Going out last week proved the scene is alive and well (as far as attendance and quality of work). This week again is full, starting on Wednesday: White Box, The Drawing Center, Aperture, and Exit Art all have events. Thursday is the night to hit Chelsea, and Friday Williamsburg offers more new shows/openings. Enjoy the openings and good weather!

Thursday:
+ David Herbert "Nostalgia for Infinity" at Postmasters Gallery
+ Mark Flood "Chelsea Whores" at Zach Feuer Gallery
+ Hanna Sandin "How Many Are Several? How Many Are Few? How Big is Big?" at Fake Estate
+ "Constitution" at Greene Naftali Gallery
+ Violet Hopkins "Afraid He Might be Mistaken for a Centaur" at Foxy Production

Friday:
+ "Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art" at The Kitchen

Tuesday, May 19

Chris Taylor, Giuliana Michelotti, Jeffrey Beebe, Manil Gupta, Michael Counts, Ronald Moran, Susan Weinthaler, Zachary Clement "An evening of art. design and libations" at Agro/Glickman STEP (1)
14 street: 73 Eigth avenue, floor 3, studio 2, 6-8pm

Screening: Eleanor Antin "Artist Talk + Screening" at EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix)
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 5, 6:30pm

Carlyle Chaudruc "Grass Paintings" at Ceres Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

Tour: "The Treasure of Ulysses Davis" at American Folk Art Museum
53 street: 45 W 53 street, 1pm

Closing reception: "Stayin' Alive: a silent art auction" at Metaphor Contemporary Art
Brooklyn, Misc.: 382 Atlantic avenue, 6-9pm

Wednesday, May 20

J.L. Elliott Berman "New to New York, Now in New York" at Synagogue for the Arts Gallery Space
Downtown: 49 White street, 6-8pm

Lee Bae "Mark / Motion / Imprint" curated by Esra Joo, Juan Puntes at White Box
Chinatown/LES: 329 Broome street, b/w Bowery & Chrystie, 6-9pm

Cristiana Depedrini "Laundry Day" at 255Canal
Chinatown/LES: 255 Canal street, floor 4, 6-10pm

Lecture: "49 Cities - A Conversation" with Amale Andraos, Dan Wood, Michael Webb, Sarah Whiting at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Chinatown/LES: 97 Kenmare street, Reserved seating available for Storefront Members - RSVP to rsvp@storefrontnews.org, 7pm

Christian Chaize "Praia Piquinia" at Jen Bekman
Chinatown/LES: 6 Spring street, b/w Elizabeth & Bowery, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Tom Klinkowstein at The Drawing Center
Soho: 35 Wooster street, 6:30pm

Linda Stein "Strong Suit: Armor as Second Skin" at National Association of Women Artists
14 street: 80 Fifth avenue, suite 1405, 4-7pm

John Kelly "The Mirror Stages: Self-Portraits, 1979-2009" at Alexander Gray Associates
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 10, 6-8pm

Book launch: "J&L Books: The Plan by Michael Schmelling, Weavings by Corin Hewitt, Landmasses and Railways by Bertrand Fleuret" at Aperture Foundation
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Linda Stein "Strong Suit: Armor as Second Skin" curated by Eleanor Flomenhaft at Flomenhaft Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 3, 4-7pm

"Negritude" at Exit Art
36 street: 475 Tenth avenue, at 36 street, 7-10pm

Lecture: "Cuban Artists' Books" at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, 1-4:30pm

Javier Marin "Seven Heads and Three Wigs" at Nohra Haime Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, 6-8pm

Thursday, May 21

Book launch: Federico Diaz "Resonance" at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Chinatown/LES: 97 Kenmare street, 7-9pm

Yuki Itoda at Kumukumu
Chinatown/LES: 42 Rivington street, 6-8pm

Performance: "Nick Hallett: Voice & Light Systems, Part Three: Whispering Exercises Premiere" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $15, 7pm

"An Evening of Music and Art" at Chacala NY
Soho: 394 Broadway, floor 4, 7-10pm

"Second Annual MFA Thesis Exhibition" at Cornell University
17 street: 50 W 17 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

Amy Yao, James Richards, Marc Hundley, Michele Abeles, Raina Hamner, Tony Cox "A Song for Those in Search of What They Came With" curated by David Benjamin Sherry at Bellwether Gallery
19 street: 134 Tenth avenue, at w 19 street, 6-8pm

+ David Herbert "Nostalgia for Infinity" at Postmasters Gallery
19 street: 459 W 19 street, 6-8pm

Paul Aaron Johnson "Home Away from Home: 3D Lenticular Photographs" at Ricco/Maresca Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Michael Brown "An Object is Just Material" at Yvon Lambert Gallery
21 street: 550 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Shinique Smith "Ten Times Myself" at Yvon Lambert Gallery
21 street: 550 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Lana Lucas "Thru the prism of green eyes" at InterArt
23 street: 225 Tenth avenue, 6-8:30pm

Kim Dorland "Super! Natural!" at Freight + Volume
24 street: 542 W 24 street, 6-8pm

+ Mark Flood "Chelsea Whores" at Zach Feuer Gallery
24 street: 530 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Michael Alan "how we push time" at Art:29 Gallery
25 street: 525 W 25 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

"Soul Journey" at Bowery Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 5-8pm

Sun Liang at Art Next Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

+ Hanna Sandin "How Many Are Several? How Many Are Few? How Big is Big?" at Fake Estate
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

+ "Constitution" at Greene Naftali Gallery
26 street: 508 W 26 street, floor 8, 6-8pm

"Mayhem" at Phyllis Kind Gallery
26 street: 236 W 26 street, floor 5, 5-7pm

Frank Magnotta "Grand Optimist" at Derek Eller Gallery
27 street: 615 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Dannielle Tegeder "Arrangements to Ward Off Accidents" at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

Yound Wook Choi "Images of Memories" at Art Gate Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

+ Violet Hopkins "Afraid He Might be Mistaken for a Centaur" at Foxy Production
27 street: 617 W 27 street, 6-8pm

"Commune" curated by Dominique Nahas at Black and White Gallery
28 street: 636 W 28 street, 6-8pm

Ben McLaughlin "Recent paintings" at Heskin Contemporary
37 street: 443 W 37 street, 6-9pm

Jan Sobottka, Konstantin Schneider "Berlin Artspotters in New York" curated by Marc Wellmann at German House
49 street: E 49 street at 1st avenue, 871 UN Plaza, 6pm

"Bodies and Fractured Spaces" at Austrian Cultural Forum
52 street: 11 E 52 street, 6pm

Workshop: "Alzheimer's Program: Folk Art Reflections" at American Folk Art Museum
53 street: 45 W 53 street, 2-3:30pm

? Patty Chang at Mary Boone Gallery
57 street: 745 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, floor 4, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Lecture: "AICA-USA Art Panel: In Translation: Nomadic Art Critics" at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
58 street: 2 Columbus circle, Free with advanced reservation to aicausaprogram@gmail.com, 6:45-8:30pm

? Frank Wimberley at Spanierman Modern
58 street: 53 E 58 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Screening: Alisa Solomon, Eleanor Antin, Jeffrey Shandler "Imagining the Shtetl" at The Jewish Museum
92 street: 1109 Fifth avenue, at 92 street, $15, 6:30pm

Artist Talk: "Talking to People in The Dark: Black Elf Speaks, Soft Circle, Christie and Emily, Dj Shades" at Secret Project Robot
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 210 Kent avenue, 8pm-ish

Friday, May 22

"Presentation of the works by the artists in residency, screening, and performances" at HERE
Downtown: 210 Front street, 7-11pm

"Stillleben" at Ennagon Gallery
Soho: 50 Greene street, 6-8pm

+ "Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art" at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, 5-8pm

John Jacobsmeyer, John Tarahteeff, Kirk Fanelly, Maya Brym, Nicole Gordon, Panni Malek, Robin Williams, Ryan Seng, Sarah Bereza, Tom Costa "American Dreams" at Jack the Pelican Presents
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 487 Driggs avenue, 7-9pm

Cris Dam, Mark Andreas at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, 8-11pm

Julia Whitney Barnes, Melissa Pokorny "Within The Menagerie" at Front Room Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 147 Roebling street, 6-9pm

Reuben Negron "Dirty Dirty Love" at Like The Spice
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 224 Roebling street, 6-10pm

Saturday, May 23

Armando Andrade Tudela, Hans Schabus, Michael Stevenson, Rosa Barba "A Despot in Flora's Garden" at Simon Preston Gallery
Soho: 301 Broome street, 6-8pm

Michael Snow "2 Radio Solos by Michael Snow" Double CD Launch and Signing at Printed Matter, Inc.
22 street: 195 Tenth avenue, at w 22 street, 5-7pm

? Jacob Hashimoto at Mary Boone Gallery
24 street: 541 W 24 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Workshop: Michael Alan "Draw-A-Thon Theater Live" at Art:29 Gallery
25 street: 525 W 25 street, floor 2, $20, 6-11pm

Performance: "Black Meteoric Star / Assume Vivid Astro Focus" presented by PopRally at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, $15, 8:30-11pm

James Sheehan, Marsha Cottrell, Matt Harle "2 X 3 X 10" organized by Charles Goldman at vertexList
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 138 Bayard street, at manhattan ave, 6-9pm

Milk Hulburt at C.R.E.A.M. Gallery
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 99 Franklin street, 7-11pm

Sunday, May 24

Screening: "Gets Under the Skin" Films and videos on modernist architecture curated by Hajnalka Somogyi at Storefront for Art and Architecture
25 street: 508 W 25 street, 7pm

Monday, May 25

"Met Holiday Monday" at Metropolitan Museum of Art
81 street: 1000 Fifth avenue, at 81 street, 9:30am-5:30pm

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