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MUSEUMS
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Barbie®: A Cultural Icon
Saturday Oct 19
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...
The Museum of Modern Art Presents Nour Mobarak: *Dafne Phono* October 26th – January 12th
PAST
Through Sunday Jan 12
Museums
MoMA
11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues New York, NY 10019
The Museum of Modern Art presents Nour Mobarak: Dafne Phono at the Museum of Modern Art from October 26th through Januar...
A Room of Her Own: The Estrados of Viceregal Spain
Friday Nov 01
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
Sunday Nov 03
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
Friday Nov 08
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 Matisse’s Cut-Outs: A Celebration November 9, 2024 – January 20, 2025
PAST
Through Monday Jan 20 | 10:30am
Museums
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
The Museum of Modern Art presents Matisse’s Cut-Outs: A Celebration at the Museum of Modern Art from November 9, 2024 th...
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...
Ceremonies Out of the Air: Ralph Lemon
Thursday Nov 14
Through Monday Feb 17
Museums
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave
This major exhibition of artist Ralph Lemon (b. 1952, Cincinnati) features more than forty artworks made over the last d...
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...
The Fortune Society: Future Freedoms
Thursday Nov 14
Through Monday Mar 24
Free
Museums
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave
The Fortune Society: Future Freedoms marks the second exhibition at MoMA PS1 by the Long Island City-based non-profit or...
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,...
Notre-Dame de Paris: The Augmented Exhibition
PAST
Through Friday Jan 31 | 10AM
Museums
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025 - Cathedral House
Experience an extraordinary union of history and technology at Notre-Dame de Paris: The Augmented Exhibition at the Cath...
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
Friday Nov 22
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...
Colorful Korea: The Lea R. Sneider Collection
Monday Dec 02
Through Monday Feb 16
Museums
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
Over the course of forty years, Lea R. Sneider (1925–2020) formed a significant collection of Korean art that challenged...
Untitled (The Greatest [Black] Art History Story Ever Told. Unfinished), Interpreted
Saturday Dec 14
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
Thursday Dec 26
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 ...
The Museum of Modern Art Presents *To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation* January 9, 2025 – January 30, 2025 at The Museum of Modern Art
PAST
Through Thursday Jan 30 | 10:30am
Free
Museums
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
The Museum of Modern Art announces To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation from J...
The Influential Legacy of the Kultur-Lige
PAST
| 2 PM
Museums
The Ukrainian Museum
222 E 6th Street
Kyiv, 1918: under the brief but hopeful tenure of the all-Ukrainian Central Rada, a group of Jewish political and cultur...
MOCA PRESENTS—Threads of Home, A Participatory Theatre Workshop
PAST
| 5:30 PM
Free
Museums
Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre St
During the Lunar New Year, family reunions can be moments we eagerly anticipate—or seek to avoid. The concepts of “famil...
Watson Adventures’ Murder at the Museum of Natural History Scavenger Hunt
PAST
| 2PM
Museums
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
Join Watson Adventures on a murder mystery scavenger hunt for adults at the Museum of Natural History! Someone, or some ...
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