“Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”
This year’s Met Gala and accompanying Costume Institute exhibition will celebrate the life and career of Karl Lagerfeld, the German fashion designer who died in 2019. The show pairs about 150 of his creations for Chanel and the other fashion houses at which he worked, with their original sketches, offering a glimpse at how his two-dimensional drawings were translated into wearable art. May 5 to July 16; Metropolitan Museum of Art, metmuseum.org
From the early 1830s through World War II, members of the Jewish family at the center of this show moved from Iraq and settled in India, China and England, amassing an impressive collection of art over the course of four generations. This show brings together pieces from their diverse collection — including Jewish ceremonial art, Chinese ivory carvings and paintings by Thomas Gainsborough, John Singer Sargent and even Winston Churchill — and revisits their family history. Through Aug. 13; Jewish Museum, thejewishmuseum.org
“Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy”
This group show, focused on love in all its beautiful and occasionally painful forms, collects images from more than 15 photographers. On view will be selections from “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” (1973-86), Nan Goldin’s personal chronicles of friendship, love and loss. And from the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, images of his honeymoon will be juxtaposed with photos capturing the grief he experienced during and after his wife’s death. June 2 to Sept. 11; International Center of Photography, icp.org
“It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby”
In the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning comedy special “Nanette,” Hannah Gadsby riffs on Pablo Picasso’s life and work from a feminist perspective. Now the comedian, who also has an art history degree, takes it even further as a curator of this exhibition, which will focus on how the artist depicted women. The show will feature a total of 100 works, including a number of Picasso’s paintings, sculptures and drawings — many from his “Vollard Suite” series (1930-37) — as well as pieces from the museum’s collection of feminist art. June 2 to Sept. 24; Brooklyn Museum, brooklynmuseum.org
“Daniel Lind-Ramos: El Viejo Griot”
The multidisciplinary artist Daniel Lind-Ramos uses found and gifted objects to create his large-scale, detailed sculptures. This show brings together 10 of Mr. Lind-Ramos’s works, including three he created in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017, incorporating items collected in Puerto Rico, as well as two new pieces that address the Covid-19 pandemic, created with pieces of cleaning tools, sanitation products and lights from emergency vehicles. Through Sept. 4; MoMA PS1, momaps1.org
