MuseumNoHo
Grey Art Museum
Come for thoughtful, richly researched exhibitions that transport you across cities, histories, and art movements. Stay for quiet galleries and work that makes you smarter. This is exactly what a university museum should feel like.
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Walk in With Us
The Grey is exactly what a university museum should be—a place to look, learn, and travel the world without leaving New York City.
Walk in, and you might find yourself in post-war Paris, surrounded by French Abstraction, or in post-Stonewall New York, when queer artists were making work that commercial galleries ignored. Or in Tehran, Mumbai, Istanbul, cities that shaped art history, but before the Grey, they rarely got wall space in American galleries.
The exhibitions here translate distant worlds into something you can stand in front of and voyage inside for a moment. It's a gift—free admission, deep commitment to downtown art, exhibitions that wouldn't happen anywhere else.
About the Museum
The Grey started in 1927 as the Museum of Living Art—the first American institution to show Picasso, Léger, Miró, Mondrian, and Arp. In 1974, it was renamed after Abby Weed Grey, who donated her collection of modern art from Asia and the Middle East. After decades on Washington Square, it moved to Cooper Square in 2024, adding new exhibition spaces for the permanent collection and rotating shows. The mission: advance art history and visual literacy at NYU.
In The Area
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Eric Firestone Gallery
This gallery stages beautiful shows that make overlooked art histories feel urgent again. Psychedelic mosaics, hard-edge abstraction, gestural figuration, and under-recognized American artists, many from the 70s, thunder back into the spotlight.
BookstoreNoHo
Climax Books
Shop highly curated books at this Berlin-born store. Think hard-to-find ephemera, erotica, VHS tapes, and books on art, photography and counterculture.
Alternative SpaceNoHo
Atelier Jolie
As in Angelina. Basquiat’s former studio has been reanimated by the superstar actress into an impeccably designed living room/café concept and gallery.
Clothing StoreNoHo
Dear: Rivington+
Wander two stories where Japanese designers nestle against vintage treasures, all set off by spare, whitewashed walls.