Things to do in New York City this week

Liu Wei: Speculation, outdoor sculptures at The Met.

Emily Mae Smith: Transit of Venus, new paintings.

Ross Bleckner: Octopus, new paintings at Petzel Gallery.

Carlos Martiel: Dark AGe, a solo art exhibition.

Slam Frank: satirical musical of Anne Frank as hip-hop show.

Leopold Strobl: Underneath, small drawings from news photos.

Ford and Tchelitchew: photos of the avant-garde.

Early optical art by Stanczak, Pearson and Kelly.

Sacred Splendor: Jewish and Christian treasures of Prague.

Kenneth Victor Young: Works 1970 - 1972, paintings.

Andrea Bowers: Democracy Needs Our Courage, new works.

Array Collective: In the Round, Belfast group art show.

Strausfeld's linocut film posters for the Academy Cinema.

Aziz Hazara: Coming Home, an exhibition of war leftovers.

The Architect & The Housewife: artists on home and chores.

Io sono un pittore: Jannis Kounellis retrospective.

Nights at the Circus: paintings by Lingrou Xie.

Midnight: Todrick Hall's musical of lives in the old South.

Kino Drift: Skoczek's part-cinema, part-library exhibition.

Renée Cox: Take A Good Look, photos by Renée Cox.

Shelley Niro's photos on memory and Indigenous identity.

Rocío Rodríguez: six abstract paintings.

The Hairy Ape: O'Neill's play of revenge and belonging.

Art + Furniture: art as usable design, 1960s–1990s.

Designed to Be Red: two centuries of Native poster art.

Lefor-Openo: cute French posters and politics after WWII.

Like everything alive: art on bodies, objects and identity.

Shimmer: 17 artists imagining a posthuman future.

Martin Puryear: sculpture and drawings.

Broken: sculpture fragments from Michelangelo to Bourgeois.

The Imaginary Invalid, a Molière comedy starring Bill Irwin.

Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen: musical in a brothel.

Puccini's La Bohème: opera live from the Met's stage.

Copperfield!: Dickens as a musical.

Dark Matter U: an exhibition on justice and design.

Humanist modernity: exhibition on architects the Nowickis.

Masters of Horror: classic horror films for Halloween.

Anywhere–Everywhere: 300 anonymous snapshots from a century.

Elizabeth Murray: studies for the dance work PRESENT TENSE.

A Ghost In Your Ear: immersive horror play in headphones.