NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex

ManhattanThurs, Dec 22, 2011 – Sat, June 30, 2012

Using conventional forms of photography—including traditional portraiture, photojournalism and online profile pictures—the artists focus on the highly mediated politics of sex and desire.

• Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey

  Jewish Museum

  ManhattanOngoing

  This two-floor exhibition features objects from the museum's collection, which documents the Jewish experience over a 4000-year period.

• Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex

  Jewish Museum

  ManhattanThurs, Dec 22, 2011 – Sat, June 30, 2012

  Using conventional forms of photography—including traditional portraiture, photojournalism and online profile pictures—the artists focus on the highly mediated politics of sex and desire.

• Kehinde Wiley / The World Stage: Israel

  Jewish Museum

  ManhattanFri, March 9, 2012 – Sun, July 29, 2012

  Kehinde Wiley is known for his large-scale paintings of young urban men, rendered in the self-confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting. The works in this exhibition are based on men of diverse religions and ethnicities living in Israel.

• Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940

  Jewish Museum

  ManhattanFri, May 4, 2012 – Sun, Sept 23, 2012

  The show includes over 50 paintings as well as a selection of prints, photographs and documents exploring the crucial role played by the patrons, dealers and muses who comprised the French painter's inner circle.

• Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940 Daytime Lectures

  Jewish Museum

  ManhattanPlease check full listing for event date and times

  A three-part daytime lecture series featuring historian Jane Becker and Stephen Brown, the curator of Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940.