Critic's choice

Boston exhibitions

"Baghdad and Beyond: Drawings by Steve Mumford" at Tufts University Art Gallery

"America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler" at MIT List Visual Arts Center

"Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art" at MIT

"Crafty" at Massachusetts College of Art

Sam Durant, "Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres, and Monuments" at Massachusetts College of Art

"Wunderground: Providence, 1995 to the Present" at Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Cecily Brown, Museum of Fine Arts

Jennifer Bartlett, "Early Plate Work" at Addison Gallery of American Art

"Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art" at the Rose Art Museum

"Super Vision" at the ICA

New York exhibitions

William Nicholson at Paul Kasmin Gallery

Miyoko Ito at Adam Baumgold Gallery

Eugene Andolsek, "Kaleidoscopic Visionary Drawings" at American Primitive Gallery

"Ron Nagle and the Holy Grail" at Garth Clark Gallery

Warren Isensee at Danese

"A Four Dimensional Being Writes Poetry on a Field with Sculptures" at Matthew Marks Gallery.