Latest Events in New York(May Updated)

Chicago - The Band New York City is set to deliver an unforgettable performance at the renowned Beacon Theatre in New York City. On August 6, 2025, at 8:00 PM, this iconic rock band will captivate the audience with their timeless hits and unparalleled musical prowess. Known for their distinctive blend of rock and jazz, Chicago has been a staple in the music industry for decades, boasting an impressive catalog of chart-topping songs. With ticket prices starting at just 61 USD, this event promises to be a must-see for music enthusiasts and long-time fans alike. The Beacon Theatre, located in the heart of New York City, offers an intimate yet grand setting, ensuring an exceptional concert experience. Don’t miss the chance to witness Chicago - The Band New York City in a venue that perfectly complements their legendary sound.

Anime NYC is one of the largest anime conventions on the East Coast of the United States, held annually in New York City. The event brings together fans of anime, comics, games, and pop culture, attracting fans, creators, and industry professionals from around the world. Here are the main features of Anime NYC: Exhibitions and Exhibitors: The exhibition has many booths covering anime Souvenir, comics, figures, clothing and other products. Many well-known brands and independent artists will also participate in the exhibition. Guests and autograph sessions: Anime NYC invites well-known voice actors, cartoonists, directors and other industry professionals to participate, and fans have the opportunity to interact with them and get autographs. Cosplay: Cosplay is an important part of the exhibition. Participants dress up as their favorite characters. There are also cosplay competitions and photo activities on site. Screenings and Premieres: The convention screens classic anime titles and sometimes hosts world or North American premieres. Game Area: There is a game area that provides console games, table games, e-sports and other activities. Workshops and lectures: Various workshops and lectures are held, covering painting, dubbing, animation production and other contents, suitable for participants with different interests. Social and Community: The exhibition provides a platform for anime fans to communicate, and many people make new friends through the activities. Anime NYC is not only a place to showcase and experience anime culture, but also a grand event for fans around the world to celebrate this culture together.

Lady Gaga New York City is set to be an unforgettable event, taking place at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York City on August 27, 2025, at 8:00 PM. Known for her electrifying performances and boundary-pushing artistry, Lady Gaga promises to deliver a show that will captivate audiences and leave a lasting impression. With tickets priced at 260 USD, this highly anticipated concert is expected to draw fans from all over the globe, eager to witness the pop sensation's unparalleled talent and stage presence. Madison Square Garden, renowned for hosting world-class events, provides the perfect backdrop for an evening of spectacular music and entertainment. As Lady Gaga takes the stage, attendees can expect a night filled with her greatest hits, innovative choreography, and stunning visuals, making Lady Gaga New York City a must-see event of the year.

A cornerstone of New York’s cultural landscape since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show brings the world’s leading international contemporary and modern art galleries to New York each year. The fair plays a leading role in the city’s position as an important cultural capital through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships, and engaging public art activations.

Independent is an organization that discovers and rediscovers extraordinary art for discerning collectors and institutions. We are New Yorkers. We understand the market. We understand the museum landscape. By creating quality programs that leverage museum and market forces, we deliver critical economic impact for art and artists, and the galleries that represent them. Originally founded in 2010 to present art shows in the former Dia Art Center, we now produce two landmark exhibitions (Independent and Independent 20th Century), publish editorials and scholarly articles, and curate a series of events that bring together leading artists, gallerists, curators, and thought leaders.

Sixties Surreal is an ambitious survey reimagining American art from “the long 1960s” (1958–72), encompassing the work of more than 100 artists. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, prints, film and video, and large-scale installation, this revisionist exhibition looks at the ways artists took permission from Surrealism to explore fundamental and underrecognized aesthetic currents, including psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary tendencies. Sixties Surreal recontextualizes some of the decade’s best-known figures alongside those only recently rediscovered. The exhibition gathers a range of works by artists including Diane Arbus, Lee Bontecou, Franklin Williams, Nancy Grossman, David Hammons, Linda Lomahaftewa, Mel Casas, Yayoi Kusama, Romare Bearden, and Louise Bourgeois, among others. In the 60s, many of these artists sought new strategies for connecting art back to a lived reality that seemed increasingly unreal due to rapid postwar transformation and the social, political, and technological upheavals of the later part of the decade. Organized thematically, Sixties Surreal offers a sweeping panorama of the era, juxtaposing contexts and forging new linkages across different communities and ideologies from the East Coast to the West. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue structured chronologically from 1958 to 1972.

Gabriele Münter was a key figure in the development of modern art in Europe during the early twentieth century. At the time, Germany’s public art schools excluded women, so she forged her own path. She became a leading figure in the avant-garde art scene in Munich and nearby Murnau, notably contributing to the formation of The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter). This loose and transnational affiliation of visionary artists, writers, and musicians explored how color and form could express deep emotions and spiritual ideas. During World War I, Münter spent time in Scandinavia, prompting a rich exchange with Nordic modernisms and shifts in her artistic style. With her bold planes of vibrant colors, Münter reimagined the traditional genres of still life, landscape, and portraiture. Her disruptive practice offered an alternative to the emerging innovations in abstract art that de-emphasized recognizable forms. This landmark exhibition focuses on the years 1908 to 1920, while also underscoring through later works the artist’s sustained drive to experiment and adapt. It will feature sixty paintings and eighteen photographs across three Tower galleries, illuminating Münter’s groundbreaking and overlooked contributions to modern art. This exhibition is organized by Megan Fontanella, Curator, Modern Art and Provenance. The photography selection is curated with Victoria Horrocks, Curatorial Fellow, Photography.

Andrea Bocelli New York City is set to be an unforgettable evening of musical brilliance at the iconic Madison Square Garden. On December 18, 2025, at 8:00 PM, audiences will be treated to the unparalleled vocal talent of Andrea Bocelli, whose emotive performances have captivated millions worldwide. Known for his powerful voice and moving renditions of both classical and contemporary pieces, Bocelli's concert promises to be a highlight of the holiday season. With ticket prices starting at $93, this event offers a unique opportunity to experience the magic of one of the world's most beloved tenors in the heart of New York City. Madison Square Garden, a venue renowned for hosting legendary performances, will provide the perfect backdrop for an evening filled with musical enchantment. Don't miss the chance to witness Andrea Bocelli New York City, an event that promises to leave a lasting impression on all who attend.

New York St Patrick's Day 5k 2026! Join us outside the Tavern on the Green in Central Park for the New York St Patricks Day Run! We will complete a social running 5k lap of the perimiter of the Central Park before returning to the Tavern on the Green. We then follow on to a post run social at a nearby Irish themed bar. The pub is booked. A pint of Guiness is included in the ticket price. The pub is only a short walk away & the closest pub to the Irish Embassy. Great to be a part of the wider St Patrick's Day celebrations taking part in New York. Join in and be a part of the global international 'Sea of Green' of Irish culture which goes on throughout St Patrick's Day! It is not uncommon to see an Emerald Isle celebrity on the start line, in the pub, or both! Sponsorship / Influencer opportunities: Please get in touch with requests and queries! Information Source: London Themed Run | eventbrite

A large art project called Day's End now stands in the Hudson River near Pier 52. Created by David Hammond, it's made of slender steel pipes and pays tribute to artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who transformed an abandoned shed on the same pier in 1975. The sculpture changes with the light, connecting to the history of the waterfront as a shipping hub and a gathering place for the gay community. It took seven years to complete the installation, and it's now open to the public for free. The Whitney Museum collaborated with the Hudson River Park Trust on this project, and they will work together on a maintenance plan. To celebrate its completion, the Whitney offers free admission on May 16, and there will be family workshops throughout the day. You can find Day's End at Hudson River Park, across from the Whitney Museum, on the southern edge of the new Gansevoort Peninsula, where it will remain permanently.

Experience this good musical. The denizens of the Kit Kat Club have created a sanctuary inside Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre, where artists and performers, misfits and outsiders rule the night. Step inside their world. This is Berlin. Relax. Loosen up. Be yourself.

Edra Soto (b. 1971, Puerto Rico) explores the relationship between our private, interior lives and shared public history and culture. Graft is the latest in an ongoing series of installations based on rejas, wrought iron screens frequently seen outside homes in Puerto Rico. Rejas often feature repeating geometric motifs that can be traced to West Africa’s Yoruba symbol systems, in contrast to the Spanish architecture celebrated in official Puerto Rican tourism. Graft investigates how Puerto Rican cultural memory often masks the Black heritage of the island as folklore.

For the 2024 Genesis Facade Commission, South Korean artist Lee Bul (born 1964, Yeongju, based in Seoul) has created four new sculptures that combine figurative and abstract elements. The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul,Long Tail Halois the artist’s first major project in the United States in more than twenty years and the fifth in the series of contemporary commissions for The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade niches. With a career that spans four decades, Lee is widely recognized as the preeminent artist from South Korea. She is known for her sophisticated use of both highly industrial and labor-intensive materials, incorporating artisanal practices as well as technological advancements into her work. Her sculptures, often evoking bodily forms that are at once classical and futuristic, address the aspirations and disillusions that come with progress. The Genesis Facade Commission is part of The Met’s series of contemporary commissions in which the Museum invites artists to create new works of art, establishing a dialogue between the artist’s practice, The Met collection, the physical Museum, and The Met’s audiences.

This groundbreaking exhibition explores the everyday clothing of ordinary women, from worn-out housecoats to psychedelic micro miniskirts and modern suits to the uniforms of fast-food workers. On view in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery and featuring objects from Smith College’s Historical Costume Collection on display for the first time in a museum, the exhibition traces how women’s roles have changed and evolved across race and class over the decades. Each garment holds a rich story about the women who wore it and made it, the materials used, and the context of place and time. Whether homemade or ready-made, many of the garments on display are modest and inexpensive, rarely preserved or displayed in a museum setting. Some are one-of-a-kind pieces; others are examples of clever makeshift pieces, and many were influenced by the popular styles and trends of their day. Visitors to Real Clothes, Real Lives will learn about the "real" women who worked and dressed in America for two centuries.

Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional realities of home across the United States, US Territories, and Tribal Nations. The exhibition is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design.

The exhibition “Tintoretto, The Power of Opposites” is a significant cultural event taking place in Domodossola from November 8, 2024, to June 1, 2025. This immersive and digital experience delves into the art of Jacopo Tintoretto, one of the masters of the Venetian Renaissance, offering an unmissable opportunity for art lovers and those eager to deepen their understanding of this extraordinary artist.

Photography has played a key role in structuring systems of power in society, including those related to crime and punishment. This exhibition presents immersive contemporary installations by the artist Jesse Krimes (American, b. 1982) alongside nineteenth-century photographs from The Met collection by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon, who developed the first modern system of criminal identification before the adoption of fingerprinting. Krimes’s image-based installations, made over the course of his six-year incarceration, reflect the ingenuity of an artist working without access to traditional materials. Employing prison-issued soap, hair gel, playing cards, and newspaper he created works of art that seek to disrupt and recontextualize the circulation of photographs in the media. Displayed at The Met in dialogue with Bertillon, whose pioneering method paired anthropomorphic measurements with photographs to produce the present-day mug shot, Krimes’s work raises questions about the perceived neutrality of our systems of identification and the hierarchies of social imbalance they create and reinscribe. An artist for whom collaboration and activism are vital, Krimes founded the Center for Art and Advocacy to highlight the talent and creative potential among individuals who have experienced incarceration and to support and improve outcomes for formerly incarcerated artists.

Based on the 1960 film by Roger Corman and featuring a book by Howard Ashman, music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Ashman, Little Shop follows meek plant store attendant Seymour, his co-worker crush Audrey, her sadistic dentist of a boyfriend and the man-eating plant that threatens them and the world as we know it.

How do we make sense, or poetry, out of the system of images we face today? This is one of the questions taken up by CAMP, a collaborative artists’ studio in Mumbai, India, that draws on widely available technologies, including CCTV and cell phone cameras as well as the internet, “to think and to build what is possible, what is equitable, and what is interesting, for the future.” The group’s projects rethink our relationship with the technologies that constantly capture us. Founded in 2007 by Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran, and Sanjay Bhangar, this shapeshifting group runs a rooftop cinema, cohosts online video archives, and uses moving images, radio broadcasts, lecture performances, and interventions in public spaces to examine the political and socioeconomic conditions of contemporary life. This exhibition includes three works that trace the arc of CAMP’s output over nearly two decades. Each redefines relationships between video’s producers, distributors, and spectators: a participatory television network in a dense New Delhi neighborhood; a film made from cell phone footage and music in collaboration with sailors navigating trade routes across the Indian Ocean; and a dramatic, multi-channel video panorama of Mumbai filmed by pushing a single surveillance camera to its limits. CAMP’s practice reorients communication devices, transport infrastructures, and surveillance equipment to transform entrenched systems into new opportunities for hope, longing, desire, and collective action.

From a young age, acclaimed Pop artist David Hockney (British, b. 1937) cemented his reputation as one of the most innovative and experimental artists of his generation. Hockney/Origins: Early Works from the Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection examines the early period of Hockney’s career in depth, from his time as a student at the Royal College of Art in London during the early 1960s to his formative years in the 1970s.

New York’s age of graffiti began on the city streets in the early 1970s. This new movement, often consciously artistic despite its unsanctioned origins, came of age over the next 20 years. Above Ground centers on the many artists who transitioned from illegally writing on subway cars to creating paintings on canvas and exhibiting in galleries and museums. Their works embody an important transitional moment for the movement’s evolution, as it permeated into broader consciousness and significantly influenced global culture. The exhibition provides a window into a vibrant subculture of young creators and highlights previously unseen treasures from the Museum’s major collection of graffiti-based art. The collection, which was donated by the artist Martin Wong 30 years ago, comprises more than 300 canvases and works on paper. Among the highlights on view in this exhibition are works in aerosol, ink, and other mediums by seminal figures in the street art movement, including Rammellzee, Lee Quiñones, Lady Pink, and Futura 2000. Together, they capture the passions and ambitions of artists transitioning from the street to the walls of prominent galleries in New York and around the world.

Design is a fundamental element of life, an enzyme necessary to our evolution. It helps us cope with change and permeates our personal and social lives, embodying both our strengths and weaknesses. Many designers are intent on creating new behaviors, focusing on habits and circumstances most in need of change. Pirouette: Turning Points in Design features objects—from Post-Its to Spanx—that embodied experiments with new materials, technologies, and concepts; offered unconventional solutions to conventional problems; and had a deep impact both on design and the world at large.

Design is a fundamental element of life, an enzyme necessary to our evolution. It helps us cope with change and permeates our personal and social lives, embodying both our strengths and weaknesses. Many designers are intent on creating new behaviors, focusing on habits and circumstances most in need of change. Pirouette: Turning Points in Design features objects—from Post-Its to Spanx—that embodied experiments with new materials, technologies, and concepts; offered unconventional solutions to conventional problems; and had a deep impact both on design and the world at large.

The traditional East Asian lunar calendar consists of a repeating twelve-year cycle, with each year corresponding to one of the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. The association of these creatures with the Chinese calendar began in the third century BCE and became firmly established by the first century CE. The twelve animals are, in sequence: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. Each is believed to embody certain traits that are manifested in the personalities of people born in that year. January 29, 2025, marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake, a creature characterized as alert, calm, and smart.

Norman Reedus: In Transit, captures the raw, edgy, and moody draw of downtown New York City while showcasing the hidden beauty in the overlooked and abandoned. These selections emphasize the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of beauty. Reedus’ photography is distinctive, marked by its dark aesthetic. He tends to capture unconventional subjects, urban landscapes, and candid moments that exude a sense of mystery and grit.

This exhibition of more than 30 works celebrates the recent acquisition of Gottfried's searing photographs taken during the last decades of the 20th century.

Marjorie Virginia Strider is an American painter, sculptor, and performance artist best known for her three-dimensional paintings and site-specific soft sculpture installations.

Artists: Jean Arp, Dan Bassen, Rudolf Bauer, Sandor Boltnik, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Ronny Cutrone, Sonia Delaunay, Richard Diebenkorn, Jean Dubuffet, Lyonel Feininger, Natalia Goncharova, Francesek Kupka, Wilfredo Lamm, Bart van der Leck, Robert Longo, Roberto Mathieu, Louise Nevelson, Richard Phillips, and Ruscha, Egon Schiele, Kurt Schwitters, David Smith.

The idea of cutting up a medieval manuscript is almost unthinkable today. Historically, however, this practice was relatively common, and it reached a fever pitch in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. People cut up manuscripts for various reasons: Dealers unwilling to pay weight-based import duties on large choir books opted to remove their decorated initials and dispose of the heavy bindings. Art lovers excised pictures from manuscripts and pasted them into albums; many considered this an act of freeing precious artworks from the text-filled books that held them captive. The dismembering of manuscripts was thus regarded not as vandalism but as a tribute to the otherwise hidden illuminations.

In works full of sharp wit and incisive commentary, Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County, California) engages sound and the complexities of communication in its various modes. Using musical notation, infographics, and language—both in her native American Sign Language (ASL) and written English—she has produced drawings, videos, sculptures, and installations that often explore non-auditory, political dimensions of sound. In many works, Kim draws directly on the spatial dynamism of ASL, translating it into graphic form. By emphasizing images, the body, and physical space, she upends the societal assumption that spoken languages are superior to those that are signed.