This year, the shortest month – and for New Yorkers, usually the coldest – has more than a fair share of exhibitions designed to stir up heated debate. The subjects of war, race and class, politics and art, and the future of photography are all represented, with many public programs designed to fuel discourse. On the lighter side, but not devoid of social comment, gallery goers can check in with the world of flight attendants, the birth of California-style cool, suburbia, and the great American road trip. Please check the websites for details.

NEW YORK: CHELSEA and DOWNTOWN
Silvio Wolf: Voyager
Robert Mann Gallery
January 31 - March 15, 2008
Opening reception: January 31, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Jimi Billingsley: Spree Park, Lost Paradise, Berlin
Christopher Henry Gallery
January 31 - March 15, 2008
Opening reception: January 31, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Above: Lost Paradise, 2004; Under the Big Top, 2004; by Jimi Billingsley from Spree Park, Berlin. Courtesy of Christopher Henry Gallery.

Grace, featuring work by Stan Gaz, Sebastian Lemm, Chris McCaw, Melissa Fleming, Susan Kae Grant, Jason Horowitz, Junsik Shin, Wyatt Gallery, and Will Steacy among others
Peer Gallery
January 31 - March 8, 2008
Opening reception: January 31, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Photoscapes, featuring work by Frank Breuer, Gregory Crewdson, Lynn Geesaman, Doug Hall, Kim Keever, Michael Kenna, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Jem Southam and Roger Welch
Kinz, TIllou + Feigen
Through March 8, 2008
Opening reception: February 2, 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Testimony to War: Art from the Battlegrounds of Iraq
Multimedia exhibition featuring work by Army Major Peter Buotte, Army Sergeant Aaron Hughes, embedded artist Steve Mumford, embedded photographer Lucian Read, and Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Roa
Visual Arts Museum
February 4 - March 8, 2008
Opening Reception: February 4, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Panel discussion on the art coming out of the conflict in Iraq, moderated by Leonard Lopate of WNYC, with artists in the exhibition and photographer/filmmaker Brian Palmer: February 19, 7:00 pm. For more information: www.sva.edu/events or 212.592.2010.

Jurgen Teller: Ukraine
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
February 7 - March 15, 2008
Opening reception: February 7, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Albrecht Fuchs: Portraits
Mirielle Mosler Ltd.
February 8 - March 22, 2008
Opening reception: February 7, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Hey, Hot Shot! Annual
Jen Bekman Gallery
February 8 - March 15, 2008
Opening reception: February 8, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Aperture Foundation at The New School presents Confounding Expectations
Photography in Context - Parallel Worlds: Explorations in "Second Life
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
February 13, 2008, 7:00 pm. Free. For more information, please contact Aperture
Kerim Aytac: Tokyo Hotel
Galerie Poller
February 14 - April 5, 2008
Opening reception: February 14, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Brian Finke: Flight Attendants
ClampArt
February 21 - March 22, 2008
Opening reception: February 21, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Bart Michiels: The Course of History and
Tiffany Dow: Solliloquies
Foley Gallery
Through February 16, 2008

John O'Reilly: Echo
Julie Saul Gallery
Through February 16, 2008

Muzi Quawson: Pull Back the Shade
Yossi Milo Gallery
February 21 - March 29, 2008
Opening reception: February 21, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Pello Irazu: Home
Yancey Richardson Gallery
February 21 - April 5, 2008
Opening reception: February 21, :00 - 8:00 pm

The Sartorialist: Photographs by Scott Schuman
Danziger Projects
Through February 23, 2008

Dawoud Bey: Class Pictures
Aperture Gallery
Through February 28, 2008
A conversation with Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems: February 19, 6:30 pm

Ron Diorio: Around Her
Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
Through February 23, 2008

Winter Selections, featuring Jack Balas, Gerald Forster, Francesca Sundsten, Wes Hempel, Nancy Switzer, Rene Lynch, Sherrie Wolf, Misty Keasler, William Wylie, John Nava, Wade Reynolds and Jeongmee Yoon
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Through March 3, 2008

NEW YORK: MIDTOWN and UPTOWN
Massimo Vitali
Bonnie Benrubi Gallery
January 31 - March 29, 2008
Opening reception: January 31, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Arbus, Avedon, Sander
Pace/MacGill Gallery
Through February 16, 2008

The Art Show: 20^th Annual Art Dealers Association of America Show
Seventh Regiment Armory
February 21 - 25, 2008
For a list of exhibitors, please visit the website

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: El Maestro de Modernismo
Throckmorton Fine Art
Through March 1, 2008

Marc Riboud: Home on the Road
The Howard Greenberg Gallery
Through March 8, 2008

Gus Powell: Manhattan Noon
Museum of the City of New York
Through March 16, 2008

Andrea Modica: Fountain
Edwynn Houk Gallery
Through February 16, 2008

Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
International Center of Photography
Through May 4, 2008

Jan de Cock: Denkmal 11
The Museum of Modern Art
Through April 14, 2008

NEW YORK: BROOKLYN
Julie Pochron; Omami
Safe-T Gallery
February 14 - March 23, 2008
Opening reception: February 14, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Nathaniel Welch: Jesse James and His Beautiful Machines
powerHouse Arena
February 21 - March 2, 2008
Opening reception: February 21, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Please RSVP graham@powerHouseBooks.com

BEACON, NY
Paolo Pellegrin: Double Blind, the Lebanon Conflict
Fovea Editions Beacon Gallery
Through March 2, 2008

SYRACUSE, NY
Don Gregorio Anton: Ollin Mecatl, The Measure of Movements
Light Work Gallery
January 14 - March 20, 2008
Panel Discussion and artist's reception: February 7, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

ANDOVER, MA
Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury
Addison Gallery of Art
February 15 - March 18, 2008
Opening reception: February 15, 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Free.
Please check website for related public programs

BOSTON, MA
John Goodman: Moving Pictures
Howard Yezerski Gallery
February 8 - March 11, 2008
Opening reception: February 8, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Shooting War, from Crimea to Vietnam
Robert Klein Gallery
February 15 - March 22, 2008

Group show featuring work by Shizuo Toki, Hiromitsu Morimoto, Daido Moriyama, Janez Vlachy
Tepper Takayama Fine Arts
Through March 2, 2008

WINCHESTER, MA
Stephen Wilkes: Ellis Island
Griffin Museum of Photography
Through March 30, 2008
PHILADELPHIA, PA
The Puppet Show
Institute of Contemporary Art
Through March 30, 2008
Please check the website for related public programs

CHARLESTON, SC
William Christenberry: Photographs, 1961-2005
Gibbes Museum of Art
Through March 16, 2008

CHICAGO, IL
This Land is Your Land, featuring work by Roberto Bellini, Peter Granser, Caroline Hake, Christian Jankowski, Simon Roberts, Greg Stimac, Bryan Zanisnik
Museum of Contemporary Photography
February 1 - March 22, 2008
Opening reception: January 31, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

John Yang: Indian Ladder, A Lyric Journey
Stephen Daiter Contemporary
February 1 - March 15, 2008
Opening Reception: February 1, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Ed Ruscha and Photogrpahy
The Art Insitute of Chicago
March 1 - June 1, 2008
Symposium with Ed Ruscha and others, free with registration: March 1, 10:30 - 4:30 pm

KANSAS CITY, MO
Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
February 22, 2008 -May 18, 2008
Opening reception: February 22, 6:00 pm

MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes featuring work by Gregory Crewdson, Dan Graham, Catherine Opie, Edward Ruscha, Fashion.Architecture.Taste, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, MVRDV, and Estudio Teddy Cruz, among others
Walker Art Center
February 16 - May 18
Please check the website for related public events

FORT WORTH, TX
The Art of the American Snapshot
Amon Carter Museum
February 16 - April 27, 2008

BOULDER, CO
Hiroshi Watanabe: The Ideology of Paradise
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Through May 4, 2008

JACKSON, WY
David Johndrow
Oswald Gallery
Through March 29, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Deborah Oropallo: Feign
Stephen Wirtz Gallery
February 6 - March 15, 2008
Opening Reception: February 7, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

The Source
Robert Koch Gallery
February 7 - March 29, 2008

Left to right: Canadian Rockies, 2005; Nebraska, 1999; Las Vegas, 1999. © Lee Friedlander; courtesy Fraenkel Gallery

Lee Friedlander: America by Car
Fraenkel Gallery
February 14 - April 26, 2008

Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures
De Young Museum
February 16 - May 18, 2008

Amy Stein: Domesticated
Paul Kopeikin Gallery
Opening reception: February 16, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Friedlander
SF MoMA
February 23 - May 18, 2008, 2008

LOS ANGELES, CA
Shaolin: Temple of Zen, Photographs by Justin Guariglia
Otis College of Art and Design Gallery
February 02, 2008 - March 31, 2008
Opening reception: February 2, 5:00-7:00 pm
Artist talk with Justin Guariglia, Gene Ching of Kung Fu magazine, and Craig Reid, martial arts historian: February 4, 7:30 p.m.

Stephen Wilkes: China
David Gallery
February 2 - March 16, 2008
Opening reception: September 8, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Rocky Schenk: Los Angeles
M+B Gallery
Through March 1, 2008

SANTA MONICA, CA
Camillel Solyagua: Jellyfish and Red Crowned Cranes
Craig Krull Gallery
February 23 - March 28, 2008
Opening reception: February 23, 4:00 - 6:00 pm

SAN DIEGO, CA
The Photographer's Eye
Images selected from the permanent collection interpret John Szarkowski's groundbreaking book of the same title, in homage to the late director of photograph at the Museum of Moden Art (MoMA), NY
Museum of Photographic Arts
Through April 20, 2008
Film screening and gallery tour: February 17, 3:00 pm.
Please call 619.238.7559 x227 for reservations

LA JOLLA, CA
Kate Breakey: Painted Photographs
Joseph Bellows Gallery
September 8 - October 13, 2007
Opening reception: September 8, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Above: Understory Flareups, Fourth of July Creek, Valley Road Wildfire, Custer County, Idaho, 2005; Quartered Rocky Mountain Elk, Milky Creek, White Cloud Mountains, Idaho, 2004; © Laura McPhee, courtesy of G. Gibson Gallery.

SEATTLE/TACOMA, WA
Laura McPhee: River of No Return
G. Gibson Gallery
February 21 - March 29, 2008
Opening reception: tktktkt

PORTLAND, OR
Brian Ulrich: Thrift
Quality Pictures
Through March 1, 2008

TORONTO, ON
Larry Towell: The World From My Front Porch
Stephen Bulger Gallery
February 9 - March 20, 2008