MoMA PS1

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One giant block party, 50 years in the making.

Join us on Saturday, April 18 at our 50th Anniversary Block Party, taking over the museum’s public plaza, courtyard, and galleries during the opening weekend of Greater New York 2026.

Swing by for a full day of curator-led gallery talks, family activities, local food vendors, and DJs keeping the dance floor moving, alongside activations by artists, musicians, and community partners across the borough.

Featuring: Discolocas NYC Fiesta Club, FAD Market, Lady Pink, Lower Eastside Girls Club, Make the Road, Malikah, Nuevayorkinos, Queens Night Market,  Queensboro Dance Festival, Queensbridge Photo Collective, Red Canary Song, and St. James Joy.

Celebrate five decades of art at PS1, and the artists and community that continues to shape it.

🎟️ Reserve your free spot at the link in our bio.

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"Niagara it's Great to be Here" (2024) borrows its title from a sign that artist Jay Carrier saw in the 1980s on a chemical tank along the Robert Moses Parkway. It is among the last works he made.

A Haudenosaunee painter born on the Six Nations of the Grand River, Carrier often combined conventional paints with rust, ash, leaves, pebbles, debris, and other materials gathered from the Niagara Gorge and its surrounding forests. He sustained his artistic practice for decades while working at a local chemical plant (which he also used as a secret studio during his night shifts), engaging with the legacy of monumental landscape painting from the perspective of an Indigenous artist working within, and against, that tradition.

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Jay Carrier. "Niagara it's Great to be Here" (2024). Oil on canvas on wood panel. 3 Panels: 96 × 216 in.
📸: Kris Graves

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Before you ask: no, you can't tan in here.

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James Turrell. "Meeting." 1980–86/2016. Light and space.
📸: Pablo Enriquez

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Julia Wachtel was sampling the culture's image junk drawer decades before the internet turned it into an all-you-can-see buffet 🍔 🦄

The questions in "common questions" are real ones, asked by real people who had to know how tall Katy Perry is, among other things. Wachtel silkscreens them next to a Getty-stock Janis Joplin, a unicorn, and @katyperry, dressed, for reasons the painting declines to explain, as a hamburger.

Wachtel came up in the Pictures Generation, a group of artists who found their material in television, magazines, and whatever was lying around. 40+ years on, the only thing that's changed is that there's no longer a bottom to the pile. She seems thrilled.

See Wachtel's work IRL in Greater New York, through August 17.

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Julia Wachtel. "common questions," 2025. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 40 × 133".

📹: John Kim

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A 25-foot teddy bear slide is coming to our courtyard this summer🧸

Courtyard Commission: Precious Okoyomon opens July 24. “Among the flowers I learned to love, A Garden of decreation” (2026), Okoyomon’s largest outdoor installation to date, transforms the courtyard into a garden, featuring grasses, flowers, weeds, grafted trees, pollinators, and vines, encircling the artist’s signature bear titled “the pleasure principle.”

Drawing on Simone Weil's idea of "decreation," the world's ceaseless making and unmaking, the work imagines a garden of mutation and adaptation for a changing city. The first in a biannual, site-specific series, it remains on view for over two years. Admission is free for all.

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📸: Miro Kuzmanovic

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Now on view: Esteban Cabeza de Baca's MoMA PS1 Plaza Mural.

Located right outside our entrance, "Ancestral Dreams" imagines a rupture in the wall, a dimension where advocacy for migrant communities and protection of the land coexist, using syncretic iconography of resistance and survival. Working between Queens and the Southwest, Cabeza de Baca nods to Mexican muralism, the Works Progress Administration, and the history 5Pointz.

See it on the plaza.
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Esteban Cabeza de Baca, "Ancestral Dreams," 2026.
📸 John Kim

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Here's proof that for one night only, MoMA PS1 became a car dealership.

For our final performance in the Greater New York series, five strangers
held onto a silver Toyota Tacoma for three days. This was Georgica Pettus's play “Truck,” a test of desire, endurance, and the great American promise that wanting a thing this badly should make it yours.

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📸: Maria Baranova-Suzuki

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If you've come by this month, you may have noticed the artist Esteban Cabeza de Baca at work.

His mural "Ancestral Dreams" draws on the United Farm Workers movement and a lifetime of advocacy for migrant communities. For the second annual MoMA PS1 Plaza Mural, Esteban imagines the wall splitting open onto another world that consists of a black eagle, a sunburst, prayer beads, and the Three Sisters. Opening June 25.

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New York City's water comes from a place most New Yorkers will never see.

From a hundred miles away, the Ashokan Reservoir supplies 40% of New York City's drinking water and is watched over by its own NYPD unit. It's been restricted to the public since it was built, and has become increasingly so since 9/11. The video installation "American Theaters of Suspension, Pt. 1: Ashokan," Tiffany Sia's new video work for Greater New York, watches it for six hours.

This Sunday, @t1ffany4scal3 sits down with her lawyer, Sekou Campbell, for "They Prefer Us When We're Dead," a sold-out talk on the laws that keep places like Ashokan out of frame, exploring censorship, copyright, and national security law.

Note: this conversation is not protected by attorney-client privilege.

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Tiffany Sia. "American Theaters of Suspension, Pt. 1: Ashokan," 2026. Three 7" monitors on a suspended bar. 6 hours.

📸: Kris Graves

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New York City is the greatest city on earth, and the city’s art and culture have a lot to do with that.

We're looking to @NYCCouncil + @NYCMayor to restore and baseline the full $30M for arts and culture in the FY27 budget, and invest in the communities and institutions that make this city what it is.

#CultureForAll ♥️ 👩‍🎨 @NYCulture

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A pickup truck is coming to our courtyard on June 27 🛻💨

Georgica Pettus's "Truck," loosely based on the 1997 documentary "Hands on a Hardbody," turns our courtyard into a car dealership where the last person to keep their hand on the truck wins it. This is the premiere of "Truck" and will be performed only once.

Pettus has staged plays inside a boxing ring, in bed the morning after a one-night stand, and aboard the Roosevelt Island Tram. Through these intimate presentations, her characters tell the audience what they can't tell each other.

Join us at 7 p.m. for the final performance of Greater New York.
Tickets are limited and going fast. RSVP to secure your spot.

Starring:
Daniel Nugent, Ruby Rodgers, Vishwam Velandy, Annie Pisapia, Austin Patrick, Ashby Bland, Jim Fletcher, Zachary Zamsky.

Written and directed by Georgica Pettus
Creative Producer: Janet Valentina Manina
Costume Designer: Natasha Simchowitz
Composer: Marcello Palazzo

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Poster by Renée Paule

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The bike and bike rack on view in PS1's lobby is a work by fields harrington as part of Greater New York. The bike belongs to Gustavo Ajche, a delivery driver and leader of Los Deliveristas Unidos. For five days a month, the bike is on view in our lobby, and fields harrington pays Gustavo the delivery worker minimum wage ($21.44/hr) for every hour it’s displayed.

Join us on Sunday, June 14 at 4 p.m. for a talk with harrington, Ajche, and Ligia Guallpa, Co-Executive Director of the Workers Justice Project. Free with RSVP.

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the moma ps1 warm up lineup is insane, i’m flying out for the wackies showcase, no way i’m missing that

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MoMA PS1’s Warm Up lineup this summer is elite.

Cortisa Star
keiyaA
RHR
Crystallmess
+more

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The Warm Up 2026 lineup is here 🎧💿

This year includes a dub x dub techno showcase from the people who invented it, fierce bpms from Brazil, the edgiest Paris-LA b2b, Italo-hardcore, droning cello, and NYC’s favorite noise duo. See you in our courtyard Fridays from July 24 through August 28.

Tickets, season passes, and full lineup details are now live on our site.

⭐ LINEUP ⭐

Friday, July 24
Carlos Souffront (@carlossouffront)
Wackies Showcase with Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes & Mark Ernestus (@bullwackiebarnes + @markernestus)
TELESONIQ (@bunnyjrtapes + @j_u_l_i_3__n + @decentrescue)
DJ Richard

Friday, July 31
BAE BAE (@baexploitation) b2b CRYSTALLMESS (@crystallmess)
Gabber Eleganza (@gabbereleganza)
Cortisa Star (@cortisastar)
SCRAAATCH (@scraaatch202 + @chuki_now + @glorious_nobodies )

Friday, August 7
BADSISTA (@badsista)
TOCCORORO (@toccororo)
Toxe (@_toxe_)
nguyendowsXP (@_n_x_p)

Friday, August 14
Marcellus Pittman (@marcelluspittman)
DJ Anderson do Paraiso (@djandersondoparaiso)
Mabe Fratti (@mabefs)
Lary 7

Friday, August 21
Dopplereffekt (@__dopplereffekt__)
RHR (@rhrmusiq)
PureLink (@pureliiink)
Eev Frances (@eev.fr)

Friday, August 28
SPECIAL GUEST
De Schuurman (@deschuurman.mp3)
keiyaA (@keiyaa)
DJ WORKING CLASS (@pepigossip)

Warm Up 2026 Host Committee: @_melancholia @womens_history_museum @malefragility @leyupdates @elliot_reed_laboratories

[MoMA PS1 @MoMAPS1]

The Warm Up 2026 lineup is here 🎧💿

This year includes a dub x dub techno showcase from the people who invented it, fierce bpms from Brazil, the edgiest Paris-LA b2b, Italo-hardcore, droning cello, and NYC’s favorite noise duo. See you in our courtyard Fridays from July 24 through August 28.

Tickets, season passes, and full lineup details are now live on our site.

⭐ LINEUP ⭐

Friday, July 24
Carlos Souffront (@carlossouffront)
Wackies Showcase with Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes & Mark Ernestus (@bullwackiebarnes + @markernestus)
TELESONIQ (@bunnyjrtapes + @j_u_l_i_3__n + @decentrescue)
DJ Richard

Friday, July 31
BAE BAE (@baexploitation) b2b CRYSTALLMESS (@crystallmess)
Gabber Eleganza (@gabbereleganza)
Cortisa Star (@cortisastar)
SCRAAATCH (@scraaatch202 + @chuki_now + @glorious_nobodies )

Friday, August 7
BADSISTA (@badsista)
TOCCORORO (@toccororo)
Toxe (@_toxe_)
nguyendowsXP (@_n_x_p)

Friday, August 14
Marcellus Pittman (@marcelluspittman)
DJ Anderson do Paraiso (@djandersondoparaiso)
Mabe Fratti (@mabefs)
Lary 7

Friday, August 21
Dopplereffekt (@__dopplereffekt__)
RHR (@rhrmusiq)
PureLink (@pureliiink)
Eev Frances (@eev.fr)

Friday, August 28
SPECIAL GUEST
De Schuurman (@deschuurman.mp3)
keiyaA (@keiyaa)
DJ WORKING CLASS (@pepigossip)

Warm Up 2026 Host Committee: @_melancholia @womens_history_museum @malefragility @leyupdates @elliot_reed_laboratories

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“Making these kilns was kind of horrible since it was mostly me and me alone in my most unflattering hat, praying for permanence.” – @sloapy in @bombmag

Sophie Friedman-Pappas turns industrial kilns into acoustic objects and hollowed-out sites of transformation, firing them empty until the inner walls slick into something new.

Sophie Friedman-Pappas's work is on view in Greater New York through August 17.
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Sophie Friedman-Pappas, "Department 4," 2026, mixed media, 24 x 22 x 22 inches.

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Warm Up returns this summer on Fridays starting July 24.

For three decades, we've invited legendary musicians and underground darlings from around the world to our courtyard in Queens. See you there?

Season passes are now available, grab yours before the lineup drops next week.

Video by John Kim

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Middle Earth or Uptown?

Drawn from West African and Caribbean folklore, personal memory, and cybercultures such as DeviantArt, Taína Cruz’s figures act as conduits for her investigations into selfhood, mythmaking, and the afterlives of cultural memory.

The composition of "Charm Written in Steam and Light" evokes the warmth and soft-edged flatness of Vuillard’s 1918 tearooms — until you notice that it's a goblin communing with a frog.

Working from a digital archive of found imagery, screenshots, and pop culture references, Cruz’s intimate worlds reimagine how identity circulates in an age of intense media saturation, a world-building project where artifice, history, and myth become new vehicles to see ourselves.

"Uptown Twilight Sauté" and "Charm Written in Steam and Light" are on view in Greater New York through August 17.

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Taína Cruz, "Charm Written in Steam and Light," 2025. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches.
Taína Cruz, "Uptown Twilight Sauté," 2025. Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches.

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We are saddened to learn of Alan Saret’s passing at 81.

As part of our very first exhibition, "Rooms" in 1976, Saret carved an aperture into our brick wall and created “The Hole at P.S.1, Fifth Solar Chthonic Wall Temple.” This artist intervention has let light into MoMA PS1 ever since. Saret, who maintained his studio just down the road in Long Island City, showed a generation of artists that sculpture could be an opening in the wall, a tangle of wire, or a formless organic illusion.

We are lucky to be reminded of him every day when the sunlight strikes the exterior of our building and the light puddles in our hallway.

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Alan Saret, “The Hole at P.S.1, Fifth Solar Chthonic Wall Temple,” 1976. Brick wall and sun, 30" x 22" x 18" x 93,000,000 miles.

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Greater New York “reels with the density and difference that tessellate this city; the placid veneer holding together the hushed galleries of Chelsea and Tribeca is here shattered to expose the clamor of the nervous system underneath. The fifty-three artists in the show are all living and working in New York (though of vastly varied origins); many of them are young, doing their best in a city that seems to valorize yet beleaguer youth.” — Zoë Hopkins for The New Yorker.

Come see it for yourself. Admission is free for all.