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Nigel Coates's Baroccabilly furniture and lighting, on display this month and next at the Cristina Grajales Gallery in SoHo, was inspired by the unrestrained style of baroque design and rockabilly music. And by a fantasy narrative Mr. Coates invented in which an imaginary character inhabits a landscape made up of forms, textures and shapes he designed. (As he put it: ''Form follows fiction.'') Mr. Coates, an architect and professor at the Royal College of Art in London, worked with the furniture company Poltronova, which had the pieces made in Italy by master craftsmen specializing in hand-carving, gilding and tufting. ''There are no industrial processes,'' he said. ''Everything is hand done.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street, SoHo [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Swiss wildlife and landscape painter Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957) has an unlikely ally in Richard Phillips, a contemporary artist given to large canvases and confrontational imagery. Mr. Phillips has been borrowing themes from Dietrich for years and now makes good on his debts in a stirring show at the Swiss Institute. Organized by Mr. Phillips and Gianni Jetzer, ''Painting and Misappropriation'' serves two functions: to introduce New Yorkers to Dietrich, and to present Mr. Phillips as a kind of crackpot art historian. (It should be taken together with his other recent curatorial effort, ''Your History Is Not Our History'' at the Midtown gallery Haunch of Venison, organized with David Salle.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE exhibition ''Roy McMakin: When Is a Chair Not a Chair?,'' now showing at the Cristina Grajales gallery in SoHo, coincides with the publication of a monograph of the same title from Skira Rizzoli. Mr. McMakin, an artist and designer, is known for his embrace of ambiguity and subversive humor in the design of seemingly mundane objects: a chest of drawers, for instance, that has no drawers; a teapot with the vestiges of a broken handle; the artist's dog, Joan, serving as the pudgy model for a lamp base. While Mr. McMakin designs perfectly functional interiors and furniture, he does it with an artist's eye, eschewing conventional ideas of perfection or comfort. Until July 2. 10 Greene Street, (212) 219-9941. PILAR VILADAS [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the standard histories of the universe there are so many impossible things to believe before breakfast, as the White Queen put it in ''Through the Looking Glass'' -- black holes, antigravity, dark matter and all those sneaky subatomic particles zipping through us -- that the strangest and most amazing part of the universe gets short shrift. That would be us, collections of space junk, somehow perceiving and pondering the grandiosity that gave us birth in a sort of intellectual and emotional equivalent of the snake eating its tail. That is the point of ''Ouroboros: The History of the Universe,'' a 3-D visual collage of vibrating mandalas, exploding galaxies, astronauts and corporate logos, among much more, on six screens, all in the service of reconnecting consciousness and cosmos. It's now running in a darkened basement at the Ise Cultural Foundation in SoHo. Put on your 3-D glasses -- what isn't 3-D these days? -- and plug yourself back into the cosmos. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CONRAD SHAWCROSS 'Control' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LAURIE ANDERSON 'From the Air: Two [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

JON KESSLER Kessler's Circus [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the art exhibition "The Upper Depths," by Jason Fox at Peter Blum Gallery in SoHo, New York City.

WALKING out of a Mel Ramos exhibition the other day, my companion remarked on how benignly amusing his paintings now seemed. Back in the 1970s, when she was a younger, more fiery feminist, his works infuriated her. Times have changed, although Mr. Ramos evidently has not, judging from a small (19 pieces) career survey at Louis K. Meisel Gallery in SoHo that includes paintings from the early '60s to the present, as well as luminous painted cast-resin sculptural versions of some of his classic images. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MATT MULLICAN A Drawing Translates [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews two exhibitions including the exhibition of installation "The Storage Project," by Tom Burr, and photography exhibition by Walter Pfeiffer at Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art in SoHo, New York City through January 19, 2008.

The article reviews the exhibition "StageStruck: The Magic of Theater Design," at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery in SoHo, New York City through December 22, 2008.

The article reviews the exhibition "Staring Back," held in SoHo, New York City.

The article reviews an exhibition of sculptural installations of Jon Kessler at the Drawing Center in New York City through October 25, 2007.

The article reviews an exhibition featuring paintings, drawings and sculptures of Gardar Eide Einarsson held at Team Gallery, SoHo, New York City

The article reviews the exhibition "The World Is My Canvas: Images From the Permanent Collection," at the Children's Museum of the Arts in SoHo, New York City which runs through September 2, 2007.

The article reviews the exhibition "New Economy," at Artists Space in SoHo, New York City from June 15-July 28, 2007.

The article reviews the exhibition "Vinyl Smash Up, 1999-2007," at Deitch Projects in SoHo, New York City from June 28-August 4, 2007.

The article reviews the exhibitions "Equilibres," by Peter Fischli and David Weiss at the Matthew Marks Gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York City from April 27, 2007-June 30, 2007, and "Books, Editions and the Like," at the Swiss Institute in SoHo, New York City from May 23, 2007-July 14, 2007.

The article reviews an exhibition of the photographs of the Chinese people at Janet Borden, SoHo, New York City, through June 16, 2007.

The article reviews the exhibition "Lisi Raskin" at the gallery Guild & Greyshkul in SoHo, New York City during May 11-12, 2007.

The article reviews an exhibition of paintings by Anne Ryan being held at the Susan Teller Gallery in Soho, New York City till May 12, 2007.

The article reviews the exhibition "Portrait of a Village: 1950-70," being held at Soho, New York City till May 12, 2007.

The article reviews the exhibition "The Neil Winokur," at Janet Borden in SoHo, New York City through March 10, 2007.

The article reviews the exhibition of works of artist Eleanore Mikus at the Drawing Center in SoHo, New York City till February 10, 2007.

The article reviews the exhibition "When Artists Say We," at Artists Space in SoHo, New York City in April 2006.

The article reviews an exhibition at the Spencer Brownstone Gallery in SoHo, New York City.

The article reviews the exhibition "Drawing Inventory" at the Drawing Center in SoHo, New York City.

Reviews the art exhibition "Master Drawings From the Concentration Camps," by Rudolf Bauer at the Tobey Fine Arts in SoHo, New York City.

Reviews the art exhibition by Seth Price at the Reena Spaulings Fine Art in Soho, New York City.

Reviews the art exhibition "Talespinning: Selections Fall 2004," at the Drawing Center in SoHo, New York.

Reviews the art exhibition, "Repeat Performance," at Artist Space in Soho, New York City through July 3, 2004.

Reviews "Constructed Photographs," an art exhibition of Keith Cottingham at Ronald Feldman Gallery in SoHo, New York through April 17, 2004.

Reviews various artworks in a show called China Marks shown at Luise Ross Gallery in SoHo, New York until April 17, 2004.

Reviews the photography exhibition "Photographs of British Algae," shown at the Drawing Center in SoHo, New York.

Reviews the art exhibit "Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Knowing," shown at the Drawing Center in Soho, New York.

Reviews the art exhibit "Mute" of five artists associated with Lisson Gallery in London, England shown at Guild & Greyshkul in Soho, New York.

Reviews the art exhibit entitled "John Waters: Change of Life," at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in SoHo, New York.

Reviews several art exhibitions at the 2001 Outsider Art Fair in SoHo, New York.