Exhibitions and museums in New York City coming up

Phone-Free Friday: see the museum without your phone.

To My Best Friend: contemporary art on friendship.

LeeTal, Swamp Rose Mallow: large-scale outdoor sculpture.

Junction: Omari Douglin's public mural at BAM.

Kerstin Brätsch: sit-on mosaic benches with plants.

Shelter from the Storm: works from the Academy's collection.

Brendan Murphy's monumental Love Matters bear sculpture.

Speak Out!: posters by fifth graders.

From Folk to Form: wire sculptures of Hungarian folk motifs.

Alessandro Pessoli: NY Window, new drawings in a window.

10 Year Anniversary: group show with Ken Lum and Anne Libby.

Voyage: Marianne Huotari's ceramic rya sculptures.

Roy Dowell: new paintings from his cabinet of curiosities.

Kate Berry Brown: Holding Form, new drawings on paper.

Photos by Weems, Arbus and Frank in Aperture Loves New York.

Andrea Fourchy: No show, new paintings of pattern and pop.

In the I of the Beholder: works by Dan Asher.

Asher Liftin: new paintings and drawings.

Jesús Hilario-Reyes: sound installation on diasporic clubs.

Cevdet Erek: Americas, sonic sculptural installations.

Yining Fei: Feral Sediment, a solo show of deer sculptures.

Bangladesh Not “Bhaangadesh”: art, identity, healing.

Jaume Plensa: portrait sculptures and charcoal drawings.

Yigal Ozeri: In Search of Beauty, oil paintings.

Arielle Zamora: abstract flower field paintings.

Frances Campani: Compositions, still life paintings.

Stone in the Pond: Vivian Suter's hung canvases.

Soft Spaces: queer art by Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu.

Why Design?: exhibition of student design work.

Form & Function – The Art of Graphic Design: exhibition.

The IRVA Art Collaborative Group: art by retired artists.

Kyiv Colours: Kasper Bosmans on ornament and power.

Katy Ferrarone: abstract paintings on grief and love.

Weird Wonders: Halloween twists at the Museum of Illusions.

Iris Osterman: paintings of the New England shoreline.

Spotlight: Sam Mattax's recent large abstract paintings.

¡Te Amo Porque S.O.S. Pueblo!

Beyond the Margins: a teen-curated museum show.

Group show with Abächerli, Fortmann and Keller.

Upcoming Lifestyle: André Marcel Pagán's urban paintings.