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Lunch & Learn: 100 Years of WNYC
PAST
Museums
NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS)
Virtual
Join the NYC Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) each month for our virtual Lunch & Learn Series - an...
Legends of Drag
PAST
Museums
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St
Floor 3, Theater, and Online, via Zoom 6:30 pm doors, 7 pm show In honor of Pride Month, and on HIV/AIDS Long-Term...
Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols
PAST
Through Sunday Aug 11
Museums
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St
"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
Museums
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
Museums
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
PAST
Through Sunday Jan 05
Museums
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
Museums
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St
"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
Museums
Museum Of The City Of New York
1220 5th Ave
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
Museums
The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave
"RBG Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci" is an installation of two dozen photographs of former US Supreme Court Just...
Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard
PAST
Through Sunday Jul 07
Museums
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...
Four Seasons of Central Park: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen
PAST
Through Sunday Jun 16
Museums
Museum Of The City Of New York
1220 5th Ave
This exhibit features watercolor works by New Yorker Frederick Brosen, showcasing one of NYC's most famous landmarks —Ma...
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
PAST
Through Sunday Jul 07
Museums
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
Museums
Asia Society Museum
725 Park Avenue
"COAL + ICE" is an immersive photography and video exhibition that visualizes the causes and consequences of the climate...
Nanni Balestrini: Art as Political Action—One Thousand and One Voices
PAST
Through Saturday Jun 22
Museums
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
Museums
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
Museums
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
Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
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
Museums
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St
"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
Museums
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
Museums
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St
"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
Museums
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
Museums
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
Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
Learn about the connection between art and commodification in this exhibit, which highlights the first century of photog...
New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam
PAST
Through Wednesday Jul 24
Museums
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...
The Plural of He
PAST
Through Sunday Jul 21
Museums
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 ...
Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning
PAST
Through Saturday Jul 06
Museums
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...
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