Diane Arbus's early photographs are the focus of a new show at the Met Breuer, Diane Arbus: In the Beginning (until 27 November), that loosely assembles her peripatetic photographs from New York in the 1950s. Visitors should take their time and stroll around as she would: it is a side of the artist, and New York, that is not seen often enough.
Simone Leigh, the New Museum's artist-in-residence, presents a socially-engaged exhibition in The Waiting Room (until 18 September) that considers the public health care system against racial and social inequalities. Various public and private workshops on holistic health treatments are organised for the duration of the show, from talks on herbalism to healing performance rituals. The work was developed from a project titled Free People’s Medical Clinic (2014), in which Leigh organised free holistic treatments and workshops for four weekends in Brooklyn.
It’s your last chance to see Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World (until 17 July) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition includes more than 265 works of art from Pergamon—the best-preserved royal capital of the Hellenistic period (323–30 BC)—and other cities. The show is the first major US survey of these artefacts and explores the influence that Hellenistic artists had on later Roman works of art.