From jobs to clothes to colors, and even more, there is a lot of variety in our list this week. While our criticisms enjoy historical shows focused on the United States and women's work clothes, an exhibition that offers different ways to look at the color is well worth a visit, just like the one that brings together the conceptual works of four long-standing collaborators. And who can withstand the bewitching portrait of John Singer Sargent “Madame X”, in the recently open Met of the Met Sargent and Paris? –Natalie Haddad, editor -in -chief
American job: 1940-2011
International Photography Center84 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Until May 5
“If you are trying to merge into history and you could benefit from seeing that our gift is … the continuation of a long, long fight, then American work is worth a visit. –Julia Curl
Read the full review here.
ARMS ACTED AVID AEON: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: Fierce Pussy Amplified: Chapter Eight
Participant Inc116 Elizabeth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Until May 11
“(The spectacle) creates a coherent sensitivity which is all the more significant because of the human relations which underlie its formal relationships.” –NH
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All that remains
SUGAR HILL children's art and narration museum898 avenue St. Nicholas, Sugar Hill,, Manhattan
Until May 25
“This exhibition is proof that unexplored views for color await those who are ready to travel beaten track.” –Daniel Larkin
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Real clothes, real life: 200 years of what women wore
The New York Historical170 Central Park West, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Until June 22
“(The exhibition) anchors us in the fabric of daily survival and acts of ingenuity, revealing ways to adapt, repair and reinvent – and to appear, in our own terms, while doing so.” –Julie Schneider
Read the full review here.
Sargent and Paris
Museum of Metropolitan Art1000 Fifth avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Until August 3
“What is most strongly passed in this exhibition is his humanist curvature: the loved one of Sargent, and it shows.” –Lisa Yin Zhang
Read the full review here.
