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June Museum Happenings ☀️
Issue #80: Through June
📌 Highlights
🚨 A few small exhibitions are closing at The Met and Guggenheim.
🎉 An exhibit on Celebrity Photography is opening at MoMA and German Masterworks at Neue Galerie, both towards the end of the month!
📢 We might be a little quieter these days, as we explore how we want to evolve the newsletter. If you have ideas or suggestions for what you’d like to see next, we’d love to hear from you — email us at [email protected]!
🚨 Last Chance
The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bull, Long Tail Halo is closing at The Met on June 10. These four sculptures, at once classical and contemporary, are displayed on the facade of the museum.
The Magic of Marbling: The Art of Karli Frigge closes at The Met on June 10, featuring marbled papers from one of the most prominent paper marblers.
By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection closes on June 8. The small exhibit examines how contemporary artists enacted new ideas formed by the contexts of their times.
🎉 Just In
Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography
📍 MoMA
⏰ opening Jun 28
❓ exploring the behind-the-scenes image-making of 20th-century Hollywood, revealing how studios edited photographs to craft idealized versions of celebrity

Ray Jones. Anna May Wong portrait for the film Limehouse Blues, Soul of a Dragon, 1934. Gelatin silver print, 12 7/8 × 10″ (32.7 × 25.4 cm)
German Masterworks From The Neue Galerie
📍 Neue Galerie
⏰ opening Jun 26
❓highlights from the museum’s extensive collection of German art from 1890-1940
Temitayo Ogunbiyi: You will wonder if we would have been friends
📍 Noguchi
⏰ opening Jun 18
❓interactive sculptures and drawings that explore play, community, and global cultural dialogue
And more:
Making It Modern: European Ceramics from the Martin Eidelberg Collection opens at The Met on June 16 with 80 ceramic works from the 1880s-1910s.
Melissa Joseph: Tender opens at the Brooklyn Museum on June 6 with fiber-paintings that explore belonging and cultural inheritance.
Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, a sanctuary of more than 100 artworks and ritual objects, opens at the Brooklyn Museum on June 11.
Christian Marclay: Doors (cinematic exploration) opens on June 13 at the Brooklyn Museum.
📸 Snaps from the museums
![]() Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers at the MoMA | ![]() Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers at the MoMA |
![]() Jack Whitten: The Messenger at the MoMA | ![]() Jack Whitten: The Messenger at the MoMA |
![]() Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers at Guggenheim | ![]() Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers at Guggenheim |
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