This week emerging artists feature work at many worthwhile venues: Wednesday a MFA Thesis Show at Hunter College and open studios at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation; Thursday an open studio at the LMCC Swing Space on Govenor's Island; Friday MFA open studios at the School of Visual Arts.

New on Artcards Review:
- "Featured Gallery: Rachel Uffner" by Amanda Schmitt
- "FCA Benefit at Lehmann Maupin" by Helen Homan Wu with photos
- "3 shows on 23rd -- S, M, L" by Brent Birnbaum
- "'Tis the Season" picks for the holidays from the Artcards Team
- "KW69 #2 cactus craze"

Tuesday:
+ Screening: David Wojnarowicz "A Fire in My Belly, a Work in Progress (1986-87)" at New Museum of Contemporary Art

Wednesday:
+ Ahram Jeong, Alix Winsby, Arrick Underhill, Britta Deardorff, Carrie Elston, David Kagan, Fabian G. Tabibian, Firelei Baez, Joanna Seitz, Josephine Alcott, Kylie Lockwood, Maria Barbo, Mingchu Lin, Molly Mac Fedyk, Rachel Budde, Rachel Higgins, Rebecca Gilbert, Satomi Shirai, Sunny Ra, Yeji Jun, Yuliya Lanina "MFA Thesis Exhibition" at Hunter College (Times Square Gallery)
+ Open Studio: Ada Bobonis, Alexandra Pacula, Amy Bennett, Anna Kunz, Daniel Rich, Elizabeth Gilfilen, Gary Petersen, Gelah Penn, Harry Leigh, Jackie Gendel, Kirk Stoller, Luke Lamborn, Martha Clippinger, Mary Mattingly, Soledad Arias, Thomas Bangsted, Vince Contarino "Holiday Party / Open Studios" at Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation

Thursday:
+ "Planet of Slums" at Third Streaming

Friday:
+ Open Studio: "MFA Fine Arts Open Studios" at SVA
+ Alan Calpe, Andy Cahill, Brittany Prater, Giana Marie Gambino, Hong-An Truong, Johannes DeYoung, Justin Mata, Lily & Honglei, Naomi Safran-Hon, Scott Kiernan, Victor Faccinto, Yeon Jin Kim "VIDEOROVER: Season I" curated by Rachel Steinberg at NURTUREart Gallery

Tuesday, December 14

Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo, Ethan Cook, Jarvis Earnshaw, Joshua Caleb Weibley, Maja Cule' + Dora Budor, Matthew Craven, Ruth Gruca, Slava Balasanov, Victor Payares, Wesley Stokes, Winston Chmielinski, Young Joon Kwa "Black & White & Read All Over" at NP Contemporary Art Center
Chinatown/LES: 131 Chrystie street, 6-8pm

Jonathan Reid Sevigny "Works & Illustrations" at NP Contemporary Art Center
Chinatown/LES: 131 Chrystie street, 6-8pm

Screening: Claudia Joskowicz, Elia Alba, Karina Aguilera Skvirsk, Sam Tervaniemi, Sara Blokland "Recorded Stories" at LMAKprojects
Chinatown/LES: 139 Eldridge street, 7-9pm

"Total Housing 01: Apartments" at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Chinatown/LES: 97 Kenmare street, 7pm

+ Screening: David Wojnarowicz "A Fire in My Belly, a Work in Progress (1986-87)" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, screened in the lobby during gallery hours for the duration

"Carlo Pittore" a posthumous debut at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Soho: 26 Wooster street, 6-8pm

? Alexander Lee "The Tupapau Within" at Newman Popiashvili
22 street: 504 W 22 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Panel Discussion: Leslie Grant, Luc Sante, Megan Cump, William Hunt "Help Me" at Camera Club of New York (School of Visual Arts Ampitheatre)
23 street: 209 East 23rd St, 7pm

"Generation D: Identities" an art exhibition celebrating Jewish diversity at Flomenhaft Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 5:30-7:30pm

Lecture: Kim Levin "Top Ten - Best Shows of 2010" at New Art Center
38 street: 580 Eighth avenue, floor 5, RSVP to info@newartcenter.net, 6pm

Lecture: "On Silence: ArteEast Quarterly Journal Launch and Panel Discussion with Presentations by: Aslihan Demirtas; Regine Basha; Cevdet Erek and Micah Silver. Moderated by Hakan Topal with a response by Anne Barlow." at ISCP
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 1040 Metropolian avenue, floor 3, 6:30-8pm

Wednesday, December 15

Ernesto Klar "Relational Lights" at 3LD Art and Technology Center Downtown: 80 Greenwich street, b/w rector & edgar street, 6-8pm

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Performance: Jennifer Catron, Paul Outlaw "Imeday, Imeday, Ollarday, Icklenay" at Allegra LaViola Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 179 East Broadway, 6-9pm

Auction: Jaclyn Mednicov, Jan Gilbert, Jimmie James, Leah Durner, Lindsey Brown, Liz Engelhardt, Sally Gil "small things considered" at 571 Projects
21 street: 551 W 21 street, suite 204A, 6-9pm

Benefit: "Annual Benefit and Auction" at flux factory (Center 548)
22 street: 548 West 22nd, $40, 7-10pm

+ Ahram Jeong, Alix Winsby, Arrick Underhill, Britta Deardorff, Carrie Elston, David Kagan, Fabian G. Tabibian, Firelei Baez, Joanna Seitz, Josephine Alcott, Kylie Lockwood, Maria Barbo, Mingchu Lin, Molly Mac Fedyk, Rachel Budde, Rachel Higgins, Rebecca Gilbert, Satomi Shirai, Sunny Ra, Yeji Jun, Yuliya Lanina "MFA Thesis Exhibition" at Hunter College (Times Square Gallery)
41 street: 450 W 41 street, b/w 9 & 10 avenue, 6-8pm

Panel Discussion: David C. Ward, Jason Baumann, Jonathan D. Katz "Hide/Seek: Seeking and Speaking Sexuality in the Museum" at New York Public Library (Celeste Bartos Forum)
42 street: 42nd street at 5th avenue, South Court Auditorium, 7pm

? Karthik Pandian "Unearth" at Whitney Museum of American Art
75 street: 945 Madison avenue, at 75 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Open Studio: Ada Bobonis, Alexandra Pacula, Amy Bennett, Anna Kunz, Daniel Rich, Elizabeth Gilfilen, Gary Petersen, Gelah Penn, Harry Leigh, Jackie Gendel, Kirk Stoller, Luke Lamborn, Martha Clippinger, Mary Mattingly, Soledad Arias, Thomas Bangsted, Vince Contarino "Holiday Party / Open Studios" at Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 20 Jay street, floor 7, 6-10pm

Artist Talk: Bill Caroll "Muse Fuse" at NURTUREart Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 229 Leonard street, 7pm

Thursday, December 16

Open Studio: "Swing Space Open House" at LMCC
Downtown: Governor's Island, Building 110, RSVP Required, 2:30-6pm

+ "Planet of Slums" at Third Streaming
Soho: 10 Greene street, 6-8pm

Aaron Raymer, Ernesto Burgos "Next to Nowhere" at Kate Werble Gallery
Soho: 83 Vandam street, at hudson street, 6-8pm

Stefania Pia "The Magnificent Life" at Castor & Pollux 10 street: 238 W 10 street, 6-9pm

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Felipe Jesus Consalvos at Andrew Edlin Gallery
18 street: 134 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

"Sculpture in Ceramic" at DJT Fine Art (Taglialatella Galleries)
24 street: 231 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Paul Kolker "The Pandora Syndrome...Go Gesundheit!" at Studio 601
25 street: 511 W 25 street, downstairs at the salon of Studio 601, 6-8pm

Alexandra Grant, Annie Lapin, Iva Gueorguieva, Kirsten Everberg, Whitney Bedford "Five from L.A." at Galerie Lelong
26 street: 528 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Jacob Kassay, Robert Morris, Virginia Overton at Mitchell - Innes & Nash (Chelsea)
26 street: 534 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Harm van den Berg "Lullaby Land" at AC [Institute Direct Chapel]
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 610, 6-8pm

Benefit: "Holiday Benefit | The Voice of Wine" at Sputnik Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

Amy Ernst, Beverly Buchanan, Dina Recanati, Ellen Frank, Emma Amos, Estelle Yarinsky., Faith Ringgold, Flo Oy Wong, Joan Barber, Juane Quick-to-See Smith, Linda Stein, Mira Lehr, Miriam Schapiro, Siona Benjamin "Beware: Women Working at Flomenhaft's" at Flomenhaft Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Irving Sandler, Patricia Stark Feinstein, Thorpe Feidt "Artists Talk on Art" Hans Hofmann in Film at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, $7, 6:30pm

Dennis McNett "Reaping Waves, Vital Vessels, and the Passing of Wolfbats" at Joshua Liner Gallery 28 street: 548 W 28 street, floor 3, 6-9pm

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Jan Yoors "Harlem, c. 1963" at L. Parker Stephenson
64 street: 764 Madison avenue, 6-8pm

? "Singular Visions" at Whitney Museum of American Art
75 street: 945 Madison avenue, at 75 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Panel Discussion: Carter Hodgkin, Dr. James Beacham, Dr. Lee von Kraus, Martha Lewis, Torino:Margolis (moderator) "The Stuff of Our Universe: Art and Experimentation" the art and science panel for the exhibition Attract/Repel at Central Booking
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 210, $5, 6:30pm

Screening: Richard Garet "Dead of Winter Works #1: the Puritan revolution" curated by Maria Chavez at Splatterpool artspace Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 138 Bayard street, $10 suggested, 8-10pm

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Friday, December 17

Open Studio: "Swing Space Open House" at LMCC
Downtown: Governor's Island, Building 110, RSVP Required, 10am-2pm

Harald Vogel "City Interactions" at Soho Photo Downtown: 15 White street, 6:30-8:30pm

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Ani Monteleone, Ari Tabei, Bonnie DeWitt, Carrie-Ann Bracco, Charlotte Becket, Clea Felien, David Friedman, Denise DeSpirito, Devlin Shea, Emmy Mikelson, Ernest Concepcion, Gail Quagliata, Gina Fuentes Walker, Holly Ann Brooks, James Boyd-Brent, Jasmine Murrell, Jason Yarmosky, Jocelyn O’Shea, Lauren Smith, Lilly Pereira, Lisa Lebofsky, Lyndsea Cherkasky, Mike Estabrook, Rose Nestler "All the Trimmings: a collection of works under $500" at NY Studio Gallery (NYSG)
Chinatown/LES: 154 Stanton street, at Suffolk street, 8-10pm

Performance: Abe Goldfarb, Brett Berk, Dan Kois, Lindsey Moore, Mac Rogers "The Soundtrack Series" curated by Dana Rossi, Sean Williams at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, 7-9pm

Closing reception: "Holiday Party" at Christina Ray
Soho: 30 Grand street, 7-10pm

Reading: "Baudelaire at the Phaidon Store" (artcritical.com presents a marathon reading of timeless, timely and seasonal text) at Phaidon | Store
Soho: 100 Wooster street, 6:30-8:30pm

Artist Talk: "SVA, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media artist talk with Marie Losier & special guest" at Wild Project
4 Street: 195 E 3 street, 1:30pm

+ Open Studio: "MFA Fine Arts Open Studios" at SVA
21 street: 133 W 21 street, at 6 avenue, noon-8pm

Book Signing: "Ara Oshagan's Father Land" at International Center of Photography (ICP) (Museum)
43 street: 1133 Sixth avenue, at 43 street, 6-7:30pm

H. Veng Smith "Identifiable Reality" at Pandemic Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 37 Broadway, 7-11pm

Alicia Ross, Colette, Jessica Lagunas, NATSU, Vadis Turner "Basic Instinct" curated by Sasha Okshteyn at Black and White Gallery / Project Space Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 483 Driggs avenue, 6-9pm

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+ Alan Calpe, Andy Cahill, Brittany Prater, Giana Marie Gambino, Hong-An Truong, Johannes DeYoung, Justin Mata, Lily & Honglei, Naomi Safran-Hon, Scott Kiernan, Victor Faccinto, Yeon Jin Kim "VIDEOROVER: Season I" curated by Rachel Steinberg at NURTUREart Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 910 Grand street, 7-9pm

Elise Freda "Where Earth Meets Sky" at Causey Contemporary Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 92 Wythe avenue, 6-9pm

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Saturday, December 18

Reading: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Richard Tuttle at Sue Scott Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 1 Rivington street, RSVP to info@suescottgallery.com, 7pm

"Women In The Arts Comes to Broadway" at West Side Arts Coalition
96 street: 250 W 96 street, at broadway, 1-4pm

Artist Talk: Christy Powers "Other People's Lives" at Giacobetti Paul Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 220, 3pm

"Vodou Brooklyn - Book Launch and Performance" hosted by Stephanie Keith and Mambo Marie Carmel at FiveMyles
Brooklyn, Misc.: 558 St. Johns place, 8pm-midnight

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