> ## 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. # 10 New York City Art Shows to Wind Down Your Summer - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/new-york-city-art-shows-to-wind-down-summer-2025/ - Published: 2025-09-09T21:21:13.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:11:36.000Z - Description: From Tove Jansson’s lovable Moomins to Ben Shahn’s political engagement, there’s plenty of art to see as the fall season kicks off. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Guide, Featured, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (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**](https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5779?ref=hyperallergic.com), 11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan Through September 27 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/08/hak-21.jpg) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/when-hilma-af-klint-found-the-soul-in-plants/). --- ### Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open [**Brooklyn Public Library**](https://www.bklynlibrary.org/exhibitions/tove-jansson-and-the-moomins?ref=hyperallergic.com), 10 Grand Army Plaza, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Through September 30 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/07/moomins-show-book.jpg) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/tove-jansson-moomins-brooklyn-public-library/). --- ### Jennie C. Jones: Ensemble [**Metropolitan Museum of Art**](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-roof-garden-commission-jennie-c-jones?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through October 19 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/img_7010-1.jpg) 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* [Read the full article](https://hyperallergic.com/jennie-c-jones-transforms-the-met-into-an-instrument/). --- ### Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity [**Jewish Museum**](https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/ben-shahn-on-nonconformity?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1109 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/2025/07/img_3886.jpg) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/ben-shahn-retrospective-jewish-museum-misses-key-element-of-the-artist-legacy/). --- ### Jeremy Frey: Woven [**Bruce Museum**](https://brucemuseum.org/exhibitions/jeremy-frey-woven/?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, Connecticut Through October 26 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/08/jeremy-frey-woven_-photo-by-julie-smith-schneider-11.jpg) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/jeremy-frey-mesmerizing-wonder-of-wabanaki-weaving/). --- ### Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, and The Ruckus Construction Co.: Excerpts from “Ruckus Manhattan” [**Brooklyn Museum**](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/ruckus-manhattan?ref=hyperallergic.com), 200 Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights, Brooklyn Through November 2 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/08/ruckus-manhattan_-photo-by-julie-smith-schneider-04.jpg) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/the-artists-who-made-a-sculpto-pictorama-of-manhattan/). --- ### 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-sanguine-install-view.webp) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/how-to-get-a-read-on-rashid-johnson-guggenheim-museum/). --- ### Umber Majeed: J[😊](https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/umber-majeed-joy-tech/?ref=hyperallergic.com)y Tech [**Queens Museum**](https://queensmuseum.org/exhibition/umber-majeed-joy-tech/?ref=hyperallergic.com), Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens Through January 18, 2026 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/07/img_9948.jpg) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/umber-majeed-queens-phone-repair-shop-meets-the-museum/). --- ### Casa Susanna [**Metropolitan Museum of Art**](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/casa-susanna?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through January 25, 2026 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/08/daphne-sitting-on-a-lawn-chair-with-ann-susanna-and-a-friend-outside_ago-121875-standard-print.jpg) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/casa-susanna-is-a-glimpse-into-a-midcentury-refuge-for-trans-women/). --- ### May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth [**Dia Art Foundation**](https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/may-amnesia-never-kiss-us-on-the-mouth-exhibition?ref=hyperallergic.com), online Ongoing ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/03/tba21_175-x-120-mm_17jun_br1-copy.jpg) 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* [Read the review](https://hyperallergic.com/basel-abbas-and-ruanne-abou-rahme-refuse-to-forget/).