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 York
Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega
Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street, New York
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New YorkWeek of Events
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…
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
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
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…
Niki de Saint Phalle: Tableaux Éclatés
See French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle's dynamic Tableaux Éclatés (“burst paintings”), vibrant, mechanized pictures depicting landscapes upon which animals and still lifes, as well as her trademark Nanas, dance across beaches, deserts, and seas. Each painting’s composition is animated through an intricate motorized armature activated through a photo sensor: when the artwork recognizes a…
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…
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…
The Tempest
The Tempest
Join an original musical retelling of Shakespeare’s classic play created just for young audiences. Told through music and dance, 92NY’s retelling of Shakespeare’s timeless story of uncovering family bonds on an enchanted island is funny, playful, approachable, and moving for children and adults alike. This magical 45-minute performance is the perfect introduction to the Bard…
The Tempest
The Tempest
Join an original musical retelling of Shakespeare’s classic play created just for young audiences. Told through music and dance, 92NY’s retelling of Shakespeare’s timeless story of uncovering family bonds on an enchanted island is funny, playful, approachable, and moving for children and adults alike. This magical 45-minute performance is the perfect introduction to the Bard…