Artcards New York Weekly Update

Tuesday, May 3

Benefit: "ABC No Rio 2011 Gala & Benefit Auction" at Allegra LaViola Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 179 East Broadway, $50, 7-10pm

Artist Talk: Alex Kitnick, Andrew Roth, Lucy Gallun, Mario Pfeifer "White Colums + Sternberg Press presents Mario Pfeifer" book presentation and discussion at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), 6pm

Artist Talk: Tony Conrad "At the Edges of Art" at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, 7pm

Artist Talk: Daphne Taylor "Quilt Drawing" curated by Cathy Izzo, Judy Doenias at ArtQuilt Gallery NYC
25 street: 133 W 25 street, 6-7pm

Michele Oka Doner "What is White" eatdrinkprints: an event series related to artists and the graphic arts at International Fine Print Dealers Assoc (IFPDA)
26 street: 250 W 26 street, suite 405, soho location revealed upon your RSVP, $150, 6:30-8pm

Alexander May, Lisha Bai, Lucy Indiana Dodd, Naama Tsabar "Heading for a fall: the art of entropy" at fordProject
57 street: 57 W 57 street, penthous, 6-8pm

Amber George, Audrey Phillips, Chase Langford, David Kidd, Lisa Pressman, Maria O'Malley "Making Their Mark" at Susan Eley Fine Art
90 street: 46 W 90 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Junko Yamamoto "Stylish Nostalgia" curated by Arisa at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Wednesday, May 4

Benefit: "40th Anniversary Gala Benefit honoring Phillip Gass" at The Kitchen (Capitale)
Chinatown/LES: 130 Bowery, b/w Grand and Broome streets, , 6pm-midnight

? "Betaville on the Bowery" curated by Carl Skelton, Juan Puntes at White Box (WBX Bowery)
Chinatown/LES: 329 Broome street, b/w Bowery & Chrystie, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Conference: "Festival of Ideas for the New City" a conference and street festival with projects at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, varies - see program: http://issuu.com/newmuseum/docs/festival_of_ideas_program

Jeff Williams "Worn Thin" at Recess Activities, Inc.
Soho: 41 Grand street, 6-8pm

"Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture" at Phaidon | Store
Soho: 83 Wooster street, RSVP required: email CREAMIER to store.soho@phaidon.com, 6:30-8:30pm

Andre Perkowski, Colby Bird, Derek Larson, Erica Magrey, Ganjatronics, Jonathan Phelps, Rachel Mason, Sam Mickens "ESP TV Episode 2 Viewing Party @Angels and Kings" at Louis V E.S.P. (Angels and Kings)
11 street: 500 E 11 street, 8pm-midnight

Screening: Andre Perkowski, Colby Bird, Dana Bell, Derek Larson, Erica Magrey, Ganjatronics, Jonathan Phelps, Rachel Mason, Sam Mickens "ESP TV Episode 2 Viewing Party" at Louis V E.S.P. (Angels and Kings)
11 street: 500 E 11 street, 8pm-midnight

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Ron Hamad "Surrender" at Robin Rice Gallery
11 street: 325 W 11 street, 5:30-8:30pm

Panel Discussion: Jeremy Ziemann, Nicholas Baume, Pat Steir, Paula Cooper "Public Art Fund presents " at Parsons (The New School - Tishman Auditorium)
12 street: 66 W 12 street, $10; students free with valid ID, 6:30pm

Panel Discussion: Adam Harrison Levy, Bjarke Ingels, John Seabrook, Linda Tishcler, Olympia Kazi, Paola Antonelli, Rob Walker "Speculatively Speaking: The Future of Design Criticism" at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, 6pm

Grace Rim "love is all I need" at CREON Gallery
24 street: 238 E 24 street, suite 1B, 6-9pm

+ Katy Moran at Andrea Rosen
24 street: 525 W 24 street, 6-8pm

+ Keith Haring at Gladstone Gallery
24 street: 515 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: Antonio Eligio Frenandez (Tonel), Ernesto Oroza "Objects of Necessity and their incarnations in Cuban Art and Culture" Talking About Cuban Art at Cuban Art Space (Center for Cuban Studies)
29 street: 231 W 29 street, floor 4, please rsvp to cubanartspace@gmail.com or call 212.242.0559, 7:30pm

+ Preview: "AAF Spring 2011 Private Preview" at Affordable Art Fair (7 W New York)
34 street: 7 W 34 street, $45, 6-9pm

Leo Villareal "Volume" at Gering & Lopez Gallery
57 street: 730 Fifth avenue, at 57 street, 6-8pm

Futurefarmers "Intervals" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, various

Screening: Werner Herzog "Fitzcarraldo" at Rabbitholestudio
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 33 Washington street, at Plymouth street, 8pm

Panel Discussion: Andre Lepecki, Every House Has A Door, JUDY, K8 Hardy, Ong Keng Sen, Randy Martin "We have no money so..." curated by Andre Lepecki at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, donation suggested, 7:30pm

Thursday, May 5

Gina LeVay "Bull Fight" at Hous Projects
Downtown: 31 Howard street, floor 2, 7-9pm

Marsha Owett, Scott Kilgour "Garbage and Grunge" curated by Jill Brienza at Splashlight Gallery
Downtown: 75 Varick street, floor 3, 6-9pm

Daniel Peddle "Undertow" curated by Nicolla Vassell at NP Contemporary Art Center
Chinatown/LES: 131 Chrystie street, 6-8pm

Alina & Jeff Bliumis, Danielle Tageder, Ed Purver, Eva & Franco Mattes (aka 0100101110101101.org), Helidon Gjergji, Itziar Barrio, James Tunick, Jason Gringler, Maria Jose Arjona, Marinella Senatore, Niklas Goldbach, paperJam "About Face" at No Longer Empty (Vacant Storefront at the Ludlow)
Chinatown/LES: 215 East Houston st, 8-10pm

Anuar Rosaldo, David Quiles, Jason Claudio, Julio Valdez, Leslie Jimenez, Margarita Gutierrez, Miguel Trelles, Robert Nuñez, Tenjin Ikeda, Titanium (Antonio Montalvo), Wilson Ramos Jr., XIAN (Christian Montalvo) "Monstros" at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 107 Suffolk street, 7-11pm

Auction: Group Show "Fundraiser for the Red Cross in Japan" curated by Kevin Wilson at Sacred Gallery
Soho: 424 Broadway, floor 2, 8-10pm

+ Jakob Kolding "Blocks" at Team
Soho: 83 Grand street, b/w wooster & greene, 6-8pm

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Shannon Plumb "The Window Series" at SmartSpaces (The Windows at 200 Lafayette street)
Soho: 200 Lafayette , b/w Broome & Kenmare sts, RSVP required: rsvp@smartspaces.org, 6-8pm

"Destination Thursdays, No. 3, Cinco De Mayo" at The Gallery at the SoHo Grand Hotel
Soho: 310 W Broadway, 10pm-3:30am

"Palimpsest" Exploring Compound Identities in Contemporary South Asian Art at Aicon Gallery
4 Street: 35 Great Jones street, please RSVP to query@aicongallery.com or call 212.725.6092, 6-9pm

Alyssa Monks, Dina Brodsky, John Wellington, Margaret Bowland, Mikel Glass, Peter Drake, Xiaoqing Ding "Forces of Nature" curated by John Wellington at Chelsea Modern
18 street: 447 W 18 street, suite GD4, 7-10pm

Wang Tiande "3720: Recent Works by Wang Tiande" at Chambers Fine Art
19 street: 522 W 19 street, 6-8pm

Mark Grotjahn at Anton Kern
20 street: 532 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Gillian Wearing "People" at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
21 street: 521 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Preview: Leah Durner "Naked Color" at 571 Projects
21 street: 551 W 21 street, suite 204A, 6-9pm

Anthony Campuzano "Waters' March" at Churner and Churner
22 street: 205 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Tobias Putrih "When Language Goes on Holiday" at Meulensteen
22 street: 511 W 22 street, 5-8pm

Jacob Lawrence "Builders" at DC Moore
22 street: 535 West 22nd st, 2, 6-8pm

Mary Frank "Transformations: Wood Sculpture, 1957-1967, and Recent Photographs" at DC Moore
22 street: 535 West 22nd st, 2, 6-8pm

Tim Maguire at Von Lintel Gallery
23 street: 520 W 23 street, 6-8pm

John Chamberlain "New Sculpture" at Gagosian Gallery
24 street: 555 W 24 street, 6-8pm

John Chamberlain "New Sculpture" at Gagosian Gallery
24 street: 555 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Li Songsong at The Pace Gallery
25 street: 534 W 25 street, 6-8pm

J.B. Dule, Ken Macklin, Roberto Fernandez Dorticos "Starlit Fantasmagoria" at Amsterdam Whitney Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Ron Agam at Bertrand Delacroix Gallery - BDG
25 street: 535 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Monika Merva "The City of Children" at Clamp Art
25 street: 531 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Anne Russinof, Sand T "Basic Elements" at Blank Space
25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 204, 6-8pm

Karen Gunderson "Constellations" at Clamp Art
25 street: 531 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Songsik Min "Two Faces" at Doosan Gallery
25 street: 533 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"Among the serious sand playful things" curated by Stefania Carrozzini at Onishi Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Robert Greene at Robert Miller Gallery
26 street: 524 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Leon Kossoff at Mitchell - Innes & Nash (Chelsea)
26 street: 534 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Michael Glancy "Infinite Obsessions" at Barry Friedman Ltd
26 street: 515 W 26 street, 6-8pm

+ Sonya Blesofsky "Tenement" at Mixed Greens
26 street: 531 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Barry Frydlender "Travelogue in Pictures" at Andrea Meislin Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

"MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department Thesis Exhibition" at SVA (Visual Arts Gallery)
26 street: 601 W 26 street, floor 15, 6-8pm

Carrie Mae Rose, Faith Holland, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Jason Swift, Jil Weinstock, Lisa Levy, Melanie Bonajo, Sono Osato , T.R. Ericsson, Yeji Jun "Piece of Mind" curated by FIT Art Market Graduate Students at Elga Wimmer PCC
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 3, 6-9pm

+ "T_XT_RT" at Jenkins Johnson Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

Caleb Charland "Fathom and Fray" at Michael Mazzeo Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Vitaly Pushnitsky "Birth Date" at Sputnik Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

Art Fair: "AAF NYC Spring 2011" at Affordable Art Fair (7 W New York)
34 street: 7 W 34 street, $20, 11am-8pm (6-8pm free admission)

Gideon Rubin "Shallow Waters" at Hosfelt Gallery
36 street: 531 W 36 street, 6-8pm

Chad Kleitsch "Works on Paper" Chad Kleitsch in conversation with new writing by Tim Davis at Camera Club of New York
37 street: 336 W 37 street, 6-8pm

"MoMA Nights with DJ Adam Horovitz and a Special Poster Signing" at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, 5:30-8:45pm

Subodh Gupta "A glass of water" at Hauser & Wirth New York
69 street: 32 E 69 street, 6-8pm

Yelena Yemchuk "Gidropark" at Gitterman Gallery
75 street: 170 E 75 street, 6-8pm

? Eric Fischl "Early Paintings" at Skarstedt Gallery, Ltd
79 street: 20 E 79 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"2011 CCNY Annual Student Photography Exhibition" curated by Emma Covello, Matthew Gonzales, Samantha Sutcliffe, Simon Shimshilashvili, Yolene Grant at Compton and Goethals Art Department Gallery
140 street: 160 Convent avenue, at 140 street, 5-8pm

Performance: Aerostatic + vade "Intra-Structure" a live, 40-minute site-specific audio and video performance at Brooklyn Arts Council (The Archway under the Manhattan Bridge)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: , Adams st @ Water st, 8pm

"Photo Global: New Releases 2011" at SVA (Front Street Galleries)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front st, Suite 226, 6-8:30pm

Gieve Patel "Wells Clouds Skulls" at Bose Pacia Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 163 Plymouth street, 6-8pm

+ Screening: Shelley Silver "in complete world" at Momenta Art
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 359 Bedford avenue, 6:30-8:30pm

Performance: Andre Lepecki, Every House Has A Door, JUDY, K8 Hardy, Ong Keng Sen, Randy Martin "We have no money so..." curated by Andre Lepecki at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, donation suggested, 7:30pm

Jake Nelson "Cinco De Mayo" at Roots Cafe
Brooklyn, Misc.: 639A 5th avenue, 6:30-8:30pm

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Benefit: "Convergence in Red Hook" Spring Art Show Preview Party at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 499 Van Brunt street, $50; Please visit www.bwac.org to make a reservation, 6:30-9pm

Friday, May 6

"Art Star Print Launch Party & Talk w/ Artist Micah Ganske" at RH Gallery
Downtown: 137 Duane street, 7-9pm

Jesse Wilenbring "Left to Darkness" at Laurel Gitlen (Small A Projects)
Chinatown/LES: 261 Broome street, 6-8pm

Screening: Marinella Senatore "About Face presents Variations" curated by No Longer Empty at No Longer Empty
Chinatown/LES: 66 East 4th, 7-8pm

Screening: Josh Slater "Heavy Rays" curated by Chantal Chadwick, Lara Hodulick, Marshall Korshack at End of Century
Chinatown/LES: 175 Rivington street, 7-9pm

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Emrie Brooke Foster "Open Doors" at LZ Project Space
Chinatown/LES: 164 Suffolk street, 7pm-midnight

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Performance: Chiara Quartet, Joshua Frankel, Matmos, NOW Ensemble "Plan of the City" animation with live music by a chamber ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, 6:30pm

Van Hanos at West Street Gallery
10 street: 395 West street, suite 2, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Kim Beck http://www.thehighline.org/events/all/2011/5/artist-talk-kim-beck at High Line Art (Bumble and Bumble)
13 street: 415 West 13th street, 3, please rsvp to 212.206.9922, 6:30-7:30pm

+ Carter Mull "The Day's Specific Dreams" at Taxter & Spengemann Gallery
18 street: 459 W 18 street, 6-8pm

? Jasper Johns "New Sculpture and Works on Paper" at Matthew Marks Gallery
22 street: 522 W 22 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Sean Landers "Around the World Alone" at Friedrich Petzel Gallery
22 street: 537 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Frank Benson, Ken Price at Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL)
22 street: 548 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Dasha Shishkin "Desaparecido" at Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL)
22 street: 548 W 22 street, 6-8pm

+ Judy Ledgerwood "April Showers" at Tracy Williams Ltd
23 street: 521 W 23 street, 6-8pm

"New York Gallery Week" at DJT Fine Art (Taglialatella Galleries)
24 street: 231 Tenth avenue, 10am-6pm

Louise Lawler "Fitting at Metro Pictures" at Metro Pictures
24 street: 519 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Yigal Ozeri "Garden of the Gods" at Mike Weiss Gallery
24 street: 520 W 24 street, 6-8pm

? Paul Sietsema at Matthew Marks Gallery
24 street: 523 W 24 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Jack Smith "Thanks for Explaining Me" at Gladstone Gallery
24 street: 515 W 24 street, 6-8pm

+ Richard Tuttle "What's the Wind" at The Pace Gallery
25 street: 510 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Adrian Piper, Ala Dehghan, Barbad Golshiri, Blalla Hallmann, Chitra Ganesh, Dona Nelson, Fang Lijun, Haeri Yoo, Helena Almeida, Hubert Schmalix, Jenny Scobel, Jutta Koether, Lorraine O’Grady, Lyle Ashton Harris, Matthias Müller, Oladélé Bamgboyé, Preston Scott Cohen, Raha Raissnia, Rose Wylie, Sarah Rossiter, Senga Nengudi, Seth Edenbaum, Shanna Waddell, Tejal Shah, Tom Wood, Vincent Geyskens, Yamini Nayar "15 Years" a trajectory of the gallery's history, seen through pivotal works from our solo shows at Thomas Erben Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 4, 6-8:30pm

Jaume Plensa "Anonymous" at Galerie Lelong
26 street: 528 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"I.D.E. A. Squad: Innovative Design in Emerging Advertising" at Rogue Space
26 street: 526 W 26 street, suite 9E, 5:30-9pm

+ Alexandra Grant, Amy Sillman, Analia Saban , Ann Craven, Brenna Youngblood, Carrie Moyer, Cecily Brown, Dana Schutz, Dona Nelson, Elizabeth Murray, Elizabeth Neel, Haley Mellin, Jackie Saccoccio, Jacqueline Humphries, Joanne Greenbaum, Joyce Pensato, Keltie Ferris, Kianja Strobert, Kristin Baker, Laura Owens, Lesley Vance, Mary Heilmann, Mary Weatherford, Michelle Grabner, Moira Dryer, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Nicola Tyson, Nicole Eisenman, Patricia Treib, Polly Apfelbaum, Rebecca Morris, Rosy Keyser, Suzanne McClelland, Wendy White "A Painting Show" at Harris Lieberman (temporary location)
26 street: 508 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Olga Chernysheva at Foxy Production
27 street: 623 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Aric Obrosey, Astrid Bowlby, Dan Fischer, Daniel Zeller, Jacob El Hanani, Joan Linder, Man Bartlett, Michael Waugh, Shane Hope "Idee Fixe: Drawings of an Obsessive Nature" at Winkleman Gallery
27 street: 621 W 27 street, 6-9pm

Ivan Witenstein at Derek Eller Gallery
27 street: 615 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Bruce Wilhelm, Nina Bovasso "What's Your Bubble?" at Mulherin Pollard Projects
28 street: 317 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Alexander Ross at David Nolan Gallery
29 street: 527 W 29 street, 6-8pm

? Robert Mapplethorpe "50 Americans" curated by Fifty Americans from Fifty States at Sean Kelly Gallery
29 street: 528 W 29 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Art Fair: "AAF NYC Spring 2011" at Affordable Art Fair (7 W New York)
34 street: 7 W 34 street, $20, 11am-8pm

Panel Discussion: Ariella Budick, Colleen Asper, Jeffrey Kastner "The Review Panel" an evening of critical conversation about art at National Academy Musuem & School of Fine Arts
89 street: 1083 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $10, 6:45pm

Marc Brandenburg "Version" at Studio Museum Harlem
125 street: 144 W 125 street, noon-9pm

Michael Kelly Williams "A Look Back" curated by Averlyn Archer at Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery
139 street: 2611 Eigth avenue, at w 139 street, 6:30-9pm

Artist Talk: Ghana Think Tank "Need A Summer Job?" at Momenta Art
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 359 Bedford avenue, 6:30-8:30pm

Performance: "why i breathe presents" a digital music performance through fragmented bedrooms at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, donation suggested, 8pm

Bede Murphy, Christina LC Markin, Daniel A Oliva, Daniel Healey, Karen Fitzgerald, Paula Overbay "Artronomy" curated by Takeshi Iida at AG Gallery - About Glamour
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 103 N 3 street, b/w berry & wythe ave, 6-9pm

Kris Krohn "Timeless Interiors" at Repop
Brooklyn, Clinton Hill: 68 Washington avenue, 7:30-11pm

"Spring Arts Festival 2011" at Riis Settlement
Queens: 10-25 41st avenue, 6-8:30pm

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Saturday, May 7

Erika Mahr "Geometric Narratives" at Launch F18
Downtown: 373 Broadway, floor 6, 6-8pm

Aida Ruilova, Chakaia Booker, Chris Jordan, Claire Scoville, Guido van der Werve, Hisham Bharoocha, Jason Krugman, Jon Kessler, Jules Marquis, Kant Smith, Marco Brambillia, Marilyn Minter, Mia Pearlman, Ohad Meromi, Rashaad Newsome, Rita Ackermann, SOFTlab, Valeska Soares "Flash:Light" at Nuit Blanche New York
Chinatown/LES: 235 Bowery, (three locations: Mulberry street at Prince street, New Museum, & St. Patrick's Old Cathedral), 8pm and on (until 3am in some locations)

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Clive Murphy, Ellen Harvey, Jane Benson, Jason Hedges, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Michael Mahalchick, Nicole Cherubini, Robert Melee "Dust to Settle" curated by Diana Shpungin at Artists Alliance Inc. (CUCHIFRITOS gallery/project space)
Chinatown/LES: 120 Essex street, 4-6:30pm

+ Ben Bunch, Dane Patterson, Megan Burns "Spring Round Up" at The Proposition
Chinatown/LES: 2 Extra Place, 6-8pm

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Robert Spinazzola "Motown Senufu" curated by Dino Eli at Orchard Windows Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 37 Orchard street, 4-8pm

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+ Auction: "Fountain Silent Auction: A Benefit for Art Connects New York" Group show featuring Russell Young and Chris Stain curated by Fountain Art Fair at Gallery Bar
Chinatown/LES: 120 Orchard street, $10 Suggested Donation, 7-11pm

Artist Talk: Robin Nagle, Sheila Gallagher "Trash Talk" at Dodge Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 15 Rivington street, 6pm

Daimon Marchand "Kammeropolis" at Sloan Fine Art
Chinatown/LES: 128 Rivington street, 6-8pm

Clare Grill, Greg Hopkins, Jean-Pierre Roy, Jeremy Wagner, Jonathan Viner, Mia Brownell, Nicole Etienne, Noah Landfield "Kin" at Sloan Fine Art
Chinatown/LES: 128 Rivington street, 6-8pm

David Shapiro "Money is no Object" at Sue Scott Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 1 Rivington street, 6-8pm

Performance: Yuliya Lanina "Birds and Bees" at NY Studio Gallery (NYSG)
Chinatown/LES: 154 Stanton street, at Suffolk street, 7pm

Raffaella Chiara "Parallel Lines" at Frosch&Portmann
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, 6-8pm

Open Studio: Allen Hansen, Bill Massey, Bill Mutter, Chang-jin Lee, Charley Friedman, David K. Friedman, David Mahler, David Pushkin, Doug Blanchard, Eileen Elizabeth Smith Grant, Elaine Carl, Flavia Souza, Harumi Ori, Itziar Barrio, Jen Mazza, Kylie Heidenheimer, Linda Byrne, Linda Griggs, Lisa Hanson, Lisa Lebofsky, Mark Power, Melanie Vote, Michael Katchen, Nadia Ayari, Nancy Friedemann, Nicole Parcher, Pam Cardwell, Paul Clay, Rafael Rosario-Laguna, Robert Grant, Selime Okuyan, Sherman J. Sussman, Silvio DelaCruz, Suzanne Varni, Tine Kindermann, Wayne Liu "Open Studios" over 35 artists to see at Artists Alliance Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 107 Suffolk street, floor 4, 5-9pm

? Jeff Williams "Worn Thin" at Recess Activities, Inc.
Soho: 41 Grand street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Tour: "Urban Disorientation Game at the Festival of Ideas" at Christina Ray
Soho: 30 Grand street, noon

+ "School Nite" part of Festival of Ideas for the New City at Old School
Soho: 233 Mott street, 6pm-4am

"Flash:Light" at Nuit Blanche New York
Soho: 263 Mulberry street, 8pm

"Flash:Light" at Nuit Blanche New York
Soho: Mulberry street at Prince street, 8pm

Joel Kyack "River / Stream / In-Between" at Kate Werble Gallery
Soho: 83 Vandam street, at hudson street, 6-8pm

Aaron Young "Built Tough" at Bortolami
20 street: 520 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Matt Keegan, Robert Moskowitz at D'Amelio Terras
22 street: 525 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Book Signing: Judy Ledgerwood "April Showers" at Tracy Williams Ltd
23 street: 521 W 23 street, 2pm

? Salvatore Scarpitta "Trajectory" at Marianne Boesky Gallery
24 street: 509 W 24 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"One: A Year of Exhibitions" at Benrimon Contemporary, LLC
24 street: 514 W 24 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

? Ted Stamm (Project Space) at Marianne Boesky Gallery
24 street: 509 W 24 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Doretta Miller "Portraits of Chairs" at First Street Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 9, 3-5pm

Lecture: Paul Lazar, Suzanne Bocanerga "When a Priest Marries a Witch" an artist lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Paul Lazar at James Cohan Gallery
26 street: 533 W 26 street, Please rsvp to reception@jamescohan.com or call 212.714.9500, 7pm

Performance: Black Lake "Black Lake Silver Moon" at David Nolan Gallery
29 street: 527 W 29 street, 5pm

Art Fair: "AAF NYC Spring 2011" at Affordable Art Fair (7 W New York)
34 street: 7 W 34 street, $20, 11am-8pm

Preview: "Spring Flowers" at Mireille Mosler Ltd.
67 street: 35 E 67 street, 6-9pm

Lecture: "Koo Jeong A: Perspectives from the Curator" an exclusive series of gallery talks lead by DIA's curator Yasmil Raymond at Dia Art Foundation (Hispanic Society of America)
155 street: 3729 Broadway, b/w W 155 street & W 156 street, Audubon Terrace, 2pm

Artist Talk: Gieve Patel "Wells Clouds Skulls" at Bose Pacia Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 163 Plymouth street, 1pm

Benefit: "Kentucky Derby Party & Art Auction Benefit" at Smack Mellon
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 92 Plymouth street, at Washington, $250, 4-8pm

Panel Discussion: Carol Becker, Chen Tamir, James Andrews, MFK, Tom Finkelpearl "Modeling Alternatives" at Momenta Art
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 359 Bedford avenue, 4:30-6:30pm

Performance: "why i breathe presents" a digital music performance through fragmented bedrooms at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, donation suggested, 8pm

Screening: James Fotopoulos "Alice in Wonderland" at Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 4 Charles place, 7pm

Performance: Amy Khoshbin, Ithai Benjamin, Michael Clemow "OverNotOver" at Shea Stadium BK
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 20 Meadow street, $7, 9-11:30pm

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Erik Saxon "Selected Works, 1973-2011" at Minus Space (project space)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 98 4th street, 3-6pm

Sebastien Leclercq "Active Parameter" at Fountain Studios
Brooklyn, Misc.: 604 Grand avenue, 7-10pm

Elik "Snake Bite" curated by Rae McGrath at Brooklynite Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 334 Malcolm X boulevard, 7-10pm

Performance: Aaron Meyers, Ben Gleitzman, Bruce McClure, Bubblyfish, Dan Iglesia, Jeff Crouse, Marius Watz, Matt Wellins, Sarah Halpern, The Shortsleeves, The So So Glos "Signal to Noise #2" curated by Jason Eppink at Museum of the Moving Image
Queens: 36-01 35th avenue, $15 online/$20 at the door, 8pm-2am

DEATH NYC "Death Is Free" at Okiku Kiyomizu Gallery
Queens: 48-34 Van Dam street, 6-8pm

"Tumblecities: Ben Pranger" at Gallery Aferro
Newark: 73 Market street, Project Room, 6-9pm

"The Edna Experiments" at Gallery Aferro
Newark: 73 Market street, New Media Room & Liminal Space, 6-9pm

Christine DaCruz, Cristine Posner, Escobar - Morales, Lindsey Muscato Laryssa Myers, Mairikke Dau, Melissa MacAlpin, Nicole Wilson, Sharon de la Cruz, Sharone Vendriger "New News is Old News: Wonder Women 6" at Gallery Aferro
Newark: 73 Market street, 6-9pm

Artists: Khalida Alexander, Cheryse D. Damon, Claudia Phillips, Hilda Saladin, Katerin Salguero, Nicole Reynoso, Yasmine E. Bacon, Zafirah Wilson, Zhana Renee Caldwell "Identity Blueprint" at Gallery Aferro
Newark: 73 Market street, 6-9pm

Sunday, May 8

Stephen Vincent "Haptics: Poetry by Other Means" at Jack Hanley Gallery
Downtown: 136 Watts street, 6-8pm

+ Michael Williams "Straightforward as a Noodle" at CANADA Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 55 Chrystie street, b/w Hester and Canal, 6-8pm

Tour: "Lower East Side Art Gallery Hop" 12 Galleries: 2 hours curated by Gotham SideWalks gallery walking tours at Educational Alliance (Ernest Rubenstein Gallery)
Chinatown/LES: 197 E Broadway, $20, 3-5pm

The Casualty Process curated by No Longer Empty, The Impossible Music Sessions at No Longer Empty (Vacant Storefront at the Ludlow)
Chinatown/LES: 215 East Houston st, 6pm

The Casualty Process curated by No Longer Empty, The Impossible Music Sessions at No Longer Empty (Vacant Storefront at the Ludlow)
Chinatown/LES: 215 East Houston st, 7-9pm

+ Elaine Cameron-Weir "without true bazaars" at Ramiken Crucible
Chinatown/LES: 389 Grand street, 6-8pm

Concrete Utopia "Reframing: I am Not a Good Enough Feminist" at No Longer Empty
Chinatown/LES: 58 Lipsenard st, 7-9pm

Debo Eilers "In your house.x" at On Stellar Rays
Chinatown/LES: 133 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Hillary Harnischfeger at Rachel Uffner Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 47 Orchard street, 6-8pm

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Open Studio: Allen Hansen, Bill Massey, Bill Mutter, Chang-jin Lee, Charley Friedman, David K. Friedman, David Mahler, David Pushkin, Doug Blanchard, Eileen Elizabeth Smith Grant, Elaine Carl, Flavia Souza, Harumi Ori, Itziar Barrio, Jen Mazza, Kylie Heidenheimer, Linda Byrne, Linda Griggs, Lisa Hanson, Lisa Lebofsky, Mark Power, Melanie Vote, Michael Katchen, Nadia Ayari, Nancy Friedemann, Nicole Parcher, Pam Cardwell, Paul Clay, Rafael Rosario-Laguna, Robert Grant, Selime Okuyan, Sherman J. Sussman, Silvio DelaCruz, Suzanne Varni, Tine Kindermann, Wayne Liu "Open Studios" over 35 artists to see at Artists Alliance Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 107 Suffolk street, floor 4, noon-6pm

"School Nite" part of Festival of Ideas for the New City at Old School
Soho: 233 Mott street, noon-6pm

Artist Talk: Sean Landers "Around the World Alone" at Friedrich Petzel Gallery
22 street: 537 W 22 street, 3pm

Art Fair: "AAF NYC Spring 2011" at Affordable Art Fair (7 W New York)
34 street: 7 W 34 street, $20, 11am-5pm

Closing reception: "1st Annual Student Exhibition" at Hadas Gallery
Brooklyn, Clinton Hill: 543 Myrtle avenue, 11am-4pm

Alyssa Pheobus, Hanna Sandin, Tracey Goodman "Inaugural Show: In Visible Ink" at Court Square (CTSQ)
Queens: 21-44 45th avenue, suite 2, 5-8pm

Aurélien Froment, Blinky Palermo, Charline von Heyl, Elad Lassry, Emily Roysdon, Laure Prouvost, Manon de Boer, Matthew Buckingham, Moyra Davey, Rachel Harrison, Richard Aldrich, Rosalind Nashashibi, Rosemarie Trockel, Steve Roden, Thea Djordjadze, Troy Brauntuch, Ull Hohn, William E. Jones "Time Again" at SculptureCenter
Queens: 44-19 Purves street, 5-7pm

Blane de St. Croix, Howie Sneider, Ivan Argote, Jason Tomme, Jillian Conrad, Leif Low-Beer, Michael Clyde Johnson, Priscila De Carvalho, Rob Swainston, Slinko, Steven Millar "Vista" curated by Alyson Baker, with Lars Fisk and Elissa Goldstone at Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens: 32-01 Vernon Blvd, 2-6pm

Monday, May 9

Nick Weber "porno paintings revisited" curated by Dino Eli at Orchard Windows Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 37 Orchard street, 6-10pm

Alexander Bush, Aviva Rowley, Elana Noy, Nina Carelli "Multiples and THE 3200 Magazine Release Party" curated by THE 3200 Magazine at Arlene's Grocery
Chinatown/LES: 95 Stanton street, 6-9pm

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Performance: Emily Sundblad "Que Barbaro!" at Algus Greenspon
Soho: 71 Morton street, 7pm

"MFA Design Department Exhibition" curated by Kevin O'Callaghan at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, 6-8pm