This week Performa 09 continues with performances across the city. Thursday is the busiest night, including shows at ATM (which now shares Freight + Volume's space on 24th street), and Team and Glowlab in Soho. That's just a small sample of what's going on -- check the website and list below for everything.

Last week, Roberta Smith's lecture was inspiring to watch and gave everyone who attended a look into the thinking and story behind a great critic who's useful, thoughtful work has weight and credibility built on personal thought and experience. Also last week, Paul McCarthy's new show opened at Hauser & Wirth on 69th street with sexually charged work, most effective in the smaller graphite drawings of Snow White. While Uptown, I took the chance to tour Upper East Side galleries down through 57th street. One artist I ran into characterized the Upper East Side as "not as conceptual" as Chelsea, and that seems true; however, there is real visual strength and beauty in a lot of the shows that make for worthwhile visits through more traditional mediums.
 
As the editor of this list, I must share the somewhat embarrassing admission of, having missed some openings last week, searching youtube to get a sense of what I had missed. It did not take long to realize again that text, images, and video can not compare to the actual experience of seeing artwork in person. Accordingly, Artcards seeks to enable and enhance (not replace) your personal experience by making it easier to go see art. If you have a minute, please reply to this email by answering: what seems difficult to you that prevents you from going out to see art and/or go to art openings? Your insight will be used to help make Artcards a better service for even more people like you. Hope you can make it out this week!

Tuesday:
+ David Ellis "Recollect" at Le Poisson Rouge

Wednesday:
+ Lucio Pozzi "Twain Minipaintings" at Creon Gallery

Thursday:
+ Mores McWreath curated by Andrea Zittel at CUE Art Foundation
+ David Dunlap curated by Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder at CUE Art Foundation
+ Elizabeth Jobim "Voluminous" at Latin Collector

Friday:
+ Alan Resnick, Andrea Loefke, Devin Powers, Dina Kelberman, Ryan Syrell, Scott Meyers, Yasemin Kackar-Demirel "Space Jam" at Union Gallery

Sunday:
+ "Five Decades of Passion; We Are the World" grand re-opening at Fisher Landau Center for Art

Tuesday, November 10

+ David Ellis "Recollect" at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, 8pm-midnight

Book Signing: Roger Ballen "Boarding House" at Clic Bookstore & Gallery
Soho: 255 Centre street, 6-8pm

Lecture: Enrico Riley "Subjects and Sources" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

Katrin Siguroardottir at Artware Editions
11 street: 327 W 11 street, 5:30-8pm

Performance: Alexandre Singh "3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings" at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), 8pm

Artist Talk: Lucio Pozzi "The Next 475 Years of My Art and Life" at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, 7pm

Book Signing: Michael Wolf "Artist's Talk and Book Signing" at Aperture Foundation
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 4, 6:30pm

Lecture: Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Petah Coyne, Siona Benjamin, Tim Rollins "Belief and the Creative Imagination: The Influence of Religion on Postmodern Art" Eleanor Heartney, Moderator at Flomenhaft Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, $15, 7pm

Carol K. Brown, Hugo Tillman "Paperdolls; Daydreams of Mine" at Nohra Haime Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, 6-8pm

Olaf Otto Becker "Above Zero" at Amador Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, in the Fuller Building, 6-8pm

Wednesday, November 11

Lecture: "A Slice of Pie with Alanna Heiss" curated by Alanna Heiss, Nancy Hwang, Sandra Skurvida at apexart
Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6:30pm

Luca Bariola "Surroundings" at 255Canal
Chinatown/LES: 255 Canal street, floor 4, RSVP to 255canal@gmail.com, 6-9pm

"The Prompt: When the Flugelhorn Blasts, You May Only Talk About Bear's Milk" at White Slab Palace
Chinatown/LES: 77 Delancey, 8-11pm

Claire Ellen Corey "Paths" at Stephan Stoyanov (Luxe Gallery)
Chinatown/LES: 29 Orchard street, 6-9pm

LoCurto / Outcault "markingtime" at Sloan Fine Art
Chinatown/LES: 128 Rivington street, 6-8pm

Open Studio: Blane de St. Croix, Chris Yormick, Martin Basher, Tamara Kostianovsky "Open Studios at the Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program" at Artists Alliance Inc.
Chinatown/LES: 107 Suffolk street, floor 4, 5-9pm

Artist Talk: "Melissa Chiu Talks with Richard Bell" at Location One
Soho: 26 Greene street, 7pm

Lecture: Joseph J. Rishel, Jr. "Formation of Collections: Part and Present -- Gifts and Purchases" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

Kristen Hatgi, Mark Sink at Robin Rice Gallery
11 street: 325 W 11 street, 5:30-8:30pm

Performance: Alexandre Singh "3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings" at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), 8pm

+ Lucio Pozzi "Twain Minipaintings" at Creon Gallery
24 street: 238 E 24 street, suite 1B, 6-9pm

Lecture: "Panel Discussion Featuring Artists from the Exhibition There Goes My Hero" at Center for Book Arts
27 street: 28 W 27 street, floor 3, $10, 6:30pm

Screening: "Institute for Aesthetic Research" at Exit Art
36 street: 475 Tenth avenue, at 36 street, 6-8pm

"1989: End of History or Beginning of the Future? Video Art Comments on a Paradigm Shift" at Austrian Cultural Forum
52 street: 11 E 52 street, RSVP at www.acfny.org, 5-8pm

"PopRally Presents: Picture Yourself..." at MoMA
53 street: 11 W 53 street, $12, 7:30-10:30pm

"An Architektur/Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture and City of Tomorrows Workshop" at Storefront for Art and Architecture (Gair Building No 6)
299 street: 81 Front street, 6pm

Reading: Essye Klempner, Joseph Ellis "Duets: Compositions by Joseph Ellis and Essye Klempner" at Old Made
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 441 Metropolitan avenue, 7-10pm

Erica Allen "Untitled Gentlemen" curated by Melanie Flood at Melanie Flood Projects
Brooklyn, Misc.: 186 Washington avenue, RSVP Required: mfloodprojects@gmail.com, 6-9pm

Thursday, November 12

? Bruce Tolman at Cheryl Hazan
Downtown: 35 North moore street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Corinne Kamiya, Janet Nolan, Tracey Moffatt "Re:Purpose" curated by Tara de la Garza at No Longer Empty
Chinatown/LES: 223 East Broadway, 6-9pm

? Robert Lazzarini "guns, knives, brass knuckles" at Deitch Projects
Soho: 76 Grand street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Alex Lukas "The Eventuality of Daybreak, a Solo Exhibition of New Work by Alex Lukas" curated by Christina Ray at Glowlab
Soho: 30 Grand street, 7-9pm

Slater Bradley "if we were immortal" at Team
Soho: 83 Grand street, b/w wooster & greene, 6-8pm

"The Art of Stop Motion" at Animazing Gallery
Soho: 54 Greene street, RSVP requested to rsvp@animazing.com, 6-9pm

? Gonzalo Papantonakis "Sante Fe Avenue" at gallery nine5
Soho: 24 Spring street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"In Search of the Vernacular: An Exhibition of Post-Independance Indian Masters" at Aicon Gallery
4 Street: 35 Great Jones street, at W 25 street, (private by invite only), 6-8pm

Shawn Bishop-Leo "Strength In Numbers" at Leo Kesting Gallery
12 street: 812 Washington street, at Gansevoort, 7-10pm

Book launch: "Water" Alphabet City series co-published by the MIT Press at Parsons (Sheila C. Johnson Design Center)
13 street: 66 Fifth avenue, at W 15 street, 6-8pm

Performance: Alexandre Singh "3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings" at White Columns
13 street: 320 W 13 street, (entrance on Horatio), 8pm

Matt Stokes "these are the days" at ZieherSmith
20 street: 516 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Sara Crisp "Intervals and Circles" at Denise Bibro Fine Art
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

? Sophead Pich "The Pulse Within" at Tyler Rollins Fine Art
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

David Eisenhour "Biophilia" at Denise Bibro Fine Art (Platform Project Space)
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Benefit: "Stephen Shames and Shepard Fairey Partner to Benefit Orphans in Uganda" at Steven Kasher Gallery
23 street: 521 W 23 street, 6:30pm

Steve Gianakos at Fredericks & Freiser
24 street: 536 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Min Kim "New Work" (at new location shared with Freight + Volume) at ATM Gallery
24 street: 542 W 24 street, 6-8pm

? Melissa Ann Pinney at Alan Klotz Gallery
25 street: 511 W 25 street, floor 7, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Mores McWreath curated by Andrea Zittel at CUE Art Foundation
25 street: 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

+ David Dunlap curated by Scott Reeder, Tyson Reeder at CUE Art Foundation
25 street: 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Post-Feminist: Do We Need To Go There?" moderated by Catherine Morris at P.P.O.W.
25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 301, 7pm

Kim Beck "Everything Must Go: to the Bare Walls" at Mixed Greens
26 street: 531 W 26 street, floor 1, 6-8pm

Kimberley Hart "Scout" at Mixed Greens
26 street: 531 W 26 street, floor 1, 6-8pm

Enrique Chagoya "he Surplus + Plus: An Illegal Alien's Guide to Economic Theory" at George Adams Gallery
26 street: 525 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Barbara Crane, Michael Wolf at Aperture Foundation
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Cybele Young, Holly Lane at Forum Gallery
57 street: 745 Fifth avenue, at w 57 street, floor 5, 5:30-7:30pm

+ Elizabeth Jobim "Voluminous" at Latin Collector
57 street: 37 W 57 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

Art Fair: "Modernism + ART20 Fair" at Armory (Park Avenue Armory)
67 street: 650 Park avenue, at E 67 street, $20, 6-9pm benefit preview

? Fred Otnes, Pilar Ovalle "Collage Paintings; Natura Vincit - The Strokes of Origin" at Kouros Gallery
73 street: 23 E 73 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Ruben Torres Llorca "Los peores hombres cuentan las mejores historias" at Praxis International Art
73 street: 25 E 73 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

"In Stitches" curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery
78 street: 39 E 78 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Lecture: Esther Wang, Helena Wong, James deFilippis "The Decommodification of Housing" at Storefront for Art and Architecture (Gair Building No 6)
299 street: 81 Front street, 7pm

Costain "Paintings and Sculptures" at AES Gallery
Queens: 44-02 23rd street, 6-9pm

Friday, November 13

+ Alan Resnick, Andrea Loefke, Devin Powers, Dina Kelberman, Ryan Syrell, Scott Meyers, Yasemin Kackar-Demirel "Space Jam" at Union Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 62 Walker street, 6-9pm

Malachi Farrell "Strange Fruit in the Streets" at Jane Kim/Thrust Projects
Soho: 114 Bowery, b/w Grand & Hester, 6-8pm

Performance: "A Proposition by Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrikar and the Traveling Troupe: Day 1: Artist Lecture/Performance" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, 7pm

Damon Johnson "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" at CVZ Contemporary (Safe Harbor)
Soho: 446 Broadway, b/w grand & howard, floor 3, 7-10pm

? Nola Zirin "Virtual Vistas" at June Kelly Gallery
Soho: 591 Broadway, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Jesse Dittmar, Johanna Unzueta, Karina Skvirsky, Scott Sternbach, Steven Brower, Tom Otterness, William Oberst "Finding Work: Representing Labor in Contemporary Art" curated by Keith Miller at Gallatin Galleries
5 Street: 715 Broadway, (entrance at 1 Washington Place), 6-8pm

Lecture: "Loss & Melancholic Possibilities: Challenging the Interdiction of Mourning through Art" panel is organized by Neery Melkonian with Defne Ayas, co-curators of Blind Dates at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
14 street: 144 W 14 street, 6:30-8:30pm

"Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture" at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, 5-8pm

"Book Arts Lounge: Kapow! Comics as Book Art" at Center for Book Arts
27 street: 28 W 27 street, floor 3, $10, 6:30pm

Benefit: "Friends of the Arts Party" at Christie's
49 street: 20 Rockefeller Plaza, Benefactor / $2,500, Leader/ $1,000, Host/ $500, Supporter/ $200, Friend of the Arts/ $100 To buy tickets, call (212) 947-6340 or visit https://www.nycharities.org/event/event.asp?CE_ID=4242, 6:30-8:30pm

Mustafa Maluka "A Place So Foreign" at Tilton Gallery
76 street: 8 E 76 street, 6-8pm

Radhika Khimji "Density and the Shifting Plane" inaugural exhibition for new location at Bose Pacia Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 163 Plymouth street, 6-8pm

"Dutch Directions: Contemporary arts from the Netherlands" at Art Break
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 195 Grand street, floor 2, 6-10pm (with live jazz)

Steven Dobbin "Reclamation" at Causey Contemporary
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 293 Grand street, 6-9pm

Dennis Tomkins "Optic Nerve" at Art 101
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 101 Grand street, 7-9pm

"The Resident Faction" at Camel Art Space
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, 6-9pm

David Mramor, Jenny Morgan "Civil Union: the collaborative works of Jenny Morgan and David Mramor" at Like The Spice
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 224 Roebling street, 6:30-10pm

Artist Talk: Karen Margolis at Slate Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 136 Wythe avenue, 7pm

Armer, Dark Cloud, Deekers, Goreb "A Hounding Obsession" at Factory Fresh
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 1053 Flushing avenue, b/w Morgan & Knickerbocker, 7-10pm

Saturday, November 14

Performance: Elena Bajo "Nothing more than a theatre of fluctuating ideas and echoes of future moments (A New Refutation of Time)" at 179 Canal
Chinatown/LES: 179 Canal street, floor 2, 7:30-10:30pm

Alan Licht "On Deaf Ears" at Audio Visual Arts (AVA)
Chinatown/LES: 34 E 1 street, 4-7pm

Jason Loebs "Ned Ludd said sorry" at Audio Visual Arts (AVA)
Chinatown/LES: 34 E 1 street, 7-9pm

Kuba Bakowski "Studies in Natural History" at Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, 6-8pm

Performance: "A Proposition by Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrikar and the Traveling Troupe: Day 2: Guest Performers Smoggo + White Lady and Discussion" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $8, noon-6pm

Conference: "MediaModes" Graduate conference on critical thinking at the intersection of art and technology, featuring a keynote address by Jonathan Crary at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, free, 10am-5:30pm

Performance: "Performa 09: No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics" at Studio Museum Harlem
125 street: 144 W 125 street, $7, 4pm and 6pm

"@#^! the @#^!ing recession" at Rabbitholestudio
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 33 Washington street, at Plymouth street, 8pm onwards

Benefit: "Benefit Dinner" at Real Fine Arts
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 673 Meeker avenue, 8pm

"Aire: The Second Fourfold Root" at Devotion Gallery
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 319 Scholes street, 10pm-4am

Douglas Goldberg, Jimmy Miracle, Kevin Curran "Contextualizing Formability" at Sugar
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 449 Troutman street, 6-9pm

"Recent Photography by Denise and Rainer Behrens" at Rico
Brooklyn, Misc.: 384 Atlantic avenue, 4-6pm

Sunday, November 15

Performance: Sung Hwan Kim "One from In the room" at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Soho: 235 Bowery, $12, 3pm

Jerry Walden at RHV Fine Art
Brooklyn, Misc.: 683 Sixth avenue, 5-8pm

+ "Five Decades of Passion; We Are the World" grand re-opening at Fisher Landau Center for Art
Queens: 38-27 30th street, 3-5pm

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