Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best art in Queens the weekend of Oct 9–12, 2026: 15 picks, refreshed weekly.
15 picks · checked Sep 15
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, QueensKing of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA 22-ton wall of rubble from a Ciudad Juárez home anchors Teresa Margolles's first large US museum show, free across PS1's third floor.
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, QueensKing of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsA 22-ton wall of rubble from a Ciudad Juárez home anchors Teresa Margolles's first large US museum show, free across PS1's third floor.
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, QueensPosters, film and sculpture from Nobel Peace Prize winner ICAN's artist campaign fill PS1's Homeroom and museum admission is free for all.
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, QueensPosters, film and sculpture from Nobel Peace Prize winner ICAN's artist campaign fill PS1's Homeroom and museum admission is free for all.
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, QueensGolden Lion winner Sonia Boyce films Queens groups and the Resistance Revival Chorus into a kaleidoscopic wallpaper-and-video installation.
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, QueensGolden Lion winner Sonia Boyce films Queens groups and the Resistance Revival Chorus into a kaleidoscopic wallpaper-and-video installation.
SculptureCenter, Long Island City, QueensCevdet Erek's first New York solo turns thrash-metal memories into sound sculpture, beside Aziz Hazara's objects returned from Bagram.
SculptureCenter, Long Island City, QueensCevdet Erek's first New York solo turns thrash-metal memories into sound sculpture, beside Aziz Hazara's objects returned from Bagram.
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Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City / Astoria, QueensSanford Biggers' cloud sculptures Unsui (Mirror) land on the East River shoreline at Socrates, 25 years after his Terra Mandala there.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City / Astoria, QueensSanford Biggers' cloud sculptures Unsui (Mirror) land on the East River shoreline at Socrates, 25 years after his Terra Mandala there.
The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, QueensWmpearl · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsA ten-foot marble slide and Akari lamps: the Noguchi Museum revisits the artist's 1986 Venice Biennale pavilion in Long Island City.
The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, QueensWmpearl · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsA ten-foot marble slide and Akari lamps: the Noguchi Museum revisits the artist's 1986 Venice Biennale pavilion in Long Island City.
SculptureCenter, Long Island City, QueensAziz Hazara brings kneepads, tents and kitchenware discarded at Bagram Airfield back to the US — the first full showing of the collection.
SculptureCenter, Long Island City, QueensAziz Hazara brings kneepads, tents and kitchenware discarded at Bagram Airfield back to the US — the first full showing of the collection.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City / Astoria, QueensThree monumental Chakaia Booker sculptures of recycled tires and steel, including Gridlock and LIKE, return her to Socrates for its 40th year.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City / Astoria, QueensThree monumental Chakaia Booker sculptures of recycled tires and steel, including Gridlock and LIKE, return her to Socrates for its 40th year.
SculptureCenter, Long Island City, QueensCeramic organs and a rotating glazed heart trace the milu deer, a species saved by zoos, in Shanghai artist Yining Fei's LIC show.
SculptureCenter, Long Island City, QueensCeramic organs and a rotating glazed heart trace the milu deer, a species saved by zoos, in Shanghai artist Yining Fei's LIC show.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City / Astoria, QueensAdd your own line to a living map of people, monarch butterflies and the waterfront at Lizania Cruz's new interactive kiosk at Socrates.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City / Astoria, QueensAdd your own line to a living map of people, monarch butterflies and the waterfront at Lizania Cruz's new interactive kiosk at Socrates.
Advance Masonic Temple, Astoria, QueensAn 18th-century door salvaged from the Blackwell family farmhouse goes on public view inside Astoria's Advance Masonic Temple.
Advance Masonic Temple, Astoria, QueensAn 18th-century door salvaged from the Blackwell family farmhouse goes on public view inside Astoria's Advance Masonic Temple.
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, QueensPrecious Okoyomon turns the MoMA PS1 courtyard into a woodland with an oversized teddy bear reciting her poetry from inside.
MoMA PS1, Long Island City, QueensPrecious Okoyomon turns the MoMA PS1 courtyard into a woodland with an oversized teddy bear reciting her poetry from inside.
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, QueensOptimumPx · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe paperwork behind the Panorama of the City of New York, the 9,335-square-foot model of all five boroughs built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, QueensOptimumPx · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThe paperwork behind the Panorama of the City of New York, the 9,335-square-foot model of all five boroughs built for the 1964 World's Fair.
5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, QueensPastels on handmade Mayan paper meet paintings on palm-tree bark in fèy palmis., a two-artist show at LIC's 5-50 Gallery — closing this weekend.
5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, QueensPastels on handmade Mayan paper meet paintings on palm-tree bark in fèy palmis., a two-artist show at LIC's 5-50 Gallery — closing this weekend.
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, QueensThree Queens community fellows pick vintage prints from the 1800s to 1979 to ask what makes art American, at the Queens Museum.
Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, QueensThree Queens community fellows pick vintage prints from the 1800s to 1979 to ask what makes art American, at the Queens Museum.
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