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Arts
Exhibitions, museums, artists and ideas shaping the city’s visual culture.
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Chekhov Under Glass at the Park Avenue Armory
Simon Stone’s Korean-language reimagining of The Cherry Orchard turns a fading dynasty into a family trapped inside the architecture of its own…
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New York Film Festival 2026 Takes Over a Stormy New York Weekend
The 64th New York Film Festival opened with James Gray’s Paper Tiger and turns Saturday to the world premiere of Godzilla Minus…
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MoMA Is Turning Surrealist Books Into an Exhibition
The Surrealist Book opens Oct. 4 with rare volumes by Dalí, Claude Cahun, Toyen, Max Ernst and others.
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The Whitney Biennial Is Entering Its Final Weeks
The sixth-floor portion of the 2026 Biennial remains on view through Oct. 12.
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Roy Lichtenstein Returns to the Whitney in a 130-Work Survey
Like New opens Oct. 11 and looks past the Pop surfaces toward copying, circulation and the unstable life of images.
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The Whitney Is Turning 25 Years of Internet Art Into a Museum Show
The museum’s artport anniversary exhibition will bring more than 100 net-art commissions from the browser into the galleries.
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MoMA Is Giving Nilima Sheikh Her First New York Solo Show
Fractured Skies opens Sept. 27 with paintings that weave history, landscape, literature and women’s voices.
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A New Yorker’s Guide to the Galleries That Matter
Start in Chelsea, then go downtown: the major galleries that make contemporary art in New York unusually easy to see for free.
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Five Small New York Museums Worth a Trip
When the Met and MoMA feel like too much, these smaller institutions offer New York history, design and art at a human…
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Four Giant Hands Have Taken Over the Met
Liu Wei’s monumental new façade commission turns the Met’s unfinished niches into a meditation on rupture, repair and a city in constant…