Artcards New York Weekly Update

Tuesday, May 17

Screening: Bik van der Pol a screening an artist talk with the collective curated by Shelley Silver at White Slab Palace
Chinatown/LES: 77 Delancey, 8-10pm

Lecture: "What is Design? (11 Manifestos + Discussion)" A manifesto for the Gwangju Design Biennale 2011 at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Chinatown/LES: 97 Kenmare street, 7-9pm

? Mike Falcon "Superheroes & Angels" at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Arcangelo Sassolino, Ariel Orozco, Christian Marclay, Jimmie Durham, Johannes Vogl, Liiz Larner, Martin Kersels, Michael Landy, Roman Signer "Under Destruction, Chapter II" curated by Chris Sharp, Gianni Jetzer at Swiss Institute
Soho: 495 Broadway, floor 3, 6-8pm

Performance: "The First Annual North American Human Beatbox Festival" curated by Kid Lucky at La Mama Gallery
Soho: 6 E 1 street, $10 for each show; $25 for the award show and dinner, 8pm

Benefit: "Made at Here" at HERE Arts Center
Soho: 145 Sixth avenue, b/w Spring and Broome, $100, 6:30pm

Stanley Stellar at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Soho: 26 Wooster street, 6-8pm

Stanley Stellar at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Soho: 26 Wooster street, 6-8pm

Kate Fauvell, Matilde Alessandra, Peter Bynum, Richard Silver "Bene-Lux" curated by Jessica Davidson, Valerie Kalmanovitz at Arts United
26 street: 525 W 26 street, suite 9E, 6-9pm

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Antonia Papatzanaki, Matilde Alessandra, Peter Bynum, Richard Silver "Arts United Presents 'Bene-Bux'" at Rogue Space
26 street: 526 W 26 street, suite 9E, 6-9pm

Panel Discussion: Danielle Tegeder, Gary Petersen, Jim Osman, Morgan O'Hara, Nancy Olivier, Rob Nadeau , Steel Stillman "Wall Works" curated by Stephen Maine at The Painting Center
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 500, 7pm

Yumi Umeda "Ouchi ~ 4 Room ~" curated by Arisa at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Wednesday, May 18

Reading: Greg Ames, Joseph Colonna, Melissa Broder, Richard Foerster "Good Authors Reading Their Work" at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6:30pm

Artist Talk: Claire Bishop "Considering Useful Art" Creative Time presents Living As Form at The Cooper Union (Frederick P. Rose Auditorium)
Chinatown/LES: 41 Cooper Square, b/w Bowery and East 5th, Lower Level 1, The Rose Auditorium, 6:30-8:30pm

Benefit: "The Terrible Twos: Recess Benefit 2011" at Recess Activities, Inc. (Tribeca Grand Hotel)
Soho: 2 Avenue of the Americas, $75, 9pm-midnight

Performance: "The First Annual North American Human Beatbox Festival" curated by Kid Lucky at La Mama Gallery
Soho: 6 E 1 street, $10 for each show; $25 for the award show and dinner, 8pm

"EverGreene: The Artists & Their Art" at Old School
Soho: 233 Mott street, floor 2, 6-10pm

Cao Fei "Play Time" at Lombard-Freid Projects
19 street: 518 West 19th , 6-8pm

Reading: Nicola Ayson at Friedrich Petzel Gallery
22 street: 537 W 22 street, 6:30pm

Bill Plympton "Screening and Book Signing" at SVA (SVA Ampitheater)
23 street: 209 East 23rd street, Third Avenue, 3rd floor, 6-10pm

"Galerie Monnin New York presents Sally Leonard: Portraits from Haiti" at Rogue Space
26 street: 526 W 26 street, suite 9E, 5-9pm

Lecture: Merton D. Simpson "Encore!" curated by Juliette Pelletier, Karen Tuominen at Merton D. Simpson Gallery
28 street: 38 W 28 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

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Benefit: "Outer Space" at Exit Art
36 street: 475 Tenth avenue, at 36 street, $175, 7:30-9:30pm

+ Darcy Brennan Poor, David Finegan, Dawn Frasch, Elisa Soliven, Erica Greenwald, Fabio Corredor Karen Dana, Hector Arce-Espasas, Jaeeun Lee, Joshua Johnson, Nicholas Moenich Matthew Newton, Ryan McNamara, Sharone Vendriger, Steve Rivera "Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition Spring 2011" at Hunter College (Times Square Gallery)
41 street: 450 W 41 street, b/w 9 & 10 avenue, 6-9pm

andrae hines, angela kim, isaac aden, jess demonte "Hunter College BFA Degree Show" curated by Gabriele Evertz at Hunter College (Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery)
68 street: 913 Lexington avenue, at 68 street, 4-6pm

"INvent/ONsite: the 23rd BRIC Contemporary Art Education Exhibition" at BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn (BRIC Rotunda Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 33 Clinton street, 7-9pm

Performance: Madeline Best, Molly Poerstel, Natalie Green, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Rebecca Wender, RoseAnne Spradlin "beginning of something" at Mount Tremper Arts (The Chocolate Factory Theater (L.I.C.))
Queens: 5-49 49th ave, $15, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm

Performance: Madeline Best, Molly Poerstel, Natalie Green, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Rebecca Wender, RoseAnne Spradlin "beginning of something" at Mount Tremper Arts (The Chocolate Factory Theater (L.I.C.))
Queens: 5-49 49th ave, $15, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm

Thursday, May 19

Screening: Debra White Plume, Jason Coppola, Kent Lebsock, Suree Towfighnia "Owe Aku International Justice" at Bluestockings
Chinatown/LES: 172 Allen street, $5 suggested, 7pm

Isabella Kirkland "Nova Paintings" at Feature Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 131 Allen street, 6-8pm

+ "Lights Up! W/ Confettisystem" curated by Jiminie Ha at W/------
Chinatown/LES: 141 Division street, 7-9pm

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"No Rules: East 9th Street Revisited, 1951-2011" at Dorian Grey Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 437 East 9th, Avenue A, please rsvp to info@doriangreygallery.com or call 516.244.4126, 6-9pm

Panel Discussion: About Face "Moving Forward, Looking Back: Spaces of Memory and Change in the New City" curated by No Longer Empty at No Longer Empty (Vacant Storefront at the Ludlow)
Chinatown/LES: 215 East Houston st, 7-9pm

Michael Marshall, Noah Scalin "Science and Nature" curated by Benjamin Krause at Krause Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 149 Orchard street, 6-10pm

Performance: "The First Annual North American Human Beatbox Festival" curated by Kid Lucky at La Mama Gallery
Soho: 6 E 1 street, $10 for each show; $25 for the award show and dinner, 8pm

Ana Christina Lorenzen, Ellen Bang, Jannicke Laker, Vanna Bowles "Black - Bold, Beautiful & Badass" curated by Sol Kjok at .NO
Soho: 251 East Houston Street, 6-9pm

Arnold Newman, Eliot Elisofon, Robert Damora, Rudy Burckhardt, Soichi Sunami "Displayed: Stages for Sculpture" curated by Zak Vreeland at The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation
Soho: 526 LaGuardia Place, 6-8pm

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"Dinner" National Competition for Photographs and Photo-Based Artwork curated by Harvey Stein at Umbrella Arts
9 street: 317 E 9 street, 6-8pm

Justin Canha at Ricco/Maresca Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

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Steve Pyke, Tim Lewis at Flowers Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

+ Doron Langberg, Ion Birch, Jacques Louis Vidal, Summer Wheat "Romantic Agony" at Horton Gallery
22 street: 504 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Helen Beckman "Tell it Slant" at Newman Popiashvili
22 street: 504 W 22 street, 6-8pm

? Elana Herzog at Morgan Lehman Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 6, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

? Andrew Schoultz "Unrest" at Morgan Lehman Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 6, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

? "Great Photographs of the 20th Century: From the Street" at Hasted Kraeutler
24 street: 537 W 24 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Ike Ude "Self: Photographic Portraits and Sartorial Anarchy (South Gallery)" at Stefan Stux Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Lydia Venieri "The Last Conflict" at Stefan Stux Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Nicholas Kashian "Oh Henry!" at Dean Project
25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 207, 6-8pm

Closing reception: Paul Kolker "Let There Be Light" at Studio 601
25 street: 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

David Antonio Cruz "flybabyboyfly" curated by Trinidad Fombella at Praxis International Art
25 street: 541 West 25th St, 6-8pm

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Preview: Brian Dettmer "Altered Books" at Kinz + Tillou Fine Art
26 street: 526 W 26 street, suite 416, 6-8pm

Razvan Boar at Ana Cristea Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Carl Plansky "Bad Boys" at Schroeder Romero & Schredder
26 street: 531 West 26th, 6-8pm

Guy Richards Smit "Grossmalerman! New video and paintings" at Schroeder Romero & Schredder
26 street: 531 West 26th, 6-8pm

Nir Hod "Genius" at Paul Kasmin Gallery
27 street: 293 Tenth avenue, at W 27 street, 6-8pm

Rosemarie Fiore "Artificiere" at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

Ranee Palone Flynn at Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 307, 6-8pm

Jan Frank "Seven Months" at Paul Kasmin Gallery
27 street: 511 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Brian Lund, Christopher Robbins, Daniele Genadry, Maia Cruz Palileo "Viewfinder" at ArtGate Gallery
27 street: 520 west 27, Suite 101, 6-8pm

Cleon Peterson "White Flag" at Joshua Liner Gallery
28 street: 548 W 28 street, floor 3, 6-9pm

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Tat Ito "Memento Mori" at Joshua Liner Gallery
28 street: 548 W 28 street, floor 3, 6-9pm

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Alex Kwartler, Anja Schworer, Ben Schumacher, Chris Martin, Clare Woods , Curtis Mitchell, Daniel Turner, David Malek, Davina Semo, Eva Rothschild, Jim Lambie, John Miller, Jules de Balincourt, Lincoln Tobier, Lisa Beck, Nathaniel Robinson, Nick Van Zanten, Olivier Mosset, Sarah Crowner, Tony Just, Wayne Gonzales "We Regret To Inform You There Is Currently No Space Or Place For Abstract Painting" at Martos Gallery
29 street: 540 W 29 street, 6-8pm

Aaron Gustafson, Arthur Ou, Christine Shank, Claudia Sohrens, David Horvitz, Elizabeth Bick, George Pitts, Haley Bueschlen, Hrvoje Slovenc, Laura Bell, Leif Huron, Nicholas Alan Cope, Penelope Umbrico, Simone Douglas, Sophie Barbasch, Stephen Cardinale and "Conveyor Magazine Presents 'Undressing the World'" curated by Christina Labey at 25CPW
62 street: 25 Central Park West, 6-9pm

David Levinthal "David Levinthal: Black Again, A Selection of Blackface Polaroids and Memorabilia" at John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
64 street: 50 1/2 E 64 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hans-Peter Feldmann "The Elaine Terner Copper Education Fund Conversations with Contemporary Artists" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $10; please rsvp to boxoffice@guggengeim.org, 6:30pm

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

Jimbo Blachly, Lytle Shaw "Nelson Manobar" a one-night VIP preview of the Nelson Manobar before its installation at Winkleman Gallery at Cabinet
Brooklyn, Misc.: 300 Nevins street, 7-9pm

Nancy Lunsford "Memoir" at 440 Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 440 Sixth avenue, 6-9pm

Performance: Madeline Best, Molly Poerstel, Natalie Green, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Rebecca Wender, RoseAnne Spradlin "beginning of something" at Mount Tremper Arts (The Chocolate Factory Theater (L.I.C.))
Queens: 5-49 49th ave, $15, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm

"Out of the Woods" at Regina Rex
Queens: 17-17 Troutman street, suite 329, 7pm

Friday, May 20

+ Jason Bailer Losh "Chinese Take Out" at Art in General
Downtown: 79 Walker street, b/w Broadway & Lafayette, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: David Reed, Katy Siegel, Lynne Cooke "A conversation on the work of Jo Baer" at Hunter College (The Artist's Institute)
Chinatown/LES: 163 Eldridge, b/w Rivington & Delancy streets, 6:30pm

Al Wadzinski "False Idols" at NY Studio Gallery (NYSG)
Chinatown/LES: 154 Stanton street, at Suffolk street, 7-9pm

Deborah Simon "Convergent Evolution" at LZ Project Space
Chinatown/LES: 164 Suffolk street, 7-9pm

+ Ina Jang "so, too & very" curated by Jimmy Moffatt, Samantha Levin at Anagnorisis Fine Arts (White Rabbit)
Soho: 145 E Houston street, b/w Forsyth & Eldridge, 7-10pm

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Screening: "Lost Bohemia: doc film with filmaker Josef 'Birdman' Astor" at IFC Center
4 Street: 323 Sixth Avenue, (check site for showtimes)

Allan Sekula, Claude Closky, David Shirgley, Harun Farocki, Kamal Aljafari, Tania Bruguera, Yto Barrada "Foreclosed: Between Crisis and Possibility" Annual Whitney ISP Exhibition curated by Gaia Tedone, Jennifer Burris, Sadia Shirazi, Sofia Olascoaga at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, 5-8pm

"Last Samurai: Hiroaki Tatei - painter from Fukushima" at Onishi Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Elliott Erwitt "Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best" at International Center of Photography (ICP) (Museum)
43 street: 1133 Sixth avenue, at 43 street, 6-7:30pm

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Screening: "Chaplin Shorts" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, new media theater on lower level, free with museum admission, 12:30pm & 3:30pm

Workshop: Houran Yokoyama "Re: Japn" Performance Art & Workshop for Japan relief at Graphite
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, 8-9:30pm

Benefit: Houran Yokoyama "Re: Japn" Performance Art & Workshop for Japan relief at Graphite
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, 7-10pm

Alan Binstock "Way Stations II" at Causey Contemporary
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 92 Wythe avenue, 6-9pm

Performance: Madeline Best, Molly Poerstel, Natalie Green, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Rebecca Wender, RoseAnne Spradlin "beginning of something" at Mount Tremper Arts (The Chocolate Factory Theater (L.I.C.))
Queens: 5-49 49th ave, $15, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm

Saturday, May 21

+ Hillary Lloyd at Artists Space
Soho: 38 Greene street, floor 3, 6-8pm

+ Performance: Lior Shvil "Operation OZ Belev-Yam" curated by Andrea Zittel at Andrea Rosen
24 street: 525 W 24 street, 1pm

Robert Mielenhausen "Rome" at Viridian Artists
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 4-7pm

Benefit: iona rozeal brown "a Performa 11 Commission featuring Javier Ninja from the House of Ninja" at Salon 94
94 street: 12 E 94 street, $250; please rsvp to Shelley Gross (shelley@performa-arts.org) or call 212.266.5700, 7pm cocktails; 8pm performance

Lecture: "Mable Wilson on Koo Jeong: A Constellation Congress" at Dia Art Foundation (Hispanic Society of America)
155 street: 3729 Broadway, b/w W 155 street & W 156 street, Audubon Terrace, please rsvp, 2pm

Adam Payne, Dante Geldhof, David Pappaceno, Jason Alexander Byers, Jose Krapp, Owen Rundquist, Sarah Morgan "A Time and Place" a group show of artists who make up Mensch Kraft Gallery, an online collective at Pandemic Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 37 Broadway, 7-11pm

3 dollar beers, Doom Trumpet, Little Band of Sailors, Mark Golamco, Thank You Rosekind "End of Days in May" at David Smith Project
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 201 Franklin street, suite 2F, 6-9pm

? Open Studio: Jose Carlos Casado "Open Studio" at Long Island City Artists (LiC A)
Queens: 35-35 28th street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Performance: Madeline Best, Molly Poerstel, Natalie Green, Rebecca Serrell Cyr, Rebecca Wender, RoseAnne Spradlin "beginning of something" at Mount Tremper Arts (The Chocolate Factory Theater (L.I.C.))
Queens: 5-49 49th ave, $15, Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm

Patrick Brennan "There Is An Ocean" at Halsey Mckay
East Hampton, NY: 105 Newtown lane, 6-10pm

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Sunday, May 22

Diana Shpungin at Stephan Stoyanov (Luxe Gallery)
Chinatown/LES: 29 Orchard street, 6-9pm

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

Artist Talk: Jan Mollet "Low Fat Pop" at Work Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 65 Union street, 6pm

Screening: Sung Hwan Kim "From the Commanding Heights..." at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 3-4pm

Niyeti Chadha "a QMA Site-specific project" at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 4-6pm

Hassan Khan "The Hidden Location" at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 4-6pm

"Ghana Think Tank in Corona" at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 4-6pm

+ "Spring Open House" at MoMA PS1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, noon-6pm

Screening: "Destroy All Monsters" a screening and book signing event at MoMA PS1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, noon-4pm

"First Look III: Outstanding MFA students from across the United States" at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA)
Peekskill, NY: 1701 Main Street, 4-7pm

Monday, May 23

+ "2011 Annual Student Exhibition" at Cooper Union (41 Cooper Gallery)
8 street: 41 Cooper Square, 5-9pm