Top five shows: Jan 17–23, 2013

Cyprien Gaillard at MoMA PS1
This French artist, whose career is on the doorstep of superstardom, offers a 21st-century globalist take on Land Art aesthetics, with an output that encompasses video, indoor and outdoor installation, sculpture, painting, drawing and more. Sun 20–Mar 18

Wolfgang Laib at Museum of Modern Art
The German artist presents one of his signature carpets of finely sifted pollen, transforming MoMA’s atrium into a vast expanse of canary-colored pigment. Wed 23–Mar 11

Sascha Braunig, “Wrister, Blister, Plaster” at Foxy Production
The painter returns with more of her lysergic blendings of figuration and abstraction. Through Feb 15

“Nancy Dwyer: Paintings & Sculpture, 1982–2012” at Fisher Landau Center for Art
This artist, associated with the Pictures Generation, has been out of the art-world limelight since the ’90s, but a new show should reacquaint viewers with her visual puns. Fri 18–Apr 7

“Dieter Roth/Björn Roth” at Hauser & Wirth New York
A legend in Europe, Dieter Roth was a shaman-showman who defied boundaries. This museum-quality survey revisits his work, including his 1980s collaborations with son Björn. Wed 23–Apr 13