This Week: Must-See Arts in the City Slideshow

Photo: Gilberto Topczewski. Courtesy the artist; Foley Gallery, New York

At MAD: Works crafted from dust and dirt, including images of the reverse graffiti of Brazilian graffitist Alexandre Orion, in which he wiped a design into tunnel soot.

Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Lin Yi

Another video documents a fireworks show by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, which incorporates the use of pigments. Seen above: a photograph of his work 'Black Ceremony,' executed in Doha last year.

Courtesy of the artist; Workplace Gallery, United Kingdom; Galerie M+R Fricke, Germany

Using dust and a little glue, Catherine Bertola crafts elaborate Victorian-style patterns on the museum's walls. The installation shown above is from 2006.

Courtesy the Bronx Museum of Art

Juan Downey, an early pioneer in video art gets a thorough examination at the Bronx Museum of Art. Seen here: a still from the 1978 video 'More Than Two.'

Courtesy Marilys Belt Downey. Photo by Harry Shunk

Downey trained as an architect and his body of work also included drawings of maps and patterns, such as 'America is Back Together,' from 1972.

Courtesy the Bronx Museum of Art

Another drawing by Downey -- who passed away young: in his early fifties in 1993.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 'Spies in the House of Art,' the Met explores ways that museums inspire artists, such as this image by Thomas Struth of restorers at San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples, from 1988.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met exhibit includes this 1980 collage by Francesca Woodman, titled 'Blueprint for a Temple.'

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

What artists see in museums often leads to direct experimentation. This print by Lothar Baumgarten, titled 'Haida Metamorphosis,' employs photographs he took at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Courtesy of the artist

At Columbia University, Chinese photographer and painter Liu Xia displays a series of dark black and white photographs featuring her so-called 'Ugly Babies.'

Courtesy of the artist

Liu Xia's series, which is untitled, shows the dolls being bound and suffocated -- no doubt a statement on the imprisonment of her husband, Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Fashion photographer Juergen Teller displays his signature, flash-saturated style at Lehmann Maupin, turning his lense on his family and his friends, as well as dogs.

Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Teller, known for his campaigns for Marc Jacobs, also records the landscape that surrounds his house in Suffolk, from his 2010 series 'Keys to the House.'

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