235 Bowery
212-219-1222
Manhattan’s only dedicated contemporary art museum, the New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas. The Ostalgia exhibition runs through Sept 25th.
Hours:
Monday and Tuesday closed
Wednesday 11am-6pm
Thursday 11am-9pm, Free Thursday Evenings (from 7pm to 9pm)
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am-6pm
11 West 53 Street
212-708-9400
MoMA is home to the world’s finest collection of modern and contemporary art.
Exhibitions:
Boris Mikhailov: Case History runs through Sept 5th
Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance) runs through Jan 2nd
Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects runs through Nov 7th
Hours:
Monday 10:30am – 5:30pm
Tuesday closed
Wednesday and Thursday 10:30am – 5:30pm
Friday 10:30am – 8pm
Saturday and Sunday 10:30am – 5:30pm
945 Madison Ave at 75th Street
212-570-3600
The Whitney Museum of American Art presents the full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art.
Exhibitions:
Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools runs through Sept 11th
Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection runs through Sept 18th
Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World runs through Oct 16th
Xavier Cha: Body Drama runs through Oct 9th
More Than That: Films by Kevin Jerome Everson runs through Sept 18th
Hours:
Monday and Tuesday closed
Wednesday and Thursday 11am – 6pm
Friday 1pm – 9pm
Saturday and Sunday 11am – 6pm
1000 Fifth Avenue
212-535-7710
The Met’s collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
Exhibitions:
Anthony Caro on the Roof runs through Oct 30th
The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE – 1800 CE runs through Sept 18th
Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum runs through Oct 10th
Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting runs through Nov 27th
A Sensitivity to the Seasons: Summer and Autumn in Japanese Art runs through Oct 23rd
Night Vision: Photography After Dark runs through Sept 18th
After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection runs through Jan 2nd
Hours:
Monday closed
Tuesday – Thursday 9:30am – 5:30pm
Friday and Saturday 9:30am – 9pm
Sunday 9:30am – 5:30pm
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
212-423-3500
The Guggenheim features modern and contemporary art from the late 19th century through present day.
Exhibitions:
Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity runs through Sept 28th
Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, 1922 – 1933, ongoing
The Hugo Boss Prize 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann runs through Nov 2nd
A Chronology, the Guggenheim Collection, 1909 – 1979 runs through Sept 11th
Hours:
Sunday – Wednesday 10am – 5:45pm
Thursday closed
Friday 10am – 5:45pm
Saturday 10am – 7:45pm
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
718-638-5000
The Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures.
Exhibitions:
Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior runs through Oct 2nd
reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio runs through Jan 15th
Split Second: Indian Paintings runs through Jan 1st
Hours:
Monday and Tuesday closed
Wednesday 11am – 6pm
Thursday 11am – 10pm
Friday – Sunday 11am – 6pm
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
Galleries closed for renovation.
