Calendar. 05.14.09.

Old and new: In foreground, the new Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago. (Photo by rossrenjilian.)

• In Chicago: The brand spankin’ new Modern Wing, designed by Renzo Piano, opens at the Art Institute, on Saturday.
• In L.A.: Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, new paintings, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, opens Friday.
• In NYC: Souther Salazar at Jonathan Levine, opens Saturday.
• In NYC: An artist talk with photographers Lisa Ross and Nan Goldin at Daneyal Mahmood, today starting at 6:30 p.m. Read Jeff Weinstein’s piece about Ross’s exhibit, which chronicles the Sufi memorials of the remote Taklamakan Desert of Xianjing, in Western China.
• In NYC: LaToya Ruby Frazier/Sebrina Fassbender at Higher Pictures on the Upper East Side, opens tonight.
• In NYC: Housing Works is having an arts and design book sale this weekend.
• In NYC: Eve Sussman & Rufus Corporation, Photos for ‘White on White’ at Edward Winkleman, opens Friday.
• In NYC: True: Twelve Years of photography by Mike Schreiber at 139 W. 14th Street, opens Saturday.
• In NYC: Social Virus, a group show at NurtureArt, opens today.
• In NYC: Possibilities, a group show with Eric Doeringer, Danny Coeyman, Kate Fuavell and Daniel Turner at chashama Harlem, through May 30. (AFC.)
• In NYC: Helen Levitt, a memorial tribute, at Laurence Miller Gallery, through June 26.
• In NYC: Crash and Daze at Ad Hoc Art, opens Friday.
• In Somerville, Mass.: Four Flights at Chorus Gallery, opens Friday.
• In Washington, D.C.: Comic Art Indigène at the National Museum of the American Indian, through May 31.
• In London: Louise Nevelson at the Louise Blouin Foundation, through June 14.
• In Hong Kong: José Parlá at Ooi Botos Gallery, opens today.
• In Beijing: China: Through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-1872 at the Beijing World Art Museum in the Haidan District, through May 18.