The Rose, 1958–66, by Jay Defeo. Part of the artist’s solo exhibit Jay Defeo: A Retrospective, at the Whitney Museum of America Art. Opens Thursday. (Photo by Ben Blackwell. © 2012 The Jay DeFeo Trust / Artists Rights Society)

• NYC: Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity, at the Metropolitan Museum. Through May 27, on the Upper East Side.
• NYC: At War With the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through July 28.
• NYC: Wolfgang Laib, Without Beginning and Without End, at Sperone Westwater. Opens Friday, on the Lower East Side.
• NYC: Paul D’Agostino, Twilit Ensembles, at Pocket Utopia. Opens Sunday, on the Lower East Side.
• NYC: Critical Art Ensemble, Disturbances, a book launch and talk with Brian Holmes, Natalie Jeremijenko, Trevor Paglen and Steve Kurtz, at Artists Space. Thursday at 7pm, in Tribeca.
• Jersey City: The Space Between, at the Middle East Center for the Arts: Contemporary Perspective on Tradition and Society. Opens Sunday.
• Charlotte, N.C.: Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto, at the Mint Museum. Opens Sunday, at the uptown location.
• L.A.: Olga Koumoundouros, Possessed by Glint and Dreams, at Susanne Vielmetter Projects. Opens Friday, in Culver City.
• L.A.: Untold Stories: Collecting and Transforming Medieval Manuscripts, at the Getty Museum. Through May 12, in West L.A.
• L.A.: Xerox: Barbara T. Smith 1965-1966, at The Box. Through March 23, in downtown.
• Hamburg: Brad Downey, The Floor, The Table and the Wall, at Kulturzentrum Marstallam Schloss Ahrensburg. Opens Sunday at 11am.