TUESDAY, APRIL 2

Exhibition: “Photography and the Civil War” at the Met
Today, war photography is a well-established genre, even if its character may be changing as a result of the proliferation of aerial warfare and remote-controlled—drone—weapons. The Met is going back to its roots, in the very earliest years of modern photography, collecting Read More

TUESDAY, MARCH 26

Talk: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on Documenta 13 at the Goethe-Institut
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who served as artistic director of the thrilling Documenta 13 (2012), will discuss that “exhibition as an embodied and ‘dis-tracted’ (dis / trahere = to pull or to draw in another direction) archive.” Anthony Huberman, the director of the Artist’s Read More

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20

Opening: “Exhibition Space” at Apexart
Writer and filmmaker Greg Allen organized this exhibition, which goes back to the days of the Space Race, as scientists and politicians shifted from viewing outer space as an area to map and study to a territory to inhabit, control and use. Expect some serious satelloon Read More

MONDAY, MARCH 11

Talk: Trisha Donnelly at MoMA
Trisha Donnelly discusses her “Artist’s Choice” show at MoMA. Sounds fun, right? —Dan Duray
Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, Theater 3, New York, 6 p.m., sold out Read More

MONDAY, MARCH 4

Opening: Jon Kessler, “The Web,” at Swiss Institute
Love Jon Kessler, love Swiss Institute, hate the Internet. Is there anything else to it? —Dan Duray Read More

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Panel: An Evening with The New Inquiry, ‘What Was The Date?’ With Max Fox, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Mandy Stadtmiller, Mike Thomsen, Emily Witt and Adrian Chen at The Kitchen
This ain’t too art-related but you should go. —Dan Duray
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Opening: “Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met’s new blockbuster exhibition isn’t only for fashion fanatics and Impressionism enthusiasts, though both groups will be blown away by the art and ensembles on view. The show is essential for anyone who loves writers like Zola, Baudelaire and Proust (all of whom are quoted throughout the wall text, weighing in on women’s wear) as it vividly conjures the world they and their characters occupied. It’s a transporting show well worth the inevitable soul-crushingly long lines. —Zoë Lescaze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, 9:30-5:15 p.m.

Concert: Consonant Abstraction: Claude Debussy and Steve Reich at MoMA
As part of MoMA’s “Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925″ show, alumni and faculty of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival will perform works by two great musical abstractionists, the composers Claude Debussy and Steve Reich. Mr. Reich will be on hand after the concert to talk about his work with David Lang. —Andrew Russeth
Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, 6 p.m., $10

Opening: Peter Hujar at Pace/MacGil
Peter Hujar’s first show at Pace/MacGill will present the artist’s black and white nudes and portraits, including his never before exhibited triptych of Bruce de Saint Croix. —Michael H. Miller
Pace/MacGill, 32 East 57th Street, 9th floor, New York, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Read More

MONDAY FEBRUARY 18

Opening: “Kristina Lee & Annie Pearlman: The Broadway Boogie Woogie” at Malraux’s Place
Here is a cool thing to do today: the sharp new gallery Malraux’s Place has an opening for Lee and Pearlman, and though I am not acquainted with either it does sound like a good time. The press release on Lee: “her masked heroines rhythmically hack their way through the underbrush.” Pearlman: “she depicts the ‘practices which an urbanistic system was supposed to administer or suppress, but which have outlived its decay.’” I love those practices! Go! —Dan Duray
253 36th Street, Brooklyn, 7-9 p.m. Read More

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13

Discussion: Agnes Gund and Wolfgang Laib at MoMA
Wolfgang Laib, who has currently installed a square of pollen inside the Museum of Modern Art’s atrium, will discuss his installation and creative process with MoMA’s president emerita, Agnes Gund, in a conversation moderated by Ann Temkin, curator in the museum’s department of painting and sculpture. —Michael H. Miller Read More

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4

Talk: David Diao on Barnett Newman at Dia:Chelsea
As part of Dia’s long-running, often-illuminating “Artists on Artists” lecture series, painter David Diao will discuss the work of Barnett Newman. Mr. Diao has made a number of paintings about Newman’s oeuvre over the years—charting the pace and scale of his output in various works—so this is fairly certain to be a treat. —Andrew Russeth Read More

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30
Gary Simmons & Thelma Golden at 192 Books
Gary Simmons celebrates the release of Gary Simmons: Paradise, the first book to bring together the artist’s work across all mediums, including photography, sculpture, installation and drawing. He’s in conversation with Thelma Golden, the director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem. —Michael H. Miller Read More