The images reveal themselves slowly: a hot air balloon covered in moss, an NYPD helicopter darting across a granite sky, the delicate outline of what appears to be the Space Shuttle. This is no ordinary astronomical display. On a steep granite outcropping that lies within earshot of a major New York roadway, artist Kevin Sudeith has carved a series of delicate petroglyphs that depict a variety of air traffic.

Work from ashes and dust at MAD, an early video pioneer in the Bronx, artists inspired by museums at the Met, and a fashionista chronicles his home and his friends in a solo exhibit in Chelsea. There's lots of wonderfully odd stuff happening in New York this week. Here's what we're looking at.

A photography series devoted to hermits, the reflective paintings of a Berkeley-born painter and a twin brother duo shows off a couple of decades worth of urban-landscape inspired works (some of which once lived illicitly on the street). It's a busy week in New York. Here's what we're looking at.

File this under things that will make you say, Duuuuude. The American Museum of Natural History will transform the 70 foot-wide domed ceiling of the Hayden Planetarium into a multi-player video game called Space Cruiser this Thursday evening as part of its after-hours party series.

A California portraitist gets his due at MoMA PS1, a Red Hook painter installs site-specific works at the Brooklyn Museum and a photographic chronicler of mayhem gets a thoughtful examination at the International Center of Photography. There's lots to do in the city this week. Here's what we're looking at.

A daring lensman from the 1930s, trippy light and space from the '60s, sculptural optical illusions and a round-up of painters who are very contemporary (in both Chelsea and Bushwick). New York has got it going on this week. Here's what we've got in the hopper.

The New Year is getting started with a bang -- with shows about corporations, 1970s America, gender identity and the super galactic sculptures of a 20th century stalwart. Here's what we're looking at in the coming week.

It’s that time again! Stuffed into the informational crevices between the clusterbomb of year-end holidays, everyone with a working keyboard has published a piece that wraps up the cultural year that was. The staff here at Gallerina has put together a handy, super-meta guide to the best in year-end articles.

Renaissance portraiture at the Met, geometric explosions (or are they implosions?) at the Asia Society, and a painter who bucked a trend at the National Academy. The holidays may be upon us, but there's still plenty to do in New York. Here's what we're looking at this week.

The forgotten photos of a Chicago nanny, a street artist that turns paint buckets into self-playing drums and the multimedia work of one of Croatia's early feminists. Plus: a talk at the New Museum explores the ways in which video games are bleeding into other areas of culture. It's a good week to be in the big bad city. Here's what we're looking at.

The intersection of Tibet and comic books at the Rubin, a Brazilian street artist at Jonathan LeVine, a (sort of) final showing at a Bushwick space and optical illusions in an empty West Village storefront. There's plenty of interesting stuff going down in New York this week. Here's what we're looking at.

Art Basel is going down in Miami this week. But that certainly doesn't mean there's nothing to see in these parts. Here's our short list -- from the work of an important California assemblagist to walls at Apexart to St. John the Divine's installations about water.

A camper gets chopped up at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Soviet propaganda goes on view at Andrew Edlin, the appropriation-remixes of Robert Heinecken are up at Friedrich Petzel and a 20-foot blue spruce grows inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here are our pics in the art world in the coming week.

Last week, HIDE/SEEK, the groundbreaking examination of sexuality and gay identity in American portraiture, opened at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibit exploring the fluidity of gender and desire is the first of its kind. Do not miss.

An important exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum examines gay identity, street photography gets its due at Laurence Miller, a contemporary artist showcases geometric wood abstractions and a renowned fine food purveyor displays works by video artists. There's lots going down in the city in the coming week.

A tribute to Romare Bearden, "portable" murals by Diego Rivera, an artist who reproduces the work of other artists, and the roots of documentary photography in New York. Plus: enough performance art to gag an ox. Here's what's cooking this weekend in the big bad city.

Photos chronicling the grinding poverty of the Depression. The hyperreal sculptures of an Italian conceptualist-prankster. International street art and monochromatic paintings that explore various aspects of color. Plus, performance art and Inspectah Deck of the Wu-Tang Clan. It's all happening in the city this week. Here are our picks.

Youth and beauty in Brooklyn, architectural Modernism in the Bronx, Matisse and his models on the Upper East Side and assorted musicians and quirky conceptualists downtown. Things are cooking in New York City this week. Here's what we'll be looking at.

Giant mushrooms in the lobby. Pills that pop from the ceiling. And a sensory deprivation pool where museum-goers can float weightlessly in a body-temperature solution of salty water. Oh, and did I mention the 100-foot slide that runs from the fourth floor to the second? Carsten Höller's new exhibit "Experience" opens Wednesday at the New Museum.

The otherworldly mobiles of Alexander Calder on 57th St., rare Islamic manuscripts at the Morgan, the art collection of photographer Alfred Stieglitz at the Met, Canadian cartoonists get their due on the Upper East Side and D.I.Y. filmstrips come to Williamsburg. New York has got it going on this week.