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Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van BruggenPaula Cooper Gallery · Nov 18 – May 31Oldenburg and van Bruggen's monumental sculptures and consumer-product works spanning six decades, installed throughout Lever House's landmark modernist building and plazas.
Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology)Marian Goodman Gallery · Apr 14 – Jun 6Julie Mehretu's new abstraction explores transience and liberation through translucent TRANSpaintings, black-ground works, and a live dance collaboration.
Lindsay AdamsSean Kelly Gallery · Apr 17 – Jun 6Abstract paintings built from layered color and gesture that explore freedom, memory, and Black experience through accumulated mark-making.
Jose DávilaSean Kelly Gallery · Apr 17 – Jun 6Dávila creates sculptures through deliberate acts of positioning, arranging materials to reveal relationships, tensions, and meanings without transforming them through carving or modeling.
Post-abstractionBortolami · Mar 13 – Jun 7Barbara Kasten's light-based photography, sculpture, and installation work exploring abstraction, geometry, and the relationships between object, space, and color.
Sanford Biggers | The Gift of TonguesMarianne Boesky Gallery · Apr 30 – Jun 13Sanford Biggers presents new work exploring language, spirituality, and cultural exchange.
Danielle Mckinney | Forest for the TreesMarianne Boesky Gallery · May 7 – Jun 13Danielle Mckinney explores abstraction and natural forms in a new body of work.
The Song of the EarthJames Fuentes · May 20 – Jun 18Allegorical paintings spanning seven decades by nonagenarian Gerald Wartofsky, drawing on classical music, Kabbalistic texts, and personal loss to meditate on cultural transmission and mortality.
Epic AbstractionJames Fuentes · May 2 – Jun 18Al Held's monumental hard-edged geometric paintings from 1959–1965, tracing his break from gestural abstraction toward the Alphabet series.
Seth PricePetzel · May 13 – Jun 20Seth Price's new paintings employ powdered metals and algorithmic patterning on lead and steel, exploring abstraction through Taoist cosmological forms.
Tom SachsSalon 94 · Apr 24 – Jun 20Tom Sachs presents a full building takeover spanning furniture, ceramics, lighting, sculpture, and painting, tracing his bricolage practice from London to new work.
HEAD STRETCHAndrew Kreps Gallery · Apr 24 – Jun 20An exhibition of contemporary art exploring themes of physical and conceptual transformation.
Stan VanDerBeekMagenta Plains · May 7 – Jun 20Stan VanDerBeek's silkscreens, intaglio prints, and early computer-generated films exploring abstract geometry and visual poetry from the 1960s–70s.
Ken LumMagenta Plains · May 7 – Jun 20Ken Lum's acrylic paintings on wooden panels explore identity and language through figuration and text-based imagery.
EILEEN AGARAndrew Kreps Gallery · Apr 24 – Jun 20Eileen Agar's surrealist works exploring abstraction, collage, and organic forms.
Jane SwavelyMagenta Plains · May 7 – Jun 20Swavely's oil paintings and soft pastels explore luminous color fields and gestural abstraction across monumental and intimate scales.
The Invisible PointGreene Naftali · Jun 18 – Jun 20Gedi Sibony's paintings and wood constructions explore invisible geometries and energetic forces through oil, pencil, and mixed materials.
Trample PathsReena Spaulings Fine Art · Mar 14 – Jun 20Ryan Sullivan's work curated by Ivy Shapiro.
Ettore Spalletti & Dan GrahamMarian Goodman Gallery · Apr 17 – Jun 20Spalletti's color-saturated paintings and sculptures in dialogue with Graham's reflective glass pavilions, exploring perception and the viewer's embodied presence in space.
After a DreamGreene Naftali · Jun 18 – Jun 20Sophie von Hellermann pairs figures from literature, art history, and imagination to explore creative relationships and romantic longing through fluid, gestural painting.
Art Basel 2026Magenta Plains · Jun 16 – Jun 21Josephine Meckseper, Jennifer Bolande, and Liza Lacroix present mixed-media works combining painting, sculpture, photography, and UV elements at Art Basel 2026.
Haruka Sakaguchi: The Camps America BuiltInternational Center of Photography · Mar 26 – Jun 21Haruka Sakaguchi documents Japanese American WWII incarceration camps and the families who return to them, combining portraiture, landscape, and handwritten testimony.
SelectionsGagosian · Jun 15 – Jun 21Twentieth- and twenty-first-century paintings by Frankenthaler, de Kooning, Fadojutimi, and Wood, presented during Art Basel 2026.
at an arm's length: Expanding the Walls 2025Studio Museum in Harlem · Jul 29 – Jun 21Fifteen teenage photographers from the Studio Museum's Expanding the Walls program explore cautious intimacy and adolescent reserve through soft-focus and black-and-white imagery.
Set in StoneDavid Zwirner · May 12 – Jun 26An exhibition exploring stone, sculpture, and material presence.
Lisa YuskavageDavid Zwirner · May 14 – Jun 26Lisa Yuskavage presents new paintings and works on paper.
Jasper JohnsDavid Zwirner · May 7 – Jun 26Drawings and prints spanning six decades exploring Johns's methods of copying, tracing, and replicating images through body imprints, translucent overlays, and variants of his own work.
JOAN BROWN: The Golden AgeMatthew Marks Gallery · May 27 – Jun 27Joan Brown's late paintings and sculptures from 1982–88, alive with vibrant color and collaged imagery of unlikely animal companions in harmony.
KATHARINA FRITSCHMatthew Marks Gallery · May 27 – Jun 27Five monumental sculptures—a 30-foot car and caravan, 26-foot tunnel, 13-foot chimney, vase, and shell—scaled up from models Fritsch made as a student in 1979.
Walter De Maria: The Singular ExperienceGagosian · Oct 19 – Jun 27Walter De Maria exhibition at Le Bourget.
Mamma AnderssonDavid Zwirner · Apr 23 – Jun 27Mamma Andersson's works on paper (Œuvres sur papier) in a Paris exhibition.
Lucia Laguna: Apenas meus cabelos são brancos... [Only my hair is white...]Galerie Lelong & Co. · May 14 – Jun 27Brazilian painter Lucia Laguna's semi-abstracted landscapes merge geometric order with exuberant flora, exploring how urban development fractures natural spaces.
Frank GehryGagosian · May 14 – Jun 27Gehry's animal-themed sculptures and works on paper, from monumental fish and bear forms to intimate ink drawings, spanning two decades of formal invention.
Statics of an EggDavid Zwirner · May 8 – Jun 27An exhibition examining form, balance, and sculptural inquiry.
VIJA CELMINS: Prints 1983 to 1985Matthew Marks Gallery · May 27 – Jun 27Celmins's virtuosic prints from 1983–85, employing mezzotint, aquatint, and drypoint to render oceans, night skies, and densely layered celestial imagery.
Anselm Kiefer: Seal My Ears Shut and I Shall Hear You StillGagosian · May 15 – Jun 27Kiefer's new paintings explore feminine archetypes and landscape through classical mythology, employing thickly textured layers of oil, acrylic, gold leaf, and electrolysis sediment.
Jeremy FreyKarma · May 12 – Jul 2Jeremy Frey presents new work exploring themes of permanence and impermanence through painting and sculpture.
Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the DistanceGagosian · Apr 30 – Jul 2Monumental abstract paintings spanning four decades, showcasing Frankenthaler's evolving mastery of color, scale, and the soak-stain technique.
Hughie Lee-SmithKarma · May 12 – Jul 2Painter known for surreal and desolate landscapes rendered in a distinctive visual language of balloons, ribbons, and targets.
Satoshi Kojima: Untitled MusicalHoffman Donahue · May 28 – Jul 3Satoshi Kojima's Untitled Musical in Beverly Hills.
Goya and the Age of RevolutionHispanic Society Museum & Library · Dec 11 – Jul 5Goya's paintings and prints exploring war, revolution, and independence across three interconnected late-18th-century upheavals in America, France, and Spain.
MoMA Staff Art Exhibition 2026Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Jan 1 – Jul 5Over 50 early and mid-career artists working in New York City address surveillance, economic precarity, and technological change through painting, sculpture, video, and site-specific installations.
Sandy Rodriguez: Tierra InsurgenteHispanic Society Museum & Library · Apr 9 – Jul 5Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez creates paintings and maps on handmade amate bark paper that challenge colonial cartography and position the earth as a witness to resistance and survival.
Jangueando: Recent Acquisitions, 2021-2025El Museo del Barrio · Aug 28 – Jul 5Nearly 40 works across painting, photography, sculpture, and video from El Museo del Barrio's recent acquisitions, organized thematically around gathering spaces and community.
Everyday Rebellions: Collection ConversationsBrooklyn Museum · Oct 10 – Jul 5Brooklyn Museum collection works selected to spark dialogue about resistance, identity, and social change.
In Practice: Magdalena PetroniSculptureCenter · May 28 – Jul 6Magdalena Petroni participates in SculptureCenter's In Practice program.
Kim Gordon303 Gallery · Jun 10 – Jul 8Kim Gordon's work at 303 Gallery.
Project Room: Charlotte Fox303 Gallery · Jun 10 – Jul 8Charlotte Fox's oil paintings explore states of psychological dissolution through gestural abstraction and figuration.
Gerhard RichterDavid Zwirner · May 7 – Jul 10Gerhard Richter's Landschaften (Landscapes) paintings in a major exhibition.
Teen Council Spring 2026 Exhibition: 'Museum of the Self'Bronx Museum of the Arts · Jun 8 – Jul 12Teen Council members explore identity and self-representation through hand papermaking and collaborative artworks responding to the prompt 'the museum of the self.'
William TurnbullKarma · Jun 4 – Jul 17Across painting and sculpture, Turnbull explored elemental forms and art's role as connective tissue between prehistoric past and present.
Mark di SuveroPaula Cooper Gallery · May 2 – Jul 17Mark di Suvero's large-scale steel sculptures and drawings, including the kinetic work Avanti!, a human-intervention piece with a suspended beam and interactive platform.
Giuseppe Penone: The Reflection of BronzeGagosian · Apr 22 – Jul 17Penone's bronze sculptures trace the passage of time and the perpetuity of change, rooted in his decades-long exploration of trees and the natural world.
LOUCHE: Sleeping Through the ApocalypsePetzel · Jun 11 – Jul 17A group exhibition exploring cultural production's continuation amid political upheaval, ecological crisis, and democratic erosion, staged as deliberate indifference rather than resistance.
ChristoGagosian · May 21 – Jul 18Christo's drawings and collages documenting site-specific wrapping projects, both realized and unrealized, presented alongside a concurrent installation exhibition.
Altoon SultanHoffman Donahue · May 28 – Jul 18Altoon Sultan's paintings and works on paper.
Holland isn't Japan47 Canal · May 21 – Jul 18Mickael Marman and Daan van Golden in a two-artist presentation at Arcadia Missa in London.
Collection in Focus | Zidane, a 21st century portraitSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Jun 11 – Jul 19A 21st-century portrait artwork presented on its twentieth anniversary, coinciding with the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Dec 1 – Jul 19Devon Turnbull's handcrafted high-fidelity audio system transforms the Carnegie Library into an immersive listening environment for experiencing music with exceptional sonic clarity.
Michaël BorremansDavid Zwirner · Jun 5 – Jul 22Borremans's ironic homage to French painting tradition, where beauty oscillates between seduction and disturbance, suspended between tenderness and nihilism.
Sawako GodaSalon 94 · Jun 10 – Jul 22Sawako Goda's surrealist paintings and photographs exploring glamorous Hollywood icons, cosmic visions, and crystalline forms, shaped by postwar Japanese devastation and Egyptian mysticism.
Meg WebsterPaula Cooper Gallery · May 9 – Jul 24Meg Webster's environmental installations exploring natural systems and growth.
NXTHVN Cohort 07 | Material Conditions of BecomingMarianne Boesky Gallery · Jun 25 – Jul 24Seven NXTHVN Studio Fellows explore memory, cultural resilience, and interiority through painting, sculpture, screen printing, sound, and found materials.
Paper TrailMarianne Boesky Gallery · Jun 25 – Jul 24Drawings, prints, and works on paper exploring themes of copying, reproduction, and artistic lineage.
Open CallThe Shed · Jun 26 – Jul 25New art for New York.
Osama Al RayyanHoffman Donahue · Jun 6 – Jul 25Osama Al Rayyan's work.
Paul Klee: Other Possible WorldsThe Jewish Museum · Mar 20 – Jul 26Klee's late work from 1933–1940, produced during exile, illness, and Nazi persecution, featuring roughly 100 paintings and drawings including the iconic Angelus Novus.
OmegaSalon 94 · Jun 25 – Jul 31Salon 94 presents work by established and emerging artists across media, from painting and sculpture to ceramics and performance-based practice.
Steven ShearerDavid Zwirner · Jun 4 – Jul 31Steven Shearer presents new works titled My Moody Muse exploring contemporary themes.
Tetsuya IshidaGagosian · Jun 10 – Jul 31Tetsuya Ishida's hyper-detailed paintings of isolated figures undergoing bizarre metamorphoses, created during Japan's 1990s recession.
I, SunflowerBureau · Jun 12 – Jul 31Kyung-Me's ink paintings of sunflowers, exploring spontaneity and emotional surrender after years of controlled precision.
Eliza Douglas: GHOSTSGagosian · May 12 – Jul 31Eliza Douglas layers reworked paintings with UV-printed photographs by her aunt, an investigative journalist documenting UFO phenomena, exploring hauntology and art's status as consumable.
Robert Rauschenberg: Important Early Works from the Cy Twombly FoundationGagosian · Apr 25 – Jul 31Rauschenberg's pivotal early works from 1950–1961, including photograms, assemblages, and paintings that chart his shift from abstraction toward mixed media.
Marcel DuchampGagosian · Apr 25 – Jul 31Duchamp's iconic readymades from 1964, including Bicycle Wheel and Fountain, recreated with Italian gallerist Arturo Schwarz after many originals were lost.
Mark MandersTanya Bonakdar Gallery · Apr 30 – Jul 31Monumental bronze busts and abstract sculptural landscapes exploring subjectivity, grief, and the limits of language through dreamlike, fragmented forms.
Francesca Woodman: Lately I Find a Sliver of Mirror Is Simply to Slice an EyelidGagosian · Apr 29 – Jul 31Francesca Woodman photography exhibition at Gagosian Rome.
Oswald SaenzWhite Columns · Jun 25 – Aug 1Oswald Saenz renders women, houses, and flowers stripped to basic curves and infused with hallucinatory color and wobbling rhythm, drawing on South American magical realism.
Goran MedakWhite Columns · Jun 25 – Aug 1Solo exhibition of paintings by Goran Medak, a Wantage, New Jersey-based artist born in Split, Croatia.
Karryl EugeneWhite Columns · Jun 25 – Aug 1Interdisciplinary artist Karryl Eugene presents paintings, collages, assemblage, and sound works across multiple ongoing series, including a new EP debut.
James Turrell: Lifting the VeilGagosian · May 28 – Aug 1James Turrell light installations at Gagosian Hong Kong.
California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version)David Zwirner · Jun 4 – Aug 1Seventeen Los Angeles artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation explore light, space, and the city's distinctive vernacular in a contemporary reckoning with 1960s Light
Influence and AffinityPace Gallery · May 28 – Aug 1Saul Steinberg's wry drawings and David Byrne's ink works explore shared sensibilities across generations—observation, humor, and the surreal in everyday life.
Carol BoveSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Mar 5 – Aug 2Carol Bove's first museum survey spans 25 years of drawings and monumental steel compositions.
ClockworkBortolami · Mar 6 – Aug 2Sable Elyse Smith examines systems of power through sculpture, video, neon, and works on paper, tracing how they operate as hidden psychological and cultural infrastructure.
Sophie Rivera: Double ExposuresEl Museo del Barrio · Apr 23 – Aug 2Pioneering photographer Sophie Rivera's portraits, experimental self-portraits, and documentary images of 1970s–90s New York, exploring identity and Nuyorican representation.
Vian Sora: OuterworldsBortolami · Apr 15 – Aug 2Vian Sora's abstract paintings channel the chaos of war, displacement, and Iraq's landscapes through densely layered oil and acrylic.
Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie AntoinetteThe Frick Collection · Apr 1 – Aug 3Hand-colored engravings depicting French fashion from the late 18th century, many never before publicly displayed.
Matt Saunders: On an Overgrown PathMarian Goodman Gallery · Jun 25 – Aug 7Matt Saunders explores hybrid forms merging photography and painting through camera-less techniques, animation, and printmaking that investigate material transformation and the mutability of perceptio
Never could be any other way — anagnorisisPace Gallery · Jun 5 – Aug 7Kenjiro Okazaki's first UK solo exhibition features abstract paintings, sculptures, and small-scale works exploring temporality and perception through color, form, and poetic language.
When sky merges with EarthBortolami · Jun 10 – Aug 7Tran Luong's paintings, performances, and installations exploring landscape, water, and Vietnamese history through abstraction and narrative cycles.
Sometime Somewhere Someone Is DancingJames Fuentes · Jun 26 – Aug 7Lola Stong-Brett's gestural paintings merge cartoon figures, ocean imagery, and fragmented text to explore human connection, loss, and emotional currents.
Drawings and PaintingsBortolami · Jun 10 – Aug 7Caitlin Keogh's colored-pencil rose drawings and grid-based Matrix paintings exploring labor, visibility, and matrixial space through historical postcards and layered gazes.
A HOUSE IS NOT A HOMESikkema Jenkins & Co. · Jun 25 – Aug 7Ten artists explore home as memory, history, and comfort through painting, sculpture, textile, and photography.
States of BeingMarian Goodman Gallery · Jun 25 – Aug 7Daniel Joseph Martinez explores collective identity, surveillance, power, and machine intelligence across five decades of conceptual work spanning text, sculpture, photography, installation, and robot
Daniel Joseph Martinez: States of BeingMarian Goodman Gallery · Jun 25 – Aug 7Daniel Joseph Martinez transforms his body into post-human identities through large-scale photography, exploring surveillance, AI, and the human species as an invasive force.
SEE YOU TOMORROW UNDER OTHER SKIESAndrew Kreps Gallery · Jun 26 – Aug 7A cross-generational group exhibition exploring land, mapping, and contested histories through painting, textile, sculpture, performance, and photography.
On an Overgrown PathMarian Goodman Gallery · Jun 25 – Aug 7Matt Saunders explores hybrid forms between photography and painting, investigating how materials interact and transform across surfaces.
Dan FlavinDavid Zwirner · May 28 – Aug 8Fluorescent light grids by Dan Flavin from 1976 onward, exploring chromatic intensity and spatial transformation through corner installations.
ANIMAL [a listening gym]Pioneer Works · Jun 21 – Aug 9Ash Fure's immersive sonic installation transforms gym equipment into sound sculptures that activate perception through the body's direct engagement with amplified frequencies and synchronized light.
Focus Gallery: Circa 1776: Jews in Colonial AmericaThe Jewish Museum · Oct 24 – Aug 9Portraits, artifacts, and documents exploring Jewish life in colonial and post-colonial America, marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Office of War Information (O.W.I.)Pioneer Works · May 9 – Aug 9Khajistan's archive-based installation examining U.S. military propaganda leaflets and the rhetoric of war justification across decades.
American Folk Art: Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich RockefellerMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Jun 13 – Aug 9Nearly 50 works from Abby Aldrich Rockefeller's 19th-century folk art collection—painted portraits, weathervanes, wooden toys, and stenciled still lifes—return to MoMA for the first time in over 70 ye
Bases LoadedPioneer Works · May 9 – Aug 9Jordan Eagles uses blood-splattered Mets T-shirts and resin home-plate sculptures to interrogate belonging, queer identity, and the politics embedded in baseball fandom.
Focus Gallery: Walter Benjamin and the Edges of PhotographyThe Jewish Museum · May 15 – Aug 9German philosopher Walter Benjamin's engagement with photography through works by Blossfeldt, Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, and Sander, featuring a rare portrait of Benjamin himself.
ConduitsLehmann Maupin · Jun 3 – Aug 14Anna Freeman Bentley's sculptural and installation work investigating material transformation and spatial relationships.
Viewing Room VIMagenta Plains · Jul 2 – Aug 14Matt Keegan's two-channel video and text-based work exploring language, identity, and social systems.
The Turning SeasonPace Gallery · May 15 – Aug 14Emily Kam Kngwarray's abstract paintings and textiles map the ancestral lands, seasonal cycles, and ecological relationships of her Anmatyerr Country through layered dots, yam-tracking lines, and shif
MatineeLehmann Maupin · Jun 11 – Aug 14Alex Prager explores performance, theatre, and contemporary storytelling through photography and moving image.
When the Sun Shines AgainLehmann Maupin · Jun 11 – Aug 14South Korean painter Guimi You explores renewal and artistic return through layered compositions that embed works by friends reclaiming their creative practices.
The Moon RoomPace Gallery · May 15 – Aug 14Fifteen iPad paintings of the night sky created during pandemic quarantine in Normandy, capturing the moon's changing phases and their shadows on the landscape.
Dryer, Davie, DiamondMagenta Plains · Jul 2 – Aug 14Three painters—Dryer, Davie, Diamond—working across abstraction and figuration from the 1980s onward.
When Form Meets GesturePace Gallery · Jun 19 – Aug 14Park Young Sook's abstract works investigating the relationship between form and gestural mark-making.
Dream of VanishingPace Gallery · May 15 – Aug 14Over 50 paintings, sculptures, and drawings spanning Paul Thek's career from the early 1960s until his death in 1988, including never-before-seen works and his infamous wax "meat pieces."
Italy Through Its TreesPace Gallery · May 15 – Aug 14Schnabel's paintings on Italian maps and broken-plate works depicting umbrella pines, exploring abstraction through two decades-long bodies of work.
37 DimensionsPace Gallery · Jun 27 – Aug 15Mika Tajima's 24 Hour Cosmos series translates global news data into luminescent, holographic wall works that measure collective sentiment across single days.
Shani Strand: Everything Must Be ReturnedArtists Space · Jun 12 – Aug 15Shani Strand's immersive installation examines colonialism, extraction, and resistance through sculptures and film inspired by Caribbean history and trickster figures.
Akinsanya Kambon: Soul SessionsSculptureCenter · May 28 – Aug 16Akinsanya Kambon presents Soul Sessions.
In Practice: Michaela BathrickSculptureCenter · Jul 16 – Aug 16Cast cement sculptures that resemble decommissioned architectural fittings but reveal themselves as letters and language fragments from different angles.
Noon Day NightPace Gallery · Jun 30 – Aug 16William Monk's paintings exploring light, time, and atmospheric conditions across different hours.
Haas Brothers: Uncanny ValleyMuseum of Arts and Design · Apr 1 – Aug 16Twin artists Nikolai and Simon Haas create fantastical ceramic sculptures, furniture, and installations merging handcraft with digital technology in surrealistic, zoomorphic forms.
Ellen Pau: She MovesSculptureCenter · May 28 – Aug 16Ellen Pau presents She Moves.
From Now: A Collection in ContextStudio Museum in Harlem · Nov 15 – Aug 16A dynamic, rotating collection display featuring over 800 artists of African descent, from the 19th century to present, organized thematically throughout the museum building.
ART OF NOISECooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Aug 1 – Aug 16A century of design for sound—from concert posters and album covers to radios, turntables, and digital music players—exploring how design shapes our relationship to music.
Homeroom: Red Canary SongMoMA PS1 · Mar 19 – Aug 17Red Canary Song's collaborative work examining labor, migration, and community care.
Latinx FreedomThe Shed · Jun 25 – Aug 20Remembrance and movement, in a free exhibition on the outdoor Plaza.
Christo: AirGagosian · May 21 – Aug 21Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapped-air sculptures and a monumental 1968 installation, exploring perception and the invisible through polyethylene and rope.
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly AkashiWhitney Museum of American Art · Mar 8 – Aug 23Glass-brick sculpture and path installed on the Whitney's rooftop terrace.
Whitney Biennial 2026Whitney Museum of American Art · Mar 8 – Aug 23Fifty-six intergenerational and international artists explore interspecies kinships, geopolitical entanglements, and shared mythologies across media and strategies.
Goodbye Sadness, Hello SadnessPace Gallery · Jul 4 – Aug 23A group exhibition exploring emotional states and contemporary artistic responses to melancholy.
ALLONSBortolami · Jan 25 – Aug 23Daniel Buren and 40+ artists from the museum's collection explore contemporaneity—ecological, political, and poetic—through works seeking new horizons for shared future spaces.
To Be A PlaceStudio Museum in Harlem · Nov 15 – Aug 30A visual timeline of the Studio Museum in Harlem's nearly sixty-year history, tracing the institution from its former Fifth Avenue location to its current home on 125th Street through archival documen
Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm HeartWhitney Museum of American Art · Mar 8 – Aug 30Mabel Dwight's lithographs capture the dignity and inner life of New York's working people, from vaudeville stages to street corners.
Magdiel García AlmanzaSean Kelly Gallery · Jun 13 – Aug 31Geometric wooden sculptures that oscillate between abstraction and figuration, carved from salvaged acana wood and informed by Cuban modernism and the artist's post-Soviet context.
Studio Residency: PageantMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Aug 1 – Aug 31Pageant, an artist-run Brooklyn performance collective, develops new movement-based work in MoMA's studio through rehearsal, experimentation, and public performance events.
AcanaSean Kelly Gallery · Jun 13 – Aug 31Magdiel García Almanza's carved acana wood sculptures oscillate between abstraction and figuration, drawing on Cubism and modernist traditions.
The Audacity of ScaleSean Kelly Gallery · Jun 13 – Aug 31A group exhibition exploring how artists deploy scale—from microscopic to monumental—to challenge perception, reshape meaning, and transform the viewer's relationship to artworks across painting, phot
Alex Israel: Upside DownGagosian · Jun 12 – Sep 5Four Plexiglas fin sculptures, enlarged from surfboard designs, suspended upside down to evoke Southern California surf culture and postwar Los Angeles art movements.
The Black Mirror ExperienceThe Shed · Jun 20 – Sep 6Become the protagonist of an original Black Mirror narrative.
Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200Brooklyn Museum · Feb 28 – Sep 6Retrospective of the Brooklyn Museum's 200-year history and its role in shaping American art and culture.
The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of ConnectionBronx Museum of the Arts · Jan 23 – Sep 6Twenty-eight emerging artists from the Bronx Museum's 2024–2025 AIM Fellowship cohorts explore connection across heritage, society, and intimacy.
FadeStudio Museum in Harlem · May 1 – Sep 7Seventeen early-career artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent explore spirituality, surrealism, and nonlinear time to locate spaces of possibility.
Giacometti in the Temple of DendurMetropolitan Museum of Art · Jan 1 – Sep 8Giacometti's elongated bronze figures installed within the Met's iconic Egyptian temple.
Urs Fischer: Eugène AtgetGagosian · Jun 9 – Sep 12Urs Fischer exhibition at Gagosian Athens.
The Page Before MeJames Fuentes · Jul 25 – Sep 12Oil paintings layered through iterative processes of application, excavation, and renewal, each accompanied by graphite rubbings that record the work's material transformation.
Doug Aitken: LightscapeThe Shed · Jun 25 – Sep 13A modern mythology of hope, struggle, and interconnection.
Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes SpiritInternational Center of Photography · Jun 24 – Sep 13Andrea Hernández Briceño documents the indigenous Huöttöja people of the Amazon, centering their worldview and spiritual traditions while resisting exploitative outsider narratives.
Self-Made: A Century of Inventing ArtistsAmerican Folk Art Museum · Apr 10 – Sep 13Sixty self-taught artists from the early twentieth century to today depict themselves through self-portraits, alter egos, and autobiographies, challenging narratives of isolation and amateurism.
Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi's 1986 Venice BiennaleThe Noguchi Museum · May 6 – Sep 13Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale presentation of stone sculptures, Akari light works, and a monumental marble spiral slide challenging distinctions between art, design, and environment.
Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United StatesAmerican Folk Art Museum · Apr 10 – Sep 13Vernacular art and patriotic expression from the museum's collections, exploring how Americans have constructed national identity through folk objects from the Revolutionary War era to today.
Noguchi's New YorkThe Noguchi Museum · Feb 4 – Sep 13Isamu Noguchi's transformative relationship with New York City, exploring how the city shaped his art and how he reimagined its public spaces.
Annette Messager: Histoires des oreillersMarian Goodman Gallery · Jul 3 – Sep 26Annette Messager's heterogeneous practice spanning assemblage, taxidermy, embroidery, and installation, exploring fairy tales, mythology, and memory through everyday materials.
Annette Messager: In Focus PresentationMarian Goodman Gallery · Jul 3 – Sep 26Annette Messager's heterogeneous practice spanning assemblage, taxidermy, embroidery, and installation, drawing on fairy tales, mythology, and memory.
Black Art Library at The Drawing CenterThe Drawing Center · Jun 26 – Sep 27A curated selection of books from the Black Art Library, a Detroit-based archive of over 800 volumes on Black artists and art history, presented as a reading room alongside Pope.L's exhibition.
Musical BodiesMetropolitan Museum of Art · Jan 1 – Sep 27Instruments and musical objects from cultures worldwide, exploring the body's role in music.
MADE IN AMERICA: THE INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF CHRISTOPHER PAYNECooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · May 1 – Sep 27Christopher Payne's large-format photographs document American factories and the skilled workers transforming raw materials into everything from pianos to semiconductors.
Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.LThe Drawing Center · Jun 26 – Sep 27Pope.L's expansive practice across two hundred works on paper—from early 1980s to 2023—revealing drawing as central to his interrogation of race, language, and American identity.
Photobooks USA 2000–25International Center of Photography · Jun 11 – Sep 28Over 50 photobooks from 2000–25 examining how artists have used the form to respond to contemporary American life, from social and political upheaval to environmental and economic change.
Yves Saint Laurent and PhotographyInternational Center of Photography · Jun 11 – Sep 28Nearly 300 photographs and archival objects exploring how Yves Saint Laurent and celebrated photographers shaped fashion imagery over four decades.
Artist Commission: Seung Ah PaikBortolami · Dec 2 – Oct 1Seung Ah Paik's commissioned work at Rubell Museum explores landscape and abstraction.
Sterling Ruby: TILL DEATH DO US PARTGagosian · Jun 12 – Oct 3Sterling Ruby exhibition at Gagosian Paris.
Yoko Ono: Music of the MindGalerie Lelong & Co. · May 23 – Oct 11Yoko Ono's first Southern California museum survey, spanning seven decades of instruction works, peace activism, film, and participatory installations.
2025 Burke Prize: Hai-Wen LinMuseum of Arts and Design · Mar 1 – Oct 12Hai-Wen Lin's practice merges garment construction with flight engineering, creating textiles and sculptural kites that collapse boundaries between fashion, design, and performance.
The Equator Has MovedBortolami · Mar 7 – Oct 12Renée Green's multidisciplinary practice juxtaposes archival, documentary, and literary fragments to probe unstable boundaries between fact and fiction, public recollection and personal memory.
Alice Riehl's Porcelain FlorilegiumMuseum of Arts and Design · Mar 1 – Oct 12Alice Riehl's porcelain botanical works celebrating plant diversity through ceramic craft.
Andy Warhol Family AlbumWhitney Museum of American Art · Mar 8 – Oct 19Warhol's intimate photographs of family and friends, rarely seen publicly.
THE CAMPUS 2026Andrew Kreps Gallery · Jun 27 – Oct 25A collaborative group exhibition across 14 galleries presenting site-specific installations by 20+ international artists in a former school building.
P. S. Art 2026: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City KidsMetropolitan Museum of Art · Jan 1 – Oct 26Artwork by New York City public school students celebrating youth creativity.
Danh VoWhite Cube New York · Sep 10 – Oct 31Danh Vo returns to New York with a new exhibition following his 2018 Guggenheim show.
A Collection Without BordersHispanic Society Museum & Library · Jul 23 – Nov 1A selection of works from the Hispanic Society's collection spanning Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Goa, and the Philippines, many acquired by founder Archer Milton Huntington in the early twentieth
Jaume Plensa: MirageGalerie Lelong & Co. · Jun 3 – Nov 1Jaume Plensa's large-scale installation in a historic nave, exploring contemplation, elevation, and art's power to connect memory and place.
Esperanza Cortés: Embroidered AllegoriesHispanic Society Museum & Library · Sep 3 – Nov 1Colombian artist Esperanza Cortés weaves personal and cultural histories through embroidered works inspired by the Hispanic Society's collection, from Velázquez to Manila shawls.
Common SenseBrooklyn Museum · May 1 – Nov 8Exhibition exploring collective knowledge, vernacular wisdom, and artistic responses to shared experience.
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener WerkstätteThe Jewish Museum · Jul 17 – Nov 15Over 200 works by 30 Jewish women artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, with emphasis on ceramicist Vally Wieselthier and textile designer Felice Rix-Ueno.
Octopus & Others: Acts of Collaboration & PoeticsEl Museo del Barrio · Aug 6 – Nov 15Papo Colo's landmark 1982 participatory sculpture project returns, anchored by newly acquired panels and expanded with cross-generational artist and poet collaborations exploring the book form.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple OfferingsArtists Space · Sep 11 – Nov 21Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's first retrospective in twenty-five years, spanning text, video, and performance work including her landmark book Dictée, alongside an unfinished photographic series.
Venice Biennial 2026 | In Minor KeysSalon 94 · May 9 – Nov 22Kennedy Yanko and Celia Vásquez Yui present work in the Venice Biennial's 61st International Art Exhibition, curated by Koyo Kouoh.
Nalini Malani: Of Woman BornGalerie Lelong & Co. · May 9 – Nov 22Nalini Malani's site-specific Animation Chamber installation meditates on the myth of Orestes and contemporary patriarchal violence through 67 animations and a 20-minute soundscape of women's voices.
Pierre Huyghe: UUmweltMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Jul 1 – Nov 29Pierre Huyghe uses machine learning and fMRI brain scans to visualize what a neural network imagines from human thought, displayed on screens throughout MoMA's Sculpture Garden.
Aziz Hazara: Coming HomeSculptureCenter · Sep 19 – Dec 21Aziz Hazara returns hundreds of discarded objects from Bagram Airfield—uniforms, electronics, kitchenware, infrastructure fragments—to their place of origin, reversing the logistical route of US milit
Stairwell DrawingsPace Gallery · Apr 10 – Dec 31Nine life-size surreal drawings by David Byrne installed on the stairwell walls of Pace Gallery's New York flagship, reflecting his playful sensibility.
Hyundai Card First Look: Joan SnyderMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Apr 23 – Dec 31Joan Snyder's abstract paintings and mixed-media works exploring gesture and materiality.
Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree HovsepianMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Apr 24 – Dec 31Sheree Hovsepian's sculptural and installation work exploring form, space, and perception.
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western AfricaMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Jul 5 – Jan 2The first major museum exhibition examining architecture's role in shaping decolonization across Western Africa, featuring 400 objects—mostly never publicly shown—from seven nations reimagining their
Focus Gallery: Oded Halahmy: Models in WoodThe Jewish Museum · May 29 – Jan 3Intimate wood sculptures from the 1970s by Iraqi-born artist Oded Halahmy, exploring memory, displacement, and Mesopotamian heritage through carved forms suggesting ladders and windows.
Imitation of LifeThe Shed · Nov 21 – Jan 3A new musical with book by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and music/lyrics by John Legend, exploring identity and the American dream through two single mothers navigating 1920s Atlantic City and 1
Doug Aitken: LightscapeThe Shed · Nov 21 – Jan 3A new musical by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, John Legend, and director Whitney White, exploring identity and the American dream through two mothers and their daughters in 1920s Atlantic City a
Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to NowSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Jun 5 – Jan 10Pop art from Warhol to Cattelan, tracing the movement's influence from 1960 to the present.
Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of ArtEl Museo del Barrio · Sep 10 – Jan 10Teddy Sandoval's queer and Chicane artistic practice exploring gender, sexuality, and identity through photography, collage, and performance from the 1970s–1990s.
Collection in Focus | Modern European CurrentsSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Jul 15 – Jan 10Goncharova, Kandinsky, and Marc's transformation of painting in the early 20th century.
Siena: The Art of Bronze, 1450–1500The Frick Collection · Oct 15 – Jan 18The first exhibition devoted to Siena's bronze sculptors of the Renaissance, featuring 40 works, most never before shown outside Tuscany.
Doris SalcedoWhite Cube New York · Nov 12 – Jan 23Monumental installation by Doris Salcedo made over three years in her Bogotá studio, exploring mourning and Colombia's violent political history through intricate sculptural forms.
The Surrealist BookMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Oct 4 – Jan 23Surrealist artists transformed the bound book into a provocative art form, merging text, image, and sculptural binding to unlock the unconscious and promote revolutionary tenets.
Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026Studio Museum in Harlem · Jul 1 – Jan 31Seventeen teen photographers from the Studio Museum's Expanding the Walls program capture motion and repose in New York City streets and intimate domestic spaces.
Krasner and Pollock: Past ContinuousMetropolitan Museum of Art · Oct 4 – Jan 31Abstract expressionists Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in dialogue across decades.
Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Christian Treasures from St. Vitus Cathedral in PragueThe Jewish Museum · Sep 18 – Feb 7Medieval reliquaries from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral displayed alongside Jewish ritual objects, exploring shared artistic traditions and theological divergence in Central Europe.
Na Mira: NO SMOKINGMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Nov 14 – Feb 15Na Mira creates site-responsive installations using radio frequencies, infrared heat, and holography to explore language, memory, and the borders of body and state.
Kent Monkman: Officer and Laughing GirlThe Frick Collection · Nov 12 – Feb 22Kent Monkman creates new paintings responding to Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl, examining colonial narratives in 17th-century European art.
Brancusi: The Artist and His StudioMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Oct 25 – Feb 27Brancusi's Paris studio—a workspace and artwork itself—reconstructed through rarely lent sculptures, photographs, films, and hand-carved furniture from the Atelier Brancusi.
Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American "Schoolgirl" ArtAmerican Folk Art Museum · Oct 9 – Feb 28Approximately 100 needlework pictures, samplers, watercolors, and other ornamental arts made by American girls in the 18th and 19th centuries, reframed through landscape and place.
Orientalism: Between Fact and FantasyMetropolitan Museum of Art · Jan 1 – Feb 28European paintings and decorative arts depicting the Orient, examining Orientalist aesthetics.
Taryn SimonSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Sep 18 – Mar 14Taryn Simon's interactive installation with never-before-seen photographs, text, video, and sculpture.
Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEEDStudio Museum in Harlem · Mar 11 – Apr 1Kapwani Kiwanga's site-specific installation transposes Underground Railroad quilt codes into naturally dyed fabric, layering histories of slavery, resistance, and botanical knowledge.
Donald Moffett: IMPEACHBrooklyn Museum · Jun 18 – Apr 11Donald Moffett's large-scale paintings and text-based works confronting political urgency and visual activism.
Jessica Lichtenstein: RewildingMuseum of Arts and Design · Jun 1 – Apr 18Jessica Lichtenstein's work exploring ecological restoration and natural systems through art and design.
Taking Back Our Space: Photographic PerspectivesMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Sep 20 – May 2Marianne Wex's landmark 1972 photographic survey of gendered body language, presented alongside contemporary artists exploring how bodies reclaim public space.
Ruth Patir: (M)otherlandThe Jewish Museum · Dec 18 – Jun 7Ruth Patir's multi-channel video work animates Iron Age female figurines to explore gender, motherhood, fertility, and reproductive rights through personal and political lenses.
The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu WeiMetropolitan Museum of Art · Sep 17 – Jun 8Chinese contemporary artist Liu Wei's monumental facade commission for the Met.
Painting with Fire: Susanne de Court and the Art of EnamelThe Frick Collection · Apr 8 – Jul 12The first exhibition devoted to Susanne de Court, a 17th-century French enameler and likely the only woman to lead a Limoges workshop.
A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the SavonnerieMetropolitan Museum of Art · Sep 8 – Mar 5Royal carpets woven for Louis XIV at the Savonnerie manufactory in Paris.
Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine RoomBrooklyn Museum · Jun 11 – Apr 20Immersive Tibetan Buddhist shrine room installation featuring sacred art and devotional objects.
Joaquín Sorolla's Vision of SpainHispanic Society Museum & Library · Apr 23 – Apr 23Sorolla's monumental 14-painting series depicting Spain's regions, peoples, and traditions—a site-specific masterwork commissioned in 1911 and displayed permanently at the Hispanic Society.
Camille Norment: Untitled (heliotrope)Studio Museum in Harlem · from Nov 15Camille Norment's handwoven brass sculptural and sound installation, evoking both pipe organ and raft, explores migration and diasporic displacement on the Studio Museum's terrace staircase.
Christopher Myers: Harlem Is a MythStudio Museum in Harlem · from Nov 15A site-specific metal installation depicting mythic Harlem figures—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a centaur, jazz legends with wings, and young people with animal features—exploring inner stories and magic.
Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for LearningThe Jewish Museum · from Oct 24Over 200 works spanning from ancient artifacts to contemporary art trace Jewish diaspora, migration, and cultural identity across millennia.
New Humans: Memories of the FutureNew Museum · from Mar 21Over 200 international artists, writers, and filmmakers explore how technological change has reshaped definitions of humanity across the 20th and 21st centuries.
OUT of the Jewelry BoxMuseum of Arts and Design · from Apr 1An ongoing exhibition exploring contemporary and historical jewelry from MAD's collection.
Dyani White Hawk: NourishWhitney Museum of American Art · from Mar 8Dyani White Hawk's site-specific ceramic tile installation drawing from Lakota abstraction traditions and in dialogue with American Modernism.
"Untitled" (America)Whitney Museum of American Art · from Mar 8Contemporary works exploring American identity and cultural narratives.
The Zora ProjectThe Shed · from Jun 18Tanya Birl-Torres's multiyear residency honoring Zora Neale Hurston through community-engaged movement, folktales, and ritual rooted in African diasporic practice.
The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-GoMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · from Mar 8Ongoing installation celebrating New York's cultural history and contemporary creative energy.
Facade: Tschabalala Self—Art LoversNew Museum · from Mar 21Tschabalala Self's facade commission for the New Museum's expanded building.
Atrium Stair: Klára Hosnedlová—ShelterNew Museum · from Mar 21Klára Hosnedlová's long-term installation in the New Museum's atrium stairwell.
Upon a MachineThe Kitchen · from Apr 23Tromarama's installation and performance work exploring mechanical systems and found objects.
Plaza: Sarah Lucas—VENUS VICTORIANew Museum · from May 12Sarah Lucas's inaugural public plaza sculpture celebrates women claiming space in public life, on view for two years at the New Museum's Bowery expansion.
Modern Mural: Nina Chanel Abney's LOVE NYCMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · from Jan 1Nina Chanel Abney's paintings merge contemporary culture's frenetic pace with bold color and disjointed narratives spanning race, politics, celebrity, and art history.
Nancy Baker Cahill: CENTOWhitney Museum of American Art · from Jan 1A monumental augmented reality creature hovering over the Whitney's Floor 8 terrace, collectively evolved through participatory feather-placement by global viewers.
Nike: Form Follows MotionMuseum of Arts and Design · from Sep 12Nike's design innovation and athletic footwear evolution explored through form and function.
Artist InstallationsStudio Museum in Harlem · from Nov 15Three landmark installations by Houston E. Conwill, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon exploring time, identity, and language through bronze capsules, flag imagery, and neon text.
Art Lab: SoundMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) · from Jan 1Listen, explore, play, and move in MoMA's interactive space where visitors of all ages create with sound.
Decorative Arts in China, 1000 to the PresentMetropolitan Museum of Art · from Jul 25Chinese decorative arts spanning a millennium of ceramics, jade, and metalwork.