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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Touring shows move on venue contracts, courier escorts, wall-to-wall insurance and a paper trail of condition reports, as two recent American tours show.