Calendar. 09.08.10.

At First Blush, 2010, by Ruben Ochoa. The artist’s exhibit, Grounded, will open at Susanne Vielmetter Projects in Los Angeles this Friday at 6pm. (Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter.)

• NYC: Edward Burtynsky, Pentimento, at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, opens Thursday at 6pm.
• NYC: Mark Mulroney, Really Creative Pictures, at Mixed Greens, opens Thursday.
• NYC: Michael Zeheloski, Objecthood, at Christina Ray, opens Thursday at 7pm.
• NYC: Alejandro Almanza Pereda, The Heaviest Luggage for the Traveler is the Empty One, at Magnan Metz, opens Thursday at 6pm.
• NYC: Jennifer Steinkamp at Lehmann Maupin, in Chelsea, opens Friday at 6pm.
• NYC: Sandow Birk, American Q’uran, at PPOW Gallery, opens Friday.
• NYC: Iconography: A Reflection of Anonymity, at Mighty Tanaka, opens Friday at 6pm.
• NYC: Hannah Wilke, Early Drawings, at Ronald Feldman, opens Saturday at 6pm.
• NYC: Rob Pruitt, Pattern and Degradation, at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, opens Saturday.
• NYC: Justine Kurland and Francesca Woodman at Bravin Lee, opens Saturday at 6pm.
• NYC: Daniel Joseph Martinez, The enemy of my enemy…, at Simon Preston, in SoHo, opens Sunday at 6pm.
• NYC: The National Coalition Against Censorship is hosting two panels covering issues of decency and obscenity standards and public arts funding. The first will take place on Wed., Sept. 15, and the second one week later on Wed., Sept. 22. Both will go down at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium at 6:30pm. Related film screenings will take place on Sept. 27. Admission is free.
• Chicago: By Your Powers Combined, a group show, at the Untitled Gallery at Marwen, opens Friday at 5pm.
• Fort Worth: Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, at the Kimbell Art Museum, through Jan. 2. (The Art Newspaper.)
• San Pedro, Calif.: Thickening The Plot, at Angels Gate Art Center, opens Sunday at 2pm.
• L.A.: Lari Pittman at Regen Projects, opens Saturday.
• L.A.: Ultrasonic V: It’s Only Natural, a group show, at Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, opens Saturday.
• S.F.: Julio Cesar Morales, Sonido Pirata, at Baer Ridgway, opens Saturday at 4pm.
• S.F.: Greg LaMarche and Aaron Noble, Materialism at Guerrero Gallery, opens Saturday.
• S.F.: Wayne Smith, New Work, at Gallery 16, opens Friday.
• S.F.: Stanley Donwood, Over Normal, at Fifty24SF Gallery, through Oct. 27.
• Portland, Or.: The Time-Based Art Festival, at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, opens Thursday.
• London: Eadward Muybridge, at the Tate Britain, opens today.
• London: Rachel Whiteread at Gagosian Gallery, through Oct. 5.
• London: A solo installation by designer Hussein Chalayan, at Lisson Gallery, opens today.
• London: David Marsh, Visual Splendor, at London Miles, opens Friday at 7pm.
• Madrid: Zwelethu Mthethwa, Brick Workers and Contemporary Gladiators, at Galería Oliva Arauna, through Oct. 14.
• Paris: Alexandre Arrechea, Evasive, at Suzanne Tarasieve, opens Thursday at 6pm.
• Berlin: Christof Mascher, Alley Cat, at Galerie Michael Janssen, opens Friday at 7pm.