© Ogemos, Houston Street and Bowery Mural, 2009; the artists, Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, will be in New York for the opening of their show at Lehmann Maupin next week. Photo courtesy of the gallery.

The fall art season starts with an avalanche of openings next week. Here’s an outline of thought-provoking presentations, mostly on the bleeding edge, to add to your calendar before the fall crush of museum openings begins:

Opening Wednesday, September 7

Alex Prager | La Grande Sortie, 6-8 pm. Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie Street, NY, NY Info

Charlotte Moorman | A Feast of Astonishments, 6-8 pm. Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, NY, NY Info

Opening Thursday, September 8

Lorna Simpson | Paintings, 6-8. Salon 94, 243 Bowery, NY, NY Info

Rashid Johnson | Fly Away, 6-8 pm. Hauser & Wirth, 511 West 18^th Street, NY, NY Info

Jonas Wood | Portraits, 6-8 pm. Anton Kern Gallery, 532 West 20^th Street, NY, NY Info

Meleko Mokgosi | Lerato; Comrades II, 6-8 pm. Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20^th Street and 524 West 24^th Street, NY, NY Info

Matthew Barney | Facility of Decline, 6-8 pm. Gladstone Gallery, 530 West 21^st Street, NY, NY Info

Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo (Os Gemeos) | Silence of the Music, 6-8 pm. Lehmann Maupin, 536 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY Info

Brian Dettmer | Dodo Data Dada, 6-8 pm. P.P.O.W., 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY Info

Lynda Benglis | New Work, 6-8 pm. Cheim and Read, 547 West 25^th Street, NY, NY Info

Robert Polidori | Ecophilia/Chronostasis, 6-8 pm. Paul Kasmin Gallery, 515 West 27^th Street, NY, NY Info

Opening Friday, September 9

Coming to Power | 25 Years of Sexually X-Plocit Art by Women, 6-9 pm. Maccarone, 630 Greenwich Street, NY, NY Info

Opening Saturday, September 10

Molly Crabapple | Annotated Muses, 6-8 pm. Postmasters, 54 Franklin Street, NY, NY Info

Bruce Nauman | Contrapposto Studies, i-vii, 6-8 pm. Sperone Westwater, 257 Bowery, NY, NY Info

Opening Tuesday, September 13

Zoe Leonard | In the Wake, 6-8 pm. Hauser & Wirth, 32 East 69^th Street, NY, NY Info