HowDidIMissThat.com

5,535 upcoming events

Exhibitions in New York City tonight

148 events on Tuesday, October 20, 2026. Free: 13. Busiest venues: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Brooklyn Museum.

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
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
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
Advertisement Think you know your music? Prove it.Quiz Infernal: free trivia quizzes on music, movies, history and dozens more categories.quizinfernal.com Play a quiz (opens in a new tab)
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
until Apr 1

Kapwani Kiwanga: BLEED

Kapwani Kiwanga

The Studio Museum in Harlem · Harlem
- Visual arts
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
until Jan 3

A Legacy Continued: Recent Acquisitions

Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller

Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Busy, Busy Towns

Asia Society Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
Advertisement Got a website? See what’s wrong with it.Free checks for your site, your email and your domain, each one explained: speed, security, broken links, messages that land in spam.misswrench.com Try the tools (opens in a new tab)
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Shu Lea Cheang: LOVER LOVE

Shu Lea Cheang

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art · SoHo, Manhattan
- Visual arts
$10
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
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
Visual arts
until Oct 25

Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings from John Ashbery’s Collection

The Morgan Library & Museum · Murray Hill
- Visual arts
until Mar 19

The Occupied City

Museum of the City of New York · East Harlem
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
Advertisement Will the couch fit? Draw the room to scale.Planimonde: type in the measurements, drop in the furniture, see what fits. No account.planimonde.com Draw a plan (opens in a new tab)
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
Tickets
Visual arts
until Oct 25

Hujar: Contact

Peter Hujar

The Morgan Library & Museum · Murray Hill
- Visual arts
until Jan 3

Focus Gallery: Oded Halahmy: Models in Wood

Oded Halahmy

The Jewish Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
until Oct 25

Revolutionary Women

The New York Historical (New-York Historical Society) · Upper West Side
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
until Jan 10

Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Oct 26

P. S. Art 2026: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 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
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
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
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
until Nov 15

Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte

The Jewish Museum · Upper East Side
- Visual arts

Everything on in New York City