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ALAIN JACQUET—Iolas, 15 East 55th. Paris' Pop prodigy had a painting, done when he was 22, in the Guggenheim's recent worldwide survey, and thus was its youngest artist. Here he spans centuries and continents, melding old and new with art about art: he copies the classics (Praxiteles, Botticelli, Michelangelo), jazzes them up in modern trappings, calls them camouflages. Through April 11.
RAPHAEL SOYER—Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. With fine-line shadings and blank areas of light, Soyer brings out the fullness of body and the spiritual vacuity of New York girlhood. Past teen-age but not quite adult, his would-be students and sometime art ist's models display the wistful grace of instinctive, empty gestures. Sixteen etchings. Through May 2.
MUSEUMS
JEWISH—Fifth Ave. at 92nd. A retrospective of Pop Painter Jasper Johns: his Flags and Targets, along with more than 100 other paintings, drawings, sculptures, lithographs. Through April 12.
GUGGENHEIM—Fifth Ave. at 89th. The work of Vincent Van Gogh: his Sunflowers and Cypresses, Harvest, Yellow House and Potato Eaters are among the 120 oils, watercolors and drawings on loan from his nephew's unique collection. Through June 28.
METROPOLITAN—Fifth Ave. at 82nd. The museum supplements its large collection of Rembrandt paintings (33, including the $2,300,000 Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer) with a selection of the Dutch master's prints. "World's Fairs—the Architecture of Fantasy" makes a retrospective visit to 16 past expositions by means of prints, photographs, posters and souvenirs.
FINCH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART—62 East 78th. Fifty Venetian paintings from the 17th century range from Palma II Giovane to Sebastiano Ricci. Through April 30.
GALLERY OF MODERN ART—Columbus Circle at 59th. The Circle is enhanced by Huntington Hartford's new museum, which provides an intimate setting for his less-than-dazzling personal acquisitions and for a mammoth exhibition of the late Russian-born Painter Pavel Tchelitchew's surrealistic puzzle pictures, bloodshot-eyed portraits and "interior landscapes" of the head. Through April 19.
MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART—15 West 54th. Objects from the Massim region of New Guinea and 60 tempera paintings of primitive sculpture by Mexican Miguel Covarrubias, an important scholar in the field. Through May 10.
WHITNEY—22 West 54th. Jack Tworkov, 63, head of Yale's art school and old-line abstract expressionist, gets the retrospective once-over in an exhibition that begins with a 1948 Figure garbed in cubist subtleties, proceeds to the brilliant reds and blues that slash through his 1963 oils. Seventy paintings, collages, drawings. Through May 3.
BROOKLYN—Eastern Parkway. The 14th National Print Exhibition shows 165 examples, selected from 2,000 entries, of what U.S. printmakers have pursued during the past year. Through Aug. 16.