From jobs to clothes to colours, and extra, there’s lots of selection in our record this week. Whereas our critics are having fun with historic exhibits centered on labor in the US and girls’s workaday garments, an exhibition that proposes alternative ways of coloration is properly value a go to, as is one which brings collectively conceptual works by 4 longtime collaborators. And who can resist John Singer Sargent’s bewitching portrait “Madame X,” on view in The Met’s newly opened Sargent and Paris? —Natalie Haddad, Critiques Editor
American Job: 1940–2011
Worldwide Heart of Pictures, 84 Ludlow Road, Decrease East Facet, ManhattanThrough Could 5
Set up view of American Job: 1940–2011 (photograph Julia Curl/Hyperallergic)
“If you’re looking to ground yourself in history, and might benefit from seeing that our present is … the continuation of one long, long fight, then American Job is worth a visit.” —Julia Curl
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arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Pleasure Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified: Chapter Eight
Participant Inc, 116 Elizabeth Road, Decrease East Facet, ManhattanThrough Could 11
Carrie Yamaoka, “14 by 11 (flake.swell)” (2024), reflective polyester movie, urethane resin and combined media on wooden panel (photograph Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic)
“[The show] creates a cohesive sensibility that is all the more meaningful because of the human relationships that underlie its formal relationships.” —NH
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All That Stays
Sugar Hill Youngsters’s Museum of Artwork & Storytelling, 898 St. Nicholas Avenue, Sugar Hill, ManhattanThrough Could 25
Yiyo Tirado, “Real Estate” (2025) (photograph Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic)
“This exhibition is proof that unexplored vistas for color await those willing to travel off the beaten path.” —Daniel Larkin
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Actual Garments, Actual Lives: 200 Years of What Ladies Wore
The New York Historic, 170 Central Park West, Higher West Facet, ManhattanThrough June 22
Left to proper: Crest Uniform Firm, blue polyester McDonald’s maternity uniform (c. 1976–78); Angelica Uniform Firm, beige, purple, and blue cotton waitress uniform with steel zipper (c. 1935–40); Penney’s pink Dacron polyester waitress uniform (c. 1955) (photograph Julie Schneider/Hyperallergic)
“[The exhibition] anchors us in the fabric of everyday survival and acts of ingenuity, revealing ways to adapt, mend, and reinvent — and look good, on our own terms, while doing it.” —Julie Schneider
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Sargent and Paris
Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Higher East Facet, ManhattanThrough August 3
John Singer Sargent, “Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)” (1883–84), oil on canvas (photograph Lisa Yin Zhang/Hyperallergic)
“What comes through most strongly in this exhibition is his humanistic bent: Sargent loved people, and it shows.” —Lisa Yin Zhang
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