UPTOWN
KARL KNATHS--Rosenberg, 20 East 79th.
No surprises for those who are familiar with Knath's Cape Cod scenery--the lilacs in his backyard, deer feeding in the pines, light-splashed docks and shacks. What is perennially surprising, though, is the freshness that pours through his black-framed mosaic hues. Through Nov. 7.
JAMES HARVEY--Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. Harvey, an abstract expressionist, is also a commercial artist, and he took a dim view of Pop Painter Andy Warhol's Brillo-box copies. Harvey, after all, had designed the original. Harvey's new paintings consist of whirling wheels of color that hang dizzily even from the ceiling. They look as though they would be hard to copy. Through Nov. 28.
EMILE NOLDE and ERNST KIRCHNER--Auslander, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th. For anyone who missed the Museum of Modern Art's Nolde retrospective last year, this small sampling (some 20 works) offers another look at his brooding landscapes and blazing watercolors. A fellow German expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, is seen in six works. Through Nov. 28.
DAVID HAYES--Willard, 29 East 72nd. A raft of first-rate sculpture crowds the galleries this week; at least 13 shows are worth a prolonged look.* David Hayes's is one. In his second New York exhibition, he proves convincingly that, at 33, he belongs in the top rank of important young sculptors. Hayes, an American, has a studio outside Paris, where he hammers and welds forged steel into mat-black shapes of brute strength. His works are small but weighty, simple but bursting with power. His Seated Beast, with only two legs, has a yowling, cavernous mouth for a head, and his armless Gladiator stares blindly from two huge orbital cavities.
Through Nov. 21.
PETER CHINNI--Marks, 19 East 71st.
New Yorker Peter Chinni, 36, is a more abstract sculptor than Hayes, but a walk around his Morning gives the feeling of a slumbering world stirring and stretching just before dawn. Awakening Mountain II, an 8-ft. bronze, catches light on flat planes and hides shadows in deep crevices. Forty-five pieces in silver and bronze.
Through Nov. 28.
PABLO PICASSO--Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th. Fifty Picasso posters, many created for summer expositions in the little pottery town of Vallauris, France, near where he lives, include his many variations of toros, a spring bouquet sketched for U.C.L.A., and some of his wife Jacqueline. At Hahn, 960 Madison Ave. at 75th, are 15 paintings of another woman in his life, Dora Maar. The portraits run through Nov. 14, the posters through Nov. 21.
MIDTOWN
THEA EKSTROeM--Viviano, 42 East 57th.
A gypsy and former nightclub performer, Thea Ekstroem is also well known as an artist in her native Sweden, and her works are in the collections of French Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and Painter Jean Dubuffet. This is New York's first chance to inspect her unusual talent. In silverpoint on oil-and-canvas, she draws tiny signs and symbols around the edges of lonely landscapes that are guarded by a pale sun and filled with little animals, intertwining snakes, and under the earth's surface, a strange, subterranean life.
Through Nov. 28.
KENNETH NOLAND--Emmerich, 41 East 57th. Noland lives in Vermont near Paul Feeley (see below}, who shares his color-consciousness. He lets some of the unsized canvas show, slashes his diagonal abstracts with repeated sharp right angles in a series of bright shades that assault the eye. Through Nov. 28.
PHILIP PEARLSTEIN--Frumkin, 41 East 57th. Nudes sprawled on blankets and pillows are more decadent than decorous, more pooped-out than reclining, in fact, more naked than nude. Pearlstein endows his not-so-fair ladies with formidably bulging muscles, paints their flesh tired grey.
Through Nov. 28.
JIM DINE--Janis, 15 East 57th. Dine calls his painting-collage-drawing-sculpture combinations Self Portraits, uses real axes, knives and cutters to establish macabre themes. One moody job is a silverpoint of a bathrobe; where the head should go, there are a lead plumb line and a pocketknife impaled in a wood block. Through Nov. 21.
BRAM VAN VELDE--Knoedler, 14 East 57th. This 20-year retrospective (39 oils and gouaches) is a generous showing of Van Velde, for he averages only eight works a year. They are all untitled; in one wash imprisons light as it streams down the paper, a streak of red frozen in icy blue. Through Nov. 14.
PAUL FEELEY--Parsons, 24 West 57th.
"My own notion of art," claims Bennington Art Professor Feeley, "has to do with something that has presence but isn't unduly urgent, that brings you to it rather than projects itself upon you." His sensuous colors don't scream for attention, but they are thoroughly seductive once they get it. Fifteen works in plastic paint on unsized canvas. Through Nov. 21.
ROBERT OSBORN--Downtown, 32 East 51st. Many artists have turned their talents to the theme of President Kennedy's assassination. Osborn is one of the few to do so successfully, mainly because he stays away from direct images of the people involved. He uses instead the themes of a violinist and a bat, a swish of red, and a tiny collage of roses, to convey a feeling of virtuosity and winged terror.
The works are in pastel and charcoal.
Through Nov. 28.
LYONEL FEININGER--Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. Feininger taught graphics at the Bauhaus, was a prolific printmaker himself, but there have been few important showings of his prints. These 100, mostly woodcuts, and all of "Ships and Seas," show his artistry on red, yellow, ocher and pink paper, and his humor--one 1910 etching is signed "Leinol Einfinger." Through Nov. 28.
PETER BLUME--Durlacher, 538 Madison Ave. at 54th. Two paintings and 48-odd drawings display Blume's magic realism.
Through Nov. 21.
THE ARTIST'S REALITY--New School Art Center, 66 West 12th. In spite of the pretentious title, the New School has a good summary of the goings-on in sculpture these days. One apiece by 50 artists here and abroad include such top names as Mastroianni, Ipousteguy, Marisol, Metcalf, Noguchi, Moore. Through Nov. 14.
MUSEUMS
JEWISH--Fifth Ave. at 92nd. More contemporary sculpture, here limited to seven Americans: Peter Agostini, Lee Bontecou, John Chamberlain, Mark di Suvero, George Segal, Richard Stankiewicz and George Sugarman. Through Nov. 29.
GUGGENHEIM--Fifth Ave. at 89th.
"Alexander Calder will forever be remembered as the man who made sculpture move," says Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer. In cognizance of that, the museum has collected Calder's wire sculpture, jewelry, toys, paintings, mobiles, stabiles and stabile-mobiles to make the largest showing of Calder's work ever assembled. Calder, in turn, has created an enormous mobile to hang in the middle of it all. Through Jan. 10.
METROPOLITAN--Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The Met delved into its vast print collection and found some 50 versions of Aesop's Fables. They go back to 1484, when William Caxton did the first English edition.
In the 18th century, the Town and Country Mice feast at a rococo table and wet their whiskers in champagne. Calder and Frasconi, with a narrative assist from Marianne Moore, have put the fables in soberer dress for today.
FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART--62 East 78th. Enlarged quarters now permit a double-feature. One, contemporary, called "Artists Select," shows works by well-known painters and sculptors, paired with work by lesser knowns they have picked.
The other, a historical show, is the first New York exhibition devoted to the work of such little-seen Genoese painters as Luca Cambiaso (1527-1585) and Alessandro Magnasco (1667-1749). Both through Jan. 15.
GALLERY OF MODERN ART--Columbus Circle at 59th. Many artists begin with realism and wind up with abstractions; reversing the process, Frenchman Jean Helion first earned a reputation for his nonobjective paintings and then turned to nature. Sixty works trace his interesting development. Through Dec. 27.
WHITNEY--22 West 54th. The museum pays tribute to American Realist Edward Hopper with the second retrospective in 15 years. Some 180 oils, watercolors, drawings and etchings date from 1908, but the emphasis is on work done since 1950. Through Nov. 29.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART--11 West 53rd. The main attraction is Pierre Bonnard's cloudless skies and serene interiors (through Nov. 29), but also on tap are sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 mesh, spring and wire works by German Sculptor Guenter Haese, who first caught U.S. curators' eyes at Kassel's 1964 Documenta (through Nov. 15).
PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY--29 East 36th. The library is showing off its gem: Catherine of Cleves' Book of Hours. The finest Dutch manuscript in existence, its exquisitely executed miniatures, 157 in all, depict saintly themes with rustic charm.
Through Nov. 7.
BROOKLYN--Eastern Parkway. Twenty years of Antonio Frasconi's graphics: 150 woodcuts and lithographs, twelve illustrated books. Through Nov. 29.
* In addition to sculpture shows in these listings: Pol Bury at Lefebre, Marina Nunez del Prado at World House (both through Nov. 7), David Smith at Marlborough-Gerson, George Rickey at Staempfli, Horst-Egon Kalinowski at Cordier & Ekstrom (all through Nov. 14), and Peter Agostini at Radich, 818 Madison Ave. at 68th (through Nov. 28).
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