The New Year brings a spectacular list of museum exhibition openings in New York and nearby. Notable events include the new Met Breuer for contemporary art, in the former Whitney building on Madison Avenue; Beauty | the Cooper Hewitt Triennial; and Everything Is Dada at the Yale University Art Gallery. Photo above: Peter Fischli David Weiss, The Way Things Go, 1987, opening at the Guggenheim Museum, February 5.

January 22
Jennifer Bartlett | Hospital, and Louise Despont | Energy Scaffolds and Information Architecture; opening reception January 21, 6-8 pm. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY. Info

Mykola Zhuravel | Invasion Redux. Ukranian Institute of America, 2 East 79th Street, NY, NY. Info

January 24

Sudden Impact | Photography on the Printed Page. ICP at Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ. Info

January 28

Legacy | Selections from Emily Fisher Landau's Gift to the Whitney Museum. Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30th Street, Long Island City, NY. Info

February 3

Anri Sala | Answer Me. The New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY. Info

Laura Poitras | Astro Noise. Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, NY, NY. Info

The Illusive Eye | Op, and Kinetic Art. El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Info

Michelle Stuart | Theatre of Memory: Photographic Works. Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, NY, NY. Info

Miriam Shapiro, Provide, 1982, at the National Academy Museum 

February 4

Miriam Schapiro | A Visionary. National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Info

February 5

Peter Fischli David Weiss | How to Work Better. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, Info

Warhol By the Book. Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. Info

February 12

Beauty | Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street, NY, NY. Info

This Place | Israel and the West Bank through the eyes of twelve acclaimed photographers. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. Info

Wondrous Worlds  | Art & Islam Through Time & Place. Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ. Info

Everything Is Dada. Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT. Info

February 14

Marcel Broodthaers | A Retrospective. MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY. Info

February 18

Munch and Expressionism. Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Info

February 19

Sight Reading | Photography and the Legible World. Morgan Library & Museum in collaboration with the George Eastman Museum of Film and Photography, 225 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. Info

February 27

The Orchid Show. Enid A. Haupt Consveratory, New York Botanical Garden, 29000 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY. Info

March 6

The Nest | An Exhibition of Art in Nature. Katohah Museum of Art, 134 Jay Street/Route 22, Katonah, NY. Info

March 7

Crime Stories | Photography and Foul Play. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 100 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Info

Shiga Lieko (Japanese, born in 1980). Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore) 46 from the seris Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore), 2011, at Japan Society.

March 11

In The Wake | Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11. Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, NY, NY. Info

March 12

Unbound | Narrative Art of the Plains. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green, NY, NY. Info

March 18

Unfinished | Thoughts Left Visible and Nasreen Mohamedi. Opening day, Met Breuer, Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NY, NY. Info

Isaac Mizrahi | An Unruly History.The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Info

March 23

Tom Sachs | Tea Ceremony. The Noguchi Museum, 32-37 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, NY. Museum

March 22

Studio Job MAD HOUSE. Museum of arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Info