Patrizio Buanne, the world’s favorite Neapolitan pop crooner, is bringing his 20th anniversary world tour to Adler Hall at New York Society for Ethical Culture on Saturday February 21, 2026 at 8:00PM. Buanne will be performing 20 years of hits, including favorite songs from the Italian pop songbook and his original hits. Known for his […]
The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler is an invitation into the glamorous, witty, and wonderful universe of celebrated potter and designer Jonathan Adler. In his first curatorial role, Adler presents more than 60 works from the Museum’s permanent collection alongside his own iconic designs. A playful and irreverent perspective on craft history, the exhibition illuminates the […]
The first major museum exhibition spotlighting the artist’s singular vision, Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures features monumental hand-formed fiber works alongside a fully immersive recreation of Barnes’s Lower East Side studio in New York City. Barnes’s sculptural landscapes composed of fibers such as merino, yak, alpaca, and silk create a compelling tactile environment in which motion […]
Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births will explore the arc of human reproduction through a design lens, inviting audiences to consider how designs developed over the last 150 years have shaped reproductive health. The exhibition broadly explores the intersections of design, access, and experiences of (in)fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood, and includes […]
Crafted from brass, gold, and semi-precious stones, Douriean Fletcher’s boldly sculptural designs articulate Black identity, embody spiritual meaning, and have helped define cinematic characters and imagined worlds. The exhibition documents and explores how ideas of Afrofuturism materialize in Fletcher’s work, highlighting her research into African and African American jewelry design and efforts to build aesthetic […]
Expanding the voices represented in MAD’s permanent collection, OUT of the Jewelry Box considers the importance of queer perspectives in the world of studio and contemporary art jewelry. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary gift from Ron Porter and Joe Price, who have collected and worn art jewelry throughout their forty-one-year relationship, nine of those legally married. On […]
10:30am: Peace-play on the rooftop playground (weather permitting) 11:00am: This week’s activity 12:30pm: Community Lunch 1:30-2:30pm: Peace-play on the rooftop playground (weather permitting) How to Join To join, please RSVP to Youth Programs Director Audrey Kindred at ethicalfamilies@nysec.org. For more information about our youth and family programming, please visit ethical.nyc/families. About Young Ethical Explorers Young […]
An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles brings together approximately 30 examples, spanning the 18th to 20th centuries, from the Museum’s rich collection of more than 600 quilts and presents them from an ecological perspective, tracing patterns of relationships between the environment and traditional quilting practices. This groundbreaking exploration of the natural […]
The Mad MAD World of Jonathan Adler is an invitation into the glamorous, witty, and wonderful universe of celebrated potter and designer Jonathan Adler. In his first curatorial role, Adler presents more than 60 works from the Museum’s permanent collection alongside his own iconic designs. A playful and irreverent perspective on craft history, the exhibition illuminates the […]
The first major museum exhibition spotlighting the artist’s singular vision, Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures features monumental hand-formed fiber works alongside a fully immersive recreation of Barnes’s Lower East Side studio in New York City. Barnes’s sculptural landscapes composed of fibers such as merino, yak, alpaca, and silk create a compelling tactile environment in which motion […]