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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanJune 12–September 8, 2026Museum admission
Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur
Official Met exhibition on view June 12–September 8, 2026.
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Art in the Upper East Side Labor Day Weekend 2026
Stumblday's hand-checked ranking of the best art in the Upper East Side, Manhattan over Labor Day weekend 2026 (Sep 5–7): 12 picks, refreshed weekly.
12 picks · checked Sep 2
12 picks
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, Manhattan#1June 12–September 8, 2026 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanGiacometti in the Temple of Dendur
Official Met exhibition on view June 12–September 8, 2026.
#2
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanMay S. Young · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsOn view through September 7Free with Museum admission
Revolution!
The Met's 250th-anniversary installation puts rarely seen prints of the Boston Massacre and revolutionary news on the wall.
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#2On view through September 7 · Limited Run
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanMay S. Young · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsRevolution!
The Met's 250th-anniversary installation puts rarely seen prints of the Boston Massacre and revolutionary news on the wall.
#3
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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#3March 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.
#4
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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#4June 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.
#5
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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#5On 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.
#6
The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, Upper East Side, ManhattanFridaysFree
40 in Focus: SummerStage through the Lens of Photographer Jack Vartoogian
Three decades of SummerStage shot by one photographer, hung free in the Arsenal's third-floor gallery inside Central Park.
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#6Fridays · Limited Run
The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, Upper East Side, Manhattan40 in Focus: SummerStage through the Lens of Photographer Jack Vartoogian
Three decades of SummerStage shot by one photographer, hung free in the Arsenal's third-floor gallery inside Central Park.
#7
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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#7On 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.
#8
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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#8May 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.
#9
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThrough 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, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsGuggenheim 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, ManhattanAngellosIoannis · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsThrough 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, ManhattanAngellosIoannis · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsCollection in Focus
Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova hang together in the Guggenheim's galleries as European abstraction takes hold.
#11
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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#11June 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.
#12
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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#12July 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.
