The Best Art Shows and Exhibits Happening Now in Brooklyn

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Saturday May 10, 2025

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All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade Center

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors Lobby

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS The Lady at 100: Columbia Classics from the Locarno Film Festival APRIL 16 – MAY 24, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction APRIL 20 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

8 am – 5 pm

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS Rosa Barba: The Ocean of One’s Pause MAY 3 – JULY 6, 2025

Art

The Museum of Modern Art

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Flowers for Mother’s Day

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10 am – 6 pm

Poster House Spring 2025 Exhibition: Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar

Art

Poster HouseChelsea

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10 am – 6 pm

Poster House Spring 2025 Exhibition: Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace

Art

Poster HouseChelsea

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10:30 am – 1 pm

Guggenheim Museum Wake & Make Art Studio

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Community
Family

GuggenheimUpper East Side

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11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausWilliamsburg

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBedford-Stuyvesant

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11 am – 5 pm

Earth Celebrations ECOLOGICAL CITY-Procession for Climate Solutions

ECOLOGICAL CITYLower East Side

11 am – 3 pm

Family Program: Making Homes for Urban Birds

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design MuseumUpper East Side

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Mother’s Day

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

Art
Free

410 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221Bedford-Stuyvesant

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11 am – 7 pm

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn

Ages: 5 – 8
Art
Community
Family

ZeroSpace BrooklynGowanus

Noon – 8 pm

Clio Art Fair, 18th & 19th Editions, May 1-4 & May 8-11, 2025

Art

528-532 W 28th st, New York, NY 10001Chelsea

4 Artists

Noon – 5 pm

TABLA RASA GALLERY’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION: IDIOSYNCRATIC IDENTITIES

Art

Tabla Rasa Gallery

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Noon – 5 pm

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Art

Tabla Rasa Gallery

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the Waterfront

Ceramics Now Exhibition-Announcement-2025

Noon – 5 pm

Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery presents ‘Ceramics Now’ featuring Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno and Gina Tibbott

Greenwich House Pottery

12:30 – 2:30 pm

Mommy and Me Paint Event

Ages: 5 – 12
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

Hamilton Fish Recreation Center

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1 – 3 pm

Family Time

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

The Bronx Museum

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1 – 6 pm

Fresh Art Offers a Spring Burst of Inspiration at BWAC

Art
Free

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionRed Hook

The Space In Between

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

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1 – 6 pm

Exhibition Opening: ‘Five Miles of VHS Tape’

FiveMylesCrown Heights

Bronx Family Time May 2025

1 – 3 pm

Family Time May 2025

Ages: All
Art
Attractions
Family

The Bronx Museum

3 – Florencia Cuenca and Company

2 – 4:30 pm

Real Women Have Curves: The Musical

Art
Comedy

James Earl Jones Theatre

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4 – 6 pm

WHOOP DEE DOO PRESENTS: The Future Is Connection: On Community Engagement & Contemporary Art

Salotto

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5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

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7 pm

LA CAÍDA DE RAFAEL TRUJILLO by Award-Winning Carmen Rivera, Back by Popular Demand to be Presented by Teatro Círculo

Teatro CírculoEast Village

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