Between the end of September and the beginning of October there is a slight lull on the opening scene -- next week will be busier. That said, there is plenty going on this week including several artists talks and readings. The NY Book Fair begins on Friday and is at PS1 this year, presented by Printed Matter. Read below for the full list and keep sharing Artcards with your friends!

Tuesday:
+ Marc Camille Chaimowicz "Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972-2009" at Artists Space
+ Artist Talk: David Salle in conversation with Karen Lang at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)

Thursday:
+ "Benefit for Printed Matter, Inc." at Deitch Projects (Deitch Studios)
+ "NY Art Book Fair" presented by Printed Matter at PS1

Friday:
+ Performance: Karl Holmqvist at White Columns
+ "NY Art Book Fair" presented by Printed Matter at PS1

Saturday:
+ Kurt Kauper "Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama" at Deitch Projects

Tuesday, September 29

"NYEAF 2009: Rate of Change: time and space in electronic art" at New York Electronic Art Festival (NYEAF) (World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery)
Downtown: 220 Vesey street, noon-4pm

+ Marc Camille Chaimowicz "Enough Tiranny Recalled, 1972-2009" at Artists Space
Soho: 38 Greene street, floor 3, 7-9pm

Workshop: Daisy Demientieff, Maria Williams "Weaving With Willows - Speaking With Passion" at Alaska House, New York
Soho: 109 Mercer street, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Martha Clarke with Aimee Brown Price" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

"New York: Then and Now" at ACA Galleries
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 5-7pm

Book launch: "Strategic Reality Dictionary book launch + presentation" at Eyebeam
21 street: 540 W 21 street, 7-9pm

"The Book Show: 20 book projects completed by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department" curated by Carl Nicholas Titolo, Marshall Arisman at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, 6-8pm

+ Artist Talk: David Salle in conversation with Karen Lang at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, 7pm

Artist Talk: Joel Meyerowitz "Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks" at Aperture Foundation
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 4, 6:30pm

Screening: "Close Up: Peter Gidal, 16mm, 1983, 70 mins" at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Misc.: 220 36th Street, floor 5, $7, 7:30pm

Wednesday, September 30

Lecture: Luis Sagasti, Raphael Rubinstein "international resident lecture series: Poetry and Innocence" at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6:30pm

Lecture: Jackie Battenfield "Artists Career Guide: Book Signing and Talk" at LMCC
Downtown: 125 Maiden lane, floor 2, RSVP required, 6:30pm

Gramazio & Kohler at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Chinatown/LES: Pike street and Division street, 7pm

Jo Q. Nelson, Nicedisc, Sam Consiglio "Sleep Activity" curated by Andrew Cappetta at Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, 7-9pm

Lecture: Kathryn A. Tuma "The Color Out of Space" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

"Prime Time" at SVA
21 street: 133 W 21 street, at 6 avenue, 6-8pm

Lecture: Tanya Marcuse at International Center of Photography (ICP) (ICP/Bard Program)
43 street: 1114 Avenue of the americas, at W 43 street, 7pm

Book launch: Adrienne Rich, Nancy Grossman "Letters Censored: Shredded, Returned to Sender or Judged Unfit to Send" at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
57 street: 24 W 57 street, floor 7, RSVP required, 6-8pm

Reading: Ada Limon, Lytton Smith, Roy Perez, Tom Healy "Projection: A Reading Series" at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, $5, 8pm

Performance: "Media Jam" Bring your own projector - Sow Up - Plug In at Dutch Kills Gallery
Queens: 37-24 24th street, Suite 402, 6-10pm

Thursday, October 1

Jordan Tate, Katie St Claire, Parsley Steinweiss, Sara Wight, Sarah Sharp "Derived, Borrowed, and Stolen" curated by Basak Malone, Sara Wight at Broadway Gallery
Soho: 473 Broadway, b/w grand & broome, floor 7, 6-8pm

Nicholas Walster "Velvet Memories" curated by Giulia Coccia at Ennagon Gallery
Soho: 50 Greene street, 6-8pm

"Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN" at Art in Odd Places (AiOP)
14 street: 137 W 14 street, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Robin Winters at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, 7pm

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jim Hodges "Floating a Boulder" at Flag Art Foundation
25 street: 545 W 25 street, floor 9, RSVP to 212.303.1660, 6-8pm

Francine Leclercq at SoHo 20 Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 605, 5-8pm

Kodo Murakami, Mamoru Nakagawa, Satoshi Hara, Tensei Sakai, Tomoyo Hiraiwa "Contemporary Metal Master Works" at Onishi Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

David Kastner "Othertime" at Dalia Lucia Carvaggi Fine Art
26 street: 696 W 26 street, 7pm

"Donna Leatherman, llc presents Peter Opheim" at Allen Projects
26 street: 526 W 26 street, suite 403, 6-8pm

? Frank Stella "Polychrome Relief" at Paul Kasmin Gallery
27 street: 293 Tenth avenue, at W 27 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Lee Berre "Don't Look Back" at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 6-9pm

"God Doesn't Like Ugly" curated by Joey Kilrain, Robert Aitchison at St. Paul the Apostle Church
60 street: 1 W 60 street, at Columbus avenue, 7-9pm

Lecture: Bennett Simpson, Chrissie Iles, Dan Graham, Mark Wasiuta, Michael Smith "Beyond Dan Graham: Beyond" at Whitney Museum of American Art
75 street: 945 Madison avenue, at 75 street, $8, 7pm

Lecture: "Strategies of Representation featuring Alfredo Jaar and Dean of the School of the Arts Carol Becker in conversation" at Columbia (Miller Theatre)
116 street: 2960 Broadway, RSVP, 6:30-8:30pm

Slinko "Benefit of the Doubt" at Possible Projects
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 68 Jay street, suite 510, 6-9pm

"Brooklyn Utopias?" curated by Katherine Gressel at Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, Misc.: 128 Pierrepont street, at Clinton street, 5:30-7:30pm

+ "Benefit for Printed Matter, Inc." at Deitch Projects (Deitch Studios)
Queens: 4-40 44th drive, $20, 8:30pm-midnight

+ "NY Art Book Fair" presented by Printed Matter at PS1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, at 26 avenue, 6-8pm

Friday, October 2

Book launch: "Meaning Liam Gillick" at Goethe-Institut New York (Wyoming Building)
4 Street: 5 E 3 street, 8-10pm

+ Performance: Karl Holmqvist at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), 9pm

Ranjani Shettar at Talwar Gallery
16 street: 108 E 16 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Theory and Practice: Aporias of Perfection" at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, $7 and RSVP to rsvp@artcomments.com, 7-9pm

"America for Sale" at Exit Art
36 street: 475 Tenth avenue, at 36 street, 7-10pm

Performance: Regina Jose Galindo at Exit Art
36 street: 475 Tenth avenue, at 36 street, 7-10pm

Alex Hubbard, Angelina Gualdoni, Carissa Rodriguez, Carlos Roque, Charles Mayton, Christian Capurro, Pieter Schoolwerth, Raha Raissnia, Steven Baldi, Tyler Coburn "Leave No Trace: Ridges, Troughs and Phantom Limbs" organized by Margaret Liu Clinton at ISCP
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 1040 Metropolian avenue, floor 3, 7-9pm

Rex Hausmann "This is My Body This is My Blood" curated by James Greenfield at Soapbox Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 636 Dean street, 6-9pm

+ "NY Art Book Fair" presented by Printed Matter at PS1
Queens: 22-25 Jackson avenue, at 26 avenue, 11am-7pm

Saturday, October 3

"Pink Panther" presented by Smith-Stewart at Kumukumu
Chinatown/LES: 42 Rivington street, 6-8pm

+ Kurt Kauper "Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama" at Deitch Projects
Soho: 76 Grand street, 6-9pm

Francine Spiegel at Deitch Projects
Soho: 76 Grand street, 6-9pm

Ann Rosenthal, Joan Bankemper, Knox cummin, Simon Draper, Stacy Levy, Steffi Domike, Susan Leibovitz Steinman "Down to Earth" at ecoartspace
Soho: 53 Mercer street, 6-8pm

Wonsook Kim "Forest Scenes" curated by Eun Young Choi at Arario Gallery
25 street: 521 W 25 street, 3-5pm

Lecture: "The Informed Eye: An Expert Look at Print Collecting" with Deborah Wye, Jordan Schnitzer, Armin Kunz, Jacob Lewis, Terry Winters, moderated by Susan Sollins at Morgan Library
36 street: 225 Madison avenue, at 36 street, RSVP at http://artdealers.org/events.forum23.html, 10:30am

Patrick May "Portrait Photo Considered Harmful" at Open Source
Brooklyn, Misc.: 255 17 street, b/w 5th & 6th avenue, 7-10pm

Open Studio: Audrey Frank Anastasi "Open Studio and Art Sale" at Open Studios
Brooklyn, Misc.: 224 48 street, floor 2, RSVP requested to 718.833.9100, 2-5pm

John Ryan Solis, Julian Lorber, Morgan Blair "The Breathing Room" at Littlefield performance + art space
Brooklyn, Misc.: 622 Degraw street, 6-9pm

David Levine "Hopeful" at Cabinet
Brooklyn, Misc.: 300 Nevins street, 6-8pm

Herman James, Whitey Flagg "Exhibition of New Work by Herman James and Whitey Flagg" at Dutch Kills Gallery
Queens: 37-24 24th street, Suite 402, 6-10pm

Priscilla Proudwoman Stadler "ORQ [The Oracle of Random Quotes]" at Local Project (Graffitti Building in front to the PS1)
Queens: 45-10 Davis street, 4-6pm

Sunday, October 4

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao at Bronx Museum of the Arts
165 street: 1040 Grand Concourse, at 165 street, noon-5pm, free

Artist Talk: Mauro Zamora "Complex Directional" at Wave Hill
252 street: 675 W 252 street, Sunroom Project Space, 1pm

"Nyktomorph" at Curious Matter
Jersey City: 272 Fifth street, 3-6pm

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