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Sunday Jan. 18, 2026

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

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10 am – 5 pm

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

Ages: 12 and under
Art
Attractions
Family

Brooklyn Children’s MuseumCrown Heights

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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 – 6 pm

Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance

Art
Free

Clive Davis Gallery

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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

Breathe Deeply web

Noon – 5 pm

Small Works Exhibition: Breathe Deeply

Alex Ferrone GalleryCutchogue

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Noon – 2 pm

Beyond Vietnam: MLK’s Call for Peace

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

The New York HistoricalUpper West Side

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Noon – 7 pm

SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render

Ages: All
Art
Family

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ChasingTheLight

Noon – 2 pm

Chasing the Light

Art
Free

BAFFA GallerySayville

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Noon – 4 pm

Family Art Workshop: Cinematic Wearables

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

Hudson River Museum

Noon – 4 pm

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

The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion MuseumNorwalk

Monday Jan. 19

All day

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

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtHudson Yards

All day

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

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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All day

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

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All day

Resistance in Memory: Visions of Sudan

Art
Free

The Africa CenterEast Harlem

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All day

Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern Art

_FLYER_MLK 2025, web, photo credit Winston Williams-Brooklyn Children’s Museum-002

10 am – 5 pm

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.

Ages: 12 and under
Art
Attractions
Family

Brooklyn Children’s MuseumCrown Heights

10 am – 6 pm

The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

10 am – noon

Brooklyn MLK Family Day of Service

Ages: 8 and under
Art
Books & Readings
Family

Hannah Senesh Community Day SchoolCarroll Gardens

TR16414.19

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 – 6 pm

Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance

Art
Free

Clive Davis Gallery

Build Your Nation

11 am – 1 pm

Build Your Nation: Game Edition

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Classes
Family

The Whaling Museum & Education Center

Breathe Deeply web

Noon – 5 pm

Small Works Exhibition: Breathe Deeply

Alex Ferrone GalleryCutchogue

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

Noon – 7 pm

SUBMERGE: Beyond the Render

Art

ARTECHOUSE NYCChelsea

News: Jackie Robinson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Noon – 3 pm

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Community
Family

Jackie Robinson MuseumTribeca

Tuesday Jan. 20

All day

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

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

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