Christian Marclay: Doorways
Brooklyn Museum, till 12 April 2026
Tucked away within the darkness of the Brooklyn Museum’s new Shifting Picture Gallery lies an exciting new addition to the establishment’s repertoire. Doorways (2022), a current cinematic collage by conceptual artist and film-maker Christian Marclay, was co-purchased by the Brooklyn Museum and the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Backyard in Washington, DC.
Marclay, a Swiss and Californian pioneer of time-based media, turned the artwork world on its axis with The Clock (2010), a 24-hour filmic opus that debuted at New York’s Paula Cooper Gallery earlier than embarking on a world tour. Dubbed “an addictive masterpiece” by The New Yorker, The Clock earned Marclay a status as a singular Pop Artwork synthesist; the next yr, the movie earned him the coveted Golden Lion award on the Venice Biennale.
Doorways debuted in London in 2023 and builds on the visible language of The Clock with a watch on thresholds. It options a whole bunch of spliced moments from movies discovered and foraged by which characters enter and exit interstitial house. Utilizing professional modifying to discover the limitless permutations of discovery, Doorways ruminates on the connectivity of sight and sound, main viewers by way of a rhapsodic cycle of our bodies, eras, dialects and experiences. Comparatively concise in comparison with its predecessor at simply 54 minutes in size, Doorways contains a number of recurring clips, lending the work a cyclical, musical factor. T.A.
Reverend Joyce McDonald, The Household That Pray, 2001 Courtesy the artist. Photograph by Ryan Web page
Ministry: Reverend Joyce McDonald
Bronx Museum, 5 September-11 January 2026
Reverend Joyce McDonald doesn’t seem like all she has been by way of. As she effervesces with appeal and vitality, it’s troublesome to ascertain the hardships she has endured to reach at her first museum survey. McDonald found ceramics within the wake of her HIV prognosis in 1995, deep within the throes of drug use and pursuing intercourse work to outlive. Within the late Nineteen Nineties she started an artwork remedy programme by way of the Jewish Board of Household Providers and was quickly linked to Visible Aids, the New York-based organisation that helps HIV-positive artists and creative manufacturing. “An artwork therapist gave me a bunch of clay, and stated, ‘Take a look at this,’” McDonald says. “I went right into a zone, and I’ve been in that zone ever since.” T.A.
George Morrison’s Untitled (Blue Portray) (1958), at present on view within the Met’s exhibition spotlighting the neglected Summary Expressionist artist from Minnesota
Smithsonian American Artwork Museum, buy by way of the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
The Magical Metropolis: George Morrison’s New York
Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, till 31 Might 2026
An important if traditionally underrecognised determine within the American Summary Expressionist motion, George Morrison, a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, arrived in New York from Minnesota in 1943 and, over the next 27 years, turned deeply embedded within the metropolis’s avant-garde artwork scene. This exhibition, The Magical Metropolis: George Morrison’s New York, was curated by the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s affiliate curator of Native American artwork within the American Wing, Patricia Marroquin Norby. It brings collectively 35 of Morrison’s work and drawings, together with many from the Minnesota Museum of American Artwork, in addition to two works within the Met’s everlasting assortment, plus a spread of archival supplies associated to his time on the coronary heart of the AbEx motion within the Nineteen Forties and 50s.
“Morrison strongly impacted the event of the American Summary Expressionist motion in addition to the work of his skilled colleagues—artists who revered him as a pacesetter and a voice for his or her era,” Norby says. “This exhibition provides an vital alternative to have interaction deeply with Morrison’s evolving apply, supported by not often seen archival supplies that reveal the depth and complexity of his creative journey.” B.S.
Johannesburg-based artist Sabelo Mlangeni’s Religion and Sakhi Moruping, Thembisa Township (2004), on view in MoMA’s newest New Pictures present
© 2025 Sabelo Mlangeni
New Pictures 2025
Museum of Trendy Artwork, 14 September-17 January 2026
The Museum of Trendy Artwork is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its intently watched New Pictures exhibition collection this yr. New Pictures 2025: Traces of Belonging options 12 worldwide artists and collectives from 4 cities (Mexico Metropolis, Johannesburg, Kathmandu and New Orleans) who’re pushing the boundaries of the medium within the twenty first century. Working the gamut from rising to established artists, these featured are vital additions to the roster of greater than 150 photographers who’ve been spotlighted within the New Pictures collection since its launch in 1985. Whether or not by way of the weak portraiture of Gabrielle Goliath, the mournful documentary photographs of L. Kasimu Harris or the memorial palimpsests of Sheelasha Rajbhandari, this version of New Pictures locates the human weight of non-public narrative, pushing towards colonialist notions of recorded historical past. T.A.
Raúl de Nieves will fill Pioneer Works’ home windows with ornate, fake stained-glass panels
Courtesy the artist, photograph by Dan Brandica
Raúl de Nieves: In Gentle of Innocence
Pioneer Works, 13 September-14 December
For his first institutional exhibition in New York, Raúl de Nieves, a Mexico-born, Brooklyn-based artist, is continuous and supersizing his apply of re-imagining Catholic symbols and imagery from Mexican folklore. Right here, he’s remodeling Pioneer Works’ fundamental corridor by filling its 50 home windows with fake stained-glass panels that meld these iconographies with the tarot, creating a stunning cathedral-like atmosphere. The exhibition’s centrepiece, a big lightbox mural, will characteristic an array of portraits and arches framing the figures of a horse and a skeleton—symbols of change and energy within the tarot. B.S.
Lisa Yuskavage’s Hippies (2013) is featured within the artist’s first-ever museum exhibition of drawings, on the Morgan
© Lisa Yuskavage, courtesy the artist and David Zwirner
Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings
The Morgan Library& Museum, till 4 January 2026
Lisa Yuskavage could also be greatest recognized for her colour-drenched work that grapple with feminist discourse, want and artwork historical past, however her works on paper take centre stage on this exhibition on the Morgan. The primary-ever museum presentation of Yuskavage’s drawings up to now, it spans sketches from the early Nineteen Nineties to pastel research completed earlier this yr. The present contains investigations in watercolour, monotype, acrylic, ink and gouache, tracing her inventive improvement by way of depictions of imagined figures, nonetheless lifes, landscapes and portraits. It was organised by Claire Gilman, the curator and division head for Trendy and up to date drawings on the Morgan. Ensconced within the establishment’s Thaw Gallery, the present asks massive questions concerning the energy dynamics of viewership, the character of modelling and the blurry line between fiction and actuality. T.A.
