 2025
Sunday Nov 17
Through Saturday Mar 29 | 10:30am
Museums
MoMA
11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
MoMA would not be what it is today without Lillie Plummer Bliss. In 1929, after years of advocating for modern art in Ne...
Franz Kafka
Friday Nov 22
Through Sunday Apr 13
Museums
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Ave
When Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis at the age of forty, in 1924, few could have predicted the influence his relativel...
Taking Up Space: Selections from the 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards’ Scholarships and Gold Medal Awards
PAST
Through Sunday Feb 23
Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
This exhibition features a selection of artwork by teens from across the United States who received the highest national...
Untitled (The Greatest [Black] Art History Story Ever Told. Unfinished), Interpreted
PAST
Through Saturday Mar 08 | 4 PM
Free
Museums
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave
Invited guests respond to Ralph Lemon’s narrative epic, Untitled (The greatest [Black] art history story ever told. Unfi...
Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century
PAST
Through Saturday Mar 08
Free
Museums
Scandinavia House
58 Park Ave
An exhibition exploring the undertold stories of African American artists who sought new possibilities, inspiration and ...
'150 Years: A Portrait of the League' Now On View at The Arts Students League of New York
Friday Jan 24
Through Sunday May 11
Free
Museums
The Arts Students League of New York
215 W 57th St Suite 1
This year, the Art Students League of New York, the famed art school on 57th Street, is celebrating its 150th anniversar...
The Museum of Modern Art Presents *Pirouette: Turning Points in Design* January 26, 2025 – October 18, 2025, at The Museum of Modern Art
Sunday Jan 26
Through Saturday Oct 18 | 10:30am
Free
Museums
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Design is a fundamental element of life, an enzyme necessary to our evolution. It helps us cope with change and permeate...
Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
Saturday Feb 08
Through Sunday May 11
Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) reimagined European landscape painting by portraying nature as a setting for profound...
Museum of Modern Art Presents Anthony Harvey’s Dutchman and Billy Jackson’s We Are Universal February 13–19, 2025
PAST
Through Wednesday Feb 19 | 10:30am
Free
Museums
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
When Amiri Baraka’s explosive one-act play Dutchman premiered off Broadway in 1964, it outraged and electrified audience...
🎊 Black Future Festival
PAST
Through Saturday Feb 22 | 10AM
Free
Museums
Brooklyn Children's Museum
145 Brooklyn Avenue
Join BCM for a week of reflection and future-forward fun inspired by the national celebration of the African Diaspora an...
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