Martha Friedman’s show at WALLSPACE ends October 20.

The Artist’s Institute’s 5th season is dedicated to Haim Steinbach.

Erica Baum’s show at Bureau “shows a synthesis of her interest in narrative elements and an attention to abstraction and negative space.”

Alix Pearlstein’s show at On Stellar Rays “exploits acts of spectatorship among individuals, isolating a dialectical engagement of movement, observation and reception.”

WOMEN, Anya Kielar’s show at Rachel Uffner, consists of “a series of large-scale fabric pieces in which she continues her ongoing investigation of the female form.”

Small Towns, Tina Barney’s show at Janet Borden, closes November 21.

XYZ, Lucas Samaras’s show at Pace, is the inaugural show at their new 508 West 25th Street space.

Stray Light Grey, at Marlborough Chelsea, is a collaboration between Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe that “composes an expansive, alternate world that reimagines culture through subjects such as rogue science, psychedelic drugs, mega-conventions and hypertrophic urbanism.”

The New Museum’s show Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989, features “original artwork, ephemera, and performance documentation by over fifteen artists who lived and worked on or near the Bowery in New York.”

“Six Years,” the seminal book on conceptual art complied by Lucy R. Lippard, has been transposed into a show at the Brooklyn Museum.