Calendar
New York design events
Fairs, festivals, exhibitions, openings, talks, tours, workshops, and markets from New York's design community — updated continuously.
60 events
Sun, Aug 2
Apr 20, 2024 – Oct 4, 2026
OUT of the Jewelry Box
Museum of Arts and Design · Columbus Circle
Oct 18, 2025 – Aug 8, 2027
Public Address by Alex Strada
Storefront for Art and Architecture · Manhattan
Dec 12, 2025 – Aug 16, 2026
Devon Turnbull: HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Carnegie Hill
Dec 12, 2025 – Sep 27, 2026
Made in America: The Industrial Photography of Christopher Payne
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Carnegie Hill
Feb 4 – Sep 13
Noguchi's New York
The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City
Feb 13 – Aug 16
Art of Noise
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Carnegie Hill
Feb 24 – Dec 31
The Invention of Park Avenue
The Skyscraper Museum · Battery Park City
Feb 28 – Oct 4
2025 Burke Prize: Hai-Wen Lin
Museum of Arts and Design · Columbus Circle
Feb 28 – Oct 4
Alice Riehl's Porcelain Florilegium
Museum of Arts and Design · Columbus Circle
Mar 13 – Sep 6
Act Black: Posters from Black American Stage & Screen
Poster House · Chelsea
Mar 13 – Sep 6
Love & Fury: New York's Fight Against AIDS
Poster House · Chelsea
Mar 19 – Aug 16
Christelle Oyiri: Belief May Vary
Amant (932 Grand) · East Williamsburg
Mar 19 – Aug 16
Kim Gordon: Count Your Chickens
Amant (Géza, 306 Maujer) · East Williamsburg
Apr 8 – Aug 14
Haas Brothers: Tree House
R & Company · Tribeca
Apr 11 – Aug 16
Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley
Museum of Arts and Design · Columbus Circle
Apr 23 – Nov 1
From Monarchy to Modernity: Travel, Identity, & the Czechoslovak First Republic (1918–1938)
Poster House · Chelsea
Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime
Poster House · Chelsea
May 6 – Sep 13
Light and Stone: Revisiting Noguchi's 1986 Venice Biennale
The Noguchi Museum · Long Island City
May 7 – Sep 2
AIANY Design Awards 2026
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
May 7 – Sep 2
CFA Lab: Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
May 7 – Sep 2
Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
May 10, 2026 – Jan 10, 2027
Costume Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum Mile
May 12 – Aug 31
Assembler I
The Future Perfect - St. Luke's Townhouse · West Village
May 12 – Aug 31
D'Haene Studio
The Future Perfect - St. Luke's Townhouse · West Village
May 12 – Oct 18 · 11 AM ET
reSOUND New York: reSENSE
HERO at Rockefeller Center · Midtown
d'strict
May 13 – Oct 18
Material Intent: Color and Form
Carpenters Workshop Gallery · Midtown
May 13 – Oct 18
Terence Woodgate X John Barnard: Lightness of Form
Carpenters Workshop Gallery · Midtown
May 15 – Oct 2
High-Touch
MillerKnoll New York Gallery · Flatiron District
May 16 – Dec 6
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
May 20 – Dec 6
Roberto Lugo: Alfarero del Barrio (Village Potter)
Madison Square Park · NoMad
R & Company
May 29 – Aug 8
Masters of the Stitch: Threaded Stories
Claire Oliver Gallery · Harlem
May 30, 2026 – Apr 18, 2027
Jessica Lichtenstein: Rewilding
Museum of Arts and Design · Columbus Circle
Jun 15 – Sep 15
Pratt Institute x The Village West: Windows on 14th Street
The Village West · Manhattan
Pratt Institute
Jun 23 – Aug 2
ECAL A Typographic Atlas
41 Cooper Gallery · East Village
The Cooper Union
Since Type@Cooper
41 Cooper Gallery · East Village
The Cooper Union
Jun 26 – Sep 5
Beyond Digital: Living Systems & Distributed Intelligence
Pratt Manhattan Gallery · Chelsea
Pratt Institute
Jun 26, 2026 – Oct 22, 2028
Design Across Time: Exploring the Smithsonian's Design Collection
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Carnegie Hill
Jun 26 – Aug 14
Egeværk: Forms of Belonging
HB381 Tribeca · Tribeca
Hostler Burrows
The Substitute
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Carnegie Hill
Jul 5, 2026 – Jan 2, 2027
Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown
Jul 8 – Aug 29
In the Room | Summer 2026
Demisch Danant · Greenwich Village
Jul 18, 2026 – May 9, 2027
Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum Mile
Jul 29 – Aug 9
Welcome to Runway: An Immersive Experience
Museum of Arts and Design · Columbus Circle
Aug 1–2
Tour of the Amateur Comedy Club and Sniffen Court
Amateur Comedy Club · Murray Hill
New York Landmarks Conservancy
Aug 2–4
NY NOW (Summer Market)
Javits Center · Hudson Yards
NY NOW
Aug 2–4
Shoppe Object New York (Summer)
Starrett-Lehigh Building · Chelsea
Shoppe Object
Sun, Aug 2 · 10 AM ET
Margot Gayle's TriBeCa
Tribeca
The Municipal Art Society of New York
Tue, Aug 4
Tue, Aug 4 · 5:30 PM ET
Transforming Mental Health Crisis into Care: The EmPATH Approach
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
Tue, Aug 4 · 6 PM ET
Female Design Council Private Tour at Southern Guild
Southern Guild · Tribeca
Female Design Council
Tue, Aug 4 · 6:30 PM ET
Discover Design Online: Art of Noise
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (online) · Manhattan
Thu, Aug 6
Aug 6–16
Pastel
Salon 94 Design · Upper East Side
Thu, Aug 6 · 4 PM ET
Battery Park City Tour: The North Neighborhood
Battery Park City · Battery Park City
The Skyscraper Museum
Thu, Aug 6 · 6 PM ET
Brooklyn Heights New York's First Historic District
Brooklyn Heights
The Municipal Art Society of New York
6 PM ET
Sustainability by Any Other Name
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
6:30 PM ET
Black Architect Book Talk with Sekou Cooke & Mabel Wilson
Head Hi · Fort Greene
Sat, Aug 8
10 AM ET
Block Party 2026
Museum of Arts and Design (58th Street) · Columbus Circle
Sat, Aug 8 · 10 AM ET
West Harlem Environmental Justice Tour – Water, Waste, and Wastewater
West Harlem
The Municipal Art Society of New York
Sat, Aug 8 · 10:30 AM ET
Walking Tour: Mid-Century Modernism Along Manhattan's 53rd Street
Greenacre Park · Midtown East
AIA New York / Center for Architecture