SMART ART San Francisco-based artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson presents her new artificial-intelligence project, DiNA, at a new retrospective exhibit of her work. The robot’s face was modeled on that of actress Tilda Swinton. DiNA is currently at “her” most advanced state, endowed with speechrecognition software and displayed on an LCD flat screen; her “brain” can reference anything on the Internet in conversation with visitors. The exhibit also includes Ms. Leeson’s work over the past three decades, including photographs, collages, and film stills. Through Saturday, January 14, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Bitforms Gallery, 529 W. 20th St., between Tenth Avenue and the West Side Highway, 212-366-3969, free.

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Maria Pineres’s needlepoint works are not typical embroidery samplers: She found inspiration for the works in her show “A Rogues’ Gallery,” which closes this weekend, in mug shots of celebrities. The famous arrested faces she has stitched include Nick Nolte, Lizzie Grubman, Jack White, Michael Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lil’ Kim,ayoung Bill Gates, and Robert Downey Jr. (twice). Through Saturday, DCKT Contemporary, 552 W. 24th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-741-9955, free.

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