SOVEREIGN @The Secret Theater

Picking up several years after the events of 'Blast Radius,' Mac Rogers' 'SOVEREIGN' concludes the story of a sister and a brother at mortal odds in a radically changed Earth.

Elizabeth McAlpine: the Map of Exactitude @Laurel Gitlen (Small A Projects)

Laurel Gitlen presents the first US solo exhibition by the British artist Elizabeth McAlpine. Employing cinema and photography to articulate and complicate the textures and constructs of time, architecture, and space, McAlpine's minimal compositions depict these structures as much as they are built from their components.

Dan Flavin: Drawing @The Morgan Library and Museum

Best known for his fluorescent light installations, Dan Flavin was also an avid draftsman. This first retrospective of his drawings will include over one hundred sheets representing every phase of his career: early abstract expressionist watercolors of the 1950s, studies for light installations, portraits and landscape sketches, and pastels of sailboats from the 1980s. In addition, the exhibition will feature nearly fifty works from Flavin's personal collection of drawings, including nineteenth-century American landscapes by Hudson River School artists, Japanese drawings, and twentieth-century works by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Donald Judd, and Sol LeWitt.

Urban Archives: Pictures of the Bronx by Emilio Sanchez @Bronx Museum of the Arts

This exhibition will present a group of fourteen paintings and twelve works on paper by Cuban-born artist Emilio Sanchez, that were recently donated to the Bronx Museum Permanent Collection. Sanchez's works depict commercial buildings in the Hunts Point area of the South Bronx. With their colorful palette and rigorous architectural design, these works depict the bodegas and auto shops of the Bronx in an almost idyllic style that make a stark contrast with preconceived views of the borough. The exhibition is also accompanied by a display of related archival material and a resource guide for educators

Tacita Dean: Five Americans @New Museum of Contemporary Art

The New Museum presents an exhibition of works by British artist Tacita Dean. The presentation focuses on a group of recent pieces that capture five important American artists and thinkers of the last fifty years, and features Merce Cunningham, Leo Steinberg, Julie Mehretu, Claes Oldenburg and Cy Twombly. These works are beautifully crafted portraits of each individual, opening a lens onto their artistic processes and personal memories. This installation, organized in close collaboration with Dean, provides insight into the way in which her filmmaking intersects with painting, sculpture, writing, and dance.

Klara Liden: Bodies of Society @New Museum of Contemporary Art

The New Museum will present the first large-scale, American museum exhibition of the artist Klara Liden, featuring a selection of works in the Museum's second floor gallery. In her practice, Liden regularly mines the anxieties of urban space to create ingenious and psychologically charged installations. She scavenges the streets of cities around the world for discarded materials, which she uses to build sculptural hideaways, scaled to her own body, in unexpected places. For her show at the New Museum, Liden will create a progression of spaces that culminate in a site-specific work intervening in the museum's architecture and creating a place physically and psychologically apart. This exhibition will also feature a number of Liden's videos realized over the past decade.

Stanya Kahn @New Museum of Contemporary Art

Stanya Kahn's videos "offer glimpses into alternate worlds populated by bizarre characters, mummified animals, natural forces, and primal impulses." 'Happy Song for You' (2011), made with artist Llyn Foulkes, demonstrates Kahn's unique approach to storytelling, in which humor and absurdity function as central forces. Featuring an original song written and performed by Foulkes, the video is set to a carefully crafted soundtrack, a signature element of Kahn's work. 'Happy Song for You' will be exhibited alongside a selection of ink-on-paper drawings that extend Kahn's comedic writing into the graphic practice of cartooning.