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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...
Enchanting Imagination: The Objets d’Art of André Chervin and Carvin French Jewelers
Friday Sep 08
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within
PAST
Through Sunday Jul 28
Museums
The Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Rd
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
Museums
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
Museums
ARTECHOUSE NYC
439 W 15th Street
Bold, beautiful, powerful; step into this vibrant Afrosurrealist exhibition, featuring the work of London-based Afro-sur...
Pacita Abad
PAST
Through Monday Sep 02
Museums
MoMA PS1
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
Museums
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 ...
Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio
Friday Apr 12
Through Sunday Oct 20
Museums
The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Ave
This exhibition celebrates American artist Walton Ford, known for his watercolor paintings of wild animals. It features ...
Preservation In Progress: Picturing Immigration
Friday Apr 12
Through Sunday Oct 13
Museums
Museum Of The City Of New York
1220 5th Ave
This exhibition offers a behind-the-scenes look at the restoration of Samuel Bell Waugh’s famous (and huge) painting: Th...
Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut
Friday Apr 12
Through Friday Oct 18
Museums
American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square
Explore the intersection of art and psychiatry in this exhibition highlighting the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist France...
Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial (Part Two)
PAST
Through Tuesday Jul 16
Free
Museums
The Bronx Museum
1040 Grand Concourse
Part two of the Bronx Museum's Biennial, this exhibit features 53 emerging artists who explore pressing issues through t...
The Banksy Museum
PAST
Through Wednesday Jul 31
Museums
The Banksy Museum
227 Canal Street
The presence of The Banksy Museum in New York City has been confirmed. SoHo is now the home to the world's largest colle...
Lost New York
PAST
Through Sunday Sep 29
Museums
New-York Historical Society
New-York Historical Society, 2 West 77th Street New York, NY, 10024 United States
Showcasing treasures from the museum's collection of historical objects, "Lost New York" illustrates the changing city a...
Frederick Kiesler: Vision Machines
PAST
Through Sunday Jul 28
Museums
The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Ave
This exhibit highlights the work of Frederick Kiesler, an architect who ran the Laboratory for Design Correlation at Col...
No Escape: The Legacy of Attica Lives!
Thursday Apr 25
Through Sunday Nov 03
Museums
Poster House
119 W 23rd St
This exhibit tells the story of the 1971 Attica Prison Riot in New York, showcasing a selection of posters made near the...
Open Village
PAST
Through Sunday Aug 25 | 11 A.M.
Free
Museums
Historic Richmond Town
441 Clarke Ave, Staten Island, NY, 10306
The open air museum is alive with living history, demonstrated by costumed Historical Interpreters in structures through...
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
PAST
Through Sunday Aug 11
Museums
El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Ave
Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory is the first retrospective exhibition by the pioneering artist, curator, and th...
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