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AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY STILL LIFE—Dintenfass, 18 East 67th St. Painting a pear excited Cézanne; in this show 38 modern artists respond to the old-fashioned challenge offered by still life. Jack Levine, Philip Evergood, Sidney Goodman, Andrew Wyeth, Loren Maclver, David Aronson are among the entries. Through Nov. 9.
ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE—Alan Gallery, 766 Madison Ave. at 66th St. The minuscule bronzes of the 19th century French sculptor of animals. Through Nov. 16.
MINO MACCARI—Gallery 63, 721 Madison Ave. at 63rd St. The first U.S. one-man show by an Italian painter-etcher. Viewers will be reminded of Grosz, Daumier and Goya with their stingers removed: Maccari is a sympathetic satirist. Through Nov. 9.
GEORGE PICKEN—Rehn Gallery, 36 East 61st St. Picken teaches painting at Columbia University. His work is vehemently abstract, but an absent-minded memory of nature sometimes sneaks in. Through Nov. 16.
RAYMOND PARKER—Kootz, 655 Madison Ave. at 60th St. A thunderhead of hard-edged clouds in shocking colors, Parker's shapes-in-space seem waiting to collide, never quite make a satisfactory bump. Through Nov. 9.
EDWARD LANING—Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th St. Forty-six paintings and drawings, mostly Italian in theme, open this new gallery. Included is an oil called Sanctuario, a spooky look at a Neapolitan side-street shrine. Through Nov. 11.
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MAURICE FREEDMAN—Midtown, 11 East 57th St. Twenty-five landscapes and still lifes in oil and gouache. Freedman's brush is bold, and so is his color. Through Nov. 23.
ANDRE DERAIN—Hutton, 41 East 57th St. Forty-four bronzes by a painter who sculpted for fun. Also at Hutton: a groupt of German expressionist painters, including Gabriele Münter, Ernst Kirchner, Alexej von Jawlensky. Through Nov. 16.
HUGO WEBER—Howard Wise, 50 West 57th St. Last year's show by the Swiss-born abstractionist had a rivers-of-the-world motif. Now Weber has turned to love; his titles contain the word over and over. The paintings could just as easily be about indigestion. Through Nov. 9.
THE BETTMANN PANOPTICON—The Bettmann Archive, 136 East 57th St. Visual fun-and-games played by commercial artists collaging or assemblaging old graphics and other curiosities from Bettmann's collection. The results, ranging from Pop-art foolishness to fine-art finesse, are often impressive. Through Nov. 22.
THE SCULPTORS GUILD—Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through Nov. 24.
E. E. CUMMINGS—Downtown Gallery, 32 East 51st St. The poet and typographical eccentric was also a painter, but the influences of Van Gogh, Picasso and Kandinsky on the 40-odd paintings in this show suggest that Cummings put his most original ideas into print. Also at Downtown, some paintings by Ben Shahn done as set designs for Cummings' play HIM. Through Nov. 16.