MUSEUMS in NYC

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Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols

Saturday May 13 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

Friday Jul 21 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

Saturday Sep 02 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

Tuesday Nov 21 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...

RBG Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci

Friday Dec 15 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...

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

Friday Feb 02 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)

Friday Feb 02 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...

Four Seasons of Central Park: Watercolors by Frederick Brosen

Friday Feb 09 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...

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

Saturday Feb 10 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

Tuesday Feb 13 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

Thursday Feb 22 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

Friday Feb 23 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

Sunday Feb 25 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

Sunday Feb 25 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

Tuesday Feb 27 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

Saturday Mar 02 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

Wednesday Mar 06 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

Friday Mar 08 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

Friday Mar 08 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

Monday Mar 11 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...

I'm a thousand different people—Every one is real

Friday Mar 15 Through Sunday Jan 05

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

26 Wooster Street

Showcasing artists such as Ana Benaroya, Aziz + Cucher, Genesis Breyer P. Orridge, Angela Dufresne, and Jeffrey Gibson, ...

The Plural of He

Friday Mar 15 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 ...

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection

Friday Mar 15 Through Sunday Jan 12

The Guggenheim

By Way Of examines artmaking after World War II, particularly how artists continued to expand the boundaries of creativi...

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

Friday Mar 15 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...

Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning

Sunday Mar 17 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...

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