50th Anniversary Block Party

During the opening weekend of Greater New York, join us for MoMA PS1’s 50th Anniversary Block Party, a free celebration with our community partners featuring curator-led gallery talks, family activities, local food vendors, and music sets across the museum’s public plaza, courtyard, and galleries. The day features activations by artists, musicians, and local organizations including Asian American Arts Alliance, Discolocas NYC Fiesta Club, FAD Market, Lady Pink, Lower Eastside Girls Club, Make the Road, Malikah, Nuevayorkinos, Queens Night Market, Queensboro Dance Festival, Queensbridge Photo Collective, Red Canary Song, St. James Joy, and Teen Art Salon. PS1 is your place for the best of the borough.

Online reservations have ended. Walk-up registration will be available on the day of the event.

Block Party Schedule

Opening Weekend: Greater New York
All Day, Galleries
Our signature survey of artists living and working in the NYC area returns for its sixth edition, coinciding with MoMA PS1’s 50th anniversary. Spanning three floors of the museum, the exhibition brings into focus over 50 multidisciplinary artists in the formative years of their careers. Join us for curator-led spotlight talks throughout the day in the exhibition galleries.

Food Vendors Selected by Queens Night Market
All Day, Courtyard

FAD Market
All Day, 2nd Floor
FAD Market will bring together a special lineup of 60+ local artists, makers, and creative entrepreneurs, including select artists featured in Greater New York 2026. The market brings together independent creators working across art, design, and craft, on the museum’s second floor.

Family Workshops
10:30 a.m.–4 p.m., 1st Floor
Quilting Circle with Queensbridge Photo Collective
Extending their communal quilting practice, Queensbridge Photo Collective invites participants to sift through upcycled scraps, colors, and textures to collage portraits onto quilt squares.

Self-Defense Workshop with Malikah
Through a variety of self-defense techniques, Malikah teaches a workshop to build mental strength, resilience, and community.

Mapping Home with NuevaYorkinos
Inspired by NuevaYorkinos’ commitment to placekeeping, participants will collectively add to a map interpreting “home” through photos, drawings, and collage.

How To Take Up Space: A Mural Workshop with Lady Pink
10:30 a.m & 12:30 p.m., Courtyard
Join legendary graffiti artist and painter Lady Pink for a hands-on mural workshop inspired by Foundations, her 2025 mural commissioned for the MoMA PS1 Plaza. In this workshop, she invites young artists, teens, and families to explore the power of taking up space through graffiti and mural-making techniques, using chalk spray paint to collaboratively create directly onto PS1’s courtyard walls. Learn more here. Additional RSVPs required.

DJ Set by Discolocas NYC Fiesta Club
12–3 p.m., Terrace

Dance Demonstrations by Queensboro Dance Festival
1–2 p.m. & 4–5 p.m., Terrace

DJ Set: St. James Joy
3–6 p.m., Terrace
Saint James Joy is a Clinton Hill, Brooklyn-based collective and cultural platform known for transforming public spaces into vibrant, community-driven dance floors. For our 50th Anniversary Block Party, they bring their signature energy—joyful, inclusive, and deeply connected to the spirit of New York City.

Red Canary Song presents Fly in Power
4 p.m., 3rd Floor On the occasion of Touch the Heart in Homeroom, attend a screening of Fly in Power, a film that follows the community of Asian and migrant massage parlor workers, sex workers, and allies in Red Canary Song. The screening runs 78 minutes and will be followed by a panel discussion between organizers from the collective and Centro Corona. Additional RSVPs required; learn more and RSVP here.