> ## 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. # Four New York City Shows to See Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/four-new-york-city-shows-to-see-june-3-2025/ - Published: 2025-06-02T22:08:38.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:16.000Z - Description: Lotus L. Kang, Rashid Johnson, and group exhibitions on home-making and Black style offer insight into how we forge ourselves from history. - Author: Seph Rodney - Tags: Guide, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) The exhibitions this week show us how we shape ourselves in history's image, and the other way around. Lotus L. Kang's assemblages at 52 Walker draw from diasporic memory, yet her draped film sculptures form an ongoing document of the exhibition's idiosyncrasies of light and movement. Meanwhile, Rashid Johnson's survey at the Guggenheim Museum draws from a dense network of Black intellectual thought, offering in turn a contemporary visual vernacular. Then, two group shows — *Making Home* at Cooper Hewitt and *Superfine* at The Met — take on the ways ordinary people construct identities, whether that be through our domestic settings or our individual style. As you can see, though three of the four shows are mere blocks apart on the Upper East Side's Museum Mile, they span continents and centuries, and radically different systems of thought. But that's the miracle of New York, and the miracle of art. —*Lisa Yin Zhang, Associate Editor* --- ### Lotus L. Kang: Already [**52 Walker**](https://www.52walker.com/exhibitions/lotus-kang-already?ref=hyperallergic.com), 52 Walker Street, Tribeca, Manhattan Through June 7 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/img_4991.webp) Lotus L. Kang, “Molt (Toronto-Chicago-Woodridge-New York-)” (2022–25) (photo Danielle Wu/*Hyperallergic*) "\[Lotus L.\] Kang evaluates what new possibilities and temporalities can emerge from engaging in processes alien or forbidden, such as exposing film to sunlight." —*Danielle Wu* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/lotus-l-kang-hopeful-doom-scrolling-52-walker/). --- ### Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial [**Cooper Hewitt**](https://www.cooperhewitt.org/channel/making-home/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 2 East 91st Street, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through August 10 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/9to3q.jpg) Installation view of “Hālau Kūkulu Hawaiʻi: A Home That Builds Multitudes” (2025) (photo Julie Schneider/*Hyperallergic*) "Featuring a wide-ranging medley of 25 newly commissioned installations with pliable interpretations of both home and design, *Making Home* takes visitors on a meander through the minds of artists and designers from the US, US territories, and Tribal Nations." —*Julie Schneider* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/smithsonian-design-triennial-2025-reinvents-home/). --- ### Superfine: Tailoring Black Style [**Metropolitan Museum of Art**](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/superfine-tailoring-black-style?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through October 26 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/img_4489.webp) "*Superfine: Tailoring Black Style* is a triumph not only for its expansion of Black fashion history and visual culture, but also for its stirring and substantive approach that centers ordinary individuals and their dress practices." —*Imani Wiliford* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/the-self-fashioning-of-the-black-dandy-superfine-metropolitan-museum/). --- ### Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers [**Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum**](https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/rashid-johnson-a-poem-for-deep-thinkers?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through January 18, 2026 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/rashid-johnson-anxious-audience-and-totem.webp) Rashid Johnson’s “Untitled Totem” (2021), cast bronze and plants (left), and “Untitled Anxious Audience” (2019), ceramic tile, black soap, and wax (photo Seph Rodney/*Hyperallergic*) "\[Rashid Johnson's\] 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* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/how-to-get-a-read-on-rashid-johnson-guggenheim-museum/).