MoMA Sculpture Garden Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 4 W 53rd Street,
Explore a small, lovely Sculpture Garden with a range of interesting statues including an oversized surreal Miro, an all-weather snowman, a monumental geometric sculpture by Picasso, a colorful Calder structure and a Paris Metro station entrance. Wander across marble stairs and bridges, throw a penny in the fountain, and bring a picnic or get ice…
Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevarrd,
Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black Comic Book Festival with photographs, memorabilia, creator highlights, comic book reading stations, and clips from past festival programs. Drawn from the Schomburg Center’s archival collections, this exhibition illuminates the long history of Black comics and sequential art creators and their motivations…
High Line Art High Line The High Line,
See world-class art projects on and around the High Line, in dialogue with the nature and city scape of the unique parkCurrent highlights include:* You know who I am (16th…
Blue Man Group Astor Place Theater 434 Lafayette Street,
Experience a unique, imaginative, multi-sensory worldwide hit where it all began, in an intimate downtown theater. Three bizarre bald blue men make music with innovative instruments and interact with each…
🎟 $54.50-$102
Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue at 89th Street,
Works of art that feature partially obscured or hidden figures take over the iconic rotunda. Different ways of hiding include shadowing, rotating the body BS postproduction tools that blur or brighten. Most recent works draw upon digital technology, such as the chroma-key green (or blue) screen. More than 100 works by a group of 28…
🎟 $30, $19/students & seniors , free/ages 12 & under
Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
A focused selection from the world-class collection of musical and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys spotlights works by Black diasporic artists. Expansive in their collecting habits, the Deans, both born and raised in New York, champion a philosophy of “artists supporting artists.” Admire works by Gordon Parks, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson,…
🎟 $25/adult, $17/students & seniors, $10/ages 4-12
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street,
Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African…
🎟 $30 (suggested), $17/students, free/ages 12 & under
Met Storytime Metropolitan Museum Of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street,
Look, listen, sing, and have fun with Met educators. Join picture-book readings connected to objects in The Met collection every Tuesday & Thursday. This month's theme is Celebrate Black Stories in celebration of Black History Month. Recommended for families with children ages 18 months to 6 years. Choose from two half-hour sessions at 10:30 am…
🎟 $30 (pay-what-you-wish for NY residents), $17/students, free/ages 12 & under
Earth Day Weekend Westchester Children's Museum 100 Playland Pkwy, Rye
Learn about caring for and protecting our planet, with a STEAM twist Join Creature Costumes & Camouflage, Solar Race Cars, Wind Turbine Gizmos, Blackout Poetry, Nature’s Geometry, and Recycled Sculptures.
🎟 $14, free/ages 1 & under