Events

  • Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation

    Opening day of a new exhibition that highlights works by 28 contemporary artists of Chinese descent, who explore themes of personal, cultural, historical and material metamorphosis in dynamic and innovative ways. Across painting, sculpture, photography, animation and installation art, these works by established and emerging artists of different generations and backgrounds use experimentation to draw […]

  • Mid-Autumn Festival

    Hands-on performances and cultural discovery at the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of China’s most cherished holidays centered around family, gratitude, and togetherness. Highlights Include: a lively Uyghur dance performance to kick off the celebration, a captivating shadow puppet show of The Legend of White Snake, make your own snow skin mooncakes to take home and share […]

    $15
  • Judgement at Nuremberg

    Maximilian Schell and George Gizzard starred on Broadway in the powerful stage version of an Academy Award winning film. Ernest Janning, one of the most influential German legal minds of the pre war era, and other influential Nazis face a military tribunal in the second wave of post war trials at Nuremberg. Issues at the […]

    $15
  • Garden Stewardship at Gotham Park

    Pick up trash and tend to pollinator-friendly gardens. No experience is necessary; all ages and abilities are welcome!

    Free
  • Skyscraper Monopoly

    The sky’s the limit in our board game: Skyscraper Monopoly! We’ll use the space of the gallery as a big board game where kids can test their knowledge of tall CONCRETE buildings and some of NYC’s most famous skyscrapers to earn points towards building the tallest tower. Will you become the skyscraper mogul? Join us […]

    Free
  • Yoga at Gotham Park

    All-levels class for skaters, gardeners, park enthusiasts—and anyone who wants to join. No experience needed.

    Free
  • 2025 New York Jewish Book Festival

    Day-long event featuring talks, panels, and author signings, and themes of Jewish heritage, culture, and history, modern life and literature.

    $10
  • Concrete Central: Chicago’s Key Role in Concrete Engineering and Construction

    Historian of architecture, engineering, and the urban history of Chicago, Thomas Leslie, guest co-curator with Carol Willis for the Museum’s exhibition The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, will summarize the new avenues of research that grew from research on the exhibition. This in-person program traces the history of concrete skyscraper construction in Chicago, highlighting how the material […]

    Free
  • Lunch & Learn: The Menace of Prosperity

    Daniel Wortel-London will discuss his new book, The Menace of Prosperity: Economic Development and its Discontents in New York City, 1870–1981, which explores how generations of New Yorkers have struggled with the promises and perils of economic development. Spanning New York City’s post–Civil War boom to the 1970s fiscal crisis, Wortel-London will reveal how NYC’s […]

    Free