MUSEUMS in NYC

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Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols

PAST 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

PAST 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

PAST 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

PAST 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...

Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega

PAST Through Sunday Dec 08

Museum Of The City Of New York

The experience of walking El Barrio—the Museum of the City of New York’s own neighborhood—would be vastly different with...

RBG Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci

PAST Through Monday May 27

The Jewish Museum

"RBG Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci" is an installation of two dozen photographs of former US Supreme Court Just...

Outfoxed: Fox Terriers and Friends exhibit opening

PAST Through Sunday Apr 28

AKC Museum of the Dog

101 Park Avenue

Over the past 150 years, Fox Terriers, both Smooth and Wire, have been among the most popular and versatile breeds; whet...

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

PAST 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...

Futuristic Ancestry: Warping Matter and Space-time(s)

PAST Through Saturday May 25

Fotografiska Museum

281 Park Ave. South

"Futuristic Ancestry" is French artist Josèfa Ntjam’s solo U.S. museum show debut. The exhibition is a dynamic explorati...

Harold Cohen: Aaron

PAST Through Sunday May 19

The Whitney Museum of American Art

99 Gansevoort St

Aaron traces the evolution of the earliest artificial intelligence program for artmaking, devised by Harold Cohen. Once ...

Four Seasons of Central Park: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen

PAST Through Sunday Jun 16

Museum Of The City Of New York

This exhibit features watercolor works by New Yorker Frederick Brosen, showcasing one of NYC's most famous landmarks —Ma...

Human / Nature: Encountering Ourselves in the Natural World

PAST Through Sunday May 19

Fotografiska Museum NYC

281 Park Ave. South

Human / Nature explores the relationship between Earth and humanity, showcasing photographs, immersive video installatio...

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

PAST 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

PAST 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...

The Museum of Modern Art Presents Shana Moulton: Meta/Physical Therapy

PAST Through Sunday Apr 21

11 West 53rd Street New York, NY, 10019 United States

The Museum of Modern Art will be opening a new site specific installation by Shana Moulton called Meta/Physical Therapy ...

Nanni Balestrini: Art as Political Action—One Thousand and One Voices

PAST Through Saturday Jun 22

Center For Italian Modern Art (CIMA)

421 Broome St, 4th floor

Curated by Marco Scotini, this is the first retrospective exhibition in the United States of Nanni Balestrini, an Italia...

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

PAST Through Sunday Jun 09

The Morgan Library and Museum

225 Madison Ave

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature brings together artwork, books, manuscripts, and artifacts related to beloved children’s...

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

PAST 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

PAST 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

PAST 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...

Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

PAST Through Sunday Jun 02

The Drawing Center

"Joan Jonas: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral" is the ﬁrst major retrospective focused on works on paper by Joan Jonas, one of...

In The Now

PAST 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

PAST 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

PAST 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...

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