Chelsea's big openings
Daunted by the various vernissages of fall? TONY maps out its picks.
Tue Sep 7 2010

Roy Lichtenstein
Mitchell-Innes & Nash
The late Pop Art master's series on comix-style glass and mirror reflections gets a close look in this tasty selection.

Angelo Filomeno
Galerie Lelong
Filomeno is sure to keep you in stitches with his exquisite embroidered compositions and goth-baroque sculptures dealing with the macabre.

Adam Fuss
Cheim & Read
Fuss takes on the symbolism of snakes in his latest large-scale photos and daguerreotypes.

Liao Yibai
Mike Weiss Gallery + ATM Gallery
Bling is the thing, as the Chinese artist's shiny sculptural objects reflect on the slippery divide between real and fake in the world of luxury goods.

Sandow Birk
P.P.O.W.
With Islamophobia on the rise, what better time to take in Birk's sardonically Americanized version of the Koran, Islam's holiest text?

Keith Edmier and Allan McCollum
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
Stop-motion animation is the inspiration for this two-person show.

Polly Apfelbaum + Delia Brown
D'Amelio Terras
Apfelbaum offers a sequined-fabric installation, while Brown's paintings riff on her identification with Frida Kahlo.

Alex Hubbard + Sean Raspet
The Kitchen
Hubbard's videos and paintings deal with order and chaos; Raspet's installations take on the 24/7 nature of society.

Marc Newson
Gagosian Gallery
This show of the Australian superdesigner features his transportation projects, including a luxe speedboat inspired by a '60s Italian classic.

Chris Verene
Postmasters
For his first show at Postmasters, the photographer offers frank images of his family and their friends in rural Illinois, made over the past 26 years.










