The best action this week is on Friday and Saturday, including "Back The Beat" on Friday when Bushwick galleries stay open late.

The Armory Show is coming up in a couple weeks and we want to give our readers VIP access to our favorite fairs (The Armory Show, SCOPE, and Fountain) plus a $100 gift certificate to the best post-art-opening spot: the Half King Bar & Restaurant. For your chance to win, go to www.artcards.cc/contests/

Great new posts on Artcards Review:
Miroslav Tichy Debuts in America -- Helen Homan Wu discovers stunning self-made cameras
The New York Society of Women Artists -- Peter Neofotis reviews The Meaning of the Line Exhibition.
Art Book Swap at MOMA -- Gabriella Radujko reports on a new book event at MoMA
Folk Flock to Flurry Field -- Ryan Sullivan photographs local creativity in the snow in McGolrick park
"Post-Minimal to the Max," a response -- Ben Wadler responds to Roberta Smith

Enjoy the week, enter our contest, and be on the look-out for special tours we will provide during the Armory Show Week.

Thursday:
+ Liam Gillick "Discussion Bench Platforms" at Casey Kaplan
+ Bill Jensen "New Work" at Cheim & Read
+ Louise Belcourt "Paintings" at Jeff Bailey Gallery

Friday:
+ "Triple Canopy: The Medium Was Tedium" panel discussion with Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff at New Museum of Contemporary Art
+ "Size Does Matter" curated by Shaquille O'Neal at Flag Art Foundation
+ Kim Fisher "New Work" at John Connelly Presents
+ Norman Jabaut, Robert Rauschenberg "fog walks" at Norte Maar (Storefront)

Saturday:
+ Henry Taylor, Phil Wagner at Rental Gallery
+ Carl Fudge "Dazzle" at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
+ Steve Mumford "New Paintings" at Postmasters Gallery
+ "The Sacred Comic Book by anonymous, ca.1921" final show at Jack the Pelican Presents
+ Akiyuki Ina "Emitting Evanescent Beauty" at Open Source
+ Benefit: "Impossible Geometries: A Benefit Party for Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School" inaugural exhibition for new location at Light Industry

Sunday:
+ "#class" organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida at Winkleman Gallery

Tuesday, February 16

"Drawing Together: Works on Paper" at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Soho: 26 Wooster street, 6-8pm

Lecture: William Kentridge "Drawing Lessons" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

Artist Talk: Megan Craig at SVA (Westside Gallery)
21 street: 141 W 21 street, room 101C, 6:30pm

"Johnny Got His Gun: MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department" curated by Viktor Koen at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, 6-8pm

Book launch: "The Gin Closet" at BookCourt
Brooklyn, Misc.: 163 Court street, 7pm

Shunya Nakamura "Line Archive in NY" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Wednesday, February 17

Edina Tokodi "If All The World Were A Blackbird" at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, RSVP to rsvp@lprnyc.com, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Steve Lambert "Glowlounge: Winter 2010 Edition" at Glowlab
Soho: 30 Grand street, Free. Space limited, reservation required., 7-8:30pm

Artist Talk: Danny Lyon, Elliott Erwitt, Jeff Wall, Luc Tuymans, Martin Parr, Nan Goldin, Nedko Solakov, Nobuyoshi Araki, Rene Burri, Roger Ballen, Stephen Shore, Tacita Dean "Stephen Shore launch party for the new Phaidon Collector's Editions" at Phaidon | Store
Soho: 100 Wooster street, 6.30-8pm

Lecture: "Jack Tworkov and the Extreme of the Middle" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

Helen Miranda Wilson "Eight Paintings" at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
19 street: 138 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Stephen Antonakos "Whites" at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
19 street: 138 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Screening: Susan MacWilliam "F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N" at Sara Meltzer Gallery
26 street: 525 W 26 street, 6:30pm

Artist Talk: Leah Oates at Center for Book Arts
27 street: 28 W 27 street, floor 3, $10, 6:30pm

"Parafacts and Parafictions: Helguera, Blachly & Shaw" at EFA Gallery
39 street: 323 W 39 street, 6:30-8pm

Lecture: Susan Lipper "The Photographers: Lecture Series" at International Center of Photography (ICP) (School)
43 street: 1114 Avenue of the americas, at W 43 street, $15 (at the door), 7-9pm

Tour: "Director's Choice Tour--El Museo del Barrio" at American Federation of the Arts (AFA)
47 street: 305 E 47 street, floor 10, $45, 6:30-8:30pm

Screening: Christoph Draeger "The End of the Remake Trilogy directed by Christoph Draeger" (includes discussion with the filmmaker) at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, 4:30-6pm

Priscila De Carvalho "No One's Land" at Praxis International Art
73 street: 25 E 73 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Screening: "John & Jane: A Moving | Wall Pictures film and video program" curated by Murtaza Vali at Bric Rotunda Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 33 Clinton street, 7pm

Thursday, February 18

Robert Kent Wilson "Pixel by Pixel" at Raandesk Gallery (Punch & Judy)
Chinatown/LES: 26 Clinton street, b/w stanton & east houston, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Catherine Howe "Artist Talk" at Lesley Heller (Workspace)
Chinatown/LES: 54 Orchard street, 6-7:30pm (talk begins at 6:30pm)

Hannah Whitaker "Victory Over the Sun!" at Kumukumu
Chinatown/LES: 42 Rivington street, 6-8pm

Alexander Brown, Ben Franke, Casey Oto, Erin Wahed, Jacqueline Zaccor, Lili Holzer-Glier, Meredith Rom, Sterling Yee, Suzanne Shaheen, Thalia Ortiz "Show 2: BFA Thesis Exhibition" at Tisch School of Arts
Soho: 721 Broadway, 6-8pm

+ Liam Gillick "Discussion Bench Platforms" at Casey Kaplan
21 street: 525 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Gary Simmons "Midnight Matinee" at Metro Pictures
24 street: 519 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Adam Niklewicz, Jason Irla, Krzysztof Zarebski, Lina Kim, SOSka Group "Post-Gogol: The Silent Absence of the Body" curated by Marek Bartelik at Slag Gallery 25 street: 531 W 25 street, ground 10, 6-8pm

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Jill Moser "New Paintings and Prints" at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
25 street: 514 W 25 street, floor 1, 6-8pm

+ Bill Jensen "New Work" at Cheim & Read
25 street: 547 W 25 street, 6-8pm

William Bailey "New Work" at Betty Cuningham Gallery
25 street: 541 W 25 street, 6-8pm

+ Louise Belcourt "Paintings" at Jeff Bailey Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

? William Kentridge "Sheets of Evidence" at Dieu Donne
36 street: 315 W 36 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Nikki Lindt "Solastalgia" at Heskin Contemporary
37 street: 443 W 37 street, 6-9pm

Myriam Babin "Arctic" at Heskin Contemporary
37 street: 443 W 37 street, 6-9pm

Screening: Christoph Draeger "The End of the Remake Trilogy directed by Christoph Draeger" (includes discussion with the filmmaker) at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, 7-8:30pm

Art Fair: "Works on Paper" at Armory (Park Avenue Armory)
67 street: 650 Park avenue, at E 67 street, $20, 6-9pm preview

Eve Plumb "Bistro" at Gina Gallery
81 street: 454 Columbus avenue, at 81 street, 6-8pm

Elene Usdin "Femmes D'Interieur" at Farmani Gallery Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 212, 6-9pm

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Marco Delogu "Cardinals and Criminals" at Randall Scott Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 204, 6-8pm

Friday, February 19

Josh Azzarella at DCKT Contemporary, Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 195 Bowery, 6-8pm

+ "Triple Canopy: The Medium Was Tedium" panel discussion with Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, 7pm

Performance: "Party with DJs No Regular Play (Wolf Lamb), Cem / Rg (disco!), and Memek (Minimoo)" at CVZ Contemporary (Safe Harbor)
Soho: 446 Broadway, b/w grand & howard, floor 3, $20, 11pm-4am

Grace Moon, Jen P. Harris "When Girls Were Boys and Boys Were Girls" at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Soho: 26 Wooster street, 7-9pm

? Dan Walsh "Days and Nights" at Paula Cooper Gallery
22 street: 521 W 21 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

? Celeste Boursier-Mougenot "harmonichaos" at Paula Cooper Gallery
23 street: 465 W 23 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Open Studio: Allie Pisarro-Grant, Andrew Thomas, Clayton Schiff, DADDY, John Bianchi, Justin Warsh, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Michael Assiff, Scott Goodman "Clopen Studio" at 1100 Broadway
25 street: 1100 Broadway, 6-9pm

+ "Size Does Matter" curated by Shaquille O'Neal at Flag Art Foundation
25 street: 545 W 25 street, floor 9, 6-8pm

"selection of gallery artists" inaugural exhibition for new location at Magnan Metz Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Yun-Fei Ji "Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts" at James Cohan Gallery
26 street: 533 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"What's Left: Five Decades of Artworks Made by a Public" new gallery space on the second floor at Alexander Gray Associates
26 street: 508 W 26 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

+ Kim Fisher "New Work" at John Connelly Presents
27 street: 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Jessica Jackson Hutchins at Derek Eller Gallery
27 street: 615 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Lars Laumann at Foxy Production
27 street: 623 W 27 street, 6-8pm

"Everyone is Welcome: The Art of K.O.S." curated by James Romaine at NYCAMS
28 street: 44 W 28 street, floor 7, 6pm

Alexandra Pacula "Turbulent Utopia" at Mighty Tanaka Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 68 Jay street, suite 416, 5pm

Ron Rocco "Shake Up" at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, 6-10pm

Jeremy Dean "Ron Rocco: Shake Up!" curated by Lynn del Sol at {CTS} creative thriftshop
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, 6-9pm

Graham Anderson at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 438 Union avenue, 7-9pm

Andy Piedilato "New Paintings" curated by Phoenix Lights at English Kills Art Gallery
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 114 Forrest street, 7-10pm

Didier Clain, Didier Clain, Layton Hower, Miguel Kim, Myles Dickason, Tim Kent "Terrae and the Ether" at Centotto :: galleria [simposio] salotto
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 250 Moore Street, suite 108, 6-10pm

David B. Frye, JJ Sulin "council bluff" curated by Gwendolyn Skaggs at Sugar
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 449 Troutman street, 6-10pm

+ Norman Jabaut, Robert Rauschenberg "fog walks" at Norte Maar (Storefront)
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 16 Wilson avenue, 6-10pm

Brad Darcy, Chaw ei Thein "Transformed Conversation" curated by Nunu Hung at Soapbox Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 636 Dean street, 6-9pm

Randal Wilcox "In My Secrecy I Was Real" at Famous Accountants
Brooklyn, Misc.: 1673 Gates avenue, 6-10pm

"Housebroken: inaugural building-wide exhibition and gala" at flux factory
Queens: 39-31 29th street, suggested donation $15, 8pm

Pierre Le Hors "Studies for a Still Life in Red Green and Blue (shine on)" at ICP-Bard Studios
Queens: 24-20 Jackson avenue, 6-9pm

Saturday, February 20

"The Portrait Project at The Supper Club" at Allegra LaViola Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 179 East Broadway, $50, email gallery@allegralaviola.com for tickets, 6pm

+ Henry Taylor, Phil Wagner at Rental Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 120 East broadway, floor 6, 7-9pm

Screening: "Birgit Rathsmann presents: A Room For Storms" A temporary cinema with one-night only screenings of Hurseas08.mov at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 163 Eldridge street, 8pm, 8:30pm, 9pm, and 9:30pm

Katie Holten "The Golden Bough II" Supported by Culture Ireland at LMAKprojects
Chinatown/LES: 139 Eldridge street, 6-9pm

+ Carl Fudge "Dazzle" at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Soho: 31 Mercer street, 6-8pm

Wolfgang Joop at Lumas Editions Gallery
Soho: 77 Wooster street, 6-8pm

Screening: Sarah Singh "The Sky Below" 75 mins, 2007 at Aicon Gallery
4 Street: 35 Great Jones street, at W 25 street, 5pm

+ Steve Mumford "New Paintings" at Postmasters Gallery
19 street: 459 W 19 street, 6-8pm

+ "The Sacred Comic Book by anonymous, ca.1921" final show at Jack the Pelican Presents
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 487 Driggs avenue, 7-9pm

+ Akiyuki Ina "Emitting Evanescent Beauty" at Open Source
Brooklyn, Misc.: 255 17 street, b/w 5th & 6th avenue, 7-10pm

Performance: Alex Alexander, Amanda Homi, Spiros Exaras "Experimental-Ethnic Concert with Legal Aliens" at Clover's Fine Art Gallery & Cafe
Brooklyn, Misc.: 338 Atlantic avenue, 7pm

+ Benefit: "Impossible Geometries: A Benefit Party for Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School" inaugural exhibition for new location at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Misc.: 177 Livingston street, 8pm until early AM

Sunday, February 21

Jessica Jackson Hutchins "Over Come Over" at Small A Projects
Chinatown/LES: 261 Broome street, 6-8pm

+ "#class" organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida at Winkleman Gallery
27 street: 637 W 27 street, 4-7pm

Performance: Lee Ranaldo "A Sunday afternoon sound performance with Lee Ranaldo" at Hogar Collection Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 362 Grand street, at Marcy, 2-6pm

Monday, February 22

Alicia Gibson, Alina Smirnova, DADDY, Daniel Heidkamp, David Bodhi Boylan, Devin Cuthbertson, Hillary Baldwin and Matthew Ward, Julia Burlingham, Liz Maher, Maj Anya DeBear, Panova, Phillip John Velasco Gabriel, Rebecca Schiffman, Sasha Panyuta "Romance" curated by Sasha Panyuta at 447 Hudson 4 Street: 447 Hudson street, 7-10pm

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Screening: Jonas Mekas "Award Presentation to Andy Warhol, 1964, b&w, 12 min" at EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix)
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 5, RSVP to info@eai.org, 6:30pm

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