The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

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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

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8 am – 5 pm

Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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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

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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 – 8 pm

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

Art

Arts Students LeagueManhattan

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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

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Woodland Worlds

Ages: All
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

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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

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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

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Summer Pop-up [Dumbo]

Empire StoresBrooklyn

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11 am – 6 pm

Bowery Gallery’s 34th Annual Juried Exhibition

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

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11 am – 5 pm

🎊 Celebrate the Caribbean

Ages: 12 and under
Art
Attractions
Family

Brooklyn Children’s MuseumBrooklyn

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Noon – 5 pm

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

Art

The Long Island MuseumStony Brook

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Noon – 6 pm

Homage: Queer lineages on video

Art
Free

Wallach Art GalleryManhattanville

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Noon – 4 pm

Grounding Feeling: Performance Series

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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

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1 – 6 pm

The Art is Pulsing with Energy at BWAC This Summer

Art
Free

BWAC Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionBrooklyn

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2 – 3 pm

Public Gallery Tour

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

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2 – 4 pm

MoMA Family Art Making: Nature Drawings

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Attractions
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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2 – 7 pm

Open Call: Portals

Art
Free

The Shed NYCHudson Yards

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2 – 4 pm

MOCACREATE: Summer Sun Prints with Teaching Artist Yu Rong

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

Museum of Chinese in AmericaChinatown

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2 – 4 pm

Watson Adventures’ Cloisters Capers Scavenger Hunt

The Met CloistersWashington Heights

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2 pm

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

Art

East Village BasementEast Village

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2 – 3:30 pm

Esther Made Me Do It

Art
Comedy

The RATBrooklyn

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5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

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