ART IN NEW YORK
UPTOWN
"SOMETHING WILD"—Stone, 48 East 86th. Three avant-gardians, each doing what he knows best. Apple Grower George Wardlaw sculpts and paints apples—green, delicious, crab, rotten and otherwise; ex-Mink Farmer Joseph Kurhajec makes fetishes of ferocity from blowtorched sheepskin, muskrat pelts, ram horns and chicken feathers; Rugmaker Dorothy Grebenak hand-weaves tapestries of U.S. Treasury bills, Con Edison manhole covers, even a nubby facsimile of a Gordon's gin label. Through Dec. 31.
HAROLD STEVENSON—Feigen-Herbert, 24 East 81st. Eyebrows will go up from Manhattan to Idabel, Okla. (the artist's home town) at his billboard-size The New Adam in the buff. Also on display are 17 other samples of Stevenson's exquisite gigantism, including The Right Eye of Sal Mineo with lashes as long as shoestrings. Through Dec. 14.
JERRY OKIMOTO—Krasner, 1061 Madison Ave. at 80th. Okimoto has outmaneuvered Mondrian: his colorful plane geometry is also mobile. Sliding panels like cupboard doors permit a change of composition and color match; each painting comes with its own framed miniature showing suggested arrangements. Through Dec. 14.
BALTHUS—Thaw, 50 East 78th. Sketchily inconsequential ink illustrations for Wuthering Heights from the early 1930s, along with other drawings on view for the first time, show the director of the Villa Medici playing erotic games in line as well as color. Through Dec. 21.
PIERRE ALECHINSKY—Lefebre, 47 East 77th. Twenty-one turbulent oils and tortured ink-wash paintings by the most sharp-fanged member of the Cobra group. Haunted little faces stare from the inky spume, half-formed bird-creatures hide in the thickets of the oils. Through Dec. 7.
ENRICO DONATI—Staempfli, 47 East 77th. Slabs of textured pigment on canvas are built up out of what Donati calls "mixed media," and that can mean everything from sand to terra-cotta dust to ground marble. Twenty of his newest paintings.
Through Dec. 14.
FRITZ BULTMAN—Tibor de Nagy, 149 East 72nd. Twenty-two tentacled and leafy bronzes that sway on their bases like sturdy primordial plantlife, and 18 collages and drawings that help explain them.
Through Jan. 4.
MILTON HEBALD—Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. Sometimes tender, sometimes turgid figurative sculpture by a classically inspired New Yorker who lives in Rome. At best, Hebald's pot-bellied centaurs, lovers lounging in urnlike bathtubs, and fountain topped by the refugees on Noah's Ark (including a brontosaur that presumably fell overboard) are full of frivolous immediacy. Through Dec. 21.
CHRISTOS CAPRALOS—Martha Jackson, 32 East 69th. First U.S. exhibition of the sophisticated mockeries in bronze of the human form by an important Greek sculptor. Bits of realistic anatomy peep through the textured surfaces. Through Dec. 14.
FEDERICO CASTELLON—Dintenfass, 18 East 67th. An admirable show of the Spanish-born American absent from the New York scene for eleven years. A recent Society of American Graphic Artists' prizewinner, Castellon did these mute, melancholy lithographs in Paris. One of his titles speaks for them all: The End of Dreams. Through Dec. 21.