Brooklyn Museum

Through Sunday, September 18

“Guadalupe Maravilla: Tierra Blanca Joven”

An exhibition featuring new sculptures, retablo paintings, tripa chuca drawings and sound works that center on the need for care and healing, particularly for the undocumented and cancer communities of which Guadalupe Maravilla (BFA 2003 Photography and Video) is a part.

Through Sunday, January 1, 2023

“Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe”

Featuring more than one hundred works by the late Nellie Mae Rowe exploring themes of girlhood, play and spirituality, this exhibition celebrates an under-recognized figure of 20th-century American art. Additionally, it contextualizes Rowe’s practice as a radical act of liberation for a Black woman artist working in the American South.

MoMA PS1

Through Friday, September 23

“Queensbridge Photo Collective: Still, Like Air I’ll Rise”

This exhibition by the Queensbridge Photo Collective utilizes photography, archival research, memorabilia and oral histories to reflect on the lives of the collective’s members, who all grew up in the neighborhoods around MoMA PS1, and is accompanied by public programs with neighboring organizations and community members.

Through Monday, January 16, 2023

“Life Between Buildings”

Through archival materials and artworks from the 1970s through the present day, this exhibition explores the history of community gardens in New York City and how artists have engaged the city’s interstitial spaces—“vacant” lots, sidewalk cracks, traffic islands and parks, among others—to consider the politics of public space through an ecological lens.

Exemplary exhibitions await across New York City—and for SVA students, many of them are free.