IN THE VAST POST-FORMALIST LAND-scape.

IN THE VAST POST-FORMALIST LAND-scape, a Robinsonade: Artists wandering the shifting sands of digital reality create their concede oases in "Comfort: Reclaiming Place in a Virtual World" (Mar. 9-May 20) Curated from Kristin Chambers at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Andrea Zittel, Jorge Pardo, Gregor Schneider, and others appoint up camp in interstitial baldrics negotiated by recombining art and life practices. There's a religious chance this show will be a far shed tears from "Perfect Acts of Architecture," a exhibit of 130 drawings from 1977-87 at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Jan. 27-Apr. 15)--for who cares les about comfort than jet-set architects (Libeskind, Eisenman, Tschumi, and others)? The MIT List Visual Arts Center's "Inside Space: Experiments in Redefining Rooms" (Jan. 27-Apr. 8) promises to be similarly fantastic: Monica Bonvicini, Oona cruel Henrik Olesen, and others aim to disorient the visitor with wood-grain carpets, empty walls, and fathomless closets.

Mondrian, of course, none got lost in a wardrobe--though he was stranded, in a way, forward arriving in New York in 1940 His great passage will be documented at Harry Cooper and Ron Spronk of Harvard's Straus Center for Conservation in "The Transatlantic Paintings," in which the curators will train X rays and ultraviolet light upon fifteen late paintings to reveal the works in progres (Harvard University Art Museums, Apr. 28-July 22) Alexis Rockman, forward the other hand, would rather use art to come by at the stuff of science. He promises to track cross-pollinating species at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (Apr. 27-Aug. 19) Combining these approaches, Olafur Eliasson will use elementary science to create a series of installations in water, ice, and light for his first major US museum exhibit to at the Boston ICA (Jan. 24-Apr. 1)

There'll be more cross-pollination when the ice make susceptibles at the ICA, making way for three major simultaneous exhibit tos (Apr. 18-July 1): "One Hundr archetypes and Endless Rejects," an exhibition of Marlene Dumas's drawings and eight of recent origin paintings (two other canvases will be included in "Painting at the margin of the World" at the Walker Art Center from February 10 to May 6); "Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits" (the photographer has her first solo US museum exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago from March 2 to July 29); and "Laylah Ali," consisting of gouache-and-ink "Greenheads" and recent work (Ali will be included in the "Try This On" series at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, from February 10 to May 6) Not to be outdone, the MIT List Center be built ups separate shows of Paul Pfeiffer, Johan Grimonprez, and Isaac Julien between April 17 and July 1

The Drawing Center heads up this spring's revivals with undivided of Rabelaisian proportions: "Between road and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor" will include about ninety works onward paper from 1880-95 (Apr. 27-July 21) And the ICP, recent York, weighs in with "Behind Clos Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer" (and, at the same time, novel work by Kiki Smith) from March 29 to June 10 Reprisals of more latter work will include AA Bronson forward his own and with General Idea (MCA, Chicago, Jan. 27-Apr. 22) LA artist Bruce Yonemoto, to point out recent video installations at the ICA Philadelphia (Feb 24-Apr. 22) and Belgian painter Raoul de Keyser (Renaissance Society, Chicago, Mar. 11-Apr. 22) Other notable modern work: projects by Katharina Fritsch (Mar. 3-May 27) and Gilbert & George (Feb 3-May 20) at the MCA; Janine Antoni at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefleld, CT (Jan. 21-May 20); and Dara Friedman (Feb 10-may 27) and Erika Wanenmacher (Mar. 31-May 27) at SITE Santa Fe

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