Solomon Dumas Khalia Campbell and Samantha Figgins in Alvin Ailey's Revelations. Photo: Paul Kolnik

Winter 2023-24 Arts Guide

This season’s arts calendar offers plenty of reasons to stay indoors. Enjoy old and new dance favorites from Alvin Ailey’s company, the pastoral works of beloved author Beatrix Potter and a couple of major debuts: the first exhibits at the Center for Brooklyn History and NYU’s reborn Grey Art Museum. Explore those and many more events in the listings below.

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Museums & Galleries
Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Is...

Explore the story of the borough and its people in the Center for Brooklyn History’s inaugural exhibition.

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Museums & Galleries
Midtown West

An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers

The Vietnamese American artist’s first New York City show makes use of sound and visual art.

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Museums & Galleries
Times Square/Theatre District

Six: The Royal Gallery

See costumes and sets from the Broadway hit musical Six.

Painting by Bellini
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Museums & Galleries
Upper East Side

Bellini and Giorgione in the House of Taddeo Contarini

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

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Museums & Galleries
Long Island City

And Ever an Edge

Check out the fifth exhibit of the Studio Museum’s artists at PS1, part of an ongoing collaboration between the insitutions.

Leslie Martinez art at MoMA PS1
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Museums & Galleries
Long Island City

Leslie Martinez: The Fault of Formation

See an artist’s exploration of color in art at MoMA PS1.

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Museums & Galleries
Upper East Side

Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte!

This Jewish Museum exhibit marks the first survey of the Argentine multidisciplinary artist’s career.

Deer Woman's new Certificate of Indian Blood skin, art piece
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Museums & Galleries
Meatpacking District

Natalie Ball: Bilwi Naats Ga’niipci

Head to the Whitney for an exhibit of sculptures that looks at Indigenous life in the United States.

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Museums & Galleries
Lower East Side

A Union of Hope: 1869

Learn about the history of Manhattan's diverse Eighth Ward through the story of Joseph and Rachel Moore.

Mt. Everest
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Museums & Galleries
Upper East Side

Coal + Ice: Inspiring Climate Action through Art and Ideas

This documentary photography exhibition addresses the climate crisis.

pencil drawing by Beatrix Potter
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Museums & Galleries
Murray Hill

Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature

An exhibit drawn from the Morgan’s own collection and from UK museums celebrates the work of the beloved children's author.

Oil on six canvas panels, painted wood, at the Grey Art Museum
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Museums & Galleries
Noho

Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962

This show of expat artists marks the inaugural exhibition for the newly reopened Grey Art Museum.

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Museums & Galleries
Upper East Side

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection

Find a survey of postwar art that breaks away from the traditional studio model.

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Museums & Galleries
Upper West Side

The Castello Plan: Life in New Amsterdam

Get a glimpse of Dutch colonial life here during the mid-1600s.

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