The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

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Saturday April 12, 2025

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All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

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All day

The Museum of Modern Art Presents- Projects: Marlon Mullen

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

Umbra and Julia

All day

Free Exhibition at Umbra

Art
Free

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 AND FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER PRESENT New Directors/New Films 2025 APRIL 2 – APRIL 13, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

EXHIBITION DATES

9 am – 5 pm

NYSWA’s inaugural Centennial Exhibition Reflections on Progress A celebration of Legacy and Vision

The Interchurch CenterMorningside Heights

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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

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Flora and Fauna Mosaics

Ages: All
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

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10:30 am – 5 pm

Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy

Ages: 9 and up
Art
Family
History & Culture

The Morgan Library & MuseumMurray Hill

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10:30 am – 5:30 pm

The Museum of Modern Art Presents- Light: Rafaël Rozendaal

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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10:30 am – 1 pm

Guggenheim Museum Wake & Make Art Studio

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Community
Family

GuggenheimUpper East Side

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11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausBrooklyn

Ethereal Shore

Noon – 6 pm

Whispers of Color: Subtle Stories of Imagined Reality

Art
Free

Pleiades GalleryChelsea

Lior Modan_The Foundations

1 – 2:30 pm

Exhibition Walkthrough: Dinner Gallery with Lior Modan

Art
Free

Dinner GalleryChelsea

2 – 4:30 pm

Shen Yun 2025

Art
Dance

David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln CenterManhattan

Kholstomer Poster

2 – 4 pm

Kholstomer: The History of a Horse

Theater 86Upper West Side

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2 – 5 pm

Resonance x 4 Art Exhibition at Flushing Town Hall

Art
Free

Flushing Town HallFlushing

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2 – 4 pm

John Jasperse Projects presents Tides (working title) / 20th Annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

Art
Dance

LaMaMa’s Ellen Stewart TheatreManhattan

2 – 9 pm

ART EXCHANGE: ITALY & AMERICA

Culture Lab LICLong Island City

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5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

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5:30 – 7 pm

Keith A. Thompson & danceTactics presents Love Alone Anthology Project (World Premiere) / 20th Annual La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

Art
Dance

La MaMa’s Downstairs TheatreEast Village

WomensWork

6 – 9 pm

Armor for an Artist: Cathryn Mezzo Art Exhibit

Art

532 W 25th StChelsea

7 – 9:30 pm

Shen Yun 2025

Art
Dance

David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln CenterManhattan

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7:30 – 9 pm

Hold Me In the Water

Art
Comedy

Playwrights HorizonsHell’s Kitchen

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7:30 – 8:30 pm

Men are Trash and I’m a Raccoon

Art
Comedy

The RATBrooklyn

Kholstomer Poster

8 – 10 pm

Kholstomer: The History of a Horse

Theater 86Upper West Side

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10 – 11:30 pm

Sandwich

Art
Comedy

Union HallPark Slope

Sunday April 13

Unknown

All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

Familiares FSS

All day

Recorridos Familiares

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
En Español
Family

The Whitney Museum of American ArtChelsea

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