As the art world descends on Art Basel Miami Beach, NYC keeps moving: Thursday night galleries are open late in Dumbo, and Friday night there are several openings in Williamsburg. Read through the rest of the email to find more events scattered throughout the week.

If you are heading down to Miami, check out our complete guide which will have a major update later today (and throughout the week). www.artcards.cc/miami

I'm back from the mountains of North Carolina (a 12+ hour road trip) and ready for lots of great art -- hope to see you out there!

Tuesday:
+ Book Signing: James Rosenquist "Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art" book signing and panel discussion at The Guggenheim Museum

Wednesday:
+ A Rose Parade, Amanda Peters, Brady Walker, Jesse Sposato, Melissa Febos, Sini Anderson "Sadie Issue # 7 Release Party!" with readings, comedy, and music at Ramiken Crucible

Thursday:
+ Jody Morlock "Dig" at Clic Bookstore & Gallery

Tuesday, December 1

R. Wayne Parsons "Nocturnes" at Soho Photo
Downtown: 15 White street, 6-8pm

Lecture: "Modernism & the Global Diaspora" at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, 7pm

? Rita Baragona, Tony Serio at Bowery Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"The White Show" at Blue Mountain Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 5-8pm

Dick Anthony "Just So" at A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery 57 street: 24 W 57 street, floor 6, 5:30-7:30pm (reception with live jazz)

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+ Book Signing: James Rosenquist "Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art" book signing and panel discussion at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, $5, 6:30pm

Aisha Mansouri "The Affair of the Brush" at The Interchurch Center (Treasure Room Gallery)
120 street: 475 Riverside Drive, 4-7pm

"Soup Kitchen" curated by Gary Baldwin, Monika Wuhrer at Open Source
Brooklyn, Misc.: 255 17 street, b/w 5th & 6th avenue, 7-9pm

Wednesday, December 2

+ A Rose Parade, Amanda Peters, Brady Walker, Jesse Sposato, Melissa Febos, Sini Anderson "Sadie Issue # 7 Release Party!" with readings, comedy, and music at Ramiken Crucible
Chinatown/LES: 221 East Broadway, at Clinton street, 7pm

Pat Conlon "Works of Women" at Gallery Bar
Chinatown/LES: 120 Orchard street, 6-9pm

Performance: Angela Freiberger at Creon Gallery
24 street: 238 E 24 street, suite 1B, 7pm

"Broadside Reading featuring Rachel Hadas and Elizabeth Willis" Organized by Kristin Prevallet at Center for Book Arts
27 street: 28 W 27 street, floor 3, $10, 6:30pm

"Ornament 2.0: 2009 Holiday Show and Sale" at Atlantic Gallery
29 street: 135 W 29 street, floor 6, 5:30-8pm

Cara Judea Alhadeff "Anthem: An All-American Dystopia" curated by Melissa A. Calderon at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
129 street: 450 Grand Concourse, at 129 street, 6-9pm

Lecture: "APT: Artist Parents Talking, New York" at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, 6-8pm

Thursday, December 3

Benefit: "Art Sale and Holiday Party for Art in a Box" at Cheryl Pelavin
Downtown: 13 Jay street, 5-8pm

Book launch: "Support Structures" edited by Celine Condorelli at Storefront for Art and Architecture
Chinatown/LES: 97 Kenmare street, 7pm

+ Jody Morlock "Dig" at Clic Bookstore & Gallery
Soho: 255 Centre street, 6-9pm

Chas Harold, Ralph Turturro "Surface Study" at CHC Gallery
20 street: 511 W 20 street, 6-8pm

? Robert Colescott "Works on paper from the 1970's" at Kravets|Wehby Gallery
21 street: 521 W 21 street, 6-8pm, (event & time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Christopher Thomas "New York Sleeps" at Steven Kasher Gallery
23 street: 521 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: "On the Teaching of Meyer Schapiro" Phong Bui and Friends at SVA (Visual Arts Theater)
23 street: 333 W 23 street, 7pm

Performance: Krzysztof Zarebski, Michael Carter at Creon Gallery
24 street: 238 E 24 street, suite 1B, 7pm

"Plant Body, Animal Body" at Cavin-Morris Gallery
24 street: 210 Eleventh avenue, floor 2, 6-8pm

Denyse Thomasos "The Divide: New Paintings" at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
25 street: 514 W 25 street, floor 1, 6-8pm

"The Rhythm of Color, The Persistence of Form, The Color of Transformation, Metamorphosis" at Agora Gallery (chelsea)
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"An Exhibition of Selected Works" at NYCoo Gallery
26 street: 1133 Broadway, suite 335, 5:30-7:30pm

"Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art" at SVA (Visual Arts Gallery)
26 street: 601 W 26 street, floor 15, 6-8pm

"Holiday Bash and Sale" at Flomenhaft Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 2, 5-8pm (refreshments suite 200, art shopping suite 528)

Andrey Vrady "Reconquista" at Sputnik Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 5, 6-8pm

Alyssa Pheobus, Chuck Webster, Elana Herzog, Sarah Kabot, Shirley Wegner, Zoe Sheehan Saldana "Workspace Program 2008-09: New work in handmade paper by emerging artists in residence" at Dieu Donne
36 street: 315 W 36 street, 6-8pm

Julie Peppito "Super Bumpy" at Heskin Contemporary
37 street: 443 W 37 street, 6-9pm

Lecture: April Gornik "The American Federation of Arts is pleased to announce that April Gornik will be the speaker at the next AFA ArtTalk" at Christie's
49 street: 20 Rockefeller Plaza, $15, 6:30pm

Alex Wixon, Stephen Crone, Theresa Goodman, Virginia Maksymowicz "Directors Show" at Amos Eno Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 202, 5:30-8:30pm

Jim McHugh "Let's Get Lost" at Farmani Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, suite 212, 6-8:30pm

"Mother/mother-*" curated by Jennifer Wroblewski at A.I.R. Gallery
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 111 Front street, 6-8pm

Closing reception: Stephen B. Nguyen, Wade Kavanaugh "The Experience of Green" at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 30 Washington street, 6-8:30pm

"First Thursdays Gallery Walk -- Most galleries in Dumbo open late" at Dumbo Arts Center (DAC)
Brooklyn, Dumbo: 30 Washington street, 6-8pm

"Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools" curated by Mercedes Vicente at Cabinet
Brooklyn, Misc.: 300 Nevins street, 7-9pm

"5th Annual small works show" at 440 Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 440 Sixth avenue, 6-9pm

Friday, December 4

Damon Johnson "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" at CVZ Contemporary (Safe Harbor)
Soho: 446 Broadway, b/w grand & howard, floor 3, $20, 10pm-4am

Amy Hendy, Betty Tsang, Daniel Lega, David Fry, Jane O?Mahony, Jean Shepard, Joan Carol Hutcheson, Liz Schnore, Ljubisha Milenkovic, Mathias Sias, Michael Krieg, Michael Tice, Mya K. Myint, Naomi Tarantal, Pauline Rooney Yeargans, Roslyn Kelly, Sarah Bahr, Sonia Horan "Collective" curated by Liz Schnore at NYU (Kimmel Windows Gallery)
Soho: W 3 street at LaGuardia Place, 5-8pm

"Open House and Student Holiday Show" at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, (RSVP appreciated, not required, (212) 673 6466), 4pm Tour the School, 6:30pm reception

Lecture: "NY Portraits: Artists with Disabilities" panel moderator Gordon Sasaki at SVA (Eastside Gallery)
23 street: 209 E 23 street, $7, RSVP: rsvp@artcomments.com, 7-9pm

Lecture: Wangechi Mutu "Dress In Conversation: Wangechi Mutu with Kristen Lubben" at International Center of Photography (ICP) (ICP/Bard Program)
43 street: 1114 Avenue of the americas, at W 43 street, 7-9pm

Devin Dougherty, Elisabeth Kley, George Schneeman, Steve Keister "Modern and Contemporary Ceramics" at A.M. Richard Fine Art
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 328 Berry street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Allison Paschke, Dennis Tomkins, Don Perdue, Hideyo Watanabe, Jane Freeman, Jeff Pullen, Robin Tost "Point of View" at Art 101
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 101 Grand street, 7-9pm

"Return of the Magi" at CCCP Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 38 Marcy avenue, entrance on Hope street, 6-8pm

"Funky Portrait Party" at Greenpoint Gallery
Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 390 McGuinness boulevard, floor 3, 8pm

Art Fair: "The Degenerate Craft Fair" curated by Amy Wilson, Shannon Broder at The Silent Barn
Queens: 915 Wykcoff avenue, Free, 8pm-12am

Art Fair: "The Degenerate Craft Fair" curated by Amy Wilson, Shannon Broder at The Silent Barn
Queens: 915 Wykcoff avenue, Free, 8pm-12am

Saturday, December 5

Art Fair: "La Superette 2009" at La Superette
Downtown: 210 Front street, noon-8pm

Patrick Brennan "Fazes" curated by Jon Lutz at Daily Operation
Downtown: 103 Reade street, #2, 6-9pm

Lovis Corinth, Sylvia Plimack Mangold "Natural Sympathies" at Alexander and Bonin
18 street: 132 10 avenue, at 18 street, 10am-6pm

Book launch: Matthias Herrmann "Toscana 3" at Printed Matter, Inc.
22 street: 195 Tenth avenue, at w 22 street, 5-7pm

Craig LaRotonda, Paul Gerrard at Last Rites Gallery
33 street: 511 W 33 street, floor 3, 7-11pm

"MF Toy Show" at MF Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 213 Bond street, 7-10pm

"Support Living Artists for the Holidays Sale" at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 499 Van Brunt street, 11am-5pm

Loli Kantor "There Was a Forest: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today" at Dutch Kills Gallery
Queens: 37-24 24th street, Suite 402, 6-9pm

Sunday, December 6

Art Fair: "La Superette 2009" at La Superette
Downtown: 210 Front street, noon-6pm

Engels "Strange Intersections: new work by Engels" at FiveMyles
Brooklyn, Misc.: 558 St. Johns place, 4-7pm

"Support Living Artists for the Holidays Sale" at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 499 Van Brunt street, 11am-5pm

Fareen Butt "Mirage Landscapes" at Crossing Art Gallery
Queens: 136-20 38 avenue, at Main street, floor 4, 2-5pm

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