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May 6, 2016 – March 27, 2017 - This is the first exhibition connecting well-known deities represented in Nepalese art to rituals and festivals surrounding the rainy season, or monsoon, and highlighting the importance of the seasons to the culture and everyday life of Nepalese people. Through this lens, the exhibition will offer visitors a new understanding of the region and its art, which is alrea...

May 6 - August 21, 2016 - This exhibition celebrates the gift of forty-eight works to the Morgan from the artist and his dealer Arne Glimcher. Dating to the years 1958–1983, they range in subject matter from dreamlike seascapes and interiors to self-portraits, nudes, and still life. The installation of the exhibition was conceived in collaboration with the artist, who designed a wallpaper for it. ...

May 6 - September 18, 2016 - In this exhibition Beatriz Milhazes will create a new series of sculptures for Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings, which will hang throughout the lobby of the Jewish Museum.

May 6 - September 18, 2016 - ​This exhibition of his work encompasses an enormous range of artistic forms and styles: Burle Marx was a painter and sculptor; a designer of textiles, jewelry, theater sets, and costumes; a ceramicist and stained-glass artist. He was an avid art collector, a talented baritone, a consummate cook, and a visionary self-taught botanist and ecologist. For him, all these en...

May 5 - August 14, 2016 - The Costume Institute's spring 2016 exhibition explores how fashion designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear. With more than 170 ensembles dating from the early 20th century to the present, the exhibition addresses the founding of the haute couture in the 19th century, when the sewing machin...

May 3 to September 25, 2016 - This exhibition displays jewelry works and monotype prints, and offers an early glimpse of a creative vision that would crystallize as his career matured. The objects in this exhibition highlight Bertoia’s investigations of form, dimension and material on a concentrated and bankable scale establishing him as a pioneer of the American Studio Jewelry movement and a mast...

May 3, 2016 to September 25, 2016 - The exhibition has been designed around approximating the experience of hearing these sculptures played in situ. Complementing the exhibition is a series of live performances in the gallery by contemporary sound artists Lizzi Bougatsos and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe that explores the legacy of the sounding sculptures as an important influence on sound, music and ar...

The exibition will be the first major museum exhibition on 21st-century watchmaking, featuring approximately 45 of the most skillfully crafted and innovative mechanical wristwatches made by leading manufacturers and independent watchmakers. In today’s digital age, the art of luxury watchmaking is experiencing a timely renaissance, with watchmakers creating miniature masterpieces designed and execu...

May 1 - August 1, 2016 - SculptureCenter is pleased to present an exhibition titled Collective Stance featuring new and recent work by artist Leslie Hewitt. Through the assertion of the work's contemporaneity, Hewitt and Young's project explores temporality, exposing the tension between still photography and the cinematic experiences of moving images, between the past and the present, between the ...

May 1 - August 1, 2016 - The title of this exhibition, taken directly from Freud's lecture on dreams, is a sentence stopped midway. He completes the thought by stating that the creative process of the mind can only regroup elements from already existing sources that any one creative fantasy is a work of translating what one knows of reality into an imaginary space. The exhibition, organized from p...