ART Galleries A.I.R. Gallery 40 Wooster St. (betw. Broome ...

A.I.R. Gallery 40 Wooster St. (betw. Broome & Grand Sts.), 212-966-0799. Tues.-Sat. 11-6. Free. "Barbara Roux: Society of Plants," color photographs & sculpture reflecting artist's daily visits to nearby park [through 1/26].

Art in General 79 Walker St. (betw. B'way & Lafayette St.), 212-219-0473, www.artingeneral.org Tues.-Sat. 12-6; closed Sun. & Mon. Free. "Art in General on Canal (Part 1)," public space installation along Canal St. by NY artists Matthew Bakkom, Godzilla Asian American Art Network, Yoko Inoue, Sontext & Gelatin [through 2/28].

Peter Blum Gallery 99 Wooster St. (Prince St.), 212-343-0441. Tues.-Fri. 10-6; Sat. 11-6. Free. "Tacita Dean: The Russian Ending" uses postcards in etched photogravures to re-imagine final scenes of films [through 2/2].

Ceres Gallery 584 B'way, #306 (betw. Prince & Houston Sts.), 212-226-4725. Tues.-Sat. 12-6; closed Sun. & Mon. Free. "Journey Through Fire," expressive works in clay by Tania Kravath [through 1/26].

Cooper Union Houghton Gallery, 7 E. 7th St., 2nd fl. (3rd Ave.), 212-353-4158. Mon.-Fri. 11-7, Sat. 12-5. Free. "The Storm," architectural theorist Lebbeus Woods' installation of steel cables & tectonic elements, compares the effects of war on buildings to a violent storm w/40 drawings & reconstructions of Sarajevo [through 2/1].

D'Amelio Terras 525 W. 22nd St. (betw. 10th & 11th Aves.), 212-352-9460, www.damelioterras.com Tues.-Sat. 10-6. Free. Carl Andre, John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin & Donald Judd each pres. one work in "4 Sculptures" [through 2/9].

DCA Gallery 252 W. 28th St. (betw. 10th & 11th Ave.), 212-255-5511, www.dcagallery.com Tues.-Sat. 10-6; closed Sun. & Mon. Free. "Small Problems?Big Solutions," funny/sad line paintings on stupidity of everyday life by Danish artist Lars Norgard [through 1/19].

First Street Gallery 526 W. 26th St. (betw. 10th & 11th Aves.), 646-336-8053, www.firststreetgallery.net Tues.-Sat. 10-6. "Something Like This," Clara Williams' first solo exhibition incorporates landscape paintings & sculptures [through 2/2].

The Gallery at Lincoln Center Concourse Level, 63rd St. (B'way), 212-580-4673. Mon.-Sat. 10-8. Free. "The Art of Lincoln Center Theater" shows posters from 15 productions incl. Carousel, Contact, Our Town, Six Degrees of Separation [through 1/26].

Gallery 292 120 Wooster St. (betw. Prince & Spring Sts.), 212-431-0292. Tues.-Sat. 11-6; closed Sun. & Mon. Free. "Jan Lauschmann," dreamlike photographs from the 1920s [through 1/26].

Howard Greenberg Gallery 120 Wooster St. (betw. Prince & Spring Sts.), 212-431-0292, www.howardgreenberg.com Tues.-Sat. 11-6; closed Sun. & Mon. "Edward Weston: Legacy" shows a variety of gorgeously-composed Modernist photographs from self-portraits to desert landscapes w/rare selections from family collections [through 1/26].

Here Art Gallery 145 6th Ave. (betw. Spring & Broome Sts.), 212-647-0202 x308. Daily. Free. The Chronoplastics art collective takes you on a "Mysterious Journey" feat. 10 sculptors, painters, textile-makers, video animators & more w/a "shared understanding of future protocol" from Taiwan, Chicago, London & New York [through 1/27].

Hirschl & Adler Galleries 21 E. 70th St. (Madison Ave.), 212-535-8810, www.hirschlandadler.com Tues.-Fri. 9:30-4:45. Free. "Of the Newest Fashion," masterpieces of American Neo-Classical furniture from 1810-1840 [through 2/2].

Jan Krugier Gallery 41 E. 57th St. (Madison Ave.), 212-755-7288. Tues.-Sat. 10-5:30. Free. "Traces: Primitive & Modern Expressions," 35 primitive sculptures, paintings & masks alongside 36 20th-century works by Picasso, Paul Klee & Joan Miro [through 1/19].

Leica Gallery 670 B'way (Bond St.), 212-777-3051. Tues.-Fri. 11-6; Sat. 12-6. Free. "William Albert Allard: Portraits of America" trains National Geographic-honed eye on people from Pennsylvania Amish country to the Minnesota lakes to Faulkner's Mississippi [through 1/12].

Marlborough Gallery 40 W. 57th St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-541-4900, www.marlboroughgallery.com Mon.-Sat. 10-5:30. "Vincent Desiderio," oil works on paper [through 2/2]. "Prints from the 50s, 60s and 70s" incl. works by Warhol, de Kooning, Picasso & Pollock [through 2/2].

Momenta Art Gallery 72 Berry St. (N. 10th St.), Williamsburg, 718-218-8058, www.momentaart.org Fri.-Mon. 12-6. Free. "Airbag Architecture," installation by anonymous art collective KIT (constructs trophies from car seat material) & "The Trials of Dr. Kawalksi," installation by William Scarbrough (documents a mysterious life story) [through 1/14].

Tibor de Nagy Gallery 724 5th Ave. (57th St.), 212-262-5050, Tues.-Sat. 10-5:30, free. "Vocations," Trevor Winkfield's large, brightly-colored still-life paintings & "Totems", Tom Burckhardt's drawings & digital images on book leaves [through 2/9].

Plus Ultra Gallery 235 S. 1st St. (Roebling St.), Williamsburg, 718-387-3844, www.plusultragallery.com Sat. & Sun. 12-6. Free. "Salon Style" floor-to-ceiling contemporary photographs from 14 artists [through 1/13].

Posteritati Movie Posters 241 Centre St. (betw. Broome & Grande Sts.), 212-226-2207, www.posteritati.com Tues.-Sun. 11-7; closed Mon. Free. "Japanese Movie Posters, 1950-1980" feat. Eiko Ishioka's Apocalypse Now, Kurosawa's crayon art for Kagemusha & 33 more [through 1/13].

_A Ramona Studio_ 65 W. 37th St., 4th fl. (6th Ave.), 212-398-1904. Fri. & Sat. 12-4. Free. "Hilary Lorenz: Cellular Studies," large format color prints based on cell structures [through 1/19].

St. Peter's Church 619 Lexington Ave. (54th St.), 212-935-2200. Daily 9-7. "Shirley Fuerst" shows Mylar sculptures inspired by nature [through 1/30].

Anita Shapolsky Gallery 152 E. 65th St. (Lexington Ave.), 212-452-1094. Weds.-Sat. 11-6. Free. "Jackson Pollock," set of serigraphs produced by his brother in 1951 shown w/works by Lee Krasner & others [through 2/23].

Bruce Silverstein Gallery 504 W. 22nd St. (10th Ave.), 212-627-3930. Tues.-Sat. 11-6. Free. "Barbara Morgan: Leaps & Bounds" feat. rare vintage doc. photos of American modern dance, 1935-44 [through 1/12].

Smack Mellon Studios 56 Water St. (Front St.), Dumbo, 718-834-8761, www.smackmellon.org Weds.-Sun. 12-6; closed Mon. & Tues. Free. "Peppermint" group show comments on fetishism w/installations, photos, collages, boxes & "anonymous space for touching" [through 1/13].

Soho Photo Gallery 15 White St. (betw. 6th Ave. & W. B'way), 212-226-8571, www.sohophoto.com Thurs. 6-8; Fri.-Sun. 1-6. closed Weds., Mon. & Tues. Free. "SohoPhoto 2002," juried members show off nearly every discipline in photography judged by Ivan Karp, "Father of Pop Art" [through 2/2].

Soho Triad Fine Arts 107 Grand St. (B'way), 212-965-9500, www.sohotriad.com Sun.-Sat. 10-6. Free. "John Dominis" pres. examples of b/w photojournalism from LIFE [through 1/27].

Soma NYC Gallery 437 E. 9th St. (betw. 1st Ave. & Ave. A), 212-460-8125, www.at149st.com Tues.-Sun. 2-10. Free. "Where Were You in '82?" retrospective incl. photos, paintings, clothing, hiphop flyers & spray paint [through 2/4].

Times Square Astrovision S. corner, 7th Ave. (B'way), www.creativetime.org "The 59th Minute" of every hour on this giant screen is given to short films by Gary Hill, Mary Lucier & Michael Snow [through 1/27].

White Columns 320 W. 13th St. (Horatio St.), 212-924-4212, www.whitecolumns.org Weds.-Sun. 12-6. Free. "Yellow Brick Road," group showing of paintings, photography, sculpture & installation using imaginary characters & fantastical settings; artists incl. John Hodany, Mala Iqbal, Peter Kreider & Amy Vogel [through 1/27].

Museums/Cultural Institutions

American Folk Art Museum 45 W. 53rd St. (5th Ave.), 212-595-9533, www.folkartmuseum.org Tues.-Sun. 10-6, Fri. 10-8. Free. "The Henry Darger Collection" christens their new building w/26 paintings (some double-sided & nine-feet long) by very strange epic artist/janitor [through 5/31].

American Museum of Natural History Central Park W. (79th St.), 212-769-5200, www.amnh.org Sun.-Thurs. 10-5:45; Fri. & Sat. 10-8:45. $10, $7.50 st./s.c., $6 child. "Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion," artifacts & photos shine light on rituals of Hinduism [through 2/24]. "Pearls" explores the jewel w/half-a-million objects [through 4/14].

Asia Society 725 Park Ave. (70th St.), 212-517-2742, www.asiasociety.org Tues.-Thurs., Sat. & Sun. 11-6; Fri. 11-9; closed Mon. $7, $4 st./s.c. Child under 16 free. Completely renovated museum feat. "Conversations w/Traditions" explores Asia's indigenous languages, artists & modern issues [through 2/17].

The Bronx Museum of Art 1040 Grand Concourse (165th St.), Bronx, 718-681-6000. Weds. 12-9; Thurs.-Sun. 12-6. $3, $2 st./s.c., child under 12 free. "Context: Recent Art from Cuba" showcases six Havana-based artists, painters & photographers [through 3/3].

Brooklyn Museum of Art 200 Eastern Pkwy. (Washington Ave.), Bklyn, 718-638-5000, www.brooklynart.org Weds.-Fri. 10-5; Sat. & Sun. 11-6; first Sat. of the month 11-11, eve. free; closed Mon. & Tues. $6, $3 st./s.c. "Eternal Egypt" borrows more than 140 ancient statues, portraits, luxury items & funerary objects from the British Museum [through 2/24]. "American Identities: A New Look" incorporates American paintings & sculpture w/Spanish art & Native American works [long term].

Cooper-Hewitt 2 E. 91st St. (5th Ave.), 212-849-8400, www.si.edu/ndm Tues. 10-9; Weds.-Sat. 10-5; Sun. 12-5; closed Mon. $8, $5 st./s.c., child under 12 free. Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas in Madrid brings 186-piece collection of early 20th-century "Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus" to National Design Museum [through 2/24]. "Russel Wright: Creating American Lifestyle" celebrates inventor of name-brand marketing & modernist designer w/over 350 artifacts incl. furniture, drawings, tableware, photos & videos [through 3/20].

Cooper Union Foundation Bldg., E. 7th St. (3rd Ave.), 212-353-4214, www.cooper.edu/month.html Mon.-Fri. 11-7; Sat. 12-5; closed Sun. Free. "Massin in Continuo: a Dictionary" celebrates innovative French graphic designer & inventor of "expressive typography" [through 3/2].

Dia Center for the Arts 548 W. 22nd St. (betw. 10th & 11th Aves.), 212-989-5566, www.diacenter.org Weds.-Sun. 12-6; closed Mon. & Tues. $6, $3 st./s.c. NY-based artist "Roni Horn" displays three series of photographs combining faces & nature [through 2/17]. Video installation "Knots + Surfaces" reopens [through 2/24]. Alfred Jensen displays rarely-seen scientific paintings in "Concordance" [through 6/16]. "Reverb," interactive installation w/microphones arranged by American artist Jorge Pardo & Italian sculptor Gilberto Zorio [through 6/17].

The Frick Collection 1 E. 70th St. (betw. Madison & 5th Aves.), 212-288-0700, www.frick.org Tues.-Sat. 10-6; Sun. 1-6; closed Mon. $10, $5 st./s.c. "The Art of the Timekeeper," 21 fancy clocks & watches from the 16th-19th centuries [through 2/24].

Goethe-Institut 1014 5th Ave. (betw. 82nd & 83rd Sts.), 212-439-8700. Mon., Weds. & Fri. 10-5; Thurs. & Tues. 10-7. closed Sat. & Sun. Free. "Knut Wolfgang Maron" pres. enlarged Polaroid fragments, romantic yet abstract [1/24].

Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Ave. (89th St.), 212-423-3500, www.guggenheim.org Tues. & Sun. 9-6; Fri. & Sat. 9-8; closed Thurs. $12, $8 st./s.c., child. under 12 free. "Brazil: Body & Soul" feat. massive Baroque altarpiece, jewelry, ship's masts, Concrete paintings & more spanning two centuries [through 1/27]. "Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People" finishes up its successful American run w/70 paintings & 322 Saturday Evening Post covers from his 60-year career [through 3/3].

Hebrew Union College Brookdale Center, 1 W. 4th St. (betw. B'way & Mercer St.), 212-824-2205. Mon.-Thurs. 9-6; Fri. 9-3; Sun. 10-2; closed Sat. Free. Through letters, memorabilia & photos, "The Kindertransport Journey: Memory into History" captures rescue of children prior to WWII [through 2/4].

The IndoCenter of Art & Culture 530 W. 25th St. (betw. 10th & 11th Sts.), 212-462-4221, www.indocenter.org Tues.-Sat. 11-6; closed Sun. & Mon. Sug. contrib. "From Goddess to Pin Up: Icons of Femininity in Indian Calendar Art" explores popular culture of South Asians [through 1/19].

Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave. (92nd St.), 212-423-3271, www.thejewishmuseum.org Mon., Weds. & Thurs. 11-5:45; Tues. 11-9; Sun. 10-5:45; closed Fri. & Sat. $8, $5.50 st./s.c., child. under 12 free. Pay-what-you-wish Tues. after 5. "Arnold Dreyblatt: The Re-Collection Mechanism" installation [through 2/10]. "Ben Katchor," comic strip artist & author of The Jew of New York, displays illustrations, drawings, graphic novels & set designs [through 2/10]. Berlin-based artist pres. "Doug & Mike Starn: Ramparts Cafe," multimedia reaction to Jerusalem by Brooklyn twins [through 2/10]. "The Emergence of Jewish Artists in 19th-Century Europe" feat. 70 works by 21 artists incl. Camille Pissarro, Max Liebermann & Simeon Solomon [through 3/17].

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave. (82nd.), 212-535-7710, www.metmuseum.org Sun., Tues.-Thurs. 9:30-5:30; Fri. & Sat. 9:30-9; closed Mon. $10, $5 st./s.c., child. under 12 free w/adult. "Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed" pres. corsets, ruffs & more at the Costume Institute [through 3/17]. "Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island"?more than just giant stone heads?over 50 wooden sculptures, barkcloth figures & examples of Rongorongo, the island's undeciphered script [through 8/4].

Museum for African Art 593 B'way (betw. Prince & Houston Sts.), 212-966-1313, www.africanart.org Weds.-Fri. 10:30-5:30; Sat. & Sun. 12-6. $5, $2.50 st./s.c. & child., free Sun. "Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali" incl. sacred initiation masks, headdresses, puppets, field photographs & videos [through 3/3].

Museum of Chinese in the Americas 70 Mulberry St. (Bayard St.), 212-619-4785. Tues.-Sat. 12-5; closed Sun. & Mon. $3, $1 st./sc., child. under 12 free. "Gateway to Gold Mountain" chronicles the Angel Island immigration experience [through 5/31].

Museum of the City of New York 1220 5th Ave. (103rd St.), 212-534-1672, www.mcny.org Weds.-Sat. 10-5; Sun 12-5; Tues. 10-2; closed Mon. $7, $4 st./s.c./child., $12 families. "Hirschfeld's New York" documents Manhattan through 100 works by illustrator Al Hirschfeld, plus lithography & gouache pieces [through 1/27]. "Adrian's Camelot" pres. 80 pencil & watercolor/gouache costume drawings by famed B'way & film designer Gilbert Adrian [through 5/26]. "A Community of Many Worlds: Arab Americans in New York City," 80 photos, books, costumes, textiles exploring immigration, identity & assimilation [through 6/2].

Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology 7th Ave. (27th St.), 212-217-5800, www.fitnyc.suny.edu Tues.-Fri. 12-8; Sat. 10-5; closed Sun. & Mon. Free. "London Fashion" feat. over 80 "vintage punk anti-fashion & mod street styles" by renowned designers incl. Vivenne Westwood, Dr. Martens & Manolo Blahnik [through 1/12].

Museum of Jewish Heritage 18 First Pl. (betw. Battery Pl. & West St.), Battery Park City, 212-968-1800, www.mjhnyc.org Sun.-Weds. 9-5; Thurs. 9-8; Fri. 9-3. $7, $5 st./s.c., child. under 5 free. "Scream the Truth at the World," archive of drawings, photos & newspapers secretly collected in Nazi-occupied Poland [through 2/18].

Museum of Modern Art 11 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Ave.), 212-708-9400, www.moma.org Thurs. & Sat-Tues. 10:30-5:45; Fri. 10:30-8:15; closed Weds. $10, $6.50 st./s.c., child. under 16 free. Fri. pay-what-you-wish after 4:30 p.m. "Projects 74: Ricci Albenda" transforms the walls into off-kilter corridors & trompe l'oeil rooms [through 1/22]. "Projects 73: Olafur Eliasson?Seeing Yourself Sensing," displayed in MoMA's Garden Hall, addresses the museum's constant construction & renovation [through 5/21].

National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center, 1 Bowling Green (betw. State & Whitehall Sts.), 212-668-6624. Fri.-Weds. 10-5; Thurs. 10-8. Free. "All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life & Culture" displays more than 300 symbolic objects [permanent]. "Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquios Life" incl. over 300 pieces of "tourist art" developed in the 19th century [through 5/19].

Neue Galerie New York 1048 5th Ave. (86th St.), 212-628-6200. Fri., Sat. & Mon. 11-7; Sun. 1-6. $7-$10. "New Worlds: German & Austrian Art, 1890-1940" inaugural exhibit incl. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele & more [through 2/18].

New Museum of Contemporary Art 583 B'way (betw. Houston & Prince Sts.), 212-219-1222. Tues.-Sun. 12-6; Thurs. 12-8; closed Mon. $6, $3 st./s.c. Free for those under 18 & Thurs. 6-8. "A Portrait of the Lost Boys," Jacqueline Fraser's installation of wire-sculpted women draped in multicolored fabric, accompanied by wire boy-heads [through 1/13]. "A Work in Progress" opens up the archives to exhibit paintings, photos, new media & installations by more than 40 artists [through 1/13]. "World Views Open Studio," videos & drawings by artists whose studios were on the 92nd fl. of the World Trade Center [through 1/13]. "Tom Friedman" pres. process-oriented sculptures, photographs & works on paper using sugar cubes, gum, aspirin & spaghetti [through 2/3].

The New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th St. (Central Park W.), 212-873-3400, www.nyhistory.org Tues.-Sun. 11-5; closed Mon. $5, $3 st./s.c., child. 12 & under free. "John Koch: Painting a New York Life," works created by the artist as he looked over Central Park in the 50s & 60s [through 1/27]. "New York Sept. 11" pres. documentary essays by Magnum agency photographers as first exhibit in the Society's "History Responds" project [through 2/25].

New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex, Grand Central Terminal, 42nd St. (Park Ave. S.), 718-694-5102. Mon.-Fri. 8-8; Sat. & Sun. 10-6. "Moving London 1901-2001: The Story of London's Transport" [through 1/19].

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 22-25 Jackson Ave. (46th St.), L.I. City, 718-784-2084, www.ps1.org Weds.-Sun. 12-6; $5, $2 st./s.c. "Driven," public video work of violence & desire by Maria Friberg & Monika Larsen Dennis, projected onto the roof & visible from the elevated 7 line [through 1/15]. "Loop," multimedia exhibit about time & repetition [through 1/27]. "Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, Incl. Collaborations w/George Bures Miller," guided audio tour presented by Canadian artist [through 1/31]. "David Remfry" British artist pres. large watercolor portraits & party scenes, in conjunction w/cropped photographs of social milling by Jessica Craig-Martin [through 1/31]. "Kenny Sharf" pres. 30 animation cells to be used in upcoming Cartoon Network special, along w/two major paintings [through 1/31].

Queens Museum of Art New York City Bldg., Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 718-592-9700, www.queensmuse.org Tues.-Fri. 10-5; Sat. & Sun. 12-50; closed Mon. Contrib. $5, $2.50 st./s.c., child. under 5 free. "Jacob Lawrence: The John Brown Series," more than 20 silk-screened prints [through 1/27]. "The Long Walk to Freedom: Portraits of Civil Rights Activists Then & Now" documents the lives of 16 brave men [through 1/27]. "Great Representations," Jane Benson's site-specific installation of photographs, watercolor & shadow tracings highlights the forgotten stars of 1930s segregated baseball leagues [through 2/7]. "Translated Acts: Performance & Body Art from East Asia 1990-2001" feat. paintings & performance from 26 Asian artists [through 2/17]. "Panorama of the City of New York," 9000+-sq.-foot model of NYC from 1964 World's Fair [permanent].

Scandinavia House 58 Park Ave. (betw. 37th & 38th Sts.), 212-779-3587, www.amscan.org Tues.-Sun. 11-5; closed. Mon. contrib. $3, $2 st./s.c. "Strindberg & Photography" feat. 40 of the Swedish playwright's portrait photographs & celestographs plus soundscape?a small space, but quite relaxing [through 1/28].

Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art 495 B'way, 3rd. fl. (betw. Spring & Broome Sts.), 212-925-2035, www.swissinstitute.net Tues.-Sat. 11-6. Free. "Christian Jankowski," imaginative performance/video installation art incl. My Life As a Dove, Singing Customs Officers & more [through 1/12].

Visual Arts Museum 209 E. 23rd St. (3rd Ave.), 212-592-2010, www.schoolofvisualarts.edu Mon.-Weds. & Fri. 9-6:30; Thurs. 9-8, Sat. 10-5. Free. "New York Digital Salon" opens 9th-annual exhibit w/art from 17 countries incl. digital prints, CD-ROMs, computer animation, digital music & more [through 1/16].

Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. (75th St.), 212-570-3676, www.whitney.org Tues.-Thurs., Sat. & Sun. 11-6; Fri. 1-9; closed Mon. $10, $8 st./s.c./groups of 10 or more; Fri. pay-what-you-wish 6-9 p.m. "Burt Barr: Projections" questions cinematic devices in four silent works [through 1/27]. "Over the Line: The Art & Life of Jacob Lawrence" addresses the African-American experience from Civil War to Civil Rights [through 2/3].

Openings

American Indian Community House Gallery Museum 708 B'way, 2nd fl. (4th St.), 212-598-0100. Tues.-Sat. 12-6. Free. "Downtown Dine," mixed media exhibition feat. Glory Tacheenie-Campoy, Lorenzo Clayton & Shonto Begay [opens Fri. 6-8, through 2/23].

Deitch Projects 76 Grand St. (betw. Greene & Wooster Sts.), 212-343-7300. Tues.-Sat. 12-6, closed Sun. & Mon. Free. "Collision Drive" by Alan Suicide reconstructs 70s punk sculpture along w/recent work [opens Sat., through 3/1].

Dia Center for the Arts 548 W. 22nd St. (betw. 10th & 11th Aves.), 212-989-5566, www.diacenter.org Weds.-Sun. 10-6; closed Mon. & Tues. $6, $3 st./sc. "Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)," Bruce Newman's large-scale video installation documents his studio, a prowling cat & mice infestation during summer of 2000 [opens Weds. 6-8, through 6/16].

Grand Central Terminal Vanderbilt Hall, 42nd St. (Park Ave. S.), 212-340-2210. Daily from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Free. Joe McNally's "Faces of Ground Zero," 85 life-size (nine-foot by four-foot) Polaroid photographs capture heroes, survivors & kin of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks [opens Weds., through 1/20].

Location One 26 Greene St. (betw. Canal & Grand Sts.) 212-334-3347, www.location1.org Tues.-Sat. 12-6; closed. Sun. & Mon. Free. "White Balance (to think is to forget differences)," NYC artist Fraçois Bucher attempts "to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege" through video images of downtown Manhattan before & after Sept. 11 [opens Thurs. 6-8, through 3/2].

Robert Mann Gallery 210 11th Ave. (betw. 24th & 25th Sts.), 212-898-7600, www.robertmann.com Tues.-Sat. 11-6. Free. "Artur Nicodem: Photographic Essays on Intimacy (1914-1930)" pres. never-seen vintage photos by the Austrian painter of his wives & lovers [opens Thurs. 6-8, through 3/2].

Ricco Maresca Gallery 528 W. 20th St., 3rd fl. (10th Ave.) 212-627-4819, www.riccomaresca.com Tues.-Sat. 11-6. Free. "William Hawkins," retrospective of truck driver/brothel owner/outsider artists' paintings [opens Thurs., through 2/6]. "Polly," exquisite photo portrait series of an elderly black woman living in Beaux Bridge, LA by Debbie Fleming Caffery [opens Thurs., through 2/9].

Max Fish 178 Ludlow St. (betw. Houston & Stanton Sts.), 212-529-3959; call for hours. Free. "Hit & Miss," subtitled "artworks of questionable merit" but we know they're good?graphics by Travis Millard (very funny Fudge Factory cartoonist) and Shepard Fairey (Obey Giant fame) [opens Thurs. 7-10, through 2/10].

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave. (82nd. St.), 212-535-7710. See above listing for times & adm. "Benjamin Brecknell Turner: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens" exhibits quintessential English subjects like ruined castles & crumbling cottages. "Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50" shows 60 prints made by the prominent portrait/fashion photographer 50 years ago [both open Tues., through 4/21

New Museum of Contemporary Art 583 B'way (betw. Houston & Prince Sts.), 212-219-1222. See above listing for times & adm. "Open Source Lounge" examines .com world of programming, hackers & plagiarism [opens Thurs., through 2/3].

Pleiades Gallery 530 W. 25th St., 4th fl. ( betw. 10th & 11th Aves.), 646-230-0056, Tues.-Sat. 11-6. Free. "The Trouble with the Body," stories & oil paintings by Charles Wesley [opens Thurs., through 1/26].

Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. (75th St.), 212-570-3676. See above for times & adm. "Dancer: 1999 Nudes by Irving Penn," series of photos created at age 82, coincides w/Met show [opens Sat., through 5/12].