Impressionism has long occupied a favored place in the hearts of the museum-going public, and its enthusiastic acceptance provides an impetus for the movement’s continued curatorial and scholarly examination.

When visible certainties lose their conviction, many artists have turned to the blurred, the transitory, the disorderly, and the incomplete. Out of focus, on view at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, takes as its subject blurriness and the imprecise image, where boundaries are elusive, identities are unstable and often unidentifiable, and where history and memory are urgent but unreliable.

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori’s solo exhibition at Karma in Chelsea (her first in New York), provides an introduction to the work of one of Australia’s leading Indigenous painters. Gabori, who died in 2015 around the age of ninety (her birth date is unclear) took up art in her early eighties while undergoing occupational therapy at Mornington Island’s Arts and Crafts Centre.