At New York City Museums: A Selection of Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

This list is no longer updated. Please see Summer 2017 exhibitions.

(updated May 2017) Visiting New York City would be incomplete without a museum visit. Below please find a list of continuing exhibitions at major New York City museums as well as the dates of upcoming openings. The list is not comprehensive so please check with individual venues (links included).

New York City Museum Exhibitions

Upcoming exhibitions are noted in bold type. This list will be updated to reflect changes in the exhibition calendar.

American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Ave. at 66th Street:
• Carlo Zinelli (1916–1974)
Through August 20, 2017
• Eugen Gabritschevsky: Theater of the Imperceptible
Through August 20, 2017

American Museum of Natural History (Central Park West and 79th St.):
• The Titanosaur
Through January 1, 2020

Asia Society Museum (725 Park Avenue at 70th Street):
• Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia 
Through June 4, 2017

The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street:
• The Bronx Museum Community Mural at Bronx Terminal Market
Ongoing

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York:

• Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
Through July 23, 2017  

Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 E. 91st St.:

(partial list below)
• The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s
Through August 20, 2017
• Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection
Through August 27, 2017
• The World of Radio
Through September 24, 2017 
Read more about the Cooper-Hewitt in the post, A Walk by Design: The Cooper-Hewitt and A stroll in Central Park.

Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street:

• info coming soon

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th St.):

• Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim
Through September 6, 2017 
• Jackson Pollock: Exploring Alchemy
Through September 6, 2017

International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery.

• info coming soon

Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street:

• The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
Through August 6, 2017

MAD (The Museum of Art and Design), 2 Columbus Circle:

• Judith Leiber: Crafting a New York Story
Through August 6, 2017
• fashion after Fashion
Through August 6, 2017

 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue:

(a partial selection of many exhibitions at the Met)
• Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance
Through October 29, 2017 Roof Garden Commission

• The Mysterious Landscapes of Hercules Segers
Through May 21, 2017
• Seurat's Circus Slideshow
 Through May 29, 2017
• Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 B.C.–A.D. 220)
Through July 16, 2017
• Irving Penn Centennial
Through July 30, 2017

* Consult the post 25 Things to Do Near the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met Breuer, Madison Avenue and 75th St:
• Marsden Hartley's Maine
Through June 18, 2017
• Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms
Through July 23, 2017

MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art), 11 West 53 Street:

(a selection below)

• Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
Through August 13
• Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection
Through July 30
• Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW
Through July 30, 2017
• Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends
May 21–September 17, 2017

MoMA P.S. 1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens: 

• Projects 105: Cinthia Marcelle 
Through September 4

Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street:

• I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Through May 21, 2017

Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue:

• New York at Its Core: 400 Years of NYC History
ongoing
• A City Seen: Todd Webb’s Postwar New York, 1945-1960 
Through September 4, 2017

Museum of the Moving Image, 35 Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria:

• info coming soon

Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue:

• Alexei Jawlensky 
Through May 29, 2017
• Austrian Masterworks from the Neue Galerie New York 
Through September 25, 2017

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery:

• Carol Rama: Antobodies
Through September 10, 2017 
 

New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West:

• Saving Washington
Through July 30, 2017
• A Hudson River School Legacy: The Newman Bequest and Other Gifts
Through June 4, 2017

New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx:
• CHIHULY
Through October 29, 2017

New York Public Library

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building), 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue:
• see exhibition info on NYPL website

Noguchi Museum, 3237 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City:

• Self-Interned, 1942: Noguchi in Poston War Relocation Center
Through January 7, 2018

Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park:

• Commonwealth: Water for All
Through July 30, 2017

Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street:

• Gateway to Himalayan Art
Through June 27, 2017
• Sacred Spaces: Himalayan Wind and the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room
Through June 5, 2017

The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street:

• Excerpt
Through July 2, 2017

Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street:
• Whitney Biennial 2017
Through June 11, 2017 

Visiting New York on a Monday and want to know which of these museums are open? See the list here. Clicking on museum names above will link to their respective home pages.