“Art’s New Season Offers Rauschenberg and More Headliner Shows for Fall”
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart Exhibition Feature
New York Times, September 2, 2025
Monet, Manet and Morisot are highlights, but also an exhibition of decommissioned historical monuments and a show of punishing performance art.
by Will Heinrich
The fall calendar is full of exciting museum exhibitions despite the climate of political and economic volatility. Some museums, amid increasingly urgent questions about their cultural role, are addressing the political moment head-on, as in an extraordinary show in Los Angeles of recently decommissioned historical monuments, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick. Others are hewing to their missions by continuing with exhibitions already in progress, including many that recognize the centenary of the pathbreaking, protean artist Robert Rauschenberg. There are also Sèvres ceramics, punishing performance art, German Expressionism, U.F.O.s and an unexpected take on the American buffalo — not to mention Monet, Manet and Morisot. Below, some highlights of the best in New York City and beyond.