UPTOWN

FAIR LADIES--Slatkin, 115 East 92nd. A dazzling display of the female form: standing, seated or reclining, in the nude or decorously draped, the ladies serve as a universal standard of beauty. Over 65 drawings, paintings and sculptures by Rodin, Degas, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso and others. Through July 15.

CHAIM GROSS--Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 78th. Watercolors, 30 here, match the merriment of Gross's sculptures. From patches of clear pale pink and yellow wash, vignettes of circuses, ceremonies and celebrations emerge, sentimental peeps into the past. Through June 13.

WILLIAM WALTON--Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th. A friend of the Kennedys, Walton helped the former First Lady pick paintings for the White House, now chairs the Commission of Fine Arts and serves as adviser for the Kennedy Memorial Library. He still finds time to paint, makes his New York debut with Sun Sequences: dazzling, somewhat dizzying depictions of the months of the year. Through June 19.

EUROPEAN MAINSTREAMS--Lefebre, 47 East 77th. A look at some of the major trends in European art today. Cobra Painters Corneille, Jorn and Alechinsky turn vivid hues and vivacious imaginations into Dutch gardens and smirking faces. Noel, Dahmen and Castel scratch calligraphy in mixed media to achieve image with script. Frenchmen Messagier and Tal-Coaet recall nature's misty moods in abstract landscapes. Belgian Pol Bury puts chance to work in moving sculpture. Julius Bissier's refined watercolors and temperas round out the show. Through July 31.

MURIEL KALISH--Staempfli, 47 East 77th. New Yorker Muriel Kalish, 31, is a modern primitive painter, unschooled in art but gifted with a photographic memory. Her colors are happy, her composition curious, her intuition unerring in paintings furnished with wicker chairs, flowered wallpaper, braided rugs and, candid as can be, female nudes and fully dressed males. First showing. Through June 20.

GASTON CHAISSAC--Cordier & Ekstrom, 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. Chaissac is the town cobbler in Vix, France. He writes poetry, has been a friend of Dubuffet for 20 years. His art is marked by eccentricity and a sparkling imagination. With wash and wallpaper he wraps strange figures in startling ambiguity: one picture suggests both the Crucifixion and a scarecrow. In one room eight of his skinny wooden totems stand around and stare from odd, misshapen faces. Through June 30.

A CHOICE OF AMERICANS--Lewison, 50 East 76th. Just the thing for a hot day: Bierstadt's small Washington, D.C. in 1863 showing Conestoga wagons winding along the Potomac, Cole's English Landscape in which couples as well as cows find coolness by a stream, Moro's Beach at Cape Cod, Lawson's impressionistic Landscape in pinks and greens, Ochtman's Mill Pond, Casilear's New Hampshire ravine, an unusual treatment of texture in rocks, moss and wood. Through June 27.

ALBERTO COLLIE--Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. "If Brancusi were alive today he would have released his Bird in Space and freed his Fish to swim," says Venezuelan-born Boston student Alberto

Collie, 25. For six years Collie has been trying to free sculpture from its footing. His first New York show reveals the results. He hides magnets in simple bases and in aluminum or magnesium spheres, which then float free. At times they require nylon cord to hold them in place, but Collie's works point to directions in sculpture that are filled with potential. Through June 20.

ART OF NEPAL--Asia House, 112 East 64th. The rare religious art of the tiny Himalayan kingdom receives its first major showing. Gently curving sculptures, gilded and embellished with precious stones, are graceful incarnations of divinities, while cloth paintings of elaborate, mandalas chart the journey of the soul. The works span 15 centuries. Through Aug. 30.

BEN JOHNSON--Gallery 63, 721 Madison Ave. at 63rd. Johnson is the Lachaise of the canvas, a lover of woman who celebrates her in his art. His nudes are landscapes of the female figure, hills and valleys of flesh that burst into bloom with a profusion of poppies, or loll in fields of kelly green and American Beauty red. Thirty oils. Through June 13.

MIDTOWN

LUCIANO MINGUZZI--Viviano, 42 East 57th. No country can claim a sculpture tradition equal to Italy's. This exhibition and the one at Odyssia (below) offer a survey of some of its brilliant inheritors. Minguzzi, commissioned to do the final door for the Duomo of Milan, has finished it. Cast with 22,000 lbs. of bronze and 27 ft. high, the door when installed will complete the cathedral after 600 years. On view are the bronze figures that will form a historical panorama on the door, a touching procession of sinners and saints. Through June 27.

CONSAGRA & FRIENDS--Odyssia, 41 East 57th. A remarkable display of virtuosity: Italian Sculptors Pietro Consagra, Alberto Viani, Quinto Ghermandi, Francesco Somaini and Leoncillo. Through June 6.

PAUL REBEYROLLE--Marlborough-Gerson. 41 East 57th. The U.S. gets its first good look at a French painter who serves up frogs, couples and countrysides. As if performing a fertility rite in the paint itself Rebeyrolle stirs around a mess of green to convey the spume and spawn of swamp life and, with a calculated confusion of limbs, portrays lovers tumbling in a field, successfully suggests the mystery and fecundity of nature. Thirty oils. Through June 9.

IDELLE WEBER--Schaefer, 32 East 57th. Paintings by hard-edge artist Idelle Weber, whose frozen figures stand silhouetted as they marry, brush their teeth or ride escalators. "The way people stand and the cut of their suits often tell more than their faces," says she. Through June 20.

PAUL WONNER--Poindexter, 21 West 56th. The grim faces on this Californian's figures clash with the gentle waves of gouache in which he bathes them. But in landscapes he finds freedom and freshness: Studio Window, Malibu opens onto a ballet of sunshine dancing on leaves. Through June 13.

WORLD SHOW--Washington Square Galleries, 530 West Broadway at Bleecker. A spacious new showcase bills itself as the largest gallery in the world. The pace is leisurely (noon to midnight every day), the scope of its first exhibition vast. Artists from 49 countries and such divergent cultures as Formosa and Zanzibar are seen in a cross section of painting, sculpture and experimental art forms. From the U.S.: Brooks, De Kooning, Johns, Newman. Through Sept. 30.

MUSEUMS

RIVERSIDE--Riverside Drive at 103rd. A show of paintings and sculpture with some 60 works by as many artists. Standouts: Doris Caesar's 6-ft. Standing Woman, whose slim structure and angular rhythms exude a feeling of power; Jean Xceron's 1954, a subtle abstraction in a harmonious study of straight lines and soft shades; George Picken's Amalfi, a misty mixture of ochre, blues and reds. Through Aug. 2.

JEWISH--Fifth Ave. at 92nd. Fifty of Arshile Gorky's drawings span his career. Through June 30. An archaeological exhibition of 200 sculptures and artifacts going back to the sixth millennium B.C. shows images of divinity as conceived by Mesopotamian, Egyptian and other Near East civilizations. Through Sept. 6.

GUGGENHEIM--Fifth Ave. at 89th. The 120-work Van Gogh collection, lent by the painter's nephew, and environmental sculpture by Frederick Kiesler. Both through June 28.

METROPOLITAN--Fifth Ave. at 82nd.

Something for everyone: Wedgwood's revolutionary creamware; English jugs transfer-printed with American heroes and history; the architectural fantasies of previous world's fairs; Dutch, Flemish and French paintings.

GALLERY OF MODERN ART--Columbus Circle at 59th. Maxfield Parrish, 94, was a top illustrator in his day. In the 1930s his color reproductions rivaled in popularity those of Van Gogh and Cezanne. He did covers for Collier's, painted innumerable girls-on-rocks, and gave his name to the electric hue that backed them up--"Parrish blue." On view is a wide selection of his illustrations and paintings. Through Sept. 6.

MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART--15 West 54th. "Masterpieces from the Americas" is a huge showing (300 works) of the museum's collection of pre-Columbian gold pieces, South American textiles, ancient Mexican stone sculpture, and Eskimo masks. Through Nov. 15.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART--11 West 53rd. After a long winter under wraps the museum reopens with doubled gallery space, a bigger Sculpture Garden, and a 1,200-work review of art from Cezanne to Pop. The 400 paintings and sculptures include key works by modern masters but the avant-garde garners more space than any other period. In the Philip L. Goodwin Galleries everything from Tiffany glass to electronic panels; in the Edward Steichen Photography Center a rotating show of 170 photographs.

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS--29 West 53rd. A survey of contemporary crafts such as enamels, ceramics, weaving, metal-and woodworking includes a look back at the craftsmanship of American Indians. Through Sept. 13.

BROOKLYN--Eastern Parkway. The 14th National Print Exhibition shows 165 examples of what U.S. printmakers have pursued during the past year (through Aug. 16), while Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pearlman's collection of postimpressionists, on loan to the museum, features a room devoted solely to Cezanne. Through Oct. 15.

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