The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

Thursday May 8, 2025

All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

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 PRESENTS The Lady at 100: Columbia Classics from the Locarno Film Festival APRIL 16 – MAY 24, 2025

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

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

9 am – 5 pm

Perceptions of Sentience

Art
Free

United NationsEast Side Midtown

10 am – 6 pm

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

Poster HouseChelsea

10 am – 6 pm

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

Poster HouseChelsea

10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

Art
Free

Derfner Judaica MuseumRiverdale

11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausBrooklyn

11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBrooklyn

12:30 – 5 pm

TABLA RASA GALLERY’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION: IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

Tabla Rasa GalleryBrooklyn

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

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1 – 6 pm

Exhibition Opening: ‘Five Miles of VHS Tape’

FiveMylesBrooklyn

Ceramics Now Exhibition-Announcement-2025

5 – 7 pm

Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery presents ‘Ceramics Now’ featuring Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno and Gina Tibbott

Greenwich House PotteryManhattan

5:30 – 8 pm

IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

Tabla Rasa GalleryBrooklyn

6 – 9 pm

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

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

6 – 8 pm

Opening Reception of “Compulsive Genius”

Fountain House GalleryHell’s Kitchen

6 – 8 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

Art
Free

410 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221Brooklyn

6 – 10 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community
Family

ZeroSpace BrooklynBrooklyn

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Manhattan

7 – 9 pm

Concerts at the Frick: Emi Ferguson, Flute and Ruckus, Baroque Ensemble

Art
Music

Frick CollectionUpper East Side

7 – 8 pm

Book Launch: You Have the Magic by Haley Hoffman Smith at Strand Book Store

Art
Talks

Strand Book StoreManhattan

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Art shows in NYC

Thursday May 8, 2025

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS The Lady at 100: Columbia Classics from the Locarno Film Festival APRIL 16 – MAY 24, 2025

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction APRIL 20 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2025

Perceptions of Sentience

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

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

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

TABLA RASA GALLERY’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION: IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

The Space In Between

Exhibition Opening: ‘Five Miles of VHS Tape’

Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery presents ‘Ceramics Now’ featuring Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno and Gina Tibbott

IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

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

Opening Reception of “Compulsive Genius”

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Concerts at the Frick: Emi Ferguson, Flute and Ruckus, Baroque Ensemble

Book Launch: You Have the Magic by Haley Hoffman Smith at Strand Book Store

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