The best art in New York City the weekend of Sep 25–27, 2026 — hand-curated and refreshed weekly.
110 picks · checked Sep 1
Hudson Yards, ManhattanPercy Rainford [1] · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsNew York's flagship international art fair returns to the Javits Center with roughly 230 galleries, a 2026 program spotlighting Caribbean art, large-scale installations, performance and a new after-hours.
Hudson Yards, ManhattanPercy Rainford [1] · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsNew York's flagship international art fair returns to the Javits Center with roughly 230 galleries, a 2026 program spotlighting Caribbean art, large-scale installations, performance and a new after-hours.
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.
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.
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.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAna Paula Hirama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA new Met show explores how artists across centuries have rendered the body as instrument and music as form—opening day at one of the city's biggest museums.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAna Paula Hirama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA new Met show explores how artists across centuries have rendered the body as instrument and music as form—opening day at one of the city's biggest museums.
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.
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El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, ManhattanThe first major retrospective of Teddy Sandoval, a central figure of LA's queer Chicano avant-garde, opens at El Museo del Barrio for its New York run.
El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem, ManhattanThe first major retrospective of Teddy Sandoval, a central figure of LA's queer Chicano avant-garde, opens at El Museo del Barrio for its New York run.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThe Brooklyn Museum opens its survey of sculptor Michael Richards — killed in his World Trade Center studio on 9/11 — deliberately on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThe Brooklyn Museum opens its survey of sculptor Michael Richards — killed in his World Trade Center studio on 9/11 — deliberately on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanSeventy large-format photographs of American factories fill the Carnegie Mansion, with a pay-what-you-wish hour daily.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanSeventy large-format photographs of American factories fill the Carnegie Mansion, with a pay-what-you-wish hour daily.
Agger Fish Building, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 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, 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.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanFlip Sides turns 50 Korean treasures around at the Met — hidden linings, sealed interiors and reverse faces, over half never shown in public.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanFlip Sides turns 50 Korean treasures around at the Met — hidden linings, sealed interiors and reverse faces, over half never shown in public.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynMore than 140 Iris van Herpen haute couture pieces fill the Brooklyn Museum, shown beside scientific artifacts and natural-history specimens.
Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Heights, BrooklynMore than 140 Iris van Herpen haute couture pieces fill the Brooklyn Museum, shown beside scientific artifacts and natural-history specimens.
The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanJason Persse · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThirty works of digital and analog information design in MoMA's street-level gallery, which is free and open to the public.
The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, ManhattanJason Persse · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThirty works of digital and analog information design in MoMA's street-level gallery, which is free and open to the public.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Costume Institute's new blockbuster reframes fashion as fine art, with sculptural gowns staged alongside masterpieces from the Met's collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Costume Institute's new blockbuster reframes fashion as fine art, with sculptural gowns staged alongside masterpieces from the Met's collection.
Museum of the City of New York, Upper Manhattan, ManhattanA rescued New Deal mural cycle painted for a hospital children's ward goes back on public view in East Harlem.
Museum of the City of New York, Upper Manhattan, ManhattanA rescued New Deal mural cycle painted for a hospital children's ward goes back on public view in East Harlem.
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.
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.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsWarhol to Maurizio Cattelan, hung along Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral: the Guggenheim's own Pop holdings and what came after.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsWarhol to Maurizio Cattelan, hung along Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral: the Guggenheim's own Pop holdings and what came after.
Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, 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, 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.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Crown Heights, BrooklynBBG rebuilds the winning stoops of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest, plus portraits of the neighbours who planted them.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Crown Heights, BrooklynBBG rebuilds the winning stoops of the Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest, plus portraits of the neighbours who planted them.
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.
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.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Meatpacking District, ManhattanWarhol's private Polaroids from 1972-73, drawn from one of six personal albums: Montauk weekends, European trips and his dog Archie.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Meatpacking District, ManhattanWarhol's private Polaroids from 1972-73, drawn from one of six personal albums: Montauk weekends, European trips and his dog Archie.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Meatpacking District, ManhattanPop master Roy Lichtenstein's Ben-Day dots and comic-strip canvases come to the Whitney — instantly iconic American art.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Meatpacking District, ManhattanPop master Roy Lichtenstein's Ben-Day dots and comic-strip canvases come to the Whitney — instantly iconic American art.
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