UPTOWN

TOMI UNGERER--D'Arcy, 1091 Madison Ave. at 82nd St. Author-Illustrator Un-gerer (Crictor) turns to gallery drollery. The paintings poke fun at Madison Avenue's other life, the world of the ad agencies; the constructions are funny animals and people built out of everyday objects and lots of whimsy. Through Dec. 7.

BALCOMB GREENE--Saidenberg, 1035 Madison Ave. at 79th St. Greene's engaging double exposures in muted blues and browns have a deceptively unfinished look. But the white space in his seascapes and street scenes is left there on purpose: to flood the canvases with light. Through Nov. 30.

ART OF TUSCANY--Duveen, 18 East 79th St. A sumptuous show including a Fra Angelico Madonna and Child and a Masolino Annunciation that have never been shown in the U.S. Also works by Giotto, Botticelli, Delia Robbia, Francesco di Giorgio. All but the Giottos are for sale. Through Dec. 31.

NICOLAS DE STAEL--Rosenberg, 20 East 79th St. Twenty-six paintings, some never shown before, by the French colorist who troweled slabs of paint onto canvas to create a glowing masonry. Through Nov. 30.

AMEDEO MODIGLIANI--Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th St. Twenty-two paintings and two pieces of sculpture. Among the oval-faced, almond-eyed portraits are two of British Poetess Beatrice Hastings. One painting, Le Garcon Rouge, has never been shown in New York before. Through Dec. 7.

GUY PENE DU BOIS--Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th St. (second floor). A 20-year (1913-33) slice of Du Bois' career, ranging from his alabastrine redhead in Nude Seated on Chair through his flat-chested flappers of the '20s to his plastered blonde in Carnival Interlude. Through Dec. 14.

ALFRED JENSEN--Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th St. (third floor). More checkerboards than a shelfful of Purina boxes. Among them: Men and Horses, a three-panel impression of the Parthenon frieze that might have been done by a nearsighted mosaicist, and a monster quad-ruptych called The Birth of the Triglyph.

MASAYUKI NAGARE--Staempfli, 47 East 77th St. The first U.S. exhibition of the massive abstract shapes of Japan's foremost sculptor (TIME, Sept. 20). Surfaces are apple-smooth or raw-rock broken; the urge to touch is irresistible and encouraged. Through Nov. 23.

PIERRE ALECHINSKY--Lefebre, 47 East 77th St. Twenty-one turbulent oils and tortured ink-wash paintings by the most sharp-fanged member of the Cobra group. Haunted little faces stare from the inky spume, half-formed bird-creatures hide in the thickets of the oils. Through Dec. 7.

ALBERT BIERSTADT--Florence Lewison, 50 East 76th St. These 24 paintings by a master of mammoth landscapes come as a surprise. Not only are they small (the largest is only 11 1/2 in. by 15 3/8 in.), but their simplicity makes them almost abstract despite being 100 years old. Through Nov. 30.

SONIA DELAUNAY--Granville, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th St. Gouaches and oils done by the widow of Painter Robert Delaunay. Brilliant suns whirl across the canvases, lock in geometrical embraces of color. Through Nov. 30.

JEF BANG--Reyn, 14 East 74th St. Thirty-three examples of a meticulous new talent. Frenchman Bane is obsessed with biological forms, and some of his paintings resemble opulent microscope slides; others are highly glazed traceries like cathedral windows. Through Nov. 23.

DAVID ARONSON--Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th St. A congregation of patriarchs, conjurers, scribes and pharisees, in bronze and encaustic. Aronson's Biblical portraits are slyly human, profusely cabalistic. Through Nov. 30.

CHRISTOS CAPRALOS--Martha Jackson, 32 East 69th St. First U.S. exhibition of the sophisticated mockeries in bronze of the human form by an important Greek sculptor. Bits of realistic anatomy peep through the textured surfaces. Through Dec. 14.

JOHN PAUL JONES--Dintenfass, 18 East 67th St. The faceless faces and ectoplasmic figure studies seem to have been painted during a seance. Jones's oil-on-paper portraits and little bronze heads are exquisitely eerie. Through Nov. 30.

CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE DRAWINGS--Wil-denstein, 19 East 64th St. This sampling of 165 drawings from one of the great U.S. collections ranges from a 15th century silverpoint portrait to three 20th century Picassos, includes work by Tiepolo, Turner, Van Gogh, Mondrian, Bellows, Homer and Sheeler. Through Nov. 30.

IRANIAN CERAMICS--Asia House, 112 East 64th St. More than 100 pieces of Persian pottery and porcelain, dating from the 4th millennium B.C. into the 19th century. Through Dec. 15.

CONRAD MARCA-RELLI--Kootz, 655 Madison Ave. at 60th St. The Boston-born collagist has forsaken canvas scraps for aluminum snippets riveted to wood to achieve the effect of free-form boiler plate. Through Nov. 30.

MIDTOWN

ELLSWORTH KELLY--Betty Parsons, 24 West 57th St. Kelly's familiar hard edges, plus his new painted-aluminum sculpture. Through Nov. 23.

20TH CENTURY MASTERS--Knoedler, 14 East 57th St. The entire collection of Textile Designer Edward A. Bragaline, shown for the first time. Represented are Miro (nontypical early expressionist works), Braque (the enormous Bathers, a favorite of the artist's), Picasso (seven oils including a cubist portrait of Braque), De Stael, Modigliani, Degas, Soutine, Rouault and others; sculpture by Renoir, Moore, Baskin. Through Nov. 23.

PIET MONDRIAN--Sidney Janis, 15 East 57th St. The golden-section geometry is on display as usual, but the eye opener is a series of 1907-08 watercolors and pencil drawings of flowers, done with Oriental delicacy. Through Nov. 30.

LEON GOLUB--Frumkin, 32 East 57th St. Golub recasts the human form in mythological mold, crowds his canvases with sweating Titans (largest: 9 ft. by 6 ft.) engaged in violent combat. Fifteen frescolike oils. Through Dec. 7.

CURT VALENTIN MEMORIAL--Marlbor-ough-Gerson, 41 East 57th St. (sixth floor). To celebrate the opening of what may well be the world's largest commercial art gallery, the proprietors have rounded up what may well be the largest show ever assembled by one: more than 500 paintings and sculptures by artists once associated with the late New York Art Dealer Curt Valentin. Among them are Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Jacques Lipchitz, Marino Marini, Alexander Calder, Graham Sutherland, Paul Klee, a covey of other imports ranging from Rodin to Picasso. Through Dec. 21.

THE SCULPTORS GUILD--Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, pear wood, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through Nov. 24.

SOVIET GRAPHIC ARTS--TIME & LIFE Building, Sixth Ave. at 50th St. Four hundred lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts, etchings and drawings in an exhibition sponsored by the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Cultural Exchange Program. Show guides are English-speaking Russians. Through Nov. 24.

MUSEUMS

GUGGENHEIM--Fifth Ave. at 89th St. More than 60 oils by Francis Bacon, the myopic English master of howling human agony. Yammering popes, chittering baboons, grotesque sides of beef hang alongside the visceral Three Studies for a Crucifixion. Through Jan. 12. Also on view: 20th century drawings by such masters as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Pollock, De Kooning, Motherwell, Tobey and others. Through Jan. 5.

METROPOLITAN--Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. Air-conditioning installation has put most of the Met's special events on ice, but the Cubiculum, a splendidly decorated little bedroom first dug up near Pompeii in 1900, has been unearthed again after a year in restoration. A new ceiling and a new molding copied from the original have been added.

FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART--62 East 78th St. Forty Venetian paintings of the 16th century, including works by Titian, Tintoretto, Bassano and Veronese. Among the Titians: a frieze painted between 1560 and 1569 to decorate his own home. Through Dec. 15.

WHITNEY--22 West 54th St. The first retrospective show since Futurist Joseph Stella's death in 1946 fills two floors with his paintings, collages and drawings. Among 100 works is his most ambitious, New York Interpreted, a five-canvas panorama that glows with dark lapidary lights. Through Dec. 4. More Stella at Salpeter Gallery, 42 East 57th St. Twenty-two pastels, drawings and silverpoints. Through Dec. 7.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART--11 West 53rd St. Forty canvases, dating from 1940 to 1963, by Hans Hofmann, the panjandrum of abstract expressionists. Through Dec. 1. Also at the Modern Museum: Soft-focus sculpture of the rebel Italian, Medardo Rosso, who worked in wax and accused Rodin of snitching his ideas. Through Nov. 23.

BROOKLYN MUSEUM--Eastern Parkway.

Asian art on loan from Collector Ernest Erickson, including Islamic ceramics, Indian miniatures, Nepalese, Thai and Cambodian sculpture. Through Jan. 12.

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