Rest of the Month in the Museums ☀️

Issue #81

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Art Pulse NYC
September 16, 2025

📌 Highlights

🚨 Hilma af Klint at MoMA and Christine Sun Kim at The Whitney are closing in the following weeks.

🎉  Exhibits from Man Ray and John Wilson are opening at The Met. Sixties Surreal is opening at The Whitney.

📢 As always, please feel free to share any suggestions here !

🚨 Last Chance

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers

📍 MoMA

⏰ closes Sep 27

❓portfolio of flower drawings created in the spring and summer of 1919-20 when Hilma af Klint drew flowers nearly daily

Hilma af Klint. Tulipa sp. (Tulip). Sheet 35 from the portfolio Nature Studies. May 20, 1920. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Drawings and Prints Fund and gift of Jack Shear, 2022

Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night

📍 The Whitney

⏰ closes Sep 21

❓drawings, videos, sculptures, and installations that often explore non-auditory, political dimensions of sound

Christine Sun Kim, Whatcha Doing, Do Do, 2018

If you’re hungry for more…

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900 closes at The Met on Sep 28

The Magic of Marbling: The Art of Karli Frigge closes at The Met on Sep 30

Sacred Spring: Modern Viennese Graphics, 1897-1918 closes at Neue Galerie on Sep 22

🎉 Just In

May Ray: When Objects Dream

📍 The Met

⏰ opened Sep 14

❓ 60 rayographs, a technique pioneered by Man Ray in the winter of 1921, situated among 100 paintings, objects, prints, photographs, etc. of the 1910s-20s

➕ There will be related Met Expert Talks on Sep 16, Nov 18, and Jan 22 at 3-3:30pm

Man Ray (American, 1890–1976), Marchesa Luisa Casati, 1922, Gelatin silver print, Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum ofArt, © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY /ADAGP, Paris 2025

Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson

📍 The Met

⏰ opening Sep 20

❓the largest exhibition of Wilson’s work to date, featuring 100 artworks capturing his life as an Black American artist and his quest for racial, social, and economic justice

John Wilson (American, 1922–2015), Study for the mural "The Incident”, 1952, Courtesy of the Estate of John Woodrow Wilson / Licensed byVAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Sixties Surreal

📍 Whitney

⏰ opening Sep 24

❓American art from 1958 to 1972 of more than 100 artists, focusing on the period’s psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary tendencies

Luchita Hurtado, Untitled, 1971

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