A mellow week as many prepare for Thanksgiving and/or Art Basel Miami Beach. Tonight (Tuesday) and tomorrow are the most interesting days if you want catch some art before the holiday. Hope to see you out there!

Tuesday:
+ Mel Bochner "Photography Before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Some Drawings from the Sixties and Recent Reflections and Recursions on Dis/Tension and Crumpling" at Peter Freeman, Inc.
+ Jean-Frederic Schneyder at Swiss Institute

Wednesday:
+ Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali Gallery

Tuesday, November 22

Screening: Alison O’Daniel "Night Sky" at Art in General
Downtown: 79 Walker street, b/w Broadway & Lafayette, RSVP to jon@artingeneral.org, 8pm

"E.S.P. TV Episodes 8-10 Screening Party" Plus Preview of E.S.P. TV "New Dance City" Special at Louis V E.S.P. (Forlini's)
Chinatown/LES: 93 Baxter St, 9pm-midnight

Conference: "Curatorial Intensive Symposium" at Independent Curators international (ICI) (The Curatorial Hub)
Chinatown/LES: 401 Broadway, Suite 1620, free, please RSVP to chelsea@curatorsintl.org, 10-6pm

"Pharmacophore: Architectural Placebo" at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Chinatown/LES: 97 Kenmare street, RSVP at enf@storefrontnews.org, 6pm

Marinella Paolini "Urban Soul" curated by Biba Mogherini Scarfagna at BOSIDAMJANOVIC Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 48 Orchard, 6-9pm

Carlos Motta "DEUS POBRE: Modern Sermons of Communal Lament" at Y Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 165 Orchard street, 6-9pm

+ Mel Bochner "Photography Before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Some Drawings from the Sixties and Recent Reflections and Recursions on Dis/Tension and Crumpling" at Peter Freeman, Inc.
Soho: 560 Broadway, floor 6, 6-8pm

+ Jean-Frederic Schneyder at Swiss Institute
Soho: 18 Wooster street, 6-8pm

Screening: Jeremy Elkin "Poisonous Products" at La Mama Gallery 4 Street: 74A East 4th Street, Donation, 7-9pm

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? Mark di Suvero at Paula Cooper Gallery
21 street: 534 W 21 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Book launch: "Visual Century: South African Art in Context 1907" at CUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities
35 street: 365 Fifth avenue, 6pm

David Brooks "Desert Rooftops" at Art Production Fund (The Last Lot)
46 street: West 46th Street, 8th Ave, 6-8pm

Kana Shimao "Illustrator Kana Shimao" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, suite 507, 7-10pm

Wednesday, November 23

Jack Nantz "Jack Nantz: A Solo Exhibition" curated by Dino Eli at Orchard Windows Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 37 Orchard street, 6-9pm

+ Paul Sharits at Greene Naftali Gallery
26 street: 508 W 26 street, floor 8, 11am-1pm

Saturday, November 26

Robert Greco "This Thing of Ours" at Munch Gallery
Soho: 245 Broome street, 6-9pm

Screening: Alex McLeod, Ben Mosca, Ben Russell, Colin White, Damon Mohl, Jonathan Monaghan, Jordan Bloch, Robert Todd, Roman Krusch, Stephen St. Francis Decky "Literati Film Festival" curated by William Stitt at Anthology Film Archives Soho: 32 Second avenue, $14, 7-11pm

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Closing reception: George Cannata, Jorge Posada, Naide "Beyond the surface" curated by Donna Drimer at Matted LIC
Queens: 46-36 Vernon boulevard, 5:30-7:30pm

Darius Yektai., Eric Freeman, Félix Bonilla Gerena, John Ross Rist, Melanie J. Moczarski, Michael Chiarello "Thanksgiving Collective 2011" at Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art
Southhampton, NY: 30 Jobs Lane, 5-8pm

Sunday, November 27

Sam Pulitzer "Gauges for "Them"" at Real Fine Arts
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 673 Meeker avenue, 7-10pm

Monday, November 28

Panel Discussion: "The Art-Architecture Complex and The First Pop Age" an evening with Hal Foster at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, free, 7pm

? Edwin Dickinson "Edwin Dickinson in Retrospect" at Babcock Galleries
57 street: 724 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Artist Talk: "Marvin Newman" at The Jewish Museum
92 street: 1109 Fifth avenue, at 92 street, Free with museum admission, 1pm

Screening: Amber Hawk Swanson, Andrew Steinmetz, David Kagan, Jannicke Laker, Jennifer Sullivan, Kerry Downey, Rebecca Goyette, Tara Mateik "Do Me" a series of contemporary video works at spectacle thater
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 124 South 3rd Street, $1-5 sliding scale, 7-8pm

Gail Victoria Braddock Quagliata "Actual Events I Have Witnessed (In a Parallel Universe)" at Pratt Institute Brooklyn, Clinton Hill: 200 Willoughby avenue, Dekalb Hall Gallery, 5-9pm

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