Signs that no longer provide meaning – blanked out, empty, and illegible. Mark Woods at Newman Popiashvili Gallery.

Elemental circular forms, covered in textural drips and residue. Erin Shirreff at Lisa Cooley.

Richly organic, maze-like mud spirals by Ana Mendieta. At Galerie Leong.

Merce Cunningham dancers as calligraphic notes on a musical score. Jaye Rhee at Doosan Gallery.

Ross Racine’s Photoshop aerials of intricately plotted fictional suburbs. Just closed at Front Room Gallery.

Grids of personal items photographed in the deadpan style of Ebay postings. Moyra Davey/Jason Simon at Miguel Abreu.

Thinking about a connection between Italian Futurism (Giacomo Balla at the Museum of Modern Art) and digital glitch photography.

Lucas Blalock’s elusive, spatially inconclusive layers of jittered wallpaper. In a group show at Wallspace.

A new Alfred Leslie portrait, pushing the edges of the painting/software/photo boundary. In a group show at C24 Gallery.

Gregory Crewdson’s lonely, rainswept taxi lot (with train tracks). Smartly paired with O. Winston Link at Danziger.

An elegantly jarring anatomical nude hybrid by John Stezaker at Petzel Gallery.

Playing mahjong in masks and snorkels. Yang Yi’s melancholy submerged city vignettes at Galerie Richard.

Gestural, intimate darkroom abstraction, solarized and striated. Anthony Pearson at Marianne Boesky Gallery.

Keith Smith’s jittering, shape-driven bus composite. At Bruce Silverstein through 6/1.

Bloody presidential politics in 1980s Panama, as covered by Ron Haviv. In a student curated show at Milbrook School.

Shadowy dappled light portrait of a blind schoolboy in Sierra Leone. Tim Hetherington at Yossi Milo.

Massive aspirational branding as a backdrop for everyday urban life. Natan Dvir at Anastasia Photo.

Bert Stern shooting David Bailey shooting Veruschka for Vogue in 1961. At Staley-Wise.

A kissing couple snapshot digitally split and restitched. Nikolai Ishchuk in the project room at Denny Gallery.

An elegantly jumbled kitchen sink of still life forms and shadows. Margaret Watkins at Robert Mann.