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# New York Area Shows We Love Right Now
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-york-area-shows-we-love-right-now-051225/
- Published: 2025-05-12T22:21:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:18.000Z
- Description: From local concerns in the Bronx to global issues in Queens, plus a trip to see Indigenous art in New Jersey, our favorite art is far-reaching right now.
- Author: Natalie Haddad
- Tags: Art, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025)

This week I’m reminded of the breadth of world cultures and the long shadow of human history, with art exhibitions that span the local and global, past and present. While artists at the Bronx Museum engage with area communities and ecosystems, others at MoMA PS1 examine mass waste and excess, and the Morgan Library & Museum shows us how medieval Europe imagined the world. We’re also revisiting the legacy of American photographer Consuelo Kanaga, and as we get closer to summer it’s a perfect time to head a bit out of town and see a wonderful array of Indigenous artists at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey, curated by the late artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. —*Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor*

#### The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World

[**The Morgan Library & Museum**](https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/book-of-marvels?ref=hyperallergic.com), 225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan  
Through May 25

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Herbal (*Compendium salernitanum*), in Latin (Venice, Italy, c. 1350–75) (photo Natalie Haddad/*Hyperallergic*)

"I was jostling fellow museum-goers in the small room to glimpse the vast reaches of time and space that lay within the show’s manuscripts, far away from the dreary world outside." —*NH*

Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/global-tourism-was-built-on-headless-blemmyes/).

#### Working Knowledge: Shared Imaginings, New Futures

[**The Bronx Museum of the Arts**](https://bronxmuseum.org/exhibition/working-knowledge/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1040 Grand Concourse, Concourse Village, The Bronx  
Through July 6

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/img_8242.jpg)

Black Quantum Futurism’s ongoing “Oral Futures Booth” (begun 2015) in *Working Knowledge* at the Bronx Museum (photo Alexandra M. Thomas/*Hyperallergic*)

"\[T\]he exhibition is deeply attuned to the Bronx community it emerges from — an attentiveness that greatly enhances its significance." —*Alexandra M. Thomas*

Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/an-exhibition-that-looks-to-the-bronx-for-inspiration/).

#### Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit

[**Brooklyn Museum**](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/consuelo-kanaga?ref=hyperallergic.com), 200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn  
Through August 3

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/img_7807.jpg)

Installation view of *Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit* (photo Julia Curl/*Hyperallergic*)

"One could write a photographic history of the first half of the 20th century through her life story. It’s a staggering resumé." —*Julia Curl*

Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/consuelo-kanaga-trailblazing-20th-century-photographer-history-forgot/).

#### The Gatherers

[**MoMA PS1**](https://www.momaps1.org/en/programs/511-the-gatherers?ref=hyperallergic.com), 22–25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens  
Through October 6

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/img_7721.jpg)

Ser Serpas, "tube of brief cadavers made sadder still" (2025), mixed media (photo Lisa Yin Zhang/*Hyperallergic*)

"\[The exhibition\] sets up human production — not as individuals, nor as small groups, but as an emergent property of our global collectivity — as a force of new sublimity" —*Lisa Yin Zhang*

Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/one-mans-trash-is-anothers-art/).

#### Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always 

[**Zimmerli Art Museum**](https://zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibition/indigenous-identities-here-now-always?ref=hyperallergic.com), 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey  
Through December 21

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/05/gibson_sheneverdancesalone_gochman_-scaled-1.jpg)

Jeffrey Gibson (Member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee Descent), “SHE NEVER DANCES ALONE” (2021), acrylic on canvas, archival pigment on cotton, archival pigment on rice paper, inset in custom wood frame, glass beads, artificial sinew (© Jefrey Gibson; photo courtesy of Max Yawney)

"Native artists have always operated outside the Western art world’s linear timeline — moving in circles, spirals, and returns — holding history as not something left behind but something to actively engage." —*Petala Ironcloud*

Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/indigenous-art-history-has-been-waiting-for-you-to-catch-up-zimmerli-art-museum/).