This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Ramones' self-titled debut album, which the Queens Museum is celebrating with Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk (until 31 July). The show looks at the band through concert posters, photographs, t-shirts and other memorabilia from more than 50 public and private collections. It especially focuses on the band's roots in Queens (they got together in the Forest Hills neighbourhood, just like Simon and Garfunkel).
Before it finally dissolved in 1307, the Seljuq dynasty and its offspring controlled much of present-day Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Court and Cosmos: the Great Age of the Seljuqs (until 24 July) looks at the artistic riches of the Seljuq rulers through 270 thematically arranged objects including glass, ceramics and woodwork.
Sixty years-worth of work by the American painter Robert Ryman are on view at Dia:Chelsea (until 30 July). The show—Ryman's first New York museum exhibition since his 1993 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art—includes 22 works in varying styles, including gestural paintings and relief-like sculptural work. The show reveals the artist's debt to both Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.