ATWOOD AT WORK Photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood immerses herself in her projects until she feels she has covered her subjects as deeply as she can. She has completed studies on blind children, the French foreign legion, the first person with AIDS in France who would allow himself to be photographed for publication, and landmine victims in Cambodia, Angola, Kosovo, Mozambique, and Afghanistan. Her 10-year project on incarcerated women took her to 40 prisons in Europe and America. The photographs on display in the current exhibit span from 1975 to 2005. Through Saturday, November 5, Tuesday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m., Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway, between Bond and 3rd streets, 212-777-3051, free.

VAN GOGH’S DRAWINGS More than 100 drawings by Vincent van Gogh go on display next week. The drawings include self-portraits, sketches of gardens and fields, and studies for paintings including “Cypresses.” The exhibit includes works in pen and ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal, and watercolor. Several related paintings, including “Corridor in the Asylum,” are also on display. Tuesday through Saturday, December 31, Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, 212-535-7710, $15 general, $10 seniors, $7 students, free for members and children under 12.

WOMEN, ETC. Spanish artist Bernardo Torrens’s paintings are on display. Along with a series of female nudes rendered in black and white, there are portraits of a bullfighter and a man napping as his son nestles in his lap. Through Saturday, October 29, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Bernarducci Meisel, 37 W. 57th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, sixth floor, 212-593-3757, free.

THE WAVE The Black & White Gallery presents “Wave,” an outdoor exhibit by Czech and Canadian artist Michael Krondl, who is known for his works on billboards. Viewers stand under two-story digital photographs of a gigantic wave about to crash. Through Monday, November 28, Friday-Monday, noon-6 p.m., Black & White Gallery, 483 Driggs Ave., between N. 9th and N. 10th streets, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-599-8775, free.

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