The New York Century: 100 Years of Imagining the City, 1923-2023

FAIN: GI-290758-23

Museum of the City of New York, Inc. (New York, NY 10029-5221)
Sarah M. Henry (Project Director: August 2022 to present)

Implementation of a short-term exhibition examining how New York City has been depicted in arts, media, and culture from 1923 to 2023.

"The New York Century: 100 Years of Imagining the City, 1923-2023" is a new exhibition opening at the Museum of the City of New York in celebration of our Centennial year in 2023. The exhibition seeks to answer “What does New York mean?” through a sweeping investigation of how the arts, media, and culture have imagined, represented, and interpreted New York City over the past one hundred years. Focusing our inquiry on the century since the Museum was founded and the dramatic changes that have taken place in the years since, "The New York Century" will invite visitors to consider the ways in which generations of diverse artists and creators have interpreted New York City as a matrix of people, places, and stories.