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MoMA PS1 presents the first significant U.S. museum solo show of Berlin-based artist Simon Denny (b. 1982, Auckland, New Zealand). The Innovator's Dilemma adopts the architectural typology of the industry tradeshow, staging literal platforms for content drawn from various recent bodies of Denny’s work. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday

In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration, the multi-decade mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North that started around 1915. Along with Lawrence's series, the exhibition includes other accounts of the Migration from the era. The range of works in the exhibition s...

Brooklyn-born artist Jean-Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history. The first major exhibition of the artist’s notebooks, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks features 160 pages of these rarely seen documents, along with related works on paper an...

April 1, 2015 - October 23, 2016 - This exhibiton presents more than sixty exceptional pieces from the IMA’s and private collections. Visitors to Lilly House will be dazzled by the sparkling wonder of some of the finest examples of American silver from the 19th and 20th centuries. Discover the advancements made by Ti–ffany & Co. and Gorham Manufacturing that led the way for America to become the f...

Hip-Hop Revolution presents more than 80 photographs taken between 1977 and 1990 by three preeminent New York-based photographers—Janette Beckman, Joe Conzo, and Martha Cooper—who documented hip hop from its pioneering days through its emergence into mainstream popular culture. The exhibition showcases the experiences of each photographer during these seminal years, as DJs, MCs, and b-boys (breakd...

The Art of the Mannequin will be the first museum exhibition to explore the work of renowned New York-based designer Ralph Pucci, who is widely regarded for his innovative approach to the familiar form of the mannequin. Having collaborated with luminaries such as Diane von Furstenberg, Patrick Naggar, Andrée Putman, Kenny Scharf, Anna Sui, Isabel and Ruben Toledo and Christy Turlington, Pucci’s ma...

In this exhibition over the course of the year, he made daily exposures at precisely 6:30 am, maintaining an identical combination of camera, 350-millimeter lens, slow-speed film and viewpoint overlooking Santa Monica Bay. Five of his large-scale, luminous photographs of Malibu capture what the artist calls "the fleeting nature of a particular confluence of light, and conditions that render a mome...

In this exihibit - At first, Jae Ko’s monumental paper relief sculpture gently coaxes you into the brightness of the East Gallery. The composition starts as a trickle then quickly overtakes your height. You become enveloped by its spell, and your curiosity is engaged. What you perceive is something magical and constantly changing in color, line, and form beyond the white paper of which it is made....

Marking the second year of its Studio Program, the Queens Museum presents an exhibition featuring the works of twelve artists, who, working singly and in partnerships, have occupied studios at QM during 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. The exhibition will take place in the new wing of the Queens Museum. The artists’ studios will open to the public during the opening celebration and on July 31. Closed Mond...

Piotr Uklański Photographs - This exhibition, the first to survey Uklański's photography, locates his work with the camera at the center of his artistic practice. Reveling in moribund or marginal artistic languages from a position at once ironic and sincere, the artist simultaneously subverts and pays homage to defunct modes of expression. Friday and Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.* Closed Thanksgi...