Museum Exhibitions

On view from 18 September 2026 to 14 March 2027, Taryn Simon: Father Country I Do Love You premieres an entirely new body of work by the American artist during the 250th anniversary of the United States. Read more

“Why is this art?” is a question often asked by viewers of contemporary art. It is virtually impossible to answer it without referring to the work of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). Read more

The 1930s was a heady time for artists in America. Through President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the federal government paid them to paint and sculpt and urged them to look to the nation’s land and people for subjects. Read more

The Studio Museum in Harlem’s permanent collection is one of the most significant repositories of art by Black artists and artists of African descent worldwide. Representing more than 800 artists, the collection spans over 200 years of history and includes nearly 9,000 works of art across a wide range of media, including painting... Read more

“I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring,” said artist, educator, and civic leader Ruth Asawa, reflecting on a six-decade-long career. Featuring some 300 artworks, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials... Read more

This exhibition features over a dozen seminal works from the Guggenheim’s collection along with major loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which together highlight the artist’s radical use of materials and media.

Amy Sherald is a storyteller. She creates precisely crafted narratives of American life, selecting, styling, and photographing her sitters as the foundation for her nuanced paintings. Read more...

Mozart, Da Vinci, Hokusai and more. Maestros and the Machines challenges the very essence of art and its relationship to time. Read more...

Sarah Lucas’s selection as the first recipient of the Wrigley Sculpture Award follows her New Museum solo exhibition, Au Naturel (2018),...

The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism. Read more

How might American art be experienced at this moment? In honor of our 200th anniversary, a transformative reinstallation of the American Art galleries reorients the ways that the Brooklyn Museum exhibits... Read more

In works full of sharp wit and incisive commentary, Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California) engages sound and... Read more