This Thursday the whole city will be bustling with openings, from the LES to the 50's and up as well as Brooklyn; with the most activity concentrated in Chelsea with an overwhelming number of events.

The rest of the weekend will relax a little bit more, but it will still bring some more excitement to Chelsea and the Lower East Side and some more events spread in Brooklyn and Queens.

Take a look at our picks, but wherever you decide to go you are guaranteed to find some fabulous work.

Thursday:
+ Jon Kessler "The Blue Period" at Salon 94 (Bowery)
+ David Rabinowitch, John Beech, John Zurier, Léonie Guyer , Louise Bourgeois, Mireille Gros, N. Dash, Robert Ryman, Robert Zandvliet, Simon Frost, Sol LeWitt, Zipora Fried "Drawing a Line in the Sand" at Peter Blum (soho)
+ Don Doe "Tossed Overboard" at Morgan Lehman Gallery

Friday:
+ Robert Grosvenor at Paula Cooper Gallery
+ "VOLUMES" at Causey Contemporary

Tuesday, January 31

Artist Talk: Natascha Sadr Haghighian "when night falls in the forest of static choices" at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $10, students free with rsvp at boxoffice@guggenheim.org, 6:30pm

Artist Talk: Jean-Michel Ross "All Work And No Play Makes Thomas A Dull Boy" at Residency Unlimited
Brooklyn, Misc.: 360 Court Street, rsvp to info@residencyunlimited.org, 6:30pm

Screening: Yvonne Rainer "Kristina Talking Pictures" at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Misc.: 155 Freeman St, $7, 7pm

Wednesday, February 1

Alix Pearlstein, Henry Hills, Julie Harrison, Lenore Malen, Maria Zervos, Perry Bard "The Herd Remorse" curated by Lenore Malen at Lesley Heller (Workspace)
Chinatown/LES: 54 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Lothar Osterburg "New Images from Library Dreams and Yesterday's City of Tomorrow" at Lesley Heller (Workspace)
Chinatown/LES: 54 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Closing reception: Cody Oyama, Laura Tack "We Hungered" at Con Artist
Chinatown/LES: 157 Suffolk St, 8pm-late

"Anti-Oxidant: Promantic Group Video Show" curated by Christina Medina, Jason LeBlond at Christopher Henry Gallery
Soho: 127 Elizabeth street, 7-10pm

Hirosuke Kitamura "Hidra" curated by Miguel Rio Branco at 1500 Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 607, 6-8pm

Tony Cragg at Marian Goodman Gallery
57 street: 24 W 57 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

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

Panel Discussion: "Why I Make Live Art (when I’m Not Making The Others)" moderated by Jess Barbagallo at The Invisible Dog
Brooklyn, Misc.: 51 Bergen street, 7pm

Thursday, February 2

Closing reception: Bryn McConnell "Looked" at Frontrunner Gallery Downtown: 59 Franklin street, 6-9pm

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+ Jon Kessler "The Blue Period" at Salon 94 (Bowery)
Chinatown/LES: 243 Bowery, 6-8pm

Antonio Pio Saracino "Second Nature" at BOSIDAMJANOVIC Gallery Chinatown/LES: 48 Orchard, 6-8pm

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Bruno Hadjadj "Bye Bye CBGB" curated by Christiane Celle at Clic Bookstore & Gallery
Soho: 255 Centre street, 6-8pm

+ David Rabinowitch, John Beech, John Zurier, Léonie Guyer , Louise Bourgeois, Mireille Gros, N. Dash, Robert Ryman, Robert Zandvliet, Simon Frost, Sol LeWitt, Zipora Fried "Drawing a Line in the Sand" at Peter Blum (soho)
Soho: 99 Wooster street, b/w Prince & Spring, 6-8pm

Norah Zuniga Shaw "Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison" at Goethe-Institut New York (Wyoming Building)
4 Street: 5 E 3 street, 6-8pm

Jamie Kruse "Thingness of Energy" curated by Jamie Kruse at Parsons (Sheila C. Johnson Design Center)
13 street: 66 Fifth avenue, 6:30-9pm

Aneta Bartos, Nick Weber "Jack & Jill" curated by Anne Huntington at AMH Industries 19 street: 144 Tenth avenue, 6-9pm

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Neal Medlyn "Neal Medlyn: Wicked Clown Love" at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, $15, 8pm

Zimoun "Volume" at bitforms gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 2, 6-8:30pm

Brian Fekete, Nathan Schiel "Cellar Door" curated by Joe Elliot at 571 Projects
21 street: 551 W 21 street, suite 204A, 6-9pm

Randy Polumbo at Morgan Lehman Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 6, The Study, 6-8pm

Gerard Petrus Fieret, Miroslav Tichy, Nickolay Bakharev at Julie Saul Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Christopher Russell "After the Golden Age" at Julie Saul Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, project gallery, 6-8pm

+ Don Doe "Tossed Overboard" at Morgan Lehman Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 6, 6-8pm

Aristides Ruiz, Cayce Zavaglia, David Lyle, Fahamu Pecou, James Rieck, Mary Henderson, Ryan Bradley, Tim Okamura "Resourced: The Influence of Photography in Contemporary Art" at Lyons Wier Gallery
24 street: 542 West 24th st, 6-8pm

Alfredo Jaar, Antoni Muntadas, Charles Gaines, Dennis Adams, Fernando Bryce, Hans Haacke, Heide Fasnacht, Joseph Beuys, Mark Lombardi, Richard Hamilton, Walid Raad "Mind the Gap" at Kent Fine Art
25 street: 210 Eleventh avenue, 6-9pm

Deborah Rosenthal "Journeys and Topologies" at Bowery Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 5-8pm

? Becky Franco, Jennipher Satterly "LUXE" at Tria Gallery
25 street: 531 W 25 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Alakananda Mukerji "Then and Now" at Blue Mountain Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Moon Lee, Steve Hickok "Moon Lee & Steve Hickok" at Able Fine Art Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 507, 6-8pm

Ayad Alkadhi "Umbilical" at Leila Heller Gallery
25 street: 568 West 25th Street, 6-8pm

Takashi Tomo-oka "Painting Flowers Through Photography" at Ippodo Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Mary Corse "New Work" at Lehmann Maupin
26 street: 540 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Alex Doolan "Alex Doolan’s Mud Doctors: A story in two chapters, told with paint (Chapter One)." curated by Jordana Zeldin at ArtBridge (ArtBridge Drawing Room)
26 street: 526 West 26th st, 502a, free, rsvp, 6:30-7:30pm

Elizabeth Yamin, Susan Post and new work by Bosiljka Raditsa in the Project Room at The Painting Center
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 500, 6-8pm

Julia Berkman "Blip." at SOHO20 Gallery 27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 6-8pm

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Allyson Ross, Amanda Buonocore, Ginny Huo, Krista Peters, Naoko Ito "Matchmaker" curated by Jenn Dierdorf at SOHO20 Gallery 27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 6-8pm

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Julia Berkman "Blip." at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 6-8pm

Panel Discussion: "Shifters" at CUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities
35 street: 365 Fifth avenue, The James Gallery, 6:30pm

Luka Fineisen "Phase Transitions" at Hosfelt Gallery
36 street: 531 W 36 street, 6-8pm

"Print Studio" at Reanimation Library (MoMA)
53 street: 11 W 53rd St, free, rsvp, 6-9pm

"New York in Color" curated by Bob Shamis at Howard Greenberg Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, floor 14, 6-8pm

Tono Stano "White Shadow" at Pace/MacGill 57 street: 32 E 57 street, floor 9, 5:30-7:30pm

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Fanny Sanin "Drawings and Studies 1960 to Now" curated by Patterson Sims at Frederico Sève 57 street: 37 West 57th St, 4th floor, 6-8pm

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Screening: "Born in Flames" The New Rebels; No Wave Cinema: The New Elder Statesmen at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
58 street: 2 Columbus circle, $10, 7pm

MIlos Forman at Bohemian National Hall (Czech Center)
73 street: 321 E 73 street, 6:30pm

Annie Ewaskio "FUTURESCAPES" at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, #228, 6-9pm, artist talk at 6pm

Jane Swavely "New Work" at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, #228, 6-9pm, artist talks begin at 6pm

Jeanette May "Bachelor Pads" at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, #228, 6-9pm, artist talks begin at 6pm

"The Architecture of Space" at Klompching Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, floor 2, 6-9pm

Annie Kyle, Jennie Booth, Midori Okuyama, Siang-Jen Yang, Vika Adutova, Zoë Williams "Hey Beautiful!" at Amos Eno Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 202, 6-9pm

Closing reception: Jaret Vadera "Transparent Studio" at Bose Pacia Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 163 Plymouth street, 6-9pm

Workshop: "Open Critique" at Brooklyn Artists Gym
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, 6:30pm

Michele Kong, Yosuke Ito "Circulation" at M55 Art
Queens: 44-02 23rd street, 6-8pm

Preview: Rena Leinberger "When is opens like this, up is not over" at ISCP
Queens: junction of Queensboro Plaza and Vernon Boulevard, 11-11:30am

Friday, February 3

Pia MYrvoLD "Flow" at .NO
Soho: 251 East Houston Street, 6-8pm

Reading: John Giorno at Artists Space
Soho: 38 Greene street, floor 3, 7:30pm

Conference: "Objects in Performance" curated by Andre Lepecki at Goethe-Institut New York (NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies)
6 Street: 721 Broadway, 6th floor, 6-8pm

Benefit: Alexis Carreno, Berglind Holm, Charlotte Mouquin, Lainie Dalby, Michael Mut, Mike Rimbaud, Oylun Albayrak "Hearts" curated by Oylun Albayrak at Michael Mut Gallery 7 Street: 97 Avenue C, 6-8pm

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+ Robert Grosvenor at Paula Cooper Gallery
21 street: 534 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Kay Rosen "Wide and Deep" at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
22 street: 530 W 22 street, 6-8pm

? Catherine Yass "Lighthouse" at Galerie Lelong
26 street: 528 W 26 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Screening: "No Wave Cinema: The New Elder Statesmen" Underground USA (1980) and Black Box (1978) at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD)
58 street: 2 Columbus circle, $10, 7pm

Tour: "Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine" led by the exhibition's co-curators, Nadine M. Orenstein, Curator, and Constance C. McPhee at Metropolitan Museum of Art
81 street: 1000 Fifth avenue, at 81 street, $25, 4pm

Ben and Sebastian, Denis Andernach, Jason Kachadourian, Lynsey Hunter, Nicolas and Sofie, Virginia Kraljevic "Plane & Solid" curated by Chiharu Aizawa at AG Gallery - About Glamour
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 107A N 3 street, b/w berry & wythe ave, 6-9pm

+ "VOLUMES" at Causey Contemporary
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 92 Wythe avenue, rsvp, 6-9pm

David Schafer "Roundabout/UEBA" at Studio 10
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 56 Bogart Street, 7-9pm

Paul D’Agostino "Appearance Adrift in the Garden" at Norte Maar
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 83 Wyckoff avenue, #1B, 6-9pm

"Banquet for America" at flux factory
Queens: 39-31 29th street, 7pm

Saturday, February 4

Frankie Rice "Solo" at Launch F18 Downtown: 373 Broadway, floor 6, 6-8pm

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Erin Raedeke "Things Left" at First Street Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, #209, 3-5pm

Benefit: "Fundraiser exhibition benefiting the the Brooklyn Academy of Music / Asher Edelman Fellowship" at (Art) Amalgamated LLC [Project Space]
28 street: 317 10th Avenue, rsvp to info@artamalgamated.com, 2-5pm

Elizabeth Thach, Laurel McMechan, Sarah Alice Moran, Sarah Lubin "Besties/Faves" curated by Sarah Alice Moran at Screwball Spaces (Sweet Lorraine Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 183 Lorraine street, floor 3, 5-8pm

Alejandro Cesarco, Angel Otero, Angelina Gualdoni, Becket Bowes, Claudia Pena Salinas, Dieter Kuhn, Eelin Lin, Gintaras Didziapetris, Jesse Greenberg, Karen Chan, Matthew Buckingham, Mikhail Gubin, Samuel Clagnaz, Scott Grodesky, Scott Hug, Sharona Eliassaf, Tatiana Berg "Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle" curated by Jamillah James, Larissa Harris, Manuela Moscoso at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building) Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, free, 6-10pm

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"Love/Hate" at Lana Santorelli Gallery
Hoboken: 628 Washington street, 6-9pm

Sunday, February 5

Performance: Eva Meyer-Keller "Death is Certain" at Goethe-Institut New York (Ludlow 38)
Chinatown/LES: 38 Ludlow Street, 6 and 7:30pm

"A Super Bowl Be-In" presented by FusionARTS at Lambert Fine Arts
Chinatown/LES: 57 Stanton street, 3-6pm

Closing reception: "NYC Salt: Celebrating Seven Years Of Student Work" at Underline Gallery
14 street: 238 W 14 street, noon-4pm

Jeramy Turner "Blood and Oil Paintings" at Chashama
41 street: 655 3rd Ave, 6-9pm

Performance: Yve Laris Cohen "Coda" at SculptureCenter
Queens: 44-19 Purves street, free, rsvp to rsvp@sculpture-center.org, 5pm

Astrid Bowlby, Ben Butler, Christopher Skura, Sebastian Rug "Fragmented" curated by Jonathan Greene at Hunterdon Art Museum
Clinton, NJ: 7 Lower Center Street, 2-4pm

Nathan Skiles "The Clockmaker's Apprentice" at Hunterdon Art Museum
Clinton, NJ: 7 Lower Center Street, 2-4pm

Elizabeth Gilfilen "No longer, no later" at Hunterdon Art Museum
Clinton, NJ: 7 Lower Center Street, 2-4pm

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+ = Editor's pick
? = Opening not confirmed - check site for updates.