Uptown Fridays began at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the summer of 2000 to celebrate art, music, and community. This summer, we invite our neighbors in Harlem and friends throughout the city back uptown to our newly reopened building.

DJs and musicians invigorate the Stoop and fifth floor with sonic traditions from the African diaspora. Take a break on our Rooftop Terrace, which offers unparalleled views of Harlem and downtown; explore the galleries; dance to some of the city’s best DJs; and unwind, all throughout the Museum.

Join Juliana Huxtable and MORENXXX (Jesús Hilario Reyes) for an evening of high-energy, genre-fusing tunes.

Guests 21+ receive one free signature cocktail, courtesy of our beverage sponsor, Hennessy. One free signature cocktail or mocktail per guest.

Please note: Access to the fifth and sixth floors requires a ticket to Uptown Fridays. Visitors can access all other floors with standard general admission to the Museum. Lineup is subject to change.

Please drink responsibly. Imported Cognac Hennessy® 40% Alc./Vol. (80º), ©2026 Imported by Moët Hennessy USA, Inc., New York, NY

Juliana Huxtable
Using the structures of music as mediums in her multi-media universe, Juliana Huxtable is a DJ and musician singular in her approach. Where her visual art and poetry navigate the complexification of desire in a life increasingly mediated by technology, her music utilizes the sounds of technology itself to construct parallel realities to be inhabited and embodied in rhythm and harmonic tableaux.

Her sets skillfully deploy the notion of sampling, and re-blogging as DJ strategies, ecstatically mixing an array of influences that frolic at the boundary of genre- intuition and experimentation. At once an assertion of freedom and an ode to the evolutionary structure of electronic music subcultures, she aspires to the sublime in what can often only be described as witchcraft behind the decks; seance from the stage.

MORENXXX
DJ, producer, and antidisciplinary artist MORENXXX—also known as Jesús Hilario Reyes—is a true enigmatic force exalted from Chicago’s underground. MORENXXX's hypnotic sound ranges with rapturous percussion and ethereal intensity, weaving machinic grooves and infectious rhythms far above the genre battlegrounds, culminating in something otherworldly and entirely their own. Tectonic, boundless, and undeniable, MORENXXX blends the contemporary and the timeless with cyclonic fluidity; their cunning prowess invigorates dancers to riotous peaks, bringing out something primordial yet contemplative.

Limited tickets will be available online and onsite with pricing as follows:

• $20 General Admission
• $15 Members

Minors under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Attendees must be 21+ to drink. One free signature cocktail or mocktail per guest.

Capacity on the fifth floor and terrace is limited. Drop into music, art, and other activations throughout the Museum over the course of the evening.