Anticipation builds as we head into September on the cusp of the busiest weeks of the year in the NYC art world. This year my normal excitement is mixed with slight trepidation -- where did the summer go? The new season is coming and Artcards is here to get you the best info and sort through the hundreds of invitations and press release so you don't have to.

This week has a steady flow of events mostly at smaller or emerging spaces. We all will be conserving our energy for next week, but this is still a great time to enjoy the near-perfect weather and see some less-crowded shows.

On Artcards Review, I am excited to introduce two new articles:
- "Featured Artist: Miles Mendenhall" -- Helen Homan Wu catches up with one of the stars of Bravo's "Work of Art" series.
-  "Paradise Now! Art Meets Music on the Lower East Side" -- Howard Hurst covers an awesome event along with great photos.

Hope to see you out there, either this week or next!

Thursday:
+ Nathaniel Robinson "Civil Twilight" at Feature Inc.
+ David Hardy, Siebren Versteeg "Too Much Past" at Recess Activities, Inc.

Friday:

+ Bernhard Fuchs "Autos" at Jack Hanley Gallery

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Saturday:
+ "Our Town Main Street Monster Island USA" at Secret Project Robot

Tuesday, August 31

Chan Marshall, Chris Rubino, Lauren Moffatt, Pieces by Aaron Rose, Thomas Campbell , Wook Kim, Zered Bassett "Rachel Nasvik Art Project" curated by Rachel Nasvik at TG170
Chinatown/LES: 170 Ludlow, 6-9pm

Harumi Yamada "The Daydreamer's Sketch" at Ouchi Gallery Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

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Wednesday, September 1

Agaton Strom, Alvaro Corzo, Amiran White, Emily Anne Epstein, Maisie Crow, Ryan Brooks, Tiffany Clark "Tomorrow // Today // Yesterday" at Panda Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 139 Chrystie street, 6-9pm

Tobias Putrih "After Frei Otto" at Ludlow 38
Chinatown/LES: 38 Ludlow street, 6-8pm

Jiang Huan "Temperature of Time" at Eli Klein Fine Art
Soho: 462 West Broadway, b/w prince & houston, 6-9pm

Hector Canonge "Golden Cage" at Y Gallery
4 Street: 355 Bowery street, basement, 7-10pm

Nyeema Morgan "Like It Is" curated by Kenya Robinson at John Jay College of Criminal Justice 59 street: 899 Tenth avenue, floor 3, 6-8pm

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"East Meets West on the East End" at Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art
Southhampton, NY: 30 Jobs Lane, 6-8pm

Thursday, September 2

Britta Riley "Windowfarms Late-Summer Programming: Viral Hydroponics Food-Growing Sculptures for Urban Windows" at LMCC
Downtown: 156 William street, 6:30-9pm

+ Nathaniel Robinson "Civil Twilight" at Feature Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 131 Allen street, 6-8pm

Performance: Arlen Austin, Julia Brown, Nick Paparone, Ryan Daley "Don't Fetishize Our Post-Fordism: We still go to cocktail parties with Communists" curated by David Everitt Howe at Scaramouche
Chinatown/LES: 52 Orchard street, 6:30-8pm

+ David Hardy, Siebren Versteeg "Too Much Past" at Recess Activities, Inc.
Soho: 41 Grand street, 6-8pm

Alex Geana, Anton T, Antonio Oliveira, Benito Juarez, Benjamin Heller, Briad Reed, David Rios Ferreira, David Rosado, Emmanuelle Gauthier, Erik Pauhrizi, Igor Molochevski, Jerry Podwill, John Pollak, John Rusnak, Jordan Dean, Luis Alves, Michael Murphenko "Artlive 2010" curated by David Zelikovsky, John Dabu at Chair and the Maiden
8 street: 19 Christopher street, rsvp@chairandthemaiden.com, 6-8pm

Maria Tanikawa, Minsoo Park, Ted Stanke, William C Lindsay "Meeting with 4 Multiplicities" at Blank Space 25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 204, 6-8pm

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Ephraim Rubenstein at George Billis Gallery
25 street: 555 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"Uptown Arts Review" curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado at Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA)
189 street: 178 Bennett avenue, floor 3, RSVP to (212) 568-4396 / info@nomaanyc.org, 6-8pm

Andreas Gehrke "Forst" at Kris Graves Projects
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, 6-8:30pm

Monica Bauer "Prinzessin" at Amos Eno Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 202, 5:30-8:30pm

"Back to School in-house inventory sale" at Mighty Tanaka Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 68 Jay street, suite 416, 5-9pm

"First Thursdays Dumbo Gallery Walk" (may not be as busy as normal) at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 30 Washington street, 6-9pm

Bryan Solarski, Elaine Su-Hui Chew, June Glasson, Kendrick Mar, Mary Corman, Nu Ryu, Phillip Stearns, Rachel Ostrow, Robert Doherty, Sylvia Sewell, Tamara Bogolasky, Visakh Menon "Fall 2010 Emerging Artist Show" at Rabbitholestudio
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 33 Washington street, at Plymouth street, 5-9pm

"Our Town Main Street Monster Island USA" at Secret Project Robot
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 210 Kent avenue, 6pm

Bruce Gagnier, Elaine Smollin, Eric Holzman, Hugh Millard, Kamilla Talbot, Saskia Sutherland, Simon Carr, Thaddesu Radell, Xico Greenwald "Perception/Observation" curated by Elaine Smollin, Xico Greenwald at Long Island University (Salena Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 1 University Plaza, 5:30-7:30pm

Friday, September 3

+ Bernhard Fuchs "Autos" at Jack Hanley Gallery Downtown: 136 Watts street, 6-9pm

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Jeff Faerber "A Tiny Simulacrum of Something Profound" curated by Samantha Levin at Anagnorisis (White Rabbit) Soho: 145 E Houston street, b/w Forsyth & Eldridge, 7-10pm

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"Anne Morgan's War: Rebuilding Devastated France, 1917??"1924" at Morgan Library
36 street: 225 Madison avenue, at 36 street, 6-8pm

"Fever Dream" at CCCP Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, entrance on Hope street, 6-8pm

Billy Mode, Chris Stain, Dwell&oneUnit;, Uneek, VRNO "Epic" at The Marketplace Gallery
Albany, NY: 40 Broadway, 5-11pm

Saturday, September 4

Dan Quintana, Michael Pucciarelli at Last Rites Gallery
33 street: 511 W 33 street, floor 3, 7pm

+ "Our Town Main Street Monster Island USA" at Secret Project Robot
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 210 Kent avenue, 2pm-midnight open house & block party

Peter Feigenbaum "Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart" at Open Source Brooklyn, Misc.: 255 17 street, b/w 5th & 6th avenue, 7-10pm

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C215 and EELUS "Paradise Lost" curated by Rae McGrath at Brooklynite Gallery Brooklyn, Misc.: 334 Malcolm X boulevard, 7-10pm

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Performance: "The Forbidden City" at Winkel & Balktick Warehouse (The Imperial Palace)
Brooklyn, Misc.: Sunset Park, $15 (free PBR 10-11pm), 10pm-sunrise

Performance: "Warm Up" at P.S.1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, at 26 avenue, $15, 2-9pm

Performance: Nicholas Buffon "Lily Pad Paintings" at Callicoon Fine Arts
Callicoon, NY: 27 Lower Main Street, 5-7pm (6pm performance)

Art Fair: Andreas Hablutzel, Andreas Rentsch, Christian Erroi, Francois Portmann, Graziella Antonini, Michelle Meier, Regula Ruegg, Salome Oggenfuss "Swiss Art + Other Machinations Part 1: Eight Swiss Photographers" curated by Sandra Nydegger at Governor's Island
various: Governor's Island, 11am-6pm Saturdays & Sundays

Monday, September 6

"Darkness" curated by Doron Polak at Fusion Arts Museum
Chinatown/LES: 57 Stanton street, 7-9:30pm

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