Opening tomorrow, April 11th, Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley is a mid-career survey of the exuberant, imaginative worlds of twin artists Simon and Nikolai Haas. Featuring 85 fantastical hybrid creatures, algorithmically generated landscapes, and meticulously hand-built ceramics.
Tap the link in bio to learn more, and don’t miss the artists’ talk and book signing featuring @thehaasbrothers in conversation with MAD Chief Curator Elissa Auther and Laura Mott, Chief Curator of @cranbrookartmuseum .
Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley is now open!
Come meet the Haas Brothers’ lovable extended family of freaks, beasts, and zoids, joined by an array of colorful acrylic paintings, sculpture, and fiber art. Marrying meticulous handcraft with a fluency in the latest technologies, the brothers’ strangely familiar objet and furniture challenge conventional expectations while blurring the boundaries of art and design.
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, today at 4 pm join MAD Chief Curator Elissa Auther and Laura Mott, Chief Curator of @cranbrookartmuseum Museum, for a conversation with Simon and Nikolai Haas.
Tap the link in our bio for more details.
Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley on view through August 16, 2026.
MAD About Jewelry returns for its 26th edition on May 5–9, 2026! MAD’s signature benefit celebration and annual curated sale of contemporary jewelry will feature designs from 45 visionary creators spanning more than 20 countries. From emerging talents to internationally acclaimed innovators, this is the destination for collectors and jewelry lovers to shop, connect, and celebrate the future of the field.
On Tuesday, May 5th, join us for an exclusive first look as we celebrate this year’s artists. Enjoy cocktails and early-access shopping, followed by a buffet dinner at Robert with MAD About Jewelry artists.
MAD About Jewelry is free with Museum admission. Become a MAD Member and enjoy unlimited access and special benefits!
Proceeds from @mad_aboutjewelry will benefit participating artists and support the museum’s educational programs.
MAD About Jewelry 2026 Featured Artists include:
@adnjewelry@fatmamostafajewelry@klarasipkovajewellery@gisella_miretti@keanenewyork@angela.mini.jo@esther.ortiz.villajos@mutya_doyoon@doraharalambaki
Have you experienced Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley? We invite you to come explore the exuberant world of Nikolai and Simon Haas featuring their fantastic creatures within otherworldly realms. The surrealistic, animistic, and zoomorphic, as well as humor and irreverence, abound within the Haas Brothers’ animal kingdom, hinting at the deeper well of emotions the artists are seeking to unleash and explore. An ecosystem of their own flora and fauna—hybrids of our world and their imagination.
Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley is on view through Aug 16.
Tap the link in bio for tickets.
#nycxdesign2026
On Thursday, May 28, join mixed-media collage artist and MAD Artist Studio alum Kat Ryals (@kitsch_witch ) for Design Happy Hour: Fantastical Animal Print Textile Collage inspired by the exhibition Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley. You'll learn to creatively reuse craft materials such as patterned and transparent fabrics, mixed beads, and a variety of trims to create your own funky animal-print inspired collage on board. Drawing inspiration from both natural and fantastical animal patterns, you'll cut, arrange, and assemble materials to produce your own designs!
All skill levels welcome!
Design Happy Hour invites the public ages 21 and up to enjoy an open bar of wine and beer while exploring design techniques with some of the city's most exciting makers and creatives.
Tap the link in bio to reserve your spot!
📣Last chance! Today is the final day of @mad_aboutjewelry — our annual benefit sale featuring bold, unique contemporary jewelry pieces by 45 from around the globe. Meet the makers, discover your next statement piece, and support MAD’s exhibitions and education programs while you shop! Open today until 6 pm! Entrance to MAD About Jewelry is free with Museum admission. Arrive after 5 pm and pay only $5!
Still looking for a unique last-minute Mother’s Day’s gift? Visit @mad_aboutjewelry , the ultimate pop-up jewelry show and sale presented in the Museum’s 3rd-floor gallery. This is a rare opportunity to discover extraordinary jewelry and shop for mom while meeting 45 exceptional and innovative artists from 20 countries.
Entrance to MAD About Jewelry is free with Museum admission. Arrive after 5 pm and pay only $5!
MAD About Jewelry runs through tomorrow, May 9th.
See sale hours below:
Sale Dates and Hours
Fri: 11 am–8 pm
Sat: 10 am–6 pm
Proceeds from the benefit and sale directly support the artists and MAD’s educational and exhibition programs.
For the piece Songe, artist Alice Riehl turns to the passionflower to explore female desire in full bloom. The title nods to two sources: the ancient myth of Dibutade, a woman so devoted to her lover that she traced his shadow on a wall before he left — only for her father to remake it in clay and claim credit for inventing sculpture. And Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, where desire blurs the line between reality and illusion, until marriage steps in to restore order.
Riehl flips the script. In Songe, pink isn't passive; it's a force. And female desire blooms on its own terms.
See this work and more now on view in Alice Riehl’s Porcelain Florilegium. Tap the link below for tickets:
/exhibition/alice-riehls-porcelain-florilegium
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Alice Riehl
Songe, 2024
Porcelain
#MADAboutJewelry2026 Is Now Open! MAD About Jewelry is the ultimate jewelry show and sale presented on the Museum’s 3rd floor gallery. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to discover extraordinary jewelry and shop for Mother's Day while meeting over 40 artists from 20 countries. From emerging talents to internationally acclaimed innovators, this is the destination for collectors and jewelry lovers to shop, connect, and celebrate the future of the field.
Entrance to @MAD_aboutjewelry is free with Museum admission. Arrive after 5 pm and pay only $5!
SALE HOURS
Wed, May 5 11 am–8 pm
Thu, May 6 11 am–8 pm
Fri, May 6 11 am– 8 pm
Sat, May 9 10 am–6 pm
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Event photography: Kenzi Hajar/BFA.com
Photos of works from featured artists included:
@choeunhee.artwork@yuri_na_jewelry@danielaboni.me
Happy First Monday in May! This year’s #METGala theme, "Fashion is Art,” has us reminiscing about some of the best fashion and design as art moments here at MAD over the years. Here are just a few.
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Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle,2022.
Michael Sylvan Robinson, Identity Is..., 2021.
2025 Burke Prize: Hai-Wen Lin, 2026
Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe, 2025
Kent Monkman, Miss Chief’s Tipi Dress (Red), 2020, featured in Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, 2022
Kaisik Wong featured in Counter-Couture: Handmade Fashion in an American Counterculture,2017
Step into the weird, witty world of Haas Brothers with the Uncanny Valley exhibition catalog and limited-edition wearable pieces and collectible objects. From tees, socks, and silk scarves to miniature Haas Brothers sculptures, each piece brings their surreal, creature-filled universe into your everyday life.
Be sure to join us tonight, Thursday, April 30, as Bill Sofield and design historian Daniella Ohad come together for a conversation on @StudioSofield ’s influential blending of architecture and interiors and the four decades of vision behind it. From handcrafted interiors to the much-anticipated conversion of New York’s landmark Flatiron Building into private residences.
Copies of the new monograph Studio Sofield Works from @Rizzolibooks will be available for purchase. Tap the link in bio for tickets.
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1. Watercolor rendering of the lobby of the Flatiron Building private residencies.
2. Exterior rendering of the Flatiron Building private residences.
