As the holiday season approaches, the art world continues to celebrate.

Independent Curators International (ICI) hosts their "2013 Annual Benefit & Auction", Indo-American Arts Council, inc (IAAC) throws their "15th Anniversary Celebration", and "2nd Annual Bash for BoxoHouse" will be held at BoxoFFICE.

Benefit auctions this week: The Kitchen is holding "The Kitchen 2013 Benefit Art Auction", Domingo Zapata Studio hosts their "3rd Annual Slideluck Fundraiser and Auction", and Today is the Day on Sunday.

Wednesday:

+ Hedy Klineman "Ancestral Spirits, African-American Portraits" at Smart Clothes Gallery

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Thursday:

+ Kris Kuksi "Revival" at Joshua Liner Gallery

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Sunday:
+ Tabor Robak "Next-Gen Open Beta" at Team Gallery

Tuesday, November 19

Artist Talk: Hanne Tierney, Joe Diebes, Joe Diebes, Nick Brooke, Ximena Garnica "BOTCH" Embodying Technology at HERE
Downtown: 210 Front St, 7pm

Performance: Joshua Frankel "Plan Of The City and Other Works" at Brookfield Arts
Downtown: 250 Vesey street, 8pm

Artist Talk: "Lo Studio dei Nipoti" Four Artists at CUNY Queens College (One Art Space)
Downtown: 23 Warren Street, street level, 6pm

Bec Brittain at Matter
Soho: 405 Broome street, b/w Lafayette & Centre street, 6-8pm

Auction: "The Kitchen 2013 Benefit Art Auction" at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, 7-9pm

Benefit: "2013 Annual Benefit & Auction" at Independent Curators International (ICI) (Center548)
22 street: 548 W 22 street, 6:30-11pm

Book Signing: Katie Murray "All The Queens Men" at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, 7pm

Performance: Helena Trestikova "Vojta Lavicka" Ups And Downs at Bohemian National Hall (Czech Center)
73 street: 321 E 73 street, 7pm

Artist Talk: Adam Helms, Claire Barliant, William S. Smith "ADAM HELMS" at Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 218 Bedford avenue, 8pm

Screening: Lynne Tillman, Sheila McLaughlin "COMMITTED (on 16mm)" at spectacle theater
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 124 South 3rd Street, $5, 7:30pm

Screening: Yvonne Rainer "Lives of Performers" at Light Industry
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 155 Freeman St, $7, 7:30pm

Artist Talk: Elisabeth Condon "Art Talk Series Presents: Elisabeth Condon" at Brooklyn Art Space (Trestle Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, $5 donation, 6:30PM

Lecture: Andre Kertesz "Andre Kertesz & Theodore Fried: Converging Journeys in the Modernist Age" curated by co-curated by Milton J. Ellenbogen at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art
Scarsdale, NY: 37 Popham Road, 7-9pm

Wednesday, November 20

Kenneth E. Parris III "104 WORK WEEKS" ON TOUR WITH THE MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY at Mayson Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 254 Broome street, 6-8pm

Niccolo Cosme "The Altar Boy" at Tally Beck Contemporary
Chinatown/LES: 42 Rivington, b/w Forsyth st & Eldridge st, 4-8pm

"Collect, Store, Retrieve" at ABC No Rio
Chinatown/LES: 156 Rivington street, b/w Clinton & Norfolk, 7pm

? "SOLO SHOW" at Dacia Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

+ Hedy Klineman "Ancestral Spirits, African-American Portraits" at Smart Clothes Gallery Chinatown/LES: 154 Stanton street, 6-9pm

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Kari Soinio "Private Hero" at Station Independent Projects Chinatown/LES: 164 Suffolk Street, Free, 6-9pm

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Clifford Owens "Five Days Worth “Letters from my Lovers”" curated by Adrienne Edwards at Third Streaming Soho: 10 Greene street, 7:30-8:30pm

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Benefit: Various artists "3rd Annual Slideluck Fundraiser and Auction" at Domingo Zapata Studio 20 street: 11 Gramercy Park S, 6:30pm-12am

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Benefit: "2nd Annual Bash for BoxoHouse" at BoxoFFICE
22 street: 525 W 22 street, #3D, 6:30-8:30pm

Screening: Hamid Naficy, Kamran Shirdel "Kamran Shirdel - Social Documentaries" Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s film series at Asia Society
70 street: 725 Park avenue, 6:30pm

Reading: "The Power of the Collective: STUDY (& Other Poems on Art) by Yuko Otomo" at Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, Misc.: 22 Boerum Place, $10 suggested donation, 8-10pm

Ian Reid, Jovana Reljic, Maxim Mjödov, Stephen Lipuma "Eye to Eye" at Court Tree Collective
Brooklyn, Misc.: 371 Court street, 2nd Floor, 7-10pm

Performance: Artie Lange, Max Silvestri, Scott Rogowsky "Running Late with Scott Rogowsky" Brooklyn’s Live Late Night Comedy Talk Show at Littlefield performance + art space
Brooklyn, Misc.: 622 Degraw street, $8-$10, 7:30pm

Brendan Murphy "Coincidental Fate" at 483 Gallery Brooklyn, Misc.: 483 Driggs avenue, 7-10pm

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Eoni Lee "Last Night Dream" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, Suite 105, 7-10pm

Thursday, November 21

Kristin Victoria Barron "ORCHIS COLLECTION" at Mondo Cane
Downtown: 174 Duane street, 6-9pm

The Franklyn Project "Portraits of Our Father" at Bleecker Street Arts Club
Soho: 305 Bleecker street, 6-8pm

Performance: Clifford Owens "Five Days Worth “Dad”" curated by Adrienne Edwards at Third Streaming Soho: 10 Greene street, 7:30-8:30pm

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Benefit: "15th Anniversary Celebration" at Indo-American Arts Council, inc (IAAC)
4 Street: 172 Norfolk street, 6:30pm-midnight

Alison Collins, Caetano de Almeida, Dan Bailey, Dan Estabrook, David Chatt, David Shapiro, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jana Brevick, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, Lisa Hoke, Paul Chan, Peter Matthews, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Richard Hughes, Sonya Clark, Tehching Hsieh, Walead Beshty "0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art" at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
14 street: 144 W 14 street, 6-8pm

Performance: "The Barnard Project" at New York Live Arts
19 street: 219 W 19 street, 2pm

"Collisions" at Skoto Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

George Afedzi Hughes "Collisions" at Skoto Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

Brovelli, Doran, Faur, Glabicki, Hernandez, Oyatani, Powers, Samuels, Toia, White "Particle Physical" at Kim Foster Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Gerald Slota "Story" at Ricco/Maresca Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Jean Lebreton "A World Often Far Too Real" at OZANEAUX Artspace 20 street: 515 W 20th street, 5E, 6-9pm

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? Tony Feher "Encore" at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
22 street: 530 W 22 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Dotty Attie "The Lone Ranger" at P.P.O.W.
22 street: 535 W. 22nd street, 3, 6-8pm

Kathryn Lynch "A Silent Language" at Sears-Peyton Gallery
24 street: 210 11 avenue, b/w 24 & 25 st, Suite 802, 5-7pm

William Bradley "Tall Tales" at Galerie Richard
24 street: 514 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Anne Russinof, Gregory Hayes "DISPOSITION" at Blank Space
25 street: 511 W 25 street, suite 204, 6-8pm

Alex McKenzie "(Con)structures" at Kianga Ellis Projects 25 street: 516 W 25th street, Studio 306B, 6-8pm

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Cristobal Lehyt "Iris Sheets Ii: This Time It’s Personal" at Johannes Vogt Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, suite 205, 6-8pm

Katy Stone "Other World" at Ryan Lee Gallery
26 street: 527 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Hiromitsu Kuroo, Sehwan Lee "Asian Society of Arts Annual Exhibition" curated by JiYe Kim at Caelum Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, Suite 315, 6-9pm

? Daniel Handal, Michelle Kloehn, Tim Lehmacher at Daniel Cooney Fine Art
26 street: 508 W 26th Street, suite 9C, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Book launch: Martina Bacigalupo "Gulu Real Art Studio" at The Walther Collection Project Space 26 street: 526 West 26th Street, suite 718, 6-8pm

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Evie Falci "Everything All Night" at Jeff Bailey Gallery
27 street: 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

+ Kris Kuksi "Revival" at Joshua Liner Gallery 28 street: 540 W 28th st, 6-8pm

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Riusuke Fukahori "The Painted Breath" at Joshua Liner Gallery 28 street: 540 W 28th st, Open to the public, 6-8pm

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Jennie Barrese "The Price of Everything" at Porter Contemporary
28 street: 548 W. 28th st, 3, 6:30-8:30pm

Screening: Andreas Burgess, Rachel Cooper, Sadia Shepard, Samina Quraeshi "The Other Half of Tomorrow" at Asia Society
70 street: 725 Park avenue, 6:30pm

Performance: Performance: No Further Instructions at The Jewish Museum
92 street: 1109 Fifth avenue, at 92 street, $15General Public, $12 Students and 65+, $10 Members, 7:00pm, doors open at 6:30

Jon Rosenbaum "Pastoral: Work by Jon Rosenbaum" curated by Jeff Hoppa at Indian Road Cafe 218 street: 600 W 218 street, 6-8pm

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Performance: "Tony Martin: Proximity" at Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, Misc.: 22 Boerum Place, $10 suggested, 8-10pm

Mike See "Pandas, Pellets & Power-Ups (the Adventures of Pac-Panda)" curated by Ronny Estrella at New York Minded Long Island City: 38-82 13th street, 6-9pm

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Friday, November 22

NED DREW "THE LUDD PROJECT" at S & J Project(s)
Chinatown/LES: 191 Henry street, 6-9pm

Performance: Clifford Owens "Five Days Worth “Come to Me”" curated by Adrienne Edwards at Third Streaming Soho: 10 Greene street, 7:30-9:30pm

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Julie Ault "Tell It To My Heart" at Artists Space
Soho: 38 Greene street, floor 3, 6-8pm

? "Drawing Time, Reading Time" at The Drawing Center
Soho: 35 Wooster street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

? Dickinson/Walser "Scattered Ways" at The Drawing Center
Soho: 35 Wooster street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Performance: Ina Litera, Matthew Goeke, Suzanne Gilchrest "CONCERT" Eight Strings & A Whistle at Tenri Cultural Institute
13 street: 43 W 13 street, $15-$25, 8pm

Tour: "Allegory and Illusion" Early Portrait Photography from South Asia curated by Beth Citron, Rahaab Allana at Rubin Museum of Art
17 street: 150 W 17 street, at seventh ave, 7-8pm

Performance: Matt Marantz, Sam Harris Quartet "Harlem In The Himalayas" at Rubin Museum of Art
17 street: 150 W 17 street, at seventh ave, $18-$20, 7pm

Christian Marclay "New Paintings and Works on Paper" at Paula Cooper Gallery
21 street: 534 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Josephine Meckseper at Andrea Rosen
24 street: 525 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Adrianne Rubenstein, Alicia Gibson, William DeLottie at Derek Eller Gallery
27 street: 615 W 27 street, 6-8pm

at Jeff Bailey Gallery
27 street: 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Screening: Abbas Kiarostami "The Traveler" Iranian New Wave 1960s-1970s film series at Asia Society
70 street: 725 Park avenue, 6:30pm

George Singley "239,000 Miles From Dallas" at Art 101 Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 101 Grand street, 6-9pm

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Screening: among others!, Christopher Stackhouse, Dan Machlin, Jon Fried, Michael Ruby, Sam Truitt, Sharon Mesmer "JFK (Necrosis) Jubilee" curated by Kimberly Lyons at E.S.P. TV (La Sala )
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 58 North 3rd St, $10, 7pm-2am

Richard Timperio "Color Me Gone" at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 205 Norman avenue, 7-9pm

Lap Le "Time Between Mothers" at Culture Room
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 163 Starr Street, #4L, 7-10pm

Ai Campbell, Allison Maletz, Arlan Huang, Bill Carroll, Dana Crossan, Daniel Hill, Jennifer Dwyer, Joh, Joy Garnett, Lee Arnold, Loie Hollowell, Michael Brennan, Natalie Lomeli, Nicole Cohen, Rachel Kohn, Rhia Hurt, Shingo Francis, Suzy Kopf, Veronique Gambier, Will Hutnick "Winter Art Sale" at Brooklyn Art Space (Trestle Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, 7-9pm

Lauren Luloff "Recent Paintings" at SHOW ROOM
Brooklyn, Misc.: 460 Union street, 7-10pm

Adam Frelin, Borjana Ventzislavova, Judith Saupper, Mathias Kessler and Molly Surno, Olaf Osten, Raphaele Shirley, Rasmus Albertsen "MIND THE GAP" curated by Boris Kostadinov at Radiator Gallery Queens: 10-61 Jackson Ave, 6-9pm

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Performance: Jordan McLean "Bronze in the Digital Age" Rodin Reanimated through Music, Dance and Image at Bronxville Public Library
Bronxville: 201 Pondfield road, free and open to the public, 7:00pm

Saturday, November 23

Open Studio: Azi Amiri, Candice Chu, Cheryl Bentley, Don Edler, Emily Clayton, Gregory Carideo, Jordan Albaugh, Lauren Klenow, Mary Corman, Megha Mattoo, Nathaniel Axel, Nickolas Calabrese, Samantha Fretwell, Sofi E. Brazzeal, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, Tyson Robertson, Xi Guo, Yi Xin Tong "NYU MFA Open Studios" at NYU (Barney Building)
9 street: 34 Stuyvesant Street, 2-6pm

AJ Fosik, Michael Leavitt at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 9, 7-9pm

Workshop: Lisa Elmaleh "CARBON PRINTING" at Center for Alternative Photography (Penumbra Foundation)
30 street: 36 East 30th Street, $495, 10am-6pm

Boris Mikhailov "FOUR DECADES OF PHOTOGRAPHS" at Dominique Lévy
73 street: 909 Madison avenue, 10am

"Gregory Crewdson Book Signing" at Gagosian Gallery (Gagosian Shop)
76 street: 976 Madison avenue, RSVP crewdson@gagosian.com, 5-6pm

Andrea Loefke, LoVid "Two Solo Exhibitions" Andrea Loefke, Homecoming; LoVid, Roots No Shoots at Smack Mellon
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 92 Plymouth street, at Washington, 5:30-7:30pm

Marek Danielewski "Leaders of Men" curated by Lesley Doukhowetzky at Yes Gallery Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 147 India street, 7-10pm

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Performance: Joshua Frankel "21c Liederabend" at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 651 Fulton Street, 7:30pm

"Holiday Show" at Grenning Gallery
East Hampton, NY: 17 Washington Street, 5:30-7:30pm

Sunday, November 24

+ Tabor Robak "Next-Gen Open Beta" at Team Gallery
Soho: 83 Grand street, b/w wooster & greene, 6-8pm

Performance: Cassatt String Quartet , Ensemble Ksa "Kammerraku III" at Tenri Cultural Institute
13 street: 43 W 13 street, $15-$25, 4pm

Monday, November 25

Artist Talk: Adina Kay-Gross, Brooke Berman, Carla Naumburg, Elissa Strauss, Jordana Horn, Joy Ladin, Karen Hartman, Kiki Schaffer, Marjorie Ingall, Tamara Reese "What's the Matter?" A night of storytelling with your favorite Jewish mamas at 14th Street Y
14 street: E 14th street , (between 1st and 2nd Avenues), $10, 7pm

Screening: Lizzie Borden "Working Girls (1986)" at spectacle theater
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 124 South 3rd Street, $5, 10pm

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