ARTBEE

This annual juried exhibition celebrates the artistic achievements of New York City Public Schools students from prekindergarten through grade 12. Its 2026 edition presents 125 works selected from nearly 1,000 submissions, marking the program's 24th anniversary.

MoMA's interactive Art Lab invites visitors of all ages to explore imagination through hands-on activities. Families can invent creatures, construct whimsical worlds, and discover hidden portals while drawing inspiration from artworks in the museum's collection.

Roy Lichtenstein transformed the visual language of comics, advertising, consumer goods, and commercial printing into defining images of Pop art. His meticulously handmade works examine how images are constructed, copied, enlarged, circulated, and continually made new.

Early 20th-century European artists reimagined painting in response to rapid social and economic change and the energy of the avant-garde. Breaking with established traditions, they experimented with vivid color, flattened forms, and heightened emotional expression.

Nearly 40 bronzes establish Renaissance Siena as a center of artistic and technical innovation. Statues, reliefs, candelabra, medals, and other works—including pieces by Donatello, Vecchietta, and Francesco di Giorgio—demonstrate the beauty, versatility, and challenges of Sienese bronze production.

Major new sculptures and recent works by Lee Bul examine humanity's drive to transcend nature through technology and systems of control. The exhibition explores tensions between utopian ambition and collapse, tracing entangled relationships among technology, history, and nature.

Spanning two floors of the expanded New Museum, Arthur Jafa’s exhibition brings together new work with celebrated films, paintings, large-scale video installations, sculptures, and photographs.

Teresa Margolles's first large-scale U.S. museum exhibition brings together room-sized installations, sculpture, photography, video, and a new commission spanning three decades. Her research-driven practice examines transnational violence, disappearances, displacement, and societal neglect, with particular attention to the U.S.-Mexico border.

This exhibition examines the influential roles Jewish women played as artists, designers, patrons, and tastemakers within the Wiener Werkstätte, highlighting their contributions to modernist aesthetics in early 20th-century Vienna and beyond.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s The Substitute is an immersive video and sound installation that digitally resurrects the extinct male Northern white rhino. Part of Design Across Time, the work uses artificial intelligence and visual effects to recreate the lost animal.

More than 600 original drawings explore manga as an art form in the first major exhibition of its kind in the Americas. Featured works include examples from Inuyasha, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, ONE PIECE, and other series.

Tracing Nike's development from a small Oregon running company into a global cultural force, this exhibition brings together experimental prototypes, original design studies, rarities, one-offs, and iconic shoe collaborations, largely drawn from the company's archives.

Twenty-eight intergenerational artists reconsider the history of Japanese photography through work made from the 1950s to today. The exhibition centers women photographers across several generations, bringing together figures including Ishiuchi Miyako, Kawauchi Rinko, Okanoue Toshiko, and Yamazawa Eiko.

Centered on the second chapter of Laia Abril's ongoing project A History of Misogyny, this exhibition examines forms of violence against women throughout history.

This participatory installation explores books as creative spaces for storytelling, images, and artistic experimentation. Visitors can construct imaginary worlds, respond to drawing prompts, and explore bookmaking activities inspired by artists' books, including a collaborative installation developed with artist Chang Yuchen.

Jakob Kudsk Steensen transforms Berlin’s disappearing wetlands into an immersive digital landscape in Berl-Berl. Combining ecological fieldwork, local folklore, archival research, and technologies such as 3D scanning, the work invites visitors to reconsider their relationship with the natural world.

Garments, photographs, and memorabilia explore the decades-long friendship between Billie Jean King and Elton John and their shared advocacy for gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, and social change.

Drawing from the American Folk Art Museum's collection, this exhibition examines how vernacular art has helped construct ideas of American identity. Objects preserved across generations reveal how creators, collectors, and later owners have shaped cultural meanings and narratives of national history.

Approximately 100 examples of needlework and other ornamental arts made by American girls in the 18th and 19th centuries illuminate an understudied artistic tradition. Loans from more than 35 collections bring celebrated works together with rarely seen objects.

The exhibition is a provocative collection of artists’ distinct voices, creating an experience centered on how we demonstrate defiance in the face of challenges that are often greater than ourselves. Viewers are invited to consider: what does it mean to push boundaries, and how do we do it every day?

Having found the balance between technique and play, these artists present original acrylic paintings that boldly blur the lines between figuration (representing physical form) and abstraction (expressing the intangible). In doing so, the artists aim to communicate truths about a subject while transcending its original form.

For The WoodsWoman Method, Woolfalk has applied the lens of her WoodsWoman project to the Museum’s permanent collection—selecting artworks that explore related themes including speculative worlds, the cosmos, relationships between humans and nature, and the role of collective storytelling in building community.

Featuring 23 artists impacted by immigration, Hidden Altars of Grief and Remembrance brings together art, ritual, and collective care to explore grief, memory, cultural survival, ancestral remembrance, resistance to state violence, and immigrant community resilience.

Emma McIntyre's new paintings and works on paper use oils, oxidized iron, and poured pigments to create atmospheric, multilayered abstractions. Driven by color and gesture, their shifting surfaces move between order and chaos, spontaneity and deliberation.

Nate Lowman debuts a body of shaped canvases taking the form of keys, a new motif in his practice. The familiar objects bring associations of access, security, and exclusion into the physical shapes of the paintings themselves.

Deana Lawson's first solo exhibition with Gagosian brings together mirror-framed photographs and holograms addressing personhood, surveillance, and control.

Jordan Wolfson presents new work at Gagosian’s 555 West 24th Street gallery, marking the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery in New York.

Marc Kokopeli explores the hand as a site of gesture, communication, and adornment. Focusing on the sculpted ring and its relationship to maker, wearer, and viewer, the work disrupts distinctions between intrinsic and instrumental value and deliberately unsettles the senses.

Three monumental sculptures anchor this presentation of Arlene Shechet's work. The sculptures are related to Girl Group, her 2024 exhibition at Storm King Art Center.

Sculptures created by Lynda Benglis between 1972 and 2024 bring together glazed ceramic, bronze, pleated, and paper works. The presentation also highlights rarely exhibited glass sculptures from 1985, offering a cross-section of materials across more than five decades.

New paintings by Torkwase Dyson draw on her expeditions and sensory experiences as a deep-sea diver. The series uses those encounters beneath the ocean's surface to explore distance, light, perception, and broader questions of planetary transformation.

Nearly two decades of Carson Ellis's work trace a life devoted to illustration. Familiar album art and images from books including Home, Wildwood, and Du Iz Tak? appear alongside more incidental pieces and pictorial quilts, revealing connections across her varied visual practice.

A salvaged fire truck door honors the seven members of FDNY Rescue Company 2 who died on September 11, 2001, reflecting on remembrance and the preservation of historical evidence.

Revolutionary Women examines how women shaped—and were shaped by—the American Revolution in New York and beyond. Letters, petitions, military correspondence, archaeological objects, paintings, and household objects reveal women’s roles in the fight both for and against independence.

Focusing on Georgia's brief period of independence after the Russian Empire collapsed, this exhibition explores the avant-garde culture of Tiflis between 1917 and 1928. Artists and writers of varied backgrounds gathered in flourishing art and literary cafes for exhibitions, performances, lectures, and poetry.

Gen'ichirō Inokuma's first New York solo museum exhibition explores paintings and multimedia works from his 20 years in the city. Photographs, film, and ephemera illuminate his connections with the American avant-garde and his role bridging New York and visiting Japanese artists.

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock are reconsidered both on their own terms and through their artistic relationship. The exhibition examines two practices now recognized as central to mid-20th-century innovation, countering the historical tendency for Pollock's reputation to eclipse Krasner's.

Exploring the artist's book as a vital Surrealist medium, this exhibition gathers rare volumes by figures including André Breton, Claude Cahun, Salvador Dalí, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, and Toyen, revealing how books became vehicles for collaboration, experimentation, and the irrational.

Twenty-one works from the Brooklyn Museum collection trace more than 900 years of Japanese visual storytelling and the traditions behind modern manga. The installation explores how artists have used line and form to convey emotion, power, sound, and motion.

More than 50 modern European paintings, sculptures, and works on paper celebrate the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection. Works by Cézanne, Modigliani, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Soutine, and others mark a major gift shared among the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and MoMA.

Examining Hopi kachina dolls from their recipients' perspective, this exhibition foregrounds Hopi women's experiences, knowledge, and creative expression. Carved from cottonwood and distinctively painted, the dolls represent Katsinam, spirits associated with moisture and balance, and are treasured gifts primarily for girls and women.

You Should Be Dancing explores how punk, disco, and hip hop emerged from 1970s New York and reshaped American culture. Instruments, performance gear, fashion, photographs, albums, flyers, and performance clips evoke the clubs, bars, and gathering places that fueled these scenes.

Si Lewen's 63 charcoal, pencil, and ink drawings form a visual narrative about war, memory, and the human condition. Conceived after World War II, The Parade draws on Lewen's flight from Nazi persecution and his wartime experiences with the U.S. Army.

Studio Museum artists in residence Derriann Pharr, Simonette Quamina, and Taylor Simmons explore distinct approaches to figuration across painting, collage, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and mixed media. Grounded in cultural memory, their works move between familiar and otherworldly images, remembering and dreaming.

Soft Spaces brings together works by alumni of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art Fellowship. The installation series explores queer-centered spaces as places of safety, experimentation, vulnerability, and artistic process.

Presented with Photoville, New York Proud features Oscar B. Castillo’s portraits and stories celebrating immigrants’ essential role in shaping New York City’s identity, highlighting their contributions to the city’s culture, creativity, innovation, and future.

MoMA's first exhibition devoted entirely to information design brings together 30 digital and analog works. The presentation examines how people visualize information and how designers shape understanding, positioning information design as an important practice across the 20th and 21st centuries.

This first New York solo presentation of Indian artist Nilima Sheikh surveys works from the past two decades. The exhibition traces her recent practice through a selection that includes a new site-responsive group of paintings making its debut at MoMA.

More than 30 artists join objects, archival materials, videos, and interactive listening stations in an exploration of Lenape/Lunáapeew legacies and futures. The exhibition centers the enduring presence and living cultures of the original people of Lenapehoking/Lunaapeewáhkiing, including present-day New York City.

Tracing more than 250 years of activism in New York, this exhibition follows generations of residents who have worked to change the city. Historical movements are organized around four recurring tactics: demonstrations, organizing, art and media, and direct action.

This exhibition surveys the twelve-year career of female French design team Lefor-Openo, whose bright, optimistic advertising posters emerged amid the dramatic social and political changes of postwar France. Their work offers a lens on midcentury French society, politics, consumer culture, and changing ways of life.

Spanning nearly two centuries and representing more than 60 tribes and nations, this exhibition celebrates Native and Indigenous graphic design as a living history of innovation, resistance, and self-representation. The works challenge reductive colonial imagery and show Indigenous practitioners as active shapers of visual culture.

David Hartt transforms John Vanderlyn's panoramic view of Versailles from 1818–19 through a contemporary architectural intervention. The installation activates one of the largest surviving panoramas in the United States, bringing past and present together through questions of place and perspective.

Diego Marcon presents meticulously staged films and animations that use ambiguous, morally unsettling stories to explore human desire, memory, and self-perception.

Ho Tzu Nyen transforms the New Museum’s elevators with a site-specific work exploring political, technological, and more fluid forms of power through digitally rendered children delivering questions, mantras, and riddles.

Umi Ishihara’s US institutional debut brings together three films combining intimate observation, personal and collective histories, and surreal elements to explore precarity, desire, belonging, and community.

Tracing the history and culture of New York’s oldest thoroughfare, this exhibition brings together artworks and artifacts exploring the Bowery as street, neighborhood, and state of mind.

RIBBIT explores amphibians and reptiles across art, folklore, literature, and visual storytelling, tracing how their transformations, unusual forms, and expressive qualities have inspired everything from children’s books and fantasy to environmental and scientific illustration.

Bea Scaccia: Groomed presents seven new paintings by Scaccia at Gagosian’s Park & 75 location. Curated by Francesco Bonami, the exhibition is the artist’s debut presentation with the gallery.

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra creates an immersive environment of monumental drawings, suspended structures, and folded-paper sculptures exploring spirituality and ecological consciousness. Beeswax, marine imagery, plants, water deities, and natural signs connect the human body with landscape and the natural world.

Posters, costumes, photographs, and theatrical memorabilia trace women’s contributions to New York theatre, from pioneering 19th-century performers to the collaborative downtown scene of the 1960s.

Joseph Yaeger presents watercolor-on-gesso paintings that explore how shared cultural imagery is filtered through private desire. Accompanied by a new publication, the exhibition considers falsehoods, misidentifications, and the shifting relationship between experience and recollection.

Ugo Rondinone presents twelve monumental vertical sculptures resembling waterfalls suspended in motion. Made from transparent resin, crushed-gemstone pigments, and traces of the artist’s body, the works explore transformation across human, geological, and technological scales of time.

More than six decades of Anna Maria Maiolino's practice connect drawing, photography, sculpture, performance, and installation with experiences of migration, motherhood, and daily life. The exhibition considers her evolving exploration of corporeal existence, memory, and the fundamental condition of being human.

Asher Liftin transforms his own photographs into meticulously hand-crafted paintings and drawings built from grids, lines, and dots of cyan, yellow, magenta, and black. Moving between photographic clarity and abstraction, the works explore the relationship between image-making, perception, and cognition.

Cristina BanBan presents new paintings exploring the female body as fluid and reshaped through relationships with others. Intertwined figures merge and separate across the compositions, using bodily proximity to examine desire, tension, transformation, and the shifting boundary between figuration and abstraction.

Works spanning the 16th through 20th centuries bring together art and culture from Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Goa, and the Philippines. Paintings and objects displayed throughout the Main Court reflect the breadth and continuing development of the Hispanic Society's collection.

Esperanza Cortés creates works inspired by the Hispanic Society's collection, from Velázquez and Goya to metalwork and mantones de Manila. Developed during an artist research fellowship, the project weaves personal histories of triumph and tragedy with cultural heritage and colonial legacies.

Harlem-based painter Tom Sanford celebrates the energy and communal rhythms of an Upper Manhattan summer in this outdoor project. Drawing on neighborhood life, pop culture, and art history, the work also pays tribute to Joaquín Sorolla's monumental Vision of Spain.

This exhibition explores seldom-seen travel posters from Czechoslovakia’s First Republic (1918–1938), when tourism served as both leisure and diplomacy. Created by artists, designers, and commercial studios, the posters promoted the new nation as a destination of opportunity, beauty, and progress.

During World Wars I and II, portable books became an important source of entertainment and morale for soldiers carrying few possessions. Reading offered troops moments of mental escape during lulls in combat and long periods waiting for orders.

Thomas Paine's Common Sense and The American Crisis enter into dialogue with nine contemporary artworks addressing democracy, community, American history, and political power. Artists including Charles Gaines, Joyce Kozloff, Hank Willis Thomas, and Kara Walker connect revolutionary-era questions with the present.

Donald Moffett transforms Representative John Lewis's 1998 speech during the Clinton impeachment debate into an immersive sound installation. Removed from its original setting, Lewis's words, applause, and the chairman's gavel invite renewed attention to his appeal for unity amid national division.

Documents, public notices, and handmade cards from the aftermath of September 11 reveal how New Yorkers navigated disrupted daily life and supported rescue workers and affected communities.

Joan Snyder's My August combines expressive brushwork with rosebuds, straw, and other natural materials. Inspired by the landscape of upstate New York, the painting layers vibrant colors and textures to explore the emotional and symbolic connections between nature and personal experience.

Revisiting Papo Colo's 1982 project Octopus: An Act of Sculpture, this exhibition presents several of its large plywood panels for the first time in more than four decades. Related works explore collaboration between artists and poets and experiments with the book form.

This exhibition presents individual and collaborative artworks created by young participants in MoMA's In the Making studio program. Exploring photography, shelter, nature, and experimental mark-making, the works reveal how emerging artists use materials and personal perspectives to investigate contemporary ideas.

Sheree Hovsepian explores the human body through fragmented photographs, ceramics, wood, and stretched nylon. Her sculptural assemblages combine intimate imagery with unexpected materials, challenging conventional representations of the figure and examining the body's vulnerability, complexity, and instability.

Democracy Matters explores how American democracy has expanded, contracted, and changed across the nation’s history. Objects from The New York Historical’s collections and interactive displays examine competing ideas of democracy through themes including protest, speech, symbols, and petitioning.

Pierre Huyghe transforms imagined images reconstructed from brain scans into an evolving, AI-generated installation in MoMA's Sculpture Garden. Visitor movements and biological simulation data influence the imagery, exploring the boundaries between human and machine perception.

Six decades of Brice Marden's painting come together in his first comprehensive New York survey in 20 years. Major institutional loans, works from the artist's estate, and private collections include paintings that have rarely, if ever, been publicly exhibited.

Nine life-size drawings by David Byrne occupy stairwell landings from the first through seventh floors of Pace's New York flagship. Drawn directly on the walls over several days, the playful, surreal figures are intended to confront viewers at human scale.

Examining modern architecture in Western Africa from the late 1950s through the early 1980s, this exhibition connects architectural production to political independence, Pan-Africanism, and Africanization across seven countries, with particular attention to the first generation of trained African architects.

Iris van Herpen's work brings traditional couture artisanship together with innovative technologies and techniques. Moving from the microscopic to the expansive, the exhibition explores the body's place in space, its relationship to clothing and environment, and its possible future.

Hortensia Mi Kafchin activates the museum's facade with a three-channel synchronized video installation. Known for dreamscapes bridging pastoral, surrealist, and techno-futuristic imagery, the painter returns here to a multidisciplinary approach in a new work created for the site.

Shu Lea Cheang's new commission begins with a portal: an apartment-block wall dissolves into a turbulent sky, where a smoky being is enveloped by a six-winged seraphim.

Fashion's longstanding relationship with dolls unfolds from 18th-century fashion dolls to contemporary design. Clothing, accessories, hair, makeup, movement, and gesture reveal influences ranging from baby-doll and paper-doll looks to creepy dolls, with works by Marc Jacobs, Patrick Kelly, and others.

Margaret Vendryes’s portrait of James Baldwin combines African mask traditions with contemporary cultural imagery to examine race, identity, beauty, and representations of Black experience.

Sculptures made primarily in the 1970s trace Oded Halahmy's artistic language after his move from London to New York. Often suggesting ladders and windows, these intimate wood models evoke family, ritual, memory, movement, and preparations for monumental sculptures.

Exploring 17th-century Nanjing as a city shaped by layers of cultural memory, this exhibition considers how artists encountered material and poetic traces of earlier dynasties. The Ming dynasty's fall in 1644 added new experiences of loss, nostalgia, and historical rupture.

Bringing together drawings, paintings, photographs, and sculptures, Tone explores black, white, and the values between as an expressive material language. The exhibition traces how artists use tonal variation to shape form, rhythm, contrast, and meaning across media.

Fifty original botanical artworks selected from 205 entries form the American Society of Botanical Artists' 29th Annual International Exhibition. Artists from nine countries, including 11 first-time participants, present contemporary botanical art in the Society of Illustrators' Garden Gallery.

This major exhibition examines Teddy Sandoval's art and life, foregrounding a practice shaped by Los Angeles's queer and Chicane communities. With humor and political urgency, Sandoval explored gender, sexuality, identity, and belonging amid social and cultural movements from the 1970s through the 1990s.

Works by 29 artists trace Pop art from the 1960s to the present through the Guggenheim's collection. Historical figures including Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol appear alongside recently acquired works by a wide range of contemporary artists.

Pairing contemporary art with Byzantine Egyptian funerary objects, this transhistorical presentation explores death, memorialization, and visions of the afterlife. Jewelry, textiles, ivory, vessels, and architectural sculpture appear alongside contemporary sculptures, works on paper, and installations from the 1960s onward.

The Costume Institute explores representations of the dressed body across The Met's collection, pairing garments with works of art to examine the relationship between clothing and the human body.

Minnie Evans's radiant drawings, paintings, and collages draw on dreams, Afro-Caribbean heritage, mythology, religion, popular culture, decorative arts, and nature. Filled with angels, mythical creatures, faces, and intricate patterns, her kaleidoscopic compositions envision what she called the "lost world."

David Lamelas: The Machine surveys six decades of the Argentine artist’s work across sculpture, installation, performance, film, painting, and drawing. Its presentation, film program, and performance series explore Lamelas’s longstanding interests in information, communication, space, and viewer perception.

Art of the Street explores graffiti, street art, and public art through works inspired by New York’s urban visual culture. Artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring trace a movement that grew from defiance into a global artistic force.

More than 135 rare books, manuscripts, playbills, drawings, prints, and illustrations explore Irish literature since 1798. The exhibition examines how writers in Ireland and across the diaspora have used history and myth to address crisis, identity, exile, nationhood, and political change.

Featuring European paintings from The Met's collection, this installation examines the interdependence of human and nonhuman histories. Works by artists including Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Nicolas Poussin explore humanity's complex relationship with nature and its place within natural ecosystems.

Coumba Samba's first solo museum presentation highlights the Senegalese American artist's site-specific practice. Drawing on histories of modernist abstraction and minimalism, her installations use seemingly neutral forms from the built environment to expose underlying social, political, and economic structures.

The first U.S. retrospective of Ed Young presents original artwork from 15 major children's-book projects alongside sketchbooks, family photographs, and personal objects. The exhibition traces six decades of storytelling and illustration shaped by personal history, Chinese folklore, and emotional and pictorial complexity.

Celebrating the 2026 Year of the Horse, this presentation draws on the East Asian zodiac's twelve-year cycle. Long established in the Chinese calendar, the horse is traditionally associated with qualities of power, strength, and vitality.

Film footage, interviews, architectural plans, and preparatory renderings revisit the Panorama of the City of New York's major 1992–94 restoration. Behind-the-scenes documentation reveals how the celebrated model was built, maintained, renovated, and transformed in relation to its viewers.

Through Motion and Repose features photography by seventeen artists in the 2026 cohort of Expanding the Walls, the Studio Museum in Harlem’s teen program connecting photography, history, and community.

Celebrating the Brooklyn Museum's 200th anniversary, this collection exhibition combines longtime favorites with recent additions across three chapters. The presentation revisits the museum's collecting history while bringing forward new narratives and considering how the collection may continue to evolve.

Three collections of photographs selected by the Queens Museum's Terra Foundation Fellows explore changing ideas of what “American” can mean. Drawing on lived experience, research, and collaboration, the images address family, nostalgia, migration, visibility, intimacy, conflict, fame, and roots.

Sonia Boyce transforms films and photographs created during community gatherings at the Queens Museum into an immersive environment of videos, kaleidoscopic wallpaper, and images. Singing, speaking, movement, artmaking, testimony, and ritual explore collective voice as a vehicle for belonging, imagination, and change.

Afruz Amighi’s sculptural installation brings mythological figures from diverse cultures together in luminous alabaster and steel, using fragmentation, transformation, sacred relics, sound, and a pulsing heartbeat to explore spiritual power and interconnectedness.

Hannah Altman brings photographs exploring myth, performance, memory, Jewish ritual, and folklore into dialogue with Christian treasures and Jewish ceremonial art, including newly commissioned works that examine inheritance, ritual, and reinvention.

Bringing Jewish and Christian sacred art into dialogue, this exhibition examines more than six centuries of interconnected Central European history. Over 160 objects include Christian reliquaries from St. Vitus Cathedral alongside Jewish ceremonial works, manuscripts, metalwork, and rarely seen medieval treasures.

Artists use geometry as a language for emotion, identity, formal inquiry, and spiritual or philosophical questions. Moving between abstraction and figuration, the exhibition considers lines, shapes, grids, patterns, volume, and structure while questioning assumptions about geometric purity and representation.

Artists Against the Bomb brings together posters, photography, film, sculpture, and other creative works advocating for nuclear disarmament. Organized by Estudio Pedro Reyes and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the exhibition features contributions from artists around the world.

Clouds become a meeting point for art and science in this exhibition about changing ways of observing weather. In the early 1800s, landscape painters captured fleeting atmospheric effects outdoors while meteorologists began systematically studying and classifying clouds.

Examining 19th-century ideas of "the East," this exhibition considers artistic exchange between Europe and the Middle East amid colonialism and imperialism. Accelerated travel, technological change, shifting geopolitics, and interactions between hard and soft power shaped encounters between distant regions and cultures.

Works from Peggy Cooper Cafritz's historic gift reveal the collector's commitment to artists of African descent and to supporting emerging practices. Paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper illuminate collecting as an act of equity, beauty, advocacy, and permanence.

Taryn Simon premieres a new body of photographs, text, videos, and sculptures in an interactive installation filling the Guggenheim rotunda. The presentation is the rotunda's first monographic exhibition by a photography-based artist and the museum's largest debut of new work.

Transforming the Museum of the City of New York's third floor into a 7,000-square-foot immersive journey, this exhibition examines Revolutionary-era New York through civic choice and consequence, connecting decisions made 250 years ago with their continuing effects on the city and nation.

Kapwani Kiwanga's site-specific textile installation draws on quilting traditions, natural dyes, and histories of Black knowledge sharing. A flying-geese pattern, Atlantic salt water, pokeberries, and indigo connect migration, enslavement, resistance, ancestral memory, land, and the passage of time.

Jessica Lichtenstein transforms the museum's third-floor gallery into an overgrown terrain where thousands of digitally rendered female nudes form forests, ruins, and flowering canopies. Her layered, technicolor landscapes combine installation, painting, sculpture, and video in feminist reimaginings of nature and the female form.

Taking Back Our Space brings Marianne Wex’s 1977 feminist photographic project into dialogue with recent works by seven contemporary artists. Through photography, the eight artists explore relationships between bodies and space from intersectional feminist perspectives, with all works shown at MoMA for the first time.

Celebrating the centenary of Val-Kill Industries, this exhibition examines the women-led furniture venture founded by Eleanor Roosevelt and fellow activists in 1926. Furniture and loans illuminate its revival of historical traditions and connections among craft, design, immigrant and rural makers, and social reform.

Alex Da Corte transforms a reproduction of Roy Lichtenstein’s Hot Dog by sweeping ketchup across its surface, bringing Pop Art into dialogue with Abstract Expressionism. Displayed on Gansevoort Street, the billboard also responds to nearby hot dog vendors and the street’s public life.

Rare photographs, reproductions of Joaquín Sorolla's preparatory sketches, and excerpts from his letters tell the story behind Vision of Spain. Installed outdoors on Audubon Terrace, the exhibition marks the mural series' centenary and traces the demanding process of creating and installing it.

Rather than presenting Korean objects only from their conventional "best" angle, this exhibition encourages close looking from multiple viewpoints, revealing interiors, reverses, and other details that are normally difficult to see.

This exhibition brings together Roy Lichtenstein’s late projects from 1997, including murals, large-scale sculptures, prints, and unfinished works. It highlights his expanding color palette, experiments without his signature black outlines, and continuing engagement with new technologies and diverse art-historical references.

Michael Richards's Free F'All depicts a pilot with closed eyes wearing a flight cap, goggles, and parachute backpack, his arms and torso pierced by dozens of nails.

Four large-scale sculptures by Liu Wei transform The Met's Fifth Avenue facade through motifs drawn from urban fragments, historical sources, and bodily forms. Recurring images of the human hand connect the recognizable and fantastical while exploring cycles of rupture and mending.

Photographs and archival objects capture queer celebration, creativity, and community in late-20th-century New York, exploring joy as a source of visibility, resilience, and political power.

Exploring Hindu devotional prints from 1860 to 1930, this exhibition traces how chromolithography transformed domestic worship in India. Inexpensive, mass-produced images of Hindu deities enabled colorful icons to become widely accessible for household shrines and the practice of darshan.

Approximately 350 works trace the history and diversity of Japanese ceramics, from early hand-built figurines to contemporary sculptural compositions. Organized thematically, the exhibition explores changing forms and functions across everyday tableware, vessels for tea masters and elite households, and modern ceramic art.

More than 50 works from the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection portray New York through harbors, diners, speakeasies, skyscrapers, and streetscapes. The exhibition spans movements including Abstract Expressionism, Pop, the Ashcan School, and graffiti art.

This exhibition explores the glazed terracotta tradition pioneered by Luca della Robbia in 15th-century Florence and developed by Andrea and Giovanni della Robbia. Their family workshop transformed local clay and colored glazes into luminous reliefs and sculptures whose surfaces retain remarkable vibrancy.

Commissioned by Louis XIV in 1668, the Savonnerie carpet was conceived as the largest carpet ever woven. Its 92 individual pieces were designed to span the Louvre's 440-meter Grande Galerie, an unprecedented undertaking in the history of art.

Personal stories, cultural traces, and historical context explore multiple generations of Chinese American experience and America's development as a nation of immigrants. The long-term exhibition examines U.S.–China relations, changing perceptions of Chinese Americans, and their impact on American politics, culture, and life.

More than 100 artworks and ritual objects recreate the setting of an elaborate Tibetan Buddhist household shrine. Thangkas, sculptures, furniture, musical instruments, and chanted prayers spanning the 12th to 21st centuries evoke traditions of offerings, prayer, meditation, and multisensory ritual.

Spanning the first floor of Cooper Hewitt's Carnegie Mansion, this exhibition explores the national design collection across graphic and product design, fashion, textiles, furniture, wallcoverings, digital design, and architecture. Thematic groupings examine creative approaches including play, repetition, transformation, craftsmanship, and simplification.

Joaquín Sorolla's monumental Vision of Spain surrounds visitors with 14 paintings depicting the people, costumes, and traditions of Spanish regions. Commissioned in 1911 and painted across Spain from 1912 to 1919, the site-specific series spans nearly 200 feet in combined length.

Precious Okoyomon transforms MoMA PS1's courtyard into a living forest of plants, interactive sculpture, and sound. Titled Among the Flowers I Learned to Love: A Garden of Decreation, the evolving installation brings together native and invasive species, cultivated and wild growth, and pollinators.

Esteban Cabeza de Baca's MoMA PS1 mural combines Mesoamerican imagery, labor histories, and visions of the future. Symbols including a black eagle, prayer beads, corn, beans, and squash connect migrant advocacy, land protection, and Indigenous traditions, alongside references to Mexican Muralism and 5Pointz.

James Turrell's Meeting is a site-specific Skyspace framing an unobstructed view of the sky. Through this architectural installation, the artist explores light, space, and human perception, inviting visitors to look upward and experience the act of seeing.

Patrick Jacobs creates an illusion of extraordinary depth within a miniature sculptural world. Drawing on techniques associated with painting, sculpture, photography, and optical lenses, his work challenges viewers’ perceptions of space and scale.

Charles Simonds creates miniature architectural environments from tiny clay bricks, imagining dwellings for fictional civilizations of “Little People.” Inspired by archaeological sites such as Mesa Verde, these fragile structures evoke ruins, migration, and the passage of time.

A display of glass goblets in the museum’s third-floor stairwell showcases artists’ craftsmanship, ingenuity, and experimentation. The installation also explores how exchanges with Venetian glassmakers helped establish goblet-making as an important part of American glass education.

Judith Schaechter’s Seeing is Believing is a commissioned installation in the Museum of Arts and Design’s second-floor stairwell. Installed when the museum opened its Columbus Circle building in 2008, the work occupies a light-filled architectural space.

New York City's history and future unfold through the themes of money, density, diversity, and creativity. Stories of immigrants, politicians, tycoons, dreamers, master builders, and ordinary New Yorkers trace the innovation, energy, struggle, and vision that have shaped the city.

Conceived by Cooper Joseph Studio, Starlight uses 5,283 points of light to accentuate the museum's sweeping Rotunda staircase. The low-energy installation complements the building's 1932 neo-Georgian architecture while reflecting the museum's mission to connect New York's past and present.

This short documentary traces New York City's growth from a small settlement into today's metropolis through animated maps and archival photographs, prints, and paintings. An expanded final chapter examines the dramatic and sometimes challenging transformations of the early 21st century.

Klára Hosnedlová's first U.S. museum project transforms the New Museum's Atrium Stair with sandstone, glass, flax-based textile, and intricate embroidery. Visible from the Lobby through the Fourth Floor, the site-specific installation reflects her interests in labor, gender, and historical memory.

Tschabalala Self's site-specific facade sculpture depicts a couple embracing at the architectural meeting point between the New Museum's original building and its expansion. Visible from Bowery and Prince Street, Art Lovers connects a contemporary portrait of New York life with public space.

Sarah Lucas's VENUS VICTORIA inaugurates the New Museum's public-plaza commission program. Selected by an all-artist jury, the work will remain for two years in the outdoor plaza at Bowery and Prince Street created as part of the museum's building expansion.

The sixth New Museum Triennial presents the museum’s recurring international exhibition devoted to early-career artists from around the world.

Drawn from Robert A. Caro’s archive, this exhibition reveals how the acclaimed biographer and historian worked as a reporter and chronicler of political power. Research notebooks, interview notes, photographs, manuscript pages, scrapbooks, and a typewriter illuminate his meticulous process.

Discover American folk art from the Elie and Viola Nadelman Collection, including weathervanes, toys, chalkware figures, and 19th-century portraits that reveal diverse traditions of craftsmanship.

Explore John James Audubon’s Birds of America, celebrated for its lifelike illustrations of North American birds, while confronting the artist’s connections to slavery and scientific racism.

A brick from the original Stonewall Inn facade commemorates the 1969 uprising in Greenwich Village and its pivotal role in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.

A rare hand-carved carousel horse introduces Charles I.D. Looff, the pioneering craftsman whose elaborate wooden animals helped shape Coney Island’s early amusement culture.

This 17-minute film, narrated by Meryl Streep, explores New York women’s fight for suffrage and broader social change, highlighting activists who challenged inequality in politics, labor, and everyday life.

One hundred illuminated Tiffany lamps fill a jewel-like gallery, including Dragonfly, Dogwood, Wisteria, and Cobweb designs. The presentation also highlights Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls, whose contributions helped shape the celebrated leaded-glass lamps of Tiffany Studios.

Explore the life of Hercules Posey, George Washington’s enslaved chef, through an installation examining his culinary expertise, work in the presidential household, and later life as a free Black New Yorker.

The surviving original ceiling from Keith Haring’s SoHo Pop Shop showcases his bold black-and-white imagery and his commitment to making art accessible beyond traditional galleries.

This permanent gallery recreates the White House Oval Office with decor evoking Ronald Reagan’s second term and traces the evolution of the presidency through artworks and objects. Visitors can explore the presidential workspace and hear recordings of presidential reflections.

Nari Ward’s monumental artwork transforms donated shoelaces into the opening words of the U.S. Constitution, inviting reflection on belonging, democracy, and the evolving meaning of We the People.

Explore New York and American history through objects from the museum’s permanent collection, including Revolutionary-era textiles, historic artworks, and artifacts documenting the Civil War, immigration, and the city's development.

Our Composite Nation brings Frederick Douglass’ post-Civil War vision of a plural American democracy to life through artifacts, images, and theatrical design. The installation explores his arguments for freedom, citizenship, equal rights, and a nation united across differences.

Discover Picasso’s monumental 1919 painted curtain for Le Tricorne, created for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and explore its place in the artist’s theatrical work and New York history.

A selection of contemporary portraits from the museum’s recent acquisitions explores family, identity, resilience, and cultural life through works by Jessica Alazraki, Tim Okamura, and Oscar yi Hou.

Richard Haas’s illusionistic Manhattan cityscape captures a sweeping view from Midtown toward the World Trade Center, revealing the artist’s playful relationship between painting and architecture.

American silver objects, from colonial teapots to Tiffany creations, trace New York’s changing craftsmanship, cultural influences, and commercial history across several centuries.

Life-size bronze statues of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass explore their shared commitment to ending slavery, their evolving relationship, and New York’s connections to their lives.

Two life-size sculptures recreate the 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, illuminating the political rivalry and codes of honor that led to Hamilton’s death.

The Weitzman Shoe Museum explores footwear as both functional object and cultural expression. Historical shoes, Stuart Weitzman designs, and artist-made fantasy shoes illuminate themes of fashion, consumption, celebrity, industry, femininity, power, and aspiration.

An interactive installation across nine touchscreens celebrates influential women in American history through biographies, interviews, images, music, and stories of achievement and social change.

Formed by collector and art dealer Justin K. Thannhauser, this collection surveys late 19th- and early 20th-century modernism through works by Degas, Manet, Van Gogh, and others, including more than 30 works by Pablo Picasso.

Alex Strada’s Public Address brings the perspectives of people living and working in shelters to public signage across the Bronx. Created in partnership with Storefront for Art and Architecture, the project uses civic infrastructure to amplify overlooked voices and encourage dialogue.

More than 200 works from the Jewish Museum's collection unfold across the third floor in an integrated thematic and chronological presentation, ranging from archaeological artifacts and Jewish ceremonial objects to large-scale contemporary painting and sculpture.

Exploring China's long reverence for jade, this presentation connects the material's beauty and symbolic associations with the history of American collecting. It highlights influential collector Heber R. Bishop and later collections of Chinese jade now represented in The Met's holdings.

Historical and contemporary works by artists from more than 50 Indigenous groups across the United States and Canada affirm the diversity of Native artistic traditions. Painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, embroidery, basketry, and ceramics connect complex histories with their continuing significance today.

Around 500 works survey major artistic movements and living traditions across sub-Saharan Africa from the Middle Ages to the present. Reinstalled after a multiyear renovation, the galleries reintroduce The Met's African art collection, with one-fourth of the works displayed there for the first time.

More than 650 works from over 140 cultures introduce the artistic diversity of Oceania, Australia, and Island Southeast Asia. Monumental sculpture, ancestral figures, ritual regalia, slit drums, reliquaries, and masks illuminate stories of origins, initiation, ancestral power, and shared cultural histories.

Nearly 700 works present ancestral arts of the Americas before 1600 CE, representing Indigenous artists across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. Monumental stone sculpture, metalwork, ceramics, regalia, and wood sculpture reflect contemporary research into these artistic legacies.

Centered on Seneca Village, a predominantly Black 19th-century community once located in what is now Central Park, this presentation recalls a place of opportunity, ownership, freedom, and prosperity whose residents were displaced by eminent domain in 1857.

The Leonard N. Stern Collection brings 161 Cycladic works to The Met on long-term loan from the Greek government. The display results from a 50-year partnership among The Met, Greece's Ministry of Culture, and the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.

Moving across media rather than organizing objects by material or date, this exhibition explores Chinese decorative arts through changing tastes, artistic virtuosity, and cultural traditions. The presentation considers the aesthetic achievement and cultural significance of works often categorized as decorative art.

Drawing from The Met's arms and armor collection, this presentation explores the shield as a widespread and versatile form of personal defense. Examples from different regions and periods reveal varied forms, sizes, and materials and the shield's enduring cultural importance.

Three Imperial Easter Eggs created by Fabergé for the Romanov family reveal extraordinary combinations of enamel, diamonds, pearls, gemstones, and miniature painting. The Danish Palaces, Caucasus, and Napoleonic Eggs each open to reveal elaborate surprises tied to imperial history and family.

The redesigned Northern Renaissance Sculpture and Decorative Arts gallery combines highlights from The Met's permanent collection with recent acquisitions, placing these works within the broader social and cultural context of early modern northern Europe.

More than 700 European works from 1300 to 1800 appear in reconfigured galleries that create new narratives and dialogues across The Met's collection. Paintings join selected sculptures, decorative arts, recent acquisitions, and loans to explore connections among cultures, materials, and historical moments.

Michael Lin's site-specific Pentachrome brings contemporary art to The Met's Great Hall Escalator for the first time. Inspired by the museum's collection and architecture, the installation encourages new perspectives on the Great Hall, its Balcony, and surrounding artworks.

Two rare 15th-century Hebrew manuscripts illuminate exchanges between Jewish communities in northern Italy and their Christian and humanist surroundings during the Renaissance. Created through collaboration between a Jewish scribe and Christian artist, the works also reflect the status of their Jewish patrons.

Marking the American Wing's centenary, this reinstallation presents art and design across three floors, spanning the mid-17th through mid-20th centuries with some contemporary works. Newly interpreted galleries emphasize connections across the Wing's increasingly hemispheric collection and its histories.

Spanning 11,000 square feet, The Met's reimagined British Galleries present decorative arts, design, and sculpture made between 1500 and 1900. Eight galleries offer a renewed perspective on the period, emphasizing both its entrepreneurial spirit and its complex history.

This reinstallation focuses on a pivotal period in American furniture design from 1720 to 1770. The presentation encourages close attention to furniture's materials and sculptural expression while examining the sensuality and ergonomics embedded in 18th-century design.

This presentation examines how portraiture evolved alongside changing ideas of identity in the 20th century. Modern portraits reflect artists' interests as well as avant-garde movements, the rise of photography, developments in psychology, industrialization, and sitters' efforts to represent themselves.

Wedding ensembles and accessories from China, Japan, Ottoman Turkey, and the Balkans reveal varied approaches to marriage across cultures. Fabrics, colors, materials, motifs, and auspicious symbols express distinctive aesthetics alongside shared wishes for fertility, prosperity, longevity, and a secure union.

Bringing together more than 200 works of animation production art and films, this exhibition traces a century of creative experimentation, highlighting artists and filmmakers who shaped animation before and during the transition to digital technology.

Odili Donald Odita transforms MoMA’s main lobby with a site-specific installation of vivid, interweaving colors. Visitors can experience the work alongside a playlist of songs that inspired the artist’s composition, connecting painting, architecture, and music.

A collaborative mural created by New York City high school students with artists DonChristian Jones, Victor A. Saint-Hilaire, and Public Assistants imagines an alternate version of Gotham. Its lively characters, landmarks, and interconnected stories reflect a city shaped by community, creativity, and collective imagination.

Yoko Ono's installation continues her decades-long commitment to peace activism through art. Building on the messages of her earlier campaigns and collaborations with MoMA, the work invites visitors to consider imagination as a starting point for collective action and a more peaceful world.

Long-term installations by Houston E. Conwill, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon bring together three works exploring Black history, identity, memory, and collective experience. Bronze time capsules, a reworked American flag, and flashing neon text connect personal and communal narratives across generations.

Camille Norment's site-informed sculpture and sound installation combines handwoven brass wire and tubes into a form recalling both pipe organ and raft. Inspired by historical and contemporary migration, the work considers diasporic movement, care, memory, dissonance, and the search for harmony.

Christopher Myers transforms the Studio Museum's Education Workshop with mythic versions of figures connected to Harlem, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Thelonious Monk, and Count Basie. The site-specific installation invites visitors to consider inner stories, imagination, and artmaking in community.

Mark Bradford transforms local business advertisements collected in South Los Angeles into twenty-six works on paper, each centered on a letter of the alphabet. Layered and sanded until their original messages fragment, the works connect abstraction and language to the social and economic systems shaping the surrounding community.

To Be A Place traces nearly sixty years of the Studio Museum in Harlem through historical documents, media, and programming ephemera, highlighting exhibitions, events, programs, and communities that have shaped the institution across decades of cultural and social change.

Works from the Whitney's collection and recent acquisitions trace key approaches in American art from 1900 through the early 1980s. The presentation moves across realism, landscape and memory, popular culture, consumerism, mass media, and the spatial and cultural dynamics of abstraction.

Dyani White Hawk’s site-specific installation transforms the Whitney’s Studio Bar with thousands of handmade ceramic tiles. Drawing on Lakota beadwork and quillwork traditions, its subtle color gradients evoke the natural world while creating a space for rest, reflection, and recognition of Indigenous artistic histories.

The first traveling retrospective devoted to Juan Sánchez brings together more than 60 paintings, works on paper, photographs, and videos. Rooted in his Puerto Rican and working-class New York upbringing, the exhibition explores autobiography, community, colonialism, resistance, and the possibilities of social transformation.

Rashid Johnson’s site-specific installation extends from the Whitney onto its outdoor plaza. An illuminated steel grid holds handmade ceramic pots, poetry books, shea butter, and video monitors, bringing disparate materials together in a structure intended to evoke the workings of a brain.

Recent ceramic sculptures and prints by Brooklyn-based artist Hilda Shen inaugurate MOCA's Solo Artist Projects series. Her forms move between ancient and futuristic, natural and handmade, construction and decay, opening connections among post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.

Nearly 120 watercolor drawings reveal the design process behind stained-glass windows, lamps, mosaics, and interiors produced by Louis Comfort Tiffany's studios. Created for commissions from the mid-1880s through the 1920s, these works trace ideas before their transformation into finished objects and spaces.