Start on Cortlandt Alley with Andrea Bowers at Andrew Kreps, step over to Broadway for Conduits of the Unseen and Carroll Dunham, and come back for Theresa Hak Kyung Cha at Artists Space. Then walk Walker Street west past Christopher K. Ho, Janet Biggs and Christine Safa to GRIMM on White Street.

Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortlandt Alley
Andrea Bowers: Democracy Needs Our Courage at Andrew Kreps. Drawings, neon and LED works and films drawn from her archive of feminist, labor and environmental movements. Through Oct 31.
Sep 18 - Oct 31

Andrew Edlin Gallery
Conduits of the Unseen at Andrew Edlin Gallery. Seventeen women artists, including Leonora Carrington and Agnes Pelton, who pictured spirits, cosmic forces and dreams. Through Oct 31.
Sep 9 - Oct 31

Matthew Brown, NYC
Carroll Dunham at Matthew Brown. The final chapter of Studio on Another Planet, following a sculptor among purple beings in cartoon-like scenes. Through Oct 24.
Sep 9 - Oct 24

Artists Space
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings at Artists Space. The first retrospective in 25 years of her work across text, video and performance, including Dictée. Through Nov 21.
Sep 11 - Nov 21

56 Henry
Christopher K. Ho: Waterloo! at 56 Henry. Twenty new candelabras that turn bourgeois decorative objects into monuments to revolution and resistance. Through Oct 23.
Sep 9 - Oct 23

Cristin Tierney Gallery
Janet Biggs: Path of Totality at Cristin Tierney. Two video installations built around solar eclipses, from fog-bound Antarctica to the Amazon. Through Oct 24.
Sep 9 - Oct 24

Bortolami, 55 Walker
Christine Safa: Noces at Bortolami. New oil paintings of sunflowers, doves, vines and indigo horizons drawn from daily life. Through Oct 24.
Sep 9 - Oct 24

GRIMM Gallery
Volker Hüller: Angelus Novus at GRIMM. Fragmented figures and fallen sculptures in paintings about memory, catastrophe and the movement of history. Through Oct 31.
Sep 9 - Oct 31