Last week: undeniable weariness about the art market was largely overcome by sanguineness upon seeing familiar faces and new art. Several artists told me of the increasing "preciousness" of art in Chelsea that seems of a different time. There are some happy surprises I discovered: downstairs on W 22nd street, check out Raul deNieves's show at Newman Popiashvili Gallery for a seamless use of the gallery space that embodies a certain form of optimism often seen at Whitney Biennials. Another outstanding show is Franklin Evans at Sue Scott gallery in the Lower East Side. Franklin says the show is the basis for a long-term project, which, judging by the quality of this show, is good to hear.

This week!: Gagosian keeps it classy with Cy Twombly and Sally Mann at tonight's opening at their uptown location. On Tuesday, Cooper Union opens their new building (a well-intentioned, computer-aided design, that somehow resulted in a facade that threatens to transform into Optimus Prime at any moment, but not really in a good way -- not to sound critical -- I mean, it's still great to see a new building with some creativity at work). Thursday and Friday have the most openings, and Saturday is the first LIC Gallery Opening Night -- a good chance to see all the LIC galleries in one night and dine at a local spot.

Tuesday:
+ Cy Twombly, Sally Mann at Gagosian Gallery (uptown)

Wednesday:
+ Alex Katz "Drawings" at Peter Blum (soho)
+ "Free as Air and Water" first event to launch public use of 41 Cooper Gallery at Cooper Union (41 Cooper Gallery)

Thursday:
+ Daniel Rich, Lauren Warner, Saul Becker "Slow Photography" at SUNDAY L.E.S.
+ Ree Morton "At the Still Point of the Turning World" at The Drawing Center
+ "Public Space Potluck: Kickoff event for Conflux 2009" at Conflux Festival (NYU Barney Building)
+ Florencio Gelabert "Lines & Concavities" curated by Alberto Barral at RL Fine Arts
+ Damian Ortega "CAPITAL Less" at Gladstone Gallery
+ Carole Feuerman "Swimmers, Bathers, Nudes" at Jim Kempner Fine Art
+ Airan Kang, Alan Rath, Ben Rubin, Jim Campbell, Marina Zurkow, Yongseok Oh "Textual Landscapes: Real and Imagined" inaugural exhibition for new location at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
+ Bernadette Corporation "The Complete Poem" at Greene Naftali Gallery
+ Amy Feldman, Brendan Cass, Cassie Jones, Chris Martin, Dana Frankfort, David Humphrey, Don Voisine, James Hyde, Joe Fyfe, Joshua Ferry, Katherine Bradford, Letha Wilson, Mark Wethli, Meghan Brady, Tamara Gonzales "Chunky Monkey" curated by John Bisbee, Mark Wethli at RedFlagg

Friday:
+ Alex Rich, Das Institut, Jurg Lehni, Kathrin Sonntag "A New Era: Empty Words; DI Why?; Mittnacht" at Swiss Institute
+ "Don't Perish" (Potluck Dinners every Tuesday & Saturday Eve) curated by Jesse Willenbring, Joseph Montgomery at Leo Koenig, Inc. (Projekte)
+ Clive Murphy "Ghost Machine" at Magnan Projects

Saturday:
+ "LIC Gallery Opening Night: a gallery crawl throughout Long Island City" at AES Gallery

Tuesday, September 15

Harvey Milk, Rink "San Francisco: The Making of a Queer Mecca" at Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Soho: 26 Wooster street, 6-8pm

Bryan Graf "Wildlife Analysis" at The Wild Project
4 Street: 195 E 3 street, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Gary Indiana at SVA
21 street: 133 W 21 street, at 6 avenue, 6:30pm

Book launch: Jonathan Lethem "THE THING Quarterly, issue 7" at Printed Matter, Inc.
22 street: 195 Tenth avenue, at w 22 street, 5-7pm

? Kiyoshi Niiyama "The Pearlette Age" at Gallery Cantelmo
39 street: 55 W 39 street, suite 204, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Keizo Kitajima "The Joy of Portraits" at Amador Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, in the Fuller Building, 6-8pm

"Intangible Moods" at Nohra Haime Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, 6-8pm

+ Cy Twombly, Sally Mann at Gagosian Gallery (uptown)
76 street: 980 Madison avenue, at 76 street, 6-8pm

Darius Yektai "All I Know About Love at Thirty-Six" at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
78 street: 39 E 78 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Open Studio: Cyril "You Are Under Arrest" curated by Raffaele Bedarida at Harlem Studio Fellowship (HSF)
121 street: 128 W 121 street, 6-9pm

Screening: Jonathan Horowitz "Apocalypto Now (2009)" at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Misc.: 220 36th Street, floor 5, 7:30pm

Wednesday, September 16

Carla Fernandez, Carol Christian Poell, Edwina Horl, Hussein Chalayan, Jenny Marketou, Liquid Loft, Liquid Loft, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Mirjana Djordjevic, Takahiko Sanada, Terence Gower "A Way Beyond Fashion" curated by Robert Punkenhofer at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6-8pm

Frank Holliday, Gwenn Thomas, Linda Geary, Stephen Mueller at Rose Burlingham / Living Room Gallery
Downtown: 15 Park row, 6-8pm

Christopher Saunders, Daphne Arthur, Diane Carr, Leighton Pierce, Marina Berio, Mira O'Brian "Outside In" curated by Mary Dailey Pattee at LaViolaBank Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 179 East Broadway, 6-9pm

Daniel Davidson, Eric White at Sloan Fine Art
Chinatown/LES: 128 Rivington street, 6-8pm

Sue Kwon "Only in New York" at Clic Bookstore & Gallery
Soho: 424 Broome street, 6-9pm

Chen Danqing, Fang Lijun, Feng Zhengjie, Guo Wei, Qi Zhilong, Qin Feng, the Luo Brothers, Wang Guangyi, Xia Xing, Yang Qian, Yang Shaobin, Zhang Dali, Zhang Xiaogang, Zhao Nengzhi, Zhou Chunya "Chasing Flames" at Eli Klein Fine Art
Soho: 462 West Broadway, b/w prince & houston, 6-9pm

+ Alex Katz "Drawings" at Peter Blum (soho)
Soho: 99 Wooster street, b/w Prince & Spring, 6-8pm

+ "Free as Air and Water" first event to launch public use of 41 Cooper Gallery at Cooper Union (41 Cooper Gallery)
8 street: 41 Cooper Square, 7-9pm

Steve Miller "Roots" at Robin Rice Gallery
11 street: 325 W 11 street, 5:30-8:30pm

George Grosz "The Years in America: 1933-1958" at David Nolan Gallery
29 street: 527 W 29 street, 6-8pm

Performance: Olek and Carrie Ahern "Covers" at Roger Smith Arts (The Lab)
47 street: 501 Lexington avenue, 5:30-6:30pm

Lecture: "No Discipline" at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, $10, 6:30pm

? Grisha Bruskin "Twilight of the Gods" at Marlborough Gallery (uptown)
57 street: 40 W 57 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Performance: Steven Cohen "Knock ‘Em Dead" at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, 7:30pm

Thursday, September 17

"Tip Sheet//Actor Michael Imperioli and Commissioner Kate Levin to speak at press conference" at LMCC (LentSpace)
Downtown: Canal street and 6th avenue, 11am

"Leipzig Calling: Twenty Years after the Iron Curtain" at New York Academy of Art
Downtown: 111 Franklin street, 6-8pm

? Fang Lijun, Qi Zhilong, Qin Feng, Wang Guangyi, Yue Minjun, Zhang Dali, Zhang Xiaogang "The Face of the Chinese Avant-Garde" at Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
Downtown: 18 Jay street, b/w hudson & greenwich street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Daniel Rich, Lauren Warner, Saul Becker "Slow Photography" at SUNDAY L.E.S.
Chinatown/LES: 237 Eldridge street, b/w stanton & east houston, 7-9pm

Lecture: "Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City" Eric Sanderson in conversation with Robert Sullivan at Tenement Museum
Chinatown/LES: 97 Orchard street, 6:30pm

Benjamin S. Jones "Casing the Promised Land" at Gallery Satori
Chinatown/LES: 164 Stanton street, 6-8pm

Anna de la Cueva "El Paquete" at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects
Soho: 114 Bowery, b/w Grand & Hester, 6-8pm

Screening: "Escape" at Harvestworks
Soho: 596 Broadway, Suite 602, 7pm

Kilu Horecki "Rays" at Broadway Gallery
Soho: 473 Broadway, b/w grand & broome, floor 7, 6-8pm

Peter Kuper "Diario de Oaxaca: A Sketchbook Journal of Two years in Mexico" at Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA)
Soho: 594 Broadway, b/w Houston and Prince streets, suite 401, 7pm

+ Ree Morton "At the Still Point of the Turning World" at The Drawing Center
Soho: 35 Wooster street, 6-8pm

+ "Public Space Potluck: Kickoff event for Conflux 2009" at Conflux Festival (NYU Barney Building)
9 street: 34 Stuyvesant street, 6:30pm

"Zig Zag" at Sperone Westwater
13 street: 415 W 13 street, 6-8pm

+ Florencio Gelabert "Lines & Concavities" curated by Alberto Barral at RL Fine Arts
19 street: 39 W 19 street, b/w 5th & 6th ave, floor 6, 6:30-9pm

+ Damian Ortega "CAPITAL Less" at Gladstone Gallery
21 street: 530 W 21 street, 5:30-7:30pm

Ori Gersht "Evaders" at CRG Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Screening: "Put Blood in the Music (1989)" at X Initiative
22 street: 548 W 22 street, 7pm

Sarah Anne Johnson "House on Fire" at Julie Saul Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

+ Carole Feuerman "Swimmers, Bathers, Nudes" at Jim Kempner Fine Art
23 street: 501 W 23 street, 5-8pm

"The World in Black and White: Vintage Prints from the National Geographic Archive" inaugural exhibition for new location at Steven Kasher Gallery
23 street: 521 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Sherry Wong "Play All San Francisco" at I-20 Gallery
23 street: 557 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: Dave Hickey "The God Ennui" at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, 7pm

Keith Haring "Drawings, Prints and Ceramics" at DJT Fine Art
24 street: 231 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Catherine Sullivan, Paulina Olowska, Stephen G. Rhodes at Metro Pictures
24 street: 519 W 24 street, 10am-6pm

Anselm Reyle "Monochrome Age" at Gagosian Gallery
24 street: 555 W 24 street, 6-8pm

+ Airan Kang, Alan Rath, Ben Rubin, Jim Campbell, Marina Zurkow, Yongseok Oh "Textual Landscapes: Real and Imagined" inaugural exhibition for new location at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
24 street: 505 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Akio Takamori "Alice/Venus" at Barry Friedman Ltd
25 street: 515 W 25 street, 5:30-8pm

Marc Andre Robinson "You Are The Current/ I Am the Wire" at Tina Kim Fine Art
25 street: 545 W 25 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Stephen J Shanabrook "Liquid Lushes and Late Night House of Pills" at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

"China Marks: sewn drawings" at Luise Ross Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

George Boorujy "Migratory Drift" at P.P.O.W.
25 street: suite 301 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Nancy Brooks Brody "2007-2009" at Virgil de Voldere Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Christopher Quirk, John Finneran, Leeza Meksin at Thomas Erben Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, floor 4, 6-8:30pm

+ Bernadette Corporation "The Complete Poem" at Greene Naftali Gallery
26 street: 508 W 26 street, floor 8, 6-8pm

Andrew Lenaghan "New Large-Scale Paintings" at George Adams Gallery
26 street: 525 W 26 street, 6-8pm

+ Amy Feldman, Brendan Cass, Cassie Jones, Chris Martin, Dana Frankfort, David Humphrey, Don Voisine, James Hyde, Joe Fyfe, Joshua Ferry, Katherine Bradford, Letha Wilson, Mark Wethli, Meghan Brady, Tamara Gonzales "Chunky Monkey" curated by John Bisbee, Mark Wethli at RedFlagg
28 street: 638 W 28 street, 6-8pm

"The Arctic Book Club: Artists Respond to An African in Greenland" at EFA Gallery
39 street: 323 W 39 street, floor 2, 6-8pm

"Recession Art Sale" organized by Elanit Kayne at Chashama
43 street: 679 Third avenue, 6-9pm

"Toward the Sentient City" curated by Mark Shepard at The Urban Center
50 street: 457 Madison avenue, at w 50 street, 6-9pm

Luis Gonzalez Palma "Retratos" at Throckmorton Fine Art
57 street: 145 E 57 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Sarah McEneaney, Susan Jane Walp at Tibor de Nagy Gallery
57 street: 724 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, 5-7pm

? Simon Ungers "Light Works" at Gering & Lopez Gallery
57 street: 730 Fifth avenue, at 57 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

? Nancy Graves at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe
57 street: 20 W 57 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Marcel van Eeden "Is Grunewald still modern?" at Mireille Mosler Ltd.
67 street: 35 E 67 street, 6-8pm

Saul Leiter curated by Carrie Springer at Knoedler & Co. (Project Space)
70 street: 19 E 70 street, 6-8pm

? Karin Schneider "Maniac Vicious Circles" at Andrew Roth
70 street: 160 E 70 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Luis Mallo "Open Secrets. Recent Photographs" at Praxis International Art
73 street: 25 E 73 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Andy Warhol "Ladies and Gentlemen" at Skarstedt Gallery, Ltd
79 street: 20 E 79 street, 6-8pm

Performance: Jesse Hlebo, Joseph Budenholzer, Micki Pellerano, Sebasian Mlynarski, Sebastian Mlynarski "MAYa: An ethereal gathering of friends..." at Secret Project Robot
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 210 Kent avenue, 8-10pm

Performance: Steven Cohen "Knock ‘Em Dead" at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, 7:30pm

Tim Kent "All That is Solid Melts into the Air" at Factory Fresh
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 1053 Flushing avenue, b/w Morgan & Knickerbocker, 7-10pm

Friday, September 18

Artist Talk: Carla Fernandez, Carol Christian Poell, Edwina Horl, Hussein Chalayan, Jenny Marketou, Liquid Loft, Liquid Loft, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Mirjana Djordjevic, Takahiko Sanada, Terence Gower "A Way Beyond Fashion" curated by Robert Punkenhofer at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6:30pm

Lecture: "Mandela's Ego: Members of South Africa's Generation X speak about the intricacies of post-coloniality" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, 7pm

+ Alex Rich, Das Institut, Jurg Lehni, Kathrin Sonntag "A New Era: Empty Words; DI Why?; Mittnacht" at Swiss Institute
Soho: 495 Broadway, floor 3, 6-8pm

? Bill Adams "I'm Back, Damnit" at KS Art
Soho: 73 Leonard street, b/w broadway & church, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

? Steve Ellis "Talking Trash" at Gallery nine5
Soho: 24 Spring street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Bosko Blagojevic "In Place of a Proximity" at NYU (Kimmel Windows Gallery)
Soho: W 3 street at LaGuardia Place, 6-8pm recetion at Vol de Nuit: 148 W 4th street

Art Fair: "6th Annual Conflux Art & Technology Festival Explores the Urban Environment" at Conflux Festival (NYU Barney Building)
9 street: 34 Stuyvesant street, $5, events throughout the day

Lazer Happy Collective "LazerHappy" curated by Adrian Tone, Gerard Kilgallon at Mindy Wyatt Gallery
11 street: 814 Broadway, floor 2, 6:30-9pm

Naomi Fisher "The Brave Keep Undefiled, A Wisdom of Their Own" at Leo Koenig, Inc.
23 street: 545 W 23 street, 6-8pm

+ "Don't Perish" (Potluck Dinners every Tuesday & Saturday Eve) curated by Jesse Willenbring, Joseph Montgomery at Leo Koenig, Inc. (Projekte)
23 street: 541 W 23 street, 6-8pm

"The Fifth Home Away From Home (HAFH) exhibition" at NYCoo Gallery
26 street: 1133 Broadway, suite 335, 5-7:30pm

"International Group Show and Artists Weekend Workshop" at Rogue Space (Chelsea Arts Building)
26 street: 508 W 26 street, 9E, 6-9pm

+ Clive Murphy "Ghost Machine" at Magnan Projects
28 street: 317 Tenth avenue, b/w 28 & 29, 6-8pm (goat roast & reception)

Performance: Olek and Carrie Ahern "Covers" at Roger Smith Arts (The Lab)
47 street: 501 Lexington avenue, 5:30-6:30pm

Angelina Gualdoni, Dorene Quinn, Elisa Soliven, Karla Wozniak, Kristi Kent, Linnea Paskow, Lucy Kim, Maya Brym, S.E. Nash, Tom Brauer, Yvonne Buchanan "Oscillate Wildly" curated by Karla Wozniak, Linnea Paskow at Vaudeville Park
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 26 Bushwick avenue, 7-9pm

Andrew Mockler, Don Muchow, Joanne Mattera, Nancy Manter, Peter Schroth, Susan Homer, Suzan Batu "Slippery When Wet" at Metaphor Contemporary Art
Brooklyn, Misc.: 382 Atlantic avenue, 6-9pm

Saturday, September 19

Screening: "African Film Festival at the New Museum Presents: South African Cinema Now: A Film Series" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, 3pm

Art Fair: "6th Annual Conflux Art & Technology Festival Explores the Urban Environment" at Conflux Festival (NYU Barney Building)
9 street: 34 Stuyvesant street, $5, events throughout the day

Group Show "Daydream: Artwork for Children and the Young at Heart" at Lana Santorelli Gallery
26 street: 110 W 26 street, 6-9pm

Adjua Williams, Jasmine Murrell, Kimberly Mayhorn, Marisa Swangha, Sandra Brewster, Simone Leigh, Torkwase Dyson "Fortune Tellers" organized by Kimberly Mayhorn at FiveMyles
Brooklyn, Misc.: 558 St. Johns place, 5-8pm

Barbara Weissberger, Karlos Carcamo, Nicholas Kashian "Mirror on Mirror Mirrored" at Dean Project
Queens: 45-43 21 street, 6-9pm

+ "LIC Gallery Opening Night: a gallery crawl throughout Long Island City" at AES Gallery
Queens: 44-02 23rd street, view guide, 6-9pm

Lisa Rubenstein "Powerlines and Siding" curated by Christine Kennedy at Dutch Kills Gallery
Queens: 37-24 24th street, Suite 402, 6-9pm

Sunday, September 20

Screening: "Maysles Cinema at the New Museum Presents: Living With Conviction: A Black Panther Party Film Series" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, 3pm

Art Fair: "6th Annual Conflux Art & Technology Festival Explores the Urban Environment" at Conflux Festival (NYU Barney Building)
9 street: 34 Stuyvesant street, $5, events throughout the day

Monday, September 21

Performance: Olek and Carrie Ahern "Covers" at Roger Smith Arts (The Lab)
47 street: 501 Lexington avenue, 5:30-6:30pm

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