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Just one block North of Hunter College is the Asia Society and Museum. Directed by Hunter MA alumnus Yasufumi Nakamori, Asia Society encourages collaboration across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy.

Dia Art Foundation was founded in 1974 to help artists achieve projects without the limitations of scale or scope.

The Frick is a museum and research center which houses a permanent collection of 1,800 European artworks originating from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.

Just a 20 minute walk from Hunter, you can find The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest museum in the United States. It offers an encyclopedic collection of art and objects from throughout more than 5,000 years of history.

The MoMA is an arts museum which was founded in the late 1920s by three women (Lillie P. Bliss, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Mary Quinn Sullivan) to challenge conservative policies of traditional museums with a museum dedicated to modern art. It is is now home to a variety of temporary and ongoing exhibits, including Van Gogh’s Starry Night, among an abundance of artworks that form the modern art canon.

Poster House is the first and only poster museum in the United States. Through temporary exhibitions, a growing permanent collection, and educational events, Poster House explores the enormous impact of posters on society and culture.

Founded in 1901, the Society of Illustrators is the oldest nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of illustration in America.

The Socrates Sculpture Park is an abandoned-landfill-turned-outdoor-museum which is open 365 days a year, from 9am to sunset.

The Guggenheim is a museum dedicated to collecting and preserving modern and contemporary art.

Featuring well-renowned artists such as Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Whitney Museum is dedicated to American art and artists.

Since 1861, the Brooklyn Academy of Music has presented a variety of performing arts works across disciplines including music, dance, theater, and poetry.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually.

New York Live Arts is a performing arts based organization that specializes in movement-based artistry.

New York City Center is a historic arts venue in Midtown founded with the intention to make the performing arts accessible to all audiences.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses one of the world's most extensive research collections in the fields of theater, film, dance, music, and recorded sound.

Playbill.com has compiled student discount, rush, and discount ticket policies for more than 25 Off Broadway theaters. The site also offers information on everything theater in New York City including current and upcoming show information, casting calls, and job opportunities.

The Metropolitan Opera is the largest classical music organization in North America, presenting 18 different operas annually.

The Shed is a multidisciplinary arts venue that represents works from pop to classical music, painting to digital media, theater to literature, and sculpture to dance.

The Brick is home to a variety of groundbreaking experimental theater and exhibitions. The nonprofit venue presents work by artists in various career stages, including many who are just starting out, and is committed to removing financial barriers for artists’ development.

HERE Arts Center presents innovative performances and events in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media, and visual art.

Mabou Mines is an avant-garde theater company that supports experimental performance and inventive re-imaginings of classic theater works.

National Queer Theater is a Brooklyn based theater company dedicated to LGBTQ artists.

New Perspectives Theatre Company is dedicated to underrepresented audiences in theatre, including as women, BIPOC, and young people.

The Play Company is an award-winning Off Broadway theatre that has brought a global perspective to American stages for over twenty years, introducing New York City audiences to some of the world’s most vital playwrights.

Playwrights Horizons is an influential nonprofit Off Broadway theatre company that centers the voices of playwrights.

Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation’s first nonprofit theaters, the Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater aims to produce ambitious plays that lead to positive social change by inspiring empathy and provoking conversation.

Signature Theatre is an influential nonprofit Off Broadway theatre devoted to supporting playwrights.

For decades, the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre in Central Park has been bringing enjoyment to legions of people through its contemporary and innovative marionette productions based on children’s classics.

TDF is an organization that seeks to make theatre and dance in NYC as accessible as possible through subsidizing ticket prices.

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based nonprofit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists.

Under the Radar is New York City’s premierw annual festival of experimental theater, featuring cutting-edge performances from around the world and across the U.S.

Founded in 1982, Vineyard Theatre is a nonprofit Off Broadway venue dedicated to developing and producing new plays and musicals that push the boundaries of what theatre can be and do.

The Wooster Group is a company of artists based in New York City that makes work for theater, dance, and media.

From Billie Holiday and the Beatles to Leonard Bernstein and Rachmaninoff, this legendary venue has featured some of the most accomplished musicians of the 20th century.

Established with the mission of providing access without barriers, Kaufman Music Center proudly programs a comprehensive musical experience for students, performers, and audiences in New York and beyond.

Located inside the shell of a 19th century sawdust factory, National Sawdust joins Williamsburg’s industrial past with state-of-the-art acoustic technology to present multi-disciplinary sound-based performances.

The New York Philharmonic is one of the oldest music institutions in the United States and is often cited as one of the “big five” symphony orchestras in the country.

Symphony Space serves as a multi-disciplinary performing arts center with programming as diverse as its history, including music, dance, theater, film, and literary readings.

Founded in 1958, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is the largest modern dance company in the United States. The company was founded by Alvin Ailey, an American dancer, director, choreographer, and activist who centered his artistry around the Black American experience.

The American Ballet Theatre is America’s national ballet company, and it is committed to preserving classical dance. The company has showcased masterpieces created by many esteemed choreographers such as George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Twyla Tharp.

Gibney Dance Company commissions and performs works by emerging and renowned choreographers. Company members are full-time artistic associates who contribute not only as performing artists but also as activists and entrepreneurs.

The Joyce is home to more than 400 domestic and international dance companies, offering diverse, popular and challenging performances to over 150,000 audience members a year.

Started by poet Marie Bullock when she was just 23 years old, the Academy of American Poets is the nation’s leading champion of American poets and poetry. The organization is known for producing national poetry month, the “poem a day” series, and the valuable online resource poets.org.

The vast archive of the New York Public Library contains treasures ranging from a draft of the Declaration of Independence to locks of famous writers’ hair. With more than 92 locations in every borough except Brooklyn (which has its own library network), it’s the largest public library system in the US.

The Museum of the Moving Image focuses on a variety of modern technologies including film, television, video games, and other forms of digital media.

One Whale’s Tale is a multidisciplinary arts incubator that fosters independent work to empower artists, engage communities, and address social issues through the arts.

The 92Y is a cultural and community center where people from all over the world connect through culture, arts, entertainment, and conversation.

The Americas Society is dedicated to education, debate, and dialogue in the Americas.

Founded by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz, El Museo del Barrio began as a community call for a school curriculum that included Puerto Rican art, history, folklore, and culture.

The Intrepid Museum is located inside the USS Intrepid (CV-11), a decommissioned aircraft carrier that survived five Kamikaze attacks and a torpedo strike during World War II. Visitors can find the museum docked at Pier 86, where inside the ship they’ll find immersive exhibitions dedicated to science, history, and military service.

Jacques Marchais not only established the first museum of Tibetan art in America, she also designed it to resemble a mountain monastery, making it the first Himalayan architecture in the US as well.

The Jewish Museum was the first institution of its kind in the United States and is one of the oldest Jewish museums in the world. The museum maintains a collection of nearly 30,000 artworks, ceremonial objects, and media reflecting the global Jewish experience over more than 4,000 years.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage is committed to the crucial mission of educating diverse visitors about Jewish life before, during, and after the Holocaust.

The Museum of the City of New York was started in 1923 during a time when record immigration and housing construction were transforming the city. In its mission to be “The People’s Museum,” it continues to ask what it means to be a New Yorker through the exhibition of eccentric objects, ranging from photographs and paintings to costumes, furniture, toys, and manuscripts.

The 9/11 Memorial Museum invites visitors to learn about the history of the 9/11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing at the site where the Twin Towers once stood.

What started as a temporary horticulture exhibit at the Fair has now grown into an urban oasis in one of New York’s most bustling and diverse neighborhoods. The garden provides 39-acres of various trees, flowering plants, and themed gardens.