1. Out of Time: Contemporary Art From the Collection
At MoMA; Opens August 30
Never-before-exhibited works by Cady Noland, Rineke Dijkstra, and Bill Viola are of interest, but the real focus here is on the curation, which points out just how much contemporary work is about the passage of time.
2. Looking Back From Ground Zero: Images From the Brooklyn Museum Collection
At the Brooklyn Museum; Opens August 30
Images of the World Trade Center area, from the eighteenth century, and through the horror, to today.