Morningside Lights is an annual outdoor procession featuring lanterns built by volunteers from Columbia University and surrounding neighborhoods during a week of free public workshops. The event returns this year to illuminate the night with IN RETROSPECT: 100 Years of New York Art, a shared celebration of a century of the New York art and artists that have shaped our vision of the city, or inspired us to evolve, learn, and move forward. Presented in collaboration with the Friends of Morningside Park, each of the 30+ community-built lanterns will pay tribute to 100 years of art through an illuminated retrospective of New York’s rich and radical visual culture.

Join the procession to witness a mobile, glowing art gallery representing transformative art and artists, and reminding us how myriad ways of seeing can cohabit and enrich one singular space.