The exhibition will feature highlights from the N-YHS collections, as well as hidden gems on display for the first time. The installation will also feature outdoor colonial “kitchen gardens,” with herbs, vegetables, and flowers for visitors to enjoy. Every Saturday and Sunday between July 4, 2015 and September 27, 2015.

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Discover some of the planet's most versatile animals in a new exhibit that features live spiders, larger-than-life models, fossils, and more. Which came first: spiders or dinosaurs? Do all spiders make webs? Are all spiders poisonous? Test your knowledge and find out more. Location: American Museum of Natural History - Gallery 77

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The first New York City solo museum exhibition of the work of a painter (born Philadelphia, 1946) whose intensely color-based abstractions have won steadily mounting recognition since the mid-1990s. The exhibition will feature twenty-eight paintings and works on paper created between 2008 and 2015, including the 2013 title work. - See more at: http://www.studiomuseum.org/exhibition/stanley-whitney...

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Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation and creative production. Representing intimate and dynamic perspectives of Harlem, the images reflect the idiosyncratic visions of contemporary artists from a wide range of backgrounds and loc...

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One Stop Down references a technical choice in photography to allow less light into the camera, which can increase depth of field, image sharpness and effectively convey intention.. Some of this year’s students have composed narratives that require more light to illuminate subjects or ideas, while others deliberately kept light from entering to offer dramatic readings of an image and invite ...

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Over the course of more than three decades, artist and cultural critic Lorraine O’Grady has won acclaim for her installations, performances and texts addressing the subjects of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity.. These color slides were taken by various people who witnessed the performance, and were later collected by O’Grady to compose the series. The forty images on ...

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Everything, Everyday presents three emerging artists whose innovative works, while diverse in form and subject matter, reflect overlapping affinities. Sadie Barnette, Lauren Halsey and Eric Mack explore ideas of disappearance and reemergence, shifting visibilities and the beauty of the everyday. Each artist closely considers matters of artistic process by playing with scale, the ephemeral quality ...

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In the early years of the twentieth century, a group of young and pivotal American modernists began to equate the straightforwardness, abstracted forms, and delight in color of early folk art with the new modernist art they had studied in Europe and were pioneering in America. The exhibition highlights folk art owned, collected, and exhibited by early art-world luminaries. In regarding folk art a...

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This exhibition features examples of architectural ornament from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey that were found at sites ranging in date from approximately 500 to 1000. Few buildings from this period survive fully intact, but the pieces of walls, ceilings, and floors that remain shed light on the ingenious ways that artisans created sumptuous interiors and stately facades. Friday and Saturday: 10...

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This exhibition explores the work of artists experimenting with collage and collage techniques in ways that expand the gestures of cutting paper and mixing various mediums together.  Hebdidge explored the variations of Caribbean reggae and dancehall and other related styles of music as emblematic markers of Caribbean ideas of nationhood, belonging, and the making of culture. Closed Sunday an...

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