Judging by the number of art openings this week the NYC art scene is taking a break for Thanksgiving.

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While the openings are slow, this week is a good chance to see museums: at MoMA Tim Burton's show just began while "Bauhaus 1919-1933" and "Monet's Water Lillies" continue to be on view; the Guggenheim has a panel discussion with James Rosenquist tonight (Tuesday) at 6:30pm; and Whitney (which has a new website that offers an improved user experience but still not as fully developed as MoMA's site) is now showing Georgia O'Keeffe, Roni Horn, Alice Guy Blache, and the final week for "Steve Wolfe on Paper" (through Nov. 29).

Cheers to all the great art shows and events past, present, and future -- Happy Thanksgiving!

Tuesday:
+ Cyprien Gaillard, Helmut Lang, Konstantin Greic, Patrick Li, Slavs & Tatars, Thomas Demand "Industrial Light Magic: 032c's Berlin Decade" at Goethe-Institut New York (Wyoming Building)
+ Lecture: "Picturing Objectivity: A Panel Discussion with Peter Galison, Sabine Kastner, Terry Winters, and D. Graham Burnett" presented by Cabinet and the Kitchen at The Kitchen

Tuesday, November 24

+ Cyprien Gaillard, Helmut Lang, Konstantin Greic, Patrick Li, Slavs & Tatars, Thomas Demand "Industrial Light Magic: 032c's Berlin Decade" at Goethe-Institut New York (Wyoming Building)
4 Street: 5 E 3 street, 6-9pm

Lecture: David Cohen, Pat Steir "In coversation" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, 6:30pm

+ Lecture: "Picturing Objectivity: A Panel Discussion with Peter Galison, Sabine Kastner, Terry Winters, and D. Graham Burnett" presented by Cabinet and the Kitchen at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, Limited seats; first come, first served, 7pm

? Ray K. Metzker "AutoMagic" at Laurence Miller Gallery
57 street: 20 W 57 street, floor 3, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Friday, November 27

Book launch: "Antibodies" at flux factory
Queens: 39-31 29th street, 7pm

Sunday, November 29

Latifa Echakhch "Movement and Complication" at Swiss Institute
Soho: 495 Broadway, floor 3, 3-6pm

Performance: "Mono No Aware III : Expanded Cinema Exhibition" curated by Steve Cossman at Lumenhouse
Brooklyn, Misc.: 47 Beaver street, 5-11pm

"Framing Aids 2009: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly" at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 3-7pm

Monday, November 30

"Videorama: Subversion and Absurdity in Austrian Video Art" at Austrian Cultural Forum
52 street: 11 E 52 street, 5-8pm (reception & panel discussion)

Ekakiya Gem "The World of Ekakiya Gem" at Michi Gallery
60 street: 208 E 60 street, 6-8pm

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