Pirouette: Turning Points of Design on view through October 18, 2025. Hilma af Klimt: What Stands Behind the Flowers on view through September 27, 2025.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night gives its titular artist her first major museum survey with drawings, site-specific murals, sculpture, and more. Kim is preoccupied with musical notation, which features here both in her native American Sign Language and written English. Amy Sherald: American Sublime, which will have around 50 of Sherald’s paintings ranging from that beloved Michelle Obama portrait to earlier, contextualizing pieces.
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night on view through July 6, 2025. Amy Sherald: American Sublime on view through August 10, 2025.
Gagosian
New York’s galleries are often overlooked in favor of its museums, but they often have (free!) art shows that are well worth checking out. Such is the case right now at Gagosian’s newly renovated location at 555 West 24th Street (that’s Chelsea, if you’re unsure), which currently has a fabulous Willem de Kooning showcase called Endless Painting. Cecilia Alemani will give a talk on her expressive curation of paintings and two sculptures on May 15.
On view through June 14, 2025
Museum of the Moving Image
Ahead of the franchise’s eighth entry—allegedly, also, Tom Cruise’s last—Museum of the Moving Image is going deep on the Mission: Impossible movies. Mission: Impossible—Story and Spectacle is a spotlight not just on Cruise’s bright, bright star but also on the craft and work that’s gone into these films behind the camera. See costume pieces, intricate breakdowns of stunt sequences, and more before plopping down in MoMI’s premiere theater for a marathon of the existing films.
On view through December 14, 2025
Brooklyn Museum
Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200 is almost simply what it sounds like. When it opens February 28 and runs all the way through February 22, 2026, this exhibition will retrospect not only on two centuries of its own history as an institution but also on the wider borough’s artistic practices and legacies as established since the 17th century. This is a story of Brooklyn, its museum, and the Beaux-Arts building that has long housed it. Other fleeting fare includes the 200-plus-photograph strong Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit and Nancy Elizabeth Prophet: I Will Not Bend an Inch wherein the titular Afro-Indigenous sculptor gets her first solo look in a major museum.
Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200 on view through February 22, 2026.
New York Transit Museum
Whether they love it or hold it in contempt, the New York subway is an essential part of a New Yorker’s daily life. If you’re visiting the city, you should take it at least once to understand how the people that live here get around—it’s what makes the city so accessible. And why not take that subway to Brooklyn’s New York Transit Museum, located conveniently off the 4 and 5 trains at Borough Hall and A, C, and F trains at Jay Street-MetroTech, for The Subway Is… in celebration of our metro’s 120th birthday. It does this with several artifacts, photographs, and multimedia installations that highlight the subway’s long life since its opening October 27, 1904. Through October 26, there is also Commentary on the Commute: A Century of The New Yorker’s Transportation Cartoons in tandem with that magazine’s 100th anniversary. This selection of cartoons and covers features the work of 57 artists who have contributed to the magazine over the past century who have found inspiration in the city’s public transportation.
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