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This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkGoing Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street, New YorkByzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkThe Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkThis Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkGoing Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street, New YorkByzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkThe Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkThis Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkGoing Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street, New YorkByzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkThe Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkThis Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkGoing Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street, New YorkByzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkThe Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkThis Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkGoing Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street, New YorkByzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkThe Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkThis Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkGoing Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street, New YorkByzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkThe Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkNYC Discovery Lab: Nature in the City
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkStart with Art/Art Trek
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkCooper Hewitt Family Program: Design Your Own Collection
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum 2 E 91st Street, New YorkThis Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkGoing Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street, New YorkByzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New YorkThe Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkThe Paper Bag Players + Studio Art Session
The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, New YorkWeek of Events
This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture
Explore the many ways NYC has inspired storytelling across art forms. See both famous and lesser-known depictions of New York in film and television, visual and performing arts, music, poetry and literature, and even fashion. The full-floor exhibition is organized around the types of urban spaces where the stories of New York are told. “Tempo…
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility
Works of art that feature partially obscured or hidden figures take over the iconic rotunda. Different ways of hiding include shadowing, rotating the body BS postproduction tools that blur or brighten. Most recent works draw upon digital technology, such as the chroma-key green (or blue) screen. More than 100 works by a group of 28…
An Atlas of Es Devlin
An Atlas of Es Devlin
See over 300 sketches, paintings, illuminated paper cuts, and projection-mapped rotating miniature sculptures that form the seeds of some of the most iconic, cultural congregations of music, poetry, art, and activism in recent times in a survey of genre-defying British contemporary artist and designer Es Devlin. Globally renowned for her large-scale, illuminated installations and sculptures…
Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Explore Manny Vega's visual storytelling as it interweaves community stories with themes that range from African deities to urban mythologies, spanning the personal and the collective. His style has been dubbed “Byzantine Hip-Hop” for his uncompromising technical command that encompasses ancient Mediterranean mosaic-making and the electrifying lines of hyper-detailed Sharpie pen-and-ink drawings. Deeply rooted in…
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African…
Little Guggs: Mondays
Little Guggs: Mondays
In this program designed for young art lovers and their parents and guardians, participants explore works of art on view with the goal of creating their own artistic expressions. Each program includes art looking, art-making activities, and a story.
Met Storytime
Met Storytime
Look, listen, sing, and have fun with Met educators. Join picture-book readings connected to objects in The Met collection every Tuesday & Thursday. This month's theme is Celebrate Black Stories in celebration of Black History Month. Recommended for families with children ages 18 months to 6 years. Choose from two half-hour sessions at 10:30 am…
Met Storytime
Met Storytime
Look, listen, sing, and have fun with Met educators. Join picture-book readings connected to objects in The Met collection every Tuesday & Thursday. This month's theme is Celebrate Black Stories in celebration of Black History Month. Recommended for families with children ages 18 months to 6 years. Choose from two half-hour sessions at 10:30 am…
NYC Discovery Lab: Nature in the City
NYC Discovery Lab: Nature in the City
In celebration of Earth Day, learn how the environment in New York City has changed over time. Hands-on activities for all ages include exploring indigenous plants and animals, a game that explores native and nonnative species and hearing the stories of NYC environmental activists who have advocated for beautification of their neighborhoods. Pick up an…
Start with Art/Art Trek
Start with Art/Art Trek
Fabulous museum educators engage children in conversations and activities related to a few works in the vast collection. Travel through time and around the world on a museum adventure. Discover favorite works of art and make your own masterpiece. This month’s theme is Threads of Friendship in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Textile Conservation…
Cooper Hewitt Family Program: Design Your Own Collection
Cooper Hewitt Family Program: Design Your Own Collection
Explore the exhibition Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection with a scavenger hunt. Then drop in for a design activity: What do you collect? Whether it’s shells, stickers, stamps, Pokémon cards, or sneakers, design a way to display your favorites. Take your design home and showcase your collection. Drop in any time 11 am–1 pm…
Guggenheim Stroller Tours: Walkers
Guggenheim Stroller Tours: Walkers
Toddle or stroll up the Guggenheim’s spiral in this early walker friendly tour. Explore the spaces and current exhibitions through touchable objects, art-making, and adult conversation. Designed for children 12–24 months and their caregivers. Includes tour plus museum admission for one stroller (single strollers and front baby carriers only) and up to four adults. Registration…
The Paper Bag Players + Studio Art Session
The Paper Bag Players + Studio Art Session
Celebrate The Paper Bag Players' 65th anniversary season, with a hilarious show with new work and classic sketches. Enjoy freewheeling dances, lovable characters, whimsical music, audience participation, and the signature paper and cardboard sets and costumes. 12:30-3 pm, drop into 4th floor studio to design a whimsical paper animal puppet inspired by animal imagery in…