> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Five New York City Shows to See Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/five-new-york-city-shows-to-see-april-7-2025/ - Published: 2025-04-07T20:45:46.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T16:37:18.000Z - Description: Our favorite shows of the week all center individual creators, from big names like Tatlin and Kafka to contemporary artists like Judy Linn. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Art, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) Sometimes there’s nothing more satisfying than encountering the work of a creative force. Our favorite shows this week are each centered on a single figure. Some are visual artists, ranging from historical innovators (Volodymyr Tatlin) to under-appreciated names (Judy Linn) to perhaps unknown names (Abraham Lincoln Walker). Others, both at the Morgan Library & Museum, take a peek into the literary lives of Franz Kafka and Bella da Costa Greene, the librarian who founded the Morgan’s collection. These shows are all great opportunities to take in some individual brilliance. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### Abraham Lincoln Walker [**Andrew Edlin Gallery**](https://www.edlingallery.com/exhibitions/abraham-lincoln-walker?ref=hyperallergic.com), 212 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through April 12 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/dscf3819_1.jpg) Abraham Lincoln Walker, “Blue Man’s Form” (1978), oil on canvas (courtesy Andrew Edlin gallery) "Perhaps Walker invented these people and the stories that brought them together because he desired the play of recognition between human beings" —*Seph Rodney* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/what-does-it-mean-to-really-be-seen-abraham-lincoln-walker/). --- ### Franz Kafka [**Morgan Library & Museum**](https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/franz-kafka?ref=hyperallergic.com), 225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan Through April 13 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/k4.jpg) Postcard to Ottla Kafka from Versailles (September 13, 1911). Jointly owned by the Bodleian Library and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (© The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) "What could be more Kafkaesque than circling the show, trying to enter his world but never quite managing, just as K, the protagonist in *The Castle*, never reaches his destination?" —*NH* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/the-morgan-museum-franz-kafka-show-is-kafkaesque/). --- ### Tatlin: Kyiv [**Ukrainian Museum**](https://www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/?ref=hyperallergic.com), Manhattan Through April 27 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/volodymyr-tatlin--collage-for-the-the-diplomatic-pouch-movie-by-oleksandr-dovzhenko--1927--.jpg) Volodymyr Tatlin, “Collage for the ‘The Diplomatic Pouch’ movie by Oleksandr Dovzhenko” (1927) (image courtesy the Ukrainian Museum New York) "*Tatlin: Kyiv* is haunted by what could have been, if history had shaken out differently — and by extension, by the urgency of what *could be*, depending on how we conduct ourselves right now." —*Lisa Yin Zhang* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/vladimir-tatlin-ukraine-dreaming/). --- ### Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy [**Morgan Library & Museum**](https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/belle-da-costa-greene?gad%5Fsource=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4v6-BhDuARIsALprm3272NfJ6EdHAaCXIU2-byZKu5CJVsgMmY3erdSCl821g3EtZuCMlNUaAq5eEALw%5FwcB&ref=hyperallergic.com), 225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan Through May 4 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/portraits_fig_13_belle_greene_1911_i-tattiwhite_701480.jpg) Clarence H. White, “Belle da Costa Greene” (1911), platinum print, Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (image courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum) "While the exhibition is comprehensive, it simultaneously respects that which we can never know about Greene’s interiority." —*Alexandra M. Thomas* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/celebrated-librarian-belle-da-costa-greene-concealed-life-morgan-library/). --- ### Judy Linn: Black & White [**Kerry Schuss Gallery**](https://kerryschussgallery.com/pages/exhibition%5Fsw%5Fthumbs.php?page=292&ref=hyperallergic.com), 73 Leonard Street, Tribeca, Manhattan Through May 10 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/happy-car-copy.jpg) Judy Linn, “happy car” (1995) (courtesy the artist) "With all that I had now learned about Linn’s work, it became clear that I had only glimpsed the tip of an iceberg." —*John Yau* Read the article [here](https://hyperallergic.com/judy-linn-casts-a-solitary-eye-on-the-world/).