Come to New York for a Date with Avant-Garde Culture

New York, a synonym for trend, freedom, avant-garde, and unrestraint. This most iconic international metropolis in the United States is a gathering place of avant-garde culture that leads the fashion in the tide of the times.

Go City has curated a selection of New York cultural attractions for you. Let’s embark on an avant-garde cultural journey and measure the city’s cultural depth with our own footsteps.

Sex and the city

- Museum of Sex (Original ticket price $20, free admission with New York Pass)

Sex and life are inseparable. In the society we live in, fertility and reproduction are praised, carved into stone, and seen as divine, while sex is often suppressed and stigmatized. Oscar Wilde once said, “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” Everything in the world is about sex, except sex itself. Sex is about power, about morality, deeply rooted in our culture, history, and social norms. When visiting the Museum of Sex, try to set aside preconceptions and observe everything related to “sex” from an anthropological perspective, understanding its changes throughout human history and the differences across cultures, regions, and gender perspectives.

- Color Factory (Original ticket price $38, free admission with New York Pass)

Humans can only see three colors, but the combination of red, yellow, and blue creates rainbows, flowers, endless fields, and oceans.

This interactive exhibition hall, covering 20,000 square feet, showcases brand-new participatory color installation art from all over the city. Here you will listen carefully to the artists and designers as they tell their color stories, refreshing your visual senses in an immersive experience.

From Underground to Mainstream

- Brooklyn Street Art & Graffiti Walking Tour (Original ticket price $32, free with New York Pass)

The rise and development of street culture are inseparable from the history, society, and racial relations of the United States. Its followers are mostly marginalized groups, teenagers, and young people just starting out. The passion and ideals of the younger generation are suppressed and silenced in the real world. But these people wandering the streets insist on making their voices heard and creating their own unique culture, not only to liberate their restless souls but also to ensure that no single voice monopolizes the interpretation of everything.

Today, street culture is no longer exclusive to the underground. Hip-hop music, street dance, skateboarding, and street-style attire have long become mainstream popular culture and spread worldwide. Following the steps of a New Yorker guide, you will discover that on the graffiti walls of Brooklyn, the street culture that the public sees as diluted by the pop industry remains exactly as it originally was.

- New Museum (Original ticket price $18, free admission with New York Pass)

- MoMA PS1 (Original ticket price $10, free admission with New York Pass)

The highbrow art museums are never short of avant-garde art. When in New York, you absolutely cannot miss MoMA PS1. It is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit contemporary art institutions in the United States. Since its inception, it has actively promoted emerging artists, new genres, and bold new works by established artists, driving innovation in contemporary art.

The New Museum is also a gathering place for contemporary artworks from around the world. Adhering to its original intention of “daring to try,” the museum collects the most cutting-edge art pieces, each full of creativity and imagination, challenging the possibilities of 21st-century art and institutions.

Wearable Art

- Fashion Window Walking Tour (Original ticket price $35, free with New York Pass)

In the eyes of fashionistas, clothing and accessories are far more than just fabric for warmth, tools for maintaining etiquette, or luxury items for showing status. Taste separates life from survival, and fashion distinguishes mediocrity from attitude. Design and styling are not just about shaping beauty—they are art themselves.

Following the footsteps of a New York fashion expert, you will walk through New York’s Fashion District, experiencing the designers’ creativity through professional commentary. Explore trendy shops freely and listen to stories about famous fashion masters. In a sense, fashion culture, like artworks, requires deep exploration of its connotations and history to truly appreciate its beauty.

Whether something is avant-garde or not is always defined within a specific era. After the waves of time, what settles will become classic, and what remains is not eliminated but has long merged with the classic. The so-called avant-garde means bold innovation, unique individuality, and not being confined by the footprints left by predecessors.

Every exploration is a gain. Every attempt is a journey well worth taking.

Go City is always on the road with you.