Exhibitions in New York City in November 2026

Sunday, November 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 Nov 8

  Luminous Color

  The Morgan Library & Museum · Murray Hill

  • 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

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• 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 Nov 1

  From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)

  Poster House · Chelsea

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Nov 8

  Hyundai Card First Look: Joan Snyder

  Joan Snyder

  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan

  • Visual arts

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  until Nov 1

  Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime

  Poster House · Chelsea

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Nov 18

  Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian

  Sheree Hovsepian

  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Nov 15

  Before New York: The Bronx (traveling pop-up exhibition)

  New York Botanical Garden · Bedford Park, Bronx

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Nov 8

  Common Sense

  Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

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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

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• Visual arts

  until May 27

  A Living Vision: the Sorolla Gallery at 100

  Hispanic Society Museum & Library · Washington Heights, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  Tickets ↗

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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 Nov 1

  Public Art Along Flushing Avenue: BUILD THE FUTURE by Peter Miller

  Peter Miller

  Brooklyn Navy Yard · Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn

  • 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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  until Nov 29

  Democracy Matters

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

• 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

• Visual arts

  until Nov 29

  Pierre Huyghe: UUmwelt

  Pierre Huyghe

  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan

  • 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

• Visual arts

  until Nov 1

  Uptown Visions

  Hispanic Society Museum & Library · Washington Heights, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  Tickets ↗

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  until Jul 25

  Site Interruptions

  Museum of the Moving Image · Astoria, Queens

  • Cinema

• Visual arts

  until Nov 1

  Homecoming: John Morse

  John Morse

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Jan 2

  Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa

  The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown Manhattan

  • Visual arts

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  until Nov 15

  Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte

  The Jewish Museum · Upper East Side

  • 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 Nov 1

  A Collection Without Borders

  Hispanic Society Museum & Library · Washington Heights, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  Tickets ↗

• Visual arts

  until Jun 27

  Homecoming: Sanford Biggers

  Sanford Biggers

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

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