Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
museum · Midtown
Modern and contemporary at the highest tier of museum production. Curatorial shows in the print, drawing, and design departments are often more interesting than the headliners.
On view
MoMA Staff Art Exhibition 2026Over 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.
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
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.
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.
Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree HovsepianSheree Hovsepian's sculptural and installation work exploring form, space, and perception.
Hyundai Card First Look: Joan SnyderJoan Snyder's abstract paintings and mixed-media works exploring gesture and materiality.
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
The Surrealist BookSurrealist artists transformed the bound book into a provocative art form, merging text, image, and sculptural binding to unlock the unconscious and promote revolutionary tenets.
Na Mira: NO SMOKINGNa Mira creates site-responsive installations using radio frequencies, infrared heat, and holography to explore language, memory, and the borders of body and state.
Brancusi: The Artist and His StudioBrancusi's Paris studio—a workspace and artwork itself—reconstructed through rarely lent sculptures, photographs, films, and hand-carved furniture from the Atelier Brancusi.
Taking Back Our Space: Photographic PerspectivesMarianne Wex's landmark 1972 photographic survey of gendered body language, presented alongside contemporary artists exploring how bodies reclaim public space.
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.
Art Lab: SoundListen, explore, play, and move in MoMA's interactive space where visitors of all ages create with sound.
The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-GoOngoing installation celebrating New York's cultural history and contemporary creative energy.