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Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt
AI visions from brain scans in MoMA's Sculpture Garden
Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur
Giacometti's bronzes in dialogue with ancient Egypt
Andy Warhol Family Album
Intimate Polaroids from Warhol's personal archive, 1972-73
Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian
Fragmented bodies assembled into charged 3D compositions.
Hyundai Card First Look: Joan Snyder
A lush abstract painting by Joan Snyder at MoMA
Marcel Duchamp
300 works spanning Duchamp's career-long reinvention of art
Frida and Diego: The Last Dream
Kahlo and Rivera united in a MoMA and Met Opera collaboration.
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi
New sculpture and steel relief on the Whitney's terrace
Taína H. Cruz: I Saw the Future and It Smiled Back
Bold new work on the Whitney's Gansevoort billboard
Peggy Weil: Core Memory
Ice cores and deep time on MoMA's immersive lobby screen.
Leo Castañeda: Camoflux Recall Grotto
A web game growing cyberflora in a surreal primordial grotto.
Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond
Bassman's dreamy fashion photography at The Met
Mabel Dwight: Cool Head, Warm Heart
Dwight's lithographs of New York life, full of warmth and wit.
Memo Akten & Katie Hofstadter: The Thinking Ocean
Where fluid dynamics meets code in a living digital ocean.
Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination
A compelling group show exploring how mid-20th-century photographers across Central and West Africa used portraiture to fuel Pan-African solidarity and decolonial politics.
Modern Mural: Nina Chanel Abney's LOVE NYC
Abney's vibrant paper cut-out mural reimagines NYC and MoMA icons.
INFANT: BANNED SKILLS
A nonlinear portal into INFANT's XENOFORMALISM universe
"Untitled" (America)
American art 1900–1980s, anchored by Gonzalez-Torres
Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life
Immersive abstract mural inspired by music at MoMA
Dyani White Hawk: Nourish
Ceramic tile mosaic rooted in Lakota artistic tradition
Rashid Johnson: New Poetry
A site-specific steel-grid poem inside and outside the Whitney.
Nancy Baker Cahill: CENTO
Participatory AR creature evolving on the Whitney's terrace
David Hammons: Day's End
A monumental permanent installation on the Hudson River waterfront.
A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie
Opulent Savonnerie carpets made for Louis XIV
Decorative Arts in China, 1000 to the Present
A sweeping survey of Chinese decorative arts spanning over a millennium, from the year 1000 to today — exploring ceramics, textiles, lacquerware, and more.
Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop
Explore the story of Val-Kill Industries, Eleanor Roosevelt's craft furniture workshop in Hyde Park, NY — a pioneering venture in rural economic empowerment.
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
Architecture and independence across seven West African nations.
City of Memory: Nanjing in the Seventeenth Century
An exploration of Nanjing's cultural and historical significance during the seventeenth century, examining the city's role as a major center of art, commerce, and intellectual life.
American Folk Art: Revisiting the Collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Rockefeller's folk-art collection returns to MoMA after 70 years.
Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy
Western visions of the East, examined at The Met.
P. S. Art 2026: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids
P. S. Art 2026 showcases the vibrant artwork of New York City public school students, highlighting the creativity and imagination of young artists across the five boroughs.
The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met
Modern portraits from The Met's permanent collection.
Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas
Mythical creatures from Europe and the Americas, side by side.
Independence and Identity: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
Drawings and prints on independence and identity at the Met.
Costume Art
Costume as fine art, explored at The Met Fifth Avenue.
Creativity Lab: Make a Portrait
A hands-on portrait studio by Souls in Focus at MoMA.
Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew
Korean art seen from surprising new angles at The Met
Whitney Biennial 2026
56 artists redefine American art at the Whitney Biennial 2026.
Celebrating the Year of the Horse
Art celebrating the horse across cultures and centuries.
Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930
Hindu devotional prints reshaped by commercial printing, 1860–1930.
The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics
Japanese ceramics from earthenware to porcelain at the Met.
Wedding Attire: Three Cultures, One Celebration
Ceremonial wedding dress across three cultural traditions.
The Modern Window: Julien Ceccaldi
Anime-inflected installation of city life at MoMA
Robert Nideffer: 12 Years in Azeroth – The Journey Begins
Twelve years inside World of Warcraft, reimagined as interactive art.
Frank WANG Yefeng: The Levitating Perils #2
Five animations reclaiming the "Yellow Peril" myth
Baseball Cards from the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick
Burdick's legendary baseball card gift to the Met
Making It Modern: European Ceramics from the Martin Eidelberg Collection
A century of European ceramic innovation at The Met.
Arts of Oceania
Pacific island art, craft, and culture at The Met.
Arts of the Ancient Americas
Indigenous art of the Americas before European contact
Defensive Display: Shields from The Met Collection
Shields as art and armor, spanning cultures and centuries.
The Sumptuous Discovery of Gotham a Go-Go
A student-imagined mural of a parallel New York City
Art Lab: Sound
Explore sound, sculpture, and interactive art at MoMA.
The American Wing at 100
100 years of American art at the Met's iconic Wing
The Calculated Curve: Eighteenth-Century American Furniture
Masterworks of 18th-century American furniture at The Met.
Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt
Modern art meets Byzantine sacred space at The Met.
Cycladic Art
Ancient Cycladic figurines that inspired modern art
Look Again: European Paintings 1300–1800
Five centuries of European painting at The Met
Layered Narratives: The Northern Renaissance Gallery
Symbolic art of the Flemish, Dutch, and German masters at The Met.
Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
Centuries of Native American art from the Diker Collection
Renaissance Masterpieces of Judaica: The Mishneh Torah and The Rothschild Mahzor
Two Renaissance Hebrew manuscripts, one unmissable show.
A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection
Exquisite jade objects from across cultures and centuries.
Embracing Color: Enamel in Chinese Decorative Arts, 1300–1900
Six centuries of Chinese enamel art at The Met.
Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room
Afrofuturist period room blending history and future visions
The British Galleries
Centuries of British art and design at The Met.
Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection
Exquisite Fabergé pieces from a legendary collection.
Musical Bodies
The body as instrument: art, music, and rhythm at The Met.
Revolution!
Art and revolution across history, at The Met.
Arts of Africa
Africa's diverse artistic traditions across centuries
Michael Lin: Pentachrome
New works on color, form, and architectural space.
Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation
A 2004 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art presenting a foundational display of painting and sculpture works.
Mondrian Boogie Woogie
The first major survey of Mondrian's New York years (1940–44) reunites Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie for the first time in 30 years, tracing how boogie woogie music transformed his art.
Na Mira: NO SMOKING
Holography and ritual collide in Na Mira's MoMA debut.
Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio
Rare Paris loans illuminate Brancusi's legendary studio
Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany
Explore the creative process behind iconic Gilded Age design through original drawings and sketches from Louis C. Tiffany's renowned studios.
Roy Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein's Pop masterworks at the Whitney
Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous
Two Abstract Expressionist giants, one landmark show.
The Surrealist Book
MoMA presents a landmark survey of Surrealist books — from glass-bound volumes to solarized photo-poems — tracing the movement's radical reinvention of the printed page from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives
Eight artists reclaim space through a feminist photographic lens.
It's Alive! A Century of Animation from the Collection
MoMA surveys over 100 years of animation, spotlighting New York's pivotal role and the work of 35+ filmmakers who shaped the medium from silent-era icons to the MTV age.
Across Wine-Dark Seas: Art and Identity beyond Ancient Greece
An exploration of art and cultural identity in the ancient Mediterranean world beyond the Greek mainland, examining how diverse civilizations shaped and were shaped by cross-cultural exchange.
The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei
Liu Wei's striking intervention on The Met's facade.
Studio Residency: Pageant
Brooklyn's Pageant collective takes over MoMA's Kravis Studio.
A Lasting Legacy: Chinese Jades from New York Collections
A curated showcase of Chinese jade objects drawn from distinguished New York private collections, spanning centuries of craftsmanship and cultural significance.
Past exhibitions (20)
Raphael: Sublime Poetry
Raphael's paintings, drawings, and designs at the Met.
Artist's Choice: Arthur Jafa — Less Is Morbid
Arthur Jafa curates MoMA's collection into a bold meditation
The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am
Jeffrey Gibson's vibrant new facade commission at The Met.
Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography
How Hollywood manufactured celebrity, one retouched photo at a time.
MoMA Staff Art Exhibition 2026
MoMA turns the spotlight on its own staff in this wide-ranging group show featuring works in diverse mediums by over a hundred museum employees who are also practicing artists.
Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship
Medieval Gothic draftsmanship revealed at The Met.
The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower
A restored capsule from Tokyo's iconic Metabolist tower
William Klein: YES - Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948–2013
Six decades of Klein's photography, painting, and film
On Love & Data
AI, data, and human emotion in a bold solo exhibition
Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP
CAMP's critical media art on images and power at MoMA
Pirouette: Turning Points in Design
Iconic and inventive design objects at MoMA
no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria
Puerto Rican art in the wake of Hurricane Maria
Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces
MoMA honors the legendary Black avant-garde gallery JAM.
Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers of Magnum
Twelve Magnum women photographers at ICP, 2022-2023
Never Alone: Video Games as Interactive Design
Video games as interactive design at MoMA
Memories of Serenissima
An art exhibition exploring the cultural heritage and artistic legacy of Venice through contemporary and historical works.
The Shaping of New Visions: Photograph, Film, Photobook
A 2012 MoMA exhibition tracing how photography, film, and the photobook redefined visual culture — a landmark survey of the medium's most transformative moments.
Figure in the Garden
A 2011 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art exploring the theme of the human figure set within garden landscapes across modern art.
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden: Inaugural Installation
MoMA's newly renovated Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden opens with an inaugural installation showcasing modern and contemporary sculpture in a reimagined outdoor setting.
Wet Networks
A 2021-22 art exhibition exploring interconnected themes through contemporary artistic practice and visual culture.