Featured New York Photo Shows

A selective listing by critics of The Times. We chose those works that pertained to photography. Please contact each museum for admission prices and hours of operation.

Full reviews of recent shows: nytimes.com/art.

IMRE KINSZKI, Klotz/Sirmon, 511 West 25th Street, (212) 741-4764, closing tomorrow. Born in Budapest in 1901, Kinszki was a well-connected Modernist photographer whose works could stand up with pictures by more famous Hungarian peers like André Kertesz, Brassai and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. The tiny, velvety contact prints from the 20's and 30's in this show are formally exquisite and often emotionally poignant. They include a monumental close-up of chess pieces; studies of buildings and shadows; and a lovely picture of a sleeping baby. Kinszki never left Hungary, and he died in a concentration camp in 1945. JOHNSON

MARK COHEN: 'GRIM STREET,' Bruce Silverstein, 535 West 24th Street, (212) 627-3930, through April 2. Mr. Cohen's famous photographs of a girl blowing a gum bubble so big it eclipses her face, of the extraordinarily gangly girl with the ball and bat and of the impish boy smoking a cigarette while his laughing friends look on are included here along with a selection of other oblique, mysterious, funny and sad pictures of children at play, people in cars, animals, street scenes and other subjects from ordinary life shot in the 70's in black and white and color. JOHNSON

'DIANE ARBUS REVELATIONS,' Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, (212) 535-7710, through May 30. Arbus could be cruel, but tenderness and melancholy were her finest modes of expression, the emotions that reveal themselves after her best pictures leave their first impression, which is often alarm. She captured a moment, the anxious 1950's and 60's, and - this probably applies as much to Arbus as to any other photographer of the second half of the last century - she captured New York. Appropriately, she is given the royal treatment at the Met, including some maddeningly dark, dense and absurdly theatrical galleries, like chapels, of memorabilia. That said, it touches her favorite subjects with grace. Even the shocking photographs of retarded women are sympathetic, implying that the world is full of wondrous things, if our eyes are open enough to recognize them, and that in the end we are all drawn together by our different flaws. Hours: Sundays, Tuesdays through Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays until 9 p.m. Admission: $15; students, $7 and 65+, $10. MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

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