Superb craftsmanship and fine materials were a large part of the lavish lifestyles of the highest echelons of the samurai class throughout its long history. These objects here lend themselves to understanding these men a…

Exhibition on view November 15, 2025 – June 27, 2027.

A “time horizon,” a concept mostly used in economics, is a point in the future that one sets for the length of an investment. In his acclaimed novel The Ministry for the Future , Kim Stanley Robinson astutely describes t…

On view November 19, 2025 – February 14, 2027 at various locations Arab Massachusetts: Building Community in the Commonwealth In November 2025, the Arab American National Museum (AANM) proudly launched the Arab Massachus…

Exhibition on view November 20, 2025 - January 3, 2027.

Anthology mirrors the way we recall films: as iconic moments, cinematic scenes and emotional cues. By intuitively forming associations between set pieces and characters, Marco Brambilla constructs a compelling “memory ti…

Guests of Honor: Art of Faith from the Jewish Museum, New York presents a selection of Jewish ceremonial objects, dating from the 1400s to the early 1900s, installed throughout the Detroit Institute of Arts’ encyclopedic…

Experience highlights from one of the most historically significant collections of American and European folk art, acquired by The New York Historical in 1937

Exhibition on view December 12, 2025 - October 30, 2026.

Explore the life of Hercules Posey, the chef enslaved by George and Martha Washington, who, after 1797, was a free Black man living in New York City. This new installation in the DiMenna Children’s History Museum highlig…

Constructed entirely from shoelaces donated by members of the public, a monumental artwork by artist Nari Ward honors the first three words of the U.S. Constitution

Discover Frederick Douglass' vision of freedom, citizenship, and equal rights and his hopeful plea for America to live up to its founding ideals.