Fall 2025 Arts Guide
Besides the usual highlights, such as new seasons for the Met Opera, NYC Ballet, Joyce Theater and City Center, the fall arts season in New York City comes with history-related festivities and fascinating debuts. Carnegie Hall looks back on 250 years of music in a citywide celebration, various institutions look at democracy and immigration, the American Folk Art Museum reopens and Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn's Gowanus neighborhood inaugurates a new festival. Meanwhile, Renoir, Monet, American surrealism and Black LGBTQ+ life during the Harlem Renaissance are among the subjects of major exhibitions. Find time for all your calendar.
FALL EXHIBITS IN NYC
Monira Al Qadiri
The Public Art Fund is behind this installation at the southeast corner of Central Park.
The Armory Show
This top international art fair features exhibits and events devoted to the most important artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.
She Sells Sea Shells
This contemporary show at Alice Austen Museum explores queer women's relationships with the seashore.
Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Explore the intersection between fashion and psychoanalysis at the Museum at FIT.
The Village Trip
A festival of music and readings celebrates the Village counterculture of the 1950s.
Robert Rauschenberg’s New York: Pictures from the Real World
Celebrate the photography of the late artist at the Museum of the City of New York.
Made in America
The Cooper Hewitt puts on a show covering the artist’s decade-long photographic look at the processes of industry.
The Gay Harlem Renaissance
The queer culture that underpinned the Harlem Renaissance takes the stage at New York Historical.
Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped
On the centennial of Rauschenberg’s birth, the Guggenheim explores his work with a new focus.
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
The Museum of Modern Art makes the centennial of the ’s sculptor’s birth.
Designing Motherhood
The Museum of Arts and Design covers parenting-related products in a wide-ranging exhibit.
Renoir Drawings
An exploration of the artist's use of drawing as part of his artistic practice.
Sixties Surreal
Explore the impact of surrealism on American Art in this survey at the Whitney Museum.
Ayoung Kim
This exhibit is the first time Kim’s “Delivery Dancer” trilogy is on view as a complete piece.
Coco Fusco
At El Museo del Barrio, find decades’ worth of Fusco’s films, performances and installations.
Whose America?
The National Academy of Design highlights the various influences that have shaped our country’s cultural landscape.
An Ecology of Quilts
This exhibition opens the American Folk Art Museum’s renovated galleries.
Man Ray: When Objects Dream
Explore the impact of the photographer’s rayograph on art in this Met retrospective.
Tom Lloyd
This exhibition marks the Studio Museum's reopening with the work of an artist who was part of their inaugural show.
Anish Kapoor: Early Works
The early part of Kapoor’s career in sculpture gets the spotlight at the Jewish Museum.
Monet and Venice
The first exploration of the artist’s Venetian views are on view in the Brooklyn Museum.
FALL PERFORMANCES IN NYC
Apollo Theater's 2025 Fall/Winter Season
The Apollo's programming continues at the Victoria and in partner venues across the City.
New York Philharmonic 2025-2026 Season
This year's Philharmonic season, at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall, includes a wide range of programming for all audiences.
New York City Ballet Fall 2025 Season
Enjoy four weeks of six expansive repertory dance programs at David H. Koch Theater.
New York City Center 2025–2026 Dance Season
City Center presents a full year of dance programming on its stages.
Joyce Theater 2025–2026 Season
Enjoy dance milestones, retrospecitves and debuts on the Joyce’s stages.
Met Opera 2025–2026 season
The iconic opera returns to Lincoln Center's Metropolitan Opera House with favorites and new productions.
Powerhouse: International
A cross-section of performing arts and performance works fill Powerhouse Arts’ spaces.
New York Film Festival
NYC’s premiere film festival features screenings, lectures, panels and sneak previews.
BAM Next Wave
New York City’s most daring survey of avant-garde performance takes place in Brooklyn.
American Ballet Theatre Fall Season
A premier ballet company returns with fall repertory performances.
New York Comedy Festival
The festival includes the biggest names in comedy celebrating the craft in all its forms.
United in Sound: America at 250
Carnegie Hall dedicates their annual festival to America 250.
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