If skyline views are on your to-do list, Skylift opened at the Rockefeller Center at the end of last year, adding an extra three stories and an LED light display to its iconic observation deck, giving you the best 360-degree views of Manhattan.

For art lovers, there is always plenty to see. Highlights include MoMa in midtown, where the gallery’s evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art. Currently on view are works from Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne as well as van Gogh’s The Starry Night. Until May, you can see Christian Marclay’s The Clock, a moving image exhibit that took three years to edit and encapsulates 100 years of moving-image history in a 24-hour montage composed from thousands of film and television clips depicting clocks and other references to time.

The Brooklyn Museum celebrates its 200th anniversary this year with Solid Gold (until July), an exhibition that celebrates the majesty of gold. The fashion world is well represented here with designs by Christian Dior, Halston, Yves Saint Laurent and Anna Sui.

New York-based brand and fashion-insider favourite Kith has partnered with the Brooklyn Museum on a collaborative Artist Series Capsule for Black History Month, which spans casualwear, hoodies, logo T-shirts, sweatshirts and caps.

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