In the midst of the feminist movement in New York City in the 1970s, Joan Semmel began working both with models and photographs she took of her own body to overturn art historical conventions for representing the female form. Using cropping and birds-eye view perspective, Semmel created nudes that are unidealized, intimate, and sensual.

Comprised of more than 450 prints, Constellation offers a fresh perspective on the career of photographer Diane Arbus (b. 1923–1971), interspersing her most acclaimed images with works that have never been published before, and challenging the predominant conception of her as a chronicler of the socially marginalized.

Collection View: Louise Nevelson, now on view at the Whitney, re-examines the influence of the cityscape on Nevelson’s work. The exhibition uses the east-facing glass façade of the fifth-floor galleries to place more than fifteen sculptures in dialogue with the surrounding architecture on Gansevoort Street.

Printmaking duo Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston’s exhibition Flash Point intermingles three new bodies of work addressing current political and environmental crises.

The first museum presentation of Michelle V. Agins’s photography, Storyteller brings together sixty-eight images taken over the course of her career as a photojournalist for the New York Times, encouraging a reflection on the connections forged with art history.