I really like how this week is shaping up. One quick note first, if you are in San Francisco this week, check out the first major art fair to take place in the city for over a decade, and reply to this email if you want to join us for a private Artcards reception at the fair.

Thursday is a good night to check out Chelsea, Friday night Williamsburg, and Sunday make the trip to Long Island City for "LIC Open Studios" and "Greater New York 2010" at P.S.1.

On Wednesday, The American Art Fair (which I am just learning about -- have you been to it before?) is organizing a "Springtime Gallery Walk" on the upper-east side. Perhaps grouping opening events actually works if you look at the trend in the last few weeks. I tend to prefer nights where you make a trip and find one or two really great, deeply engaging shows and run into friends and interesting people. Grouping openings together too much can make each gallery less special, leaving the night somewhat more empty.

I hope to see you at the shows this week! 

Tuesday:
+ Performance: alva noto "unitxt" presented by The Pace Gallery at The Kitchen

Wednesday:
+ "Celebrate SANAA's Pritzker Win with Free Admission" at New Museum of Contemporary Art

Thursday:
+ Anja Schworer "Le Pli" at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
+ Carsten Nicolai at The Pace Gallery

Friday:
+ Jeffrey Tranchell at John Connelly Presents
+ Hyun Ju Park "Out of Darkness... Light" at Causey Contemporary
+ Dick Lehman, Joe Campbell, Kristin Muller, Shane Sellars, Takao Okazaki "Consequential Tea" curated by Joe Campbell at Causey Contemporary

+ Stacy A. Scibelli "Made With Love" at The Shirey

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Saturday:
+ Allison Katz "Le Tit" at Rachel Uffner Gallery
+ "Mobile Uploads Project" curated by Amanda Schmitt at Sloane NYC
+ Amy Gartrell "Whatever and Ever" at Daniel Reich Gallery

+ Ian Couch, Johan Kritzinger "Na Die Groot Trek -- After the Long Journey" at DRWR

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Sunday:
+ Open Studio: "LIC Open Studios" at Long Island City Artists (LiC A)
+ "Greater New York 2010" curated by Connie Butler, Klaus Biesenbach, Neville Wakefield at P.S.1

Tuesday, May 18

Lecture: Bridget Elmer, Emily Larned "Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts" at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6pm

Sergei Tcherepnin "A Queer Balance" at Audio Visual Arts (AVA)
Chinatown/LES: 34 E 1 street, 7-9pm

+ Performance: alva noto "unitxt" presented by The Pace Gallery at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, $15, 8pm

Afruz Amighi, Aninditta Dutta, Divya Mehra, Fawad Khan, Hussain and Hamja Ahsan, Mariam Ghani, Michael Buhler Rose, Nidhi Jalan, Rajkamal Kahlon, Swati Khurana, Vandana Jain "Structures within an Intervention" curated by Meenakshi Thirukode at The Guild, NY
21 street: 45 W 21 street, floor 2, suite 39, 6:30-8:30pm

Book launch: Edward Butscher "Eros Descending" at Nabi Gallery
25 street: 137 W 25 street, 5-7pm

Lecture: "ADAA Collectors’ Forum" with Richard Tuttle, Amy Sillman, Ronald Feldman, Susan Dunne, and Julie Saul moderated by Lucy Mitchell-Innes, President, Art Dealers Association of America at Sean Kelly Gallery
29 street: 528 W 29 street, RSVP, 6pm

Andrea Gentl, Martin Hyers "Visible Light" at Steuben Glass
61 street: 667 Madison avenue, 6-8pm

"Free Admission in Conjunction with International Museum Day" at The Frick Collection
70 street: 1 E 70 street, free admission, 10am-6pm

Artist Talk: Robin Holder "Artist Presentations Series: One of a Few" at Central Booking
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 210, $8, 6:30pm

Takashi Sato "Flavor" at Ouchi Gallery Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

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Wednesday, May 19

Carla Zaccagnini., Carlos Motta, David Sanin Paz, Judi Werthein, Julieta Aranda at LMCC (LentSpace)
Downtown: Canal street and 6th avenue, 7am-dusk

Screening: "Aboveground Animation" at Ramiken Crucible
Chinatown/LES: 221 East Broadway, at Clinton street, $5, 7pm (screening begins at 8pm)

Benefit: "Creative Time's annual spring benefit: Going Global: honoring Andrea and Marc Glimcher" at Creative Time (Jing Fong Restaurant)
Chinatown/LES: 10 Elizabeth street, Tickets begin at $1,250, 6:30pm

"Persistence of Painting" curated by Douglas Lederman, Peter Franck at Sloan Fine Art
Chinatown/LES: 128 Rivington street, 6-8pm

+ "Celebrate SANAA's Pritzker Win with Free Admission" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, free admission, noon-6pm

Lecture: "Lil Picard and Counterculture New York" by Jason Dubs at Grey Art Gallery (NYU)
10 street: 100 Washington square east, 6:30pm

Artist Talk: Gautam Kansara, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, James Walsh, James Walsh, Shani Peters, Terry Boddie "2009 Artists-in-Residence" at Center for Book Arts
27 street: 28 W 27 street, floor 3, $10, 6:30pm

David Greg Harth "World News Tonight" at Chashama (window space) 37 street: 266 W 37 street, 6-10pm

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Will Barnet "Recent Abstract Paintings" at Alexandre Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, floor 13, 2-8pm

"Spring Gallery Walk" at Hammer Galleries
57 street: 33 W 57 street, 2-8pm

"Spring Gallery Walk" at Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC
69 street: 13 E 69 street, 2-8pm

"Just Off Madison Spring Gallery Walk" at Debra Force Fine Art, Inc
69 street: 13 E 69 street, suite 4F, 4-8pm

"Summer Selections" at Hirschl & Adler Modern
70 street: 21 E 70 street, 2-8pm

"Forest, Field and Stream: American Sporting Paintings" at Godel & Co.
72 street: 39 E 72 street, 2-8pm

Max Weber "Music, Art and Dance" at Gerald Peters Gallery
78 street: 24 E 78 street, 2-8pm

"A Century of Innovation: American Art from 1850-1950" at Questroyal Fine Art, LLC
79 street: 903 Park avenue, at 79 street, 3A/B, 2-8pm

Winfred Rembert "Memories of My Youth" at Adelson the Mark Hotel
82 street: 19 E 82 street, 2-8pm

Book Signing: Natalie Chanin "Alabama Studio Style" at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
91 street: 2 E 91 street, $10 (free for students), 6:30-8pm

"INvent/ONsite: 22nd Annual BRIC Contemporary Art Education Exhibition of Artwork by Brooklyn Public School Students" at Bric Rotunda Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 33 Clinton street, 6-8pm

Thursday, May 20

+ Anja Schworer "Le Pli" at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 21 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Jeremy Willis, Kerry Downey "You Can Have It All" at Art Connects New York (Spattered Columns Gallery)
Soho: 491 Broadway, suite 500, 6-8pm

Daniel Merriam "Taking Reality By Surprise" at Animazing Gallery
Soho: 54 Greene street, RSVP requested to rsvp@animazing.com, 6-9pm

Kwan Sheung Chi, Lyra Abueg Garcellano "Specific Gravity" at Location One
Soho: 26 Greene street, 6-8pm

Adel Abidin "I'm Sorry" at Location One
Soho: 26 Greene street, 6-8pm

Harvey Lloyd "Breaking the Light" curated by Ivana Lovincic at Pennington Gallery Soho: 355 West Broadway, 6-9pm

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Claerwen James at Flowers Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Merav Ezer, Neil Dvorak, Rachel Wiecking, Scott Daniel Ellison, Tom Sarver "Five Alive!" at Monya Rowe Gallery
22 street: 504 W 22 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

? "Out of Line" at Slag Gallery
25 street: 531 W 25 street, ground 10, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Carsten Nicolai at The Pace Gallery
25 street: 534 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Haeri Yoo "Body Hoarding" at Thomas Erben Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 4, 6-8:30pm

Romain Bernini "Despite Walls and Landscapes" at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: "Dead or Alive" Artist Xu Bing in conversation with ARTnews editor Robin Cembalest at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
58 street: 2 Columbus circle, free, 6:30pm

Oksana Prokopenko "Icons and More: Mosaics and Mixed Media Art" at Ukrainian Institute of America
79 street: 2 E 79 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Howard T. Cash "Love, Happiness and Harmony" at Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery
139 street: 2611 Eigth avenue, at w 139 street, 6-8pm

Ebenezer Sunder Singh at Real Fine Arts
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 673 Meeker avenue, 6-8:30pm

Friday, May 21

Molly Smith "Whether" at Kate Werble Gallery
Soho: 83 Vandam street, at hudson street, 6-8pm

"Blind Spot Lab and Exhibition for Issue #41" at The Wild Project
4 Street: 195 E 3 street, RSVP to blindspot@wildcatnyc.com, 6:30-9:30pm

Erik Foss, Sally Webster, Walter Sunday "Crybaby" at Bowman/Bloom Gallery
7 Street: 95 E 7 street, downstairs, 6-8pm

Ana Tiscornia, Artur Lescher, Dario Escobar, Jota Castro, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Liliana Porter, Luis Camnitzer, Marco Maggi, Patrick Hamilton, Paulo Bruscky, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Waltercio Caldas "Optimismo Radical" at Josee Bienvenu Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Burt Barr at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
22 street: 530 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Book Signing: "A Taste of Cherry" at Michael Mazzeo Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Judy Pfaff, Nicola Lopez, Suzanne Caporael Tandem Press editions at Pace Prints (Chelsea)
26 street: 521 W 26 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Performance: John Giorno "Lorca, please help me!" at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, #213, 7pm

+ Jeffrey Tranchell at John Connelly Presents
27 street: 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

? Liz Magic Laser at Derek Eller Gallery
27 street: 615 W 27 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Lisa Stefanelli "Sassyfras Paintings" at Heskin Contemporary
37 street: 443 W 37 street, 6-9pm

Alexander Reyna, Amelie Chunleau, Austin Thomas, Carla Gannis, Chris Bors, Chris Fennell, Conrad Vogel, D. Dominick Lombardi, Daniel Kayne, Deborah Pohl, Elissa Levy, Elizabeth Riley, Halsey Hathaway, Hector Madera-Gonzalez, Isolde Kille, Jennifer Shepard, Kaeko Shabana, Leah Oates, Lesley Canossi, Liam Hanna-Lloyd, Mary-Ann Strandell, Melissa Barrett, Michael Anderson, Michael Zansky, Nancy Drew, Pamela Saturday, Raven Schlossberg, Ron Rocheleau, Sarah Olson, Scott Kiernan, Susan Breitsch "Painting with Pictures, Part One" curated by Asya Geisberg, David Gibson, Savannah Spirit at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education 163 street: 928 Simpson street, 6-9pm

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Avoid pi, infinity "Babel Code: Osmotic Transmissions" curated by Alex Emmart at Mighty Tanaka Gallery Brooklyn, Dumbo: 68 Jay street, suite 416, 6-9pm

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Artist Talk: Anna Frants, David Rothenberg, Mark Andreas, Matt Bua, Osman Khan, Raphaele Shirley "Inside the Arctic Circle Expedition" at PointB
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 71 North 7th street, 7-9pm

+ Hyun Ju Park "Out of Darkness... Light" at Causey Contemporary
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 92 Wythe avenue, 6-9pm

+ Dick Lehman, Joe Campbell, Kristin Muller, Shane Sellars, Takao Okazaki "Consequential Tea" curated by Joe Campbell at Causey Contemporary
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 92 Wythe avenue, 6-9pm

+ Stacy A. Scibelli "Made With Love" at The Shirey Brooklyn, Bushwick: 47 Thames street, suite 306, 7pm-midnight

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Amanda O'Keefe, Ariel Brickman, Bobby Dupree, Heather Garland, S.E. Nash, Stephen Wilson "Second Wind" curated by Eric Schmalenberger at Arch Collective NYC
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 18 Wyckoff avenue, 7-10pm

Benefit: "BOS Preview and Benefit Art Sale" curated by Arts in Bushwick at Lumenhouse
Brooklyn, Misc.: 47 Beaver street, 7.30-10pm

Alisa Ochoa, An Hoang, Chris Gentile, Erik Benson, Esperanza Mayobre, Everest Hall, Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor, Gary Petersen, Gavin Andersen, Gina Beavers, Inna Babaeva, Joseph Burwell, Kora Manheimer, Lauren Luloff, Nils Folke Anderson, Rob Carter, Todd Knopke, Yadir Qui "Domestic City: Methodology and Intuition" curated by Nichole Van Beek, Vince Contarino at Kidd Yellin
Brooklyn, Misc.: 133 Imlay street, 6-9pm

"Audacity!" A Corporate Fundraiser & Silent Auction in Association with the Pulmonary Hypertension Association at Chashama (Jamaica)
Queens: 90-26 161st street, 6-10pm

"Works on Paper" at Big&Small;/Casual Gallery
Queens: 10-20 45th Road, 5-8pm

Saturday, May 22

Ari Lankin, Jason Borbay, Jeremy Penn "Painting Resurrected" curated by Jeremy Penn at BevForce Loft Downtown: 393 Broadway, floor 3, 6-9pm

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Lecture: "Project for an Archive of the Future Anterior" Thom Donovan and Sreshta Rit Premnath interview Svetlana Boym and Matthew Buckingham at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 4-6pm

Closing reception: Shantell Martin "Project InsideOut OusideIn" at Collette Blanchard Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 26 Clinton street, 6pm

+ Allison Katz "Le Tit" at Rachel Uffner Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 47 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Performance: Hannes Malte Mahler "Drawing Centrifuge" curated by Jovana Stokic at Location One
Soho: 26 Greene street, 4-8pm

Andreas Blank, Daniel Levine, Patrick Caulfield, Richard Paul "In Substantiality" at Theodore:Art (Ecoartspace) Soho: 53 Mercer street, 6-8pm

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+ "Mobile Uploads Project" curated by Amanda Schmitt at Sloane NYC
Soho: 174 Mott street, 7-10pm

Ellen Stagg "Melting Flesh" at Fuse Gallery
5 Street: 93 Second avenue, b/w 5 & 6 streets, 7-10pm

+ Amy Gartrell "Whatever and Ever" at Daniel Reich Gallery
23 street: 537 W 23 street, 6-8pm

"Desire" One Day Group Show curated by Laura Sheedy at Chelsea Hotel Arts Initiative
23 street: 222 W 23 street, suite 1024, 11am-7pm

Brad Darcy, Eric Bessel, Fanny Alli, HoHo Lin, Kai-Yuan Tszen, MaryKate Maher, San Huang, Yin-Ling Hsu "Art Sync" curated by Hao-Yi Chen, Nunu Hung at Da Gallery of Korean American Association of Greater New York (KAAGNY)
24 street: 149 W 24 street, floor 6, 6-8pm

Man Bartlett "#24hEcho" at P.P.O.W. 25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 301, 7-9pm

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Judith Schaechter "Beauty and the Beef" at Claire Oliver
26 street: 513 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Alisha Kerlin "Cat and Mouse" at Real Fine Arts
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 673 Meeker avenue, 7-10pm

+ Ian Couch, Johan Kritzinger "Na Die Groot Trek -- After the Long Journey" at DRWR Brooklyn, Bushwick: 1254 Myrtle avenue, 6-10pm

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Hayley Hara, Ken Madore at Sugar
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 449 Troutman street, 6-9pm

"ChoreOBJECTography 1 (of 3)" at Norte Maar
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 83 Wyckoff avenue, #1B, $20, reservations required, 7pm

Brad Darcy, Eric Bessel, Fanny Allie, HoHo Lin, Kai-Yuan Tszen, MaryKate Maher, Yin-Ling Chin, Yu-San Huang "Art Sync" curated by Nunu Hung at NARS Foundation Brooklyn, Misc.: 88 35th Street, floor 3, 6-8pm

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"If You See Nothing Say Something" a Plus One Curatorial Project curated by Kiya Kim at The Invisible Dog
Brooklyn, Misc.: 51 Bergen street, 6pm

"I Need You Skull" at MF Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 213 Bond street, 7-10pm

"Made in Red Hook" curated by Ana Bogdanovic, Laura Arena at Lucky Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 176 Richards street, at corner of Wolcott, 7-10pm

Benefit: "PG Annual Benefit Party And Performance" at Proteus Gowanus
Brooklyn, Misc.: 543 Union street, at Nevins street, 7-10pm

Open Studio: "LIC Open Studios" at Long Island City Artists (LiC A)
Queens: 35-35 28th street, Click here for PDF Map of all Studios, 1-6pm

Sunday, May 23

Tour: "Rema Hort Mann Foundation: 15th Annual Art Crawl-The Lower East Side: a benefit event for cancer patients & Visual artists" at White Box (WBX Bowery)
Chinatown/LES: 329 Broome street, b/w Bowery & Chrystie, $100 art crawl, $10 raffle, 2pm registration, 5pm reception

Lecture: "Propagating Eden: Uses and Techniques of Nature Printing in Botany and Art" at Wave Hill
252 street: 675 W 252 street, Glyndor Gallery, 2pm

Louise Dudis at RHV Fine Art
Brooklyn, Misc.: 683 Sixth avenue, 6-8pm

+ Open Studio: "LIC Open Studios" at Long Island City Artists (LiC A)
Queens: 35-35 28th street, Click here for PDF Map of all Studios, 1-6pm

+ "Greater New York 2010" curated by Connie Butler, Klaus Biesenbach, Neville Wakefield at P.S.1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, at 26 avenue, noon-6pm

Monday, May 24

"The Cooper Union End of Year Show: students unveil pioneering work at architecture, art and engineering" at Cooper Union (Peter Cooper Park)
7 Street: 7 E 7 street, 5-9pm

Lecture: "Keep it Simple: How can we gather and share information?" Brooklyn Arts in Education Roundtable Series at Bric Rotunda Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 33 Clinton street, 4-6pm

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