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Upper East Side, ManhattanFri-Sat 11 AM-7 PM, Sun 12-6 PM
Independent 20th Century
Fifty-six dealers of twentieth-century art, in the Breuer building for the first time. The fifth edition and it runs only.
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Things to Do in the Upper East Side the Weekend of Sep 25–27, 2026
Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in the Upper East Side, Manhattan the weekend of Sep 25–27, 2026: 17 picks, refreshed weekly.
17 picks · checked Sep 7
17 picks
Upper East Side, Manhattan#1Fri-Sat 11 AM-7 PM, Sun 12-6 PM · One Weekend Only
Upper East Side, ManhattanIndependent 20th Century
Fifty-six dealers of twentieth-century art, in the Breuer building for the first time. The fifth edition and it runs only.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAna Paula Hirama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsJune 7–Sept 27, 2026Museum admission
Musical Bodies
A 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.
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#2June 7–Sept 27, 2026 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAna Paula Hirama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMusical Bodies
A 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.
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Upper East Side, ManhattanJet Lowe · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsSep 16 - 26; Mon-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, dark Sundays
Simon Stone's The Cherry Orchard
Simon Stone's North American premiere resets Chekhov's last play in present-day Seoul, performed in Korean with English captions inside a transparent glass house in the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
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#3Sep 16 - 26; Mon-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, dark Sundays · Limited Run
Upper East Side, ManhattanJet Lowe · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsSimon Stone's The Cherry Orchard
Simon Stone's North American premiere resets Chekhov's last play in present-day Seoul, performed in Korean with English captions inside a transparent glass house in the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall.
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanOn view through September 27$22 adults
Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne
Seventy large-format photographs of American factories fill the Carnegie Mansion, with a pay-what-you-wish hour daily.
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#4On view through September 27 · Limited Run
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanMade in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne
Seventy large-format photographs of American factories fill the Carnegie Mansion, with a pay-what-you-wish hour daily.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanMarch 16–October 18, 2026Museum admission
Flip Sides: See Korean Art Anew
Flip Sides turns 50 Korean treasures around at the Met — hidden linings, sealed interiors and reverse faces, over half never shown in public.
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#5March 16–October 18, 2026 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanFlip Sides: See Korean Art Anew
Flip Sides turns 50 Korean treasures around at the Met — hidden linings, sealed interiors and reverse faces, over half never shown in public.
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Upper East Side, ManhattanSunday, Sep 27; hours not yet postedFree
Lexington Avenue UES Street Fair
Clearview closes seventeen blocks of Lexington Avenue, from 79th to 96th Street, for one of the Upper East Side's largest street fairs.
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#6Sunday, Sep 27; hours not yet posted · Limited Run
Upper East Side, ManhattanLexington Avenue UES Street Fair
Clearview closes seventeen blocks of Lexington Avenue, from 79th to 96th Street, for one of the Upper East Side's largest street fairs.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanMay 10, 2026–January 10, 2027Museum admission
Costume Art
The Costume Institute's new blockbuster reframes fashion as fine art, with sculptural gowns staged alongside masterpieces from the Met's collection.
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#7May 10, 2026–January 10, 2027 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanCostume Art
The Costume Institute's new blockbuster reframes fashion as fine art, with sculptural gowns staged alongside masterpieces from the Met's collection.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanSeptember 18 – March 14, 2027Included with museum admission
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon's interactive Guggenheim installation combines never-before-seen photographs with text, video and sculpture.
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#8September 18 – March 14, 2027 · Limited Run
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanTaryn Simon
Taryn Simon's interactive Guggenheim installation combines never-before-seen photographs with text, video and sculpture.
#9
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThrough January 10, 2027Museum admission
Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now
Warhol to Maurizio Cattelan, hung along Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral: the Guggenheim's own Pop holdings and what came after.
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#9Through January 10, 2027 · Limited Run
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanGuggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now
Warhol to Maurizio Cattelan, hung along Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral: the Guggenheim's own Pop holdings and what came after.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThrough January 10, 2027Museum admission
Collection in Focus
Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova hang together in the Guggenheim's galleries as European abstraction takes hold.
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#10Through January 10, 2027 · Limited Run
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanCollection in Focus
Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova hang together in the Guggenheim's galleries as European abstraction takes hold.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanPaul Émile Chabas · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsSeptember 17 – June 8, 2027Free with Museum admission
The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei, Speculation
Four monumental Liu Wei sculptures sit in the niches of The Met's Fifth Avenue facade, built around the motif of the human hand.
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#11September 17 – June 8, 2027 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanPaul Émile Chabas · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsThe Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei, Speculation
Four monumental Liu Wei sculptures sit in the niches of The Met's Fifth Avenue facade, built around the motif of the human hand.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanJune 12 – February 28, 2027Free with Museum admission
Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy
Around 180 objects from 12 Met departments — Ingres, Delacroix, Gerome and Osman Hamdi Bey — across four connected galleries.
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#12June 12 – February 28, 2027 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanOrientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy
Around 180 objects from 12 Met departments — Ingres, Delacroix, Gerome and Osman Hamdi Bey — across four connected galleries.
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The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanJuly 17 – November 15, 2026Included with museum admission
Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstatte
The women designers of Vienna's Wiener Werkstatte get the Jewish Museum's Fifth Avenue galleries and Saturday admission there is free.
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#13July 17 – November 15, 2026 · Limited Run
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanModernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstatte
The women designers of Vienna's Wiener Werkstatte get the Jewish Museum's Fifth Avenue galleries and Saturday admission there is free.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanPaul Émile Chabas · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsSeptember 25, 2026 - February 7, 2027
David Hartt: Peripheries
Hartt reworks Vanderlyn's 1819 Versailles panorama into a moving installation of Paris, scored by Jeff Parker. Gallery 735.
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#14September 25, 2026 - February 7, 2027 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanPaul Émile Chabas · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsDavid Hartt: Peripheries
Hartt reworks Vanderlyn's 1819 Versailles panorama into a moving installation of Paris, scored by Jeff Parker. Gallery 735.
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Upper East Side, ManhattanOn view Sep 14, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027, Gallery 852
Chasing Clouds
The Met gathers artists' cloud studies in Gallery 852, including Jean-Michel Cels's 1840 Cloud Study in the Late Afternoon from the Thaw Collection.
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#15On view Sep 14, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027, Gallery 852 · Limited Run
Upper East Side, ManhattanChasing Clouds
The Met gathers artists' cloud studies in Gallery 852, including Jean-Michel Cels's 1840 Cloud Study in the Late Afternoon from the Thaw Collection.
#16
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSeptember 18 – February 7, 2027Included with museum admission
Sacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Christian Treasures
Jewish ceremonial silver shown with Christian treasures from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral, in the Warburg mansion on Museum Mile.
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#16September 18 – February 7, 2027 · Limited Run
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsSacred Splendor: Jewish Ritual Art and Christian Treasures
Jewish ceremonial silver shown with Christian treasures from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral, in the Warburg mansion on Museum Mile.
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The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanOn view through October 27Included with museum admission
The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met
The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met — nearly 80 portraits from the museum's own vaults, Picasso to Alice Neel, included with admission.
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#17On view through October 27 · Limited Run
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met
The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met — nearly 80 portraits from the museum's own vaults, Picasso to Alice Neel, included with admission.
