Édouard Baldus, Le Moine, ca. 1861, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

An August weekend in New York is usually just an excuse to get out of town, but if you are stuck in the city (or are visiting) there are a few photography shows closing soon that you should probably know about.

You have one week left to catch the Bechers at MoMA, two weeks to see the phenomenal “Framing a Century” exhibition at the Met, and only a few weeks for Mapplethorpe’s “Polaroids” at the Whitney, and “When Color Was New” at the Julie Saul Gallery, which includes vintage color photographs from Harry Callahan, William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Mitch Epstein, Walker Evans, Luigi Ghirri, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, and Joel Sternfeld (just to name a few).

If you are near Washington D.C., it would be a crime to miss the Richard Misrach show at the National Gallery. It closes on September 1.

Summer goes by so quickly. Soon it will be time for corduroy again and we’ll have a new crop of exhibitions to choose from. I just discovered Abelardo Morell on Aline Smithson’s blog and will definitely be visiting his show at the Bonni Benrubi gallery in September.

Are there any exhibitions, current or in the near future, New York City or elsewhere, that you would recommend or are looking forward to seeing?