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Artcards brings you to art April 6, 2010
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Weekly Outlook

A week of MFA events ahead: NYU's MFA Thesis Exhibition at 80WSE Gallery opens tonight (Tuesday); ICP-Bard MFA Exhibition and Pratt's MFA Open Studios both open Friday night; and Saturday, White Box hosts "Off The Map" with Rutgers 2010 MFA Graduates. Also, Columbia's First Year Thesis Show runs April 7-17.

Friday night Williamsburg galleries are open late.
 
Hope to see you out there!


Editor's Picks

Tuesday:
+ Richard Tuttle "Village V" at Sperone Westwater

Thursday:
+ Tom McGrath "Blue Ridge by Headlights" at Sue Scott Gallery
+ Benefit: "Book Party" books sales benefit The Drawing Center curated by Joanna Kleinberg, Rachel Liebowitz at Phaidon | Store
+ Wilhelm Sasnal at Anton Kern

Friday:
+ Closing reception: John Plunkett "The Absurd Life" at Gitana Rosa Gallery

Saturday:
+ Spencer Sweeney "In Your Face!" at Gavin Brown's Enterprise
+ Brian Leo "This Air is Full" at Leo Kesting Gallery
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Full Listings (All Art Events This Week)

Tuesday, April 6

"MFA Thesis Exhibition 2010" at NYU (80WSE Gallery)
4 Street: 80 Washington Square East, NY 10003, 6-8pm

+ Richard Tuttle "Village V" at Sperone Westwater
13 street: 415 W 13 street, NY 10014, 6-8pm

Otto Piene "Light Ballet and Fire Paintings, 1960-1967" at Sperone Westwater
13 street: 415 W 13 street, NY 10014, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Barbara London "Cutting Edge: Still Sharp" at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, NY 11226, 7pm

Lecture: Kate Gilmore, Marianne Vitale "SVA Alumni Speak About Their Video Art in the Whitney Biennial 2010" at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, NY 10011, 7pm

Ragnar Naess "Plant and Space Forms" at Atlantic Gallery
29 street: 135 W 29 street, floor 6, NY 10001, 6-8pm

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Screening: "Doctor Who, and Cops with House Music" Presented by Paul Slocum at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Misc.: 177 Livingston street, NY 11201, $7, 7:30pm

kirako Miyazaki "Life" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, NY 11201, 7-10pm

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Wednesday, April 7

"Don't Piss On Me And Tell Me It's Raining" curated by Duncan MacKenzie, Richard Holland at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, NY 10013, 6-8pm

Lecture: "All the Art that's Fit to Print" Austin Thomas at Lesley Heller (Workspace)
Chinatown/LES: 54 Orchard street, NY 10002, 6:30-8pm

Artist Talk: "Ouroboros: The History of the Universe" curated by Koan Jeff Baysa at ISE Cultural Foundation
Soho: 555 Broadway, NY 10012, 6-8pm

"Sculptors Alliance 30th Anniversary Exhibit: Then and Now" at Tompkins Square Gallery
10 street: 331 E 10 street, NY 10306, 5:30-7:30pm

Benefit: "35th Anniversary Benefit and Auction" at Center for Book Arts
27 street: 28 W 27 street, floor 3, NY 10010, $100, 6-9pm

Lecture: Philip Toledano "The Photographers: Lecture Series" at International Center of Photography (ICP) (School)
43 street: 1114 Avenue of the americas, at W 43 street, NY 10110, $15 (at the door), 7-9pm

"Beyond the War: Seven Expatriate Iraqi Artists" at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
78 street: 39 E 78 street, floor 3, NY 10075, 6-8pm (symposium 4-5:30pm)

Paul Rusconi "American Boarders" at Stellan Holm Gallery
79 street: 1018 Madison avenue, NY 10075, 6-8pm


Thursday, April 8

Jesse Bransford "The Jungle (for Norma), works on paper" at Feature Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 131 Allen street, NY 10002, 6-8pm

+ Tom McGrath "Blue Ridge by Headlights" at Sue Scott Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 1 Rivington street, NY 10002, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Stuart Regen Visionaries Series: Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, NY 00000, $30, 6:30pm reception, 7pm lecture

Artist Talk: "Joan Jonas in Conversation with Bonnie Marranca and Claire MacDonald" at Location One
Soho: 26 Greene street, NY 10013, 7pm

Jason Salavon "Old Codes" at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Soho: 31 Mercer street, NY 10013, 6-8pm

+ Benefit: "Book Party" books sales benefit The Drawing Center curated by Joanna Kleinberg, Rachel Liebowitz at Phaidon | Store
Soho: 100 Wooster street, NY 10012, 6-8pm

Michael Mut "Renewal" curated by Sharon R. Reaves at Michael Mut Gallery
7 Street: 97 Avenue C, NY 11218, 6-9pm

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? "Nature Trail -- a growing installation" at Umbrella Arts
9 street: 317 E 9 street, NY 11218, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"Open Cover Before Striking: panel discussion as part of the Confounding Expectations XI Series" at Parsons (The New School - Tishman Auditorium)
12 street: 66 W 12 street, NY 10011, 7pm

Reading: Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Tim Griffin at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), NY 10014, 7pm

Lecture: "Film-maker Haile Gerima in celebration of the NYC Premiere of his latest film Teza" at Skoto Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 5, NY 10011, 6-8pm

+ Wilhelm Sasnal at Anton Kern
20 street: 532 W 20 street, NY 10011, 6-8pm

Mona Kuhn "Native" at Flowers Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, NY 10011, 6-8pm

The Simonnets at twenty first/twenty first
21 street: 551 W 21 street, floor 3, NY 10011, 6-8pm

Aya Uekawa, Charlie Roberts, Devon Costello, James Gobel, Manuel Esnoz, Mariette van der Ven, Nina Chanel Abney, Stan Narten, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Wendell Gladstone "Spring 2" at Kravets|Wehby Gallery
21 street: 521 W 21 street, NY 10011, 6-8pm

Alberto Tadiello "Variable Intensity Rain Gradient Aloft (Virga)" at Newman Popiashvili
22 street: 504 W 22 street, NY 10011, 6-8pm

Elisa Johns "Huntress" at Mike Weiss Gallery
24 street: 520 W 24 street, NY 10001, 6-8pm

? Roy Lichtenstein "Homage to Monet" at Benrimon Contemporary, LLC
24 street: 514 W 24 street, floor 2, NY 10011, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Closing reception: Pieter Hugo "Nollywood" at Yossi Milo Gallery
25 street: 525 W 25 street, NY 10001, 6-8pm

Hannah Cole, Nicole Stone "Two - Way Street" at Slag Gallery
25 street: 531 W 25 street, ground 10, NY 10001, 6-8pm

Denyse Thomasos, Harriet Korman, Jill Moser, Mary Lucier, Melissa Meyer, Peter Soriano, Richard Kalina, Roy Dowell, Stephen Mueller, Stephen Westfall "Ends and Means" at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
25 street: 514 W 25 street, NY 10001, 6-8pm

Josef Bolf "The Wolf" at Ana Cristea Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, NY 10001, 6-8pm

Anna Craycroft, Dave McDermott, Fernando Mastrangelo, Marc Seguin, Nick van Woert, Nicolas Lobo, Richard Dupont, Rosemarie Padovano, Simone Leigh, Todd Pavlisko "Comedy & Tragedy" curated by David Hunt at Marvelli Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 2, NY 10001, 6-8pm

Screening: Johan Grimonprez "dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y" at Winkleman Gallery
27 street: 621 W 27 street, NY 10001, 6pm

Almagul Menlibayeva "Daughters of Turan" at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, NY 10001, 6-9pm

Ray Kass "Plein Air" at ir77 Contemporary Art
28 street: 72 Madison avenue, floor 9, NY 10016, 6:30-9pm

? Andy Sovia, Lucinda Luvaas, Randolph SanMillan at Skylight Gallery
29 street: 538 W 29 street, NY 10001, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Preview: "The 50th Anniversary New York Antiquarian Book Fair" at Armory (Park Avenue Armory)
67 street: 650 Park avenue, at E 67 street, NY 11206, $50, 5-9pm

"Summer Visions , Psychic Predictions, Memories Yet To Come" Yashar Gallery at Brooklyn Art Studios
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 276 Greenpoint avenue, NY 11222, 6-9pm

Lecture: "Building a Collection of African American Art" at Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, Misc.: 200 Eastern Parkway, NY 11225, $20, 7-8:30pm

Karen Gibbons "Sweet Home" at 440 Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 440 Sixth avenue, NY 11215, 6-9pm

Shay Rieger "Noah's Ark, The Renewal" at AES Gallery
Queens: 44-02 23rd street, NY 11101, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Merchandise, Monks and Mongols: Tibet and China, 13th-15th Century" with Denise Patry Leidy, Ph.D. at The Newark Museum
Newark: 49 Washington street, NJ 07102, 6pm (lecture begins at 7pm)


Friday, April 9

Szabolcs Veres "Hyle" at Spencer Brownstone
Soho: 39 Wooster street, b/w Grand and Broome, NY 10013, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Astri Swendsrud "ENTR'ACTE" curated by Samuel W. Kho at All Things Project (Neighborhood Church of Greenwich Village)
4 Street: 269 Bleecker street, NY 11237, 7-9pm

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Chin Chih Yang "123PollutionSolution 2010" at Tenri Cultural Institute
13 street: 43 W 13 street, NY 10011, 6-8pm

"Eyes of the World" at ICO Art and Music Gallery
26 street: 606 W 26 street, NY 10001, 8-10pm

Workshop: "Art of The Nude: Artists Marketing Weekend Workshop" at Rogue Space (Chelsea Arts Building)
26 street: 508 W 26 street, 9E, NY 10001, 6-9pm

"ICP-Bard MFA Exhibition" at International Center of Photography (ICP) (School)
43 street: 1114 Avenue of the americas, at W 43 street, NY 10110, 7-9pm

Art Fair: "The 50th Anniversary New York Antiquarian Book Fair" at Armory (Park Avenue Armory)
67 street: 650 Park avenue, at E 67 street, NY 11206, $20, noon-8pm

Screening: dir. BAN Zhongyi "Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters" at Asia Society
70 street: 725 Park avenue, NY 11206, $7 members; $9 students/seniors; $11 nonmembers, 6:45pm

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Screening: "Live on 5 Songs Presents" at Whitney Museum of American Art
75 street: 945 Madison avenue, at 75 street, NY 10021, 6:30pm

Schandra Singh "If I Am Immune To It, I Don't Deserve To Be Here" at Bose Pacia Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 163 Plymouth street, NY 11201, 6-8pm

+ Closing reception: John Plunkett "The Absurd Life" at Gitana Rosa Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 19 Hope street, #7, NY 11211, 6-10pm

Michael Chiabaudo at Eyelevel BQE
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 364 Leonard street, NY 11211, 6-10pm

"Joshue Ott Presents Multi-User Art" at Devotion Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 54 Maujer street, NY 11206, 7pm

Arlene Morris, Audrey Rhoda, Bonnie Faulkner, Doug Metzler, Fred Hatt, Howard Eisman, Jacquelyn Schiffman, Jorge Alvarez, Mary Westring, Meridith McNeal "10 Years Of Figureworks" at Figureworks
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 168 N 6th street, NY 11211, 6-9pm

"Endangered Species" at Alice Chilton Gallery (ACG)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 147 Roebling street, NY 11211, 7-9pm

"The World We Live In, The Worlds We Create" at Like The Spice
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 224 Roebling street, NY 11211, 6:30-10pm

John Egner "Evolutions" at Slate Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 136 Wythe avenue, NY 11211, 8pm

"point." curated by Michele Jaslow, Spring Hofeldt at Screwball Spaces (Sweet Lorraine Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 183 Lorraine street, floor 3, NY 11231, 6-9pm

Gary Breece "Off Route" at Smith+Butler
Brooklyn, Misc.: 225 Smith street, NY 11231, 6-8pm

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Open Studio: "Pratt MFA Open Studios Spring 2010" at Pratt Institute (The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 200 Willoughby avenue, NY 11205, 5-9pm and 1-5pm

"Bedtime Stories" curated by Helen Wu at The Space (Fardom Gallery)
Queens: 25-17 41st Avenue, NY 11377, 7-9pm

Agustin (el tato) Rojas "Let Me Hug You" at QbaVa Gallery
Union City: 508 42nd street, NY 11203, 7-10pm


Saturday, April 10

"Off The Map; Rutgers in New York MFA Graduates 2010" at White Box (WBX Bowery)
Chinatown/LES: 329 Broome street, b/w Bowery & Chrystie, NY 10002, 5-9pm

+ Spencer Sweeney "In Your Face!" at Gavin Brown's Enterprise
Soho: 620 Greenwich street, at leroy street, NY 10014, 6-8pm

Darren Norman, Eric Poitevin, Juliette Losq curated by Luise Kaunert at Theodore:Art (Ecoartspace)
Soho: 53 Mercer street, NY 10013, 6-8pm

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+ Brian Leo "This Air is Full" at Leo Kesting Gallery
12 street: 812 Washington street, at Gansevoort, NY 10014, 7-10pm (silk screen event)

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Eric White, Fulvio Di Piazza, Nicola Verlato "Three-Handed" at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 9, NY 10011, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Mona Kuhn "Native" at Flowers Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, NY 10011, 3pm

Margeaux Walter "Crowded" at Winston Wacher Fine Art
25 street: 530 W 25 street, NY 10001, 1-3pm

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Art Fair: "The 50th Anniversary New York Antiquarian Book Fair" at Armory (Park Avenue Armory)
67 street: 650 Park avenue, at E 67 street, NY 11206, $20, noon-7pm

Screening: Pema Tsedan (Wanma Caidan) "The Search" at Asia Society
70 street: 725 Park avenue, NY 11206, Free (register online), 3:30pm

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Screening: "Screening of Crude a film by Joe Berliner" at A.M. Richard Fine Art
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 328 Berry street, floor 3, NY 11211, 5-7pm

Lecture: "In conversation Christy Rupp & Andrew Garn" at A.M. Richard Fine Art
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 328 Berry street, floor 3, NY 11211, 4-5pm

Michael Chiabaudo at Eyelevel BQE
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 364 Leonard street, NY 11211, 5-8:30pm

Eve Biddle, John Delk, Melissa Barrett, Philip Sirois, Rachael Wren, Sanford Wintersberger "Funktionlust" curated by Sam Farnsworth at Repetti Studios (Greenpoint)
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 155 Freeman street, NY 11222, 7-9pm

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Eddie Martinez, Elisa Lendvay, Gina Beavers, Jamison Brosseau, Matthew Fisher, Ned Colclough, Sarah Dornner "Folksmusic" curated by Jon Lutz at Daily Operation
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 275 Varet street, floor 3, NY 11206, 7-10pm

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Rachel Youens "Cornucopias" at Open Source
Brooklyn, Misc.: 255 17 street, b/w 5th & 6th avenue, NY 11215, 7-10pm

Benefit: "Crack-a-Thon" at MF Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 213 Bond street, NY 11217, 7-10pm

"Never Think small - Redux! & The Artful Scriptorium" at climate/gallery
Queens: 37-24 24th street, suite 402, NY 10010, 6-9pm

Loli Kantor "There Was A Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today: 2005-2009" at Dutch Kills Gallery
Queens: 37-24 24th street, Suite 402, NY 10010, 6-9pm

Annysa Ng, Bing Lee, Heungman, Kaho Albert Yu, Samson Young, Sin-Ying Ho, Teresa Kwong "Beyond the Colony of Kitsch" at Crossing Art Gallery
Queens: 136-17 39th avenue, NY 11368, 2-5pm

Eve Biddle, John Delk, Melissa Barrett, Philip Sirois, Rachael Wren, Sanford Wintersberger "Funktionlust" curated by Sam Farnsworth at Local Project (Graffitti Building in front to the PS1)
Queens: 45-10 Davis street, NY 11101, 6-9pm

Performance: Liz Magic Laser "Flight" at P.S.1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, at 26 avenue, NY 11101, 4-6pm

Lecture: "Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s" at The Newark Museum
Newark: 49 Washington street, NJ 07102, 10am-5pm


Sunday, April 11

Alix Pearlstein "Talent and Finale" at On Stellar Rays
Chinatown/LES: 133 Orchard street, NY 10002, 6-8pm

Becket Bowes "Failure Canon" at Rachel Uffner Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 47 Orchard street, NY 10002, 6-8pm

? "Marjorie Strider" at Bridge Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 98 Orchard street, NY 10002, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Mindy Veissid "Personal Work" at Bar Breton
28 street: 254 Fifth avenue, NY 00000, 7-10pm

Art Fair: "The 50th Anniversary New York Antiquarian Book Fair" at Armory (Park Avenue Armory)
67 street: 650 Park avenue, at E 67 street, NY 11206, $20, noon-5pm

"Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art" at Wave Hill
252 street: 675 W 252 street, Glyndor Gallery, NY 10471, 1-4pm

"Spring Fever" organized by Nicole Russo and Ridley Howard at 106 Green
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 106 Green street, NY 11222, 5-8pm

Lecture: John Adam Staszyn "A Sense of Humor" at Sugar
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 449 Troutman street, NY 11237, RSVP to 718-417-1180, 2pm

Lecture: "Vsevolod Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain, with Michael Hagner in conversation with D. Graham Burnett" at Cabinet
Brooklyn, Misc.: 300 Nevins street, NY 11215, 7-9pm


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