Exhibitions
How a library card unlocks free admission to more than 100 New York museums
Culture Pass lets cardholders of New York's three public library systems reserve free entry to museums, gardens and historical sites across the city.
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Exhibitions
A working list of exhibitions currently on view across the city, each with its closing date, location and the time it deserves. Museum surveys sit beside single-room gallery shows. For people who want to see a show before it comes down rather than read about it afterward.
What is hanging right now, with closing dates: museum surveys, gallery solos and group shows, sorted so nothing good closes before you arrive.
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Why New York museums open blockbusters in the fall and run light in the summer
The New York exhibition calendar is built on a simple pattern: prestige openings crowd September through November, while summer belongs to long-running shows aimed at visitors already in the city.
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Whitney Biennial 2026 carries the museum's summer, floor by floor
The 82nd Whitney Biennial, which opened on March 8, 2026, anchors the Whitney Museum of American Art's summer — but its three floors now close on three different dates, the last not until October 12.
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How to read museum wall labels
Artist, title, medium, credit line, accession number: the small text beside a work is a compressed record of what the object is and how the museum got it.
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Costume Art opens at the Met in new galleries for fashion
The Costume Institute's spring 2026 exhibition pairs nearly 400 garments and artworks in the museum's new 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries, running through January 10, 2027.
Exhibitions
How to visit the Met's reopened Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened on May 31, 2025 with more than 1,800 works of African, Ancient American and Oceanic art — a floor-by-floor guide to the new galleries.
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What the New Museum's expansion changed for visitors
The New Museum reopened at 235 Bowery on March 21, 2026 with a 60,000-square-foot OMA-designed building that doubles its gallery space — here is what a visitor actually notices.
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How the Met rehung its European paintings, and how to read the new galleries
The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened forty-five European Paintings galleries on November 20, 2023 after a $150 million skylights project — here is what changed on the walls, and how to walk them.
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Why some exhibitions run ten weeks and others run a year
From a nine-week tour stop to a Costume Institute show that stretches across the whole tourist season, an exhibition's run is a logistics decision before it is a curatorial one.
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What museums mean by survey, retrospective and mid-career survey
The words museums attach to a big show — survey, retrospective, mid-career survey — describe how much of a career or a scene it covers, and they set fair expectations for a visit.