nyc summer 2025: heating up at moma ps1
Since it first opened in 1976 as P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the building known as MoMA PS1 since 2000 has been presenting multidisciplinary work from around the world, often by emerging artists on the cutting edge. Located on Jackson Ave. in Long Island City, it is one of New York’s most exciting spaces, a former public school transformed into a museum, making use of nearly every inch, including classrooms, bathrooms, stairways, the roof, the café, water fountains, brick walls, the elevator, and even the boiler room. Every summer, PS1 installs a courtyard project; last year’s Le Grand Soir (“The Big Night”), by French-Moroccan multimedia visual artist Yto Barrada, is still on view, towering sculptures of painted concrete blocks that are both personal and political.
Next to Le Grand Soir is the large, open area where the summer Warm Up series has taken place since 1998, featuring an international roster of DJs spinning tunes that get big crowds dancing in a sweaty celebration of music and life. Below is the full schedule, including the current exhibitions and special evenings with James Turrell’s magical Meeting. Tickets for Warm Up are $20 to $30 per show or $100 for the full season; entry to the museum is free for New York City residents and $5 to $10 for everyone else seventeen and older, Thursday through Monday.
Monday, July 7
Sunset viewing: Meeting, 8:00-9:30
Saturday, July 18
Warm Up: MikeQ, DJ Empress, Alex Zhang Hungtai & Tashi Dorji, and LYDO, 4:00-10:00
Saturday, July 25
Warm Up: Sarz, DJ Q, John Glacier, and Tati au Miel, 4:00-10:00
Saturday, August 1
Warm Up: Eric D. Clark, OK Williams, DJ Spanish Fly, and Masaaki, 4:00-10:00
Monday, August 4
Sunset viewing: Meeting, 7:45-9:00
Saturday, August 8
Warm Up: Marie Davidson (DJ), LOKA, Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez, and Concrete Husband, 4:00-10:00
Saturday, August 15
Warm Up: Special Request, Nguzunguzu, Authentically Plastic, and NEW YORK, 4:00-10:00
Saturday, August 22
Warm Up: DJ Stingray 313, DJ Travella, Natural Wonder Beauty Concept, and xexexe/halfpet, 4:00-10:00
Julien Ceccaldi, A Collection of Little Memories, acrylic on wall panels with aluminum stair, 2025 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
through August 25
“Julien Ceccaldi: Adult Theater,” NYC-based Ceccaldi’s first US solo museum exhibition; don’t miss A Collection of Little Memories
“Alanis Obomsawin: The Children Have to Hear Another Story,” career retrospective of Canadian Abenaki artist, activist, and musician; watch Christmas at Moose Factory
“Whitney Claflin: I was wearing this when you met me,” first solo museum show by American artist; look for Venice Beach
Sandra Poulson’s Este quarto parece uma República! is a call to action (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
through October 6
“Sandra Poulson: Este quarto parece uma República! [This Bedroom Looks Like a Republic!],” Angola-born artist’s powerful display of politically oriented wood and garment assemblages commenting on nation-building and civil war
“The Gatherers,” works by Karimah Ashadu, Tolia Astakhishvili, Miho Dohi, Andro Eradze, He Xiangyu, Samuel Hindolo, Geumhyung Jeong, Klara Liden, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Nick Relph, Selma Selman, Ser Serpas, Emilija Škarnulytė, and Zhou Tao; highlights include Selman’s Flower of Life, Mukendi’s Trash TV, Serpa’s Backdrop painting and room of six pieces (it festers while it stances up in that tree, find me and surrender cadence sweet trite maybe lose tinges of solitude and again acknowledge me, others), and Eradze’s stunning, surreal sixteen-minute video Flowering and Fading
“Bani Abidi: Reserved,” Pakistani artist’s “staged documentary” dealing with government ceremonies, authoritarianism, nationalism, and communal solidarity
“Love Rules: The Harm Reduction Archives of Heather Edney and Richard Berkowitz,” collaboration with Visual AIDS that explores decades of safe sex guidelines, safer injection practices, and harm reduction strategies
Lady Pink’s Foundations will be on view through June 2026 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
“Lady Pink: Foundations,” MoMA PS1 Plaza Mural by Ecuador-born, Queens-based artist paying tribute to 7 train, 5 Pointz, Iz the Wiz, Meres One, Zephyr, Court Square Diner, and Lady Liberty as the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, among others
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