A slower week ahead on the NYC art scene. Thursday should be interesting in the Lower East Side with shows opening at Lehmann Maupin (a Kara Walker show that continues at Sikkema Jenkins), Rooster Gallery, and Kleio Projects.

New on Artcards Review:
- "Joseph Kosuth at Sean Kelly Gallery" by Howard Hurst 
- "Featured Artists: Deaf Center" by Maria Papadomanolaki
- "Xaviera Simmons: WILDERNESS" by Helen Homan Wu

Tuesday:
+ Artist Talk: Ioana Nemes "Times Colliding" at Art in General

Wednesday:
+ Autumn Anderson, Jill Swersie, Ka-Son Reeves, Katie Hovencamp, Morgan Crespo, Robert Ross, Sander-Martijn "le printemps" at 1199SEIU Gallery

Friday:
+ Hermine Ford, Suzanne Goldenberg at Storefront

Tuesday, April 19

+ Artist Talk: Ioana Nemes "Times Colliding" at Art in General
Downtown: 79 Walker street, b/w Broadway & Lafayette, 6:30pm

Holly AllenCooper, Louis Lim "New Works: Holly AllenCooper, Louis Lim" at The Cooper Union
7 Street: 7 E 7 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: "Charlemagne Palestine: Running Outburst" a screening and conversation with Jay Sanders at EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix)
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 5, $7, rsvp to rsvp@eai.org, 6:30pm

"Fashion in Film Festival: Birds of Paradise" Metamorphoses: Clothing in Motion from Early Cinema to Contemporary Fashion Film at CUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities
35 street: 365 Fifth avenue, Elebasch Recital Hall, 2:30-5:30pm

Asanti' Austin, Elaine Austin "Diplopia" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Wednesday, April 20

Screening: Jack Smith, Michael Robinson "Dirty Looks: Michael Robinson / Jack Smith" curated by Bradford Nordeen at Participant Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 253 E Houston street, Suggested donation, 8-10pm

Preview: "Greene & White @ Grey" Megan Greene & Edwina White: Works on Paper at Dorian Grey Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 437 East 9th, Avenue A, 6-9pm

Panel Discussion: Ohad Meromi, Pablo Helguera , Xaviera Simmons "newARTtheatre 2" curated by Paul David Young at Location One
Soho: 26 Greene street, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Nicholas Baume, Rhonda Lieberman, Rob Pruitt, Wayne Koestenbaum "Andy Touched Me" Public Art Fund presents "New York Stories" at Parsons (The New School - Tishman Auditorium)
12 street: 66 W 12 street, $10, 6:30pm

Leland Bell "Theme and Variation" at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
19 street: 138 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Performance: Biba Bell, Jmy Leary, Megan Byrne, Piage Martin, R McNeill "MGM Grand: NUT" curated by Sarah Michelson at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, $12, 7:30 & 9:30pm

+ Autumn Anderson, Jill Swersie, Ka-Son Reeves, Katie Hovencamp, Morgan Crespo, Robert Ross, Sander-Martijn "le printemps" at 1199SEIU Gallery
43 street: 310 W 43 street, 5-7pm

"New G(O)ODS 2010!" The Czech National Award for Student Design 2010 - Exhibition of the best young contemporary Czech design at Bohemian National Hall (Czech Center)
73 street: 321 E 73 street, 6:30-8:30pm

Reading: "Show and Tell THurd WEdnesday" curated by Paul Lukas at The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 370 Metropolitan avenue, 7-10pm

Dan Walsh, Jacob Kassay, Jess Fuller, Joshua Smith, Leif Ritchey, Michael Williams, Ned Vena, Oliver Mosset, Peter Coffin, Sam Moyer, Sarah Braman, Tauba Auerbach "One Dozen Paintings" at Journal Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 168 North 1st street, 6-9pm

Performance: Paper Snakes "Jazz On The Avenue" curated by Joe Phillips at Brooklyn Lyceum
Brooklyn, Misc.: 227 4th avenue, $10, 8-10:30pm

Thursday, April 21

Kara Walker "Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale" at Lehmann Maupin
Chinatown/LES: 201 Chrystie street, at Stanton street, 6-8pm

Tiago Estrada "Marginalia" at Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art
Chinatown/LES: 190 Orchard street, 6-9pm

Bill Fick, Brett Davis, Bryan Labeouf, Colette Robbins, Debra Goertz, Heidi Elbers, Holly Hudson, Jackie Brown, Janie Askew, Jason Talley, Jessie Brugger, JP Roy, Kirkland Bray, Matt Egan, Patrick Romine, Peter Drake, Saya Woolfalk, Steve Forster, Tammy Wofsey, Wil Medearis "fe?sad" curated by Michael Meadors at Kleio Projects
Chinatown/LES: 153 1/2 Stanton street, 6-9pm

Geraldine Visco, Rauha Makila "I Check You" at Munch Gallery
Soho: 245 Broome street, 6-9pm

Performance: Biba Bell, Jmy Leary, Megan Byrne, Piage Martin, R McNeill "MGM Grand: NUT" curated by Sarah Michelson at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, $12, 7:30 & 9:30pm

Kara Walker "Dust Jackets For The Niggerati- and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings Submitted Ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker" at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
22 street: 530 W 22 street, 6-8pm

"Baltz, Becher, Rushca" at Yancey Richardson Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Brenda Iijima, Michael Lally "Readings in Contemporary Poetry" at Dia Art Foundation
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 5, $6; please rsvp to poetry@diaart.org, 6:30pm

Andisheh Avini at I-20 Gallery
23 street: 557 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Ying Li at Lohin Geduld Gallery
25 street: 531 W 25 street, 5-7pm

Group Exhibition "All New Spring Exhibitions at Agora Gallery" at Agora Gallery (chelsea)
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Iva Gueorguieva "Cut" at BravinLee programs
26 street: 526 W 26 street, suite 211, 4-6pm

Closing reception: Lauren Woods, Miles Yoshida, Nicholas Rispoli, Tamiko Stump, Uziel Duarte "Contours: Five Independent Visions" curated by Cristina Tafuri at Thomas Werner Gallery 26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 7, 7-9pm

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Dionisios Fragias "Cyclical Tales of Mother's Unmentionables" at Rare
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 514, 6-8pm

Panel Discussion: Hester Eisenstein, Karen Frostig, Suzanne Stroebe "Conversations: Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Womens' Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World" curated by Dianne Churchill at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, $5 Suggested Donation, 7-9pm

Will Duty "Project Scratch" at Jeff Bailey Gallery
27 street: 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Closing reception: Lou Ros "Faces" at Tache Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 602, 6-9pm

Performance: Adrian Jevicki, Matthew Mahler "Spirit in a Waste" curated by chashama at Chashama (window space)
37 street: 266 W 37 street, 7-9pm

Sydell Glasser "Uncovered" at Chashama
42 street: 217 E 42 street, b/w 2 and 3 avenue, 6-9pm

Henry Wessel "Vintage Photographs" at Pace/MacGill
57 street: 32 E 57 street, floor 9, 5:30-7:30pm

Sam Francis "Paintings and Works on Paper" at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
57 street: 724 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, 5-7pm

Friday, April 22

Olga Sophie Kauppinen, Whit Conrad "2011 Certificate Graduate Exhibition" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30-8:30pm

Performance: Biba Bell, Jmy Leary, Megan Byrne, Piage Martin, R McNeill "MGM Grand: NUT" curated by Sarah Michelson at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, $12, 7:30 & 9:30pm

Screening: Berlinde De Bruyckere "Film Screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'TEOREMA'" at Hauser & Wirth New York
69 street: 32 E 69 street, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm

Julia Cocuzza "Auto-Reverse" curated by David Gibson at Art 101
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 101 Grand street, 6-9pm

Fara'h Salehi , Jennifer Baker at Art 101
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 101 Grand street, 6-9pm

Natalie Westbrook "Paranoia Peppermint" at Interstate Projects
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 56 Bogart street, 6-9pm

+ Hermine Ford, Suzanne Goldenberg at Storefront
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 83 Wyckoff avenue, suite 1B, 6-9pm

Pascal Blondeau, Ultra Violet "9/11 Oh My God!" at The Invisible Dog Brooklyn, Misc.: 51 Bergen street, 6-9pm

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Ledelle Moe "Relief" at Kidd Yellin Brooklyn, Misc.: 133 Imlay street, 7-9pm

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Screening: Johan Grimponprez, Tom McCarthy "Double Tak" a screening followed by discussion at Cabinet
Brooklyn, Misc.: 300 Nevins street, 7-9pm

Saturday, April 23

Closing reception: Julie Harvey "Color Tempo" curated by Laura O'Reilly, Michael Namer at Gallery 151
Chinatown/LES: 350 Bowery, 7-11pm

Closing reception: Daniel Arsham "Dig" at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Chinatown/LES: 97 Kenmare street, 7pm

Conference: "Off-Site Symposium" at Columbia (Studio-X New York)
Soho: 180 Varick st, please rsvp to: info@droog.com; field trip to Levittown, NY is $20, 10am-1pm

Benefit: "Art Benefit " Silent Art Auction and Sale featuring artwork donated by Current Students, Alumni, Staff and Faculty of the Cooper Union to support medical costs for Emilie Gossiaux at The Cooper Union
7 Street: 7 E 7 street, Houghton Gallery, 2nd Floor, 2-6pm

John Dilg "Primitive Pets" at Luise Ross Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 3, 3-5pm

Screening: Brian Alfred "Animations" at Big Screen Project (Eventi Hotel Plaza)
29 street: 851 Sixth avenue, noon-6pm

? Detritus Artists at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 135 Broadway, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

EJ Hauser, Logan Grider, Matt Phillips, Nathlie Provosty "FIST CITY" at Fowler Arts Collective
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 67 West Street, Greenpoint Ave and Noble St , t, #216, 6-9pm

Sunday, April 24

Benefit: "Play for Japan!" at Public Assembly
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 70 North 6th street, $20 donation, 8-11pm

Performance: Steve Moore "Jazz On The Avenue" curated by Ryan Keberle at Brooklyn Lyceum
Brooklyn, Misc.: 227 4th avenue, $10, 9-11:30 pm

Monday, April 25

Workshop: Anna Grant, Marissa Hiller "Crafts Night" at The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 370 Metropolitan avenue, 7-10pm

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