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MOCA BOARD OF TRUSTEES NAMES JEFFREY DEITCH AS MUSEUM DIRECTOR Renowned Independent Curator, New York Gallerist to Lead MOCA  PDF

Tuesday January 12th

  • Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961-1991 at Grey Art Gallery, NYU, 100 Washington Square East,
  • Joel Meyerowitz in conversation with Lesley Martin at the Schwarzman Building, 476 5th Ave at 42nd, Rm. 227, 6
  • Pop rally presents Scrying, a ballet directed by Jen DeNike, at MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, betw 5th & 6th, 7:30-9:30, tickets $18
  • Man Ray, 1890-1976 at Zabriskie Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, 4th Floor, 
  • Silent Voices, Ink Paintings by Xu Lei at Joan B Mirviss LTD, 39 East 78th Street, fl. 4, 6-8
  • Talk, The Universe Resounds: A symposium on Kandinsky, synesthesia, and art participants include Tracey Bashkoff, Kerry Brougher, Magdalena Dabrowski, Brad Garton, Caroline Jones, James Leggio, Matthew Ritchie, & Dave Soldier at The Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, $10, 2pm
  • Screening, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen Riddles of the Sphinx introduced by Emma Hedditch at Light Industry, 220 36th Street, fl. 5, $7, Brooklyn, 7:30pm
Saturday January 9th
  • Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology curated by Ian Daniel, Mary Mattingly & Kadar Brock, Jesse Chapman, Mira Dancy, Benin Ford, Alison Fox, Julia San Martin, Andy Piedilato- NEW MIRRORS: Painting in a Transparent World curated by Herb Tam at Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street, 7-10
  • Charles Seliger at Michael Rosenfeld, 24 West 57th Street, betw 5th & 6th, 4-6
  • Dark Pop 2.0 at Last Rites Gallery, 511 West 33rd Street, fl. 3, 7-11pm
  • Judith Fox I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer's at Andrea Meislin Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, fl. 2, 3-5pm
  • Christian Hellmich, The Array/Transfer-Domino at Lehmann Maupin, 540 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Figure Variations at Walter Wickiser, 210 11th Ave, Ste. 303, betw 24th & 25th, 6-8
  • Daniel Ranalli at Freight & Volume, 542 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Omer Fast at Postmasters Gallery, 459 West 19th Street, 6-8
  • Jeffrey Vallance, Strange Travelers, curated by Mark Dion at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 West 21rst Street, 6-8
  • Allan McCollum, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Carl Andre, Das Institut, Dexter Sinister, Douglas Huebler, Fia Backstrom, Francis Alys, Stephen Prina Vertically Integrated Manufacturing at Murray Guy, 453 West 17th Street, 6-8
  • Jack Walls at Fuse, 93 2nd Ave at 5th Street, 7-10
  • Brian Knep, Matt Donovan, Max Dean, Raffaello D'Andrea, Simone Jones One Part Human at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer Street, betw Canal & Grand, 6-8
  • Frederico Solmi at LMAK, 139 Eldridge, Broome & Delancey, 6-9
  • Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary + Agnes Barley, Jerome Marshak, Peter Matthews: Selections at The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, 6-8
  • Talk, The Incidental Person curated by Antony Hudek at apexart, 291 Church Street, betw Walker & White, 3-4pm
  • Esther Tielemans, Eun Jim Kim at Galerie Zurcher, 33 Bleecker Street, 6-8
  • Brendan Coyle, Demetrius Felder, Katie Torn, Tom Ronse Fecund curated by Amanda Curtis at 15 Corson Gallery (The Assembly Room), 15 Corson Avenue, fl. 2, Staten Island, 6-12
  • New Beginnings at Clover's Fine Art, 338 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, 4-6 pm
  • Nivi Alroy, Shirley Shor Pixelville: An urban concept in real time curated by Peter Frank at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), Brooklyn, Dumbo, 30 Washington Street at Water Street, 6-9
  • Its A Wonderful 10th at Sideshow, 319 Bedford Ave, betw S 2nd & S 3rd, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • John Coburn Fairlane Marauder at Open Source, 255 17 Street, betw 5th & 6th Avenues, 7-10pm

Friday January 8th
  • Martin Wilner A Life in Days + Bertozzi & Casoni Intervallo at Sperone Westwater, 415 West 13th Street, 6-8
  • Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970 at David Zwirner, 525 West 19th Street, 6-8pm
  • Postcards From the Edge Visual AIDS benefit show at ZieherSmith, 516 West 20th Street, $75, 6-8
  • Leonardo Nierman at Lyons Wier, 175 7th Ave. at 20th, 6-8
  • Les Rogers at Leo Koenig, 545 West 23rd Street, 6-8
  • William Daniels Paintings at Luhring Augustine Gallery, 531 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Peter Peri at Bortolami, 510 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists at James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Ulrich Gebert This Mush Is Certain at Winkleman Gallery, 637 West 27th Street, betw 11th & 12th, 6-8
  • Closing reception, Julie Peppito Super Bumpy at Heskin Contemporary, 443 West 37 Street, betw 9th & 10th, 6-9
  • Zoe Crosher The Unraveling of Michelle duBois at DCKT Contemporary, Inc., 195 Bowery, betw Delancey & Rivington, 6-8
  • Allyson Vieira, Bob Linder, Dan Attoe, Lauren McKeon, Shana Lutker, Will Rogan Point to one end, which is always present at Small A Projects, 261 Broome Street, betw Orchard & Allen, 6-8
  • Forte: a magazine of sound at Audio Visual Arts (AVA), 34 East 1rst Street, 7-9
  • Douglas Ward Kelley If you’re like me? You may have thought it’d be nice to have a prestigious postgraduate degree, complete with a genuine bona fide authentic looking diploma, suitable for framing, if only it were absolutely free, with no strings attached? If so, consider registering, along with me, for The Bruce High Quality Foundation University next semester at 225 West Broadway. Isn’t it time you got the Art education you deserve? 8pm
  • Josh Faught While the Light Lasts at Lisa Cooley, 34 Orchard Street, betw Canal & Hester, 6-8
  • Adam Pendleton, Benoit Maire, David Lieske, Harold Ancart, Ned Vena, Olivier Babin, Sabine Reitmaier Blood of a Poet at Thierry Goldberg Projects, 5 Rivington Street, betw Bowery & Chrystie, 6-8
  • Bob Van Lindt Annual Art Class Juried Show curated by Joseph Perez at Salmagundi Art Club, 47 Fifth Avenue at West 11th Street, 6-8
  • Performance: Rompe Puesto organized by Blanka Amezkua and Ronny Quevedo at Bronx River Art Center, 1087 East Tremont Avenue at East 179 Street, 7-10pm
  • Larissa Sansour A Space Exodus at Jack the Pelican Presents, 487 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Emil Alzamora Random Mutations that Work at Art Break, 195 Grand Street, betw Driggs & Bedford, Brooklyn, 6-10pm
  • Christopher Johnson, Joel Adas, Kerry Law, Mark Masyga, Mike Childs, Peter Brauch, Rosie Cutler, Stacy Fisher, Tracy Lane In Williamsburg curated by Joel Adas at Fleetwing Gallery, 111 Grand Street, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • K X 2 VECTOR | Vector at Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, 293 Grand Street, 6-9
  • Andrew Guenther, Cameron Michel, Carly Rabalais, Dennis McNett, Diane Barcelowsky, Eli Lehrhoff, Eric White, Hisham Bharoocha, Johnathan Rosen, Leif Parsons, Leif Ritchey, Maya Hayuk, Raul deNieves, Robin Cameron, Ryan Wallace Know New York at Cinders Gallery, 103 Havemeyer Street, Store #2, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
  • Carl Gunhouse, Chris McGee, Christine Rogers, Lauren Portada, Rachel Boillot, Tom Marquet The Promise of Real Estate curated by Carl Gunhouse, Christine Rogers at Camel Art Space, 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • Meridith McNeal In the Footsteps of the Starry Messenger at Figureworks, 168 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • Michelle Hinebrook, Nicki Stager Exposure at Like The Spice, 224 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, 6-10pm
  • Sasha Bezzubov Wildfire at Front Room Gallery, 147 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Larissa Sansour at Jack the Pelican, 487 Driggs Ave, betw N 9th & 10th, Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Chan Kok Hooi, Tony Fitzpatrick You Are Carnivores; Drawing for Crazy Horse at Pierogi, 177 N. 9th Street, betw Bedford & Driggs, Brooklyn, 7-9

Thursday January 7th
  • Harriet Leonard, Nicolette Jelen at Atlantic Gallery, 135 West 29th Street, fl. 6, 6-8
  • Aja Ann Trier, Julia Fernandez-Pol, Kelly Worman, Laura Meyers, Max Langhurst Introductions curated by Kelly Worman at Taylor & Mackenzie, 15 East 27th Street, 6-9
  • Edward Evans Journeys at Franklin 54 Gallery + Projects, 526 West 26th Street, Ste. 403, 6-8
  • Howard Fonda Squonk's Tears at Mixed Greens, 531 West 26th Street,  6-8
  • Fusako Kuyama Art of Integration at Onishi Gallery, 521 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Amna Hashmi, Ayesha Jatoi, Ismet Khawaja, Lala Rukh, Murad Khan Mumtaz, Nadia Khawaja, Noor Ali Chagani & Seema Nusrat New Art from Pakistan at Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, fl. 4, 6-8:30
  • Diane Arbus, William Eggleston at Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Charles Garabedian at Betty Cuningham Gallery, 541 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Randall W L Mooers Still Life Paintings at George Billis Gallery, 555 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Closing reception, Denyse Thomasos The Divide: New Paintings at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., 514 West 25th Street,  6-8
  • Albert Kresch Landscapes, Lampshades at Lohin Geduld Gallery, 531 West 25th Street, 5-7pm
  • Martin McMurray at Jeff Bailey, 511 West 25th Street, #207, 6-8
  • Howard Fonda at Mixed Greens, 531 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Anne Lindberg, Johnny Swing at Cynthia-Reeves, 535 West 25th Street, fl. 2, 6-8
  • Scott Daniel Ellison The Birthday Party at Clamp Art, 531 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Works on Paper at Danese, 535 West 24th Street, fl. 6, 6-8
  • [dNASAb] at Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, fl. 6, 6-8
  • Marlo Pascual at Casey Kaplan, 525 West 21rst Street, 6-8
  • Pascal Grandmaison at Jack Shainman, 513 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Julian Jackson Will O' The Wisp at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, 529 West 20th Street, fl. 6, 6-8
  • Chautauqua - A Continuum of Creativity showcasing 25 faculty and 25 alumni of the Chautauqua at Denise Bibro Fine Art - Platform, 529 West 20th Street, 4W, 6-8
  • Augustus Goertz Modern Archaeology at Kim Foster Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Victo Pesce, William Carroll at Elizabeth Harris, 529 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Aimee Burg, Hadassa Goldvicht, Itamar Jobani, Karni Dorell, Keren Cytter, Leor Grady, Lourdes Correa, Maria Cabo, Rona Yefman, Shay Kun, Tamar Ettun, Tamar Hirschl, Yael Rechter & Yaniv Segalovich LABA's Guests curated by Tzili Charney at Educational Alliance (14th Street Y), 344 East 14th Street at 1st Avenue, 6-9
  • Performance: Man Bartlett 24hr Best non-Buy at Best Buy, 1 Union Square South, 6pm Thursday to 6pm Friday (24 hours?)
  • Versus curated by Elizabeth Houston, Ruben Natal-San Miguel at Hous Projects, 31 Howard Street, fl. 2, 6-10pm
  • Thomas Dozol entre temps at Envoy Gallery, 131 Chrystie Street, noon-6pm
  • Stanley Whitney Untitled '10 at Team, 83 Grand Street, betw Wooster & Greene
  • Bill Barrett Synchronicity: Paintings & Sculpture at Kouros Gallery, 23 East 73rd Street
  • Daniel Clapp, Gretchen Kraus, Katerina Marcelja & Stephen Paul Undergrowth at Giacobetti Paul Gallery, 111 Front Street, Ste. 220, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 5:30-9
  • The Man I Wish I Was Organized by Kharis Kennedy & Power and Presence: Theo Westenberger's Portraits of Extraordinary Women curated by Molly Surno at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 111 Front Street, 6-8
  • Doug Keyes at Klompching Gallery, 111 Front Street, fl. 2, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8
  • Cara Ober Glittering Generalities at Randall Scott Gallery, 111 Front Street, Ste. 204, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8:30
  • Misha Tyutyunik, Paul Beresniewicz Unpronounceability at Collective Consciousness NYC, 10 Jay Street, Ste. 605, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 5:30-11pm
  • Talk, Seth Wulsin 16 Tons: The Caseros Prison Demolition at Eyelevel BQE, 364 Leonard Street, Brooklyn, 8
  • Janos Stone A/S/Lat No Globe Exhibition Space, 488 Morgan Avenue, fl. 3, Brooklyn, Greenpoint, 6-9
  • Ways of Listening: A Salon and Discussion at Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street at Clinton Street, RSVP 718-222-4111, 7-9
  • Darcy Lange: The Art of Teaching a discussion with Jeff Dolven, Simon Critchley, and Kelly Baum at Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, (free, no rsvp needed), Brooklyn, 7-9

Wednesday January 6th
  • Patti Smith, Steven Sebring Objects of Life at Robert Miller Gallery, 524 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • The Incidental Person (group) curated by Antony Hudek at apexart, 291 Church Street, betw Walker & White, 6-8
  • Five Films by Joyce Wieland presented in collaboration with http://www.robertmillergallery.com and introduced by Emily Roysdon at Light Industry, 220 West 36th Street, fl. 5, $7, Brooklyn 7:30pm
  • Release party for Islands new music video, No You Dont, at the Legion, 790 Metropolitan Ave at Humboldt, Brooklyn, 10

Tuesday January 5th
  • Adrian Piper, Benoit Maire, COCO DU NOM, Guy de Cointet, Jeffrey Perkins, Jesse Cohen, Joelle Leandre, La Monte Young, Lucie Fontaine, Soma Wingelaar- The Obstacle is Tautology curated by Amir Mogharabi, Benoit Mair at Front Dest Apparatus, 54 King Street, 6-8
  • Michael Moorse at Bowery Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, fl. 4
  • Jimmy Ernst, Radiant Silence at Spanierman Modern, 53 East 58th Street, RSVP, 6-8
  • Sinead Ni Mhaonaigh New Paintings at Rose Burlingham/Living Room Gallery, 15 Park Row, Apt. 16E, 6-8

Sunday December 20th
  • Free Holiday Concert at The Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, 6pm
  • An evening of readings with authors Scott Geiger, Micaela Morrissette &Shya Scanlon at 440 Gallery, 440 Sixth Avenue, 4:40-6:40pm
  • Matisyahu performs at Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N 6th Street, betw Wythe & Kent, Brooklyn, 7, $35

Saturday December 19th
  • Holiday party at Elizabeth Harris, 529 West 20th Street, 3-6
  • Corin Hewitt & Molly McFadden Double Room at Recess Activities, Inc., 41 Grand Street, 6:30-8:30pm
  • SVA MFA FINE ARTS - OPEN STUDIOS, 8th and 9th Floors at SVA, 133 West 21st Street, betw 6th & 7th Ave., 12-6pm
  • Giftland X: Happy House curated by Apartment Show at Printed Matter, Inc., 195 Tenth Avenue at West 22nd Street, 5-7pm (holiday party)
  • Lynn Umlauf closing reception at Creon, 238 East 24th Street, betw 2nd & 3rd, 2-5
  • Art Benefit for the Lesbian Herstory Archives at Alexander Gray, 526 West 26th Street, Ste, 1019, betw 10th & 11tth, 12-4, raffle tickets $100, all ticket holder receive an original work of art
  • The Degenerate Craft Fair curated by Amy Wilson, Shannon Broder at BravinLee programs, 526 West 26th Street, ste. 211, 12-6pm
  • Parallel States at Dean Projects holiday party, 45-43 21st Street at 46th Ave, LIC, Queens, 6-9
  • ICP-Bard Open Photography Studios at ICP-Bard, 24-20 Jackson Avenue, Queens,12-6
  • Capricious X-Mas Party at 98 South 6th Street, betw Bedford & Berry, Brooklyn, 4-8
  • White Box Benefit Sale, 329 Broome Street, betw Bowery & Chrystie, 7-12am, $100 ticket or donation in exchange for one work of art

Friday December 18th
  • The Degenerate Craft Fair curated by Amy Wilson, Shannon Broder at BravinLee programs, 526 West 26th Street, ste. 211, noon-9, reception 7-9
  • SVA MFA FINE ARTS - OPEN STUDIOS, 8th and 9th Floors at SVA, 133 West 21st Street, betw 6th & 7th Avenues, 12-8
  • Bardo Pond & White Out with Thurston Moore at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street at Thompson, 7, $10
  • The Greatest Show on Earth sculptures by Al Wadzinski, creates zoomorphic assemblages using found objects at NY Studio Gallery, 154 Stanton Street at Suffolk Street, 8-2am
  • Artists Reception & House Party at NYSG, 154 Stanton Street at Suffolk, 8
  • Michelle Hinebrook, Nicki Stager Exposure at Like The Spice, 224 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, 6-10pm
  • Johanna Heldebro To Come Within Reach of You at 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Avenue at Stagg Street, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 7-10, rsvp events@3rdward.com
  • Rebecca Suss at Work Gallery, 65 Union Street, Brooklyn, 7-9

Thursday December 17th
  • Helio Oiticica Drawings, 1954-58 at Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Art Party: 1st Edition Zines available in support of Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art at Robert Miller Gallery, 524 West 26th Street, 7-11pm
  • The Odyssey Within: Fine Art by Greek & Italian Artists at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Paul Kolker The Dialogue Continues at Studio 601, 511 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Martin Denker Absolute Zero at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • David Maljkovic, John Miller, Robert Longo, Ongoing Projects at Metro Pictures, 519 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Lou Reed Romanticism at Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street, 6-8
  • Social Object: sculpture and software is an interactive software installation by Michael Rees that includes correlated physical objects with virtual objects, Michael Rees at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, 6-8, rsvp@chelseaartmuseum.org
  • SVA MFA FINE ARTS - OPEN STUDIOS, 8th and 9th Floors at SVA, 133 West 21st Street, betw 6th & 7th Avenues, 5-9
  • Olu Amoda Template at Skoto Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, fl. 5, 6-8
  • The Paris Review Salon with Colum McCann & Timothy Donnelly, 58 West 10th Street, betw 5th & 6th, 7
  • The 9th Annual Red Show at Cheryl Hazan, 35 North Noore Street, 6-8
  • Annual Portfolio Projects at Dispatch, 127 Henry Street, 1-6pm
  • Claire Fontaine at Reena Spaulings, 165 East Broadway, 2nd fl., at Rutgers, 6-8
  • Ma Bing at Eli Klein, 462 West Broadway, betw Prince & Houston, 6-9
  • Dieter Kuhn, Gabriela Mazza, Max Yawney, Seline Baumgartner, Theres Berner - Sixtoe Group Show at Red House Gallery, 317 East 5th Street, 6-9
  • Dorothy Robinson, Jenny Burgos, Art Stumble curated by Austin Thomas at EFA Gallery, 323 West 39th Street, fl. 2, 6-8
  • Marcus Spearman at St. Paul the Apostle Church, 1 West 60th Street at Columbus Avenue, 6:30-8:30pm
  • In Time For The Holidays at AES Gallery, 44-02 23rd Street, Queens, 6-8
  • Stuart Ringholt video works one night event at Club Laundromat, 44-70 21st Street, Basement Level, at 44th Dr, LIC, Queens, 6-10
  • Norma Markley Day 'n Nite curated by Cecilia Jurado at Y Gallery, 32-70 85th Street at Northern Boulevard, Queens, 7-9

Wednesday December 16th
  • Mia Feuer at Dorfman Projects, 529 West 20th Street, #7E, 6-9, also the holiday party
  • Book signing and release party for David Humphreys long-awaited anthology of art writing, Blind Handshake, with introductions by Alexi Worth & Chris Kraus which  foregrounds the social life surrounding contemporary art the practices and gestures, the dialogues and monologues that determine its place in the world. Organized thematically, the book considers Coupling Dramas, Unknowable Others, Collective Solitudes, Prosthetic Selves, and Good Liars. Artists drawn into the action include Richard Prince, Chris Ofili, Lucien Freud, Mamma Anderson, Tony Oursler, John Currin, Mary Heilmann, Catherine Murphy & Amy Sillman at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 West 22nd Street, 6 - 8, Short reading at 7pm
  • Jessica Craig-Martin book signing at SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, betw 8th & 9th, 6-8, rsvp to eoakes@sva.edu
  • Performance- Tamara Wyndham at Creon Gallery, 238 East 24th Street, ste. 1B, 7pm
  • Lydia Venieri at Venetia Kapernekas, 526 West 26th Street, #814, 5-8
  • Dean Lent 1.3 Megapixels at Rogue Space, 508 West 26th Street, 9E, 6-9
  • Screening: Diana Sutherlin, Paula Ewin Look Here: A Portrait of Sylvia Sleigh at SoHo 20 Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, ste. 301, 6:30-8:30pm, $5 suggested, rsvp to 212.367.8994
  • Line Halvorsen in conversation with Niels Van Tomme, Winter Guest at apexart, 291 Church Street, betw Walker & White, 6:30pm
  • Xmas Sale at zingmagazine, 83 Grand Street, betw Green & Wooster, 5-7
  • Rock Garden at Salon 94, 1 Freeman Alley at Rivington Street, 6-8
  • Chris Berens The Only Living Boy at Sloan Fine Art, 128 Rivington Street, 6-8
  • PopRally Presents MoMA By Night at MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, $10, 6:30-10pm
  • Lewis Holiday Trunkshow at Thistle & Clover, 221 Dekalb Ave at Clermont, Brooklyn, 5-8, rsvp to info@thistleclover.com
  • Screening- A Portrait of Sylvia Sleigh at Soho20, 547 West 27th Street, Ste, 301, 6:30-8:30, $5 suggested, rsvp to 212.367.8994
  • Artist Talk, Rania Matar Ordinary Lives at Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, free, 7-9


Tuesday December 15th
  • Xmas Sale at Zingmagazine, 83 Grand Street, betw Green & Wooster, 5-7
  • Book Party! at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 26 Wooster Street, 6-8
  • Ganesh Haloi, Indrapramit Roy, Krishna Reddy, Nitin Mukul Discerning Form & Rathin Kanji Unfold the Truth at Aicon Gallery, 35 Great Jones Street, 6-8
  • The Black Lodge at Envoy, 131 Chrystie Street, betw Broome & Delancey, 12-6
  • The Drawing Room at Mireille Mosler, 35 East 67th Street, betw Park & Madison, 6-8
  • Benefit reception for the Cornish Colony Museum at Spanierman Gallery,  45 East 58th Street, $50, RSVP to fionna@spanierman.com, 6-8
  • Five Days Anniversary Reading at the Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street, 9, $10
  • Lecture, Barney Kulok, James Hyde, Svetlana Alpers Paintings/Photographs/Problems/Possibilities at SVA (Visual Arts Theater), 333 West 23rd Street, 7pm
  • Blind Spots 3rd Annual Auction at X-Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street, 7, $25-$150 for two

Monday December 14th
  • Lewis Blackwell in conversation at SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, betw 8th & 9th, 7
  • Snap! Holiday Shopping Evening at Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, fl. 4, 6-8
  • Yuko Tada at A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, fl. 6, 5:30-7:30pm, View image
  • The Degenerate Craft Fair curated by Amy Wilson, Shannon Broder at 303Grand, 303 Grand Street, Brooklyn, 12-8

Sunday December 13th
  • Ana Paula Cohen of iCI presents The Curator's Perspective at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, 3pm
  • skulture at Feature Inc., 131 Allen Street, betw Delancey & Rivington, 1-6
  • Reading: Self-Portrait: Reprise 1987-2009 poets Anne Waldman & John Yau read for Pat Steir at New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, 4pm
  • The Degenerate Craft Fair curated by Amy Wilson, Shannon Broder at 303Grand, 303 Grand Street, Brooklyn, noon-10pm (reception 8-10pm)
  • A Holiday Group Show at Shop Art Gallery, 51 Bergen Street, betw Smith & Courth, Brooklyn, 12-5

Saturday December 12th
  • "The Perpetual Dialogue" 31 artists selected by 14 curatorial contributors; Sadie Coles, Clarissa Dalrymple, James Fuentes, Alison Gingeras, Nicole Hackert, Matthew Higgs, Dakis Joannou, Ivan Moskowitz, Cory Nomura, Andrea Rosen, Josh Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Dean Valentine & Robert Vifian using "only the vague criteria to choose artists who are under known" W/ David Adamo, David Bradshaw, Wolfgang Breuer, André Cadere, Spartacus Chetwynd, Sen Chung, Kier Cooke Sandvik, Simon Denny, Michele di Menna, Thea Djordjadze, Eirene Efstathiou, Llyn Foulkes, Robert Heinecken, Marek Konieczny, Elad Lassry, Michael Lazarus, Uwe Lausen, Daniel Lefcourt, Monica Majoli, Aubrey Mayer, Adam Marnie, Daniel McDonald, Kazuo Shiraga, Christiana Soulou, Jeni Spota, Michael St. John, Charwei Tsai, Marianne Vitale, Herbert Volkmann, Danh Vo & Erik Wysocan at Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24th Street, no opening! (Go In the afternoon.)
  • Audrey Kawasaki, James Marshall (Dalek) at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, fl. 9, 7-9
  • James McGarrell Window Jazz Inventions: Paintings 2005-2009 at ACA Galleries, 529 West 20th Street, 3-6pm reception, 6-10pm holiday party
  • EYEBEAM: Holiday Hack Shop Party, an annual, super kitchy fun for the whole family party event at EYEBEAM, 540 West 21rst Street, 1-6
  • Uwe Henneken at Andrew Kreps Gallery, 525 West 22nd Street, 6-8
  • Panel Discussion & Book Signing with Aura Rosenberg, 548 West 22nd Street, 5-7
  • Artist Talk, Kimberley Hart Scout + Book Signing: Art/Work at Mixed Greens, 531 West 26th Street, fl. 1, 2pm
  • Paul Hazelton & Herb Williams at Rare, 547 West 27th Street, 6-8
  • Artist Talk, Elinor Carucci, Jesse Burke, Lisa Kereszi & Margaret M. de Lange, Focus on Family at Foley Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, fl. 5, 4-6
  • Annamarie Ho performs The Umbrellas of May 35th at Exit Art, 475 10th Ave, betw 36th & 37th, 7
  • Wardell Milan at Taxter & Spengemann, 123 East 12th Street, betw 3rd & 4th, 6-8
  • Portrait Miniatures by Gray at PS 122, 150 First Avenue, at East 9th Street, 5-7
  • Fred Tomaselli, John O'Connor Skowhegan Talks at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery at Spring, 3, $12!!
  • 5 Year Anniversary of LMAKprojects at LMAKprojects, 139 Eldridge Street, 6-9
  • Reception for Paul Clay’s "Representation, a Chronicle of the Essex Street Market" at the Essex Market, North End, 120 Essex St., 5-7
  • Free Emporium & Gift Exchange at Artists Alliance Inc. (Cuchfritos project space), 120 Essex Street, betw Delancey & Rivington, 4-6, bring a gift to exchange, contact doubleaproject@gmail.com
  • The Still House Group w/ Louis Eisner, Jack Greer, Alex Perweiler, Nick Darmstaedter, John Roman, Grear Patterson, Zachary Susskind, Brendan Lynch, Dylan Lynch, Dylan Kawahara, Lucien Smith & Isaac Brest at Rental, 120 East Broadway, 6th fl., at Pike, 7-9
  • 2009 Artist of the Month Club Showcase at Invisible-Exports, 14 Orchard Street, 6-8, after party at the Wooly, 11 Barclay Street, betw Broadway & Church, 10
  • Performance, Saturday Sessions at P.S.1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 26 Avenue, Queens, $5 suggested donation, 4-6pm
  • Screening: Mother/mother-$#@! curated by Jennifer Wroblewski at A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front Street, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8
  • Bill Hayden Coconuts at Real Fine Arts, 673 Meeker Avenue, Brooklyn, Greenpoint, 6-9
  • Adam Shecter, Amanda Friedman, Colleen Asper, Elizabeth Hirsch, Filipe Bessa, Harold Moss, Lars Ramussen, Mary-Ruth Walsh, Matthew Newton, Orit Ben-Shirit, Simon Woolham Parlour No. 11: When All Through the House at Parlour (Cedar House), 751 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 7-10pm
  • Maximum Perception: Performance Festival at English Kills Art Gallery, 114 Forrest Street, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 7pm-midnight
  • Takayuki Kubota at The Laundromat, 238 Melrose Street, fl. 4, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 6-10pm
  • Albers / Albums at Minus Space (project space), 98 4th Street, Brooklyn, 3-6pm

Friday December 11th
  • Victor Schrager at Edwynn Houk Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue at West 57th Street, 6-8
  • Young Patrons Party: 100% Folk at American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd Street, $40, 8-11pm
  • Lincoln Tobier Screwed to the Wall at Martos Gallery, 540 West 29th Street, 6-8
  • HARPER BLYNN @ Winkleman Concert Hall at Winkleman Gallery, 637 West 27th Street-- 7 PM
  • Kensuke Koike Aliens Lounge at Virgil de Voldere Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, fl. 4, 6-8
  • Noah Sudarsky discusses Supercraft at SVA, 209 East 23rd Street, 3rd fl., betw 2nd & 3rd Ave, 7-9, $7
  • Book launch for Gareth Long & Derek Sullivan at Printed Matter, 195 10th Ave at 22nd Street, 5-7
  • Charles Dunn, Gary Rough at Number 35, 39 Essex Street, betw Hester & Grand, 6-8
  • The Clothesline Benefit Art Sale Affordable works on paper: $25 - $50 at ABC No Rio,156 Rivington Street (bet. Clinton & Suffolk), 7-10
  • Bridge the Gap6: A day of open lectures and conversations at Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, 11am-8
  • A Conversation about Neuroscience and Art in Conjunction with REPLICA at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, 4pm and a Performance, Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz REPLICA at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, $18, 7pm
  • Allison Sexton, Bryan Zanisnik, Guy Richards-Smit, Julia Goldman, Luke Stettner, Megan Marrin & Sophia Peer, My Gay Uncle 8 artists centered on the idea of the self-portrait at Kate Werble Gallery, 83 Vandam Street at Hudson Street, 6-8
  • ARTIST OF THE MONTH CLUB, 2009 at INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, 14a Orchard Street, 6-8
  • Allison Paschke, Dennis Tomkins, Don Perdue, Hideyo Watanabe, Jane Freeman, Jeff Pullen & Robin Tost, Point of View at Art 101, 101 Grand Street, Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Moving Shapes & Colors at 179 Canal, 179 Canal Street, 2nd fl., betw Elizabeth & Mott, 7-9
  • Baptized Catholic at Artbreak, 195 Grand Street, 2nd fl., betw Driggs & Bedford, Brooklyn, 6-10
  • Fuse Works at Front Room, 147 Roebling Street at Hope, Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Avatar Agency performs at Momenta Art, 359 Bedford Ave, betw Bedford & Berry, Brooklyn, 7
  • K X 2 VECTOR | Vector at Causey Contemporary, 293 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • Artemio, Joaquin Segura, Marion Sosa, Mark Powell, Ruben Gutierrez, Ximena Labra Asesinos at Live With Animals, 210 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
  • Bang Buro, Dan Funderburgh, Dr. Morbito, Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor, Gabriela Artigas, Luisa Gloria Mot-Velasco, Monica Ruzansky, Tom Smith, Tomas Tisch, Vena2 Honesty at Eyelevel BQE, Brooklyn, 364 Leonard Street, 6-9.30pm
  • Amy Greenfield: Untitled Nude curated by Lynn del Sol at {CTS} Creative Thriftshop, 38 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, 6-10pm
  • Alison Unsworth, Andrew Eyman, Celeste Fichter, Chiara Camoni, Christian Brown, Chuck Jones, David Kramer, Domenick Di Pietrantonio, Double A Projects, George Spencer, Gregory Curry, Heidi Cody, James Leonard, Jan Obornik, John Marriott, John O. Smith, Lotte Lindner, Till Fuse Works: Multiples and Editions curated by Amanda Alic, Ethan Crenson at Front Room Gallery, 147 Roebling Street,Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Maximum Perception: Performance Festival at English Kills Art Gallery, 114 Forrest Street, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 7pm-midnight

Thursday December 10th
  • The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation Open House Tonight! Come by for a tour of Chaim Gross's sculpture studio and to see our new exhibit of modern works from his collection, 526 LaGuardia Place, between Bleecker and 3rd Street, 6-8 pm
  • The Projected Image George Baker moderates with a panel of artists, including Andrea Geyer, Paul Pfeiffer & Kristof Wodiczco at Parsons (The New School - Tishman Auditorium), 66 West 12th Street, 7pm
  • Out of Order curated by Scott Hug, dealing with themes of disarrangement, mysticism and internal logic by 33 contemporary artists at Andrew Edlin Gallery, 134 Tenth Avenue, ye ol bellweather space, 6-8
  • Brian Calvin at Anton Kern, 532 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Zhang Huan Neither Coming Nor Going at PaceWildenstein, 545 West 22nd Street, 6-8
  • Jon Pylypchuk The War at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 537 West 22nd Street, 6-8
  • Christian Holstad The World's Gone Beautiful at Daniel Reich Gallery, 537 West 23rd Street, 6-8
  • Sharon Lockhart Lunch Break at Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street, 5:30-7:30pm
  • Maximilian Toth Little Beasts at Fredericks & Freiser, 536 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • A FOUR PART FINE ART EXHIBITION at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Artist Talk, Justine Cooper at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, fl. 3, 6:30-7:30pm
  • Martin Wong, Everything Must Go curated by Adam Putnam at P.P.O.W., 511 West 25th Street, suite 301, 6-8
  • Miniatures at Nabi Gallery, 137 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Winter White at Tria Gallery, 531 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • BOMB Magazine 'Starry Night' Holiday Party & Art Sale curated by Betsy Sussler, Klaus Kertess at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, #213, RSVP@bombsite.com, 6:30-9
  • The Rythmic Figure at ICO Art and Music Gallery, 606 West 26th Street, 8
  • From the Mississippi to the Hudson at Allen Projects, 526 West 26th Street, Ste 403, 6-8:30
  • Gary Petri, Li Lin Lee, Nachume Miller, Simon Linke From The Vault +1 at The Proposition (Broadway Suites),192 Lexington Avenue, near 27th Street fl. 2, 5-7pm
  • Margaret M. de Lange Daughters at Foley Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, fl. 5, 6-8
  • Simone Gilges at Foxy Production, 623 West 27th Street, 6-8
  • 4 New Solo Exhibitions:, Lea Bertucci, Marcy Chevali, Shlomit Lehavi & Elisabeth Molin at AC Institute, 547 W. 27th St., 5th floor, 6-8
  • Elia Alba Busts at Black and White Gallery, 636 West 28th Street, 6-8
  • Joseph Burwell at Miyako Yoshinaga, 547 West 27th Street, 2nd fl., 6-8
  • Alexander Ross, James Siena, Steve DiBenedetto Morphological Mutiny at David Nolan Gallery, 527 West 29th Street, 6-8
  • SMONE GILGES at FOXY PRODUCTION, 623 West 27th Street, 6-8
  • Elia Alba at Black & White, 636 West 28th Street, betw 11th & 12th, 6-8
  • Kysa Johnson at Morgan Lehman, 317 10th Ave, betw 28th & 29th, 6-8
  • Fairfield Porter, Picabia at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 724 Fifth Avenue, at West 57th Street, 5-7pm
  • Massimo Vitali, Landscape with Figures 2 at Bonni Benrubi, 41 East 57th Street, 13th Fl.,6-8
  • Mats Gustafson at John McWhinnie, 50 1/2 East 64th Street, betw Park & Madison, 6-8
  • Avant-Guide to NYC: Discovering Absence at apexart, 291 Church Street, betw Walker & White, 6-9
  • Gavin Andrew, Benjamin It Might As Well Be Spring at Jonathan Burden, 180 Duane Street, 6-8
  • Holiday Party: Art, drink, and be merry! at New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin Street, RSVP ccarmichaelbraun@nyaa.edu, 6:30-8:30pm
  • Guy Benfield, Rancourt/Yatsuk, Shana Moulton, Erratic Anthropologies at Art in General, 79 Walker Street, betw Broadway & Lafayette, 6-9
  • The Clothesline Benefit Art Sale Affordable works on paper: $25 - $50 at ABC No Rio,156 Rivington Street (bet. Clinton & Suffolk), 7-10
  • Joanna Malinowska Time of Guerrilla Metaphysics at CANADA Gallery, 55 Chrystie Street, betw Hester & Canal, 6-9
  • Austin Kennedy, Georgie Friedman, Matthew Jensen & Rufus Lusk, The New Landscape at Canal View, 10 Greene Street, fl. 2, 6-9
  • Book launch- Agenda: Julien De Smedt Architects, at Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, 7pm
  • Alan Saret, Jim Lee, Josh Tonsfeldt, Richard Tuttle, Rosy Keyser, Stephanie Backes, Almost, curated by Lance Goldsmith at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, 21 Orchard Street, 6-8
  • Two Degrees of Separation at Gallery Satori, 164 Stanton Street, 6-8
  • Performance- Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sanchez Ruiz REPLICA at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, $18, 7pm
  • Latifa Echakhch Movement and Complication at Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, fl. 3, 6-9
  • Richard Bell I Am Not Sorry at Location One, 26 Greene Street, 6-9
  • Anna Hoover, Brian Adams, Da-ka-xeen Mehner, Erica Lord, Larry McNeil, Nicholas Galanin, Perry Eaton, Susie Bevins-Ericsen Dry Ice: Alaska Native Artists and the Landscape curated by Julie Decker, Ph.D at Alaska House,  109 Mercer Street, 6:30-8:30PM
  • Tour, Ree Morton At the Still Point of the Turning World at The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, 6-9
  • SoHo Night, galleries open late include The Drawing Center, Apexart, Art in General, Dia, Location One, Swiss Institute, 6-9
  • Swap Meet: Bring 5-10 items that you'd like to swap along with a $5 entry fee at NYFA, 20 Jay Street, fl. 7, RSVP ssherman@nyfa.org, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8:30pm
  • Fred Tomaselli in conversation with Ian Berry at Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers, 218 Bedford Avenue at N 5th, Brooklyn, 7:30
  • Holiday Party w/ Michael Berryhill, Rhona Bitner, David Brooks, Benjamin Dowell, Kate Gilmore, Michael Greathouse, Josephine Halverson, Jaya Howey, Sangram Najumdar, David Opdyke, Nathalie Provosty, Claire Sherman, Jenny Snider, Rob Swainston, Michael Waugh, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Klara Wozniak at Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 20 Jay Street, 7th fl., at Plymouth, Brooklyn, 6-10
  • Anna Rosen, Chris Martin, Maria Walk, Nora Griffin, Peter Acheson, Rachel Salamone Soft Edge curated by Hilary Doyle, Reid Hitt at Camel Art Space, 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • Fresh Geezers Featuring The London Police and Galo at Factory Fresh, 1053 Flushing Avenue, betw Morgan & Knickerbocker, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 7-10pm
  • Gala Honoring Dan Graham at SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street, Queens, contact alane@sculpture-center.org, 6:30pm cocktails, 8 dinner

Wednesday December 9th
  • New Landscapes at DFN, 74 East 79th Street, betw Park & Madison, 6-8
  • Disciplined Spontaneity a group show featuring artists who respond to the elemental allure of randomness and change through collaboration, presentation, materials, and intention at Zone, 41 West 57th Street, betw 5th & 6th, 6-8
  • Paolo Ventura Winter Stories at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, 537 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Holga Inspire at Umbrella Arts, 317 East 9th Street, 6-8
  • Art Book Holiday Benefit, To Celebrate and Support the Arts and Literacy programs of The Lower Eastside Girls Club at Lower Eastside Girls Club, 56 East 1st Street, 7-9pm
  • Hans Breder at White Box, 329 Broome Street, betw Bowery & Chrystie, 6-9
  • Divide Light, an opera by Lesley Dill, at Einstein Auditorium, 34 Stuyvesant Street, betw 2nd & 3rd, 7, seating first come first serve
  • Benefit for 179 Canal featuring DJs BRB BSMNT, A-Corn, & the Jaguar at Swat Bar, 59 Canal Street, 2nd fl., betw Allen & Orchard, 9, $5 drinks
  • Spencer Sweeney at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 620 Greenwich Street at Leroy Street, 6-8

Tuesday December 8th
  • Patrick Demarchelier book signing at Clic Gallery, 255 Centre Street at Broome, 6:30-7:30
  • Lisa Kereszi book signing at the Strand, 12th Street & Broadway, 7-8
  • Maria Jose Dubon A Legacy Revised at SVA, 133 West 21 Street, at 6 avenue, 6-8
  • Stuart Sherman Screening and Discussion at EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix), 535 West 22nd Street, fl. 5, RSVP: info@eai.org, 6:30pm
  • The Bruce High Quality Foundation University at Susan Inglett Gallery, 522 West 24th Street, 10am-6, info@inglettgallery.com for more info
  • Book launch for Access to Life at Aperture, 547 West 27th Street, 4th fl., 6:30
  • Periodically Speaking with Five Points, Epoch, & West Branch, at New York Public Library, 5th Ave at 42nd Street, 6-7:30
  • Linal Leal Water at Nohra Haime Gallery, 41 East 57 Street, 6-8
  • Charles Warren Eaton, Robert Emmett Owen at Spanierman Gallery, 45 East 58th Street, 6-8
  • From Here to the Corner, a new reading series, at 25CPW, 25 Central Park West at 62nd, 7
  • Ben Backus discusses the Human Eye at Bell House, 149 7th Street, betw 2nd & 3rd, Brooklyn, 8
  • AVone, Chris RWK, Christopher Rini, Destroy and Rebuild, Katie Steward, Marc Moses, Rebecca Sherman- Perspectives on NYC Group Show curated by Christopher Rini at Cameo Art Gallery, 93 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
  • Graham Parker, Joe Winter at Marian Spore, 55 33rd Street, fl. 4, Brooklyn, 6-9

Monday December 7th
  • Screening & performance event curated at LMAK, 139 Eldridge Street at Delancey, 7:30
  • Gina LeVay in conversation with Dennis Oneill at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, betw Mulberry & Mott, 7
  • Rhett Miller & Jill Hennessey perform at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, betw Prince & Houston, 7, $15

Sunday December 6th

Saturday December 5th
  • Lovis Corinth, Sylvia Plimack Mangold Natural Sympathies at Alexander & Bonin, 1132 10 Avenue at 18th Street, 10am-6pm
  • Book launch, Matthias Herrmann Toscana 3 at Printed Matter, Inc., 195 Tenth Avenue, at West 22nd Street, 5-7pm
  • Joshua Wildman at Fuse, 93 2nd Ave, betw 5th & 6th, 7-10
  • Paths Less Traveled at Giant Robot, 437 East 9th Street, betw 1st Ave & Ave A, 6:30
  • Matthias Herrmann book launch at Printed Matter, 195 10th Ave at 22nd, 5-7
  • Winters Eve at Lincoln Square, Dante Park, Columbus Ave at 63rd Street, 5:30
  • Patrick Brennan, Fazes curated by Jon Lutz at Daily Operation, 103 Reade Street, #2, 6-9
  • Photography, Loli Kantor There Was a Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today at Dutch Kills Gallery, 37-24 24th Street, Suite 402, Queens, 6-9
  • Craig LaRotonda, Paul Gerrard at Last Rites Gallery, 511 West 33rd Street, fl. 3, 7-11pm
  • MF Toy Show at MF Gallery, 213 Bond Street, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
  • Support Living Artists for the Holidays Sale at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), 499 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, 11am-5pm
  • Art Fair- La Superette 2009 at La Superette, 210 Front Street, Brooklyn, noon-6pm
  • MF Toy Show at MF Gallery, 213 Bond Street, betw Butler & Baltic, Brooklyn, 7-10
  • West Nile Funrazor, 285 Kent Ave, betw S 1st & S 2nd, Brooklyn, 9:30, $10
  • 6th Annual Christmas Benefit Concert for Fount of Mercy, organized by Sarah Lentz, at Street Paul's Episcopal Church, 100 Carroll Street, betw Court & Clinton, Brooklyn, 7, $10

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Friday December 4th
  • Michael Alan & Matthew Brennan at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street, betw Clinton & Suffolk, 5-8
  • Happy Hour at ISE, 555 Broadway, betw Spring & Prince, 6-8
  • Free Friday at Neue Galerie, 1048 5th Ave at 86th, 6-8
  • Brave Brooklyn, a benefit for the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, at 30 Nassau Ave at Dobbin Street, 6-10, rsvp bravebrooklyn@statepr.com

Thursday December 3rd

  • Chas Harold, Ralph Turturro Surface Study at CHC Gallery, 511 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Robert Colescott Works on paper from the 1970's at Kravets|Wehby Gallery, 521 West 21rst Street, 6-8
  • Lecture: On the Teaching of Meyer Schapiro by Phong Bui & Friends at SVA (Visual Arts Theater), 333 West 23rd Street, 7pm
  • Photography, Christopher Thomas New York Sleeps at Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street, 6-8
  • Performance- Krzysztof Zarebski, Michael Carter at Creon Gallery, 238 East 24th Street, ste. 1B, 7pm
  • Plant Body, Animal Body at Cavin-Morris Gallery,  210 Eleventh Avenue, fl. 2, 6-8
  • Denyse Thomasos The Divide at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., 514 West 25th Street, fl. 1, 6-8
  • The Rhythm of Color, The Persistence of Form, The Color of Transformation, Metamorphosis at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Jody Morlock at Clic Gallery, 255 Centre Street at Broome, 6-9
  • Luv-able & Hug-able at Gallery Hanahou, 611 Broadway, Streete 730, at Houston, 6-9, rsvp to info@galleryhanahou.com
  • Poet Amiri Baraka reads at Solas Bar, 232 East 9th Street, betw 2nd & 3rd, 7:30
  • An Exhibition of Selected Works at NYCoo Gallery, 1133 Broadway, ste. 335, 5:30-7:30pm
  • Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art at SVA (Visual Arts Gallery), 601 West 26th Street, fl. 15, 6-8
  • Photography, Andrey Vrady Reconquista at Sputnik Gallery, 547 West 27th Street,15th fl., betw 11th & 12th, 7
  • Holiday Bash & Sale at Flomenhaft Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, fl. 2, 5-8 (refreshments ste. 200, art shopping ste. 528)
  • Alyssa Pheobus, Chuck Webster, Elana Herzog, Sarah Kabot, Shirley Wegner, Zoe Sheehan Saldana Workspace Program 2008-09: New work in handmade paper by emerging artists in residence at Dieu Donne, 315 West 36th Street, 6-8
  • Julie Peppito Super Bumpy at Heskin Contemporary, 443 West 37th Street, 6-9
  • 5th Annual small works show at 440 Gallery, 440 Sixth Avenue, 6-9
  • The American Federation of Arts is pleased to announce that April Gornik will be the speaker at the next AFA ArtTalk at Christie's, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, betw 5th & 6th, $15, 6:30pm
  • Benefit: Art Sale and Holiday Party for Art in a Box at Cheryl Pelavin, 13 Jay Street, 5-8
  • Book launch: Support Structures edited by Celine Condorelli at Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, 7pm
  • Mother/mother-$#@! curated by Jennifer Wroblewski at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, 111 Front Street, Dumbo, 6-8
  • Alex Wixon, Stephen Crone, Theresa Goodman, Virginia Maksymowicz Directors Show at Amos Eno Gallery, 111 Front Street, ste. 202,Brooklyn, Dumbo, 5:30-8:30pm
  • Photography, Jim McHugh Let's Get Lost at Farmani Gallery, 111 Front Street, ste. 212, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8:30pm
  • First Thursdays Gallery Walk -- Most galleries in Dumbo open late at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), Brooklyn, 0 Washington Street, Dumbo, 36-8
  • Stephen B. Nguyen, Wade Kavanaugh The Experience of Green, closing reception at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8:30pm
  • Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools curated by Mercedes Vicente at Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Cabiria performs at Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street at Washington, Brooklyn, 7

Wednesday December 2nd

  • A Rose Parade, Amanda Peters, Brady Walker, Jesse Sposato, Melissa Febos, Sini Anderson "Sadie Issue # 7 Release Party!" with readings, comedy, and music at Ramiken Crucible, 221 East Broadway, at Clinton Street, 7pm
  • Performance- Angela Freiberger at Creon Gallery,  238 East 24th Street, ste. 1B, 7pm
  • Broadside Reading featuring Rachel Hadas and Elizabeth Willis Organized by Kristin Prevallet at Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, fl. 3, $10, 6:30pm
  • Ornament 2.0: 2009 Holiday Show and Sale at Atlantic Gallery, 135 West 29th Street, fl. 6, 5:30-8
  • Cara Judea Alhadeff Anthem: An All-American Dystopia curated by Melissa A. Calderon at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, 1450 Grand Concourse, at 129 Street, 6-9
  • Lecture: APT: Artist Parents Talking, New York at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 111 Front Street, 6-8

Tuesday December 1rst, New York

  • James Rosenquist Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art book signing and panel discussion at The Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, $5, 6:30pm (get there early!)
  • Aisha Mansouri The Affair of the Brush at The Interchurch Center (Treasure Room Gallery), 1475 Riverside Drive, 4-7pm
  • You Si at Goedhuis Contemporary, 42 East 76th Street, betw Park & Madison, 6-8
  • Dick Anthony Just So at A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery, 24 West 57th Street, fl. 6, 5:30-7:30pm (reception with live jazz)
  • Jeff Arnal & Gordon Beeferman perform at the Gershwin, 7 East 27th Street, betw 5th & Madison, 8, $10
  • Lecture: Modernism & the Global Diaspora at SVA (Visual Arts Theater), 333 West 23rd Street, 7pm
  • Rita Baragona, Tony Serio at Bowery Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, fl. 4, 6-8
  • The White Show at Blue Mountain Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, fl. 4, 5-8
  • Panel: Modernism & the Global Diaspora, moderated by David Ross at SVA Theatre, 333 West 23rd Street, betw 8th & 9th, 7
  • Soup Kitchen curated by Gary Baldwin, Monika Wuhrer at Open Source, 255 17th Street, betw 5th & 6th Avenue, 7-9
  • Varujan Boghosian, Constructions and Collages at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 Tenth Avenue,
  • Lee Friedlander, Still Lifes at Janet Borden, Inc., 560 Broadway, 6-8
  • Book Launch party for Elyssa East's newest, Dogtown at Word, 126 Frankin Street at Milton, Brooklyn, 7:30

Monday November 30th

  • The World of Ekakiya Gem at Michi Gallery, 208 East 60th Street, 6-8
  • Subversion and Absurdity in Austrian Video Art reception & panel discussion at Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, 5-8
  • N+1 in conversation at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, 7
  • James Hoggan in conversation with Mark Crispin Miller at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, betw Mulberry & Lafayette, 7


Sunday November 29th

  • Justin Bond performs at Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street near Astor, 9:30, $20
  • Latifa Echakhch Movement & Complication at Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, fl. 3, 3-6pm
  • Russ Barnett performs at Pianos, 158 Ludlow Street, betw Rivington & Stanton, 9
  • Mono No Aware Film Event III, International Exhibit of Expanded Cinema Performance at Lumenhouse, 47 Beaver Street, Brooklyn, 5-11pm, free
  • Framing Aids 2009: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building), Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, 3-7pm
Jeff Koon's Macy's Day Parade Baloon

Thursday November 26th
  • Jeff Koon's Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, Starting at 77th St. and Central Park West, and then going down Central Park West to Columbus Circle then turning East onto 59th St. to 7th Ave. and then turning South to 42nd St. and then turning East again to 6th Ave. and then South again to 34th St. and then turning West on 34th Street to 7th Ave. which is the parade’s finish. (new route), 9am
Tuesday November 24th
  • Ray K. Metzker AutoMagic at Laurence Miller Gallery, 20 West 57th Street, fl. 3, 6-8
  • Picturing Objectivity: A Panel with Peter Galison, Sabine Kastner, Terry Winters, and D. Graham Burnett presented by Cabinet and The Kitchen at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, first come, first served, 7pm
  • Pat Steir in coversation with David Cohen at New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, 6:30pm
  • Cyprien Gaillard, Helmut Lang, Konstantin Greic, Patrick Li, Slavs & Tatars & Thomas Demand- Industrial Light Magic: 032c's Berlin Decade at Goethe-Institut New York (Wyoming Building), 5 East 3rd Street, 6-9
  • Frank Schaeffer in conversation with Mark Crispin Miller at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince Street, betw Mulberry & Lafayette, 7

Sunday November 22nd
  • Artist Talk: Gary Tenebaum Chromatic Fields at Umbrella Arts, 317 East 9th Street, 4-6pm
  • Performa Event: Not For Sale: Ideal Performance Space, 41 Cooper Square, 11:00am, What is the ideal performance space for 21st century New York? This session will be dedicated to the discussion and speculation of what defines a performance space. It will examine past examples of performance spaces--whether
  • Performa Event: Performa Radio, Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 12:00pm, For Performa 09, Performa Radio will take the form of two newly commissioned works and one previously existing work. New Performa Radio commissions will be presented by artist Nick Relph, and experimental filmmaker and writer Karen Schneider.
  • Performa Event: Case, Brody Condon at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, $12, noon-6pm, Scheduled for its New York premiere this Sunday, November 22, Case is an experimental adaptation of the 1984 novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. Considered a classic work of the literary genre cyberpunk, Neuromancer tells the story of Case, a fallen super hacker whose glory days have long since ended, leaving him in a drug-addled, regret-ridden state that lifts when a mysterious entity offers him a second chance. Charged, kaleidoscopic, and prescient, Neuromancer dilates on virtual reality, artificial intelligence and a globalized world through the intricacies of Case’s story. Case (2009), conceived and produced by artist Brody Condon, will be a day-long installation and performance that, in the artist’s words combines “Gibson’s 1980s dystopian techno-fetishism with faux ‘virtual reality’ scenes that will unfold via moving Bauhaus-inspired sculptural props accompanied by the Gamelan ensemble Dharma Swara.” I asked Condon a few questions in advance of the New York premiere so readers, near and far, could get a sense of how this ambitious work will unfold on Sunday.
  • Bec Brittain, Joe Brittain Psychic Neighbor curated by Mike Egan at Ramiken Crucible, 221 East Broadway, at Clinton Street, 6-10pm
  • Unnaming of Parts w/ Andrea Claire, Anya Kielar, Edwin Burdis, Frank Haines, Ivin Ballen, Johannes VanDerBeek, Julia Dault, Paul Kopkau, Peter Eide, Rachel Beach, Rhys Lee & Tyler Drosdeck, curated by Glynnis McDaris & Rhiannon Kubicka at Blackston, 29 Ludlow Street, C, 6-8
  • Frottage, organized Alex Kitnick at Miguel Abreu, 36 Orchard Street, betw Orchard & Ludlow, 6-8
  • Performa Event: Black Zero (1965), Aldo Tambellini and Christoph Draeger, White Box, 329 Broome Street, 6:00pm, The critically acclaimed "Black Zero" (1965) by Aldo Tambellini, in 1965 was one of the very first multimedia performances. It will be recreated 44 years later in its original form by all the artists who
  • Performa Event: P.A., Marina Rosenfeld, Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, 7:00pm, A sound art performance by Park Avenue Armory artist-in-residence Marina Rosenfeld, "P.A." uses the massive airspace and complex social function of the Armory drill hall as both a reflecting and distorting structure, inviting audiences to
  • Performa Event: Scratch the Grand Finale, Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, 8:00pm, The Scratch Orchestra was an experimental musical ensemble founded in London in the spring of 1969 by Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton. The Orchestra reflected Cardew's musical philosophy at that time. This meant
  • Performa Event: Confidential Demonstration, Didier Faustino, Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, 8:00pm, Didier Faustino will present "Confidential Demonstration" during Scratch The Grande Finale. The artist will be out front and inside the party wearing a dark suit and tie. Throughout the night, he will declaim his personal
  • Perform Event: Ancient Darkness TV, Katie Paterson, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, 11:59pm, Working with astronomers from the Mount Kea Volcano telescope, Katie Paterson will transmit an image of ancient darkness from deep space on television station MNN, inviting a New York audience to stare into the void
  • Tim Burton, MoMA celebrates Burton's wild artistry with this exhibition of over 700 drawings, paintings, costumes, storyboards, puppets, and more, plus a complete film retrospective at MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, until Apr 26, 2010
  • Damien Crisp Correspondences (Ex-Spy) at 106 Green, 106 Green Street, Brooklyn, Greenpoint, 4-7pm
  • Pre-Holiday Party at Metaphor Contemporary Art, 382 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, 3-6pm
  • The 2nd Annual smART Brooklyn Gallery Hop at Williamsburg Gallery Association (WGA), 302 Bedford Avenue, Ste. 81, Brooklyn, Register by phone: 718-802-3530 or email smart@visitbrooklyn.org, 1-6pm

Saturday November 21rst
  • The National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts in partnership with artcritical.com presents The Review Panelan evening of candor and controversy as Leslie Camhi, Barry Schwabsky and Katy Siegel review: Tracy Emin at Lehmann Maupin, David Hockney at PaceWildenstein, Sharon Horvath at Lori Bookstein & Sterling Ruby at Foxy Production at The National Academy Museum, 6-9pm
  • Peter G Ray, THE RISING TENSION of INESCAPABLE DESIRE at bridge gallery, 98 Orchard Street, 6-8
  • Performance: Erik Fabian Silver Ticket Project: Help Wanted at Open Source, 255 17th Street, betw 5th & 6th Avenues, 7-10pm
  • Phase 3 at X Initiative: HANS HAACKE: Weather, or not, ARTUR ŻMIJEWSKI, ECSTATIC RESISTANCE at X INITIATIVE, 548 West 22nd Street, 6-9 Please RSVP: Nov21@x-initiative.org
  • German Tangle New Empire at Elga Wimmer PCC, 526 West 26th Street, fl. 3, RSVP to info@artsolar.com, 5-7pm
  • Beast Anthology, new mixed-media works by the Kansas artist Kris Kuksi + South African artist Candice Tripp Tiny Drama at Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 West 28th Street, 3rd Floor, 6-9
  • Artist Talk: Jeffrey Vallance at NYU (Einstein Auditorium), 34 Stuyvesant Street near 9th Street, 4
  • Photography For The Next Generation, fundraiser for ARTribe, at The Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway third floor $20 6-10pm
  • Emily Nelligan, Marvin Bileck at Alexandre Gallery, 41 East 57 Street, fl. 13, noon-2pm (coffee with Ms. Nelligan)
  • Pasha Radetzki at SUNY Old Westburys Wallace Gallery shuttle from Zone: Contemporary, 41 West 57th Street, betw 5th & 6th, 3, rsvp for bus: yih@oldwestbury.edu
  • Performa Event: Not for Sale: Noise Panel at Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, noon. Designed to accompany the two day Mike Kelley-curated festival "A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality," Not For Sale: Noise Panel will include artist and musician Tony Conrad; Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia
  • Performa Event: Alex Waterman, Elizabeth Wendelbo A Ballad of Accounting 2009: Composition for Cello and Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Alex Waterman at  Artists Space, 38 Greene Street #3, 2:00pm, A musical performance by Waterman with a 16-millimeter film by Elizabeth Wendelbo. RSVP to rsvp@artistsspace.org, 2p
  • Poetry Reading at Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, betw Grand & Broome, 4
  • David Brooks at Museum 52, 4 East 2nd Street at Bowery, 6-8
  • Perorma Eventx, Artists' Parents Meeting, Darius Miksys, e-flux, 41 Essex Street, 2:00pm, Where do artists come from? Is it a matter of choice to become an artist, or do some predefined qualities make it inescapable? Are there some particular features in a person's surroundings that make him or her doomed to a life of poverty, isolation, and despair in a lonely garret with nothing to eat but a shoe, and no companionship except for a hostile parrot whose only phrase is, "Hey ugly, how about something to eat?"
  • Performa Event: Misplaced Women, Tanja Ostojic, White Box, 329 Broome Street, 5:00pm, A delegated performance that portrays activities from everyday life signifying a displacement common among transients, migrants, and disaster refugees, as well to the itinerant artist traveling the world to earn her living. Part of
  • Performa Event: Writing Live, Cooper Union Great Hall, 7 E. 7th Street, 5:00pm, A public seminar based on the theme of speculation and response. A number of invited artists and writers will give short artistic/ acted/ spoken/ written 'speculations' on the past, present and future of writing
  • Performa Event: Untitled, Terence Koh, Tompkins Square Park, 10:00pm, People will gather in Tompkins Square Park, following a set of instructions sent by the artist via various viral media. Presented by Performa. FREE Terence Koh is also performing at the Brooklyn Museum
  • Robert Bery: Paintings-2007-2009  an open house and silent auction at Michele Dopp Gallery, 393 Broadway, 4th FL, 1:30-8:30PM
  • Go Get Your Shinebox, curated by Rae McGrath w/ 100 International Artists, Trying To survive in This Economic Climate at Brooklynite Gallery, 334 Malcolm X Blvd., Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn 7-10pm
  • SUMISiGAW: A Filipino American Youth Cultural Show; Fluid New Media Lab v2 presents Interactive Digital Works at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building), Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, 12-5pm
  • The 2nd Annual smART Brooklyn Gallery Hop at Williamsburg Gallery Association (WGA), 302 Bedford Avenue, Ste. 81, Brooklyn, Register by phone: 718-802-3530 or email smart@visitbrooklyn.org, 1-6pm
  • Tracey Snelling & Michael Paul Britto at Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, betw Main & Washington, Brooklyn, 5-8
  • Silver Ticket Project by Erik Fabian at Open Source, 251 17th Street at 5th Ave, Brooklyn, 7-10
  • The Print Show at Gitana Rosa, 19 Hope Street, betw Roebling & Havemeyer, 1-8
  • Do I Move You, Are You Willing curated by Josie Miner at Work Gallery, 65 Union Street, B'lyn, 7-9
  • Film night | Let's Stay Together Utopian yearnings / Collective visions (Curated by Adam Simon)., Three videos: Cloud Cuckoo Land, Be Not Afraid, Dissociationism! at The Boiler (Pierogi), 191 North 14th Street, betw Berry & Wythe, Brooklyn, 7
  • Woman on The Run, an installation that intricately mixes architecture, scale modeling, video, photography and 3-D story telling with a heady dose of Hollywood glamour and Hitchcock-like built-in suspense. A multimedia project, Woman on the Run explores a fragmented narrative about a fated woman at Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, 6-9

Friday November 20th
  • Ridykeulouse Hits Bottom at Leo Koenig, 541 West 23rd Street, 6-8
  • Ulrich Lamsfuss, Birdie at Lombard-Freid Projects, 531 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • International Group Show and Artists Weekend Workshop at Rogue Space (Chelsea Arts Building), 508 West 26th Street, 9E, 6-9
  • Su-Mei Tse, Words & Memories at Peter Blum Chelsea, 526 West 29th Street, 6-8
  • Group Exhibition, Mixtape at Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street, 6-8
  • Performa Event: Futurist Manifestos, Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave, times vary, An exhibition of original Futurist manifestos curated by Renato Miracco and Beatrice Buscaroli.  7-9pm Daily from 10am-4pm
  • Performa Event: In Order of Appearance, Youri Dirkx and Aurelien Froment, 80 St. Marks Place, 7:00pm, "In Order of Appearance" questions ways of presenting an artwork. The presentation takes place amidst architecture made of paper, modelled on the white cube of the museum.
  • Performa Event: Desniansky Raion, Cyprien Gaillard and Koudlam, The Kitchen, 512 W. 19th Street, 8:00pm, In Cyprien Gaillards groundbreaking video "Desniansky Raion," a view of Belgrades futuristic town gate opens a triptych where architecture embodies the failure of the modernist social utopia in a brilliant, fascinating demonstration: an epic fight of some sort.
  • Performa Event: Mother Earth, Sister Moon, Christian Tomaszewski and Joanna Malinowska, chashama 679, 679 Third Ave at 43rd Street, times vary,  Opening Nov. 4, 6-8 pm For Performa 09, Polish artist Christian Tomaszewski, in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska, considers how the future was
  • Performa Event: iSLAND kEEPER, Bernd Krauss, Goethe Institut, Wyoming Building, 5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery),
  • Performa Event: Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture: Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces, An Architektur, Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, times vary, The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis all the way to the impending collapse of industrial civilization and the end of life as we know it on the planet Earth.
  • Performa Event: Cinemagician, Yeondoo Jung, Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, with the Yokohama Festival for Video and Social Technology. Yeondoo Jungs new theater piece, Cinemagician, aims to recreate the tensions between the magician and audience
  • Performa Event: A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music, The Gramercy Theater, 127 E. 23rd Street,  8:00pm, A mini-festival of noise music curated by visual artist Mike Kelley. Born in a suburb of Detroit in 1954, Mike Kelley was brought up with the city's music scene, which spawned bands such as Iggy Pop
  • NEW WORK BY KEYHOLDER ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, Saul Becker, Rosalia Bermudez, Eyal Danieli, Sara Eichner, Caleb Freese, Tai Hwa Goh, Viviane Rombaldi Seppey, and Matthew Trygve Tung at Lower East Side Printshop, 306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor, 6-8
  • Open Studio: MFA Open Studios at Hunter College (Times Square Gallery), 450 West 41 Street, betw 9th & 10th Avenues, 6-10pm
  • John Zinsser, Art Dealer Archipelagoes at James Graham & Sons, Inc., 32 East 67th Street,
  • Andrzej Zielinski Shredders at DCKT Contemporary, 195 Bowery, Ground Floor 6-8
  • Hiroyuki Nakamura The Sky Above at Thierry Goldberg Projects, 5 Rivington Street, betw Bowery & Chrystie, 6-8
  • Bryan El Castillo, New Paintings by James Cavello at WESTWOOD GALLERY, 568 Broadway Suite 501, 6-8
  • Group- Mixed Tape at Jen Bekman, 6 Spring Street,  6-8
  • Hiroyuki Nakamura at Thierry Goldberg Projects, 5 Rivington St., 6-8
  • Ariel Dill & Christian Sampson, Inglenook at Southfirst, 60 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, 6-8
  • Le Dernier Cri at Cinders, 103 Havemeyer, betw Grand & Hope, Brooklyn, 7-10
  • Alex McTigue, Andrew Kenney, Clark Hsiao, George Underwood, Guillaume Gilber, James Tribble, Jeff Luker, Jessica Haye, Kevin Kunstadt, Serena Herrick, Tracey Mancenido Grand Opening: 01 Group Show at K&K, 109 Broadway, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
  • Artist and Critic Talk: Blane De St. Croix with curator Jill Conner at Black and White Gallery (Project Space), 483 Driggs Avenue, at N, 10th, 6-9 (talk at 7pm)
  • Party at Chris's House, Curated by Phong Bui w/ Raimund Abraham, Eve Aschheim, Katherine Bradford, Becky Brown, Paul Brown, Matthew Deleget, Lucy Fradkin, Linda Francis, Gandalf Gavan, Kate Gilmore, Tamara Gonzalez, Ron Gorchov, Nora Griffin, Josephine Halvorson, Laura Hunt, Bill Jensen, Ezra Johnson, Osamu Kobayashi, Ben La Rocco, Claudia La Rocco, Fabienne Lasserre, Abby Leigh, Matvey Levenstein, Margrit Lewczuk, Greg Lindquist, Nicola Lopez, Chris Martin, Jonas Mekas, Thomas Micchelli, Kristine Moran, Loren Munk, Tameka Norris, Thomas Nozkowski, Jennifer Nuss, Patrick OHare, Craig Olson, Nathlie Provosty, Leslie Roberts, Joyce Robins, Dorothea Rockburne, Cordy Ryman, Will Ryman, Clayton Schiff, Veronica Shear, Arthur Simms, Sterrett Smith, Elisa Soliven, Robert Storr, Don Voisine, Tomas Vu, Merrill Wagner, Joan Waltemath, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Lisa Yuskavage & Sarah Zar at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, 205 Norman Ave., 7-9
  • John Stoney, For your love, Recent sculpture, video and color pencil drawings on longing and twelve thousand year old landscape +Johan Nobell, Bugs and Ceramics at Pierogi, 177 North Ninth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 7-9

Thursday November 19th
  • Toward "Architecture": a conversation between architects and artists, CES LUs 1.5; HSW 1.5,This is the third lecture in a multi-part fall series organized by the AIA NY New Practices Committee. W/ Moderator: Farnaz Mansuri, AIA, De-Spec w/  Philip Verne (Dia), Joseph Grima (Storefront for Art & Architecture), Alanna Heiss (AIR), Katrin Sigurdardottir (Artist), Hernan Diaz Alonso (Architect), Didier Faustino (architect) at The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, free for members; or $10, 6-8
  • Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, 6-8
  • Group: Spazialismo inspired by the writings of Lucio Fontana and the Academia Altamira-including works by Mel Bochner, R. Luke DuBois, Michael Joaquin Grey, Yael Kanarek & Matthew Ritchie at bitforms gallery, 529 West 20th St., 2nd Fl., 6:30-8:30
  • Richard Mosse at Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th St., 6-8
  • Stephen Pentak Vertical Landscapes at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, 529 West 20th Street, fl. 6, 6-8
  • Susan Leopold / Elisa D'Arrigo, Complex / Constructed, Folded, Sewn at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Roz Chast: Theories of Everything & Roz Chast's Sad Sacks, Worry Warts, Hellions & Bad Eggs: A new print series, PLUS a Group Show: Heads at Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor, 4-6
  • Taylor Davis, boardroom no.1 at Horton Gallery, 504 West 22nd Street, 6-8
  • Taylor Davis boardroom no. 1 at Horton & Liu, 504 West 22nd Street, 6-8
  • Pulse Miami in New York at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, 8:30-11:30, $25
  • Jiri Kolar, The Poetics of Silence at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 533 West 23rd Street,
  • New Releases 2009: work by students from the Photo Global Certificate Program of 2008-2009 + work by Devon Ward at SVA (Eastside Gallery), 209 East 23rd Street, 6-8
  • Antonio Murado at Von Lintel Gallery, 520 West 23rd Street, Ground Floor,
  • Daisy Craddock: Sense of Place, Leigh Behnke: Through the Looking Glass at Fischbach Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue #801, 5-7
  • William J. O'Brien, Offerings at Marianne Boesky, 509 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Dimitri Hadzi, Drawing Gallery: Three Sculptures from the '50s + Jerry Hirshberg, Recent Paintings at Danese, 535 West 24th Street, 6th floor, 6-8
  • H2O film on water redux at Cynthia Reeves, 535 West 24th Street, 2nd Floor, 6-8
  • Arye Carmon Connecting Disparate Worlds at Max Lang, 229 Tenth Avenue at 24th Street, 5-8
  • Anna Joelsdottir at Stux, 530 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Jered Sprecher, Digging In the Dirt at Jeff Bailey Gallery, West 25th St #207, 6-8
  • Joseph Santore, recent work at Lohin Geduld Gallery, 531 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • PEARLSTEIN/HELD, Five Decades: a comparison at Betty Cuningham Gallery, 541 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Timothy Paul Myers Parts Repeated at Robert Steele Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Evidence: Angela Strassheim (really scary! But beautiful-DK) at Marvelli Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, 2nd Fl. 6-8
  • Norbert Schwontkowski Angstroem at Mitchell-Innes & Nash,  534 West 26th St., 6-8
  • Emi Uchida Lines at Onishi Gallery, 521 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Nathan Slate Joseph: Nathan Slate Joseph at Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 6-8
  • Architecturally at Hendershot, 547 West 27th Street, Ste. 632, 6-8
  • Finding Home at Glenn Gale, 8 East 36th Street, betw Madison & 5th, 6:30-8:30
  • Nick Weber at John McWhinnie, 50 1/2 East 64th Street, betw Park & Madison, 6-8
  • 10 from 25: Emerging Artists Using Photography, w/ Adam Ward, Alyssa Taylor Wendt, Angela Beallor, Bess Greenberg, Hyla Skopitz, Jamie Lund, Kim Kremer, Paul Qaysi, Rebecca (Marks) Leopold & Teresa Christiansen at 25CPW, (inaugural exhibition) 25 Central Park West at 62nd Street, 6-9, (inaugural exhibition)
  • Artist Talk: Ken Buhler at Lesley Heller, 16 East 77th Street, 6-7:30pm
  • Matthias Dornfeld, Virginia Poundstone at Harris Lieberman,  89 Vandam St., betw Hudson & Greenwich, 6-8
  • Jeff Zimmerman at R 20th Century, 82 Franklin Street, betw Broadway & Church 6-8
  • Drew Heitzler at Renwick, 45 Renwick Street at Spring, 6-8
  • Marina Ballo Charmet, curated by Jean-Francois Chevrier at Storefront, 97 Kenmare Street at Centre, 7
  • Mark Dion lectures at Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, 3rd Ave, betw 6th & 7th, 6
  • STAND UP. LIE DOWN. with Dr. Lisa Levy, s.p at Ochi's Lounge, 353 West 14th Street, 7:30pm - 10:30pm $
  • Performa Event: Eyebeam will present an event featuring media artists who "perform the web" - bringing together net art pioneers JODI with emerging artists from Eyebeam's studios, senior fellow Jeff Crouse and research associate Aaron Meyers. at 8PM $10 Tickets
  • Performa Event: In the Room, Sung Hwan Kim, The New Museum, 235 Bowery, times vary,  a variation of Sung Hwan Kims "In the room 3 (dog I knew)" with new sets and props.
  • Performa Event: If I Sing to You / Spiraling Down, Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer, Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W. 37th Street, 7:30pm, Two legendary old friends--Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer--present two new performances on the same evening, sharing a stage for the first time in over 25 years
  • Performa Event: Day is Done Judson Church Dance, Mike Kelley, Judson Memorial Church, 239 Thompson Street, times vary,  For Performa 09, Mike Kelley will present three short dance/performance pieces inspired by darkly funny vignettes
  • Perorma Event 2005, K.62, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ari Benjamin Meyers, Henry Du Jour Playhouse, 466 Grand Street, 7:30pm,  "K.62" is a new orchestrated performance by installation artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created in collaboration with Ari Benjamin Meyers
  • Performa Event: Lecture, Terence Koh, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, 8:00pm, Following on the National Arts Club's century-old tradition of salon-style intellectual discussions and as part of its ongoing PERFORM series
  • Virginia Poundstone Illiquid + Matthias Dornfeld at Harris Lieberman, 89 Vandam Street, betw Greenwich & Hudson, 6-8
  • Conradventur Conrad Ventur: This Is My Life (Shirley Bassey) Curated by Ingrid Chu & Savannah Gorton (Culled from the internet site YouTube, videos of Bassey singing This is My Life during various stages of her career are simultaneously filtered through slowly spinning crystal prisms suspended in close proximity to the lenses of projectors, creating a kaleidoscopic effect casting infinite images of the songstress. An ethereal and haunting experience ensues, as the singer appears at different ages and stages of her career with a chorus of Basseys singing along in rhythm and time.) at Forever & Today, Inc., 141 Division Street, Ground Floor, 6-8
  • Performance: Peter G. Ray The Rising Tension of Inescapable Desire at Bridge Gallery, 98 Orchard Street, 6-8
  • Gina Ruggeri, Rob Wynne Figment curated by Florence Uchida at Kumukumu, 42 Rivington Street, 6-9
  • Iviva Olenick in conversation at Shop Art, 51 Bergen Street, betw Smith & Court, Brooklyn, 7-8
  • The Crowning of Miss G Train at City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Ave, betw Havemeyer & Marcy, Brooklyn, 7-10
  • The Brooklyn Museum honors renowned artist Kiki Smith at its seventh annual Women in the Arts award ceremony at The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor, 11-2:30 p.m.
    • Kiki Smith has long been recognized as one of the most significant artists of her generation. Her career encompasses more than 150 solo exhibitions and spans more than three decades. An exhibition of her work will open at the Museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on February 5, 2010.
    • The Women in the Arts program begins at 11 a.m. and includes a lively discussion with the artist. This will be followed by the award presentation by Museum Director Arnold L. Lehman, and then a reception and luncheon in the Museum's Beaux-Arts Court, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
    • The previous recipients of the award are Dr. Elizabeth A. Sackler, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, Maya Lin, Annie Leibovitz, the Guerrilla Girls, and Cindy Sherman.
    • Tickets for the event are $150 as a Friend; $200 as a Supporter; $1,800 as an Advocate (table for 10); $3,000 as a Patron (select table for 10). Tickets include complimentary Museum admission and free parking in the Museum parking lot.
    • Your participation helps to support the many cultural, artistic, and educational programs offered by the Brooklyn Museum and its Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
    • For tickets and/or further information, contact the Community Committee office by phone at (718) 789-2493, fax at (718) 501-6127, or e-mail edith.frazier@brooklynmuseum.org

Wednesday November 18th
  • Conference: Institute for Aesthetic Research at Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street, 6-8
  • Looking Back - The 4th White Columns Annual at White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, (entrance on Horatio), 6-8
  • Talk- Panel: Mercedes Matter: The Painter Revealed at New York Studio School,  8 West 8th Street, 6:30pm
  • Performa Event: Screening of Michel Auders the Good Life at  537 Broadway, 2nd fl., betw Spring & Prince, 7
  • How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away, a sound piece by James Hoff at Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 3rd fl., betw Grand & Broome, 6 & 7, rsvp@artistsspace.org
  • Not Ungrateful, Just Planning Ahead at Wagner Gallery at the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd fl., at Houston, 5:30-7
  • Intangible, a panel discussion about new media & performance art, moderated by Martha Schwendener at FITs Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, D Bldg, 7th Ave. at 27th Street, 7
  • Dario Escobar & Sara Reisman in conversation at Americas Society, 680 Park Ave at 68th Street, 6:30, rsvp culture@americas-society.org
  • Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Renato D'agostin The Last Neighborhood Standing; Tokyo Untitled at Leica Gallery, 670 Broadway, Ste. 500, 6-8
  • Xiao Se Instinctive Reality at Eli Klein Fine Art, 462 West Broadway, betw Prince & Houston, 6-9
  • Eunjung Hwang, 1,3,8 Characters at NY Studio Gallery, 154 Stanton Street, 7-9
  • SunTek Chung Kingdom Come at Collette Blanchard Gallery, 26 Clinton Street, 6-8
  • Erik Hanson From the Morning at SUNDAY, 237 Eldridge Street, South Storefront, betw stanton & east houston, 7-9
  • Volker Hueller at Eleven Rivington, 11 Rivington Street, 6-8
  • Erik Hanson, From the Morning at Horton Gallery, 504 West 22nd Street) 7-9
  • Performa Event: Erratic Anthropologies, Art in General, 79 Walker Street, 7:00pm, A trio of performance projects--by Shana Moulton, Rancourt/Yatsuk, and Guy Benfield--that mine the artifacts and visual culture of defunct utopian communities
  • Performa Event: A history of performance in 20 minute, Signs and Wonders (Theorie de l'art moderne / Theoreme de l'art maudit), and Vox artisti : His Masters' Voices, Guillaume Desanges, X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street, 2:00pm, A History of Performance in 20 Minutes  is a lecture which brings a concise history of the representation of the body in art
  • Performa Event: The Good Life, Michel Auder, Emily Harvey Foundation, 537 Broadway, 2nd Floor, 7:00pm, a new video installation by Michel Auder involving the poets Kathy Acker, Julien Blainem, William Burroughs, John Cooper Clarke, Ira Cohen, Gregory Corso, Brian Gyson, Harry Hoogstraten, Jean Jacques Lebel, Gerard Malanga
  • Performa Event: parades & changes, replays, Anna Halprin, Anne Collod, and Guests, Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W. 19th Street, 7:30pm, In 1965, postmodern dance legend Anna Halprins "Parades & Changes" shook the dance world by challenging conceptions of nudity, stillness
  • Talk- Gutai: A 'Concrete' Discussion of Transnationalism at The Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, $10, 6:30
  • Murtaza Vali at Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street at President, Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Talk- Q&A With Jackie Battenfield, author of 'The Artist's Guide' at Bric Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, 7pm

Tuesday November 17th
  • Paola Ferrario Imprevisti/Unforeseen at Sue Scott, 1 Rivington Street at Bowery, 6-8
  • Performance: Riot Radio Ballad w/Alex Waterman, James Hoff, Karin Schneider, Mattin, Nick Relph curated by Mark Beasley at Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, fl. 3, RSVP to rsvp@artistsspace.org, 6 & 7pm
  • Seldom Seen: Never & Rarely Seen Work from the Permanent Collection at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 26 Wooster Street, 6-8
  • Talk- Ann Gale On her work at New York Studio School,  8 West 8th Street, 6:30pm
  • Screening: Seven Easy Steps: Loving Relationships curated by Amanda Schmitt at Horton & Liu, 504 West 22 Street, 7-9
  • Talk- Eleanor Heartney Art Today: Tales of Plastic Surgery, Genetically Altered Rabbits and Other Acts of Art at SVA (Visual Arts Theater), 333 West 23rd Street, 7pm
  • Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit: A tribute to Tim Burton at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), West 53 Street, 6:30-Midnight. Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Robert A. Iger and Willow Bay David and Julia Koch Co-Chairs Cocktails at 6:30 p.m. Presentation at 7:30 p.m. Dinner at 8 p.m. After-party at 9:00 p.m. to midnight Featuring music by DJ Justin Miller (DFA Records) You are not invited me thinks.$
  • Jasmina Danowski Quite a Little Bit at Spanierman Modern, 53 East 58th Street, RSVP, 6-8
  • Artist Talk: Ernesto Caivano at The Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, $5, 6:30pm
  • Performa Event: Untitled Performances, Emma Hart and Benedict Drew, Light Industry, 220 36th Street, 5th Floor, Brooklyn, 7:30pm, Emma Hart and Benedict Drew in their first collaborative performance juxtaposing the mechanics of 16mm film, video and sound
  • Open Studio: Erik Wysocan, Jason Kraus, Marianne Vitale, Marlo Pascual, Meredith Nickie & Xaviera Simmons In Practice Artist Walkthrough at SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street, Queens, 7pm

Monday November 16th
  • Perfroma Event: Participant Inc presents the live component of the exhibition Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve, curated by Jonathan Berger. With a rare NYC appearance by Tony Clifton and his 17 piece Katrina Kiss My Ass Orchestra plus art and fragrance specialist Ulrich Lang will reveal Clifton, the anti-celebrity fragrance, Santos Party House, 96 Lafayette Street, 8pm, $20.
  • Paul Hornschemeier & Jay Ryan book signing at Giant Robot, 437 East 9th Street, betw 1st Ave & Ave A, 6-8
  • Performa Event: Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza, Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, Online in Second Life, 5:00pm, Forget about museums, galleries and biennials, stay home and play video games. Synthetic Performances are online live gaming sessions inside the virtual world of Second Life, performed by Eva and Franco Mattes through their avatars.
  • The Future in Five Senses: Echoes of Italian Futurism in New York Architecture and Design, Auditorium, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, New York University, 24 West 12th Street, 6:00pm, For the "heroic" avant-gardes of early twentieth-century, perhaps no metropolis invited the projection of utopian aspirations more than New York City.
  • Performa Event: Futurist Life Redux, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 8:00pm,  A wild and energetic new film that re-imagines the lost Futurist film Vita Futurista (Futurist Life

Sunday November 15th
  • Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest at Bell House, 149 7th Street, betw 2nd & 3rd, 7:30, $4, presented by Secret Science Club
  • Man Ray Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention at Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street,
  • Performa Event: The PROMPT (a night club), White Slab Palace, 77 Delancey Street,  8:00pm, Nov 11- 15, 8pm - 11pm nightly A conceptual social club under the influence of Futurist Variety Theater
  • Performa Event: SoloShow, Maria Hassabi, Performance Space 122, 150 1st. Avenue, times vary, In Maria Hassabis Solo Show a multitude of familiar representations of the female body drawn from art history, pop culture, and everyday life are dissolved into the physicality of contemporary dance. As these images are
  • Performa Event: Stone Ihiga, Wangechi Mutu, Saatchi & Saatchi, 375 Hudson Street, 9:00pm, a multi-layered performance and installation created in collaboration with riveting composer and vocalist Imani Uzuri
  • Performa Event: Drifts and Traps, Kabir Carter, Bronx Museum of Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, 1:00pm, Working with radio scanners and synthesizer modules, artist Kabir Carter will create a sound piece that commemorates the centennial of the Futurist movement.
  • Performa Event: Brendan Fowler, Rental, 120 East Broadway, Floor 6, 1:00pm, In conjunction with his solo show at Rental, Brendan Fowler presents a five hour durational performance
  • Performa Event: Desire Caught by the Tail, Scott Keightley and Tom O'Neill, X Initiative, 548 W 22nd Street, 7:00pm, Scott Keightley and Tom O'Neill are collaborating on this production of Desire Caught By The Tail, a darkly comic play written by Pablo Picasso during the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1941
  • Performa Event: The Pigeon-Like Unease of my Inner Spirit, Ahmet Ogut, Bidoun Magazine, 47 Orchard Street, 7:00pm, artist Ahmet Ogut develops a conversation with Devorah Greenspan, a blind painter
  • Performa Event: Innocence in Extremis, Amy Granat and Felicia Ballos, Emily Harvey Foundation, 537 Broadway, 2nd Floor, 7:00pm
  • Performance: Sung Hwan Kim One from In the room at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, $12, 3pm
  • Jerry Walden at RHV Fine Art, 683 Sixth Avenue, 5-8
  • Ryan V. Brennan: Please join the artist for a guided tour of Close Your Eyes and Look as Far as You Can See at WORK Gallery, 65 Union Street, Brooklyn, 4-7:00
  • Five Decades of Passion; We Are the World grand re-opening w/ Artists On View: Carl Andre, Charles Arnoldi, Richard Artschwager, Donald Baechler, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Ford Beckman, Ross Bleckner, Katherine Bowling, Fanny Brennan, Barry Bridgewood, Carl Bronson, James Brown, Saint Clair Cemin, Chuck Close, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nancy Dwyer, Adam Fuss, Frank Gehry, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Alan Graham, Gloria Graham, Rodney Graham, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Fariba Hajamadi, Jan Hashey, Robert Helm, Jenny Holzer, Peter Hujar, Michael Hurson, Gary Hume, Robert Indiana, Neil Jenney, Jon Kessler, Karla Knight, Win Knowlton, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Annie Leibovitz, Annette Lemieux, Eric Levine, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Simon Linke, Andrew Lord, Chris MacDonald, Robert Mapplethorpe, Marisol, Vinoodh Matadin, Bruce Mellett, David Nash, Shirin Neshat, Richard Pettibone, Ellen Phelan, Donald Powley, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Herb Ritts, Tim Rollins & KOS, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Peter Schuyff, Yinka Shonibare, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Mark Tansey, Alan Uglow, Max Vadukul, Inez van Lamsweerde, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Neil Winokur, Diane Woeffler, David Wojnarowicz, Steve Wolfe, Christopher Wool, Chris Wyllie, Tadanori Yokoo & Daisy Youngblood at Fisher Landau Center for Art, 38-27 30th Street, Queens, 3-5pm

Saturday November 14th
  • Performa 09: No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics a continuation of artist Saya Woolfalks investigation into a fictional future called No Place at Studio Museum Harlem, 1144 West 125 Street, $7, 4pm and 6pm
  • Performa Event: Reading Dante, Joan Jonas, The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street, - Saturday, November 14, times vary,  "Reading Dante," a large-scale performance by video and performance pioneer Joan Jonas, is based on elements from Dantes epic fourteenth-century poem "The Divine Comedy."
  • Performa Event: Futurismo/Futurizm: Futurist Avant-Garde in Italy and Russia, Yale University, New Haven, times vary, This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Filippo Marinettis founding manifesto of Italian futurism.
  • Performa Event: Chalk Playground, LitTwitChalk, Tan Lin, Museum of Chinese in America, P.S. 2 playground, 122 Henry St., 1:00pm, A performance-based chalk translation and street drawing in a parking lot. Chalking of a Futurist manifesto, a Chinese manifesto, and a collaborative, real-time poetry line installation piece by New York writers.
  • Performa Event: Vital Signals, Japan Society, 333 E. 47th Street, 2:00pm,  a program of early video art from America and Japan, highlights the significant parallel developments in these countries during the 1960s and 70s.
  • Performa Event: The Futurisms of American Poetry, Charles Bernstein and John Yau, Museum of the Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street (between Grand and Howard), 4:00pm, A reading/performance event featuring Charles Bernstein and John Yau. With an introduction on Futurism in China by Performa Curator Defne Ayas.
  • Performa Event: Speed Reading, Definitions Gym, 19 Union Square West (at 15th St.), 6:00pm, A 90-minute relay race of sorts, featuring 25-35 writers and artists who will take turns reading aloud short texts related to the theme of speed while running on three treadmills positioned side-by-side.
  • Performa Event: The Quote Generator, Danielle Freakley, X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street, 6:00pm
  • Performa Event: Mealing, Marti Guixe, Performa Hub, 41 Cooper Square, 6:00pm, For designer Marti Guixe, the word mealing describes the act of eating a meal, as well as the social concept of a relational meal.
  • Performa Event: Family Dinner in a Parallel Universe, Mai Ueda, Emily Harvey Foundation, 537 Broadway, 2nd Floor, 7:00pm, Ueda invites a selection of her friends--musicians, fashion designers, and artists--to perform, dine and play music at the same time. A not-to-missed neo-fluxus event that will recall the Fluxus Dumpling dinner staged by The immortal, and immaculate, and much missed George Maciunas
  • Jason Loebs at Audio Visual Art, 34 East 1st Street, betw 1st & 2nd, 7-9
  • Jeff Mermelstein book signing at Rick Wester Fine Art, 511 West 25th Street, Ste 205, 2-5
  • Laurel Jay Carpenter performs at Soho20, 511 West 25th Street, #605, 6:30
  • Conference: MediaModes Graduate conference on critical thinking at the intersection of art and technology, featuring a keynote address by Jonathan Crary at SVA (Visual Arts Theater), 333 West 23rd Street, free, 10am-5:30pm
  • Performance: Elena Bajo Nothing more than a theatre of fluctuating ideas and echoes of future moments (A New Refutation of Time) at 179 Canal, 179 Canal Street, fl. 2, 7:30-10:30pm
  • Kuba Bakowski Studies in Natural History at Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli, 53 Stanton Street, 6-8
  • Performance: A Proposition by Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrikar and the Traveling Troupe: Day 2: Guest Performers Smoggo + White Lady and Discussion at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, $8, noon-6pm
  • Scotch Hop, Project 5 from 5:30- 8:30 PM. Our guide through this adventure will be Samuel Simmons, he has matched the various scotches with each exhibition. Starts at Chelsea galleries, Foley, ClampArt and DCFA, and end up at Sasha Wolf Gallery in Tribeca. Town cars will be waiting for us in Chelsea to drive us downtown. Space is limited. $$$ To make a reservation please contact either Sasha Wolf Gallery at 212-925-0025 or info@sashawolf.com or Foley Gallery at 212 244 9081
  • Benefit Dinner at Real Fine Arts, 673 Meeker Avenue, Brooklyn, Greenpoint, 8 $
  • Aire: The Second Fourfold Root at Devotion Gallery, 319 Scholes Street, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 10pm-4am
  • Douglas Goldberg, Jimmy Miracle, Kevin Curran Contextualizing Formability at Sugar, 449 Troutman Street, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 6-9
  • Original Tote Bag exhibition at Figureworks, 168 N 6th Street at Bedford, 6-9
  • Sahra Motalebi performs at PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave, LIC, 4-6, performance at 5

Friday November 13th
  • Malachi Farrell: Strange Fruit in the Streets at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects, Bowery, #301, 6-8
  • Alan Resnick, Andrea Loefke, Devin Powers, Dina Kelberman, Ryan Syrell, Scott Meyers, Yasemin Kackar-Demirel Space Jam at Union Gallery, 62 Walker Street, 6-9
  • A Proposition by Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrikar and the Traveling Troupe: Day 1: Artist Lecture/Performance at New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, $8, 7pm
  • Damon Johnson Here Today, Gone Tomorrow at CVZ Contemporary (Safe Harbor), 446 Broadway, betw Grand & Howard, fl. 3, 7-10pm
  • Nola Zirin Virtual Vistas at June Kelly Gallery, 591 Broadway, 6-8
  • Finding Work: Representing Labor in Contemporary Art curated by Keith Miller w/ Jesse Dittmar, Johanna Unzueta, Karina Skvirsky, Scott Sternbach, Steven Brower, Tom Otterness & William Oberst at Gallatin Galleries, 715 Broadway, entrance at 1 Washington Place, 6-8
  • Lecture: Loss & Melancholic Possibilities: Challenging the Interdiction of Mourning through Art panel is organized by Neery Melkonian with Defne Ayas, co-curators of Blind Dates at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, 6:30-8:30pm
  • Group: Besides, With, Against, And Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St., 5-8
  • Jill Greenberg: Bear Portraits Book signing at ClampArt, 521-531 West 25th St, Ground Fl., 6-8
  • Kermit Berg at Lyons Wier, 175 7th Ave at 20th Street, 6-9
  • Slideluck Potshow at Aperture, 547 West 27th Street, 4th fl., 7-11, $10
  • Performa Event: City Symphonies Out of Doors, Text of Light, High Line Park (14th Street passage), 7:00pm, Acclaimed avant-garde ensemble Text of Light--composer and saxophonist Ulrich Krieger, guitarist and composer Alan Licht, turntablist and visual artist Christian Marclay, and Sonic Youth co-founder Lee Ranaldo--presents a live musical score.
  • Performa Event: Nummer Elf: The King's Gambit Accepted, the Number of Stars in the Sky & Waiting for an Earthquake, Guido Van Der Werve, Marshall Chess Club, 23 W. 10th Street, 7:00pm
  • Performa Event: Ecks Ecks Ecks - AKA - Sacred Band of Thebes - AKA - In Memory of Robert Isabell - AKA - Any Fag Could Do That at X Initiative, 548 W. 22nd Street, 8:00pm, In 375 BC, the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite force composed entirely of homosexual lovers, annihilated the Spartan army, a brigade three times their size, at Teygra. 2352 years later, party planner Robert Isabell thinks it may be a good time to try it again.
  • Performa Event: Ubu Lenin, Rainer Ganahl, Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway #3, 9:30pm, The fact that Lenin was a participating dadaist in Zurich - though in disguise served as a pretext for New York based artist Rainer Ganahl to rewrite the original Ubu play as Ubulenin.
  • Mustafa Maluka A Place So Foreign at Tilton Gallery, 8 East 76th Street, 6-8
  • Volcano Lovers at ISE, 555 Broadway, betw Spring & Prince, 6-8
  • Radhika Khimji Density and the Shifting Plane inaugural exhibition for new location at Bose Pacia Gallery, 163 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8
  • Dennis Tomkins Optic Nerve at Art 101, 101 Grand Street, Brooklyn, 7-9
  • Dutch Directions: Contemporary arts from the Netherlands (with live jazz) at Art Break, 195 Grand Street, fl. 2, Brooklyn, 6-10pm
  • The Resident Faction at Camel Art Space, 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • Artist Talk: Karen Margolis at Slate Gallery, 136 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, 7pm
  • Settlements at Horse Trader, 519 Grand Street, 2nd fl., betw Union & Lorimer, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • Shaun Kessler at Capricious, 103 Broadway, betw Berry & Bedford, Brooklyn, 7-10
  • Armer, Dark Cloud, Deekers, Goreb A Hounding Obsession at Factory Fresh,1053 Flushing Avenue, betw Morgan & Knickerbocker, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 7-10pm
  • Steven Dobbin, Reclamation, new sculptural works and installation at Causey Contemporary, 293 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 6-9pm
  • Civil Union: the collaborative works of Jenny Morgan and David Mramor at Like The Spice, 224 Roebling Street, betw S. 2nd & S. 3rd, Brooklyn, 6:30-10pm

Thursday November 12th
  • Robert Lazzarini, guns, knives, brass knuckles at Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street, 6-8
  • Slater Bradley, if we were immoral at Team, 83 Grand Street, 6-8
  • The Eventuality of Daybreak, a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Alex Lukas. at Glowlab, 30 Grand Street at 7-9
  • Bruce Tolman at Cheryl Hazan, 35 North moore Street, 6-8
  • Corinne Kamiya, Janet Nolan, Tracey Moffatt Re: Purpose curated by Tara de la Garza at No Longer Empty, 223 East Broadway, 6-9
  • Gonzalo Papantonakis Sante Fe Avenue at gallery nine5, 24 Spring Street, 6-8
  • Shawn Bishop-Leo Strength In Numbers at Leo Kesting Gallery, 812 Washington Street at Gansevoort, 7-10pm
  • Performance: Alexandre Singh 3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings at White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, (entrance on Horatio), 8
  • Evening auction at Phillips de Pury, 450 West 15th Street, betw 9th & 10th, 7
  • Sara Crisp: Intervals and Circles at Denise Bibro Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • David Eisenhour: Biophilia at Denise Bibro Fine Art - Platform, 529 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Matt Stokes these are the days at ZieherSmith, 516 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Sophead Pich The Pulse Within at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 6-8
  • Benefit: Stephen Shames and Shepard Fairey Partner to Benefit Orphans in Uganda at Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street, 6:30pm
  • Donald Judd: Furniture at Sebastian & Barquet, 544 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Steve Gianakos at Fredericks & Freiser, 536 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Min Kim: NEW WORK (at new location shared with Freight + Volume) at ATM Gallery, 542 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Panel Discussion: Dotty Attie, Martha Wilson, K8 Hardy, Sophie Morner, Liz Linden + Jen Kennedy, Tammy Rae Carland: Post-Feminist: Do We Need To Go There? A panel of four generations of women discuss feminism and art practice, where we were and where we are going. Moderated by Catherine Morris Curator of The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum at P.P.O.W., West 25th Street, Room 301, 7-8
  • Mores McWreath curated by Andrea Zittel & David Dunlap curated by Scott Reeder & Tyson Reeder at CUE Art Foundation, 511 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Melissa Ann Pinney at Alan Klotz Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, fl. 7, 6-8
  • Kimberley Hart, Scout & Installation-with-dog + Kim Beck: Everything Must Go! at Mixed Greens, 531 West 26th Street, 1st floor, 6-8
  • Enrique Chagoya, The Surplus + Plus: An Illegal Alien's Guide to Economic Theory at George Adams Gallery, 525 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Barbara Crane, Michael Wolf at Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, fl. 4, 6-8
  • Groundswell Art Auction & Benefit at Affirmation Arts, 523 West 37th Street, 7-10, $35
  • Performa Event: Balli Plastici, Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle,  6:30pm, In 1918, the Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero premiered his Balli Plastici, a puppet show performed by geometric, fantastical multicolored marionettes.
  • Performa Event: The Futurist Impulse After Futurism, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 7:30pm
  • Performa Event: Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners, Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd Street,  8:00pm
  • Performa Event: Barefoot in the Head: Futurological Poetry Reading, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, 225 West Broadway, 8:00pm, Organized by UK artists, curators, and lecturers Dr. John Russell and Alun Rowlands, and Performa Curator Mark Beasley, "Barefoot in the Head: Futurological Poetry Reading" is a curatorial response to the work of British science
  • Performa Event: Untitled, Omer Fast, Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street, + Friday, November 13, 7:00pm
  • Performa Event: Beyond Futurism: F.T. Marinetti, Writer, Teatro of the Italian Academy (11/12) and Italian Cultural Institute (11/13), 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (11/12) and 686 Park Avenue (11/13),  - Friday, November 13, 1:00pm, Thanks to its irreverence and its lack of interest in puristic distinctions, including its capacity to find redeeming value in banality, Futurism will survive the process of touristicization and fetishization that characterizes a good a impromptu  spontaneous artistic revolutionary moment in history where the lunatics and thankfully we're running the asylum.
  • Performa Event: New York, New York, Candice Breitz, Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St,  - Friday, November 13, 8:30pm, with Kunsthaus Bregenz Video and installation artist Candice Breitz presents New York, New York, her first-ever live performance
  • Cybele Young, Holly Lane at Forum Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, fl. 5, 5:30-7:30pm
  • Elizabeth Jobim Voluminous at Latin Collector, 37th West 57 Street, fl. 4, 6-8
  • Art Fair: Modernism + ART20 at Park Avenue Armory, 650 Park Avenue, at East 67th Street, $20, 6-9 benefit preview
  • Ruben Torres Llorca Los peores hombres cuentan las mejores historias at Praxis International Art, 25 East 73rd Street, fl. 4, betw Madison & 5th, 6-8
  • Fred Otnes, Pilar Ovalle Collage Paintings; Natura Vincit - The Strokes of Origin at Kouros Gallery, 23 East 73rd Street, 6-8
  • Ferenc Berko at Gitterman, 170 East 75th Street, betw 3rd & Lexington, 6-8
  • In Stitches curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, 39 East 78th Street at Madison, fl. 3, 6-8
  •  Esther Wang, Helena Wong, James deFilippis The Decommodification of Housing at Storefront for Art and Architecture (Gair Building No 6), 299 Street: 81 Front Street, 7pm
  • Joe Vaux & Gilbert Oh at Eastern District Gallery, 43 Bogart Street, betw Seigel & Moore, Brooklyn, 6-10
  • Costain Paintings and Sculptures at AES Gallery, Queens: 44-02 23rd Street, 6-9

Wednesday November 11th
  • Alanna Heiss, Nancy Hwang, Sandra Skurvida: A Slice of Pie with Alanna Heisswill speak about the changing and alternative functions of art spaces. Heiss will share her trailblazing experience of the alternative space movement in New York since the 1970s at Apexart, 291 Church Street, 6:30-8
  • Luca Bariola Surroundings at 255Canal, 255 Canal Street, fl. 4, RSVP to 255canal@gmail.com, 6-9
  • The Prompt: When the Flugelhorn Blasts, You May Only
  • Claire Ellen Corey Paths at Stephan Stoyanov (Luxe Gallery), 29 Orchard Street, 6-9
  • Lilla LoCurto, Bill Outcault: markingtime at Sloan Fine Art, 128 Rivington Street, betw Norfolk & Essex, 6-8
  • Blane de St. Croix, Chris Yormick, Martin Basher, Tamara Kostianovsky Open Studios at the Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program at Artists Alliance Inc., 107 Suffolk Street, fl. 4, 5-9
  • Melissa Chiu Talks with Richard Bell at Location One, 26 Greene Street, 7pm
  • Mark Sink & Kristen Hatgi at Robin Rice, 325 West 11th Street, betw Washington & Greenwich, 5:30-8:30
  • Lecture: Joseph J. Rishel, Jr. Formation of Collections: Part and Present -- Gifts and Purchases at New York Studio School, 8 West 8 Street, 6:30pm
  • Kristen Hatgi, Mark Sink at Robin Rice Gallery, 325 West 11th Street, 5:30-8:30pm
  • Performance: Alexandre Singh 3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings at White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, (entrance on Horatio), 8
  • Lucio Pozzi, MINIPAINTINGS at CREON Gallery, 238 East 24th Street, 1B, 7-10pm
  • Panel Discussion Featuring Artists from the Exhibition There Goes My Hero at Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, fl. 3, $10, 6:30pm
  • Screening: Institute for Aesthetic Research at Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, at 36th Street, 6-8
  • 1989: End of History or Beginning of the FutureVideo Art Comments on a Paradigm Shift at Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, RSVP at www.acfny.org, 5-8
  • PopRally Presents: Picture Yourself... at MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, $12, 7:30-10:30pm
  • Pamela Joseph at Francis Naumann, 24 West 57th Street, Streete 305, betw 5th & 6th, 6-8
  • Barbara Nessim at DFN, 74 East 79th Street, betw Park & Madison, 6-8
  • 30 Seconds Off an Inch at Studio Museum Harlem, 144 West 125 Street, 144 West 125th Street, By Subway: 7th Avenue: #2 or #3, or 8th Avenue: A, B, C or D, or Lexington Avenue: #4, #5, or #6, 7
  • An Architektur/Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture and City of Tomorrows Workshop at Storefront for Art and Architecture (Gair Building No 6), 81 Front Street, 6pm
  • Jane Wilson at DC Moore Gallery, 724 Fifth Avenue at 57th Street,
  • Performa Event: Man and Machine, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 7:00pm, March of the Machines (1929), an abstract mechanical symphony with a score originally written by Futurist artist Luigi Russolo, will be shown with poetic industrial documentary The Belly of the City (1932) and Melies protege
  • Performa Event: Trains, Trains, Trains, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, Wednesday, 8:30pm, Inspired by the Futurist love of trains, this film program includes the gorgeously lyrical train station short Impressions of Life #1: Railway Station Rhythms (1933), the beautiful Play of Reflections and Speed (1925), by pure
  • Performa Event: Shock and Awe: The Troubling Legacy of the Futurist Cult of War, The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, 4:00pm, On the occasion of Performa 09, which this year marks the 100th anniversary of the launch of Futurism, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, the Hunter College Department of Art, and Performa
  • Performa Event: GIRLMACHINE, Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, 6:00pm, A theatrical investigation of Futurism's ambiguous vitality and its complex relationship to the modern body, exploring notions of masculine and identity and mechanized erotics in the form of a Futurist club of men, women, and weird and provocative marital aids and unique thought-provoking secret objects
  • Performa Event: Man and Machine, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 7:00pm,
  • Performa Event: Trains, Trains, Trains, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 8:30pm
  • Performa Event: Shock and Awe: The Troubling Legacy of the Futurist Cult of War, The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue,  4:00pm
  • Performa Event: Viva Futurism! Revolution, Vanguardia, and the Modern Metropolis, Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Avenue,  6:30pm, Swirling Images and thrilling sounds - a lively audiovisual presentation inspired by Futurism and Latin American art of the early 20th century.
  • Performa Event: Postgravityart: Syntapiens, Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st Street, times vary, A performance by Dragan Zivadinov, Dunja Zupancic, and Miha Tursic that will acquaint viewers with post-gravitational art  him
  • Performa Event: Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!), Emily Mast, X Initiative, 548 W 22nd Street, Ground Floor, times vary, In "Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!)," the medium of theater has been adapted to an exhibition context in order to stage a conversation-cum-argument between five characters who represent various aspects of the artists psyche. Through
  • Performa Event: History in the Making, or the Secret Diaries of Linda Schultz, Keren Cytter, The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, 8:00pm
  • Reading: Essye Klempner, Joseph Ellis Duets: Compositions by Joseph Ellis and Essye Klempner at Old Made, 441 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
  • Erica Allen Untitled Gentlemen curated by Melanie Flood at Melanie Flood Projects, 186 Washington Avenue, RSVP Required: mfloodprojects@gmail.com, 6-9

Tuesday November 10th
  • You are cordially invited to a press preview of the exhibition, Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention, at The Jewish Museum, Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, from 10 am to 1 pm Please let us know if you plan to attend RSVP: 212.423.3271 Alex Wittenberg or pressoffice@thejm.org
    • A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker.  Alias Man Ray explores the deliberate cultural ambiguity of Man Ray, who became the first American artist to be accepted by the avant-garde in Paris.  It also examines the dynamic connection between Man Ray's assimilation (few know that he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky to Russian Jewish immigrants), the evolution of his art, and his willful construction of a distinctive artistic persona-F the first major Man Ray show in NYC since 1974. 

  • Olaf Otto Becker, Above Zero at Amador Gallery, The Fuller Building, 41 East 57th Street, 6th Fl., 6-8
  • Lecture: Enrico Riley Subjects and Sources at New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, 6:30pm
  • Katrin Sigurdardottir at Artware Editions, 327 West 11th Street, betw Greenwich Street & Washington Street, 5:30-8
  • Performance: Alexandre Singh 3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings at White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, (entrance on Horatio), 8
  • Artist Talk: Lucio Pozzi The Next 475 Years of My Art and Life at SVA (Eastside Gallery), 209 East 23rd Street, 7pm
  • Michael Wolf Artist's Talk and Book Signing at Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th Street, fl. 4, 6:30pm
  • Lecture: Imagination: The Influence of Religion on Postmodern Art w/ Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Petah Coyne, Siona Benjamin, Tim Rollins Belief and the Creative  Eleanor Heartney, Moderator at Flomenhaft Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, fl. 2, $15, 7pm
  • Olaf Otto Becker Above Zero at Amador Gallery, 41 East 57 Street, in the Fuller Building, 6-8
  • Carol K. Brown, Hugo Tillman Paperdolls; Daydreams of Mine at Nohra Haime Gallery, 41 East 57 Street, 6-8
  • Performa Event: Not a Futurist Film, but a Film without a Future, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, Light Industry, 220 36th Street, 5th floor, Brooklyn, 7:30pm, In their collaborative film performances, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder employ simple mechanical means to hypnotically elaborate ends. 16mm loops, spray bottles, colored gels, unfocused lenses and hand-shadows combine, through rehearsed recipes, into slowly mutating indescribable thingamajigs and whatchamacallits.
  • Performa Event: I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine, A comic and visually dazzling performance by renowned South African artist I, Cedar Lake, 547 W. 26th Street, 8:00pm
  • Performa Event: Bright Futures, John Malpede, Michelson Theatre, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, Room 648, 5:30pm
  • Performa Event: Museum Futures: Distributed, Marysia Lewandowska, The New School, Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets, 6:30pm, A screening of a video set in 2058 that offers a fascinating future vision of a hyper-globalized art world, followed by a panel discussion inspired by the film

Monday November 9th
  • Performance: Alexandre Singh 3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings at White Columns, 320 West 13 Street, (entrance on Horatio), 8
  • Norbert Schwontkowski, Angstrom at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 534 West 26th Street, 6-8?
  • Leonard Guarante, anti-aging biologist, speaks at the Secret Science Club at Bell House, 149 7th Street, betw 2nd & 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, 8
  • Performa Event: The Futurist Canon, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, 7:00pm, The only surviving feature-length Futurist film, Thais (1917), a seemingly conventional Italian diva picture that builds to a wildly experimental final sequence, with visionary set designs by Futurist painter Enrico Prampolini
  • Performa Event: Futurist-Related Performance on Film, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue, Tuesday, November 3 - Monday, November 9, 9:00pm, The feet of three people act out an adulterous affair in Pedestrian Love (1914), the only filmed record of Futurist reductionist performance, to be shown alongside Excelsior (1914), a film based on a grand ballet
  • Performa Event: Radio Broadcast, Broadside, Saturday, November 7 - Monday, November 9, times vary, BROADSIDE, the collaborative initiative of Alexander Fleming and Alistaire Knox, will broadcast a series of feminist inspired audio performances, including experimental readings, consciousness raising dialogue, presentations and live music.
  • Performa Event: Mannequin's Ball, Bruno Jasienski, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, 6:30pm, Join us for an evening of Polish Futurist theatre, poetry, manifestoes, and art. Centered upon a 30-minute contemporary performance piece based on excerpts from Bruno Jasienski's avant-garde play "Mannequins' Ball" (1930), conceived and directed by
  • Performa Event: Honor Among Thieves (Chapter 1: The Tower and the Star), Glenn Kaino and Ryan Majestic, The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard Street, 7:00pm, In a hybrid performance of art and magic, Los Angeles-based artist Glenn Kaino collaborates with renowned magician Ryan Majestic in an awe-inspiring interrogation of what is and isnt believable: 7-9, $10, presented by Creative Time
  • Performa Event: I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine, William Kentridge, Cedar Lake, 547 W. 26th Street,  A comic and visually dazzling performance by renowned South African artist William Kentridge, in "I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine," the artist himself

Sunday November 8th
  • Jacqueline Shatz, John Morton The Voyage Out (Sunroom Project Space) at Wave Hill, 675 West 252nd Street, 1pm
  • ***WORLD PREMIERE*** LA VIE NOIR by JACOB BURCKHARDT & JIM NEU, 2007, 50 minutes, video. Written by Jim Neu; play directed by Keith McDermott; with Mary Shultz, Black-Eyed Susan, Tony Nunziata, John Costelloe, Agosto Machado, Chris Maresca, Deborah Auer, and Jim Neu. When eight strangers find themselves in a high-rise bar during a storm, it seems like a movie even to them. That feeling grows as they discover interconnections that seem beyond coincidence. As the intrigue intensifies, so does the storm, and the characters survival may depend on the answer to the question, Are we in it or at it? Also Robert Simonson, TIME OUT NEW YORK & DUET FOR SPIES 1993, 23 minutes, video. Written by Jim Neu; camera and editing by Jacob Burckhardt. Two spies meet for a rendezvous over a crowded city expressway. Their thoughts go back to the key debriefing of their careers, and they find their separate memories to be strangely identical at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave., $9 ($7 for students) 7:30
  • Performa Event: Snofrid Ruby Distillery, Ylva Ogland, Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway # 3, Tuesday, November 3 - , times vary, The Ruby is for the core of Lustfor the connection to the uncontrolled controlled. The artists mirror twin will enter the earthly world through an ancient alchemical process,
  • Performa Event: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawings IX, Nikhil Chopra, The New Museum, 235 Bowery, Wednesday, November 4 - , times vary, As part of his exhibition "Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawings IX," Nikhil Chopra embodies the semi-autobiographical, largely imagined Victorian draughtsman Yog Raj Chitrakar. As an ambiguous past collides with an unstable present, daily actionswashing, eating,
  • Performa Event: Ideal Viewer, Einat Amir, Scaramouche, 53 Stanton Street, Saturday, November 7 - , times vary, Scaramouche presents Einat Amir, "Ideal Viewer." Opening a voyeuristic lens onto conflicting authorship, "Ideal Viewer" is a two-phased series of performances, beginning with actors hired from Craigslist to improvise three biographical archetypes in the "neutral" gallery
  • Performa Event: A Soldier's Lust, Katia Bassanini, Forever & Today, Inc., 141 Division Street, Saturday, November 7 - , times vary, Bathing and performing domestic tasks around a bathtub installed in this tiny storefront, the artist will assume the role of "Madame D" to entertain passersby with tales of her heroic adventures.
  • Performa Event: The Lust Weekend, Various locations on the Lower East Side, Saturday, November 7 - , times vary, Avant-garde dances, sensual songs, mysterious avatars, and intimate confessions: Performa pays tribute to Futurist poet and dancer Valentine de Saint-Point, author of the Manifesto of Lust (1913)
  • Performa Event: PERFORMAT, Marcella Vanzo, Jennifer Walshe, and Lucie Fontaine, Performance Project @ University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street, Saturday, November 7 - , times vary, PERFORMAT is a traveling, site specific performance inspired by 70s feminism, mixed up and spiced with Vogue magazine, the television show Big Brother, and plastic surgery, starring the magnificent Lucie Fontaine,
  • Performa Event: Rabih Mroue, Rabih Mroue's Gift to New York, 150 1st Ave., Saturday, November 7 - , 8:00pm, Rabih Mroue's surprise reading for New York by an unannounced guest, followed with a 50 minute screening of a selection of his video works
  • Performa Event: Kalup Linzy, Taxter & Spengemann, 123 E. 12th Street,  1:00pm, The drag-queen diva Taiwan, a major character in Linzy's soap-opera series "Conversations Wit De Churen," will perform for the first time an acoustic set with accompanying guitar.
  • Performa Event: 4 Hour Fundamental, Professor Eilers, On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street,  2:00pm, Go back to school with Professor Eilers and his students Sara Ziff, Juan Antonio Olivarez, Phyllis Ma, and Corey Stanton who will present their semester-end projects based on Valentine de Saint-Points "Manifesto of Lust." Professor Eilers,
  • Performa Event: Demonstration, Lisa Kirk, Seward Park,  3:00pm, Inspired by Valentine de Saint Points manifestos and William Henry Sewards ardent anti-slavery position, people will be invited to march through the streets of the Lower East Side with picket signs
  • Performa Event: The Universe Will Be Our Vocabulary: Futurist Music, Film, and Literature, Performa Hub, 41 Cooper Square,  4:00pm, Two mini-lectures by two experts in the Futurist avant-garde--composer, performer, and musicologist Luciano Chessa, who is a leading intonarumori (Futurist noise machine) scholar, and York University professor John Picchione, who has extensive knowledge of Futurist
  • Performa Event: Camp Kid Friendly, Mike Kelley and Michael Smith, SculptureCenter, 4419 Purves Street, Long Island City,  5:00pm, Malcolm Stuarts hoop dance troupe, Color Wheel, performs with Baby IKKI within Mike Kelley and Michael Smiths video installation, a multi-sensory environment that traces the Baby's journey through a festival of radical self-expression.
  • Performa Event: Refence, Michael Aerts and Vadim Voster, White Box, 329 Broome Street,  6:30pm, A fencing confrontation between two Belgian artists, this performance claims a new position in the art of fencing--somewhere between fencing as a sport, theatrical fencing, spectacle fencing, and mensur, or modern academic fencing.
  • Performa Event: Nils Bech and Lina Viste Groenli, Performance Project @ University Settlement, 184 Eldridge Street,  7:15pm, Performing on a set designed by Lina Viste Groenli, Nils Bech will combine sparse acapella versions of contemporary and classical music and well-crafted electronica in a conceptual stage show laced with cabaret and  dance,
  • Performa Event: Betteraves Club, Emily Sunblad and Margaret Lee, 179 Canal Street,  9:00pm, A long night with music provided by Matthew Higgs featuring Snofrid arriving via kortege from Swiss Institute and performance by Emily Sundblad.
  • Stuart Sherman Nothing Up My Sleeve curated by Jonathan Berger at Participant Inc., 253 East Houston Street, 7-9
  • Krysten Cunningham Tangental at Dispatch, 127 Henry Street, 5-7pm
  • "Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve," curated by Jonathan Berger at PARTICIPANT INC., 253 East Houston Street, 7-9
  • A Soldier's Lust, Performa 09 Biennial Lust Weekend at Forever & Today, Inc., 141 Division Street, Ground Fl., 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm
  • Sam Pulitzer Hogg at Real Fine Arts, 673 Meeker Ave., Brooklyn, 6-8
  • Esquivel, John O'Connor, Mark Albright, Melanie Baker & Steve Locke  at No Globe Exhibition Space, 488 Morgan Avenue, fl. 3, Brooklyn, Greenpoint, 3-7pm
  • Beta Spaces a one-day festival of independently curated, collaborative group exhibitions at Arts In Bushwick, 330 Melrose, Brooklyn, Bushwick, 12-7pm
  • 1984-2001, a panel discussion about science fiction presented by Ad Hoc Vox and Smack Mellon at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 92 Plymouth Street, at Washington, 3pm
  • Douglas Henderson Music for 100 Carpenters at Pierogi (The Boiler), Brooklyn, 191 North 14th Street, 8
  • Luc Tuymans and Dominic Molon at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, 4pm

Friday November 6th
  • California Maximalism: Sticking a Spike into the Vein of Memory at NYEHAUS, 15 Gramercy Park South, near 20th Street, ste. 8D, 6-8
  • Book launch for Alison Knowles at Printed Matter, 195 10th Ave, betw 21st & 22nd, 5-7
  • ART2Gift at Raandesk Gallery, 16 West 23 Street, fl. 4, 6:30-8:30pm
  • Group Exhibition, The Irreverent Object at Luhring Augustine, 531 West 24th Street, NO opening
  • K2 & Cre8 Japanese Illustrators in NY at NYCoo Gallery, 1133 Broadway at 26th Street, ste. 335, 5-7:30pm
  • Wallace Bernman at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, #213, 6-8
  • Artist Talk with The 2009 Bishop Faculty Fellow: Writing and/the Wor(l)d: Johanna Drucker at Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, fl. 3, $10, 6:30pm
  • Jenny Keith-Hughes The Circus and the Cell at Prince George Ballroom, 15 East 27th Street, 6-9
  • Tom Wesselmann Draws at Haunch of Venison, 1230 Avenue of the Americas at 48th Street, 6-8
  • Alex Hoda Pipedreams at Dickinson Roundell Inc.,  19 East 66th Street, 6-8
  • Alyssa Pheobus, To Have, Hold at Tracy Williams Ltd, 313 West 4th Street, 6-8
  • Performa Event: Hear it Here, Shana Lutker, X Initiative, 548 W 22nd Street, 2nd Floor, 6:00pm, The installation and performance "Hear It Here" consists of two actors, an audience and an accordion player. The audience is invited to spontaneously create lines for the actors by speaking into microphones that feed directly
  • Performa Event: Futuriste: Women in Art and Literature, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, 24 W. 12th Street, 6:00pm, An exhibit dedicated to the most prominent female Futurist writers and painters, curated by Giancarlo Carpi. There will also be a presentation of Carpis new book, "Futuriste." Curated by Giancarlo Carpi.
  • Performa Event: Futurism and Women, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, 24 W 12th St, 6:00pm, A panel discussion to kick off the opening of the "Futuriste" exhibition with Giancarlo Carpi, Ara H. Merjian (New York University), Lisa Panzera (Director, McCaffrey Fine Art), and Christine Poggi (University of Pennsylvania).
  • Performa Event: Jonas Mekas and Now We Are Here, Emily Harvey Foundation, 537 Broadway, 2nd Floor, 9:00pm, Jonas Mekas with friends and the band Now We Are Here, featuring Jonas Mekas as the lead singer and surprise appearances by special guests.
  • Performa Event: Curated by Meg Stuart, Auf den Tisch! (At the Table!), Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th Street, Friday, November 6 - Saturday, November 7, 7:30pm, Picture this: you enter a room and can take a seat at an enormous table, with four microphones at the ready, as if in a conference situation.
  • Performa Event: History of the Future II, Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street, Friday, November 6 - Saturday, November 7, 8:00pm, Honoring Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French artist known for encrypted works on paper, theatrical productions, and readymade language, the "History of the Future II" will intersperse live performances--reconstructions of historic works as well as
  • Party at CVZ Contemporary with DJs Nicolas Jaar Live (Wolf + Lamb), Cem / Rg at CVZ Contemporary (Safe Harbor), 446 Broadway, betw Grand & Howard, fl. 3, $20, 11pm-4am
  • Molly Bosley Remember, Sebastian curated by Danielle Ezzo at Anagnorisis (White Rabbit), 145 East Houston Street, betw Forsyth & Eldridge, 7-10pm
  • Corin Hewitt, Molly McFadden at Recess Activities, Inc., 41 Grand Street, 6:30-9
  • Beyond Delicate: curated by Kara Walker-Tome at White Box, 329 Broome (betw Broome & Christie) 7-10pm, admission $7
  • Dave Choi If a lion could speak, we could not understand him at Hogar Collection Gallery, 362 Grand Street at Marcy, Brooklyn, 7-9:30pm
  • NotAbstract 1 w/ Angelina Gualdoni, Damien Cabanes, Noa Charuvi, Stefan Sehler & Ted Gahl at Parker's Box, 193 Grand Street, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • 35+ artists at 1013 Open Studios, 1013 Grand Street, fl.s 2-4, Brooklyn, 6-9
  • Henrike Stahl True Nature curated by live with animals at Live With Animals, 210 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
  • Open Studios at Brooklyn Art Studios, 276 Greenpoint Avenue, Greenpoint, 6-9
  • Wang Bing Crude Oil (film) at Light Industry, 220 36th Street, fl. 5, 9am-11pm
  • Group- Quixotic Beast curated by Stephanie Young at Under Minerva, 656 5th Avenue, 7-9
  • An Evening of Performances: Action Figures come to life in the Art Neighborhood, featuring The Drunkard's Wife & Rebecca Goyette Premier Lobsta Girl Performance at Jack the Pelican Presents, 487 Driggs Avenue (betw N. 9th and N. 10th), Williamsburg, 7-9
  • NEVERandagain curated by Elissa Levy ALISA BAREMBOYM, BALAM BARTOLOME, RHYS COREN, RICO GATSON, RENA LEINBERGER, ELISSA LEVY, SAM MARTINEAU, BJoRN MEYER-EBRECHT, AUSTIN THOMAS, IAN UMLAUF at ISCP, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn at 7:00pm

Thursday November 5th
  • Kristin Baker, Splitting Twilight at Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, 6-8
  • Tracey Emin, Only God Knows I'm Good at Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie Street at Stanton, 6-8
  • Portraits at Linda Mason Gallery, 26 Grand Street, betw Thompson & 6th, 6-8
  • Silent Spring w/ Bobby Davidson, Casey Diskin, Dan Carlson, Danielle Goldsmith, Gabriel Shuldiner, Jess Ramsay & Seyhan Musaoglu, John Platt, John Wanze, Jorge Gomez, Matthew de Leon, Morgan Ersery, Nana Astante, Nick Shifrin, Peter Lapsley, Rayna Savrosa, Stephen Wilson & Suzanne Stroebe at Gallery 151, 350 Bowery, 1-8
  • Hope Lives: Artists of the Lower East Side curated by Thomas Mason at Educational Alliance, 197 East Broadway, 6-8
  • Aga Ousseinov, Dannielle Tegeder, Doug Beube, Emma Johnson, Florent Morellet, Hayato Matsushita, Heidi Whitman, Ingo Gunther, Jane Hammond, Jeff Wood, Jerry Gretzinger, Joshua Dorman, Joyce Kozloff, Karey Kessler, Karin Schaefer, Matthew Picton, Meridith McNeal, Vik Muniz The Map as Art curated by Chrisopher Henry and Katharine Harmon at Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, 6-9
  • Katharina Ziemke at Galerie Zurcher, 33 Bleeker Street, 6-8
  • Hard Time Mini Mall: A Pop-up Exhibition Featuring Folk, Lowbrow and Outsider Works w/ Bryan Cunningham, Chris Roberts-Antieau, Dean Lucker, Frank Relle, Jason Houchen, John Whipple, Matthew Cox, Ross Bonfanti at Red Truck Gallery, 368 Broome Street, 6-10pm
  • Marcel Broodthaers, Ne dites pas que je ne l'ai pas dit-Le Perroquet (1974) at Peter Freeman Gallery, 560 Broadway #602/603
  • Herb Lubalin inaugural exhibition in the newly re-located Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography at Cooper Union (41 Cooper Gallery), 41 Cooper Square, 6-8
  • Pat Steir Self-Portrait: Reprise 1987-2009 at New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, 6:30-8:30pm
  • (Acclaimed senior New York Times superstar art critic) Roberta Smith Criticism: A Life Sentence-- delivers the 3rd annual AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lectures at The New School addressing current issues in the world of art criticism. Her lecture presents one writer's view of the craft, usage of art criticism, and the rising challenges of crisis-management and maintaining relevance. Presented by The International Association of Art Critics (AICA: Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art) in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at Parsons (The New School - Tishman Auditorium), 66 West 12th Street, $8, 6:30-8
  • Performance: Chase Granoff, Nancy Garcia curated by Matthew Lyons at The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, $12, 8
  • Dan Flavin Series and Progressions at David Zwirner, 525 West 19th Street, 6-8
  • Rachel Hovnanian Power & Burden of Beauty at Jason McCoy Inc. (Chelsea satellite space), 520 West 20th Street, 5:30-7:30pm
  • Andrew Moore, Detroit at Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, 3rd Floor, 6-8
  • Edwina Sandys at Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, 6-8
  • Tim Eitel Invisible Forces at PaceWildenstein, 545 West 22nd Street, 6-8
  • Editions Artists' Books to benefit the annual exhibition fund at P.S. 1 at X Initiative, 548 West 22nd Street, $50, 6-9
  • Alex Webb / Violet Isle, Rebecca Norris Webb / A Portrait of Cuba at Ricco / Maresca Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, 3rd Fl., 6-8
  • Sylvia Sleigh at I-20 Gallery; Nov. 5-Dec. 19. "The 93-year-old painter will present small-scale portraits (made in the 1960s and 70s) of noted critics, curators, and other artists, nude, with big heads of bad hair, and flowery clothes. Sleighs paintings and watercolors are diamonds in the rough, waiting to be rediscovered and savored." -- Jerry Saltz
  • Elizabeth Peyton Distinguished Alumnus Lecture at SVA (Visual Arts Theater), 333 West 23rd Street, 7pm
  • Bruce Davidson, A Celebration of 50 Years in Collaboration with Howard Greenberg Gallery at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 505 West 24th Street, 6-8
  • Robert Bergman, A Kind of Rapture at Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Jill Greenberg, Luke Smalley New Bears; Sunday Drive at Clamp Art, 531 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Hendrik Smit Eyewall at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, 532 West 25th Street, fl. 2, 6-8:30pm
  • Kim Cogan at Gallery Henoch, 555 West 25th Street, 6-8
  • Group Exhibition curated by Tim Goossens, Avec Le Temps-In Time at Robert Miller Gallery, 524 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Sean Scully Recent Paintings at Galerie Lelong, 528 West 26th Street, 6-8
  • Time Out New York Approved at UCB, 307 West 26th Street, betw 8th & 9th, 7, $10
  • Emily Noelle Lambert Little Deaths at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, 547 West 27th Street, fl. 2, 6-9
  • Mimi and Paul: The Art of Miriam Schapiro & Paul Brach at Flomenhaft Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 308, 6-8
  • Joseph Raffael at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 520 West 27th Street, 6-8
  • Savoir-Faire is the first annual performance series designed to promote the work of emerging women artists at SoHo 20 Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 301, 6:30pm
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay Camouflage- explores universal truths that continue, to pervade history by modernizing classical objects. His updated Greek sculptures, WWII machine guns and painted columns will juxtapose nature and war at David Nolan Gallery, 527 West 29th Street, 6-8
  • George Rahme It's All There Already at Fred Torres Collaborations, 527 West 29th Street, 6-8
  • Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand, Peggy Ahwesh, Andrew Lord, The Metropolis Between One's Ears at The James Gallery of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th Street, 7-9pm
  • The Editions|Artists Book Fair preview at new location at the X Initiative (formerly the Dia Space) 548 West 22nd Street, 6-9 PM (over fifty exhibitors)
  • Susan Hamburger Moral Hazard at Cheryl McGinnis Fine Art, 555 8th Avenue, ste. 710, 6-8
  • Donald Evans, Joe Brainhard, John Ashbery From the Seventies and Jess - Paste-Ups at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 724 Fifth Avenue, at West 57th Street, 5-7pm
  • Just what is it that makes today's painting so different, so appealing w/ David Salle, Erik Parker, Frank Stella, George Condo, John Tremblay, KAWS, Keith Haring, Lisa Ruyter, Michael Bevilacqua, Michael Scott, Steve DiBenedetto & Steven Parrino  at Gering & Lopez Gallery, 730 Fifth Avenue, at 57th Street, 6-8
  • Stillness at Jan Krugier, 980 Madison Avenue at 77th Street, fl. 3, 6-8
  • Aya Takano, Reintegrating Worlds at Skarstedt Gallery, 20 E. 79th Street, 6-8
  • Performa Event: The Ants Struggle On the Snow (Le formiche fanno fatica sulla neve), Marcello Maloberti, Washington Square Park, 3:00pm, An improvised carnival. Vital sprint. Dance. Collective run to the take-off. An interactive performance. The performing group will be formed by a heterogeneous crowd of approximately thirty people including friends, volunteers, strangers, six basketball players,
  • Performa Event: Art History with Benefits, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, X Initiative, 548 W 22nd Street, 6:00pm, This fall The Bruce High Quality Foundation founded BHQFU, a free, unaccredited "university" dedicated to the creation of new histories of art.
  • Performa Event: Craneway Event, Tacita Dean, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, 131 E. 10th Street, Thursday, November 5 - Saturday, November 7, times vary, COLOURA stunning 16-millimeter, feature-length film showing Merce Cunningham and his company rehearsing an Event in the craneway of an abandoned Ford Motor factory.
  • In The Shadows w/ Ed Leveckis, Raphael Fodde at Henry Gregg Gallery, 111 Front Street, ste. 226, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-9
  • Photography: Erika Stone, Fred Stein New York Vision 1940s-50s at Farmani Gallery, 111 Front Street, ste. 212, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8
  • Photography w/ Adam Golfer, Daniel Shea, Joe Leavenworth, TJ Proechel Dreamboats at Umbrage, 111 Front Street, fl. 2, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8
  • Unfenced; Safe as Houses; Reticulated Forms w/ Carolyn Martin, Sarah Blackwelder, Sylvia Netzerr  at A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front Street, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 6-8
  • Artist Talk: The Experience of Green w/ Stephen B. Nguyen & Wade Kavanaugh at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), 30 Washington Street, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 7pm
  • Dutch Directions at Artbreak, 195 Grand Street, betw Bedford & Driggs, Brooklyn, 6-10
  • Cuniculus Rabbit Collective Winter Exhibiton w/ Alexandra Coveleski, Gian D'Angelo, Jack Carr, James Yeh, Jillian-Mae Brodie, Marina Girch, Matthew Palmer & Mollie Roth at Rabbitholestudio, 33 Washington Street at Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 5-9
  • ANTONY CROSSFIELD Foreign Body at KLOMPCHING GALLERY, Front Street, Suite 206, Brooklyn, 6-8
  • Close Views (From a Distance), Featuring: Susan Arthur-Whitson, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Judy Gelles, Benjamin Pierce, and Blaise Tobia at Amos Eno Gallery, 111 Front Street #202, Brooklyn, Dumbo, 5-8

Wednesday November 4th
  • Seeing Out Louder: Art Criticism 2003-2009 by Jerry Saltz at X-INITIATIVE, 548 W. 22nd Street, 6-8
    • Follow Jerry Saltz through the twists and turns of Chelsea galleries and uptown museums, alternative spaces and out-of-the-way holes-in-the-wall. He writes about famous artists and fallen stars, emerging talent and diamonds-in-the-rough. He covers art fairs, auctions, museum politics, and art world bad behavior. Seeing Out Louder is a must-have reference to the art world. Meet Jerry! Get Your Book Signed!
  • CUE Foundation Benefit Auction, 511 West 25th Street, 6, tickets start at $100
  • Joseph Hart at David Krut, 526 West 26th Street, #816, 6-8
  • Laurie Fendrich, Drawings from the South of France at Gary Snyder Project Space, 250 West 26th Street, 4th Fl.,
  • Talk: Institute for Aesthetic Research at Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue at 36th Street, Free, 6-8
  • Performa Event: Metropolis and La Marche des Machines, Museum of Modern Art, 11 W 53rd Street, In the film "Metropolis" (to be shown with live piano accompaniment!), a city of the future replaces workers with robots that will be less susceptible to revolution. Preceded by "La Marche Des Machines," 4:00pm
  • Bruce Davidson at Howard Greenberg, 41 East 57th Street at Park Ave, 6-8
  • Book launch for David Levinthals Bad Barbie at John McWhinnie, 50 1/2 East 64th Street, betw Park & Madison, 6-8
  • IFPDA Print Fair at Park Avenue Armory, 650 Park Avenue at East 67th Street, 5-9
  • Yoko Ishikawa at Gallery Sakiko, 155 West 68th Street, suite 1127, 6-8
  • Paul McCarthy White Snow at Hauser & Wirth New York, 32 East 69th Street, 6-8
  • Talk: Wayne Gonzales at The Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, $5, 6:30pm
  • Lecture: Creating an Alternative Art World with Irving Sandler, Lois Dodd, Lynda Caspe, Daria Dorosh, Phong Bui at Museum of the City of New York, 103 Street: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, $12, 6:30
  • Avant-Guide to NYC: Discovering Absence at apexart, 291 Church Street, betw Walker & White, 6-8
  • Jacques Louis Vidal You Are What You Look At (And I Know What You've Been Watching) at Marc Jancou Contemporary, 680 Broadway, entrace on Great Jones Alley, 6-8
  • Lecture: Michael Fried with Mitch Epstein at New York Studio School, 8 West 8 Street, 6:30pm
  • Wang Bing Crude Oil (giant film) at Light Industry, 220 36th Street, fl. 5, B'lyn, 9am-11pm
  • About Face at Tabla Rasa Gallery, 224 48 Street, B'lyn, 5:30-8:30pm
  • Revelatory Tension: New Assertions on Divine Form curated by Kalia Brooks at Bric Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, B'lyn, 7-9
  • Lecture: Laurel Braitman Animal Madness at Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, B'lyn, 7-9