Photography
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BEYOND FLANDERS FIELD
Belgian artist Bart Michiels takes contemporary photographs of the sites of Europe’s greatest battles and worst bloodshed: Napoleon’s Waterloo, now a lush field; Omaha Beach, empty and draped in fog; the Battle of Anzio’s Yellow Beach, now calm. The hill of Le Mort Homme, where 700,000 soldiers were killed or wounded during World War I, would be a simple pastoral landscape if the viewer did not know its history. The exhibit, “The Course of History,” is Mr. Michiels’s first in New York. Through Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Foley Gallery, 547 W. 27th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, fifth floor, 212-244-9081, free.
TANGO ARGENTINE
Adriana Groisman has spent more than 15 years photographing tango dancers who gather in milongas, smoky ballrooms in Buenos Aires. “Milongueros tend to speak very little,” she says. “Even if they have been dancing with each other for years, they never ask each other’s last names, addresses, or professions.” Her photographs, which are collected in the book “Tango, Never Before Midnight” (Ediciones Lariviere), are on view at Leica Gallery. Through Saturday, noon-6 p.m., Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway at Bond Street, 212-777-3051, free.
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