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The museums
Arts · Sept. 20
Yoko Ono asks MoMA to imagine peace
The artist’s two-word instruction occupies the museum’s most public interior threshold.
Arts · Sept. 20
When data visualization becomes an argument
The lead · Arts
Four Giant Hands Have Taken Over the Met
Liu Wei’s monumental façade commission turns the museum’s unfinished niches into a meditation on rupture, repair and a city in constant transformation.
By Sascha Brodsky · Sept. 21, 2026 · Read the feature →
Latest
Dining · NoHo
The Public Theater gets an old-New-York restaurant
The Astor opens with tavern food, classic cocktails and a room meant to feel inherited rather than installed.
Nightlife · Upper West Side
Jake’s Dilemma will close after more than 30 years
Art · MoMA
MoMA gives Nilima Sheikh her first New York solo show
Music & Theater · Lincoln Center
Audra McDonald, Billy Porter and more reunite for Shuffle Along
The 2016 Broadway cast returns for two nights at Rose Theater.
Art · Whitney
Roy Lichtenstein returns in a 130-work survey
Art · MoMA
MoMA turns Surrealist books into an exhibition
New & noted
West Village
A 15-seat wine bar puts pastry in the spotlight
The team behind Zimmi’s is expanding next door on Bedford Street.
Upper West Side
Daniel Boulud goes big across from Lincoln Center
Three longtime restaurant spaces become one sprawling brasserie.
Whitney
The Whitney turns 25 years of internet art into a museum show
More than 100 artport commissions move from the browser into the galleries.
From the editors
Five ways into the city
Recurring desks for what is new, what is late, what is closing and what is actually worth the trip.
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Essential city guides
Music · Nightlife
The essential New York jazz clubs
Five rooms for listening, late sets and the city’s still-living jazz tradition.
Dining · Late night
Where to eat after midnight
The dependable kitchens that still understand the importance of 1 a.m.
Arts · Museums
Five small museums worth a trip
Focused, human-scale institutions for art, design and New York history.
Nightlife · Bars
The hotel bars that are actually worth it
Three rooms where atmosphere is part of the price of the drink.
Music · Venues
The best rooms for live music
Five venues where architecture and sound can matter almost as much as the bill.
Arts · Galleries
A New Yorker’s guide to the galleries that matter
How to use Chelsea and Tribeca as a free contemporary-art circuit.
Theater
Broadway · Sept. 22
Bowen Yang walks into Mary Todd Lincoln’s cabaret
Oh, Mary! gets a new star and a new comic temperature.
Broadway · Sept. 22
A Ghanaian boarding school comes to Broadway
Jocelyn Bioh’s biting comedy reaches the Friedman.
Broadway · Sept. 22
Broadway turns out the lights
Paranormal Activity tests what horror can do in a live room.
The city, edited for your evening.
Restaurants, performances, exhibitions, concerts, openings and nights worth leaving home for.
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