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This Friday night, check out the Whitney during pay-what-you-wish hours and see Medeski Martin & Wood perform, or enjoy free admission for "Uptown Fridays" at the Studio Museum Harlem. Also on Friday, three events open in Williamsburg.

Saturday in queens MoMA PS1 has another "Warm Up" and Flux Factory has a benefit event. Jen Bekman, Dia:Beacon, LMCC at Govenor's Island, and more listed below.

Hope to see you at the shows!

Wednesday:
+ Screening: "Dead in August" at The Pentagon Brooklyn

Friday:
+ Performance: "Whitney Live: Medeski Martin & Wood With Cyro Baptista / Dj Logic Duets" at Whitney Museum of American Art

Sunday:
+ Screening: Alyssa Taylor Wendt, Collin McKelvey, Dana Bell, Geoff Pugen, Jeremy Rotsztain, Jon Santos, Katherine Bauer, Kelly Lynn Jones, Kenneth Kurwood, Kevin Lovelady, Liz Wendelbo, Michael Robinson, Optipus Collective, Sadek Bazaraa, Tom Ruth "Color Sound Culture Mash Up" part of Index Festival at Millennium Film Workshop

Tuesday, August 23

Screening: "Light Industry presents Geeta Dutt: Playback" at Audio Visual Arts (AVA)
Chinatown/LES: 34 E 1 street, 7pm

Artist Talk: Cecil McDonald Jr., Xiaowei Chen "Salon" at ISCP
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 1040 Metropolian avenue, 6:30pm

Artist Talk: Ellen Coleman Izzo at Brooklyn Artists Gym
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, Suggested Donation: $5, 6:30-8:30pm

Wednesday, August 24

Lecture: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev "Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on Jimmie Durham" at Hunter College (The Artist's Institute)
Chinatown/LES: 163 Eldridge, b/w Rivington & Delancy streets, 7:30pm

Lecture: "Panel 4: Digital Born and After" part of Index Festival at Harvestworks
Soho: 596 Broadway, Suite 602, 7pm

Panel Discussion: Ali Hossaini, Ben Miller, David Turnbull, Frances Levine, Maria Aiolova "White Box presents Sustainable Work Lab" new projects in art, architecture, and urban design at Phaidon | Store
Soho: 83 Wooster street, 6:30-9:30pm

David Yow "Glass Gas Mask" at Fuse Gallery
5 Street: 93 Second avenue, b/w 5 & 6 streets, 7-10pm

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

Screening: John Boorman, V.L.A.D.R.M. AKA "Movies + Jams" a performance and film screening at Rabbitholestudio
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 33 Washington street, at Plymouth street, 7:30-11pm

+ Screening: "Dead in August" at The Pentagon Brooklyn
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 251 North Henry street, 6pm

Thursday, August 25

Jung Hee Choi "Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IV" at MELA Foundation
Downtown: 275 Church street, b/w franklin & white, 6pm-midnight

Laura Brothers "Mint Slad Mundo" at NP Contemporary Art Center
Chinatown/LES: 131 Chrystie street, 6-9pm

Gina Martynova "Starry" at Le Salon d'Art
Chinatown/LES: 90 Stanton street, 7-10pm

"The 2011 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition" at Agora Gallery (chelsea)
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

? "Little Gems" small paintings and paper pieces at Anita Shapolsky
65 street: 152 E 65 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Open Studio: Anna Grant, Marissa Hiller "Crafts Night" at The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 370 Metropolitan avenue, $5 suggested, 7-10pm

Friday, August 26

+ Performance: "Whitney Live: Medeski Martin & Wood With Cyro Baptista / Dj Logic Duets" at Whitney Museum of American Art
75 street: 945 Madison avenue, at 75 street, free admission, 7pm

"Uptown Fridays" at Studio Museum Harlem
125 street: 144 W 125 street, 6-9pm

Regina Rex "Permanent Collection/WE ARE: Regina Rex" at NURTUREart Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 910 Grand street, 7-11pm

Performance: Kurt Ralske, Miriam Atkin "Rediscovering German Futurist Cinema, 1920-1929" at Soloway
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 348 South 4th St, 8:30-11:30pm

Alex Seel, Erin Fleiner, Julia Pasternak, Kate Rosko, Mel Maynard, Quelbeast, Ra Miro, Sarah Michaels, Sierra Joy "[The] Well Behaved...Seldom Make History" curated by Alicia Papanek, Paul Bonacci at Brooklyn Fire Proof Brooklyn, Bushwick: 119 Ingraham street, at Porter avenue, $5, 7-10pm

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"A New Reflection" art exhibition and youth talent showcase at Art House Productions
Jersey City: 1 McWilliams place, roof, 6-10pm

Saturday, August 27

"The Truth Is I Am You" at LMCC
Downtown: Governor's Island, Building 110, 3-5pm

Benefit: Andrew Chan, Anton Cabaleiro, Cecile Chong, Chris Bors, Hannah Smith Allen, Iannis Delatolas, Jeannie Crosby, Joell Baxter, Katherine Daniels, Laura Braciale, Lee Clarke, Matt Frieburghaus, Matthew Conradt, Rachel Frank, Stella Ebner, Thomas Bangsted, Veronica Frenning "Try2 Art Show & Silent Auction" at Jen Bekman Chinatown/LES: 6 Spring street, b/w Elizabeth & Bowery, bids start at $50, 7-10pm

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Performance: Bonnie Jones, Marley Freeman, Trisha Baga "HxWxDxTx2" at Hunter College (Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery)
68 street: 913 Lexington avenue, at 68 street, 6-9pm

"Scapes" curated by Mary Negro at Brooklyn Artists Gym
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, 6-9pm

Benefit: "Habitable Spaces Presents: The End of Summer Extravaganza and Benefit Party" at flux factory
Queens: 39-31 29th street, 6pm

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

Darlene Charneco "Islands of Memory" at Solar Contemporary Art / Design
East Hampton, NY: 44 Davids Lane, 5-7pm

Lecture: "Andria Hickey on Louise Lawler" at Dia Art Foundation (Dia:Beacon)
Beacon, NY: 3 Beekman street, free with museum admission, 2pm

Sunday, August 28

Artist Talk: Dianne Smith, Luke Schumacher "Loosely Coupled" curated by Savona Bailey-McClain at West Harlem Art Fund (Govenor's Island)
Downtown: Governors Island, (17 Nolan Park), 1-3pm

Performance: Comfortism "I've been Elvita Adams" curated by FringeNYC at Dixon Place
Chinatown/LES: 161 Chrystie street, $15 in advance $18 on the door, Noon

+ Screening: Alyssa Taylor Wendt, Collin McKelvey, Dana Bell, Geoff Pugen, Jeremy Rotsztain, Jon Santos, Katherine Bauer, Kelly Lynn Jones, Kenneth Kurwood, Kevin Lovelady, Liz Wendelbo, Michael Robinson, Optipus Collective, Sadek Bazaraa, Tom Ruth "Color Sound Culture Mash Up" part of Index Festival at Millennium Film Workshop
4 Street: 66 E 4 street, $10, 8pm-2am (doors open at 7pm)

Ora Bialik "Genesis" at Hadas Gallery
Brooklyn, Clinton Hill: 541 Myrtle avenue, 2-5pm

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

Monday, August 29

Preview: Joshua Cave "Fire Sale" curated by Father Ryan at Dillon Gallery 25 street: 525 W 25 street, 6-9pm

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