Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best things to do in the Upper East Side, Manhattan over Columbus Day weekend 2026 (Oct 10–12): 29 picks.
29 picks · checked Sep 17
Fifth Avenue, Midtown to Upper East Side, ManhattanMarching bands, floats and a sea of red, white and green take over Fifth Avenue for the city's big Italian-American heritage parade.
Fifth Avenue, Midtown to Upper East Side, ManhattanMarching bands, floats and a sea of red, white and green take over Fifth Avenue for the city's big Italian-American heritage parade.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAlex Maisuradze · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons120+ works, 12 chapters and two careers side by side: the Met's first big New York look at Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in 20 years.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAlex Maisuradze · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons120+ works, 12 chapters and two careers side by side: the Met's first big New York look at Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock in 20 years.
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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.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanUpstateherd · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTaryn Simon fills the entire Guggenheim rotunda with 42 new works tracing one federal agent's life — the fall's biggest museum opening.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanUpstateherd · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsTaryn Simon fills the entire Guggenheim rotunda with 42 new works tracing one federal agent's life — the fall's biggest museum opening.
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The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe first US exhibition ever devoted to the Savonnerie: Louis XIV's monumental Grande Galerie carpets, in their debut weekend at the Met.
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe first US exhibition ever devoted to the Savonnerie: Louis XIV's monumental Grande Galerie carpets, in their debut weekend at the Met.
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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.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanCattelan's duct-taped banana, a Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room and Warhol under one roof in the Guggenheim's Pop art survey.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanCattelan's duct-taped banana, a Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room and Warhol under one roof in the Guggenheim's Pop art survey.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanFour monumental Liu Wei sculptures sit in the niches of The Met's Fifth Avenue facade, built around the motif of the human hand.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanFour 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 Jewish Museum, Upper East Side / Museum Mile, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum's Gothic-style Fifth Avenue mansion opens free every Saturday — Museum Mile art without the ticket price.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side / Museum Mile, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum's Gothic-style Fifth Avenue mansion opens free every Saturday — Museum Mile art without the ticket price.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanDavid Hartt turns The Met's 1819 panorama of Versailles into a moving film installation of Paris, scored by guitarist Jeff Parker.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanDavid Hartt turns The Met's 1819 panorama of Versailles into a moving film installation of Paris, scored by guitarist Jeff Parker.
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The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMore than 200 ceramics, textiles and posters by some 30 Jewish women of Vienna's Wiener Werkstätte, at the Jewish Museum.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMore than 200 ceramics, textiles and posters by some 30 Jewish women of Vienna's Wiener Werkstätte, at the Jewish Museum.
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GRAY New York, Upper East Side, ManhattanThree elongated bronze heads over two meters tall stand among charcoal wall drawings in Jaume Plensa's new Madison Avenue show.
GRAY New York, Upper East Side, ManhattanThree elongated bronze heads over two meters tall stand among charcoal wall drawings in Jaume Plensa's new Madison Avenue show.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue), Upper East Side, ManhattanA 10-foot Della Robbia altarpiece, off view for 70 years and rebuilt from 33 glazed pieces, headlines The Met's Renaissance terracotta show.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue), Upper East Side, ManhattanA 10-foot Della Robbia altarpiece, off view for 70 years and rebuilt from 33 glazed pieces, headlines The Met's Renaissance terracotta show.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanA wordless novel in charcoal and ink by a WWII veteran who fled Nazi Germany: Si Lewen's Parade gets its first public showing at The Met.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanA wordless novel in charcoal and ink by a WWII veteran who fled Nazi Germany: Si Lewen's Parade gets its first public showing at The Met.
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAn AI-generated male Northern white rhino — extinct in real life — wanders a projection room in Cooper Hewitt's immersive installation.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAn AI-generated male Northern white rhino — extinct in real life — wanders a projection room in Cooper Hewitt's immersive installation.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue) — Uris Center for Education, Upper East Side, Manhattan125 works by NYC public school kids, pre-K through 12th grade and from all five boroughs, hang inside The Met for P. S. Art's 24th year.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue) — Uris Center for Education, Upper East Side, Manhattan125 works by NYC public school kids, pre-K through 12th grade and from all five boroughs, hang inside The Met for P. S. Art's 24th year.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanKandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova break from tradition with vivid color and flattened forms in a focused Guggenheim collection show.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanKandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova break from tradition with vivid color and flattened forms in a focused Guggenheim collection show.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue) — Gallery 302, Upper East Side, ManhattanContemporary art about death meets Byzantine Egyptian funerary jewelry in the brick-vaulted crypt hidden under The Met's Grand Staircase.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue) — Gallery 302, Upper East Side, ManhattanContemporary art about death meets Byzantine Egyptian funerary jewelry in the brick-vaulted crypt hidden under The Met's Grand Staircase.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue), Upper East Side, ManhattanFrom 12,000-year-old pottery to gold-mended kintsugi, The Met's Japanese ceramics show fills eleven galleries with the Packard Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue), Upper East Side, ManhattanFrom 12,000-year-old pottery to gold-mended kintsugi, The Met's Japanese ceramics show fills eleven galleries with the Packard Collection.
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The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAfruz Amighi's steel-mesh figures and alabaster eyes, teeth and claws retell the myth of the moon goddess Coyolxāuhqui.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAfruz Amighi's steel-mesh figures and alabaster eyes, teeth and claws retell the myth of the moon goddess Coyolxāuhqui.
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The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 852, Upper East Side, ManhattanPainters' fleeting outdoor studies of the sky fill one Met gallery, including an 1840 Cels.
The Met Fifth Avenue, Gallery 852, Upper East Side, ManhattanPainters' fleeting outdoor studies of the sky fill one Met gallery, including an 1840 Cels.
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The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanGothic reliquaries from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral meet hidden medieval Jewish hoards in 160-plus objects, on view at the Jewish Museum.
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanGothic reliquaries from Prague's St. Vitus Cathedral meet hidden medieval Jewish hoards in 160-plus objects, on view at the Jewish Museum.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAround 180 objects from 12 Met departments — Ingres, Delacroix, Gerome and Osman Hamdi Bey — across four connected galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAround 180 objects from 12 Met departments — Ingres, Delacroix, Gerome and Osman Hamdi Bey — across four connected galleries.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue) — Galleries 210–216, Upper East Side, ManhattanAbout 100 works follow Nanjing's painters through the violent 1644 fall of the Ming dynasty, in The Met's Chinese painting galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met Fifth Avenue) — Galleries 210–216, Upper East Side, ManhattanAbout 100 works follow Nanjing's painters through the violent 1644 fall of the Ming dynasty, in The Met's Chinese painting galleries.
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