October in the Museums 🍂

Issue #84

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Art Pulse NYC
October 15, 2025

📌 Highlights

🚨 Superfine at The Met & Ben Shahn’s exhibit at the Jewish Museum are both ending Oct 26.

🎉  Ruth Asawa’s much awaited retrospective opens Oct 19 at MoMA. This past Sunday, Monet and Venice opened at the Brooklyn Museum. More noted below.

📢 Register for An Evening with Lorna Simpson at The Met on Oct 28 (6-7 pm, free) and/or Artist Talk: Anish Kapoor at the Jewish Museum on Oct 19 (6:30-7:30, $24).

🚨 Last Chance

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

📍 The Met

⏰ closes Oct 26

❓cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism

Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity

📍 Jewish Museum

⏰ closes Oct 26

❓social realism spanning from the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, as well as exploration of spirituality and Jewish texts

 

🎉 Just In

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective

📍 MoMA

⏰ opening Oct 19

❓300 works charting the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms across wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works

Ruth Asawa at Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective View, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973. Photograph by Laurence Cuneo. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc., Courtesy David Zwirner.

Monet and Venice

📍 Brooklyn Museum

⏰ opened Oct 11

❓100 works focused on Monet’s luminous Venetian paintings, an under-explored chapter of the artist’s career

Claude Monet. Palazzo Ducale, 1908. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of A. Augustus Healy, 20.634. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Anish Kapoor: Early Works

📍 Jewish Museum

⏰ opening Oct 24

❓55 sculptures, drawings, and gouaches, highlighting Kapoor’s striking pigment sculptures

Erich Heckel

📍 Neue Galerie

⏰ opened Oct 9

❓40 works from the German Expressionist artist, ranging from his student years through his experience behind the frontlines as a medical orderly during WWI

 

If you’re hungry for more…

Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection opens Oct 31 at MoMA | Imogen Cunningham. The Unmade Bed, 1957.

Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens opened Oct 10 at the Brooklyn Museum | Seydou Keïta. Untitled, 1949–51. Courtesy of the Musée national du Mali. © SKPEAC/Seydou Keïta, courtesy The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art

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