The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

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Tuesday Oct. 21, 2025

Printmaking Class

6 – 8 pm

Plants, Photographs and Stencils

Art
Classes

Scribble Art WorkshopNEW YORK

6 – 8 pm

Concrete Chronicles: Lower East Side Photographs by Martha Cooper and Clayton Patterson

Art
Free

City Lore GalleryEast Village

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6:30 – 8:30 pm

Tap & Tapas

Art
Classes

Wallace HallManhattan

Wednesday Oct. 22

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All day

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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8 am – 5 pm

THE GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP AT 100 A New Special Exhibit Celebrating a Century of Cultural Impact

Art

The New York HistoricalManhattan

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8 am – 5 pm

The Museum of Modern Art Presents New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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8:30 am – 5 pm

Stephen Prina: A Lick and a Promise

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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9 am – 5 pm

Adapt/Evolve

Art
Free

FIT Art and Design GalleryManhattan

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

Poster HouseManhattan

10 am – 5 pm

Diwali: A Festival of Lights at CMOM

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

Children’s Museum of ManhattanManhattan

10 am – 6 pm

The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy

Poster HouseManhattan

Face Value

10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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11 am – 5 pm

Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island

Art

El Museo del BarrioManhattan

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Noon – 8 pm

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Art
Free

The Museum at FITChelsea

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Noon – 6 pm

Life is Drag by Rachel Rampleman

Art
LGBTQ+

SoMadFlatiron

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6 – 8 pm

Visible Mending Class (Child Care available)

Ages: All
Art
Classes
Family

Scribble Art WorkshopNEW YORK

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6:30 – 8 pm

LOL Podcast Comedy Night Hosted by Rachel La Loca

Art
Comedy

banksy museumnew york

Thursday Oct. 23

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All day

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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8 am – 5 pm

THE GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP AT 100 A New Special Exhibit Celebrating a Century of Cultural Impact

Art

The New York HistoricalManhattan

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8 am – 5 pm

The Museum of Modern Art Presents New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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8:30 am – 5 pm

Stephen Prina: A Lick and a Promise

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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9 am – 5 pm

Adapt/Evolve

Art
Free

FIT Art and Design GalleryManhattan

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

Poster HouseManhattan

10 am – 6 pm

The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy

Poster HouseManhattan

Face Value

10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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11 am – 5 pm

Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island

Art

El Museo del BarrioManhattan

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Noon – 8 pm

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Art
Free

The Museum at FITChelsea

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Noon – 6 pm

Life is Drag by Rachel Rampleman

Art
LGBTQ+

SoMadFlatiron

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3 – 4 pm

The Art of Immigration: Italian Art in an American Chruch

Italian American MuseumLittle Italy

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4 – 6 pm

A Community Farewell to the Upper Room

The Upper Room: End of Albany StreetBattery Park City

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6 – 8 pm

Water Colors w/ Francis Hseuh

Art

Northern Manhattan Arts AllianceWashington Heights

Inwood Art Hangs

6 – 8 pm

Inwood Art Hangs

Art
Classes

Scribble Art WorkshopNEW YORK

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