Skyspace · MoMA PS1, Long Island City
James Turrell, Meeting
A Skyspace at MoMA PS1. Sit in the room and look up through an opening in the ceiling at the sky.
Places · New York
New York
Abe blacked out a high floor and let the city cook on the furniture. New York is full of rooms that behave like cameras: holes, skyspaces, midnight screens, dirt lofts, and people still pouring collodion.
On theme
What to see
Museums, galleries, and other unique spaces.
Museum · 79 Essex Street
International Center of Photography
Photography museum and school on the Lower East Side, at 79 Essex Street.
Public art · Times Square, nightly
Times Square Arts, Midnight Moment
Each night from 11:57 to midnight, Times Square's billboards play one artwork. The world's largest digital public art program.
Studio / school · 36 E 30th Street
Penumbra Foundation
A New York nonprofit for analog and historical photography: workshops, a tintype studio, camera obscura, and a research library.
Gallery · 693 Fifth Avenue
Edwynn Houk Gallery
New York gallery that represents Abelardo Morell. Camera obscura interiors and tent-camera photographs.
The view · Rockefeller Center
Top of the Rock
Observation decks at the top of Rockefeller Center, looking over Manhattan.
Room · 141 Wooster Street
The New York Earth Room
Walter De Maria's 1977 installation: 250 cubic yards of earth filling a SoHo loft. Maintained by Dia. Free.
Room · 393 West Broadway
The Broken Kilometer
Walter De Maria, 1979. Five hundred brass rods on a West Broadway floor, totaling one kilometer. Also Dia. Free.
Gallery · 380 Columbus Avenue
Aperture
Photography foundation, publisher, and gallery. A new public space at 380 Columbus Avenue opens 18 September 2026.
The work · The 33rd floor
The city as negative
Camera obscura photographs from Morell's New York work: Times Square, bridges, hotel rooms.
Know before you go
If you want the work
MoMA, the Met, the Getty, Edwynn Houk. Or stand in a dark room of your own and cut the hole. That is the visit.
The door ↗The film we made here
