On the Lower East Side: Twenty-Eight Remarkable Women…and One Scoundrel Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge Street,
Celebrate women who lived or worked in this vibrant immigrant neighborhood at the turn of the twentieth century. The figures depicted in the exhibit were responsible for groundbreaking developments in law, the arts, politics, social work, business, and education which we take for granted today, such as the eight-hour workday, child labor regulations, and women’s…
🎟 $15/adults, $10/students & seniors, $8/ages 5-17
Metropolitan Opera/ABT Rush Tickets Lincoln Center W 65th Street & Broadway,
Get $25 rush tickets online for Metropolitan Opera and American Ballet Theatre performances. Available online, first-come, first-served, same day at noon for Monday through Friday evening performances, four hours before curtain for matinees and at 2 pm for Saturday evenings. Create an account and log on before the tickets go on sale, they go quickly.…
🎟 $25
Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal 4 Whitehall Street,
Take a free ferry ride from Whitehall Terminal in Lower Manhattan to Staten Island and back for great views of The Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan & Brooklyn skylines. 25 minute trips (1 hour round trip) depart every half hour (every fifteen minutes during rush hour). For a quicker trip, take the $3 ferry…
Mercer Labs Mercer Labs 21 Dey Street,
Explore a 45,000 square ft realm where technology and art collide with fifteen experimental exhibition spaces, interactive experiences, unique listening encounters and immersive installations. Challenge your senses in immersive digital projection rooms, mirrored spaces, robot installations, ball pits, life-size game sets, and heavy fog. Led by artist and founder Roy Nachum.
🎟 $52, $46/ages 4-12 & 65+
Ana María Hernando: “To Let the Sky Know / Dejar que el cielo sepa” Madison Square Park Madison Avenue & E 24th Street,
Tulle sculptures of vibrant coloration and buoyancy take over the lawns of Madison Square Park as symbols of hope, growth, and fluidity. A series of beauteous, atmospheric clouds and a cascading waterfall float above and alongside viewers. Ana María Hernando's sculptures beckon with their seeming fragility and evanescence; ultimately, their durability takes hold of our…
Statement Sleeves Museum at FIT Seventh Avenue at W 27 Street,
See puffed, ruffled, split and sheer statement sleeves in a fashion exhibit of garments dating from the 18th century to the present organized by sleeve type. Following an introduction to basic sleeve shapes–from gigot to raglan–encounter the myriad ways in which designers have reinterpreted and remixed sleeves through variations in material, shape, embellishment, and even…
Artland: An Installation by Do Ho Suh and Children Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
Enter an enchanting world of color and clay, Spocky Trees and Slimes in a fantastical ecosystem dreamed up in 2016 by artist Do Ho Suh and his two young daughters. This ever-growing and evolving series of islands is inhabited by characters and landscapes sculpted from nontoxic clay. There is no government or monarchy (though Slimes…
🎟 $25/adult, $17/students & seniors, $10/ages 4-12
Byzantine Bembé: New York by Manny Vega Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue at 105th Street,
Explore Manny Vega's visual storytelling as it interweaves community stories with themes that range from African deities to urban mythologies, spanning the personal and the collective. His style has been dubbed “Byzantine Hip-Hop” for his uncompromising technical command that encompasses ancient Mediterranean mosaic-making and the electrifying lines of hyper-detailed Sharpie pen-and-ink drawings. Deeply rooted in…
🎟 Suggested $20, $14/students & seniors, free/ages 19 & 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
Museum of Food and Drink– Flavor: The World to Your Brain Empire Stores 55 Water Street, Brooklyn
Take a sensory journey through our bodies and our world, designed and curated by food scientists and culinary anthropologists. Unpack what really happens in our heads when we experience the flavors of food, discover the ways flavor companies engineer and design the flavors that we eat almost every day, and learn what natural and artificial…
🎟 $15/ages 15+, $7/ages 5-14, free/ages 4 & under
The Orchid Show: Florals in Fashion New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx
The Orchid Show brings the catwalk to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory in a fashion-inspired celebration of all things orchids. Catch the bold new designs of New York’s rising stars of the stitch with work by Collina Strada by Hillary Taymour, Dauphinette by Olivia Cheng, and FLWR PSTL by Kristen Alpaugh, fashionistas sure to create…
🎟 $35, $31/students & seniors, $15/ages 2-12, free/under 2
Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature The Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Avenue at E 36th Street,
Meet unforgettable animal characters like Peter Rabbit, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, and Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle in an exhibit of artwork, picture letters books, manuscripts, and artifacts by beloved children’s book author and illustrator Beatrix Potter. Childhood summers spent in Scotland and the English Lake District nourished Potter’s love of nature, while her famous menagerie of pets inspired…
🎟 $22/adults, $13/students, free/ages 12 & under
The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers New World Stages 340 W 50th Street,
America's favorite TV host tells all about his extraordinary life in this part interactive game show-part memoir theatrical adventure. Marc Summers launched Nickelodeon as the host of the world’s most famous children’s game show Double Dare. He went on to become a household name on the small screen, having a 20 year relationship with the…
🎟 $69-$99
MoMath on Fifth MoMath on Fifth 225 Fifth Avenue at 27th St,
Due to a planned long-term expansion to a larger space, MoMath is temporarily a pop-up experience with brand new exhibits at 225 Fifth Avenue, just steps away from the old location. Check out the new digital math arcade, shiny new Square-Wheeled Trike, the return of Beaver Run, and new Done in a Million exhibit… can…
Shana Moulton’s Meta/Physical Therapy Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 4 W 53rd Street,
Colorful, surreal performance, video, and sculpture examine the aesthetics of pain and healing and the mass marketing of wellness in Shana Moulton's site-specific prismatic installation. Look for the artist’s signature blend of spiritual imagery, medical technology, popular culture, and references to high art and dollar-store kitsch. Presented as a multi-chapter narrative, the installation will be…
🎟 $25/adults, $18/seniors, $14/students, free/ages 16 & under
Tiffany & Co. Landmark: Culture of Creativity Exhibition Tiffany & Co 727 Fifth Avenue at 57th Street,
Engage with nearly 70 artworks spanning a variety of mediums from the foundation of Peter Marino, the renowned architect who led the transformation of the iconic store’s interiors. Discover artworks by everyone from Louis Comfort Tiffany and Damien Hirst to Rashid Johnson and Peter Marino himself, in addition to an array of 19th-century masterworks from…
The Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around The World The Seaport Fulton & Front Street,
See photographer Gregg Segal's elaborate portrait of kids around the world surrounded by the foods they consumed in a week. Oversized colorful photos from Los Angeles to Sao Paulo, Dakar to Hamburg, Dubai to Mumbai, tell unique stories of multiculturalism and how we nourish ourselves at the dawn of the 21st century.
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
Soliloquies Petzel Gallery 456 W 18th Street,
Admire freestanding sculptures by 18 artists. Look for interesting people, surreal furniture, a Batman mask and more among three-dimensional media across various technologies, source materials, and scales.
The Anatomy of a Movie Poster: The Work of Dawn Baillie Poster House 119 W 23rd Street,
See some of the most iconic and beloved posters in modern cinematic history, all designed by Dawn Baillie. Simple yet unconventional masterpieces include the posters for Dirty Dancing, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Silence of the Lambs and Little Miss Sunshine.