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Weekly Outlook

A surprisingly full week ahead: gallery openings and events are spread throughout the week in addition to the NY Photo Festival in Dumbo, and Asian Contemporary Arts Week. Also, more benefit auctions and MFA exhibitions. Read on, enjoy, and forward this to a friend!


Editor's Picks

Tuesday:
+ Auction: "10th Anniversary Benefit Auction 2009" at White Box

Wednesday:
+ "MFA Thesis Exhibition" at Hunter College
+ Art Fair: "New York Photo Festival" at Powerhouse Arena
+ Screening: Claude Lelouch, John Miller, Mark Leckey, Mike Leigh, Richard Hoeck, Ronnie Bass, Tamy Ben-Tor "no comedy < no tragedy / no encore < no applause" curated by Bob Nickas at Light Industry

Thursday:
+ Ernesto Burgos, Michelle Elzay "Opening Night; Apparaent Calm" at Kate Werble Gallery
+ Alice Neel "Selected Works" at David Zwirner
+ Wendell Gladstone "New paintings" at Kravets|Wehby Gallery
+ Koichiro Kurita "Perceiving" at Sepia | The Alkazi Collection
+ Laurie Frick "Visual Time" at Robert Steele Gallery
+ Alex Singh, Alyssa Pheobus, Elena Bajo, Jason Fox, Jimmy Raskin, Matt Connors, Matt Saunders, Matt Sheridan Smith "Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds from a failed suicide" at Gresham's Ghost

Friday:
+ Michael Bilsborough "The Only Way Out Is Through" at Invisible-Exports
+ Lecture: "The '90s vs. The '90s" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
+ Tour: "Lunch Date: Borscht" lunch and guided tour of Manon exhibition at Swiss Institute

Saturday:
+ Auction: "40th Anniversary Benefit Auction" at White Columns
+ "The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography" curated by Lyle Rexer at Aperture Foundation

Sunday:
+ Georgia Sagri at On Stellar Rays


Full Listings (All Art Events This Week)

Tuesday, May 12

+ Auction: "10th Anniversary Benefit Auction 2009" at White Box
Chinatown/LES: 329 Broome street, b/w Bowery & Chrystie, tickets required, 5-9pm (works on view 11am-7pm)

"12 Instances" curated by Molly Surno at Heist Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 27 Essex street, b/w grand & hester, 7-9pm

Contemporary Japanese Artists, Kentaro Fujioka "Locus of Momentum - Bicycle Drawings; and, Art Wave New York" at hpgrp gallery
12 street: 32-36 Little west 12 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Sidney Russell, Susan Colgan at Atlantic Gallery
29 street: 135 W 29 street, floor 6, 5:30-8pm

Tour: "Closer-Look Tour--Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern" at American Folk Art Museum
53 street: 45 W 53 street, free w/admission, 1pm

Marylyn Dintenfass "Good & Plenty Juicy" at Babcock Galleries
57 street: 724 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, 6-8pm

Sudipta Choudhry "Genesis of a Journey" at A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
57 street: 24 W 57 street, floor 6, 5:30-7:30pm

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Artist Talk: "Transience in Photography: Qiu Zhijie in conversation with Alexandra Munroe" at China Institute Gallery
65 street: 125 E 65 street, $8, 6:30-8pm

Tour: "Public Tour: Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition" at American Folk Art Museum
66 street: 2 Licoln Center, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street, free, 1-2pm

"Superstars: Who’s Who in Contemporary Iranian Art" at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
72 street: 22 E 72 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Wang Huaiqing, Wang Tiantian "New Prints" at M. Sutherland Fine Arts, Ltd.
80 street: 55 E 80 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

? "Long Live Whoever" at Gallery 221
88 street: 221 E 88 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Michael Brod "Whoever Emerges" at Gallery 221
88 street: 221 E 88 street, 6-8pm

Brendan Smith, Daniel Turner, Danny Coeyman, Eric Doeringer, Kate Fauvell "possibilities" curated by Rick Herron at Chashama
126 street: 461 W 126 street, 6-9pm

"Brooklyn Scenes Art Show" at BoConcept Dumbo
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 79 Front street, RSVP@boconceptny.com, 6-9pm


Wednesday, May 13

Marion Peck "Ladies and Clowns" at Sloan Fine Art
Chinatown/LES: 128 Rivington street, 7-9pm

Sakti Burman "Enraptured Gaze" at Aicon Gallery
4 Street: 35 Great Jones street, at W 25 street, 6-8pm

Nitin Mukul, Shelly Bahl "Religare Arts Initiative (RAI)" at The Guild, NY
21 street: 45 W 21 street, floor 2, suite 39, 7pm

Caleb Charland, Chris McCaw, Christian Erroi, Sebastian Lemm, Yong Hee Kim "Transmutations: Abstractions in Nature" at Michael Mazzeo Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Cesar Cornejo, Ivan Monforte, Wennie Huang, Zoe Sheehan Saldana at Center for Book Arts
27 street: 28 W 27 street, floor 3, $10, 6:30pm

"Silt of Sentiment: Indian Contemporaries" at Tamarind Art
39 street: 142 E 39 street, 6:30-8pm

+ "MFA Thesis Exhibition" at Hunter College
41 street: 450 W 41 street, b/w 9 & 10 avenue, 6-8pm

"Dream in a Contemporary Secret Garden" at Taipei Cultural Center
42 street: 1 E 42 street, floor 7, 6-8pm

"Haunting Memories" at Gallery Korea
57 street: 460 Park avenue, at 57 street, floor 6, 6-8pm

"Floating World: Paintings Inspired by the Arts of Japan" at Ana Tzarev Gallery
57 street: 24 W 57 street, 6-8pm

"OBAMA! Reflections" at Bruckner Gallery / Bar & Grill
133 street: 1 Bruckner boulevard, at Third avenue, 6-9pm

Brad Harris, Giles Revell, Henry Leutwyler, Mark Zibert, Martin Schoeller, Timothy Hogan "personal" at Randall Scott Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 204, 7-9pm

+ Art Fair: "New York Photo Festival" at Powerhouse Arena
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 37 Main street, at water street, 6pm

+ Screening: Claude Lelouch, John Miller, Mark Leckey, Mike Leigh, Richard Hoeck, Ronnie Bass, Tamy Ben-Tor "no comedy < no tragedy / no encore < no applause" curated by Bob Nickas at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Misc.: 220 36th Street, floor 5, $7, 7:30pm


Thursday, May 14

"America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus Park
Downtown: 26 Bowery, 6:30-8:30pm

+ Ernesto Burgos, Michelle Elzay "Opening Night; Apparaent Calm" at Kate Werble Gallery
Soho: 83 Vandam street, at hudson street, 6-8pm

"MFA Exhibition" at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
14 street: 144 W 14 street, 5-7pm

Auction: "Contemporary Art Part I Auction" at Phillips de Pury & Company
15 street: 450 W 15 street, 7pm

+ Alice Neel "Selected Works" at David Zwirner
19 street: 533 W 19 street, 6-8pm

Ken Van Sickle "Photographs" at RL Fine Arts
19 street: 39 W 19 street, b/w 5th & 6th ave, floor 6, 6-8:30pm

Eko Nugroho, Wedhar Riyadi "Tales from Wounded Land" at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

+ Wendell Gladstone "New paintings" at Kravets|Wehby Gallery
21 street: 521 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Performance: Pooneh Maghazehe at Chelsea Art Museum
22 street: 556 W 22 street, 6-9pm (performances at 6:30 & 8:30)

Hiroh Kikai "Persona" at Yancey Richardson Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

+ Koichiro Kurita "Perceiving" at Sepia | The Alkazi Collection
24 street: 148 W 24 street, floor 11, 6-8pm

Guo Hongwei, Hong Hao, Lu Shengzhong, Qiu Zhijie, Wang Tiande, Wu Jian'an "Paper! Paper!" at Chambers Fine Art
25 street: 210 11 avenue, at 25 street, 6-8pm

Hyo Jeong Nam, Jamie M. Lee "yon" at Kips Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Melanie Bonajo "As Thrown Down From Heaven" at P.P.O.W.
25 street: suite 301 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Dumitru Gorzo "Core" at Slag Gallery
25 street: 531 W 25 street, ground 10, 6-8pm

+ Laurie Frick "Visual Time" at Robert Steele Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Lisa Ross "Unrevealed" at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 3, 6-8pm (7pm discussion)

Art Fair: "New York International Tribal & Textile Arts Show" at Armory
26 street: 68 Lexington avenue, $20, Thu-Fri, 11am-8pm; Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-5pm

"THE Secret Garden" at Elga Wimmer PCC
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

+ Alex Singh, Alyssa Pheobus, Elena Bajo, Jason Fox, Jimmy Raskin, Matt Connors, Matt Saunders, Matt Sheridan Smith "Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds from a failed suicide" at Gresham's Ghost
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-9pm

Ranbir Kaleka "Reading Man" at Bose Pacia Gallery
26 street: 508 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"Looped and Layered: A Selection of Contemporary Art from Tehran" at Thomas Erben Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 4, 6-8:30pm

Kim Joon at Sundaram Tagore Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Takahiro Kaneyama "Why I Started Photography" at MY Art Prospects Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 7-9pm

Christine Sciulli, Dan Waber, Mary Ivy Martin at AC [Institute Direct Chapel]
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 5, 6pm

Dominique Rousserie, Kevin Baker "Forbidden Gardens" at Tria Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, 6-8pm

"Black Madonna" at HP Garcia Gallery
38 street: 580 Eigth avenue, b/w 38 & 39 street, floor 7, 7-9pm

Huguette Caland "Silent Memories" at Peter Findlay Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, 6-8pm

"Frames of Reality: Israeli-Palestinian photo exhibition" at Ana Tzarev Gallery
57 street: 24 W 57 street, 6-8pm

at Higher Pictures
66 street: 764 Madison avenue, at E 66 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Now What Architecture?" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $10, 4pm

Artist Talk: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Dave Isay, Mayer Kirshenblatt "Painted Memories" at The Jewish Museum
92 street: 1109 Fifth avenue, at 92 street, $15, 6:30pm

? "Group Show: 9 Photographers" at Kris Graves Projects
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Jesse Diamond "Drive" at Farmani Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 212, 6-9pm

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"Party and Book Signing at powerHouse arena with Aperture artists" at Powerhouse Arena
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 37 Main street, at water street, 9pm

Lecture: "Artist-Publisher: Mass Produced for Mass Dissemination" at St. Ann's Warehouse
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 38 Water street, 5-6pm

"Social (Virus): A Student Curated Exhibition" at NURTUREart Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 910 Grand street, 6-8pm

Yolanda Shashaty at Art 101
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 101 Grand street, 6-8pm

"100 Works on Paper Benefit" at Kentler International Drawing Space
Brooklyn, Misc.: 353 Van Brunt street, 6-8pm


Friday, May 15

Filipe Rocha Da Silva, Il Lee, Pouran Jinchi "Unknown Territory" at Art Projects International (API)
Downtown: 429 Greenwich street, suite 5B, 6-8pm

"SHABU SHABU: New Visions" at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
Downtown: 18 Jay street, b/w hudson & greenwich street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Anindita Dutta at LMCC
Downtown: 125 Maiden lane, floor 2, 3-4:30pm

+ Michael Bilsborough "The Only Way Out Is Through" at Invisible-Exports
Chinatown/LES: 14 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Heeseop Yoon, Ricardo Gonzalez "Simple Goodness" at 33 Bond Gallery
Soho: 33 Bond street, 7-9pm

+ Lecture: "The '90s vs. The '90s" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, 7pm

+ Tour: "Lunch Date: Borscht" lunch and guided tour of Manon exhibition at Swiss Institute
Soho: 495 Broadway, floor 3, $5, rsvp to jon@swissinstitute.net, noon

Akiko Tojo, Rintaro Sawada, Takenori Fukaumi "With My Eyes Closed" curated by Nao Onda at ISE Cultural Foundation
Soho: 555 Broadway, 6-8pm

"How Chinese" at Chinese-American Arts Council (CAAC)
Soho: 456 Broadway, floor 3, 5:30-8pm (6pm discussion)

Jiang Huan, Liu Yan, Ma Bing, Xia Xing, Xiao Se "Redefining Surrealism" curated by Nancy Nan at Eli Klein Fine Art
Soho: 462 West Broadway, b/w prince & houston, 7-10pm

Book launch: Jason Douglas Griffin, Jason Reynolds "My Name is Jason. Mine Too." at Leo Kesting Gallery
12 street: 812 Washington street, at Gansevoort, 7-10pm

"Parsons School of Art, Media, and Technology BFA Thesis Exhibition" at Parsons
13 street: 66 Fifth avenue, at W 15 street, 6-8pm

Auction: "Contemporary Art Part II Auction" at Phillips de Pury & Company
15 street: 450 W 15 street, 10am

Artist Talk: Robert Sagerman "On and On: Inquiries into Indeterminacy" at Margaret Thatcher Projects
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 4, 6:30pm

Performance: Bart Bridger Woodstrup, Ben Owen, Jessica Feldman, Melissa Clark, Richard Garet, Shimpei Takeda, thenumber46 "Sound in the Frying Pan" presented by Electronic Music Foundation at The Frying Pan
26 street: Pier 66, at W 26 street, 7pm

Eve Sussman, Rufus Corporation "White on White: The Pilot (just like being there)" at Winkleman Gallery
27 street: 637 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Bryan Osburn "Variations on Paper" curated by Stephanie Buhmann at Gallery Sakiko
68 street: 155 W 68 street, suite 1127, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Free Dutch Art Symposium" at The Frick Collection
70 street: 1 E 70 street, RSVP 212-547-6894 or centerprograms@frick.org, 3:30-6pm

Lecture: "Now What Architecture?" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $10, 10:30am

Artist Talk: Jack Sal, Penelope Umbrico, Silvio Wolf moderated by Lyle Rexer at St. Ann's Warehouse
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 38 Water street, 5pm

Evan Gruzis "Touch of Grey" at Journal Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 168 North 1st street, 6-9pm

Justine Reyes "Home, Away from Home" at Eastern District
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 43 Bogart street, 7-10pm

"Spring Festival of Digital Art 2009" at Museum of Computer Art
Brooklyn, Misc.: 139 11th street, 5-8pm


Saturday, May 16

"Crown Of The Lost" at FIFI Projects
Chinatown/LES: 29 Essex street, 7-10pm

"somethinganythingnothing" at Matter
Soho: 405 Broome street, b/w Lafayette & Centre street, noon-8pm

Mark Mastroianni, Rick Begneaud "Signs of Life" at Woodward Gallery
Soho: 133 Eldridge street, b/w broome & delancey, floor 5, 6-8pm

"Fundraising in Style partners with Fourth Arts Block (FAB) for a spring shopping party" at Fourth Arts Block (FAB)
4 Street: 61 E 4 street, b/w 2nd ave & bowery, noon-4:30pm

Devin K. Cuthbertson, Ron A. Rocheleau "No Pun Intended" at Rafik Video
10 street: 814 Broadway, floor 2, 7-10pm

+ Auction: "40th Anniversary Benefit Auction" at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), $150 tickets, 7pm

Artist Talk: "Contemporary Southeast Asian Art" at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 2-4pm

Antonio Petracca "Overlay" at Kim Foster Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Andy Kehoe, Souther Salazar at Jonathan LeVine
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 9, 7-9pm

Greg Parker "New Paintings" at Jim Kempner Fine Art
23 street: 501 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Performance: Margaret Leng Tan "CAGE/NAM-JUNE/FLUXUS" at James Cohan Gallery
26 street: 533 W 26 street, 5:30pm

+ "The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography" curated by Lyle Rexer at Aperture Foundation
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 4, 7-10pm

Debbie T. Davies, Sebastian, Tara Morris "Crossing" at A-forest Gallery
29 street: 134 W 29 street, floor 10, 6-8pm

Screening: "Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes" at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
58 street: 2 Columbus circle, 2pm

Lecture: "Free Dutch Art Symposium" at The Frick Collection
70 street: 1 E 70 street, RSVP 212-547-6894 or centerprograms@frick.org, 10am-5pm (followed by reception)

"Second Annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk: an event highlighting the art galleries located on Madison Avenue between East 57 and East 86 Streets" at Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl
77 street: 980 Madison avenue, at E 77 street, floor 5, 10am-6pm

Tour: "Art Crawl Harlem" at Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery
139 street: 2611 Eigth avenue, at w 139 street, $65, call 800-979-3370, noon-6pm

Book Signing: Martin Schoeller "Female Body Builders" at Randall Scott Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 204, 1-3pm

Lecture: "Cuddle (with Bill Hunt)" at St. Ann's Warehouse
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 38 Water street, 5-6pm

Artist Talk: HeeSook Kim "Twelve Gates: Encounter with Hildegard of Bingen" at Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 293 Grand street, 3-5pm

Aaron Spangler, Adrian Meraz, Alisha Kerlin, Anke Weyer, Brad Kahlhamer, Gina Magid, Holly Coulis, Jim Lee, Justin Craun, Mamie Holst, Nellie Bridge "After the Goldrush" at 106 Green
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 106 Green street, 5-8pm

Performance: "Triple Canopy celebrates its first year" at Gowanus Studio Space
Brooklyn, Misc.: 119 8th street, $7, 7pm

Lecture: "Egyptian Archaeology" Kathryn Bard at Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, Misc.: 200 Eastern Parkway, 2-4pm

"By Any Means Necessary: kids art exhibition" at Brooklynite Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 334 Malcolm X boulevard, 11am-5pm

Mary Ting "The Sleep of Reason Breeds Monsters" at Dean Project
Queens: 45-43 21 street, 6-9pm


Sunday, May 17

+ Georgia Sagri at On Stellar Rays
Chinatown/LES: 133 Orchard street, noon-6pm

"Stitched Stories" (for children and their accompanying adult) at American Folk Art Museum
66 street: 2 Licoln Center, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street, 1-2pm

Lecture: "Photography After Frank, A Conversation Between Philip Gefter and Andy Grundberg" at St. Ann's Warehouse
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 38 Water street, 5-6pm

"Rece$$" at Crossing Art Gallery
Queens: 136-20 38 avenue, at Main street, floor 4, 2-6pm


Monday, May 18

Screening: Kevin Jerome Everson at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Misc.: 220 36th Street, floor 5, $7, 7:30pm

"Subjective Histories of Sculpture III: Simon Starling" at Sculpture Center
Queens: 44-19 Purves street, 6:30pm


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