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Thursday night is the best night to go out this week. Westwood Gallery will show Will Insley's work in SoHo. In Chelsea the gallery scene is in full force with a few highlights including a performance at Postmasters and Nic Rad's "PeopleMatter Art Giveaway" at Rare Gallery.

More open studio events this week: Thursday, SVA MFA Open Studios and Lower East Printshop Open Studio; Friday LMCC Work Space Open Studios. Two lesser-known open studios: Saturday "4th Annual Mott Haven Open Studio" in the Bronx, and "Open Studio Weekend" at Screwball Spaces in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Thursday:
+ Will Insley "Onecity: Wall fragments, drawings + photographs of abstract buildings" curated by James Cavello at Westwood Gallery
+ Performance: Chris Verene "Town Hall Meeting" at Postmasters Gallery
+ Open Studio: "MFA Open Studios" at SVA
+ Nic Rad "PeopleMatter Art Giveaway" at Rare
+ Open Studio: Caleb Freese, Erin Diebboll, Golnar Adili, Joell Baxter, Nicolas Touron, Ronny Quevedo, Sandra Chi, Sara Eichner, Shani Peters, Tai Hwa Goh, Yunmee Kyong "Lower East Side Printshop Spring Open Studio" at Lower East Side Printshop

Friday:
+ Open Studio: "Workspace Open Studio Weekend" at LMCC

Saturday:
+ "Power To The People: free art: one piece per person please" at Feature Inc.

Sunday:
+ Alex Hubbard, Alexandre Singh, Allyson Vieira, Carter, Cassie Raihl, Daniel Lefcourt, David Brooks, Erin Shirreff, Esther Klas, Joanna Malinowska, Matt Sheridan Smith, Mika Tajima, Nikolas Gambaroff, Ohad Meromi, Sara VanDerBeek, Tamar Halpern, Tom Thayer, Uri Aran, Virginia Poundstone "Knight's Move" at SculptureCenter

Tuesday, April 27

"Nathan Hilu" curated by Walter O'Neill at Educational Alliance (Ernest Rubenstein Gallery) Chinatown/LES: 197 E Broadway, 2-4pm

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Allison Gildersleeve, Erik Jeor at Allegra LaViola Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 179 East Broadway, 6-9pm

Charles Yuen, Charlotte Schulz, Mary Carlson, Ming Fay, Nick Ghiz, Seth Michael Forman at Lesley Heller (Workspace)
Chinatown/LES: 54 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Benefit: "BOMB Gala & Auction" at National Arts Club
20 street: 15 Gramercy Park South, $250 and up, 6-10pm

Book launch: Gary Hill "Book Launch: Screening + Conversation" at EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix)
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 5, RSVP to info@eai.org, 6:30pm

Lannie Hart "Steel Lace" at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 5-7pm

Susan Hockadday "Plastic Nature" at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 5-7pm

Workshop: "I Want To Share Pizza With You!! A Workshop with CYA" at EFA Gallery
39 street: 323 W 39 street, RSVP to michelle@efanyc.org, 6:30-8:30pm

John Little "Ecliptic Terrane" at Spanierman Modern
58 street: 53 E 58 street, RSVP to alicehammond@spanierman.com, 6-8pm

Book launch: "Grotesk: a decade of Swiss design lost in Brooklyn" at Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 218 Bedford avenue, 6-8pm

Naoko Kagawa "where is my buterfly?" at Ouchi Gallery Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

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Wednesday, April 28

Lecture: "Painters/Painting" Kamrooz Aram, Dike Blair, Holly Coulis, David Humphrey, and Deborah Kass, moderated by Tom Sanford at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6pm

"Remember the Upstairs Lounge" curated by Dan Cameron, No Longer Empty at No Longer Empty (Upstairs Lounge)
16 street: 447 W 16 street, 6-8pm

Benefit: "Groundbreaking: art preview and reception" at Figment (The Gershwin Hotel)
27 street: 7 E 27 street, $75, 6-10pm

Lecture: "What We See and What We Know" with Mark Strand at The Frick Collection
70 street: 1 E 70 street, free, 6pm

Artist Talk: Idris Kahn "Conversations With Contemporary Artists" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $10, 6:30pm

Performance: "CPR Completion Of Year One!" celebration & performance at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, 8pm

Workshop: "Idea Party: Help in Hard Times" at Bric Rotunda Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 33 Clinton street, 7pm

Lecture: "Panel Discussion: Abstract Art, A Living Legacy" at The Newark Museum
Newark: 49 Washington street, RSVP to rsvp@newarkmuseum.org, 6-7pm reception, 7-8pm program

Thursday, April 29

+ Will Insley "Onecity: Wall fragments, drawings + photographs of abstract buildings" curated by James Cavello at Westwood Gallery
Soho: 568 Broadway, at prince street, suite 501, 6-8pm

Book Signing: Jessica Jiji "Sweet Dates In Basra" at Pomegranate Gallery
Soho: 133 Greene street, 6-9pm

"Modern Folk" at Aicon Gallery 4 Street: 35 Great Jones street, 7-10pm

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Rick Prol "Break Out" at Love Shine
6 Street: 543 E 6 street, 6-9pm

"Parsons MFA Design + Technology Thesis Symposium" at Parsons (Sheila C. Johnson Design Center)
13 street: 66 Fifth avenue, 6-8pm

+ Performance: Chris Verene "Town Hall Meeting" at Postmasters Gallery
19 street: 459 W 19 street, 6:30-8:30pm

"Transfer Function" at ZieherSmith
20 street: 516 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Dee Shapiro, Peter Reginato at Andre Zarre Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 7, 6-8pm

+ Open Studio: "MFA Open Studios" at SVA
21 street: 133 W 21 street, at 6 avenue, floors 8 & 9, 5-9pm

? Carey Young, Chris Marker, Christian Marclay, Douglas Huebler, Kelley Walker, Seth Price, Walid Raad, Wayne Gonzales "Reprise" at Paula Cooper Gallery
23 street: 465 W 23 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Ann Marie Heal, Ingeborg ten Haeff at Nabi Gallery
25 street: 137 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Andrew Stahl "New Paintings 2010" at Robert Steele Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Julie Heffernan "Boy, Oh Boy" at P.P.O.W.
25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 301, 6-8pm

Rallou Malliarakis "Illuminations: New Depictions of Trees and Their Branches" at First Street Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 9, 5-8pm

Shirazeh Houshiary "Light Darkness" at Lehmann Maupin
26 street: 540 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Mark Ryden "The Gay 90's: Old Tyme Art Show" at Paul Kasmin Gallery
27 street: 293 Tenth avenue, at W 27 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: "Artist Lecture Series, Athena Tacha: Public to Private" at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, $7, RSVP suggested, 7-9pm

+ Nic Rad "PeopleMatter Art Giveaway" at Rare
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 514, 6-8pm

Sally Brody "New Paintings And Prints" at Atlantic Gallery
29 street: 135 W 29 street, floor 6, 6-8pm

+ Open Studio: Caleb Freese, Erin Diebboll, Golnar Adili, Joell Baxter, Nicolas Touron, Ronny Quevedo, Sandra Chi, Sara Eichner, Shani Peters, Tai Hwa Goh, Yunmee Kyong "Lower East Side Printshop Spring Open Studio" at Lower East Side Printshop
37 street: 306 W 37 street, floor 6, 6-9pm

Carmen Herrera "Recent Works" at Latin Collector
57 street: 37 W 57 street, floor 4, 6-9pm

Kira Greene "Feastiality" at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, 6-9pm

Benefit: "The Secret Garden Benefit Party" at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 30 Washington street, $75 online / $85 at the door, 7-10pm

Tara DePorte "Heart Strings" at Gitana Rosa Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 19 Hope street, #7, 7-10pm

Lecture: "Collecting Design" at Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, Misc.: 200 Eastern Parkway, $20, 7-8:30pm

Friday, April 30

+ Open Studio: "Workspace Open Studio Weekend" at LMCC
Downtown: 125 Maiden lane, floor 2, floors 9 & 14, free with RSVP, 7-9pm

Joyce Kim, Kadar Brock, Logan Grider, Luis Macias, Mark Schubert, Stas Volovik "Night Fishing" at Thierry Goldberg Projects
Chinatown/LES: 5 Rivington street, b/w Bowery & Chrystie, 6-8pm

Kai Lumumba Barrow, Malcolm Goff , Odinga "Kwiza: To Come" at Brecht Forum
Chinatown/LES: 451 West street, 7:30pm

Liu Bolin "On Fire" at Eli Klein Fine Art
Soho: 462 West Broadway, b/w prince & houston, 6-9pm

Open Studio: "MFA Open Studios" at SVA
21 street: 133 W 21 street, at 6 avenue, floors 8 & 9, noon-8pm

Alex Yudzon, Conor McCreedy, Danielle Bitton, Gigi Chen, Glenn Palmer-Smith, I-Ling Eleen Lin, Katelyn Alain, Lisa Lebofsky, Yun-Woo Choi "Masters of Merriment" at Volume Black
22 street: 929 Broadway, 6-9pm

Greg Smith at Susan Inglett
24 street: 522 W 24 street, 6-8pm

John Giorno "Black Paintings and Drawings" at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, #213, 6-8pm

"Slide Fest: ICP-Bard MFA Program" at International Center of Photography (ICP) (School)
43 street: 1114 Avenue of the americas, at W 43 street, $5, 7-9pm

Book launch: Marisol Espaillat "Strange Nights: A Collection of Short Stories" at Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)
189 street: 178 Bennett avenue, floor 3, RSVP to 212.568.4396 / info@nomaanyc.org, 5:30pm

Vladimir Bachinsky "Vladimir Bachinsky" curated by Caroline Glemann at Liloveve Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 457 Grand street, 5-9pm

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Monica Canilao "We Are Dust" at Cinders Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 103 Havemeyer street, store#2, 7-10pm

Alisha Trimble, Erik Scollon, Fanny Allie, Gregg Evans, Nathan Austin, Renata Espinosa & Ryan Saylor, Sally Szwed & Michelle Levy, Zefrey Throwell "The sh sound was difficult" curated by Deric Carner at Louis V E.S.P. Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 140 Jackson street, suite 4D, 7-10pm

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

Kamilla Talbot, Maggie Tobin at Rico
Brooklyn, Misc.: 384 Atlantic avenue, 6-8pm

Closing reception: Erica Reade, Jon Michael Anzalone, Lemia Monet Bodden "Industrious * Sentiment * Transition" at Division of Human Works
Brooklyn, Misc.: 1501 Broadway, 6-9pm

Alex White Mazzarella "Society Under Fire" at Soapbox Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 636 Dean street, 6-9pm

Performance: Holly Faurot, Joel Mellin, Sarah H. Paulson at The Chocolate Factory
Queens: 59 49th Avenue, $15, 8-9:30pm

Saturday, May 1

Open Studio: "Workspace Open Studio Weekend" at LMCC
Downtown: 125 Maiden lane, floor 2, floors 9 & 14, free with RSVP, noon-5pm open studios, 6-8pm reading/performance

+ "Power To The People: free art: one piece per person please" at Feature Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 131 Allen street, 6-8pm

Wyatt Nash "Cast of the End" at Ramiken Crucible
Chinatown/LES: 221 East Broadway, at Clinton street, 6-9pm

Graham Caldwell, Pawel Wojtasik, Wilfredo Ortega "Inside OUT" curated by Micaela Giovannotti at Artists Alliance Inc. (Cuchfritos project space)
Chinatown/LES: 120 Essex street, b/w delancey & rivington, 4-6pm

Kara Hearn "Tremendous" at Recess Activities, Inc.
Soho: 41 Grand street, 6:30-9pm

Performance: "Remembering Baghdad: An Evening of Iraqi Music, with Yair Dalal, Omar Bashir and Erez Mounk" at Pomegranate Gallery
Soho: 133 Greene street, $20 with RSVP, 7pm

Shepard Fairey "May Day" at Deitch Projects
Soho: 18 Wooster street, 6-9pm

Susan Wides "Art & Entertainment" at Kim Foster Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

? Fausto Melotti "I magnifici sette" at Gladstone Gallery
21 street: 530 W 21 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Open Studio: "MFA Open Studios" at SVA
21 street: 133 W 21 street, at 6 avenue, floors 8 & 9, noon-6pm

Tomoko Kagami "Black and White" at Onishi Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 4-7pm

Lannie Hart "Steel Lace" at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 4-7pm

Matthew James "Painting Creation" curated by Claire Unabia at Onyx Chelsea
28 street: 360 Eighth avenue, 6-10pm

Closing reception: Sally Brody "New Paintings And Prints" at Atlantic Gallery
29 street: 135 W 29 street, floor 6, 3-5pm

Performance: Anna Barham, David Bohl, Kit Fitzgerald, Michael Capio, Michah Stansell, Peter Gordon, Rosa Barba, White Suns "Video Feedback" curated by ACE Curatorial Collective at Hunter College (Times Square Gallery)
41 street: 450 W 41 street, b/w 9 & 10 avenue, 7-9pm

? Closing reception: Arakawa, Madeline Gins "Undisembodied" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"I See Myself In You" curated by Wayne Northcross at BronxArtSpace
140 street: 305 E 140 street, suite 1A, opening time TBD

Reading: "Boteros de la Noche: 7 poems / 7 languages / 7 prints" Poetry Reading by Raul Zurita and Etchings by Valerie Mejer at Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)
189 street: 178 Bennett avenue, floor 3, RSVP to 212.568.4396 / info@nomaanyc.org, 3-5pm

? Tour: "4th Annual Mott Haven Open Studio Tour" at Bronx Council on the Arts
189 street: 1738 Hone Avenue, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Benefit: "Smack Mellon Kentucky Derby Party & Art Auction Benefit" at Smack Mellon
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 92 Plymouth street, at Washington, $250, 4pm

Daniel Doubrovkine, Eliza Stamps, Elizabeth Rabinovici, Erika Hess, Garnet T. Vaccaro, J.A.Holt, Jake Remington, Tom Thomson "Mayday! Mayday!" at CCCP Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, entrance on Hope street, 6-8pm

James George, Karolina Sobeska "SNIFF" curated by Leah Stuhltrager, Lynn del Sol at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, 6-10pm

Performance: Doom Trumpet, Guitars, Mythical Legends, Rachel Mason, The Alembic Duet "Sonic Medicine Wheel Ceremony Shows" created by Kenric and Shanna McDowell at Numu Arts Collective
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 75 Stewart avenue, (on the roof unless it rains), $5, 8pm

Ben Gocker, Doug McQueen, Jameson Brusseau, Jarrett Mitchell, Joshua Doster, Kevin Lips "Thee Wild Roses Show" at 245 Varet street
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 245 Varet street, 7pm

"Target First Saturdays: Spring Fever" at Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, Misc.: 200 Eastern Parkway, free, 5-11pm

"Thee Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Tag Sale" at Famous Accountants
Brooklyn, Misc.: 1673 Gates avenue, noon-6pm

Open Studio: "Open Studio Weekend" at Screwball Spaces
Brooklyn, Misc.: 183 Lorraine street, floor 3, noon-6pm

Brian Zegeer, Eliza Myrie, Eric Ayotte, Karin Stothart, Owen Rundquist "Drawing Blood" curated by Kathleen Smith at Work Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 65 Union street, 6-9pm

Sunday, May 2

Open Studio: "Workspace Open Studio Weekend" at LMCC
Downtown: 125 Maiden lane, floor 2, floors 9 & 14, free with RSVP, noon-5pm

Benefit: "Hollywood: A Benefit for Bowery Arts & Science" at Bowery Poetry Club
Soho: 308 Bowery, tickets $100 and up, call 212-614-0504, 6pm

David J Blitzer "Nautical and Sailing Photography" at Chashama
44 street: 112 W 44 street, 2-8pm

Lecture: "Science Friction #2: A Salon Discussion Series" at Roger Smith Arts
47 street: 501 Lexington avenue, at e 47 street, penthouse, 2-6pm

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

Open Studio: "Open Studio Weekend" at Screwball Spaces
Brooklyn, Misc.: 183 Lorraine street, floor 3, noon-6pm

+ Alex Hubbard, Alexandre Singh, Allyson Vieira, Carter, Cassie Raihl, Daniel Lefcourt, David Brooks, Erin Shirreff, Esther Klas, Joanna Malinowska, Matt Sheridan Smith, Mika Tajima, Nikolas Gambaroff, Ohad Meromi, Sara VanDerBeek, Tamar Halpern, Tom Thayer, Uri Aran, Virginia Poundstone "Knight's Move" at SculptureCenter
Queens: 44-19 Purves street, 5-7pm

Christine Howard Sandoval, David Kennedy Cutler, Ester Partegas, George Boorujy, Janelle Iglesias, Katherine McLeod, Lillian Gerson, Mark Lawrence Stafford, Saul Becker, William Cordova, Zena Verda Pesta "Cityscape: Surveying the Urban Biotope" at Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens: 32-01 Vernon Blvd, 2-6pm

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