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 have interaction with space communities and ecosystems, others at MoMA PS1 look at 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 time it’s an ideal time to move a bit out of city and see an exquisite array of Indigenous artists on the Zimmerli Artwork Museum in New Jersey, curated by the late artist Jaune Fast-to-See Smith. —Natalie Haddad, Opinions Editor
The Guide of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, Murray Hill, Manhattan
Via Could 25
“I used to be jostling fellow museum-goers within the small room to glimpse the huge reaches of time and house that lay inside the present’s manuscripts, distant from the dreary world exterior.” —NH
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Working Data: Shared Imaginings, New Futures
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Concourse Village, The Bronx
Via July 6
“[T]he exhibition is deeply attuned to the Bronx group it emerges from — an attentiveness that drastically enhances its significance.” —Alexandra M. Thomas
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Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Japanese Parkway, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Via August 3
“One might write a photographic historical past of the primary half of the twentieth century by 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, Queens
Via October 6
“[The exhibition] units up human manufacturing — not as people, nor as small teams, as an emergent property of our world collectivity — as a pressure of latest 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 Jersey
Via December 21
“Native artists have all the time operated exterior the Western artwork world’s linear timeline — shifting in circles, spirals, and returns — holding historical past as not one thing left behind however one thing to actively have interaction.” —Petala Ironcloud
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