Fishing in the hole of a bagel with cream cheese. Christopher Boffoli at Winston Wächter Fine Art.

Optimism in photographic edition sizing.

A layered world of plywood, pressboard, wooden boxes and naked limbs. Mika Rottenberg in the Jew York show at Untitled.

Modified star charts where constellations are replaced by images of animal fur. Demetrius Oliver at Louis B. James.

Sol LeWitt’s photo mural of graffiti and urban signage. Outside on the street at the Mondrian SoHo.

Impossibly perched ore sample with dangling golden charm chains. Shamus Clisset at On Stellar Rays.

Lots of Wojnarowicz’ Arthur Rimbaud in New York later prints in the Truck Baby summer group show at Rachel Uffner Gallery.

Cuban seniors and swirling gestural paint decorate decaying Havana buildings. JR and José Parlá at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.

Youth as performance – girls and their look-alike American Girl dolls. Ilona Szwarc at Foley Gallery.

Elongated, mirror-distorted portraits of African tribesmen. Elisabeth Sunday at Throckmorton Fine Art.

Censored Libyan imagery converted into striated binary distortions. Jehad Nga in the side room at Bonni Benrubi.

The physical and spatial disruption of multi-colored stickers. Jason Evans at Aperture Gallery.

Sweaty, big hair, club girl glamour. Keizo Kitajima in the NYC c1985 summer group show at ClampArt.

Nude holding a loaf of Wonder bread isn’t a phrase I get to use very often. Brad Elterman at Marlborough Chelsea

Cut holes threaten an abandoned painting – a recent John Divola in the Endless Bummer II group show at Marlborough Chelsea.

Mount Fuji seen through a jumble of colliding angular planes. Satomi Shirai in a group show at Lesley Heller Workspace.

The subdued elegant side of Arne Svenson’s controversial telephoto voyeurism, at Julie Saul Gallery.

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.