NEW YORK—Openings all around New York keep driving the fall season forward. At the Park Avenue Armory, Creative Time launched its week-long Convergence Center on September 21, the culmination of the past year's "Democracy in America" project. Artists and Creative Time supporters turned out to sing protest song karaoke, eat homemade soup, and take in the political art. If you haven't stopped by yet, the center stays open through this Sunday, September 27, until 10 p.m. every night. [To read more about "Democracy in America," click here, and protest song karaoke, here.]

On September 18, the New-York Historical Society held a pre-opening reception to celebrate its new exhibition, "Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings." The show features over 190 works spanning six centuries of New York history, including contributions by living artists Richard Haas, Frederick Brosen, Beatrice Coron, Donna Levinstone, and Eve Aschheim, all of whom were present at the reception. "Drawn by New York" is on view through January 7, 2009.

Also, Gladstone Gallery kicked off the latest exhibition at its 21st street space — Mario Merz — while Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art is hosting "Falling Short of Knowing," a two-person exhibition of work by Norman Mooney and Ran Ortner, at Milk Gallery. Works by Merz, an Italian Arte Povera artist, are most likely up until mid-December; Mooney and Ortner's show runs through September 29.