NYC Museum Shows To See Before Summer Ends: Cloud City, Yayoi Kusama, And Rineke Dijkstra

10 Museum Shows To See Before Summer Ends
'Cloud City' by Argentine artist Tomas Sareceno is on display on the roof of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 29, 2012 in New York. The structure of 16 interconnected modules—54 feet long by 29 feet wide by 28 feet high (16.5 by 8.8 by 8.5 meters)—is accessible for visitors to walk up and inside the modules. The exhibition, 'Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City', continues through November 4. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages)
'Cloud City' by Argentine artist Tomas Sareceno is on display on the roof of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 29, 2012 in New York. The structure of 16 interconnected modules—54 feet long by 29 feet wide by 28 feet high (16.5 by 8.8 by 8.5 meters)—is accessible for visitors to walk up and inside the modules. The exhibition, 'Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City', continues through November 4. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/GettyImages)

NEW YORK CITY — What better way to spend the hot and muggy days of August than to catch up on the city’s coolest museum shows before the summer ends?

Exhibitions now on view have something for everyone. For contemporary art lovers looking to be wowed, there’s an eye-popping Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Whitney and a giant silo-turned-movie-dome at the "Ghosts in the Machine" show at the New Museum.

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