It seems like space is in the air this week: there is a Cloud City at the Met and a mission to Mars at the Armory. Not that there aren't other things to do. The International Center of Photography unveils a show dedicated to the transsexual streetwalkers of Paris from the 1950s and Brent Green meditates on fate over at Andrew Edlin. Here's what we're looking at.

Two Italian designers face off at the Met, a group of artists take on the art market and a moody photographer shows his latest in Chelsea. Plus, in Ridgewood, the Queens Museum is holding a "historic art crawl." There's lots to do in the city this week and here's just a bit of what's cooking.

One of the art world's most recognizable images - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - sold Wednesday for a record $119,922,500 at auction in New York City.

The portraiture of Alice Neel in Chelsea, the weird-grotesque films of a Swedish artist at the New Museum and the filmy interiors of a post-Impressionist at the Jewish Museum. Plus: photographic narratives at MoMA and text-based works in Tribeca. There's lots going on in the city this week. Here's what we're looking at.

A figure whose photography and performances chronicle a life of survival and loss in Chelsea, a super giant salad on the High Line, the act of grooming gets thoroughly picked apart in Bushwick and groups of students and artists tackle one of New York City's dirtiest waterways: the Gowanus. There's lots going down in New York City. Here's what we're looking at.

The earliest Egyptian art at the Met, a house grows in the Brooklyn Museum, an igloo made of coal on the Lower East Side and a Brazilian artist's climb-able piece in Chelsea. Plus: an art video tribute to Mike Kelley in Chelsea and an experimental new ballet in Williamsburg. There's lots to choose from in the New York City arts scene this week. Here's what we're looking at.

Crazy paintings of cats, a photographer channels the '70s, the art of the Vegas casino, turning political dialogue into romantic drama and three decades of an important New York art space. There's plenty of interesting weirdness to see in New York City this week. Here's what we're looking at.

The rarely-seen junk sculptures of a New York performance artist and MC, an installation that explores our city from the water, important post-war artists from Italy and a pop-up show that features innovative works on video. Plus, there's a gazillion events related to Armory Week, as well as a gallery walk in Bushwick. It's all too much for the eyeballs to absorb. Here's what we're looking at.

Art about animals, the collection of important Parisian patrons, the architectonic works of a Cuban artist, art about performance art and early '80s photographs from Northern Africa and beyond. There's a lot going on in the city this week. Here's what we're looking at.

What to see in the second installment of the Downtown Manhattan museum's survey of young artists from around the world.

Rethinking architecture during a time of recession, the myriad ways in which artists create prints, drawings that chart unusual histories, a feminist examination of war and abstract paintings that brood. There is some heady stuff going on in the city this week. Here's what we've got in the hopper.

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.

Doug Wheeler's installation at the David Zwirner Gallery creates an experience that completely wrecks all sense of depth perception. Here's a tip for how best to view it.

It may be chilly, but that doesn't mean there isn't stuff to do. Here's what's happening in New York this week.

After months of keeping a low profile because of financial troubles, the American Museum of Folk Art on Tuesday unveiled a new exhibit of works from its permanent collection, and trustee and board president Monty Blanchard reaffirmed the institution's determination to remain open and independent.

For the past decade, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been giving the American Wing a thorough renovation. On Monday, the museum will be drawing back the curtain on the final phase of the project.