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Fall 2023 Arts Guide

Major performing arts institutions tend to launch their new seasons in the fall. This year the regular gets a boost with the opening of the Perelman Performing Arts Center, which hosts a series of programs to mark the completion of its campus at the World Trade Center. On the museum front, exhibits honor the long careers of Ed Ruscha, Judy Chicago and Barkley Hendricks while the worldwide celebration of Picasso continues. Also in the mix: a Brooklyn Museum retrospective on Brooklyn’s own Spike Lee. Click on the events below for all the details.

Interior of Bronx Museum exhibit

Sep 29, 2023 - Jan 7, 2024

Museums & Galleries

South Bronx

Michael Richards: Are You Down?

The Bronx Museum puts on a posthumous exhibit of the artist’s work.

Sep 29, 2023 - Jan 13, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Midtown

Ed Ruscha/Now Then

Take a look into the inspiration behind the pop artist's career.

Ballet dancers on stage for the New York City Ballet

Sep 29, 2023 - Oct 15, 2023

Performing Arts

Upper West Side

New York City Ballet Fall 2023 Season

Celebrate the institution’s 75th anniversary with works by George Balanchine.

Arturo O'Farril playing the piano

Sep 29, 2023 - Jun 28, 2024

Performing Arts

Financial District

Perelman Performing Arts Center Inaugural Season

The World Trade Center’s performing arts space begins performances.

Art piece by Barkley L. Hendricks

Sep 29, 2023 - Jan 7, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Upper East Side

Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick

Barkley Hendricks’ work returns to the building that was home to his first NYC museum show.

Sep 29, 2023 - Jan 7, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Upper East Side

Manet/Degas

Two titans of 19th-century French painting have their works displayed side by side.

Actors on stage at the Metropolitan Opera

Sep 29, 2023 - Jun 8, 2024

Performing Arts

Upper West Side

Met Opera 2023–2024 Season

This series has the greatest number of new works in recent history.

Dancers on stage at New York City Center

Sep 29, 2023 - Jun 16, 2024

Performing Arts

Midtown West

New York City Center 2023–24 Season

City Center marks their 80th anniversary with returning favorites and new productions.

Cliffs in the ocean

Sep 29, 2023 - Jan 8, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Lower East Side

Immersion: Gregory Halpern, Raymond Meeks and Vasantha Yogananthan

The exhibit showcases three projects made during the artists’ residencies in the US and France.

Portrait of Spike Lee with basketball net

Oct 6, 2023 - Feb 4, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Prospect Heights

Spike Lee: Creative Sources

This immersive exhibit showcases the people, places and ideas that inspired the filmmaker’s work.

Oct 6, 2023 - Dec 29, 2023

Performing Arts

Harlem

Apollo Theater’s Fall 2023 Season

The Apollo's stage is home to a full season of programming this fall.

Oct 8, 2023 - Feb 17, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Midtown

Picasso in Fontainebleau

The exhibit reunites Three Musicians and Three Women at the Spring.

Art by Judy Chicago

Oct 12, 2023 - Jan 14, 2024

Museums & Galleries

East Village

Judy Chicago: Herstory

Here’s a comprehensive look at the artist’s 60-year career.

Courtesy, Chelsea Film Festival

Oct 12, 2023 - Oct 15, 2023

Film & TV

Union Square

Chelsea Film Festival

See movie premieres, attend talks and take in the scene at this downtown film festival.

black and white photograph of person sleeping in the sand

Oct 13, 2023 - Feb 18, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Upper East Side

Mood of the moment: Gaby Aghion and the house of Chloé

See the work of designers whose careers began at Chloé.

Cole Porter Cigarette Case

Oct 13, 2023 - Ongoing

Museums & Galleries

Upper East Side

People, Place, and Influence: The Collection at 100

See a survey of what makes the Museum of the City of New York an indispensable keeper of NYC history.

BAM Next Wave Festival dancers on stage

Oct 19, 2023 - Jan 13, 2024

Performing Arts

Downtown Brooklyn

BAM Next Wave Festival

Don’t miss this daring survey of avant-garde music, theater, opera and dance.

Oct 20, 2023 - Oct 22, 2023

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Open House New York

Get access to hundreds of venues not ordinarily open to the public.

Kay WalkingStick

Oct 20, 2023 - Apr 14, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Upper West Side

Kay WalkingStick/Hudson River School

Kay WalkingStick’s works sit in conversation with Hudson River School paintings.

Painting by Bellini

Nov 9, 2023 - Feb 4, 2024

Museums & Galleries

Upper East Side

Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini

This exhibit affords a rare opportunity to see these two works together.

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