The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in NYC

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A guide to all the best art shows, art events and art exhibits

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Sunday May 11, 2025

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Flowers for Mother’s Day

Release the Kraken Scavenger Hunt

11 am – 4 pm

Release the Kraken! Scavenger Hunt

Ages: 3 and up
Art
Attractions

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

April – May Recycled Ecosystems (1)

11 am – 4 pm

Up-Cycled Ocean Crafts

Ages: All
Art
Attractions

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Mother’s Day

Ages: All
Art
Free

Empire StoresBrooklyn

11 am – 1 pm

Printmaking Workshop

Ages: 3 – 8
Art

Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & StorytellingSugar Hill

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11 am – 6 pm

The Noguchi Museum 40th Anniversary Celebration

Ages: All
Art
Attractions

The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden MuseumLong Island City

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11 am – 6 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community

ZeroSpace BrooklynBrooklyn

Noon – 5 pm

Mother’s Day at LIM

Ages: All
Art
Holiday

Long Island MuseumStony Brook

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

Monday May 12

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

Tuesday May 13

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10 am – 12:30 pm

Dewdrop Discoveries for Preschool Aged Children

Ages: 3 – 4
Animals
Art

CEEDBrookhaven,

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

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2:30 – 4:30 pm

After School Art Explorers: Drop-In Programs

Ages: 3 – 8
Art
Free

The Jewish MuseumManhattan

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4 – 5 pm

3D Printed Rose

Ages: 9 and up
Art
Free

The Hampton LibraryBridgehampton

Wednesday May 14

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

3D Flowers

3:30 – 5 pm

Spring off the Page: 3D Flower Collage

Ages: 9 – 12
Art
Free

Art on the Block NYCUpper West Side

Thursday May 15

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10 am – 12:30 pm

Dewdrop Discoveries for Preschool Aged Children

Ages: 3 – 4
Animals
Art

CEEDBrookhaven,

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10:30 – 11 am

Storytime for Tots

Ages: 2 and under
Art
Books & Readings

Museum of the City of New YorkManhattan

Release the Kraken Scavenger Hunt

11 am – 4 pm

Release the Kraken! Scavenger Hunt

Ages: 3 and up
Art
Attractions

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

April – May Recycled Ecosystems (1)

11 am – 4 pm

Up-Cycled Ocean Crafts

Ages: All
Art
Attractions

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

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3:30 – 5 pm

Cross Stitch Circle

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Classes

The New York HistoricalUpper West Side

Friday May 16

Release the Kraken Scavenger Hunt

11 am – 4 pm

Release the Kraken! Scavenger Hunt

Ages: 3 and up
Art
Attractions

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

April – May Recycled Ecosystems (1)

11 am – 4 pm

Up-Cycled Ocean Crafts

Ages: All
Art
Attractions

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

arts & eats

2:30 – 4:30 pm

Arts & Eats

Ages: 13 and up
Art
Community

Parrish Art MuseumWater Mill

L: Kayla Mak and Elijah Geolina in Houston Thomas’s U Don’t Know Me. Photo: Rosalie O’Connor. R: YeonSeo Choi and Kayke Carvalho in the Black Swan pas de deux from Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake. Photo: Emma Zordan.

7:30 – 9 pm

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company: Spring Moves

Ages: 9 and up
Art
Dance

NYU SkirballManhattan

Saturday May 17

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Painting to Migratory Birdsongs

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10:30 am – 1 pm

Guggenheim Museum Wake & Make Art Studio

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Community

GuggenheimUpper East Side

Release the Kraken Scavenger Hunt

11 am – 4 pm

Release the Kraken! Scavenger Hunt

Ages: 3 and up
Art
Attractions

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

April – May Recycled Ecosystems (1)

11 am – 4 pm

Up-Cycled Ocean Crafts

Ages: All
Art
Attractions

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterCold Spring Harbor

open studios

11 am – 12:30 pm

Parrish Art Museum | Open Studios for Families

Ages: All
Art
Community

Parrish Art MuseumWater Mill

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