The Fall DART List for photography in New York will hit your inbox next week. Unlike last September, when more than 40 photo shows opened on the first Thursday of the month, this year's offerings are a little more spread out - giving gallery hoppers a chance to pack more into their busy evenings. But for now, here's a select list of upcoming museum shows you won't want to miss.

Left to right: William Blake (1757-1827), Behemoth and Leviathan, from the Book of Job, 1805-10; courtesy The Morgan Library & Museum. Vasily Kandinsky, Blue Mountain, 1908-09 (detail); copyright 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, courtesy the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Tim Burton, Untitled (Trick or Treat). 1980; copyright Tim Burton, courtesy The Museum of Modern Art.

September 11: William Blake's World: A New Heaven Is Begun, at The Morgan Library & Museum. This major exhibition of works in all media by the visionary and radical poet, painter, and printmaker is the Morgan's first devoted to Blake in twenty years. Among the more than 100 works are two major series of watercolors which have rarely been displayed in their entirety. Highlighting Blake's achievements as a visual artist and poet are his illuminated books, which demonstrate his expertise in marrying word and image. September 11, 2009-January 2, 2010 at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY. 212.685.0008.

September 13: Monet's Water Lilies presents the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the MoMA collection. These include a mural-sized triptych (Water Lilies, 1914-26); a single panel painting of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated on his property in Giverny, France (Water Lilies, 1914-26), as well as The Japanese Footbridge and Agapanthus, depicting the majestic plants in the pond's vicinity. September 13, 2009-April 12, 2010 at The Museum of Modern Art. 11 West 53^rd Street, New York, NY. 212.708.9400.

September 17: Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstractions, at the Whitney. More than 130 drawings, paintings, watercolors and sculptures by O'Keeffe, along with the legendary photographs Alfred Stieglitz made of his wife, bring fresh perspective to the work of an artist better known for her figurative work. Organized in conjunction with the Georgia O"Keeffe Museum, this is the first exhibition to examine her achievements as an abstract artist. September 17, 2009-January 17, 2010 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, NY. 212.570.3633.

September 18: Kandinsky, a full-scale retrospective of the paintings of Vasily Kandinsky - the visionary artist, theorist, and pioneer of abstraction - will be presented at the Guggenheim. Comprised of nearly 100 of Kandinsky's most important canvases from 1907 to 1942, drawn from significant private and public collections, the exhibition is complemented by more than 60 works on paper from the Guggenheim collections. September 18, 2009-January 13, 2010, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. 212.423.3500.

October 9: Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design. This exhibition at Japan Society introduces an important figure in 20^th century Japanese art who synthesized the visual arts of other cultures with native folk art motifs, through bravura technical explorations. Nearly half of the 100 works featured are large-scale screens, wall hangings, scrolls, and entrance curtains. Other works include kimonos and accessories fashioned of cotton, bark cloth, and silks, and books printed onto an array of textiles. October 9, 2009-January 17, 2010 at Japan Society, 333 East 47^th Street, New York, NY 10017.

October 12: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915, at the Met. This exhibition of more than 100 masterpieces of American painting explores a major form of artistic expression from the pre-Revolutionary era to the beginning of World War I: figural scenes of ordinary people engaged in life's tasks and pleasures. Featuring work by John Singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale, Samuel F. B. Morse, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, John Sloan, George Bellows, and others, the exhibition highlights genre painting as it has evolved since Colonial times. October 12, 2009-January 24, 2010 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, N.Y. 212-535-7710.

October 17: El Museo del Barrio reopens after a major renovation, with an all-day open house celebrating its 40^th anniversary. The inaugural show, Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, features highlights of the permanent collection. A host of public programs invigorates El Museo's connection with the city. Starting October 17 at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street), New York, New York, NY. 212.831.7272.

October 28: Urs Fischer will be the first artist to take over the entire New Museum on the Bowery. For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, the Zurich-born, New York-based artist will transform the museum's gallery spaces by creating a mesmerizing environment featuring towering monuments, tangled abstractions, and a labyrinth of mirrors. October 28, 2009-January 24, 2010 at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY. 212.219.1222.

November 8: Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops in Modernity is the first major show in the United States in decades, and the first at MoMA since 1938. With examples of industrial design, furniture, graphics, film, photography, book design, weaving, theater, painting and sculpture, the exhibition demonstrates the school's revolutionary ideas of artistic education and production as well as its enduring influence. November 8.2009-January 25, 2010 at The Museum of Modern Art. 11 West 53^rd Street, New York, NY. 212.708.9400.

November 22: Tim Burton, a major career retrospective at MoMA. This gallery exhibition and film series looks at Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton's reinvention of Hollywood genre filmmaking (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Ed Wood, Planet of the Apes, and Sweeney Todd, to name a few) has influenced a generation of young artists working today. November 22, 2009-April 26, 2010 at The Museum of Modern Art. 11 West 53^rd Street, New York, NY. 212.708.9400.