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This week the big news is the 2010 Whitney Biennial, which opens on Wednesday. Always a must-see, controversial show that includes a mix of some known and lesser-known artists. The Whitney is my favorite museum for American art -- the layout and programming are really excellent. With the art fairs starting next week, much more lies ahead, but hope to see you out this week! One more quick note, check out Radiovisual for a podcast that includes Jerry Saltz and a review of Shaq's curatorial debut.

Thursday:
+ "The Brucennial 2010: Miseducation" at Recess Activities, Inc.
+ Ken Grimes "Contact -- New Evidence" at Ricco/Maresca Gallery
+ "The Museum of Unnatural History" at Clamp Art

Friday:

+ Robert A.A. Lowe, Rose Lazar "New Drawings" at By And By

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+ Katsuhisa Sakai "Parallel Modes" at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
+ "Entomologia: A Group Show of Insect Art" at Observatory

Tuesday, February 23

Lecture: "The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression" Marina Grzinic with Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Jonathan Beller, and Besnik Pula at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 7pm

Book Signing: Marina Abramovic "Marina Abramovic Book Signing party" at Phaidon | Store
Soho: 100 Wooster street, 6.30-8pm

Jimmy Miracle "New Birds" curated by Samuel W. Kho at All Things Project (Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village) 4 Street: 269 Bleecker street, 7-9pm

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Artist Talk: Susannah Phillips discusses her work with Christina Kee at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

Screening: and Willie Thurlow, Anna Campbell, Joel Gibb, Juliana Leite, Kate Gilmore, Kelly Sears, Leidy Churchman, Liz Rosenfeld, Mae Hymn, Melanie Schiff "Seven Easy Steps: Physical Pleasures" curated by Amanda Schmitt at Horton Gallery
22 street: 504 W 22 street, 7-9pm

Robert Aitchison, Sybille Mathiaud "La Poesie du Paysage" at 220 Atelier
30 street: 220 W 30 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Eirc Orr, Ellis Gallagher, Josh Goldstein, Steve Cogle "Real Street Art Show" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Lecture: Olaf Breuning "Visiting Artist Lecture Series-School of Art & Design" at Pratt Institute (The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 200 Willoughby avenue, Free and Open to Public, 12:45-1:45pm

Wednesday, February 24

"Inherent Bodies" at 255Canal
Chinatown/LES: 255 Canal street, floor 4, RSVP to 255canal@gmail.com, 6-9pm

"Just Off" curated by Alix Sloan, Peter Drake at Sloan Fine Art
Chinatown/LES: 128 Rivington street, 6-8pm

Ryan Scully "Always Moving" at Sloan Fine Art
Chinatown/LES: 128 Rivington street, 6-8pm

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

Artist Talk: "Jovana Stokic speaks with artist Ragnar Kjartansson" at Location One
Soho: 26 Greene street, 7pm

Lecture: "Aimee Brown Price: Puvis de Chavannes and the Invention of Modernism" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

Diana Eng "Fairytale Fashion Show" at Eyebeam
21 street: 540 W 21 street, RSVP, 7pm

Closing reception: "A Night of Art that Rocks" at Heist Gallery (pop-up space)
31 street: 143 Madison avenue, 7-10pm

Lecture: Jim Goldberg "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

"Knock Knock: Who's There? That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" curated by Elana Rubinfeld, Sarah Murkett at Armand Bartos Fine Art
73 street: 25 E 73 street, 6-8pm

Adam Calvert, Ant, David Ahuja, Greg Hill, Guido Jim?nez Cruz, Jenny Figarola, John Hobbs, Jon Audarson, Manuel Dilone, Matt Campbell, Michael Bartalos, Paul Eng, Philip Kelly, Raina Kumra, Rob Bindler, Rob Erickson, Ruth Mamaril, Spencer Bewle, Todd Lamb "Super Short Video" curated by John Tymkiw at Secret Project Robot
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 210 Kent avenue, 7-10pm

Artist Talk: Christine Licata "Muse Fuse" at NURTUREart Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 229 Leonard street, 7pm

Thursday, February 25

Corey D'Augustine, Gar Wang, Marsha Melnick "Intersections" curated by Cora Cohen at Educational Alliance (Ernest Rubenstein Gallery)
Chinatown/LES: 197 E Broadway, 6-8pm

Tang Nannan "What I can See From Here" at Living with Art gallery
Chinatown/LES: 153 Lafayette street, 6-9pm

Anya Kielar "Face" at Rachel Uffner Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 47 Orchard street, 6-8pm

"The Brucennial 2010: Miseducation" at Recess Activities, Inc.
Soho: 41 Grand street, 6-9pm

+ "The Brucennial 2010: Miseducation" at Recess Activities, Inc.
Soho: 350 W Broadway, 6pm-2am

Tala Madani "Pictograms" at Lombard-Freid Projects
19 street: 520 W 19 street, 6-8pm

+ Ken Grimes "Contact -- New Evidence" at Ricco/Maresca Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 3, 6-9pm

George Afedzi Hughes "Layers" at Skoto Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Faith Ringgold "Two Black Women" at ACA Galleries
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Dhruvi Acharya "Gasp!" at Kravets|Wehby Gallery
21 street: 521 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Lyle Ashton Harris "Ghana" at CRG Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Eve Fowler "One thing I forgot to tell you" at Horton Gallery
22 street: 504 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Marcia Hafif "From the Inventory: Black Paintings, 1979-80" at Newman Popiashvili
22 street: 504 W 22 street, 6-8pm

+ "The Museum of Unnatural History" at Clamp Art
25 street: 531 W 25 street, 6-8pm

John Himmelfarb "Geared Up" at Luise Ross Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Michel Francois "Pavilion Interface" at Bortolami
25 street: 510 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Paul Kolker "Einstein, Mandelbrot, and their Footprints on the Sands of Time... Go Digital! The Epilogue" at Studio 601
25 street: 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Dona Nelson, Pia Maria Martin, Richard Staub, Rose Wylie "Animate Matter" at Thomas Erben Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 4, 6-8:30pm

Nari Ward "LIVESupport" at Lehmann Maupin
26 street: 540 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Benefit: "NYFA Annual Benefit 2010: honoring Anita Durst (chashama) and Yun-Fei Ji (printmaking)" at James Cohan Gallery
26 street: 533 W 26 street, $350 preview / $150 auction, 6:30-7:30pm auction preview, 7:30-9:30pm auction

Chris Martin, Joe Bradley at Mitchell - Innes & Nash (Chelsea)
26 street: 534 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Lesley Dill "Paper & Bronze" at George Adams Gallery
26 street: 525 W 26 street, 5:30-7:30pm

Michael Gregory "New Work" at Nancy Hoffman Gallery 27 street: 520 W 27 street, 6-8pm

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Lecture: "Artist Lecture Series: John Newsom" at SoHo 20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, RSVP suggested to rsvp@artcomments.com, 7-9pm

Debra Hampton "Twenty Paces" at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

Konstantinos Stamatiou "Refused Reused" at Black and White Gallery (chelsea)
28 street: 636 W 28 street, 6-8pm

? Barbara Galazo, Mark Weiss, Sharon Falk at Skylight Gallery
29 street: 538 W 29 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"The Heartbeat of Fashion" as inspired by F.C. Gundlach at Howard Greenberg Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, floor 14, 6-8pm

Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, William Eggleston "Pioneers of Color" at Edwynn Houk Gallery
57 street: 745 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Joel Meyerowitz, Kevin Moore "Pioneers of Color" at Edwynn Houk Gallery
57 street: 745 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, 3-4pm

? Gregory Gillespie "Paintings" at Forum Gallery
57 street: 745 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, floor 5, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Lecture: "Forum: Beyond Material Worth" Join the Conversation Online at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, (online), 2-3pm

Amy Williams "Within You, Without You" at 440 Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 440 Sixth avenue, 6-9pm

Friday, February 26

Julien Bismuth, Lucas Ajemian "Les Tristes: Invisble-Exports" at Invisible-Exports
Chinatown/LES: 14 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Brian Belott "Bbbrrriiiaaannn Bbbeeellloootttttt: The Joy of File" at Galerie Zurcher
Soho: 33 Bleecker street, 6-8pm

Lecture: Slavs and Tatars "79-89-09" curated by Beatrice Gross at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, 3rd floor, Free and open to the public, 7-9pm

? Eemyun Kang "Dozing River" at Tina Kim Fine Art
25 street: 545 W 25 street, floor 3, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Performance: Aleksandra Mir, Brahms, Brina Thurston, Charles Stankievech, Class Actress, Lemonade, Shana Moulton, Simone Leigh "A New Breed" curated by Ian Daniel, Mary Mattingly at Exit Art
36 street: 475 Tenth avenue, at 36 street, $5-$20 Pay-As-You-Wish, 8pm-1am

Jose Yturralde "Horizons" at Gering & Lopez Gallery
57 street: 730 Fifth avenue, at 57 street, 6-8pm

Nancy Rubens "Recent Work" at Gallery Sakiko
68 street: 155 W 68 street, suite 1127, 6-8pm

Lecture: "The Review Panel: discussion about El Anatsui, Damien Hirst, Yvonne Jacquette, and Tino Sehgal" at National Academy Musuem & School of Fine Arts
89 street: 1083 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, 6:45pm

Benefit: "The Great Pop-Up Art Sale" at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 30 Washington street, 6-9pm

Michelle Forsyth "Over & Over" at Hogar Collection Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 362 Grand street, at Marcy, 6-9pm

+ Robert A.A. Lowe, Rose Lazar "New Drawings" at By And By Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 552 Grand street, 6-9pm

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John Plunkett "The Absurd Life" at Gitana Rosa Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 19 Hope street, #7, 6-8pm

Susan Newmark "Cut & Color: The Janes" at Figureworks
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 168 N 6th street, 6-9pm

Emily Roz, Patricia Smith, Thomas Broadbent "Space Mind" at Front Room Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 147 Roebling street, 7-9pm

Zhu Ming "Breaking the I solation" curated by Vigi at Alice Chilton Gallery (ACG)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 147 Roebling street, 6-8pm

+ Katsuhisa Sakai "Parallel Modes" at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 205 Norman avenue, 7-9pm

+ "Entomologia: A Group Show of Insect Art" at Observatory
Brooklyn, Misc.: 543 Union street, at Nevins street, 7-10pm

"Each + Every" at ICP-Bard Studios
Queens: 24-20 Jackson avenue, 6-10pm

Screening: "Strongman" reception and shorts at Gallery Aferro
Newark: 73 Market street, 7-9pm

Saturday, February 27

Closing reception: Justin Horowitz "Gilded Fruit" at Fierce Gallery Soho: 269 Elizabeth street, 7-10pm

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"Bruceforma" at Recess Activities, Inc.
Soho: 41 Grand street, 6-9pm

"Bruceforma" at Recess Activities, Inc.
Soho: 350 W Broadway, 6pm-midnight

Steve Gross, Susan Daley "Schoharie Photographs" at O.K. Harris Works of Art Soho: 383 W Broadway, b/w broome & spring, 3-5pm

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Rafael Rozendaal, Tara Sinn at Spencer Brownstone
Soho: 39 Wooster street, b/w Grand and Broome, 6-8pm

"Five Year Anniversary Show" at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 9, 7-9pm

Jedediah Caesar at D'Amelio Terras
22 street: 525 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Esko Mannikko "Harmony Sisters" at Yancey Richardson Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Louis Cameron "The African American Flag Project" at I-20 Gallery
23 street: 557 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Sofi Zezmer "Remote Control" at Mike Weiss Gallery
24 street: 520 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Anni Leppala, Hannu Karjalainen, Niko Luoma, Ola Kolehmainen "The Helsinki School" at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
24 street: 505 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Screening: "The Yes Men Fix the World" at Gallery Aferro
Newark: 73 Market street, 7-10pm

Sunday, February 28

Performance: Birgit Rathsmann, Ryan McNamara at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 163 Eldridge street, 4pm

Virginia Overton "True Grit" at Dispatch
Chinatown/LES: 127 Henry street, 5-7pm

Clifford Owens, Debo Eilers, Georgia Sagri, JJ Peet, Tommy Hartung, Zipora Fried "Reconstruction #1" at On Stellar Rays
Chinatown/LES: 133 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Monday, March 1

Book Signing: "Band of Bikers" at ZieherSmith
20 street: 516 W 20 street, 5-7pm

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