Condé Nast Traveler


Both on view by August 31.

Neue Galerie

Next up on the Neue? German Masterworks from the Neue Galerie, which can pull from the museum’s huge shops of German artwork from the interval 1890 to 1940. As Austria loved the Expressionist motion, Germany throughout this time noticed main developments in coloration and kind from the Brücke (Bridge) and Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) teams. Expect surprising colours from Vasily Kandinsky, August Macke, and extra. There’s additionally Sacred Spring: Modern Viennese Graphics, 1897-1918 with 75 items of ephemera from that interval on view by September 22.

German Masterworks from the Neue Galerie on view by May 4, 2026.

Image may contain Plant Vegetation Art Modern Art Land Nature Outdoors Rainforest Tree and Jungle

Rashid Johnson, Untitled Escape Collage, 2018 (element). Ceramic tile, mirror tile, branded pink oak flooring, vinyl, spray enamel, oil stick, black cleaning soap, wax, 97 × 121 × 2.25 in. (246.38 × 307.34 × 5.72 cm). Collection of Kathy and Mitchell Jacobson © Rashid Johnson, 2025. Photo: Martin Parsekian

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

A portrait of Rashid Johnson, 2025. New York. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers/Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Guggenheim

Filling this wondrous museum’s rotunda by January of subsequent 12 months are 90 works by Rashid Johnson. A Poem for Deep Thinkers brings the up to date artist’s black-soap work, large-scale sculptures, movie installations, and extra to the Upper East Side, persevering with the museum’s 2025 development towards vibrant and colorfully optimistic art work. It’s greater than welcome. Also on show by March of subsequent 12 months is Collection in Focus: Modern European Currents with works from the gathering in vivid coloration by the likes of Franz Marc and Natalia Goncharova.

On view by January 18, 2026.

The Jewish Museum

Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity is a retrospective on the titular social-realist artist and activist’s work in work, mural, printmaking, and images. The title comes from Shahn’s conviction that nonconformity is “an indispensable precondition for both significant artistic production and all great societal change. This philosophy is centered in the exhibition as the foundational thread that runs through the artist’s oeuvre.” An exhibit for the instances, to make sure.

On view by October 26.

Blue exhibition space with various ephemera displayed behind glass

Dining in Transit at New York Historical Society takes a have a look at how individuals ate, in various states of luxurious, whereas aboard a airplane, practice, or ship.

Glenn Castellano/The New York Historical

New York Historical Society

In what’s certainly essentially the most Traveler-appropriate exhibit on view proper now in New York City, the New York Historical Society has Dining in Transit on view by October 19 with a watch for the way planes, trains, and ocean liners fed their passengers through the first half of the twentieth century. We’re speaking memento menus, worker handbooks, and novel recipe books. While you are there to test that out, linger over to Blacklisted: An American Story, a have a look at the Red Scare by the use of images and different paperwork (in case you’re objecting on the idea of relevance, the exhibit seems to be past Hollywood and DC and into how the tradition conflict impacted Broadway and New York’s theatre scene.) New York, New York: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection with its 50 works of New York-centric artwork, opens September 5.

On view by October 19.

Image may contain Leaf Plant and Accessories

Hilma af Klint. Tilia × europaea (Common Linden). Sheet 22 from the portfolio Nature Studies. July 29, 1919. Watercolor, pencil, ink, and metallic paint on paper, 19 5/8 × 10 5/8 in. (49.9 × 27 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Drawings and Prints Fund and present of Jack Shear, 2022

Robert Gerhardt/Hilma af Klint/MoMA

Image may contain Flower Plant Sunflower Art and Painting

Hilma af Klint. Helianthus annuus (Common Sunflower). Sheet 27 from the portfolio Nature Studies. September 3, 1919. Watercolor, pencil, ink, and metallic paint on paper, 19 3/4 × 10 9/16″ (50.2 × 26.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Drawings and Prints Fund and present of Jack Shear, 2022

Hilma af Klint/MoMA

Museum of Modern Art

Midtown’s Museum of Modern Art is design’s basic impression on our each day lives in Pirouette: Turning Points of Design. From Spanx and Post-it notes to symbols just like the Accessible icon and the I ♥️ NY logo, you will be taught what it takes to create an object that adjustments the world in methods giant and small. Altogether, it is a celebration of designers and their energy to rework society by their creativity and inventiveness. There’s additionally the cinematic Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause set up, which melds Barba’s movie and sound design with a series of performances, which Barba describes as “explosive poems”—control that schedule. In an on-the-nose (splendidly so) piece of springtime programming, Hilma af Klimt: What Stands Behind the Flowers opens May 11 with Klimt’s huge portfolio of drawings depicting Sweden’s flora. There’s not simply stunning blossoms right here but in addition exact diagrams. Whimsy meets workmanship.



Sources