Calendar
New York design events
Fairs, festivals, exhibitions, openings, talks, tours, workshops, and markets from New York's design community — updated continuously.
44 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
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
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 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 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
Sep 8, 2026 – Mar 5, 2028
A King's Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum Mile
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
Sep 17 – Oct 17
Wendell Castle: Living
Friedman Benda · Chelsea
Sep 18, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027
Goddesses in the Machine: Fashion in American Silent Film
Bard Graduate Center Gallery · Upper West Side
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
Oct 1–31
Archtober
Center for Architecture
TBA · Dates to be announced
D&D Fall Market 2026
D&D Building · Midtown East
Dark Matter U: Justice, Pedagogy, Design
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
Oct 1, 2026 – Mar 27, 2027
Humanist Modernity
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
Oct 1, 2026 – Mar 27, 2027
Why Design?
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
6 PM ET
Fall Exhibitions Opening Night
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
Oct 2–3
WAATBP: Career Essentials
The One Club for Creativity · Chelsea
9 AM ET
Radical Optimism: Exploring the Next Generation of Urban Infrastructure
Center for Architecture · Greenwich Village
AIA New York, ASLA-NY, and APA New York Metro
Oct 16–18
Open House New York Weekend
Open House New York
Sat, Oct 17 · 12 PM ET
Van Alen Fall Fest 2026
Van Alen Institute (Urban Room) · Gowanus
Tue, Oct 20 · 5:30 PM ET
Public Art Party
Van Alen Institute (Urban Room) · Gowanus
Designing the Gilded Age: Drawings from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum Mile
Oct 22–23 · 6 PM ET
Common Bond 2026
Chelsea Piers, Pier Sixty · Chelsea
AIA New York / Center for Architecture
Save the Date: Beaux Arts Ball 2026
The Architectural League of New York
Thu, Oct 29 · 7 PM ET
Color Invasion® 2026
Chelsea Industrial · Chelsea
IIDA New York