Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best art in New York City the weekend of Sep 18–20, 2026: 109 picks, refreshed weekly.
109 picks · checked Sep 7
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJewish ceremonial silver shown with Christian treasures from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral, in the Warburg mansion on Museum Mile.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJewish ceremonial silver shown with Christian treasures from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral, in the Warburg mansion on Museum Mile.
Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette Street, Tribeca, ManhattanGordon Parks' civil-rights photographs return with new written reflections from the families of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X in a landmark Tribeca show.
Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette Street, Tribeca, ManhattanGordon Parks' civil-rights photographs return with new written reflections from the families of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X in a landmark Tribeca show.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanTaryn Simon's interactive Guggenheim installation combines never-before-seen photographs with text, video and sculpture.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanTaryn Simon's interactive Guggenheim installation combines never-before-seen photographs with text, video and sculpture.
Long Island City, QueensDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSculptureCenter reopens after a month closed for installation with a free afternoon reception for three new commissions: Aziz Hazara, Cevdet Erek and Yining Fei.
Long Island City, QueensDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSculptureCenter reopens after a month closed for installation with a free afternoon reception for three new commissions: Aziz Hazara, Cevdet Erek and Yining Fei.
Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanKorean icon Lee Bul fills Hauser & Wirth with major new sculptures — cyborg bodies and glittering future ruins probing technology, nature and history.
Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, ManhattanKorean icon Lee Bul fills Hauser & Wirth with major new sculptures — cyborg bodies and glittering future ruins probing technology, nature and history.
Starrett-Lehigh Building, Chelsea, Manhattan91 galleries from 14 countries fill the Starrett-Lehigh with art priced $100 to $12,000 — buy-it-off-the-wall energy in its final days.
Starrett-Lehigh Building, Chelsea, Manhattan91 galleries from 14 countries fill the Starrett-Lehigh with art priced $100 to $12,000 — buy-it-off-the-wall energy in its final days.
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bedford Park, BronxNYBG's Flower Power turns 250 acres groovy — psychedelic floral displays plus Warhol and Milton Glaser works channeling sixties counterculture in bloom.
New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bedford Park, BronxNYBG's Flower Power turns 250 acres groovy — psychedelic floral displays plus Warhol and Milton Glaser works channeling sixties counterculture in bloom.
Agger Fish Building, Brooklyn Navy Yard, BrooklynGorillaz's 25th-anniversary immersive exhibition takes over the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Agger Fish Building for September — the band's only East Coast stop.
Agger Fish Building, Brooklyn Navy Yard, BrooklynGorillaz's 25th-anniversary immersive exhibition takes over the Brooklyn Navy Yard's Agger Fish Building for September — the band's only East Coast stop.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Meatpacking District, ManhattanCoumba Samba turns the Whitney lobby into an installation on nuclear power and African resource extraction, free to walk into.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Meatpacking District, ManhattanCoumba Samba turns the Whitney lobby into an installation on nuclear power and African resource extraction, free to walk into.
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanProvocateur Jordan Wolfson debuts a room of uniformly scaled new sculptures at Gagosian, each one built around found color and archival photographs.
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, Chelsea, ManhattanProvocateur Jordan Wolfson debuts a room of uniformly scaled new sculptures at Gagosian, each one built around found color and archival photographs.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Midtown, ManhattanMoMA's fall photography opening: Marianne Wex's 1977 feminist landmark in dialogue with seven contemporary artists, every contemporary work new to the museum's walls.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Midtown, ManhattanMoMA's fall photography opening: Marianne Wex's 1977 feminist landmark in dialogue with seven contemporary artists, every contemporary work new to the museum's walls.
Midtown, ManhattanEvery Friday evening MoMA stays open late, free for New York State residents who reserve ahead, with drop-in drawing, Friday Night Talks and films alongside the collection.
Midtown, ManhattanEvery Friday evening MoMA stays open late, free for New York State residents who reserve ahead, with drop-in drawing, Friday Night Talks and films alongside the collection.
Dia Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, Hudson ValleyA former Nabisco box-printing plant turned into 300,000 square feet of daylit galleries for Serra, Judd, Flavin and Bourgeois. The Metro-North station is a ten-minute walk away.
Dia Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Beacon, Hudson ValleyA former Nabisco box-printing plant turned into 300,000 square feet of daylit galleries for Serra, Judd, Flavin and Bourgeois. The Metro-North station is a ten-minute walk away.
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, Hudson ValleyA 500-acre outdoor museum where Calder, Serra and di Suvero sit in open meadows under the Schunnemunk ridge. A Coach USA package from Port Authority covers the bus and admission for $65.50.
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, Hudson ValleyA 500-acre outdoor museum where Calder, Serra and di Suvero sit in open meadows under the Schunnemunk ridge. A Coach USA package from Port Authority covers the bus and admission for $65.50.
Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, New JerseyTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsForty-two acres of accredited arboretum holding 300-plus contemporary sculptures, including Seward Johnson's uncanny life-size tableaux. It stays open to 9pm Friday and the evening ticket is $15.
Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, New JerseyTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsForty-two acres of accredited arboretum holding 300-plus contemporary sculptures, including Seward Johnson's uncanny life-size tableaux. It stays open to 9pm Friday and the evening ticket is $15.
The New York Historical, Upper West Side, ManhattanAcroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe New York Historical opens a 135-object survey of Irish literature since 1798 drawn from the Leonard L. Milberg collections. Friday evenings are pay-as-you-wish.
The New York Historical, Upper West Side, ManhattanAcroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe New York Historical opens a 135-object survey of Irish literature since 1798 drawn from the Leonard L. Milberg collections. Friday evenings are pay-as-you-wish.
Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, ManhattanKidfly182 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Waffle Trainer, Air Force 1 and Vaporfly meet never-shown prototypes from Nike's 200,000-object archive, opening at MAD on Columbus Circle.
Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, ManhattanKidfly182 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe Waffle Trainer, Air Force 1 and Vaporfly meet never-shown prototypes from Nike's 200,000-object archive, opening at MAD on Columbus Circle.
Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, ManhattanTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBronze, stone and concrete dogs on leashes take over the Central Park entrance at 60th and Fifth — Camille Henrot's first public show in New York.
Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, ManhattanTdorante10 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsBronze, stone and concrete dogs on leashes take over the Central Park entrance at 60th and Fifth — Camille Henrot's first public show in New York.
City Hall Park, Civic Center, ManhattanMomos · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsConcrete birds pluck pennies from the City Hall Park fountain and two bronze Lady Justices preside — Genesis Belanger's first big public show.
City Hall Park, Civic Center, ManhattanMomos · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsConcrete birds pluck pennies from the City Hall Park fountain and two bronze Lady Justices preside — Genesis Belanger's first big public show.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, ManhattanBeyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJulie Mehretu, Alma Thomas, Jack Whitten and William T. Williams anchor a Studio Museum show on geometry as a way of thinking, newly opened in Harlem.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, ManhattanBeyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJulie Mehretu, Alma Thomas, Jack Whitten and William T. Williams anchor a Studio Museum show on geometry as a way of thinking, newly opened in Harlem.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanKandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova hang together in the Guggenheim's galleries as European abstraction takes hold.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanKandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova hang together in the Guggenheim's galleries as European abstraction takes hold.
Midtown East, ManhattanThe Noguchi Museum reunites Isamu Noguchi with Lever House seventy years after his unrealized plan for its plaza, filling the lobby and courtyard of Gordon Bunshaft's 1952 landmark with sculpture, models and.
Midtown East, ManhattanThe Noguchi Museum reunites Isamu Noguchi with Lever House seventy years after his unrealized plan for its plaza, filling the lobby and courtyard of Gordon Bunshaft's 1952 landmark with sculpture, models and.
Long Island City, QueensMoMA PS1's Homeroom space hosts Artists Against the Bomb, an international campaign for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, organized with Nobel Peace Prize laureate ICAN.
Long Island City, QueensMoMA PS1's Homeroom space hosts Artists Against the Bomb, an international campaign for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, organized with Nobel Peace Prize laureate ICAN.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSandstone and glass wrapped in flax pelts and hand embroidery climbs four floors of the New Museum's new atrium stair.
New Museum, Lower East Side, ManhattanSandstone and glass wrapped in flax pelts and hand embroidery climbs four floors of the New Museum's new atrium stair.
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