exhibits
Potterheads are swarming this exhibit like it's Comic Con
What, you may wonder, does Harry Potter have to do with the New-York Historical Society — or even the city itself? Well, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the...
Marc Chagall exhibit features love of his life at Jewish Museum in NYC
For a few heady years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, artists and Jews enjoyed freedoms they had never had under the czar. For the Russian-Jewish artist Marc Chagall, that...
This art show starring two live goats is basically your life
First came goat yoga, a joyfully pointless exercise. Now, it’s goat art. For his new installation, running Saturdays through Oct. 20 at Chelsea’s Unix Gallery, artist Jonathan Paul recruited two...
Inside NYC's new 'Candyland on steroids'
Wish you could step into Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory? For the next few months, you can get pretty darn close. Candytopia — a new immersive museum dedicated to all things...
Dinosaur gets bath at Museum of Natural History
A massive dinosaur got a bath at the American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday, and visitors were allowed to watch for the first time ever. The dusty 19-foot tall,...
This fashion exhibit lets you try on and buy works on display
Instead of a museum retrospective that ends with a lavish pop-up gift shop, why not turn the gift shop into the exhibit? That’s basically what the Whitney’s doing. For its...
Why Wall Street's 'witch' was actually a woman to be admired
When President Theodore Roosevelt approached John Pierpont Morgan for advice during the Panic of 1907, the banker responded by calling a secret meeting of Wall Street’s best and brightest. Over...
There's more to this bodega than meets the eye
Many locals pine for the old New York, but a couple of Lower East Side shutterbugs are actively doing something about it. Karla and James Murray have been photographing New...
Gripping photos show what life was really like for African-Americans in the ’50s
When photography first emerged in the mid-1800s, few embraced the medium with as much fervor as the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who sat for his portrait a whopping 160 times. And...
These new museum shows are surprisingly erotic
They had a way with the ladies and a genius for depicting them, nude or otherwise. Although born nearly 30 years apart, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele had much in...
Your guide to Governors Island's new Instagram paradise
Governors Island will be an interactive wonderland this weekend, thanks to Figment, a free annual festival of art, creativity and collaboration. Unlike at most museums, where touching the art is...
Hunter S. Thompson had some choice words for Tom Wolfe
It's hardly the man in full, but the New York Public Library’s new Tom Wolfe exhibit has plenty of the right stuff. On the heels of that literary lion’s death...
Mourners who waited for Bobby Kennedy's funeral train share their stories
On June 8, 1968, 14-year-old Barbara Krauss picked up her saxophone and headed to what was sure to be the strangest, and saddest, gig in her budding music career. Robert...
This sculptor's crazy, cool work will destroy the Slinky for your kids
Other sculptors work in marble or plaster. Felix Semper prefers blocks of paper — glued on alternating sides so the pages can open accordion-style — to carve the likenesses of...
This kid’s Pez collection is now a library exhibit
In late 2016, grade-schooler Henry McLean was at his neighborhood branch of the Brooklyn Public Library admiring a display of Legos, when he noticed an empty glass case sitting nearby....
The celebs have left, so check out the Met's 'Heavenly Bodies'
Art lovers already know the Metropolitan Museum is heaven on Earth. But its new exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” running through Oct. 8, should convert everyone else....
This 125-year-old art school had wilder costume parties than the Met Gala
It's the place where Georgia O’Keeffe honed her painting skills and where Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei landed as an aspiring artist finding his voice in New York City. And on...
Cardinal Dolan brought street meat into ritzy Met Gala
Just because Timothy Cardinal Dolan is a man of God, doesn’t mean he can’t have a down-to-earth appetite. His eminence sent out for hot dogs during his appearance at Monday...
Catholic-inspired Met Gala could be the most controversial
This spring, Anna Wintour is taking the fashion flock to church. On Monday, the world’s most beautiful people will attend the Vogue editor’s annual Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan...
Lego super heroes unite in Paris
US artist Nathan Sawaya used more than 2 million Lego bricks to create 120 sculptures for "The Art of the Brick: DC Super Heroes" exhibit at Parc de la Villette...