> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Five New York City Shows to See Right Now - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/five-new-york-city-shows-to-see-righ-now-april-28-2025/ - Published: 2025-04-28T21:52:42.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:14:19.000Z - Description: From historical shows about labor to investigations of color to John Singer Sargent’s renderings of hands, we’re enjoying a variety of art this week. - Author: Natalie Haddad - Tags: Art, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:41 (2025) From jobs to clothing to colors, and more, there’s a lot of variety in our list this week. While our critics are enjoying historical shows focused on labor in the United States and women’s workaday clothes, an exhibition that proposes different ways of looking at color is well worth a visit, as is one that brings together conceptual works by four 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, Reviews Editor* --- ### American Job: 1940–2011 [**International Center of Photography**](https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/american-job-1940-2011?ref=hyperallergic.com), 84 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through May 5 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/yaaw4.jpg) Installation view of *American Job: 1940–2011* (photo 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* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/the-contested-history-of-american-labor-international-center-photography/). --- ### arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified: Chapter Eight [**Participant Inc**](https://participantinc.org/seasons/season-23/arms-ache-avid-aeon-nancy-brooks-brody-joy-episalla-zoe-leonard-carrie-yamaoka-fierce-pussy-amplified-chapter-eight-curated-by-jo-ey-tang?ref=hyperallergic.com), 116 Elizabeth Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan Through May 11 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/fierce4.jpg) Carrie Yamaoka, "14 by 11 (flake.swell)" (2024), reflective polyester film, urethane resin and mixed media on wood panel (photo 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* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/a-collective-of-lesbian-activists-is-a-fierce-family/). --- ### All That Remains [**Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling**](https://www.sugarhillmuseum.org/all-that-remains-cj-chueca?ref=hyperallergic.com), 898 St. Nicholas Avenue, Sugar Hill*,* Manhattan Through May 25 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/img_4221.jpg) Yiyo Tirado, "Real Estate" (2025) (photo Daniel Larkin/*Hyperallergic*) "This exhibition is proof that unexplored vistas for color await those willing to travel off the beaten path." —*Daniel Larkin* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/sugar-hill-childrens-museum-art-decolonizes-color/). --- ### Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore [**The New York Historical**](https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/real-clothes-real-lives-200-years-of-what-women-wore?ref=hyperallergic.com), 170 Central Park West, Upper West Side, Manhattan Through June 22 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/real-lives-real-clothes-22.jpg) Left to right: Crest Uniform Company, blue polyester McDonald’s maternity uniform (c. 1976–78); Angelica Uniform Company, beige, red, and blue cotton waitress uniform with metal zipper (c. 1935–40); Penney’s pink Dacron polyester waitress uniform (c. 1955) (photo 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* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/the-everyday-lives-of-womens-clothing-ny-historical/). --- ### Sargent and Paris [**Metropolitan Museum of Art**](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/sargent-and-paris?ref=hyperallergic.com), 1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan Through August 3 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2025/04/ew8qz.jpg) John Singer Sargent, “Madame X (Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau)” (1883–84), oil on canvas (photo 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* Read the full review [here](https://hyperallergic.com/the-tender-specificity-of-john-singer-sargent/).