Calendar
New York design events
Fairs, festivals, exhibitions, openings, talks, tours, workshops, and markets from New York's design community — updated continuously.
56 events
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 – 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 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
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 – 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 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 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
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 18, 2026 – May 9, 2027
Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum Mile
Tue, Sep 1 · 11 AM ET
Design Across Time: Tell Your Story
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum · Carnegie Hill
Sep 8, 2026 – Mar 5, 2028
A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum Mile
Sep 8–28
Building Books. Corraini Edizioni: Children, Art, Design, and Everything Else
SVA Flatiron Gallery · Flatiron
School of Visual Arts
Wed, Sep 9 · 6 PM ET
Recipe for a Room 2026: Places for Repair
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
Thu, Sep 10
Appliance Summit
A&D Building · Midtown East
Thu, Sep 10 · 6 PM ET
dapperQ presents Legacy
Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
Thu, Sep 10 · 6 PM ET
Raising the Rail: Architectural Responses to Suicide by Height
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
Fri, Sep 11 · 6 PM ET
In Conversation with Ilaria Resta, CEO of Audemars Piguet
Parsons School of Design
Sep 12, 2026 – Mar 7, 2027
Nike: Form Follows Motion
Museum of Arts and Design · Columbus Circle
Sep 16, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027
Doll Dressing
Museum at FIT · Chelsea
Sep 16 – Oct 13
Kips Bay Decorator Show House New York
80 Washington Place · Greenwich Village
Kips Bay Decorator Show House
Wed, Sep 16 · 6 PM ET
A Conversation with Jed Perl
Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, Art Students League of New York · Midtown
The Art Students League of New York
Wed, Sep 16 · 6 PM ET
The Creative Hall of Fame Gala & Celebration
Capitale · Nolita
The One Club for Creativity
Sep 17 – Oct 17
Wendell Castle: Living
Friedman Benda · Chelsea
Thu, Sep 17
What's New, What's Next
New York Design Center (200 Lex) · Murray Hill
Thu, Sep 17 · 6 PM ET
Book Talk: Place and Placemaking
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
Thu, Sep 17 · 6 PM ET
How to Communicate Value and Resolve Conflicts: Interactive Workshop
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
6 PM ET
Shelter from the Storm: An Artist's Eye with Stan Allen and Polly Apfelbaum
National Academy of Design · Chelsea
Sep 18, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027
Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film
Bard Graduate Center Gallery · Upper West Side
Sat, Sep 19 · 9:45 AM ET
Archive
FIT Katie Murphy Amphitheatre · Chelsea
Standards Manual and AIGA NY
5:30 PM ET
The Designers' Gilded Bazaar & Auction
LUTRON at the D&D Building · Midtown East
ASID New York Metro
Sep 24–27
The Armory Show 2026
Javits Center · Hudson Yards
The Armory Show
7 PM ET
Art History Happy Hour: Sculpting the Senses
Brooklyn Museum · Prospect Heights
Sep 25, 2026 – Apr 2, 2027
Art + Furniture: Designers, Makers, and Advocates
New York School of Interior Design · Upper East Side
Sep 25, 2026 – Feb 21, 2027
Cuteness, Conservatism, & Consumption: Lefor-Openo and Postwar France
Poster House · Chelsea
Sep 25, 2026 – Feb 21, 2027
Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works
Poster House · Chelsea
Sep 27, 2026 – Jun 13, 2027
Full Disclosure: The Edge of Information Design
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) · Midtown