Jordyn Woods’s Knicks lucky bag is heading to the Guggenheim
A handbag that became a talisman during the New York Knicks’ playoff run is about to get a museum display. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will present Jordyn Woods’s Tux Clutch Mini in Café Rebay on the museum’s third floor for five days, beginning tomorrow and running through Sunday.
The bag, designed for Woods’s fashion label Woods by Jordan, drew attention as the Knicks moved through the NBA Playoffs and NBA Finals, appearing throughout the postseason except for Game 3 of the Finals. For fans, it came to symbolize the team’s first title in 53 years, and the museum is now treating the accessory as part sports relic, part cultural artifact.
The project moved quickly. Guggenheim director Mariët Westermann said the idea came together through a rapid collaboration with Woods and Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, building on relationships formed during the museum’s Rashid Johnson exhibition and at the Fall 2025 Guggenheim gala, where the NBA and the NBA Players Association were recognized.
Woods said in press materials that she never imagined something she designed would be shown at the Guggenheim, adding that the museum has long been one of her favorite places. She also said the bag’s appearance makes the Knicks’ historic run feel real.
The display will sit within a museum context that already includes several basketball-adjacent works, among them Lin Yilin’s multimedia work “Monad” (2018), Tschabalala Self’s textile piece “Sprewell” (2020), and the two-artist video installation “Zidane, a 21st century portrait” (2006). For now, the museum says the bag is not expected to travel beyond this brief presentation, making the weeklong run a rare chance to see a piece of recent sports lore inside one of New York’s most recognizable cultural landmarks.
