Events scattered throughout the week -- read through to find out what you are up for: Tonight, an artist lecture at the American Folk Art Museum and a "Pizza Party" event at K&M in Williamsburg, both spark my interest. Wednesday has a benefit at White Columns for North Drive Press (for the release of their final issue), and there is a free screening at X Initiative in Chelsea. Thursday has moderate action in Chelsea. Friday shows in Williamsburg/Greenpoint look good. On Saturday, the Drawing Center organizes "The Big Draw" event in three locations downtown as part of the River-to-River festival. This is the fourth year for the event that gives everyone a chance to contribute to a public drawing.

Tuesday:
+ Artist Talk: Paula Nadelstern at American Folk Art Museum
+ Screening: "Pizza Party" curated by Katie Klencheski, Rachael Morrison at K&M Bar

Wednesday:
+ Benefit: "North Drive Press #5: final issue" at White Columns
+ Screening: Lee Patterson, Luke Fowler "565685 565615566" Draw a Straight LIne and Follow It..in cooperation with Light Industry at X Initiative
+ ? "Another 80's" at Adam Baumgold Gallery

Thursday:
+ Eva Berendes, Gerald Davis, Grant Worth, Holly Coulis, Justin Samson, Marco Boggio Sella, Martha Friedman, Paulus Kapteyn, Tamar Halpern "Summer Group Show Part II: From Yarn to Yucc a - A Continuation of the Dialogue Between Abstraction and Figuration" at John Connelly Presents
+ Sharon Butler "Summer Artist in Residence" at Pocket Utopia

Friday:
+ Adam Sipe, Alexa Forosty, Ann Cleary, Brett Budde, Cary Leibowitz, Craig Hein, Hanna Sandin, Hein Koh, Julia Rommel, Michael DeLucia, Rica Borich, Shaun Krupa, Ted Mineo, Tyler Coburn, Yui Kugimiya "An Evening of Play" organized by Andrea Hill at Gallery MC
+ Isabel Schmiga, Jonathan Monk, Jonathan Paul Gillette, Julia Weist, Kant Smith, Liz Linden, Max Galyon, Uri Aran "Kick The Can't" curated by Christine Hou, Melinda Braathen at Jack the Pelican Presents

Saturday:
+ Workshop: "(Fourth Annual) The Big Draw" at The Drawing Center (River to River Festival)

Tuesday, July 14

"Iran So Far Away" at Chelsea Art Museum
22 street: 556 W 22 street, $30 with open bar, 6pm reception, 7pm panel discussion, 8pm tour, 9pm live rooftop performances

"A New Currency" at SVA (Visual Arts Gallery)
26 street: 601 W 26 street, floor 15, 6-8pm

? "Summer '09 at the Gallery: Highlights from Our Collection" at Flomenhaft Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Artist Talk: Paula Nadelstern at American Folk Art Museum
53 street: 45 W 53 street, 1pm

Steven Klein "Selected Works" at Galeria Van de Akker
58 street: 210 E 58 street, 10am-6pm Monday to Friday

Tour: "Public Tour: Textural Rythms" at American Folk Art Museum (branch location)
66 street: 2 Licoln Center, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street, 1-2pm

Performance: Jim Clark "Chicken Cam" at Lesley Heller
77 street: 16 E 77 street, 4-6pm

+ Screening: "Pizza Party" curated by Katie Klencheski, Rachael Morrison at K&M Bar
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 225 N 8th street, 8pm-late

Screening: "Is That All There Is? (Lindsay Anderson, 1992)" introduced by Luke Fowler at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Misc.: 220 36th Street, floor 5, $7, 7:30pm

Wednesday, July 15

Performance: Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sánchez Ruíz "Sitelines 2009: Untitled Corner" at LMCC
Downtown: 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, Facing Nassau Street, 7pm

Jeremy Price "Matt Daws Paintings and Narrative" at 255Canal
Chinatown/LES: 255 Canal street, floor 4, RSVP to 255canal@gmail.com, 6-9pm

"Summer Reading" at Jen Bekman
Chinatown/LES: 6 Spring street, b/w Elizabeth & Bowery, 6-8pm

James & Karla Murray "Storefront: The disappearing face of New York" at Clic Bookstore & Gallery
Soho: 255 Centre street, 6-9pm

"Sumertime Salon" at Robin Rice Gallery
11 street: 325 W 11 street, 5:30-8:30pm

+ Benefit: "North Drive Press #5: final issue" at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), $25-$250 donation, RSVP to ndprsvp@gmail.com, 7-10pm

"Eye on the Strand" at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
14 street: 144 W 14 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

+ Screening: Lee Patterson, Luke Fowler "565685 565615566" Draw a Straight LIne and Follow It..in cooperation with Light Industry at X Initiative
22 street: 548 W 22 street, score by Lamonte Young, free, 7pm

Artist Talk: Adrien Missika, Arthur Ou, Matthew Gamber, Michael Buhler-Rose, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen and Michael Vahrenwald, Pushpamala N., Stephen Gill, Talia Chetrit "After Color" curated by Amani Olu at Bose Pacia Gallery
26 street: 508 W 26 street, 6:30pm

? + "Another 80's" at Adam Baumgold Gallery
75 street: 40 E 75 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Screening: "The Betrayal" directed by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath at Socrates Sculpture Park
Queens: 32-01 Vernon Blvd, pre-screening performance 7pm, screening begins at sunset

Screening: "35th Anniversary Newark Black Film Festival" at The Newark Museum
Newark: 49 Washington street, youth: 1pm, adult: 7pm

Thursday, July 16

Artist Talk: "Julia Oldham in conversation with Amy Berkov" at Art in General
Downtown: 79 Walker street, b/w Broadway & Lafayette, 7pm

"Summer Salon" at LaViolaBank Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 179 East Broadway, 6-9pm

M. Carter, Tim Hailey "1(212) Summer Heist Series" at Heist Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 27 Essex street, b/w grand & hester, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: "David Goldblatt and Richard Flood in Conversation" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, 7pm

Brett Bell, Molly Landreth "Homeland" curated by Cora Lambert at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Soho: 26 Wooster street, 6-8pm

Closing reception: "Figuratively Speaking" curated by David Lyle at Lyons Wier Gallery
20 street: 175 Seventh avenue, at W 20 street, 6-9pm

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Brina Thurston, John Menick, Roee Rosen, Thomson & Craighead "They Told You So" curated by Anais Lellouche, Mireille Bourgeois at Bitforms
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 2, 6-8:30pm

Lecture: "Public Practice: Activists and Vanguards" A rousing debate (with declaimed manifestos) from artists Hans Bernhard (Ubermorgen.com), Patrick Lichty, Steve Lambert, Stephen Duncombe moderated by Eyebeam curatorial partner Sarah Cook (CRUMB) at Eyebeam
21 street: 540 W 21 street, free, 6:30-8pm

Andy Coolquitt, Jacob Robichaux, Keltie Ferris, Lauren Luloff, Leidy Churchman, Michael Jones McKean, Sarah Braman "Oculus Imaginationis" at Horton & Liu
22 street: 504 W 22 street, 6-8pm

? Kate Levant "Blood Drive" at Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL)
24 street: 530 W 24 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"Heartbreak Hotel" at Freight + Volume
24 street: 542 W 24 street, 6-8pm

? Jeanne Risica "Recent Paintings" at Dillon Gallery
25 street: 525 W 25 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Phil Johnson "New Works" at Brenda Taylor Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Anton Kandinsky, Laurance Rassin and Noah Burliuk, Sophie Matisse "The New Blue Riders" at Art Next Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Paul Kolker "Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night's Dream... Go Digital! The Monologue" at Studio 601
25 street: 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Closing reception: "Low Blow: And Other Species Of Confusion" at Stux Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Shinichi Nakahata "Air" at Onishi Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

+ Eva Berendes, Gerald Davis, Grant Worth, Holly Coulis, Justin Samson, Marco Boggio Sella, Martha Friedman, Paulus Kapteyn, Tamar Halpern "Summer Group Show Part II: From Yarn to Yucc a - A Continuation of the Dialogue Between Abstraction and Figuration" at John Connelly Presents
27 street: 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Alexandre Arrechea, Amelia Biewald, Ariana Page Russell, Clive Murphy, Duke Riley, Eva Davidova, Maya Onoda, Sean Slemon, Sofia Maldonado, Susanna Heller, Thessia Machado "Summer Group Exhibition" at Magnan Projects
28 street: 317 Tenth avenue, b/w 28 & 29, 6-8pm

Performance: Alicia Ross, Elia Alba, Eric White, Fernando Mora, Jason Clay Lewis, Konstantinos Stamatiou, Michael Van den Besselaar, Pesu "A Black and White World: short summer group show" at Black and White Gallery (chelsea)
28 street: 636 W 28 street, 6-9pm, performance at 7pm

Leona Christie "Parts and Labor" at RedFlagg
28 street: 638 W 28 street, 5-7pm

"Alzheimer's Program: Folk Art Reflections" at American Folk Art Museum
53 street: 45 W 53 street, 2-3:30pm

? Open Studio: Elena Ascari, Lovisa Ringborg curated by Raffaele Bedarida, Teresa Meucci at Harlem Studio Fellowship (HSF)
121 street: 128 W 121 street, 6-9pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu "Life on the Block" at Randall Scott Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 204, 6-8pm

Kim Hee Soo at Amos Eno Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 202, 6-8pm

Jake Messing "Industrial Garden" at The Project Room at 100 N 3rd
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 100 North 3rd street, 6-9pm

+ Sharon Butler "Summer Artist in Residence" at Pocket Utopia
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 1037 Flushing avenue, 6-8pm

Performance: "Jazz in the Garden 2009 Summer Concert Series" at The Newark Museum
Newark: 49 Washington street, adults $3, 12:15-1:45pm

Friday, July 17

Performance: Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, Judith Sánchez Ruíz "Sitelines 2009: Untitled Corner" at LMCC
Downtown: 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, Facing Nassau Street, 12:30pm

Carlos Sandoval de Leon, Diane Wah, Michael Paul Britto at Number 35
Chinatown/LES: 39 Essex street, b/w hester & grand, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Rashaad Newsome "New Music Greats" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, 7pm

Screening: "Projections & Video Works: Khasso (2009); Shoot the War (2006); Talk City to Me (2008)" at Kleio Projects
7 Street: 206 E 7 street, at Avenue B, 6:30-8pm reception, 8-9:30 screening

+ Adam Sipe, Alexa Forosty, Ann Cleary, Brett Budde, Cary Leibowitz, Craig Hein, Hanna Sandin, Hein Koh, Julia Rommel, Michael DeLucia, Rica Borich, Shaun Krupa, Ted Mineo, Tyler Coburn, Yui Kugimiya "An Evening of Play" organized by Andrea Hill at Gallery MC
52 street: 549 W 52 street, floor 8, opening 7-9pm, performance 9pm

Screening: "Beyond Ipanema: the Brazilian music experience outside of Brazil" introduced by Barra and Dranoff at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, $10, 8pm

Donald Silverstein "Solstice" at Gallery Sakiko
68 street: 155 W 68 street, suite 1127, 6-8pm

+ Isabel Schmiga, Jonathan Monk, Jonathan Paul Gillette, Julia Weist, Kant Smith, Liz Linden, Max Galyon, Uri Aran "Kick The Can't" curated by Christine Hou, Melinda Braathen at Jack the Pelican Presents
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 487 Driggs avenue, 7-9pm

"The Love Show" at Spread Art
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 104 Meserole street, b/w Manhattan ave and Leonard, 6-11pm

"Off The Clock" at Like The Spice
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 224 Roebling street, 6:30-10pm

"Year 5" at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 205 Norman avenue, 7-9pm

Beattie and Davidson, Frank Magnotta, Gareth Long, Halsey Hathaway, Janna Luttrell, Jay Henderson, Jeffrey Tranchell, Monique Prieto, Patrick Meagher, Yadir Quintana "Bad Graphic Design" at Gowanus Studio Space
Brooklyn, Misc.: 119 8th street, 6pm-midnight

Lecture: "Layered Orders: Crowley's Thoth Deck and the Tarot" at Observatory
Brooklyn, Misc.: 543 Union street, at Nevins street, 7:30pm & 9pm

MCA "MCA presents Magic Secrets of the Stone Mind & the Plastic Soul" at APW Gallery
Queens: 48-18 Van Dam street, 7-9pm

"Something Different" at APW Gallery
Queens: 48-18 Van Dam street, 7-9pm

Saturday, July 18

+ Workshop: "(Fourth Annual) The Big Draw" at The Drawing Center (River to River Festival)
Downtown: 220 Vesey street, National Museum of American Indian; World Financia, 11am-4pm

Dennis Santella "The Fruitful Wound: Photographs of Harlem's Gardens and Open Spaces" at Casa Frela Gallery
119 street: 47 W 119 street, 4-7pm

Performance: "An in the forest Party at Live With Animals vis Forever Neverland" at Secret Project Robot
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 210 Kent avenue, 9pm-late

Closing reception: Alexandra Kuzyk, Johnny Omnibus, Ralph Nixon Jr, Traven La Botz "Surreal Silent Art Auction" curated by Gia Michael at Surreal Estate Alternative Art Space
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 15 Thames, 6-9pm

"The Wheels for Beers Social" at Open Source
Brooklyn, Misc.: 255 17 street, b/w 5th & 6th avenue, 7-10pm

Performance: "Warm Up" music & drinks in the courtyard at PS1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, at 26 avenue, $10, 2-9pm

Lecture: "MLAB: Mobile Literacy Arts Bus" at SculptureCenter
Queens: 44-19 Purves street, 1-6pm

Sunday, July 19

Lecture: Michael J. Schumacher "Diapson Gallery: A talk about New York's only venue devoted exclusively to sound art" at Audio Visual Arts (AVA)
Chinatown/LES: 34 E 1 street, 5-6pm

Workshop: "Colors, Shapes, and Patterns Family Program" at American Folk Art Museum (branch location)
66 street: 2 Licoln Center, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street, 1-2:30pm

Artist Talk: "Q & A Session with Alan Vega, visual artist and member of the highly influential and perennially underground synthpunk duo, Suicide" at Deitch Projects (Deitch Studios)
Queens: 4-40 44th drive, 5pm

Monday, July 20

Lecture: "A Protest Against Forgetting: A brief history of curating" with Hans Ulrich Obrist at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $5, 6:30pm

Lecture: "Andy Warhol Symposium" at The Newark Museum
Newark: 49 Washington street, $45, call to register 973-596-6613, 10am-4pm

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