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Saturday Jan. 31, 2026

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Digging into the Soil Science of George Washington Carver

Ages: All
Art
Family

Wave Hill HouseRiverdale

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10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

Face Value

10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern Art

11 am – 5:30 pm

Drop-In Workshops: Life at Sea

Ages: All
Art
Family

Brooklyn Museum

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11:30 am – 6 pm

An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles

Art
Free

American Folk Art MuseumLincoln Square

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Noon – 4 pm

Family Art Workshop: Cinematic Wearables

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

Hudson River Museum

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Noon – 7 pm

SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render

Art

ARTECHOUSE NYCChelsea

Noon – 4 pm

“Bulls of Wall Street,” a New Exhibition on 19th-century Finance

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion MuseumNorwalk

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2 – 4 pm

Watson Adventures’ MoMA Mania Scavenger Hunt

Museum of Modern ArtMidtown

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5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

Sunday Feb. 1

All day

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

Girl Scout Programs

All day

Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum – Girl Scout Programs!

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Classes
Family

Walt Whitman BirthplaceHuntington

Bethesda AR Heather

All day

Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain Visits Heckscher Park Through Immersive AR Experience

Art
Free

Heckscher Museum of ArtHuntington

All day

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtHudson Yards

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All day

Resistance in Memory: Visions of Sudan

Art
Free

The Africa CenterEast Harlem

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All day

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

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All day

Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern Art

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Digging into the Soil Science of George Washington Carver

Ages: All
Art
Family

Wave Hill HouseRiverdale

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Digging into the Soil Science of George Washington Carver

Ages: All
Art
Family

Wave HillRiverdale

10 am – 6 pm

The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy

Face Value

10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern Art

TR16414.19

10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

11 am – 3 pm

FrostFest

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

The Whaling Museum & Education CenterSuffolk

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11:30 am – 6 pm

An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles

Art
Free

American Folk Art MuseumLincoln Square

3 SUBMERGE, BEYOND THE RENDER, at ARTECHOUSE. photo courtesy of ARTECHOUSE

Noon – 7 pm

SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render

Ages: All
Art
Family

ARTECHOUSE NYCChelsea

Noon – 4 pm

“Bulls of Wall Street,” a New Exhibition on 19th-century Finance

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion MuseumNorwalk

Monday Feb. 2

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All day

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

Bethesda AR Heather

All day

Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain Visits Heckscher Park Through Immersive AR Experience

Art
Free

Heckscher Museum of ArtHuntington

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