As I walked into the Rubin Museum’s final exhibition, Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now, which marks the museum’s closure after two decades of showcasing Himalayan art in Manhattan, a thought struck me instantly: isn’t this the pinnacle that the most ambitious artists from the high Tibetan mountains in China could ever aspire to reach?

Invisible Hands at 601Artspace, curated by Emireth Herrera Valdés, spotlights immigrant laborers who chased dreams of a better life in affluent nations, trading their relentless physical labor for higher wages yet forever navigating the treacherous divides born out of economic progression.