For those who love contemporary art, Long Island City has emerged as a destination of choice second only to Manhattan.

Located in Queens West, LIC now is home to one of the largest concentrations of art in NYC.

Listed below is a sampling of what the Long Island City art scene offers.

1) Long Island City Artists
LIC Artists, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation whose artist members are as prolific, culturally diverse and stylistically individualistic as the vital borough they have chosen as their creative “home” Please enter our site for an introduction to their work, and to the public events and exhibitions that have established LIC Artists as a shaping force for the arts in Queens since 1986.
Location: 35-35 28th Street Long Island City, NY 11106
Tel: 917-843-3836
Hours: Call

2) 5 Pointz
5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc. is an outdoor art exhibit space in Long Island City, New York, considered to be the world’s premiere “graffiti Mecca,” where aerosol artists from around the globe paint colorful pieces on the walls of a 200,000-square-foot factory building.
Location: Jackson Avenue at Crane Street and Davis Street, the whole block, Long Island City, NY 11101

3) MoMa PS1
MoMA PS1 is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit contemporary art institutions in the United States. An exhibition space rather than a collecting institution, MoMA PS1 devotes its energy and resources to displaying the most experimental art in the world
In 2000, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center became an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art to extend the reach of both institutions, and combine MoMA PS1’s contemporary mission with MoMA’s strength as one of the greatest collecting museums of modern art. 2010 marks the completed merger of the two institutions and celebrates P.S.1’s new and exciting chapter as MoMA PS1.
Location: 22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
Tel: (718) 784-2084
Hours: 12 – 6 p.m., Thursday through Monday: closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

4) Sculpture Center
Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established, national and international artists.
Location: 44-19 Purves Street, at Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
Tel: 718-361-1750
Hours: Thursday – Monday, 11am – 6pm
Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

5) Dorsky Gallery
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs (DGCP) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting contemporary visual arts to a broad public audience.
Location: 11-03 45th Avenue (at corner of 11th Street), Long Island City, NY, 11101
Tel: 718-937-6317
Hours: Thursday through Monday 11:00am – 6:00pm (Closed Tues & Wed)

6) Noguchi Museum
The Noguchi Museum was founded and designed by internationally renowned, Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) for the display of what he considered to be representative examples of his life’s work. Opened in 1985, the Museum is housed in a converted industrial building, connected to a building and interior garden of Noguchi’s design.
Location: 32-37 Vernon Blvd (entrance at 9-01 33rd Rd), Long Island City, NY 11106
Tel: 718-204-7088
Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 10:00am-5:00pm
Saturday & Sunday: 11:00am-6:00pm
Monday & Tuesday: CLOSED

7) Socrates Sculpture Park
Socrates Sculpture Park is the only site in the New York Metropolitan area specifically dedicated to providing artists with opportunities to create and exhibit large-scale work in a unique environment that encourages strong interaction between artists, artworks and the public. The Park’s existence is based on the belief that reclamation, revitalization and creative expression are essential to the survival, humanity and improvement of our urban environment.
Location: 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY 11106
Tel: 718 956 1819
Hours: Socrates is open 365 days a year from 10am to sunset.

8) Fisher Landau Center for Art
Housed in a former parachute harness factory, the 25,000 square foot museum was designed by Max Gordon in association with Bill Katz and is devoted to the exhibition and study of the contemporary art collection of Emily Fisher Landau. The core of the 1,500 work collection spans 1960 to the present and contains key works by artists who have shaped the most significant art of the last 50 years, including Richard Artschwager, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Mark Tansey, and Cy Twombly.
Location: 38-27 30th Street, Long Island City, New York 11101
Tel: 718.937.0727
Hours: Thursday to Monday, 12 to 5 p.m.

9) Flux Factory
Flux Factory is a non-profit art organization that supports and promotes emerging artists through exhibitions, commissions, residencies, and collaborative opportunities. Flux is guided by its passion to nurture the creative process, and knows that this process does not happen in a vacuum but rather through a network of peers and through resource-sharing. Flux Factory functions as an incubation and laboratory space for the creation of artworks that are in dialogue with the physical, social, and cultural spheres of New York City (though collaborations may start in New York and stretch far beyond).
Location: 39-31 29th St, Long Island City, NY,  11101
Tel: (718) 707-336
Hours: Call

10) Museum of the Moving Image
Each year the Museum screens more than 400 films in a stimulating mix of the classic and the contemporary. With live music for silent films, restored prints from the world’s leading archives, and outstanding new films from the international festival circuit, Museum programs are recognized for their quality as well as their scope.
Location: 36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106
Tel: 718 784 0077
Hours: Call