#1
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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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, Manhattan#1June 12–September 8, 2026 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanMuseum admission
Giacometti 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 CommonsFree with Museum admission
Revolution!
The Met's 250th-anniversary installation puts rarely seen prints of the Boston Massacre and revolutionary news on the wall.
#3
Dan Bakery, Upper East Side, ManhattanNow openPastries $4-9
Dan Bakery
A New Jersey pastry shop known for its layered honey cake opened its first Manhattan storefront on York Avenue this August. Central Asian baking, plus a coffee counter.
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#3Now open · Limited Run
Dan Bakery, Upper East Side, ManhattanPastries $4-9
Dan Bakery
A New Jersey pastry shop known for its layered honey cake opened its first Manhattan storefront on York Avenue this August. Central Asian baking, plus a coffee counter.
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#4
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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#4March 16–October 18, 2026 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanMuseum 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.
#5
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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#5June 7–Sept 27, 2026 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanAna Paula Hirama · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMuseum 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.
#6
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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#6On view through September 27 · Limited Run
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Upper East Side, Manhattan$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.
#7
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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#7Fridays · Limited Run
The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, Upper East Side, ManhattanFree
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.
#8
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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#8On view through October 27 · Limited Run
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanIncluded 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.
#9
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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#9May 10, 2026–January 10, 2027 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanMuseum 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.
#10
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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#10Through January 10, 2027 · Limited Run
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAjay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMuseum 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.
#11
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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#11Through January 10, 2027 · Limited Run
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanAngellosIoannis · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsMuseum admission
Collection in Focus
Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova hang together in the Guggenheim's galleries as European abstraction takes hold.
#12
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, ManhattanFree 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.
#13
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, ManhattanIncluded 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.
#14
Carl Schurz Park, Yorkville, Upper East Side, ManhattanSaturday · Sat–Sun, September 12–13, 2026, 10 AM–5 PM (rain or shine)Free to attend
Gracie Square Art Show
The Carl Schurz Park Conservancy's 51st annual juried art show brings 100+ painters, photographers and sculptors to the East River waterfront, with free kids' art workshops both mornings.
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#14Saturday · Sat–Sun, September 12–13, 2026, 10 AM–5 PM (rain or shine) · One Weekend Only
Carl Schurz Park, Yorkville, Upper East Side, ManhattanFree to attend
Gracie Square Art Show
The Carl Schurz Park Conservancy's 51st annual juried art show brings 100+ painters, photographers and sculptors to the East River waterfront, with free kids' art workshops both mornings.
#15
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanSep 8, 2026 – Mar 5, 2028 · first full weekend Sep 11–13Free with Met admission ($30…
A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie
The 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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#15Sep 8, 2026 – Mar 5, 2028 · first full weekend Sep 11–13 · Limited Run
The Met Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, ManhattanFree with Met admission ($30…
A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie
The first US exhibition ever devoted to the Savonnerie: Louis XIV's monumental Grande Galerie carpets, in their debut weekend at the Met.
#16
Creola, Upper East Side, ManhattanOpens Fri, Sep 11$125 five-course tasting menu
Creola
A Top Chef semifinalist's first restaurant: 14 seats on Park Avenue and a $125 five-course menu drawn from the Black culinary diaspora. It opened September 9, so this is its first full weekend.
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#16Opens Fri, Sep 11 · Limited Run
Creola, Upper East Side, Manhattan$125 five-course tasting menu
Creola
A Top Chef semifinalist's first restaurant: 14 seats on Park Avenue and a $125 five-course menu drawn from the Black culinary diaspora. It opened September 9, so this is its first full weekend.
#17
La Collina, Upper East Side, ManhattanNow open$34 two-course lunch prix fixe
La Collina
The chef behind da Adriano opens a wood-fired second act on First Avenue — maltagliati in duck ragu, veal scallopini, a 62-seat Lenox Hill room.
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#17Now open · Limited Run
La Collina, Upper East Side, Manhattan$34 two-course lunch prix fixe
La Collina
The chef behind da Adriano opens a wood-fired second act on First Avenue — maltagliati in duck ragu, veal scallopini, a 62-seat Lenox Hill room.
#18
Fifth Avenue, 68th to 86th Street, Upper East Side, ManhattanSat Sep 19Free
German-American Steuben Parade
Lederhosen, dirndls and dozens of German, Austrian and Swiss bands march Fifth Avenue from 68th to 86th before the party spills into Central Park.
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#18Sat Sep 19 · One Day Only
Fifth Avenue, 68th to 86th Street, Upper East Side, ManhattanFree
German-American Steuben Parade
Lederhosen, dirndls and dozens of German, Austrian and Swiss bands march Fifth Avenue from 68th to 86th before the party spills into Central Park.
#19
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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#19Sep 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.
#20
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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#20September 18 – March 14, 2027 · Limited Run
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanIncluded with museum admission
Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon's interactive Guggenheim installation combines never-before-seen photographs with text, video and sculpture.
#21
Third Avenue, 66th–86th Streets, Upper East Side, ManhattanSaturday, September 19, 2026, 10 AM–6 PMFree
3rd Ave Community Festival
Twenty car-free blocks of Third Avenue, 66th to 86th — the Upper East Side's big Manhattan Chamber of Commerce street fair, with craft booths, food vendors and nonprofit tables.
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#21Saturday, September 19, 2026, 10 AM–6 PM · One Day Only
Third Avenue, 66th–86th Streets, Upper East Side, ManhattanFree
3rd Ave Community Festival
Twenty car-free blocks of Third Avenue, 66th to 86th — the Upper East Side's big Manhattan Chamber of Commerce street fair, with craft booths, food vendors and nonprofit tables.
#22
Upper East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsOn 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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#22On view Sep 14, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027, Gallery 852 · Limited Run
Upper East Side, ManhattanDietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia CommonsChasing 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.
#23
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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#23September 18 – February 7, 2027 · Limited Run
The Jewish Museum, Upper East Side, ManhattanThe Jewish Museum New York · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia CommonsIncluded 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.
#24
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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#24September 17 – June 8, 2027 · Limited Run
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, ManhattanPaul Émile Chabas · Public domain · Wikimedia CommonsFree 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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