Studio 54 is coming to Roslyn Harbor. On Saturday, November 21, 2026, the Nassau County Museum of Art opens three exhibitions at once inside the Frick mansion, and two of them are about the same thing: New York City after dark, from the 1960s through the 1980s. All three run through March 7, 2027.

NYC Glam: The 60s to 80s

The largest of the three, NYC Glam: The 60s to 80s, follows the city's art, fashion, music and nightlife scene from Truman Capote's Black and White Ball in 1966 through the Studio 54 years and beyond. The museum's list of names runs long. On the art side it includes Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alex Katz, Peter Max, Erté and Judith Leiber, along with Hunt Slonem and Richard Bernstein, and the pages of Interview magazine.

Fashion gets equal space. The exhibition names Halston, Bob Mackie, Diana Vreeland, André Leon Talley, Ossie Clark, Stephen Sprouse, Isaac Mizrahi, Hanae Mori and Paloma Picasso. Photographers Ron Galella and Dustin Pittman are part of it, and so is the music of the period: David Bowie, Patti Smith, Deborah Harry and the Ramones among them. A 1978 Mapplethorpe portrait of Deborah Harry is one of the works the museum is using to introduce the show.

One room is built as a set. The museum is recreating the feel of Vito Giallo Antiques, the antiques shop where Warhol bought objects almost daily, using pieces from Giallo's own collection.

Harry Benson: New York Nightlife

The second show, Harry Benson: New York Nightlife, 60s to 80s, is a photography exhibition from the same two decades. Benson, born in 1929, traveled with the Beatles on their 1964 tour and spent six decades photographing presidents, royalty and celebrities. This show pulls from the New York part of that career: the Capote ball, where he photographed Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow, the scene inside Studio 54, Jacqueline Kennedy looking out of a limousine, and Bianca Jagger with Andy Warhol.

A new gallery for Tiffany

The third opening is a change to the building itself. The museum has named a room the Louis Comfort Tiffany Gallery and will use it for a running series drawn from its own Tiffany paintings, which it describes as the largest collection of his work in the Orientalist style anywhere. The first show there, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Orientalism, hangs 20 paintings from his travels in North Africa and West Asia, including Cairo Travelers Resting from 1869. It follows the museum's exhibition Louis Comfort Tiffany: Artist of the Gilded Age, and it lines up with two Tiffany and Orientalism shows now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

What comes next

After these close in March, the museum moves on to Glorious Gardens, March 20 to July 11, 2027, an exhibition about gardens in painting, fashion and design, set in a mansion that sits inside the 145-acre William Cullen Bryant Preserve.

Plan your visit

Opens: Saturday, November 21, 2026; on view through March 7, 2027
Where: Nassau County Museum of Art, One Museum Drive, Roslyn Harbor
Mansion hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., last entry 4:15 p.m.; closed Mondays
Admission to the mansion: adults $15, seniors 65 and up $10, students with ID $5, children under 12 $5, under 4 free, members free
Grounds: the arboretum, trails and sculpture garden are free and open daily from 9 a.m. to dusk
Phone: 516-484-9338

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