James Panero reviews Painting Is Not Doomed To Repeat Itself at Hollis Taggart Galleries, Checkered History: The Grid in Art & Life at Outpost Artists Resources (closed), Tempos: Selected Works by Elizabeth Gourlay, 2013–2015 at Fox Gallery (through Feb 13, 2016), Diphthong at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Todd Bienvenu: Exile on Bogart Street at Life on Mars (through Nov 8), Occo Socko! at Stout Projects (through Nov 13).