From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there is a lot of variation in our list this week. While our critics enjoy historical shows aimed at work in the United States and Women’s Workaday clothing, an exhibition is worth a visit to color, just like a conceptual works of four old employees. And who can resist the enchanting portrait of John Singer Sargent ‘Madame X’, to be seen in the recently opened with Sargent and Paris? –Natalie Haddad, Reviews Editor
American job: 1940–2011
International Center for Photography84 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Up to and including May 5
“If you are looking for yourself in history and could benefit from seeing our present … the continuation of a long, long Then fight American job is worth a visit. ” –Julia Curl
Read the full review here.
Arms Pae Avid Aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: Fierce Pussy Amplified: Chapter eight
Participant Inc116 Elizabeth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Up to and including 11 May
‘[The show] Creates a coherent sensitivity that is all the more meaningful because of the human relationships that underlie its formal relationships. ” –NH
Read the full review here.
Everything that remains
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling898 St. Nicholas Avenue, Sugar Hill” Manhattan
Up to and including 25 May
“This exhibition is proof that unexplored vistas for color wait for those who are willing to travel outside the beaten track.” –Daniel Larkin
Read the full review here.
Real clothing, real lives: 200 years of what women wore
The New York Historical170 Central Park West, Upper West Side, Manhattan
Up to and including 22 June
‘[The exhibition] Anchors us in the fabric of everyday survival and acts of resourcefulness, revealing ways to adjust, repair and reinvent – and look good on our own conditions, while they do it. ” –Julie Schneider
Read the full review here.
Sargent and Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Up to and including 3 August
“What comes through most in this exhibition is his humanistic bow: Sargent -loved people, and that can be seen.” –Lisa Yin Zhang
Read the full review here.
