The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

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Saturday Oct. 25, 2025

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

Poster HouseManhattan

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Web Weavers

Ages: All
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

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

FAD Market at The Invisible Dog

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Fall Pop-up [Cobble Hill]

St. Paul ChurchBrooklyn

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11 am – noon

Pumpkins!

Art
Classes

Alley Pond Environmental CenterDouglaston

Brooklyn Fall into Art A Family Festival

11:30 am – 5 pm

Fall into Art: A Family Festival

Ages: All
Art
Family
Festivals

Brooklyn MuseumBrooklyn

Gueramian, Jeila rendering

Noon – 6 pm

Stay Frosty: Equal parts art fair, tailgate and trunk show

Art
Free

Empty Parking Lot at Convent Ave and 128thNew York City

12:30 – 10:30 pm

Dakota’s Pumpkin Patch

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Dakota’sBronx

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1 – 3 pm

Rebel Stencil – Street Art Workshop at the Banksy Museum

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Classes
Family

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FREE EVENT OPEN STAGE

1:30 – 4:30 pm

Free Monthly Event For All Creatives: Open Stage

Morningside Heights LibraryManhattan

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3 – 4 pm

Meet the Artists: Magdalena Dukiewicz, Caroline Garcia, and Blanka Amezkua

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5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

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5 – 7:30 pm

Watson Adventures’ Murder at the Met Scavenger Hunt

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtUpper East Side

6 – 9 pm

Flowing Forms: A Night of Figure Drawing

Guided Flow EventsBrooklyn, NY

Sunday Oct. 26

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All day

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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All day

Menagerie: A Tribute to Animals Through Coney Island’s History and Beyond

Art
Free

Coney Island USABrooklyn

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All day

Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep

Ages: All
Art
Family

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

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9:30 – 11 am

Soft Places: Preserving the Lesbian and Sapphic Home Archive with Tina Rose Rea Meister | MFA Candidate University of Wisconsin, Madison

LGBT Center, 208 W 13 St, New York, NY 10011Manhattan

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10 am – 5 pm

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Art
Free

The Museum at FITChelsea

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

Poster HouseManhattan

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10 am – 6:30 pm

Celebrate Halloween

Ages: 12 and under
Animals
Art
Family

Brooklyn Children’s MuseumBrooklyn

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Web Weavers

Ages: All
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

10 am – 6 pm

The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy

Poster HouseManhattan

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10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Fantastical Realities: Sandra Caplan, Maya Ciarrocchi, and Ray Ciarrocchi

Art
Free

Derfner Judaica MuseumRiverdale

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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