UPTOWN

"Night Scented Stock," curated by Todd Levin, at Marianne Boesky Gallery,  118 East 64 St., Opening September 14, through October 22, marianneboeskygallery.com

Art advisor and curator Todd Levin's latest show at Marianne Boesky after the highly-acclaimed "I.G.Y." and "YOUR GOLD TEETH II,""Night Scented Stock" takes its evocative inspiration from the "potent"odor that plants release to attract nocturnal insects, bats, and birds.Featuring an enormous artist list ranging from Goya to Lucas Cranach the Elder to Jackson Pollock, "'Night Scented Stock' charts the phantasmagoric impulse over 500 years." Marianne is sure getting moody. 

"Fiber Futures: Japan's Textile Pioneers" at Japan Society, 333 East 47 St., Opening September 16, through December 18, japansociety.org

In this futuristic exhibition, Japanese artists stretch fabric to its extreme limits, creating ethereal sculptures that depend onmateriality and texture for their impact. As fiber art has come to the fore in the United States only recently, this is a good chance to catch up on what we’ve been missing. 

Red Grooms's "New York: 1976-2011" at Marlborough Gallery, 40 West 57th St., Opening September 21, through October 22, marlboroughgallery.com

Native New Yorker Red Grooms shows work inspired by his favorite city at Marlborough Gallery's show opening next Wednesday. His "sculpto-pictoramas" are re-installations of works originally shown and seen by over 100,000 viewers in the same gallery in 1976. Walk through the New York of yesteryear in works like "Porno Bookstore" and "Girls, Girls, Girls."

Gabriel Orozco's "Corplegados and Particles" at Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57th St., Opening September 14, through October 15, mariangoodman.com

Another artist to make a return to galleries, Gabriel Orozco leaves the whale at home and brings a new set of life-size art works to Marian Goodman Gallery. Orozco’s large-format drawings are literally “folded-bodies” that have traveled with the artist as expanded journals over which he has compiled layers of ink, gouche and pasted clippings. Also on view will be digital reproductions of personal objects as part of his ongoing geometric research. Work aside, there will be remnants ofnew and old, once again assuring Orozco may see himself as part-artist, part-museum curator.

CHELSEA

Tabaimo's "DANDAN" at James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th St., Opening September 15, through October 19, jamescohangallery.com

Tabaimo is a Japanese artist whose animated work deals with the conflicts and emotions of domestic space. The immersive installations that make up this James Cohan Gallery exhibition look unmissable.

Matthew Barney's "DJED" at Gladstone Gallery, 530 West 21st St., Opening September 17, through October 22, gladstonegallery.com

Matthew Barney returns to New York after a long hiatus from the city's galleries with "DJED," the art world’s first glimpse of his major sculptural endeavors. This will be the first component of the "Ancient Evenings" project, conceived as a multi-part, site-specific opera in collaboration with Jonathan Bepler. If Barney’s sculptures are anything like his films, art-goers are in for a bumpy ride.

Richard Serra's "Junction / Cycle" at Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24 St., Opening September 14, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., through November 26, gagosian.com

Richard Serra brings his massive rolled-steel works to Gagosian'sgarage gallery space located right on the Chelsea waterfront. ARTINFOassistant editor Kyle Chayka caught a sneak peek of Serra’s rusted, winding architectural structures lit up by the late afternoon sun and was blown away. Sure to be a highlight of the Chelsea gallery season.   

BROOKLYN

Man Bartlett's #FEEDFEED, curated by Janis Ferberg and Stephen Truax, 1333 Myrtle Ave., September 16, 9 p.m. - 11 p.m., facebook.com

What exactly is social media art? We’re not sure yet, but performance artist Man Bartlett is certainly one of the contested medium’s emerging protagonists. In this one-night-only event, Bartlett will host a communal meal concurrently in Brooklyn and Sydney, an "interactive, networked, Internet-themed potluck party" streamed by video and Twitter to two locations at once. The performance is part of "Portal," a series of exhibitions physically and virtually linking New York and Sydney. With the Pace Gallery's "Social Media" exhibition opening September 15, the term is certainly having a moment.

LOWER EAST SIDE

Sadie Benning's "Transitional Effects" at Participant Inc., 253 East Houston St., Opening September 18, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., through October 23, participantinc.org

Former member and co-founder of the rocking band of ladies Le Tigre,video artist Sadie Benning brings new drawing, painting, video and sound works to Participant Inc. While her art explorations may not be as out-rightly punk as her music, they borrow from the same generation of 80s music samples and underground zines. Benning takes a stab at representational object making, and while "Transititonal Effects" may besome hefty film terminology, its relevance here is twofold.

Mickalene Thomas's "More Than Everything" at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 201 Chrystie St., Opening September 15, through October 29, lehmannmaupin.com

This show explores a lesser-seen side of Thomas's practice — the drawings, collages, and photographs that form the basis for the artist'sbling-baroque paintings. If you need a little more glitter in your life, this will more than provide.

MEATPACKING DISTRICT

DavidAllen Peters at Backroom NY at Leffot, 10 Christopher Street, Opening September 15, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., through October 29, backroomny.com

Backroom NY, an under-the-radar gallery tucked in the back of a designer men's shoe store, will present the first solo exhibition in NewYork for L.A.-based artist David Allen Peters. Peters's small, delicate paintings feature built-up, monochromatic surfaces peeled away to reveal vibrant layers of paint underneath.