The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

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Thursday May 1, 2025

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All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

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

All day

Fleurs de Villes Downton Abbey

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

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

EXHIBITION DATES

9 am – 5 pm

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

The Interchurch CenterMorningside Heights

9 am – 5 pm

Perceptions of Sentience

Art
Free

United NationsEast Side Midtown

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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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10:30 am – 5 pm

Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy

Ages: 9 and up
Art
Family
History & Culture

The Morgan Library & MuseumMurray Hill

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

The Space In Between

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

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3:30 – 5 pm

Cross Stitch Circle

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Classes
Family

The New York HistoricalUpper West Side

6 – 9 pm

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

Art

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

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6 – 8 pm

Paul G. Oxborough: New Works Opening

Art
Free

Cavalier Gallery ChelseaChelsea

Page to Screen

6:30 – 7:45 pm

Page to Screen: Book to Film Adaptations with Sigrid Nunez and André Aciman

Joe’s PubManhattan

Takács Quartet, photo by Amanda Tipton

7 – 9 pm

Concerts at the Frick: Takács Quartet & Jeremy Denk, Piano

Art
Music

Frick CollectionUpper East Side

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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 – 10 pm

Decade Downtown Celebration

Art

The Whitney Museum of American ArtChelsea

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