The Museum’s exhibition marks the first time objects relating to the production of Mad Men will be shown in public on this scale. The Museum will also present An Evening with Matthew Weiner and a film series featuring movies that inspired the show, selected by Weiner. The exhibition Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men will be joined by other initiatives around New York City celebrating the serie...

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The Heber Bishop Collection - Heber R. Bishop's collection of carved jades was formed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum in 1902.  Consisting of over one thousand pieces—primarily Chinese jades of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as jades from Mughal India—it was the first major collection of its kind in the ...

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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.* C...

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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. Clo...

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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, Puc...

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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,...

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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 e...

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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 pa...

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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

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Life at the Limits: Stories of Amazing Species explores the diverse and sometimes jaw-dropping strategies animals and plants employ to find food, fend off predators, reproduce, and thrive in habitats many would find inhospitable, even lethal. Location:  American Museum of Natural History-  LeFrak Family Gallery, fourth floor Open daily except on Thanksgiving and Christmas

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