Studio Museum in Harlem
The Studio Museum in Harlem now has a space as big as its ambitions. After an 8 year long closure and renovation, the museum reopened in late 2025 in a $300 million, custom-built building so handsome and airy it's now a joy to see the art here (the roof deck has fab views of Harlem).
What will you see? Founded in 1968 to support and display Black artists at a time when U.S. galleries and museums rarely, if ever, showed the work of people of color, the Studio Museum has always been the place to see cutting edge new works and thoughtful retrospectives. Exhibitions change—the permanent collection is not on permanent display—but in the reopening show were works by such big names as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, and Faith Ringgold.
The Studio Museum in Harlem now has a space as big as its ambitions. After an 8 year long closure and renovation, the museum reopened in late 2025 in a $300 million, custom-built building so handsome and airy it's now a joy to see the art here (the roof deck has fab views of Harlem).
What will you see? Founded in 1968 to support and display Black artists at a time when U.S. galleries and museums rarely, if ever, showed the work of people of color, the Studio Museum has always been the place to see cutting edge new works and thoughtful retrospectives. Exhibitions change—the permanent collection is not on permanent display—but in the reopening show were works by such big names as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, and Faith Ringgold.
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