Museum of Modern Art, New York

66 May 2018 - 21 October 2018

Various locations, New York City

11 May 2018 - 23 May 2018

Christopher Scoates joins the MAD in New York as Director after a stint at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Michigan.

The curator of this major exhibition at New York’s Cooper Hewitt tells us about the thinking behind the show and some of its highlights

Forty years ago, poverty, crime and de-industrialisation nearly killed off the West’s major cities. Today, an abundance of cash threatens to do a similar thing

The Met Fifth Avenue
4 May — 4 September 2017

Most medical schools are fit only for cadavers. Diller Scofidio + Renfro has injected a sense of life into the typology with a tower of morphing, cascading spaces in Manhattan

Museum of Arts and Design, New York
27 April — 6 August 2017

Museum of Modern Art, New York
15 April — 13 August 2017

Cooper Hewitt, New York
7 April — 20 August 2017

The ‘Kagan look’ took mid-century modern design and added organic forms, a sense of joy – and even comfort. No wonder he is so often overlooked, says John Jervis

With its digitally enhanced facade and ‘invisible’ penthouse, the renovation of a historic iron-clad building in TriBeCa is both respectful and radical

The Upstate town has become an affordable haven for New York designers enticed by the opportunity for a life removed from – but still close enough to – the big city

A show in New York juxtaposes the handmade and technologically fabricated, challenging the assumptions we make about each method, says Anja Wohlstrom

For their New York solo debut, the Belgian designers have put together a typically exuberant snapshot of their 16-year career, says Caia Hagel

From the ethereal to the grotesque, a show in New York surprises and enthrals by mixing elements of design we don’t traditionally think of as equal, says Caia Hagel

Cooper Hewitt, New York
12 February – 21 August

The British designer froze metal to –346 degrees while living in a Liverpool factory to produce a collection of tactile, weighty furniture, on display in an exhibition in New York. Caia Hagel went to the show’s opening

From lightbulbs and chairs to flags and bedclothes, this show traces artists’ engagement with everyday objects that might have been disregarded, says Laura McLean-Ferris

From Bogota to Bristol, policymakers and community groups are devising creative ways to break the stranglehold that cars have over city roads, says Peter Murray