LOS ANGELES

Gusmano Cesaretti at Roberts & Tilton, 5801 Washingon Blvd., Culver City, Opening January 7

Pacific Standard Time continues into the New Year at Roberts & Tilton with a time capsule of photographs of the vibrant and dynamic East Los Angeles of the 1970s. An immigrant himself, Cesaretti provides an intimate and uncensored perspective with which to view the population of the East Side. Event Link

Ingrid Calame’s “From the LA River to the Lackawanna” at Susan Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 6006 Washington Blvd., Culver City, Opening January 7

Contemporary artist Ingrid Calame uses the Renaissance technique of pounding to transfer her colorful trace marks from an LA River graffiti palimpsest onto the wall of the gallery. Event Link

PARIS

Richard Serra’s “Drawings” at Gagosian Gallery, 4 Rue de Ponthieu, Paris, Through January 7

While most may know him as art’s “Man of Steel,” Serra transfers his understanding of space and physics to paper and canvas in “Drawings.” While his steel sculptures create sensations of vertigo, his drawings heavy and monochromatic, but not overwhelming. Event Link

Tadashi Kawamata’s “Under the Water” at Kamel Mennour, 47 Rue Saint-André des arts, Paris, Through January 28

A massive wave of wooden planks hovers over the gallery entrance, leading people from the street into the space with a disorienting feeling, as if just swimming under the surface of water. Created by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata in the wake of the Tsunami that hit Japan this year, his installation is haunting and serenely meditative. Event Link

NEW YORK

Enrico Castellani’s “Castellani E Castellani” at Haunch of Venison, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, 20th Floor, New York, Through January 7

With curving corners and perforated canvases, Enrico Castellani creates perceptual variations on angles with the 12 painted armatures dating 1960-1965, from his “Angolare” series. New work from the artist compliments his iconic pieces in black, red, and white monochromes, playing with with the architecture of the gallery and the painted metallic surface of the work itself. Event Link

BERLIN

Günther Förg at Galerie Max Hetzler, Oudenarder Straße 16-20, Berlin, Through January 28

“Ika” stands at the center of this exhibition, welcoming visitors with a soft but penetrative black-and-white stare in Förg’s 1987 seminal photograph. Balancing her portrait is “Untitled” (1990), and a single mirror juxtaposed with the rationalist architecture of his “Citta Universitaria” (1990) series. Event Link

CHICAGO

“Rough, Blurred, and Out of Focus: Provoke Magazine and Postwar Japanese Photography” at the Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Ave., Chicago, Through February 27

The pivotal time between the bombing of Hiroshima and the American occupation of Japan laid the groundwork for artists Takuma Nakahira, Yukata Takanashi, and Daido Moriyama to create some of the most captivating documentary images of the region. Their work, along with Shomei Tomatsu and the VIVO collective, were the basis of the underground “Provoke Magazine.” Event Link

BEIJING

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “For Tomorrow For Tonight” at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing, Through February 10

Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul tackles the intangible subject of nighttime with his camera lens. He blends all that occurs after dark in a narrative of dream, quiet, sleep, and stillness. Event Link