Cathedral of St. John the Divine & Peace Fountain
The largest Cathedral in the world, built in 1892, is open for visitors Monday-Friday 9:30 am–3 pm and Saturday–Sunday 9:30 am-5 pm. Timed tickets strongly encouraged. Explore rotating art exhibitions that span centuries, celebrating the creativity of 17th century weavers to modern painters and everything in between. 48 relief panels on the giant bronze…
Boundless: 10 Years of Seeding Black Comic Futures
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…
Reynier Leyva Novo: Methuselah & DOMESTICANX
El Museo Del Barrio 1230 Fifth Avenue at E 105th St, New York, NYButterfly fans can virtually follow the transnational migratory journey of a single monarch butterfly in Reynier Leyva Novo: Methuselah, a digital artwork by the Cuban-born and Houston based artist Reynier Levya Novo. Tracking its travel from southern Canada across the United States to Mexico Find familiar items like beds, flowers and portraits in the paintings,…
El Museo Del Barrio
El Museo Del Barrio 1230 Fifth Avenue at E 105th St, New York, NYThis lively museum focuses on the art and culture of Puerto Ricans and all Latin Americans in the United States. Small and friendly with great family programming and interesting artworks in a range of genres. HIGHLIGHTS: 🖼 Vibrant Latino art organized into six thematic sections: Urban Experiences, Expanded Graphics, African and Indigenous Heritages, Craft Intersection,…
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling 898 St. Nicholas Ave at 155th Street, New York, NYExplore a range of accessible and thought-provoking art, from historically significant to important contemporary works at this community-driven children's museum inspired by the rich cultural history of Sugar Hill and the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. See a selection of sculptures From Melvin Van Peebles’ “Blue Room” and thought-provoking juxtaposition of artistic works by contemporary…
Coquí Club: Honoring Black & Afro-Latinx Artists
El Museo Del Barrio 1230 Fifth Avenue at E 105th St, New York, NYJoin an interactive, bilingual program facilitated by El Museo museum educators with storytelling, discussion and an art making project. February is an opportunity to honor and highlight the accomplishments of many Black leaders in the community. Learn bout special Black and Afro-Latinx artists and explore a little more about their identities as Black and Latino.…
Story Hour at Sugar Hill Children’s Museum
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling 898 St. Nicholas Ave at 155th Street, New York, NYJoin interactive Story Hour with special guest artists. Lots of excellent entertainers and musicians representing diverse cultures and viewpoints. Also at 1 pm.
Morris-Jumel Mansion Family Day: 19th Century Fan
Morris-Jumel Mansion 65 Jumel Terrace Harlem/Upper Manhattan, New York, New YorkDecorate your own 19th century fan to help beat the heat with a bit of personal flair in a historic mansion.