exhibits
Inside artist Yayoi Kusama's trippy New York Botanical Garden exhibit
Yayoi Kusama grew up around flowers and plants, carrying her sketchbook to her family’s seed nursery in rural Japan and drawing the violets and peonies. When she was 11, her...
Artists fill their windows with light displays for isolation exhibit
These artists are projecting some light into the darkness.
Inside the American Museum of Natural History's colorful new exhibit
As the theme song for the old TV show "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" goes, “The world is a carousel of color . . . wonderful, wonderful color!” It...
The greatest fashion photographer you’ve never heard of
Dora Kallmus may be the greatest fashion photographer you’ve never heard of. Born in 1881 in Vienna, she focused on that city’s royals and Rothschilds before moving to Paris, where...
Alexander McQueen's iconic looks get nostalgic sendoff
Get an up close, last look at some of the late, great Lee Alexander McQueen's most iconic and controversial designs at a pop-up exhibition at the New-York Historical Society Feb....
Barbra Streisand tribute museum is an exhibition for the #MeToo era
The face on the banner fluttering above East 65th Street looks familiar. Why, it’s Barbra Streisand, the subject of a museum exhibit devoted to the way she was, is and...
MoMA's $450M redo makes it easy to get blissfully lost
Size matters, at least as far as the Museum of Modern Art is concerned. The MoMA that reopens Monday after a $450 million redo is bigger, brighter, better — reasons...
This bus was converted into something that's simply too pool for school
Most broken-down vehicles end up in a junkyard — not this retro French bus. It's getting a second life as a quirky swimming pool. Artist Benedetto Bufalino, whose work often...
Bruce Springsteen exhibit to open in his New Jersey hometown
Bruce Springsteen was born to run, but he could never stray far from his blue-collar roots in Freehold, New Jersey. Now the Jersey boy and the Central Jersey area he...
'Meet Me In the Bathroom' exhibit is more than a filthy, graffiti’d stall
Lizzy Goodman, author of “Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011,” is standing in a filthy, graffiti’d bathroom stall pointing out director...
Anna Sui gasped when she first saw Madonna in famed babydoll dress
It smells like teen spirit. The babydoll dress that turned Anna Sui into a fashion superstar unleashes a flood of memories about the early days of grunge — when Nirvana...
Studio 54's iconic debauchery and disco will boogie to Brooklyn
A drag queen, Gloria Vanderbilt and an old lady walk into a nightclub. No, it’s not the punchline of a joke — it’s Studio 54, the decadent nightclub playground that...
Overhyped 'Friends' pop-up is a 25th anniversary rip-off
The new “Friends” pop-up exhibit will not be there for you. Located in Soho for a limited time, this much-hyped "experience" — which celebrates the hit series’ 25th anniversary since...
'Making Maisel Marvelous' exhibit drops you in 1950s NYC
Nostalgia has seldom been so well-appointed and lovingly executed as it is on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” For Amazon’s hit series, no detail is too small to get right. And...
Check out these NYC spots where 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' films
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” goes to great lengths to re-create old New York, changing traffic patterns and turning an East Village tattoo parlor into the club known as the Gaslight...
This poster museum has literally the coolest exhibit around
Fancy seeing your face on Rosie the Riveter’s body? How about on that Uncle Sam “I Want You” poster? There’s a photo booth for that. You’ll find it at Poster...
Brooklyn Museum's 'Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion' is out of this world
Most haute couturiers whip up gowns for galas, chic suits for high-powered meetings and tasteful cocktail dresses for ladies’ luncheons. Pierre Cardin makes clothes to wear on the moon. Those...
How spray paint, ego and activism turned graffiti into an art form
Martha Cooper remembers the moment she started seeing graffiti as something more than “a random act of vandalism.” It was in the late ’70s, when a young boy showed Cooper...
This artist's mad skills prove finger painting isn't just kid stuff
Iris Scott is a professional finger-painter. And her work is anything but child’s play. “It’s taken me years just to get the fundamentals down,” the 34-year-old artist tells The Post...
Whitney Biennial 2019 is a don't-miss spectacle of wit and weight
How fresh is the art at this year’s Whitney Biennial? “People were still thinking about their work up until the weekend,” says Jane Panetta, who, with co-curator Rujeko Hockley, put...