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TOM WESSELMANN—Green, 15 West 57th. One of the brightest, brashest Pop shows of the season. Ten specimens of Wesselmann's gleaming bathrooms, outdoor panoramas, the Stars and Stripes, and still more of his Great American Nudes. Through March 7.
EVELYN DRAPER—The Nippon Club. 143 West 57th. The Victorians mounted seaweed, the Japanese eat it, but Evelyn Draper paints with it. Utilizing the subtle colors of seaweed (as many as ten varieties in a picture) and its natural adhesiveness, she shapes the delicate filaments and threads on paper with a brush or sculpture tools. Her portraits, landscapes and figures have the delicacy of Oriental art. Forty works. Through March 2.
ADOLPH GOTTLIEB—Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The complete exhibition— 45 oils—that won Gottlieb the Grand Premio at last fall's Sao Paulo Bienal. Through March 3.
ENNIO MORLOTTI—Odyssia, 41 East 57th. In the lush countryside around Milan, Morlotti finds the starting point for his art informel. He goos the canvas with thick layers of earthy colors, then gouges out gulleys and heaps up hills of pigment to express nature's dense, secretive and organic magic. Through March 7.
MUSEUMS
JEWISH—Fifth Ave. at 92nd. A retrospective of Pop Painter Jasper Johns, who hit the New York scene a scant six years ago with the subtlety of a Fourth of July celebration, causing a sensation with his Flags and Targets. The museum has them, along with more than 100 other paintings, drawings, sculptures, lithographs. Through April 12.
GUGGENHEIM—Fifth Ave. at 89th. A triennial survey of worldwide contemporary painting presents 82 artists from 24 countries. Through March 29.
METROPOLITAN—Fifth Ave. at 82nd. Seventy newly acquired prints including such masters as Goltzius, Rembrandt and Goya; the Cubiculum, a Pompeian bedroom buried for 18 centuries under cinders from Mount Vesuvius and recently restored by the museum; Dutch and Flemish paintings (33 Rembrandts), and the Met's superb collection of 19th and 20th century French paintings.
MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART—15 West 54th. Ivory drums, carved canoe prows and paddles, dance shields and other objects from the Massirn region of New Guinea. Also 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, who, before his death in 1957, renounced a successful career as a muralist and caricaturist to become an important scholar of primitive art. Through May 10.
WHITNEY—22 West 54th. A double bill. "Maine and Its Artists" surveys the state of inspiration from 1710 to 1963, shows off an impressive roster of painters who were born in Maine or worked there, including Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Andrew Wyeth (through March 22). With them, Gaston Lachaise's sexy, soulful sculptures in stone and metal. Through April 5. Supplementing the Lachaise show, at Schoelkopf Gallery, 825 Madison Ave. at 69th: 15 plaster portraits of famous figures. Through March 14.