Lots of cut paper raw material in the front window of the Thomas Allen show at Foley Gallery.

Photos, film stills, and diagrams in Barry Le Va’s high contrast installation at Sonnabend.

The perils of gallery hopping: a car smashed straight into a bodega on Orchard during my LES swing this afternoon.

Walid Raad’s 31 appendix prints in a colorful cluster at Paula Cooper.

For a rainy NY day, Fischli & Weiss’ rain soaked airport terminals and tarmacs at Andrew Kreps.

Washington DC interlude – Jeffrey Milstein’s aircraft typologies at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Maine interlude – A wall of Pictorialist photographs, part of the Winslow Homer legacy show at the Portland Museum of Art.

Zanele Muholi’s tender, steely eyed portraits of black lesbians in South Africa. At Yancey Richardson.

Jan Groover’s complex interplay of carrots, green peppers and silverware. At Andrew Kreps.

Jacqueline Langelier’s arresting gaze with sugary gumdrops. At Porter Contemporary.

Airplane windows, portholes, locket photos or cameos? Elad Lassry’s lime green billboard on the High Line.

Striped optical abstractions made from flickering fluorescent light. Shawn Rocco at Klompching.

A layered tabletop color study in aquamarine/peach. Mara Bodis-Wollner at Hasted Kraeulter’s 31 Women summer show.

Roy Schatt’s tiny sliver of 1950s Empire State Building at the Keith De Lellis NY cityscape show.

Daniel Temkin’s pixellated gradient of digital color as applied to flip flops, at Higher Pictures.

Melons and balloons in a devious still life of yellow orbs. Diana Kingsley at Castelli.

Rosemary Williams’ Ruscha-like taxonomy of supermarket shelves, with repeated brands called out in pencil. At the Aldrich.

Sterling Allen’s busy table of formal, shape driven photographs at the Young Curators show at Meulensteen.