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

PAST 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

PAST 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...

The Plural of He

PAST 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 ...

Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning

PAST 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

PAST 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

PAST 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

PAST 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...

Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

PAST 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

PAST 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...

Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo

PAST Through Sunday Aug 04

Brooklyn Museum

200 Eastern Pkwy

This exhibit showcases the work of the great Japanese artist, Hiroshige, known as one of the masters of ukiyo-e, an art ...

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