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On view in Greater New York, Cinthya Santos-Briones’s work depicts a Mickey Mouse birthday party, a child running throug...
06/03/2026

On view in Greater New York, Cinthya Santos-Briones’s work depicts a Mickey Mouse birthday party, a child running through a desolate chapel, clotheslines, a religious decal on the hood of a car, and more. “Living in Sanctuary” (2018–2024) documents the everyday lives of families and individuals seeking refuge within churches, asylums, and religious institutions across New York, New Mexico, and the US-Mexico border.

Join us on June 7 for a talk between the artist and scholar Fred Ritchin () at Artbook @ PS1, where she will discuss how artists’ and activists’ archives can resist the systemic erasure of undocumented children and families, as well as her ongoing research at the US-Mexico border, and the ethics of photographing social change. RSVP in bio.

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Cinthya Santos-Briones (), Cumpleaños, 2018. C-print, 24" x 16".
Cinthya Santos-Briones, "The Pew," 2018. C-print, 24" x 16".
Cinthya Santos-Briones, "Camila," 2018. C-print, 24" x 16".

Drawn from West African and Caribbean folklore, personal memory, and cybercultures such as DeviantArt, Taína Cruz’s figu...
06/02/2026

Drawn from West African and Caribbean folklore, personal memory, and cybercultures such as DeviantArt, Taína Cruz’s figures act as conduits for her investigations into selfhood, mythmaking, and the afterlives of cultural memory.

The composition of "Charm Written in Steam and Light" evokes the warmth and soft-edged flatness of Vuillard’s 1918 tearooms — until you notice that it's a goblin communing with a frog.

Working from a digital archive of found imagery, screenshots, and pop culture references, Cruz’s intimate worlds reimagine how identity circulates in an age of intense media saturation, a world-building project where artifice, history, and myth become new vehicles to see ourselves.

"Uptown Twilight Sauté" and "Charm Written in Steam and Light" are on view in Greater New York through August 17.


Taína Cruz, "Charm Written in Steam and Light," 2025. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches.
Taína Cruz, "Uptown Twilight Sauté," 2025. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches.

We are saddened to learn of Alan Saret’s passing at 81. As part of our very first exhibition, "Rooms" in 1976, Saret car...
06/01/2026

We are saddened to learn of Alan Saret’s passing at 81.

As part of our very first exhibition, "Rooms" in 1976, Saret carved an aperture into our brick wall and created “The Hole at P.S.1, Fifth Solar Chthonic Wall Temple.” This artist intervention has let light into MoMA PS1 ever since. Saret, who maintained his studio just down the road in Long Island City, showed a generation of artists that sculpture could be an opening in the wall, a tangle of wire, or a formless organic illusion.

We are lucky to be reminded of him every day when the sunlight strikes the exterior of our building and the light puddles in our hallway.

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Alan Saret, “The Hole at P.S.1, Fifth Solar Chthonic Wall Temple,” 1976. Brick wall and sun, 30" x 22" x 18" x 93,000,000 miles.

Greater New York “reels with the density and difference that tessellate this city; the placid veneer holding together th...
05/29/2026

Greater New York “reels with the density and difference that tessellate this city; the placid veneer holding together the hushed galleries of Chelsea and Tribeca is here shattered to expose the clamor of the nervous system underneath. The fifty-three artists in the show are all living and working in New York (though of vastly varied origins); many of them are young, doing their best in a city that seems to valorize yet beleaguer youth.” — Zoë Hopkins for The New Yorker.

Come see it for yourself. Admission is free for all.

There's a message stitched into this deer hide. Want to hear it?On May 30, four musicians will tap into the "terminally ...
05/28/2026

There's a message stitched into this deer hide. Want to hear it?

On May 30, four musicians will tap into the "terminally active code,” or abstracted musical score embroidered on this hide, awaiting sensory interpretation. "Four Handdreamers," performed by Nava Dunkelman (percussion), JJJJJerome Ellis (saxophone), Robbie Wing (banjo), and Kite (violin), activates the space of sonic collectivity, guided by the Lakȟóta values of generosity, exchange, and reciprocity.

On view in the galleries, Kite's "Handdreamer's Role in the Re-Forming of the Mouth Eyes" is a deer hide bearing dream-derived geometric designs in silver thread and reflective beadwork that glimmers at the edges of its concentrated center, which draws into an undefined abyssal space much like a black hole.

RSVP to see this work come to life this Saturday, as part of the Greater New York Performance Program.
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Kite (). "Handdreamer’s Role in the Re‑Forming of the Mouth Eyes," 2026. Beadwork and embroidery on black deer hide, metal armature. 48 x 36 x 5 inches.

05/26/2026

Conceived in the wee hours between sleep and waking, Tom Thayer’s new “scenographic play,” performed with his son Henry on May 30, unfolds from image fragments, folk-tale remnants, and echoes from nature into something that pokes at the threshold of the dream world.

Thayer’s expansive, psychedelic, lo-fi work sharpens into vivid form and recedes into shadow, using sound, light, live video mixing, and manipulable sculpture to create a portal into another world. His works oscillate between seemingly meager detail and cosmic questions of ontology, betraying an openness that runs counter to the technocratic organization of the present.

“Counterdoses for the Home” is a site-responsive installation in Greater New York that features a new instrument assembled from the metal struts of his teenage son Henry’s (since-outgrown) bed.

Grab your free tickets to experience ’s world next weekend, as part of the Greater New York Performance Program. “Counterdoses for the Home” is on view in Greater New York through August 17.

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Tom Thayer (). “Counterdoses for the Home,” 2026. Mixed media. Dimensions variable.

"Pick from the bottom, the stack seems to say, see what happens" –  🍎🍊These off-set, double-exposed images depict textur...
05/25/2026

"Pick from the bottom, the stack seems to say, see what happens" – 🍎🍊

These off-set, double-exposed images depict textured overlays of neon produce mingling vertically over each other, like a fruit stand skyscraper. Lemons blooming out of green apples, sun-bleached blues expose tangerines inside bouquets of tomatoes, making tangible the intimate infinity of a fruit stand if you get close enough to look.

In the early 1990s, while commuting to an alternative night school where she taught, Candace Hill-Montgomery photographed the expansive farm stand near the last stop of the 2 train in Flatbush. Lush and overripe with color, her images capture the teeming energy of the city as a conduit for goods, finance, and labor: from the rural workers who harvested the food, to the immigrant vendors selling, and the working mothers purchasing it.

"Debí tirar más fotos de frutas cuando te tuve II" is on view in Greater New York through August 17.

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Candace Hill-Montgomery, "Debí tirar más fotos de frutas cuando te tuve II," 1992/2026. Digital chromogenic print mounted on dibond, 20 × 13 7/16" (50.8 × 34.1 cm).

Candace Hill-Montgomery, "Debí tirar más fotos de frutas cuando te tuve I," 1992/2026. Digital chromogenic print mounted on dibond, 20 × 13 7/16" (50.8 × 34.1 cm).

Candace Hill-Montgomery, "Debí tirar más fotos de frutas cuando te tuve IV," 1992/2026. Digital chromogenic print mounted on dibond, 20 × 13 7/16" (50.8 × 34.1 cm).

05/22/2026

Working hard or hardly working?

Durational, Sisyphean, gagged, and harmonic, Louis Osmosis sprinkles confetti across the gallery floor and crawls on his hands and knees, assigning a number to each piece in chalk. His annotations separate from their dots almost immediately—smudged into illegibility, as the confetti migrates across galleries and scatters throughout the museum. Osmosis savors the elliptical nature of the gimmick, which relies on both an over- and underinvestment of labor.

"I like to take an 'exercise in futility' at face value, to actually exercise futility, to torque it. It's really about the absurdity of all tasks, and with absurdity comes discrepancy. Given the mortgage of the world, discrepancy seems like a good place to hobble together some semblance of squatter’s rights." –

"Rasterizer/Zamboni Muzak (I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my family. I am a dot myself)" (2025–ongoing) is on view in Greater New York through August 17.

Look who stopped by this week! Mayor Zohran Mamdani came to see Greater New York with NY State Representative Claire Val...
05/21/2026

Look who stopped by this week! Mayor Zohran Mamdani came to see Greater New York with NY State Representative Claire Valdez. It felt perfect to have our mayor walk the exhibition, which gathers 53 artists from across the city to reflect on our present and its possibilities.

Access to art is something all New Yorkers deserve, and that’s why we’re proud to offer free admission for everyone.

Greater New York is on view through August 17, and there’s never been a better time to see it. Thank you to for his continued support of MoMA PS1 and the artists at the heart of our city.

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📸: Zoe Gregoric; photos of Zohran Mamdani and Claire Valdez in front of work by Dean Majd and Cevallos Brothers.

Chang Yuchen found the "Kamus Sari"—a pocket dictionary translating between Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and English, first ...
05/20/2026

Chang Yuchen found the "Kamus Sari"—a pocket dictionary translating between Mandarin Chinese, Malay, and English, first published in 1973—during a residency on Dinawan Island, where dead coral had been piling ashore 🪸

Using obsessively sharpened pencils, Chang draws each porous body, approaching every contour, void, and fracture as a potential unit of meaning. The artist pairs these coral forms with dictionary entries that reflect the daily and political dimensions of life in Malaysia, allowing each to inform the other. For , drawing is an act of communion with another species, and each gesture is an attempt to approximate how coral communicates with the sea and its inhabitants over time.

"Coral Dictionary" is on view in Greater New York through August 17. Get free tickets to experience a performance between Chang and her friend, fellow Greater New York artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed, on Saturday, May 30, at the link in bio.
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"Coral Dictionary (That writer is composing a fantasy story.)", 2025, pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches. Courtesy of Chang Yuchen and Beijing Commune

"Coral Dictionary (We must think carefully before we speak.)", 2023, pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches. Courtesy of Chang Yuchen and Beijing Commune

Installation view, Greater New York, on view through April 16 to August 17, 2026. Photo: Kris Graves

“Imagine Noah’s ark at a disco.” – Dean Millien has been making aluminum foil sculptures since he was four, when his fat...
05/18/2026

“Imagine Noah’s ark at a disco.” –

Dean Millien has been making aluminum foil sculptures since he was four, when his father threw away all his toys as punishment. Bereft, he turned to the kitchen, where scraps of foil twisted into a congress of creatures both real and imaginary. His apartment workspace now teems with tiny pigs, enormous spiders, and life-size sheep, piled among mounds of loose foil spilling out of baskets. “Animals have their own secrets, society, and power that they can share with you when your heart and mind are open.”

“The Cats and the Rats” is on view in Greater New York through August 17.

"The Council of las Tías (Mary, Milagros, Cynthia, Nereyda)" is the unofficial welcoming committee at MoMA PS1 this seas...
05/15/2026

"The Council of las Tías (Mary, Milagros, Cynthia, Nereyda)" is the unofficial welcoming committee at MoMA PS1 this season.

Piero Penizzotto's four life-size, hand-painted figures made from papier-mâché and foam, gathered on beach chairs, caught mid-gossip, immortalize a scene that you'd stumble into on city stoops and sidewalks on a summer day in Queens. For the artist, the work is an offering, "a way to give my mother-in-law and my tías their flowers while they're still here and, as an extension, give all of the mothers-in-law and tías out there their flowers."

The ladies will be here all summer, on view in Greater New York through August 17. Admission is free for all.


Piero Penizzotto (.penizzotto). "The Council of las Tías (Mary, Milagros, Cynthia, Nereyda)," 2026. Papier-mâché, foam, metal, and acrylic. Courtesy the artist

Daring artists closed out the night at our surreal 50th Anniversary Gala After Party 🎂Women’s History Museum transformed...
05/14/2026

Daring artists closed out the night at our surreal 50th Anniversary Gala After Party 🎂

Women’s History Museum transformed our second floor into a one-night-only big top with posters papering the walls, balloons, a projected clockface, and archival film projections. The G-Strings brought a special kind of vaudevillian brilliance, Precious Renee Tucker graced us with her hypnotic piano, and the live sets from Fashion and DJ Miss Parker carried us through the wee hours. It was awesome (unbiased).


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In 1976, Alanna Heiss transformed an abandoned Queens schoolhouse into a place where artists could experiment freely. PS...
05/13/2026

In 1976, Alanna Heiss transformed an abandoned Queens schoolhouse into a place where artists could experiment freely. PS1 opened with “Rooms,” as much an exhibition as an artist takeover. Our building has belonged to daring artists ever since.

For our 50th Anniversary Gala, we gathered to honor Alanna and also Glenn D. Lowry, two individuals who shaped our history by bringing MoMA and PS1 together in 2000, the year Greater New York launched. None other than Laurie Anderson and Ralph Lemon introduced our honorees, and we were excited to celebrate alongside other daring artists, former staff, longtime supporters, over five decades of collaborators. In a setting featuring iconic posters from our history, executive chef created a wonderful meal before our big birthday celebration ended as it should: with cake.

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Born and raised in Flushing, Devlin Claro works from a home darkroom in the same borough he photographs. He samples much...
05/12/2026

Born and raised in Flushing, Devlin Claro works from a home darkroom in the same borough he photographs. He samples much the way musicians do, lifting from the authorless, context-free Tumblr archive, scenes from Gauguin, and the psychological conditions of post-Y2K suburbia. restages it all in parking lots and street corners in Queens, until the images belong in his pocket of the world.

Living through the dizzying acceleration of life mediated by the internet, alongside economic booms and crashes, Claro’s work raises the curtain on Queens as the stage where the pressures of 21st-century Americana play out in everyday life.

“Blades of Glory” is on view in Greater New York through August 17.

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Devlin Claro (). “blades of glory.” 2026. C-print. Courtesy the

What better way to celebrate 50 years of daring artists than at a birthday party like no other?Tuesday, May 12 at 10 p.m...
05/11/2026

What better way to celebrate 50 years of daring artists than at a birthday party like no other?

Tuesday, May 12 at 10 p.m., join MoMA PS1 for our 50th Anniversary Gala After Party in collaboration with Women's History Museum. There will be circus performers, birthday cake, an open bar, and roaming surprises throughout the building.

Fresh off the Coachella stage, experimental pianist Precious Renee Tucker (who plays four keyboards at once) conjures a special synesthesia-inducing performance. Fashion delivers a vinyl set that fuses the yin of trance and the yang of techno. Then, DJ Miss Parker, a sonic architect with an encyclopedia knowledge of dance music, takes the stage. Between sets, the G-Strings bring experimental dance and Vaudevillian spectacle to the floor, styled by Womens History Museum.

Get your tickets at the link in bio while they last. Proceeds support MoMA PS1's commitment to contemporary art and artists.

What has your mom given you? 🦷Ripping through family ephemera with her mother’s handheld cake mixer, Nickola Pottinger u...
05/10/2026

What has your mom given you? 🦷

Ripping through family ephemera with her mother’s handheld cake mixer, Nickola Pottinger uses pulped book reports, old assignments, and shredded documents to form the bodies of her sculptures.

By pressing teeth she collected from her mother’s dentistry practice into their heads, fastening casts of her own limbs onto theirs, and adorning them with frankincense and black soap, Pottinger reimagines the forms as “duppies” — figures from Caribbean folklore said to haunt the living, recast here as protective beings inhabiting a transitional space between life, afterlife, and rebirth.

Experience Pottinger’s work in person. “Genkle Jesus meek and mild II” and “guh live long” are on view in Greater New York through August 17.


“Genkle Jesus meek and mild II,” 2026 Paper pulp, pigment, frankincense, mushroom, spores, teeth, hair, heliconia, and doily cloth 23 x 26 x 13 inches (58.4 x 66 x 33 cm)

“guh live long,” 2026 Paper pulp, hair, frankincense, pigment, spores, and doily cloth 34 x 17 x 35 inches (86.4 x 43.2 x 88.9

Teeth, brain waves, carnivorous plants, moths, sphinxes, solar panels: these are just some of the objects that make up a...
05/07/2026

Teeth, brain waves, carnivorous plants, moths, sphinxes, solar panels: these are just some of the objects that make up artist Akira Ikezoe's taxonomy of chaos. Ikezoe's classifications organize icons both horizontally and vertically, tracing hidden correspondences across time, cultures, and belief systems.

When Ikezoe arrived in New York with limited English, he began to communicate through objects and images, developing elaborate systems of classification based not on chronology or medium but on affinity. Borrowing the visual language of museology, he exposes categorization itself as a contingent and ideological act.

"Chart of Darkness," 2025, now on view in Greater New York, presents a chart that organizes the unruly in a luminous palette.


Akira Ikezoe (), Chart of Darkness, 2025. Oil on canvas. 66 x 132" (167.6 x 335.3 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City
Photo: Kris Graves

James Turrell jackhammered through four and a half feet of concrete to make "Meeting," his PS1 commission that took a de...
05/06/2026

James Turrell jackhammered through four and a half feet of concrete to make "Meeting," his PS1 commission that took a decade to realize ☁️ 🚧

One of Turrell's earliest Skyspaces, the work pursues what he called the juncture between inside and outside—a visceral, almost physical sensation, as though something material were suspended there. In the work, the sky advances, flattens, and rests on the aperture like a lid.

Visit MoMA PS1 to experience one of the last uninterrupted frames of sky in New York City. Admission is free for all.


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05/04/2026

On view in Homeroom as part of Greater New York, step inside Queens-based collective Red Canary Song's "Touch the Heart" with Homeroom Curatorial Fellow Jolene Fernandez.

Formed in 2017 in response to the death of Yang Song, a migrant Chinese massage worker killed during a police raid in Queens, Red Canary Song is led by migrant massage workers, s*x workers, and allies across the Asian diaspora, and has since grown into a mutual aid network grounded in care, survival, and the ongoing fight for decriminalization of unlicensed massage labor and s*x work.

“The dim sum table is where organizing gets done,” Jolene explains, where food, care, and resources circulate as part of everyday acts of support and survival. In "Touch the Heart," four dim sum tables structure spaces for grieving, storytelling, nourishment, and resource-sharing. Across the exhibition, portraits, objects, and materials illustrate migration, labor, and lived experience, holding memory and loss alongside the infrastructures of collective care that sustain the community.

Music: "Haze" by Scott Holmes Music, Free Music Archive, CC BY.

Witness a self-love affair in a hall of mirrors, experience a kitschy twist on midcentury variety shows, and conscript y...
05/01/2026

Witness a self-love affair in a hall of mirrors, experience a kitschy twist on midcentury variety shows, and conscript yourself to "co-author the universe." Symara Sarai, Sophie Becker, and Rezarta Seferi take the stage as part of Greater New York when performances begin on May 2. Free with RSVP; seating is first-come, first-served.

Doors at 2 p.m. Performances will begin promptly at:
2:30 p.m. Rezarta Seferi
3:30 p.m. Sophie Becker
4:30 p.m. Symara Sarai

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Portrait of Symara Sarai. Photo: Courtesy the artist

Rezarta Seferi performing at Segue Reading Series, Artists Space, New York, 2025. Photo: Courtesy the artist

Portrait of Sophie Becker with Ronnie Woods, 2026. Photo: Zoe Chait

04/30/2026

The Gala After Party of your fever dreams.

Under the artistic direction of Women's History Museum, our 50th Anniversary Gala After Party on May 12 will feature a surreal sprawl of old-fashioned circus vignettes, costumed under the guise of a childhood birthday party. Expect roaming performers and surprise interventions to unfold throughout the museum, alongside treats by Executive Chef DeVonn Francis executed by BITE and a full open bar.

Experimental pianist Precious Renee Tucker will deliver a special live performance, along with a vinyl set from DJ Miss Parker and a DJ set by Fashion, carrying the energy late into the night. Between acts, The G-Strings bring experimental dance, styled by .

Tickets in bio. Proceeds support MoMA PS1's commitment to contemporary art and daring artists, engaging communities in New York and across the world.

04/29/2026

Ronnie Woods has cleared her schedule for this. You should too.

On Saturday, May 2, Ronnie and her assistant Sophie Becker will appear alongside Rezarta Seferi and Symara Sarai for the first installment of Greater New York's performance program. Doors open at 2 p.m.

Performance lineup:
2:30 p.m. Rezarta Seferi
3:30 p.m. Sophie Becker
4:30 p.m. Symara Sarai

Get your free tickets at the link in bio—seating is first-come, first-served.

Find MoMA PS1 in the wild 👀See NYC from a new POV. Greater New York, our signature survey of artists and collectives fro...
04/24/2026

Find MoMA PS1 in the wild 👀

See NYC from a new POV. Greater New York, our signature survey of artists and collectives from across the boroughs, is now on view throughout the entire museum. Catch a sneak peek in neighborhoods throughout the city.

ear headlines our sold-out Greater New York Party tomorrow night with DJ sets from No Bra and ss3bby. Join us for a cele...
04/23/2026

ear headlines our sold-out Greater New York Party tomorrow night with DJ sets from No Bra and ss3bby. Join us for a celebration of the artists living and working in this city right now. There are only a few hours left to enter our ticket giveaway; winners will be chosen at 11:59 p.m. tonight.

P.S. Warm Up news is coming soon.

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