Three to see: New York

A survey examining the work of Bas Jan Ader, who died in 1975 attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat as part of a performance work, opened Wednesday (until 5 August) at Metro Pictures. Among the works in the show is a slide projection by Ader that reflects on his father's execution by the Nazis in 1944. At the Whitney, a show with lighter themes looks at the paintings of Stuart Davis. Stuart Davis: In Full Swing (until 25 September) includes around 100 pictures from the early 1920s to his death in 1964 and focuses in particular on how, after 1939, he tended to recycle forms and ideas from earlier pictures. It's also your last chance to see a show of Giorgio Morandi's rarely-seen work from the 1930s at the Center for Italian Modern Art (until 25 June). The exhibition, which closes this weekend, includes around 40 works and features, notably, two of seven self-portraits still in existence.