A slow summer month, perhaps best enjoyed outside of Manhattan. Saturday night offers: MoMA PS1 "Warm Up" in Long Island City, a performance at Marina 59 in Far Rockaway, and several events in Beacon, NY. Have a great week ahead!

Thursday:
+ "I Bleed Black" at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Tuesday, August 9

Samuel Stabler "Drawings" at The Keeley Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 352 Bowery, 8-11pm

Screening: "Animated Architectures Part 1 + 2" part of Index Festival at Millennium Film Workshop
4 Street: 66 E 4 street, 4pm

Noriko Ii "~pi:s~" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Wednesday, August 10

Performance: Legacy Russell "Open Ceremony" at Trust Art (Tompkins Square Park)
Chinatown/LES: , 8th street & Avenue A, varies - see (http://www.facebook.com/OPENCEREMONY) for exact location, 3-7pm

Lecture: "Panel 2: Mediated Landscapes" part of Index Festival at Harvestworks
Soho: 596 Broadway, Suite 602, 7pm

Performance: "Live @ 1220 Fifth" a musical series on the Museum's Fifth Avenue terrace at Museum of the City of New York
103 street: 1220 Fifth avenue, at 103 street, $15, 6-9pm

Karavika "The Spot" curated by Kyle Saulnier at Brooklyn Lyceum
Brooklyn, Misc.: 227 4th avenue, $10, 8pm

Open Studio: "Why Participate?" curated by Angela Washko at flux factory
Queens: 39-31 29th street, noon-4pm

Artist Talk: Action Club, Ann Hirsch, Jaime Iglehart, Jason Eppink, Jeff Stark, Nate Hill, Paolo Pedercini "Social Hijinks! Live Action Lecture Night" at flux factory
Queens: 39-31 29th street, 7:30pm

Thursday, August 11

Hideki Takahashi curated by Cristian Vargas at Gallery 89
Soho: 89 Mercer street, 7pm-midnight

+ "I Bleed Black" at Marianne Boesky Gallery
24 street: 509 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Adam Simon, Gina Beavers, Halsey Hathaway, Holly Coulis, Josette Urso, Kerry Law, Rachel LaBine "Fresh Paint from Bushwick" curated by Deborah Brown at StandPipe Gallery
25 street: 150 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Aneta Grzeszykowska "Lovetime" at Harris Lieberman (temporary location)
26 street: 508 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Andrew Kuo, Ann Craven, Asher Penn, Bianca Beck, David Shrigley, Francis Upritchard, Gelitin, Gene Beery, Ian Hokin, Jamie Isenstein, Josh Tonsfeldt, Mathew Cerletty, Max Farago, Michael Smith, Pmd, Sam Anderson, Scott Reeder, Sebastian Black, Uri Aran, Valentin Carron, Van Hanos, William Wegman, Zak Kitnick with Alex Kitnick "Heads with Tails" curated by organized by West Street Gallery at Harris Lieberman (temporary location)
26 street: 508 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"Why Participate?" curated by Angela Washko at flux factory
Queens: 39-31 29th street, noon-4pm

Lecture: Patricia Albers "Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life" at Parrish Art Museum
Southhampton, NY: 25 Jobs Lane, $10, 6pm

Friday, August 12

"Group show: Ten, Eleven, Twelve, and Occasions, photographs by George Kuchar" at Mulherin + Pollard
Chinatown/LES: 187 Chrystie street, 6-9pm

Performance: "Radio Happy Hour: The Final Episode" at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, $5, Doors at 6:30; performance at 7:30pm

Screening: "Storm Center" dir. Daniel Taradash 1956 at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, Suite 212, 4pm

Rachel Budde "WE ARE: Rachel Budde" curated by Marco Antonini at NURTUREart Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 910 Grand street, 7-11pm

Morgan Packard "Dihedral Product" at Devotion Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 54 Maujer street, 6-9pm

Performance: "Public Performance Art" at Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens: 32-01 Vernon Blvd, 11am

Tauba Auerbach "A Book Is Not An X" curated by Jeremy Sanders at John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
East Hampton, NY: 87 Newtown lane, 6-8pm

Saturday, August 13

Dave Rittenger, Eric Martich, Kathleen Rugh, Liz Rodda, Phil Stearns "Brooklyn Creative Launch Party" curated by Caitlin McGarry, Justin Lin at Rabbitholestudio
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 33 Washington street, at Plymouth street, 4pm-midnight

Jill Gewirtz, Patti Rothberg "Relativity" at Salon Ciel (at Beehive Salon) Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 115 North 7th street, 8-10pm

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Michael Yaniro, Ryan Wolfe at Fountain Studios
Brooklyn, Misc.: 604 Grand avenue, 7-10pm

Andrew Lyght, Arlington Weithers, Bernadette Persaud, Carl Anderson, Carl E. Hazlewood, Damali Abrams, Donald Locke, Dudley Charles, Frank Bowling, Greg Henry, Philip Moore, Stanley Greaves, Victor Davson "Contemporary Expressions: Art From The Guyana Diaspora" curated by Carl E. Hazlewood at FiveMyles
Brooklyn, Misc.: 558 St. Johns place, 5-8pm

Andrzej Wasilewski, Diane Meyer, Maria Michails, Mark Andreas, Rachel Kohn, Susan Evans Grove "Going Green" at Crossing Art Gallery
Queens: 136-17 39th avenue, 3-6pm

? "Local Party on the Block" at Local Project (Graffitti Building in front to the PS1)
Queens: 45-10 Davis street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Performance: "Warm Up" at MoMA PS1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, $15, 2-9pm

Baker Overstreet, Chris Verene, Erica Magrey, Geo Wyeth, Georgia Sagri, J. Patrick Walsh III, Martin Soto Climent, MGM Grand, Rachel Mason, Stephen Lichty, The Self- Esteem Salon "Float: Field of Dreams" curated by Cleopatra's at Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens: 32-01 Vernon Blvd, 1-5pm

Performance: Abshalom Jac Lahav, Andres Laracuente, Bryan Harrington, Corinne Jones, Ed Harris, Gabriel Buentello, Gretta Louw, Heather Quesada, John Bianchi, Mara Mayer, Marina Zamalin, Molly Dilworth, Olov Sundstrom, Radek Szczesny, Revel Woodard, Sean Carney "Shakeout IV: Life Preservers" curated by Jessica Shaefer, Olivia Wyatt, Shaun Kessler at Marina 59
Far Rockaway, NY: 59-14 Beach Channel Drive, noon-midnight

Lecture: "Gabriela Rangel on Bruce Nauman" at Dia Art Foundation (Dia:Beacon)
Beacon, NY: 3 Beekman street, free with museum admission, 2pm

Catherine Welshman, Michael Gaydos "Works on Paper" curated by Catherine Welshman at Beacon Artist Union (bau Gallery)
Beacon, NY: 161 Main street, 6-9pm

Alexander Percy, Angelo Marfisi, Kathleen Erin Lee "Kathleen Erin Lee" curated by Steven Paul Riddle at Marion Royael Gallery Beacon, NY: 460 Main street, 7-10pm

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Sunday, August 14

Reading: Matt Bell, Michael Czyzniejewski, Robert Lopez "InDigest 1207" at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, 7pm

Baker Overstreet, Chris Verene, Erica Magrey, Geo Wyeth, Georgia Sagri, J. Patrick Walsh III, Martin Soto Climent, MGM Grand, Rachel Mason, Stephen Lichty, The Self- Esteem Salon "Float: Field of Dreams" curated by Cleopatra's at Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens: 32-01 Vernon Blvd, 1-5pm

Closing reception: Legacy Russell "Sommerkampf presents: First Kiss/Last Dance" at Outside/In
various: 249 Ferdon avenue, Piermont, NY , 3-6pm

Monday, August 15

Jason Woodside "bricks and blue faces" curated by Dino Eli at Windows Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 37 Orchard street, 6-9pm

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