This week I’m reminded of the breadth of world cultures and the lengthy shadow of human historical past, with artwork exhibitions that span the native and world, previous and current. Whereas artists on the Bronx Museum interact with space communities and ecosystems, others at MoMA PS1 study mass waste and extra, and the Morgan Library & Museum exhibits us how medieval Europe imagined the world. We’re additionally revisiting the legacy of American photographer Consuelo Kanaga, and as we get nearer to summer season it’s an ideal time to go a bit out of city and see a beautiful array of Indigenous artists on the Zimmerli Artwork Museum in New Jersey, curated by the late artist Jaune Fast-to-See Smith. —Natalie Haddad, Evaluations Editor
The E book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, ManhattanThrough Might 25
Natural (Compendium salernitanum), in Latin (Venice, Italy, c. 1350–75) (picture 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
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Working Data: Shared Imaginings, New Futures
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Concourse Village, The BronxThrough July 6
Black Quantum Futurism’s ongoing “Oral Futures Booth” (begun 2015) in Working Data on the Bronx Museum (picture 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
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Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Jap Parkway, Prospect Heights, BrooklynThrough August 3
Set up view of Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit (picture 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
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The Gatherers
MoMA PS1, 22–25 Jackson Avenue, Lengthy Island Metropolis, QueensThrough October 6
Ser Serpas, “tube of brief cadavers made sadder still” (2025), combined media (picture Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)
“[The exhibition] sets up human production — not as individuals, nor as small groups, as an emergent property of our global collectivity — as a force of new sublimity” —Lisa Yin Zhang
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Indigenous Identities: Right here, Now & All the time
Zimmerli Artwork Museum, 71 Hamilton Avenue, New Brunswick, New JerseyThrough December 21
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 customized wooden body, glass beads, synthetic sinew (© Jefrey Gibson; picture 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
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Natalie Haddad is Evaluations Editor at Hyperallergic and an artwork author and historian. Natalie holds a PhD in Artwork Historical past, Concept and Criticism from the College of California San Diego and focuses on World…
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