A more mellow week for art openings in New York City, and a good time to let you (our loyal, loving, cutting-edge reader) know about international plans for Artcards: Artcards London is now live on the website. It will take a few weeks for the listings to build up to full-force. If you can give your London friends a heads up that we are launching that would be cool.

Also, Artcards San Francisco had a major art week and our editors there bring some interesting images and recaps in the review links below.

Imagine the complete listings of Artcards New York in even more cities! Jump on a plane and dive into new art scenes...

New on Artcards Review:
- "SF Artweek - Preview Night"
- "SF Artweek - Day 2 - ArtPadSF"
- "Featured Artist: Tim Knowles" by Helen Homan Wu
- "The Whitney Breaks New Ground" by Helen Homan Wu

Tuesday:
+ Lecture: Lamia Joreige "an introduction to the contemporary art scene in Lebanon, including the creation of the center, its objectives, and artistic direction" at e-flux

Wednesday:
+ Liz Luisada, Shaun Krupa at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
+ Matthew Cusick "Three Horses" at Pavel Zoubok Gallery

Thursday:
+ Aurie Ramirez, Cindy Daignault, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, John Hiltunen, Sara MacKillop at White Columns
+ James Davis "Indian Summer" at Rare

Tuesday, May 24

"Benefit Art Auction & Party for Ugly Duckling Presse" at RH Gallery
Downtown: 137 Duane street, $25, 6-9pm

+ Lecture: Lamia Joreige "an introduction to the contemporary art scene in Lebanon, including the creation of the center, its objectives, and artistic direction" at e-flux
Chinatown/LES: 41 Essex street, 7pm

? Clarity Haynes, Cyndy Warwick "Window Project #6" at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Soho: 26 Wooster street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"Dancing for Joan" La Mama Moves Dance Festival at La Mama Gallery (Ellen Stewart Theatre)
4 Street: 66 East 4th Street, $100, 7:30pm

Rinko Kawauchi, Taewon Jang at Mountain Fold Gallery
12 street: 55 Fifth avenue, b/w 12 & 13 street, floor 18, 7-9pm

Book Signing: John Henry "Poetic Builder" at Flomenhaft Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

Screening: Amelia Winger-Bearskin , Blazo Kovacevic, Chris Mendoza, Christopher Robbins, Colleen Asper, Constant Dullaart, Curver Thoroddsen, Daniel Bejar, Derek Larson, Jean Alexander Frater, John Baca, Julie Orser, Kelly Mark, Kelly Warman, Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey, Suki Chan, Tobias Laukemper "Full Screen: A Selection of Time-Based Works from Culturehall Artists" at Big Screen Project (Eventi Hotel Plaza)
29 street: 851 Sixth avenue, noon-2pm

Gego "Prints & Drawings 1963 - 1991" at Latin Collector (Frederico Seve Gallery)
57 street: 37 W 57 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Performance: Ashley Bathgate, Luke DuBois, Todd Reynolds, Vicky Chow "Bright Field: Music and Modernism" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $15, 6:30pm

Tour: "Happy 128th Birthday Brooklyn Bridge Bike Ride!" at The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 370 Metropolitan avenue, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Nancy Grimes at Brooklyn Artists Gym
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, $5 suggested, 6:30pm

Naoko Ogasawara "Fragment of the memories" curated by Arisa at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Wednesday, May 25

Reading: Angela Ashman, Dylan Landis, Eric Lindley, Shelly Oria "Good Authors Reading Their Work" at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6:30pm

+ Liz Luisada, Shaun Krupa at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 54 Ludlow st, 6-8pm

Grace Knowlton at Lesley Heller (Workspace)
Chinatown/LES: 54 Orchard street, 6-8pm

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

"American Abstract Artists" 75th anniversary at O.K. Harris Works of Art
Soho: 383 W Broadway, b/w broome & spring, 5:30-7:30pm

"Reliquary: Lauren Silberman | The Recent History" at AD Projects
13 street: 200 Avenue A, 8-10pm

Book launch: Andy Karr, Mark Alan Stamaty "The Practice of Contemplative Photography" at Rubin Museum of Art
17 street: 150 W 17 street, at seventh ave, $12, 7-8pm

Stephen Antonakos "Spaces" at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
19 street: 138 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Louis I. Kahn "Building a View" at Lori Bookstein Fine Art
19 street: 138 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Screening: Frank Ripploh "Dirty Looks and Little Joe present Taxi Zum Klo" curated by Bradford Nordeen, Sam Ashby at P.P.O.W.
22 street: 535 W. 22nd street, 3, $7 suggested donation, 8-10pm

+ Matthew Cusick "Three Horses" at Pavel Zoubok Gallery
23 street: 533 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Lucas Arruda "Deserto-Modelo" curated by Simon Watson at I-20 Gallery
23 street: 557 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Ruth Bernard "A New Start: Landscapes" at Bowery Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 5-8pm

David Brody, Mernet Larsen, Nicole Wittenberg "The Fitting Room" curated by David Cohen at Vogt Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, suite 911, 6-8pm

Peter Kayafas "Totems" at Sasha Wolf Gallery
28 street: 548 W 28 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: Nikos Salingaros at Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA)
44 street: 20 W 44 street, floor 3, $20 general public; free for students, 6:30pm reception; please RSVP

Shahram Karimi "The Rose Garden of Rembrance" at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
78 street: 39 E 78 street, at Madison avenue, floor 3, 6-8pm

Screening: "ESP TV 3 Screening Party" at K&M Bar
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 225 N 8th street, 8-11pm

Martin Oppel "Forms of Fiction" at Journal Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 168 North 1st street, 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

Thursday, May 26

Miguel Martin "All Good in the Manhood" curated by Miguel Amado at Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center
Chinatown/LES: 466 Grand street, 7-9pm

Austin Shull, Beth Livensperger, Nyeema Morgan, Veronica Frenning, Yeon Jin Kim "AIRspace 2011" at Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center
Chinatown/LES: 466 Grand street, 7-9pm

Lisa Williamson, Patrick Hill, Sam Moyer, Sara VanDerBeek, Talia Chetrit, Virginia Overton "Indeterminate Activity" at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 21 Orchard street, 6-8pm

A. K. Burns, Anicka Yi, Brian Clifton, Jesse Greenberg, Josh Kline, Michele Abeles, Yemenwed "Skin So Soft" organized by Josh Kline at Gresham's Ghost
Soho: 401 Broadway, between Walker & Canal sts, 2, 6-9pm

"Is It Fine Art? Does It Matter?" curated by Jennifer Elhardt, Kenneth Hutter at The Pen & Brush
10 street: 16 E 10 street, 5-8pm

+ Aurie Ramirez, Cindy Daignault, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, John Hiltunen, Sara MacKillop at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), 6-8pm

Fathi Hassan at Skoto Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Andy Warhol, Balcomb Greene, Benny Andrews, Bob Cato, Boris Lurie, Brion Gysin, Burgoyne Diller, Charlotte Park, Charmion von Wiegand, Conrad Marca-Relli, Debra Pearlman, Esteban Vicente, George Herms, Gertrude Greene, Grace Hartigan, Greg Lamarche, Hannelore Baron, Ilya Bolotowsky, Irene Hardwicke Olivieri, Irwin Kremen, Jean Arp, Jim Dine, John Chamberlain, John Evans, John Little, Joseph Cornell, Josh Dorman, Judy Chicago, Karl Knath, Larry Rivers, Louise Nevelson, Max Weber, Meg Hitchcock, Paul Jenkins, Philomena Marano, Red Grooms, Rene Ricard, Richard Hambleton, Robert Goodnough, Romare Bearden, Tom Wesselmann, Tony Berlant , Tony Fitzpatrick, Weldon Kees, Wendy Mark, William Burroughs "Fragments 1915-2011 Modern and Contemporary Collage" artist talk and reception at ACA Galleries
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm; artist talk at 7pm

"Gonzalo Puch" A Temporary Garden at Julie Saul Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

? Robert Dandarov "Paintings and Drawings" at Chelsea Art Museum
22 street: 556 W 22 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Julio Galan at Galeria Ramis Barquet
24 street: 532 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Allan Gorman "sTRUCKtures" at Phoenix Gallery
25 street: 210 Eleventh avenue, suite 902, 6-8pm

Paul Kolker "Over & Over" at Studio 601
25 street: 511 W 25 street, Downstairs at the Salon of Studio601, 6-8pm

"Maine as Muse" at Lohin Geduld Gallery
25 street: 531 W 25 street, 5-7pm

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

Regina Silveira at Alexander Gray Associates
26 street: 508 W 26 street, floor 2, 5-8pm

Teresa Dunn "but the winds come anyway..." at First Street Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, #209, 5-8pm

Reading: "Reading and Discussion: What does it mean to be civilized" at Loretta Howard Gallery
26 street: 525 W 26 street, 5-7pm

Bill Richards, Jim Sullivan at Nancy Hoffman Gallery
27 street: 520 W 27 street, 6-8pm

+ James Davis "Indian Summer" at Rare
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 514, 6-8pm

Jim Gaylord "Spoilers" at Jeff Bailey Gallery
27 street: 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Closing reception: JAYBO MONK "ENTOPTICS" at Tache Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 602, 6-9pm

Emily Berger at The Painting Center
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 500, 6-8pm

Monique Ford, Susan Ross "Shared Space" at The Painting Center
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 500, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Verena Gerlach "Paradox Alg(i)r(s): Typographic Poster Project" at The Type Directors Club
36 street: 347 W 36 street, suite 603, $20: please rsvp to director@tdc.org or call 212.633.8943, 6-8pm

Arturo Herrera, Blane de St. Croix, Chris Martin, David Opdyke, Marie Jager, Saul Chernick "Editions '11 Catalogue Launch and Exhibition" at Lower East Side Printshop
37 street: 306 W 37 street, floor 6, 6-8pm

"Acting the World is Enacting the World" at EFA Gallery
39 street: 323 W 39 street, 6-8pm

Louise McCagg, Senzeni Marasela "New Traditions in Beauty Queens" at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, 6-8pm

Screening: "Video & Wine" at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, Suite 212, $10, 6-9pm

Susan Bee "Recalculating: New Paintings" at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, 6-8pm

Stephanie Bernheim "Palm Project" at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, 6-8pm

Performance: "Rise Up, Fallen Angel" at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, $12, 7:30pm

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

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

Friday, May 27

Lisa Kirk "Backyard Adversaries" (randomly sequenced HD video installation projected on to four screens) at Governor's Island
Downtown: Governor's Island, 11am-4pm

Closing reception: Olek "Closing Party!" at Christopher Henry Gallery Chinatown/LES: 127 Elizabeth street, 6-9pm

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Amos Mac, Max Langhurst "ID this" at Munch Gallery
Soho: 245 Broome street, 7-10pm

"Acting the World is Enacting the World" at EFA Gallery
39 street: 323 W 39 street, noon-6pm

"Project 95: Runa Islam" at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, 10:30am-8pm

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

Cecilia Bonilla, Colin Snapp, Dana Levy, Derek Larson, Fatima Al Qadiri, Juan Pablo Echeverri, JULIACKS, Lyndsy Welgos, Pernille With Madsen "VIDEOROVER: Season II" curated by Rachel Steinberg at NURTUREart Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 910 Grand street, 7-9pm; screening at 8pm

Performance: "Rise Up, Fallen Angel" at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, $12, 7:30pm

Benjamin King, Brion Nuda Rosch, Ernesto Burgos, Graham Collins, Halsey Hathaway, Jay Henderson, Lauren Luloff, Maria Walker, Matt Jones, Paul DeMuro, Rob Nadeau , Stacy Fisher, Tisch Abelow, Vince Contarino, Wayne Adams "Control Alt Delete" at HKJB
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 1205 Manhattan avenue, suite 154 (5th floor, BYOB, 7-10pm

Ben Woodward, Celso, Cense, Damion Silver, Darkclouds, Jessica Hess, Jing Wei, John Skibo, Keely, Kenji Nakayama, Martin Esteves, Morgan Thomas Anderson, Nineta, Nose Go, Robert daVies, Royce Bannon, Veronica Hanssens "Paint It Now" curated by Scott Chasse, Thomas Buildmore at Fowler Arts Collective
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 67 West Street, Greenpoint Ave and Noble St , t, #216, 7-10pm

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

Arvade "Cuba without Photoshop" curated by Arvade, QbaVa gallery at QbaVa Gallery
Union City: 508 42nd street, 8-10pm

Saturday, May 28

Begonia Santa-Cecilia, Carlos Irijalba, Greg Lindquist, Janelle Iglesias, Kasper Sonne, Katie Holten, Leah Raintree, Robert Fischer, William Lamson "No One is an Island" curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud at LMCC
Downtown: Governor's Island, Building 110, 3-5pm

Artist Talk: "Jay Sanders on Walter De Maria" at Dia Art Foundation
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 5, free with museum admission; please rsvp, 2pm

Aimee Hertog "Digital Universe" at Chashama (Harlem Building) 126 street: 461 W 126 street, 2-6pm

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Performance: "Rise Up, Fallen Angel" at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, $12, 7:30pm

Katja Holtz, Petra Lunenburg "Hazy Dolls & Neubauten (Bodies & No bodies)" at Graphite
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, 6-9pm

"Art from the Heart IV" at Gallery RIVAA
Roosevelt Island: 527 Main street, 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

Dave Miko, Nellie Bridge "Horizon in Disguise" at Callicoon Fine Arts
Callicoon, NY: 27 Lower Main Street, 5-7pm

Monday, May 30

Artist Talk: Alan W. Moore "Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City" at Bluestockings
Chinatown/LES: 172 Allen street, $5 suggested, 7pm

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