Exhibitions in New York City in December 2026

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• Visual arts

  until Feb 7

  Caroline Kent: A short play about watching shadows move across the room

  Caroline Kent

  Queens Museum · Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 10

  Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Feb 7

  Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200

  Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Feb 21

  Odili Donald Odita: Songs from Life

  Odili Donald Odita

  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Apr 4

  Greetings from Staten Island: A Postcard Tour

  Historic Richmond Town · Richmondtown, Staten Island

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 10

  Collection in Focus | Modern European Currents

  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Sep 16

  Shoes: Two Centuries of Style and Function

  Historic Richmond Town · Richmondtown, Staten Island

  • Visual arts

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  until Aug 22

  New York, New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection

  The New York Historical (New-York Historical Society) · Upper West Side

• Other

  until Jan 18

  Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs

  American Museum of Natural History · Upper West Side

• Visual arts

  until Jan 17

  Ecologies of Painting

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Aug 8

  The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jun 27

  Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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• Visual arts

  until Jan 26

  Celebrating the Year of the Horse

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 3

  Hortensia Mi Kafchin: Through Different Eyes

  Hortensia Mi Kafchin

  Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art · SoHo, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  $10

• Visual arts

  until Feb 7

  About Us: The American Imaginary

  Queens Museum · Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 16

  David Lamelas: The Machine

  David Lamelas

  Dia Chelsea · Chelsea

  • Visual arts

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  until Apr 1

  Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEED

  Kapwani Kiwanga

  The Studio Museum in Harlem · Harlem

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 3

  Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body

  Museum of the Moving Image · Astoria, Queens

  • Cinema

• Visual arts

  until May 31

  Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 3

  A Legacy Continued: Recent Acquisitions

  Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 3

  Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller

  Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 3

  Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

  Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 3

  Busy, Busy Towns

  Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 3

  Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE

  Shu Lea Cheang

  Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art · SoHo, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  $10

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  until Mar 19

  The Occupied City

  Museum of the City of New York · East Harlem

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  until May 9

  Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi’s 1986 Venice Biennale

  Isamu Noguchi

  The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 10

  Costume Art

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Apr 30

  Homecoming: Chakaia Booker

  Chakaia Booker

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Dec 6

  Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses

  Iris van Herpen

  Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until May 27

  A Living Vision: the Sorolla Gallery at 100

  Hispanic Society Museum & Library · Washington Heights, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 3

  Focus Gallery: Oded Halahmy: Models in Wood

  Oded Halahmy

  The Jewish Museum · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Apr 18

  Jessica Lichtenstein: Rewilding

  Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) · Columbus Circle

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Apr 9

  Artists Choose Artists: The Socrates Annual Fellowship Anniversary

  Cynthia Alberto · Francheska Alcántara · Josué Guarionex · Xayvier Haughton · Vaishu Ilankamban · Manami…

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Apr 11

  Donald Moffett: IMPEACH

  Donald Moffett

  Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 10

  Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now

  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Feb 28

  Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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• Visual arts

  until Jan 31

  Collection Spotlight: The Panorama Archives

  Queens Museum · Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jun 24

  Founding Principles: The Declaration of Independence, Civics, and Staten Island

  Historic Richmond Town · Richmondtown, Staten Island

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 3

  City of Memory: Nanjing in the Seventeenth Century

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Feb 7

  Sonia Boyce: Demonstrate

  Sonia Boyce

  Queens Museum · Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 31

  Through Motion and Repose: Expanding the Walls 2026

  The Studio Museum in Harlem · Harlem

  • Visual arts

• 

  until Jul 25

  Site Interruptions

  Museum of the Moving Image · Astoria, Queens

  • Cinema

• Visual arts

  until Jan 2

  Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until May 9

  Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 3

  Dots and Loops: Jen Chen-su Huang, Rita Maas, and Audra Wolowiec

  Wave Hill · Riverdale, Bronx

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jun 27

  Homecoming: Sanford Biggers

  Sanford Biggers

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Jan 17

  Rediscovering Della Robbia at The Met

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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  until Feb 28

  Dreams of This Future: The Collection of Peggy Cooper Cafritz

  The Studio Museum in Harlem · Harlem

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 10

  The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans

  Minnie Evans

  Whitney Museum of American Art · Meatpacking District

  • Visual arts

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  until Jan 17

  Art of the Street: Selections from the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection

  The New York Historical (New-York Historical Society) · Upper West Side

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  until Jun 1

  Roy Lichtenstein: 1997

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Whitney Museum of American Art · Meatpacking District

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Mar 5

  A King’s Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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  until Feb 7

  Geometries

  The Studio Museum in Harlem · Harlem

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Feb 8

  Homeroom: Artists Against the Bomb

  MoMA PS1 · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Jan 10

  Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art

  Teddy Sandoval

  El Museo del Barrio · East Harlem

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jun 6

  Michael Richards: Free F’All

  Michael Richards

  Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Feb 20

  Andrea Modica: Italian Story

  Andrea Modica

  Alice Austen House Museum · Rosebank, Staten Island

  • Visual arts

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  until Mar 7

  Nike: Form Follows Motion

  Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) · Columbus Circle

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Feb 28

  Chasing Clouds

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Upper East Side

  • Visual arts

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  until Aug 31

  Isamu Noguchi at Lever House

  Isamu Noguchi

  The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

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