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  1. Photograph: Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery
    Photograph: Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery

    “Tumescence” at Michael Werner
    There are indeed pictures of dicks in this group show, featuring works by Peter Doig, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul and Michael Williams, but the title also refers more generally to painting that is “exuberant” and prone to “discard conventional notions of formal restraint” in favor of “unapologetic sexual exploration of painted imagery.” Bring some Kleenex, maybe? Thu 5–Nov 2

  2. Photograph: Courtesy Lehmann Maupin
    Photograph: Courtesy Lehmann Maupin

    Ashley Bickerton at Lehmann Maupin
    More than 15 years ago, Bickerton decamped from New York  to live and work in Bali, Indonesia. Since then, the art he’s produced—paintings, mixed-media assemblages and sculptures—suggests  a strange mix of Paul Gauguin, Raymond Chandler and Colonel Kurtz. In a style that’s equal parts cartoonish and hyperreal,  Bickerton depicts paradise as a globalist Gomorrah populated by Thai prostitutes, lei-garlanded hula beauties and his own bad self, all presented as a vision that’s simultaneously alluring and monstrous. Wed 11Oct 26

  3. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Petzel
    Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and Petzel

    Charline Von Heyl at Petzel Gallery
    Von Heyl’s paintings are exemplars of contemporary abstraction, which is to say they’re not very abstract at all, but are, rather, compendiums of coded references to various styles of modern and postmodern art. Her canvases are visually appealing, if not quite as daring as her admirers believe. Still, they’re very much worth a look. Fri 6–Oct 5

  4. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and White Columns
    Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and White Columns

    Kim Gordon, “Design Office with Kim Gordon—since 1980” at White Columns
    Besides being the former fronting siren for Sonic Youth, Gordon is an artist, working in such diverse mediums as photography, video, painting and sculpture. This exhibition is the first survey of Gordon’s artistic career, and includes works created between 1980 and the present. Sat 7Oct 19

  5. Photograph: © Janet Cardiff and George Bures
    Photograph: © Janet Cardiff and George Bures

    Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet at The Cloisters
    As the Met’s first contemporary installation at the Cloisters, its branch for medieval art, the museum is mounting Cardiff’s acclaimed sound work inside the Fuentidueña Chapel. Consisting of 40 speakers placed in an oval, the piece continuously plays an arrangement of a motet choir piece by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–1585), in which the individual voices have been broken out, one per speaker. Tue 10Dec 8

Top five shows: Sept 5–11, 2013

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