The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

Art shows in NYC

Find events happening this weekend in your neighborhood

A guide to all the best art shows, art events and art exhibits

Post an Event

Saturday Aug. 9, 2025

Clashing Steel

All day

Clashing Steel: The Art of Stage Combat at Culture Lab LIC

Art
Free

Culture Lab LICLong Island City, New York

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers MAY 11 – SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

217.1968_E._Rossbach__Constructed_Color_Wall_Hanging-Full size JPEG

8 am – 5 pm

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

02_MoMA_Brand_Identity_Design_Logotype_Order_New_York_USA_BPO

8 am – 5 pm

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers MAY 11 – SEPTEMBER 27, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

9 am – 5 pm

Being Hyper Human Exhibition

Art
Film

FIT Art and Design GalleryChelsea

PosterHousePR_b14282

10 am – 6 pm

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

Art

Poster HouseChelsea

PosterHouseWP

10 am – 6 pm

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

Art

Poster HouseChelsea

67be30ece17131c30202c8c9_Summer 150 Exhibition-Web Images-02

10 am – 8 pm

Shaping American Art: A Celebration of the Art Students League of New York at 150

Art

Arts Students LeagueManhattan

AMPLIFIED-COPYRIGHT-08

10 am – 9 pm

Rolling Stone Presents: AMPLIFIED The Immersive Rock Experience

ARTECHOUSEChelsea Market

Untitled Artwork

10 am – 8 pm

The Subway Doodle Experience

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

banksy museumnew york

wave-hill_Family-Art-Project-Woodland-Worlds_credit-Erica-Berger

10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Woodland Worlds

Ages: All
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

Women-in-the-News-Inverted-small-1237×1536

10 am – 5 pm

After ‘Women in the News’: Work by Kari Marboe, Friends, and Colleagues

Art
Free

Greenwich House PotteryGreenwich

BLOCK-PARTY-HORIZONTAL

10 am – 6 pm

MAD Open House

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Family
Food & Drink

Museum of Arts and DesignManhattan

Screen Shot 2025-02-06 at 5.21.29 PM

10:30 am – 1 pm

Guggenheim Museum Wake & Make Art Studio

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Community
Family

GuggenheimUpper East Side

Face Value

10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

240810+Yang_FAD+Market+-+Empire+Stores-48 (1)

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Summer Pop-up [Dumbo]

Empire StoresBrooklyn

2025 Juried Show image matrix

11 am – 6 pm

Bowery Gallery’s 34th Annual Juried Exhibition

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

9. Louis Majorelle, Buffet, ca.1900 (Resized Image) (1)

Noon – 5 pm

Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art

Art

The Long Island MuseumStony Brook

Kang Seung Lee_The Heart of A Hand (still)_2023

Noon – 6 pm

Homage: Queer lineages on video

Art
Free

Wallach Art GalleryManhattanville

tree-branches-1

Noon – 4 pm

Grounding Feeling: Performance Series

nyf-calendar-Arte-Pa-Mi-Gente-2nd-Latiné-Children’s-Music-Day-2025-08

1 – 5 pm

Arte Pa Mi Gente: 2nd Latiné Children’s Music Day

Ages: All
Art
En Español
Family

Teatro SEA at The Clemente CenterLower East Side

guitar

1 – 6 pm

The Art is Pulsing with Energy at BWAC This Summer

Art
Free

BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionBrooklyn

Gallery-tour-image4_photo-Stefan-Hagen (3)

2 – 3 pm

Public Gallery Tour

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

IN2592_024_CCCR-Full size JPEG (1)

2 – 4 pm

MoMA Family Art Making: Nature Drawings

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Attractions
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

Installation view_ Open Call_ Portals, Photo_ Adam Reich_Forbes

2 – 7 pm

Open Call: Portals

Art
Free

The Shed NYCHudson Yards

August-2025-MOCACREATE

2 – 4 pm

MOCACREATE: Summer Sun Prints with Teaching Artist Yu Rong

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

Museum of Chinese in AmericaChinatown

WA MNH Vase (S)

2 – 4 pm

Watson Adventures’ Cloisters Capers Scavenger Hunt

The Met CloistersWashington Heights

https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_1074916713_563100145915_1_original

2 pm

BITCHES – A Darkly Comic New Play Premieres at East Village Basement

Art

East Village BasementEast Village

P1088107

2 – 3:30 pm

Esther Made Me Do It

Art
Comedy

The RATBrooklyn

date-night-large

5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

WA MNH Pottery (S)

5 – 7:30 pm

Watson Adventures’ Murder at the Met Scavenger Hunt

Metropolitan Museum of ArtUpper East Side

+ Export Events

More from Around NYC

Resorts World New York City received its last major land use approval from the state for its proposed $5.5 billion expansion into an integrated resort at Aqueduct.

Resorts World granted key land use approval from state for $5.5B expansion if granted commercial gaming license

Matthew Schaefer Islanders NHL Draft

Matthew Schaefer signs 3-year entry level deal with Islanders

Lee Soulja-Simmons, speaks to the crowd at the 2023 Heritage Awards at the Brooklyn Museum, which was part of that year's NYC Black Pride calendar.

Guide to NYC Black Pride 2025: Exhibitions, block party, health conference, and more

clark street awning collapse

‘Not surprised’: Locals say neglect to blame in Clark Street station awning collapse