Summer museum exhibit guide: The season’s best museum exhibits in NYC
Whether you love fine art or nerdy NYC history, we’ve got a museum exhibit for you. Check out the best art, science and history exhibits at New York museums. Edited by Sharon Steel and Amy Plitt
Tue Jun 26 2012
This summer, a slew of blockbuster art, science and history exhibits will go on view at New York museums. We’ve rounded up the best museum exhibits at the coolest institutions, plus where to go afterward for an intellectual discussion (or a big piece of chocolate cake at Café Sabarsky).
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The Whitney Museum of American Art opens "Yayoi Kusama"
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The New Museum opens The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg
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The Museum of Modern Art opens "Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan"
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The Guggenheim Museum opens "Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective"
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations"
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"Gustav Klimt: 150th Anniversary Celebration" opens at the Neue Galerie
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The Intrepid unveils the Space Shuttle Enterprise
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The New York Public Library opens “Lunch Hour NYC”
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The Museum of the City of New York opens “Activist New York”
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The American Museum of Natural History opens “Spiders Alive”
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The New-York Historical Society opens "Beer Here: Brewing New York’s History"
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