> ## 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-september-3-2025/ - Published: 2025-09-03T21:55:07.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:11:37.000Z - Description: Rejin Ley’s paper sculptures at a historic museum, Christian Marclay’s concept of doors as transformative spaces, Marian Spore Bush’s 1930s prophecies of WWII, and more. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Guide, Featured, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) Histories and futures crisscross in some of our favorite shows at the moment. Paper sculptures by Rejin Leys ensconce themselves in the past, installed throughout the historic King Manor Museum, while Christian Marclay imagines doors as portals for transformation in his film of the same name. And in the 1930s, Marian Spore Bush traversed the past and future with powerful symbolic paintings that look back at the First World War and forward to the looming World War II. Meanwhile, Melissa R. Kerin writes about Tibetan shrines in art institutions in her incisive opinion piece, prompted by the Brooklyn Museum’s display of the Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room. While Kerin addresses the problems with such displays, the Shrine Room is still well worth a visit. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor* --- ### Marian Spore Bush: Life Afterlife, Works c. 1919–1945 [**Karma Gallery**](https://karmakarma.org/exhibitions/marian-spore-bush-2025-188-new-york/works/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 188 East 2nd Street, East Village, Manhattan Through September 6 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/09/bush13.jpg) Marian Spore Bush, "Seascape" (1943), oil on canvas (photo Natalie Haddad/*Hyperallergic*) "Though \[Spore Bush's\] automatic process might echo that of af Klint, Peavy, and others, defaulting to such comparisons defangs the art and erases its cultural context." —*NH* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/marian-spore-bush-was-nobodys-visionary-artist/). --- ### Rejin Leys: Touch Jamaica [**King Manor Museum**](https://rejinleys.com/TouchJamaica%5F2025?ref=hyperallergic.com), 153-03 Jamaica Avenue, Queens Through October 31 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/09/ws0bj.jpg) Installation view of *Rejin Leys: Touch Jamaica* at King Manor Museum (photo Lisa Yin Zhang/*Hyperallergic*) "Whereas a white cube induces you to suspend the broader context in favor of the here and now, Leys’s exhibition demands that you see these objects in relation to yourself and the larger world." —*Lisa Yin Zhang* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/rejin-leys-contemporary-art-exhibition-in-an-18th-century-home/). --- ### Christian Marclay: Doors [**Brooklyn Museum**](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/christian-marclay?ref=hyperallergic.com), 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Through April 12, 2026 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/09/dig_e_2025_christian_marclay_doors_05_paula_abreu_pita_ps22-general-use-jpeg.jpg) Installation view of *Christian Marclay: Doors* at the Brooklyn Museum (© Christian Marclay, photo Paula Abreu Pita) "In *Doors*, Marclay makes visible the mindless, forgettable actions of life indoors … while exploring the ways that doors serve as charged metaphors and well-worn cinematic devices and tropes." —*Julie Schneider* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/christian-marclay-doors-brooklyn-museum/). --- ### Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room [**Brooklyn Museum**](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rubin-museum-tibetan-buddhist-shrine-room?ref=hyperallergic.com), 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Through April 20, 2031 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/08/6_1.jpg) The Rubin Museum of Art’s “Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room” in February 2025 (photo Melissa R. Kerin/*Hyperallergic*) "Shrines have the potential to connect powerfully to a family’s history and ancestors, and their creation and maintenance are tied to a deep sense of cosmological order." —*Melissa R. Kerin* [Read the article](https://hyperallergic.com/the-fetishistic-fiction-of-museum-tibetan-shrines/).