MUSEUMS

THE MET BREUER

A new exhibition looks at American modernist Marsden Hartley’s Maine paintings, where the men are as rugged as the landscapes, and where the influence of artists like Paul Cézanne is apparent. The museum puts Hartley’s work in historical context by showing it alongside Japanese printmakers Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai and American painters Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Ryder. March 15 to June 18, 945 Madison Ave., 212-731-1675; metmuseum.org

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

The Met has built an exhibition around Georges Seurat’s moody canvas Parade de Cirque (Circus Sideshow), the pointillist master’s first nighttime scene. In 19th century Paris, a sideshow was a free street entertainment meant to entice passersby to purchase tickets to the circus; the exhibition will include more than 100 related works by Seurat and others, highlighting fairs and traveling circuses. Through May 29, 1000 Fifth Ave., 212-535-7710; metmuseum.org

MOMA

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s performance piece Work/travail/ Arbeid sets out to determine whether dance can be adapted to the specific time and space constraints of a museum exhibition. She has taken a version of this work to Brussels already (where each performance was nine hours long), and the version for MOMA will be performed over nine days. March 25 to April 2, 11 W. 53rd St., 212-708-9400; moma.org

THE NEW MUSEUM

The new exhibition “Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work” takes in the artist’s early zines and videos, his comic-like illustrations, and his punk leanings as a way of charting his influence over a decades-long career. Through April 16, 235 Bowery, 212-219-1222; newmuseum.org