Calendar
On view Sunday, August 2, 2026 · 124 exhibitions
Dan FlavinFluorescent light grids by Dan Flavin from 1976 onward, exploring chromatic intensity and spatial transformation through corner installations.
Alex Israel: Upside DownFour Plexiglas fin sculptures, enlarged from surfboard designs, suspended upside down to evoke Southern California surf culture and postwar Los Angeles art movements.
Urs Fischer: Eugène AtgetUrs Fischer exhibition at Gagosian Athens.
Sterling Ruby: TILL DEATH DO US PARTSterling Ruby exhibition at Gagosian Paris.
Christo: AirChristo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapped-air sculptures and a monumental 1968 installation, exploring perception and the invisible through polyethylene and rope.
Jaume Plensa: MirageJaume Plensa's large-scale installation in a historic nave, exploring contemplation, elevation, and art's power to connect memory and place.
Yoko Ono: Music of the MindYoko Ono's first Southern California museum survey, spanning seven decades of instruction works, peace activism, film, and participatory installations.
Nalini Malani: Of Woman BornNalini 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.
ConduitsAnna Freeman Bentley's sculptural and installation work investigating material transformation and spatial relationships.
MatineeAlex Prager explores performance, theatre, and contemporary storytelling through photography and moving image.
When the Sun Shines AgainSouth Korean painter Guimi You explores renewal and artistic return through layered compositions that embed works by friends reclaiming their creative practices.
Daniel Joseph Martinez: States of BeingDaniel Joseph Martinez transforms his body into post-human identities through large-scale photography, exploring surveillance, AI, and the human species as an invasive force.
States of BeingDaniel Joseph Martinez explores collective identity, surveillance, power, and machine intelligence across five decades of conceptual work spanning text, sculpture, photography, installation, and robot
On an Overgrown PathMatt Saunders explores hybrid forms between photography and painting, investigating how materials interact and transform across surfaces.
Annette Messager: Histoires des oreillersAnnette Messager's heterogeneous practice spanning assemblage, taxidermy, embroidery, and installation, exploring fairy tales, mythology, and memory through everyday materials.
Annette Messager: In Focus PresentationAnnette Messager's heterogeneous practice spanning assemblage, taxidermy, embroidery, and installation, drawing on fairy tales, mythology, and memory.
Matt Saunders: On an Overgrown PathMatt Saunders explores hybrid forms merging photography and painting through camera-less techniques, animation, and printmaking that investigate material transformation and the mutability of perceptio
37 DimensionsMika Tajima's 24 Hour Cosmos series translates global news data into luminescent, holographic wall works that measure collective sentiment across single days.
Dream of VanishingOver 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."
Noon Day NightWilliam Monk's paintings exploring light, time, and atmospheric conditions across different hours.
When Form Meets GesturePark Young Sook's abstract works investigating the relationship between form and gestural mark-making.
Italy Through Its TreesSchnabel's paintings on Italian maps and broken-plate works depicting umbrella pines, exploring abstraction through two decades-long bodies of work.
Never could be any other way — anagnorisisKenjiro Okazaki's first UK solo exhibition features abstract paintings, sculptures, and small-scale works exploring temporality and perception through color, form, and poetic language.
The Turning SeasonEmily 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
Stairwell DrawingsNine life-size surreal drawings by David Byrne installed on the stairwell walls of Pace Gallery's New York flagship, reflecting his playful sensibility.
The Moon RoomFifteen iPad paintings of the night sky created during pandemic quarantine in Normandy, capturing the moon's changing phases and their shadows on the landscape.
Goodbye Sadness, Hello SadnessA group exhibition exploring emotional states and contemporary artistic responses to melancholy.
The Audacity of ScaleA 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
Magdiel García AlmanzaGeometric 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.
AcanaMagdiel García Almanza's carved acana wood sculptures oscillate between abstraction and figuration, drawing on Cubism and modernist traditions.
A HOUSE IS NOT A HOMETen artists explore home as memory, history, and comfort through painting, sculpture, textile, and photography.
Upon a MachineTromarama's installation and performance work exploring mechanical systems and found objects.
OUT of the Jewelry BoxAn ongoing exhibition exploring contemporary and historical jewelry from MAD's collection.
2025 Burke Prize: Hai-Wen LinHai-Wen Lin's practice merges garment construction with flight engineering, creating textiles and sculptural kites that collapse boundaries between fashion, design, and performance.
Alice Riehl's Porcelain FlorilegiumAlice Riehl's porcelain botanical works celebrating plant diversity through ceramic craft.
Jessica Lichtenstein: RewildingJessica Lichtenstein's work exploring ecological restoration and natural systems through art and design.
Haas Brothers: Uncanny ValleyTwin artists Nikolai and Simon Haas create fantastical ceramic sculptures, furniture, and installations merging handcraft with digital technology in surrealistic, zoomorphic forms.
Sophie Rivera: Double ExposuresPioneering photographer Sophie Rivera's portraits, experimental self-portraits, and documentary images of 1970s–90s New York, exploring identity and Nuyorican representation.
Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026Seventeen teen photographers from the Studio Museum's Expanding the Walls program capture motion and repose in New York City streets and intimate domestic spaces.
FadeSeventeen early-career artists of African and Afro-Latinx descent explore spirituality, surrealism, and nonlinear time to locate spaces of possibility.
Camille Norment: Untitled (heliotrope)Camille 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.
Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEEDKapwani Kiwanga's site-specific installation transposes Underground Railroad quilt codes into naturally dyed fabric, layering histories of slavery, resistance, and botanical knowledge.
Christopher Myers: Harlem Is a MythA 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.
To Be A PlaceA 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
Artist InstallationsThree landmark installations by Houston E. Conwill, David Hammons, and Glenn Ligon exploring time, identity, and language through bronze capsules, flag imagery, and neon text.
From Now: A Collection in ContextA dynamic, rotating collection display featuring over 800 artists of African descent, from the 19th century to present, organized thematically throughout the museum building.
Latinx FreedomRemembrance and movement, in a free exhibition on the outdoor Plaza.
The Zora ProjectTanya Birl-Torres's multiyear residency honoring Zora Neale Hurston through community-engaged movement, folktales, and ritual rooted in African diasporic practice.
The Black Mirror ExperienceBecome the protagonist of an original Black Mirror narrative.
Doug Aitken: LightscapeA modern mythology of hope, struggle, and interconnection.
Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United StatesVernacular 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.
Self-Made: A Century of Inventing ArtistsSixty 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.
Homeroom: Red Canary SongRed Canary Song's collaborative work examining labor, migration, and community care.
In Practice: Michaela BathrickCast cement sculptures that resemble decommissioned architectural fittings but reveal themselves as letters and language fragments from different angles.
Ellen Pau: She MovesEllen Pau presents She Moves.
Akinsanya Kambon: Soul SessionsAkinsanya Kambon presents Soul Sessions.
Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi's 1986 Venice BiennaleNoguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale presentation of stone sculptures, Akari light works, and a monumental marble spiral slide challenging distinctions between art, design, and environment.
Noguchi's New YorkIsamu Noguchi's transformative relationship with New York City, exploring how the city shaped his art and how he reimagined its public spaces.
Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes SpiritAndrea Hernández Briceño documents the indigenous Huöttöja people of the Amazon, centering their worldview and spiritual traditions while resisting exploitative outsider narratives.
Photobooks USA 2000–25Over 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 PhotographyNearly 300 photographs and archival objects exploring how Yves Saint Laurent and celebrated photographers shaped fashion imagery over four decades.
Dryer, Davie, DiamondThree painters—Dryer, Davie, Diamond—working across abstraction and figuration from the 1980s onward.
Viewing Room VIMatt Keegan's two-channel video and text-based work exploring language, identity, and social systems.
Facade: Tschabalala Self—Art LoversTschabalala Self's facade commission for the New Museum's expanded building.
Plaza: Sarah Lucas—VENUS VICTORIASarah 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.
New Humans: Memories of the FutureOver 200 international artists, writers, and filmmakers explore how technological change has reshaped definitions of humanity across the 20th and 21st centuries.
Atrium Stair: Klára Hosnedlová—ShelterKlára Hosnedlová's long-term installation in the New Museum's atrium stairwell.
Dyani White Hawk: NourishDyani White Hawk's site-specific ceramic tile installation drawing from Lakota abstraction traditions and in dialogue with American Modernism.
Nancy Baker Cahill: CENTOA monumental augmented reality creature hovering over the Whitney's Floor 8 terrace, collectively evolved through participatory feather-placement by global viewers.
Whitney Biennial 2026Fifty-six intergenerational and international artists explore interspecies kinships, geopolitical entanglements, and shared mythologies across media and strategies.
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly AkashiGlass-brick sculpture and path installed on the Whitney's rooftop terrace.
Andy Warhol Family AlbumWarhol's intimate photographs of family and friends, rarely seen publicly.
Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm HeartMabel Dwight's lithographs capture the dignity and inner life of New York's working people, from vaudeville stages to street corners.
"Untitled" (America)Contemporary works exploring American identity and cultural narratives.
Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree HovsepianSheree Hovsepian's sculptural and installation work exploring form, space, and perception.
Art Lab: SoundListen, explore, play, and move in MoMA's interactive space where visitors of all ages create with sound.
Modern Mural: Nina Chanel Abney's LOVE NYCNina Chanel Abney's paintings merge contemporary culture's frenetic pace with bold color and disjointed narratives spanning race, politics, celebrity, and art history.
The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-GoOngoing installation celebrating New York's cultural history and contemporary creative energy.
Hyundai Card First Look: Joan SnyderJoan Snyder's abstract paintings and mixed-media works exploring gesture and materiality.
American Folk Art: Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich RockefellerNearly 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
Pierre Huyghe: UUmweltPierre 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.
Studio Residency: PageantPageant, an artist-run Brooklyn performance collective, develops new movement-based work in MoMA's studio through rehearsal, experimentation, and public performance events.
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western AfricaThe 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
Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine RoomImmersive Tibetan Buddhist shrine room installation featuring sacred art and devotional objects.
Donald Moffett: IMPEACHDonald Moffett's large-scale paintings and text-based works confronting political urgency and visual activism.
Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200Retrospective of the Brooklyn Museum's 200-year history and its role in shaping American art and culture.
Common SenseExhibition exploring collective knowledge, vernacular wisdom, and artistic responses to shared experience.
ANIMAL [a listening gym]Ash 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.
Bases LoadedJordan Eagles uses blood-splattered Mets T-shirts and resin home-plate sculptures to interrogate belonging, queer identity, and the politics embedded in baseball fandom.
Office of War Information (O.W.I.)Khajistan's archive-based installation examining U.S. military propaganda leaflets and the rhetoric of war justification across decades.
Certainly an Act: Works on Paper by Pope.LPope.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.
Black Art Library at The Drawing CenterA 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.
The Seventh AIM Biennial: Forms of ConnectionTwenty-eight emerging artists from the Bronx Museum's 2024–2025 AIM Fellowship cohorts explore connection across heritage, society, and intimacy.
THE CAMPUS 2026A collaborative group exhibition across 14 galleries presenting site-specific installations by 20+ international artists in a former school building.
SEE YOU TOMORROW UNDER OTHER SKIESA cross-generational group exhibition exploring land, mapping, and contested histories through painting, textile, sculpture, performance, and photography.
ClockworkSable Elyse Smith examines systems of power through sculpture, video, neon, and works on paper, tracing how they operate as hidden psychological and cultural infrastructure.
Vian Sora: OuterworldsVian Sora's abstract paintings channel the chaos of war, displacement, and Iraq's landscapes through densely layered oil and acrylic.
The Equator Has MovedRenée Green's multidisciplinary practice juxtaposes archival, documentary, and literary fragments to probe unstable boundaries between fact and fiction, public recollection and personal memory.
ALLONSDaniel Buren and 40+ artists from the museum's collection explore contemporaneity—ecological, political, and poetic—through works seeking new horizons for shared future spaces.
When sky merges with EarthTran Luong's paintings, performances, and installations exploring landscape, water, and Vietnamese history through abstraction and narrative cycles.
Artist Commission: Seung Ah PaikSeung Ah Paik's commissioned work at Rubell Museum explores landscape and abstraction.
Drawings and PaintingsCaitlin Keogh's colored-pencil rose drawings and grid-based Matrix paintings exploring labor, visibility, and matrixial space through historical postcards and layered gazes.
Sometime Somewhere Someone Is DancingLola Stong-Brett's gestural paintings merge cartoon figures, ocean imagery, and fragmented text to explore human connection, loss, and emotional currents.
The Page Before MeOil paintings layered through iterative processes of application, excavation, and renewal, each accompanied by graphite rubbings that record the work's material transformation.
Shani Strand: Everything Must Be ReturnedShani Strand's immersive installation examines colonialism, extraction, and resistance through sculptures and film inspired by Caribbean history and trickster figures.
ART OF NOISEA 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.
MADE IN AMERICA: THE INDUSTRIAL PHOTOGRAPHY OF CHRISTOPHER PAYNEChristopher Payne's large-format photographs document American factories and the skilled workers transforming raw materials into everything from pianos to semiconductors.
Musical BodiesInstruments and musical objects from cultures worldwide, exploring the body's role in music.
Giacometti in the Temple of DendurGiacometti's elongated bronze figures installed within the Met's iconic Egyptian temple.
Decorative Arts in China, 1000 to the PresentChinese decorative arts spanning a millennium of ceramics, jade, and metalwork.
Orientalism: Between Fact and FantasyEuropean paintings and decorative arts depicting the Orient, examining Orientalist aesthetics.
P. S. Art 2026: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City KidsArtwork by New York City public school students celebrating youth creativity.
Venice Biennial 2026 | In Minor KeysKennedy Yanko and Celia Vásquez Yui present work in the Venice Biennial's 61st International Art Exhibition, curated by Koyo Kouoh.
Collection in Focus | Modern European CurrentsGoncharova, Kandinsky, and Marc's transformation of painting in the early 20th century.
Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to NowPop art from Warhol to Cattelan, tracing the movement's influence from 1960 to the present.
Carol BoveCarol Bove's first museum survey spans 25 years of drawings and monumental steel compositions.
Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie AntoinetteHand-colored engravings depicting French fashion from the late 18th century, many never before publicly displayed.
Focus Gallery: Oded Halahmy: Models in WoodIntimate wood sculptures from the 1970s by Iraqi-born artist Oded Halahmy, exploring memory, displacement, and Mesopotamian heritage through carved forms suggesting ladders and windows.
Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for LearningOver 200 works spanning from ancient artifacts to contemporary art trace Jewish diaspora, migration, and cultural identity across millennia.
Focus Gallery: Walter Benjamin and the Edges of PhotographyGerman philosopher Walter Benjamin's engagement with photography through works by Blossfeldt, Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, and Sander, featuring a rare portrait of Benjamin himself.
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener WerkstätteOver 200 works by 30 Jewish women artists of the Wiener Werkstätte, with emphasis on ceramicist Vally Wieselthier and textile designer Felice Rix-Ueno.
Focus Gallery: Circa 1776: Jews in Colonial AmericaPortraits, artifacts, and documents exploring Jewish life in colonial and post-colonial America, marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
A Collection Without BordersA 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
Joaquín Sorolla's Vision of SpainSorolla'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.