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10 New York City Art Shows to Wind Down Summer 2025

10 New York City Art Shows to Wind Down Summer 2025


Next weekend, museums and galleries across the city emerge from their summer slumber to premiere their fall offerings. That doesn’t mean you should wait to see art. We’ve compiled a list of 10 current exhibitions that continue into the fall and winter months. Some are crowd pleasers, such as Hilma af Klint at MoMA, Moomins creator Tove Jansson at the Brooklyn Public Library, and Red Grooms and Mimi Gross at the Brooklyn Museum. Others call for more critical thought or social engagement, as in Ben Shahn at the Jewish Museum, Rashid Johnson at the Guggenheim, and Casa Susanna at The Met. You can also hop a train to see the sublime woven vessels of Jeremy Frey at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, or head to The Met’s rooftop on a sunny late-summer day to see the acoustic sculptures of Jennie C. Jones. And for the rainy days ahead, we’ve included an online project by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme presented by the Dia Art Foundation. Enjoy, and we’ll be back with an all-new fall list next week. —Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan
Through September 27

Hilma af Klint, “Birch” (1922) from the series On the Viewing of Flowers and Trees (image courtesy Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm)

“[The drawings] attest to the persistence of nature in the face of climate change, war, and humanity’s increasing disconnection from the Earth.” —NH

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Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open

Brooklyn Public Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Through September 30

Installation view of Tove Jansson: The Door Is Always Open at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch (photo Lakshmi Rivera Amin/Hyperallergic)

“[Jansson] recognized the wisdom of children and the invaluable role of art in nurturing imagination and empathy.” —Lakshmi Rivera Amin

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Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through October 19

Installation view of Jennie C. Jones, “Ensemble” (2025) (photo Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)

“For decades now, Ohio-born, New York-based artist Jennie C. Jones has been translating between music and the physical world … responding to the legacies of Minimalism, modernism, and the Black avant-garde.” —Lisa Yin Zhang

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Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity

Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through October 26

Ben Shahn, “Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco,” detail, from The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti series detail (1931–32), gouache on paper on board (photo Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic)

“If we are to learn from his work — as well we should — we must understand that ‘nonconformity’ is not, and cannot be, a solo venture.” —Isabella Segalovich

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Jeremy Frey: Woven

Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, Connecticut
Through October 26

Jeremy Frey, “Double-Walled Point Basket” (2018), ash, cedar bark, and dye (photo Julie Schneider/Hyperallergic)

“In each impeccable vessel, ancestral Wabanaki basketmaking traditions crisscross with the Passamaquoddy artist’s distinctive creative vision.” —Julie Schneider

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Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from “Ruckus Manhattan”

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Through November 2

Mimi Gross, Red Grooms, and the Ruckus Construction Co., “42nd Street Porno Bookstore” (1976), mixed media, on view in Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from “Ruckus Manhattan” at the Brooklyn Museum (photo Julie Schneider/Hyperallergic)

“[Ruckus Manhattan] not only reflects slices of the city to its residents and visitors, but invites us in to be part of the circus of it all.” —JS

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Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through January 18, 2026

Installation view of Rashid Johnson’s “Sanguine” (2025), with “God Painting ‘The Spirit’” (2023), oil on linen (photo Seph Rodney/Hyperallergic)

“[Johnson’s] discernment is key to this exhibition of 95 works of art that are replete with references to Black identity, its rhetorical construction and historical antecedents, and its visual codes, the dense thicket of signifiers in the forest that is Blackness.” —Seph Rodney

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Umber Majeed: J😊y Tech

Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens
Through January 18, 2026

Detail of Umber Majeed, “Timeline” (2024–25), PVC vinyl, ~15.7 x 45.1 feet (~4.8 x 13.7 m) (all photos and videos Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)

“This one-room exhibition is one of the most technically inventive I’ve seen, and is a fresh and exciting excavation of the fertile physical/digital intersection between diasporic Asian and early internet aesthetics.” —LYZ

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Casa Susanna

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Through January 25, 2026

Andrea Susan, “Daphne sitting on a lawn chair with Ann, Susanna and a friend outside, Casa Susanna, Hunter, NY”
(1964–68); chromogenic print; Art Gallery of Ontario (all images courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art, unless otherwise noted)

“As exciting as it is to see snapshots of this specific community on the walls of one of the world’s leading museums, it’s just a tiny taste of the vast and long-standing history of trans people around the globe.” —Alexis Clements

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May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth

Dia Art Foundation, online
Ongoing

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020) (© Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, courtesy the artists)

“As questions and opposition are quelled in the United States by strategic governmental efforts to expunge words, names, and archives, May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth proposes that holding onto these moments is a powerful political act.” —NH

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