The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

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Sunday May 11, 2025

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All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors LobbyManhattan

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS The Lady at 100: Columbia Classics from the Locarno Film Festival APRIL 16 – MAY 24, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction APRIL 20 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause MAY 3 – JULY 6, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Flowers for Mother’s Day

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10 am – 6 pm

Poster House Spring 2025 Exhibition: Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar

Art

Poster HouseChelsea

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10 am – 6 pm

Poster House Spring 2025 Exhibition: Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace

Art

Poster HouseChelsea

10 am – 4 pm

“Mothers of Max” Floral Exhibit

Art
Free

Chelsea TriangleMeatpacking District

Bash Bish Falls Remembered III

10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

Art
Free

Derfner Judaica MuseumRiverdale

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11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausBrooklyn

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBrooklyn

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Mother’s Day

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

Empire StoresBrooklyn

11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

Art
Free

410 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221Brooklyn

11 am – 1 pm

Printmaking Workshop

Ages: 3 – 8
Art
Family

Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & StorytellingSugar Hill

Noguchi Museum-Photo by Don Stahl-

11 am – 6 pm

The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Celebration

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden MuseumLong Island City

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11 am – 6 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community
Family

ZeroSpace BrooklynBrooklyn

Noon – 6 pm

Clio Art Fair, 18th & 19th Editions, May 1-4 & May 8-11, 2025

Art

528-532 W 28th st, New York, NY 10001Chelsea

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

Ceramics Now Exhibition-Announcement-2025

Noon – 5 pm

Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery presents ‘Ceramics Now’ featuring Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno and Gina Tibbott

Greenwich House PotteryManhattan

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1 – 6 pm

Fresh Art Offers a Spring Burst of Inspiration at BWAC

Art
Free

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionBrooklyn

The Space In Between

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

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1 – 2:30 pm

Embodying Eastman: Speculative Listening with Isaac Jean-François

Art
Free

The Whitney Museum of American ArtChelsea

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1 – 6 pm

Exhibition Opening: ‘Five Miles of VHS Tape’

FiveMylesBrooklyn

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2:30 – 5:30 pm

Decade Downtown DJ Set with Lovie and Honeybun

The Whitney Museum of American ArtChelsea

3 – Florencia Cuenca and Company

3 – 5:30 pm

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical

Art
Comedy

James Earl Jones TheatreManhattan

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4 – 5 pm

Decade Downtown Whitney Walking Tour

The Whitney Museum of American ArtChelsea

Mishka Momen

5 – 7 pm

Concerts at the Frick: Mishka Rushdie Momen, Solo Piano

Art
Music

Frick CollectionUpper East Side

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Manhattan

BW Press Release Trujillo 2025 (1250 x 625 px)

7 pm

LA CAÍDA DE RAFAEL TRUJILLO by Award-Winning Carmen Rivera, Back by Popular Demand to be Presented by Teatro Círculo

Teatro CírculoNew York City

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