This Week: Must-See Arts in the City Slideshow

Though known for hard-edge abstraction, Ellsworth Kelly has spent more than six decades creating uncluttered drawings of fruits and plants. Above, a watercolor of wild grapes, from 1961.

Kelly's drawings -- now on view at the Met -- are as much about the plant as they are about the space around it -- as in 'Banana Leaf,' 1992.

Sometimes the drawings consist of little more than pencil lines. At others, the artist uses watercolors. A sketch of some apples, from 1949, is seen above.

Courtesy of the Museum of Arts & Design

The Museum of Arts & Design is hosting a film festival devoted to all things VHS. The cult hit 'Nekromantik' will be just a part of the offerings.

Courtesy of the Museum of Arts & Design

Also on MAD's VHS line-up: director Todd Haynes' version of 'Superstar: The Karen Carpenter' story -- in which Barbie dolls stand in for actors.

Courtesy of the artist, Alexander and Bonin, New York and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Sikkema Jenkins has a group show devoted to artists working on a modest scale. Robert Bordo's 'At Bay,' from 2010, is seen above.

Courtesy of the artist, Luise Ross Gallery, New York and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

'Red Cedar, Re-Cycled,' 2011, by John Dilg, at Sikkema Jenkins.

Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Artist Josephine Halvorson is also featured in the show at Sikkema Jenkins. Seen here: 'Chalkboard (Big Meech)', from 2012.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

The Guggenheim is exploring international abstraction in the two decades prior to the museum's opening in 1959. Grace Hartigan's 'Ireland,' from 1958, is shown above.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photo by Kris McKay

The Gugg's show examines the ways in which artists around the world were doing away with representation in the period after World War II -- such as 'The Cry,' 1959, by Isamu Noguchi.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

José Guerrero's 1956 painting, 'Signs and Portents.' Guerrero was born in Spain and was known for his bright canvases that evoked elements of landscape.

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