NYBG turns its Bronx grounds into a 1960s‑themed festival with Warhols, giant daisies and ticketed liquid‑light night shows. The exhibition runs this weekend through October.

Daddy Yankee will head the 69th National Puerto Rican Day Parade, and Anthony Ramos is among this year’s honorees. The march is set for June 14 up Fifth Avenue.

Gucci staged its 'GucciCore' Cruise 2027 show in Times Square on Saturday, closing with Cindy Crawford and featuring Tom Brady as the house pushes to reset the brand. The spectacle was beamed across the neighborhood’s billboards.

High schoolers marched to City Hall on Friday as the district moved to undo cuts that would have ended elementary band and orchestra.

The Met will merge with Ronald Lauder’s Neue Galerie in a deal that preserves the house and its café while adding 600+ Austrian and German works to the Met’s holdings.

BAM stages a three-night tribute to Stevie Wonder this Thursday–Saturday, with the BRC Orchestra and guest stars performing five of his classic albums live.

Sarah Lucas’s VENUS VICTORIA perches on a giant washing machine outside the New Museum, inaugurating the museum’s new plaza commissions. The playful monumental work will be on view for roughly two years.

TEFAF New York returns May 15–19 at the Park Avenue Armory with 88 dealers from 14 countries, pairing ancient antiquities with contemporary highlights.

Rex Reed, the acerbic film critic and New York fixture, has died at 87. His barbed reviews and celebrity profiles leave a complicated, lasting mark.

Iris van Herpen’s North American retrospective lands at the Brooklyn Museum May 16–Dec 6 with a bioluminescent 'living' dress and more than 140 couture works.

Sony Music Publishing is reportedly buying Blackstone's Recognition Music catalog — more than 45,000 songs — in a near-$4B deal through its GIC joint venture.

The Venice Biennale opened May 9 amid protests after its international jury resigned over Israeli and Russian participation. Organizers shifted prize decisions to ticket‑holding visitors and postponed awards to Nov. 22.

A Tribeca pop‑up has bound 3.5 million DOJ‑released Epstein pages into more than 3,700 printed volumes across a two‑story gallery. The appointment‑only installation pairs a timeline of ties with a survivor memorial.