DRAWINGS

RESCUE AND RECOVERY Canadian artist Geneviève Castrée has her first New York exhibit at the Adam Baumgold Gallery. The show comprises 50 works that were the basis for Ms. Castrée’s book, “Tout Seul dans la Forêt en Plein Jour, Avez-Vous Peur?,” “All Alone in the Forest in Broad Daylight, Are You Scared?” The drawings examine how war affects modern life, concentrating on victims of conflict. Ms. Castrée was born in Montreal in 1981 and began drawing and making her own comics at 15. Selections from the exhibit include “Support II” (2008), a detail of which is at right. Opens today, exhibit through Saturday, April 26, Tuesday–Saturday,11a.m.–5:30p.m., Adam Baumgold Gallery,74E.79thSt., between Madison and Park avenues, 212-861-7338, free.

ASIA WEEK

MADE IN CHINA “88 Conversations,” a series of portraits depicting members of the contemporary Chinese art movement in New York City, Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhongzhou, is the result of collaboration between photographer Erin Kornfeld and writer Charlie Schultz. A reception to toast the exhibition opening is held at Ms. Kornfeld’s studio on Friday. The photo-portraits celebrate the Chinese avant-garde during what is being hailed by art observers as one of the most influential for the Chinese art market. The subjects of these photographs exemplify the exchange of artistic ideas between East and West. Friday, 4–8 p.m., 13-17 Laight St., suite 26, 5th floor, between Varick Street and Sixth Avenue, 917-545-4299, free.

ARTIST SURVEY Kips Gallery hosts an exhibition tour and conversation with Fay Ku, a Chinese-born artist whose dark, haunting drawings combine sexually tinged, morbid, and childlike overtones. Curated by M. Brendon MacInnis, the show presents a survey of the artist’s most significant works, including a piece depicting scantily clad young figures carrying guns while another group of youngsters appears blindfolded nearby. Tonight, 6–9 p.m., exhibit runs through Saturday, April 5, Kips Gallery, 531 W. 25th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-242-4215, free.

DESIGN

SEW CONTROVERSIAL “Pricked: Extreme Embroidery,” on view at the Museum of Arts & Design, is a survey exploring how centuries-old handcraft traditions are rejuvenated in contemporary art and design. The show gathers the work of 48 artists, and features pieces that demonstrate that embroidery is about more than samplers and dainty tea towels. Among the highlights is the work of Benji Whalen, who embroiders tattoos onto a series of stuffed arms mounted on a wall, and Andrea Dezsö’s 2005–06 series “My Grandmother Loved Me Even Though …,” a collection of spooky narratives stitched onto white cotton canvas. Through Sunday, April 27, Monday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Thursday, 10 a.m.–8 p.m., Museum of Arts & Design, 40 W. 53rd St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-956-3535, $9 general, $7 students and seniors, free for members and children under 12.

MUSIC

GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BACH The first music director emeritus of the New York Philharmonic, Kurt Masur, conducts the Philharmonic in four performances of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” composed in 1727. Bach’s masterpiece includes text culled from two chapters in the Christian Bible’s Gospel of Matthew and 28 short poems by Picander, one of Bach’s primary librettists. The work is widely regarded as the apotheosis of the northern German tradition of Passion narratives, which tell the tale of the trial and suffering of Jesus Featured performers include baritone Matthias Goerne (Jesus), and tenor James Taylor (Evangelist)

Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Friday–Saturday, 8 p.m., Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Columbus Avenue at 65th Street 212-875-5656, $34–$107.

COLLAGES

SHAPE OF THINGS Born in 1889 in Hoboken, N.J., Anne Ryan didn’t begin creating art until she was in her 50s; she started on her collages soon thereafter. Washburn Gallery celebrates Ryan’s legacy in “Shapes of Materials, 1948–1954,” which features untitled collages made from found materials and paper. Selections from the exhibit include “Untitled (no. 438)” (1948–54), above. Through Thursday, April 17, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Washburn Gallery, 20 W. 57th St., 8th floor, at Fifth Avenue, 212-397-6780, free.

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