Looking for a fun new cultural activity but not sure what to check out next? We’ve rounded up some of the highlights that you can experience for free this month with Culture Pass, from new exhibition openings to limited-run live performances. Check back each month for a new set of recommendations!
You can learn more about individual exhibitions and events by clicking the links in the blurbs below, but if you want to book a Culture Pass, click here to return to the homepage and log in with your library card to make a reservation.
March 2026
All offers listed below are subject to availability.
NEW SITE: Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
Dates: 3/15, 3/18, 3/19, 3/31
The Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture, located within the Bronx campus of Hostos Community College, has released Culture Passes for the first time this month! Head to Hostos to see René Marqués' "Los Soles Truncos" on the 18th and 19th, or Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed on the 31st. You can also catch a performance of Layer the Walls Part II on the 15th, presented at Hostos by another Culture Pass partner organization, Grand Pistachio (listed under Grand Pistachio within the Culture Pass reservations platform.
PERFORMANCE: Experience a Month of Music in the Boogie Down Bronx
Dates: 3/1, 3/7, 3/8, 3/14, 3/15, 3/21, 3/22, 3/28, 3/29
It's that time of year again! Pregones/PRTT has put together a stellar month-long lineup of musical performances at the Pregones Theater for the annual March is Music festival. Catch shows from Elsie Lu, the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet (pictured), Youlan Ji, Cita & Pete Rodriguez, Umi Garrett, Jonathan Suazo, Human Li, the Arturo O'Farrill Quintet, and Wynona Wang.
PERFORMANCE: Take in an Ode to the Infinite at Playwrights Horizons
Dates: 3/3, 3/4, 3/5, 3/6, 3/7, 3/8
Every week at the same time, in the same place, a group of women share their stories of recovery. As weeks slip into years and decades spin into eternity, the women keep coming back amidst an ever-shifting, unfamiliar world. Jacob Perkins’ The Dinosaurs, which wraps up a successful run at Playwrights Horizons early this month, is a piercingly funny, loving ode to the infinite, innately human battle between holding on and letting go.
EXHIBITION: Celebrate Great Photography at Alice Austen House
Date: Opening 3/7
Alice Austen House presents Staten Island’s 4th Triennial of Photography, Resilient Communities. This juried exhibition highlights underrepresented communities and fosters dialogue around resilience, identity, and perseverance, while supporting emerging and mid-career photographers, celebrating artists who document strength, care, and survival in the face of change. Through personal and collective narratives, the selected works remind us that resilience is lived, shared, and built together.
EXHIBITION: Don't Miss the Whitney's Blockbuster Biennial
Date: Opening 3/8
The 82nd edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the US—features the work of 56 artists, duos, and collectives that reflects the current moment and examines various forms of relationality, including interspecies kinships, familial relations, geopolitical entanglements, technological affinities, shared mythologies, and infrastructural supports. Don't miss this "vivid atmospheric survey" from the Whitney Museum of American Art!
EXHIBITION: Explore Other Possible Worlds at the Jewish Museum
Date: Opening 3/20
Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds marks the first American museum show to focus on the artist’s late work, produced during his last, unsettling decade of life until his death in 1940. In exploring Klee’s late work, the Jewish Museum's new exhibition addresses that which is not only less familiar to an American audience, but also less studied in academic circles in the U.S. than in Europe. The exhibition is accompanied by a range of works from across Klee’s career as a dramatic contrast.
REOPENING: An Expanded New Museum Welcomes Visitors This Month
Date: 3/21
On March 21, 2026, the New Museum’s 60,000-square-foot building expansion, designed by OMA, will open with the exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future, spanning the entire Museum alongside several major new commissions that will be on long-term view in and around the building. Admission will be free to all on opening weekend. After that, you can grab a Culture Pass to check out this much anticipated new space for cutting edge arts & culture.