With the rush of the new year finally over, the art world settles down here in New York, but the days are still full of great new shows and fun activities.

The first of January is not the only new year's day however, and with the Chinese new year quickly approaching it's prime time for celebration. The Museum of Chinese in America offers a fun and informative fair, "festival to celebrate Chinese cultural traditions" for those who wish to learn more or simply celebrate.

And once again "Harlem Fine Arts Show" returns for their 2014 edition.

Thursday:
+ Lisa Fischetti "About A Window" at SOHO20 Gallery

Friday:
+ Gao Brothers, Gao Weigang, Hu Qinwu, LI HUI, Meng Zhigang, Ni Youyu, Pan Jian, Qiu Anxiong, Qiu Deshu, Yan Bing, Yang Yongliang, Zheng Chongbin "Outside the Lines" at RH Contemporary Art

Saturday:
+ Art Fair: "festival to celebrate Chinese cultural traditions" at Museum of Chinese in America

Tuesday, January 28

? Performance: "CULTUREMART" at HERE
Downtown: 210 Front St, $15, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Artist Talk: "ESSAM in Conversation with Svetlana Mintcheva" at SVA
21 street: 133 W 21 street, at 6 avenue, Room 101C, 6:30pm

"Report on the Reconstruction of the Past" at Bohemian National Hall (Czech Center)
73 street: 321 E 73 street, 6:30-8:30pm

Preview: Anthony Miler, David Cavaliero, Douglas Goldberg, Frank Webster, Grayson Cox, Jeremy Sheaffer, Karen Gunderson, Kim Keever, Pete Watts, Ted Victoria "Winter Show: New Contemporary Works at Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery" at Waterhouse and Dodd New York
75 street: 958 Madison Avenue, 3rd fl, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Andrea Mastrovito, Eileen Maxson "Salon: Andrea Mastrovito and Eileen Maxson" at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 1040 Metropolitan avenue, 6:30pm

Lecture: Fred Ho "Serve the People" The Asian American Movement in New York curated by Ryan Wong at Interference Archive
Brooklyn, Misc.: 131 8th street, no. 4, 7-9pm

eiten at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, Suite 105, 7-10pm

Screening: Ryan Leslie "B L A C K M O Z A R T" Son Of New York at Kumble Theater
Brooklyn, Misc.: 1 University plaza, RSVP info@kumbletheater.org, 7pm

Wednesday, January 29

Dzine "Born, Carlos Rolon, 1970" at Salon 94 (Bowery)
Chinatown/LES: 243 Bowery, 5:30-7:30pm

Karen Heagle, Lonnie Holley, Matvey Levenstein, Sarah Kurz "Interior Dialouge" at Sargent's Daughters
Chinatown/LES: 179 E Broadway, 6-8pm

4 Nyc based artists-Attend to find out "Space | Divided" curated by Con Artist Collective, Geoff Green at Con Artist
Chinatown/LES: 119 Ludlow, basement, 7pm-11pm

The Collage Collective "Collage Uncontained" curated by none at La Mama Gallery Soho: 6 E 1 street, 6-8pm

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Harry Bertschmann "Harry Bertschmann" The Haiku Series at Studio Vendome
4 Street: 30 Grand street, 6-8pm

Lecture: Mark Tribe at SVA
21 street: 136 W 21 street, Room 418F, 7pm

Screening: "Screening with the Artist" Art21 presents Daniel Gordon Gets Physical at Wallspace Gallery
27 street: 619 W 27 street, 6-8pm

? Carlos Rolon "Dzine: Born, Carlos Rolon, 1970" at Paul Kasmin Gallery
27 street: 515 West 27th Street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Artist Talk: Daniel Gordon "Shadows and Pears" curated by Chris Murtha at Horticultural Society of New York
37 street: 148 W 37 street, floor 13, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Jose Ruiz "Aftermarket" Working Outside the White Cube at Lower East Side Printshop
37 street: 306 W 37 street, floor 6, $12-$15, 6-8pm

Antoinette Janecki, Sidney Harris, Toni Serio "New York" City and Nature curated by Andrea Arroyo at El Taller (Grady Alexis Gallery)
104 street: 2710 Broadway, floor 3, 6-8pm

Performance: Alexa Weir, annah Heller, Jennie MaryTai Liu "Actress Fury" at Bushwick Starr
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 207 Starr street, b/w Irving & Wyckoff, $18, 8pm

Thursday, January 30

Artist Talk: Mat Callahan, Yvonne Moore "Songs of Freedom" The history, ideas, and songs of James Connolly at Bluestockings
Chinatown/LES: 172 Allen street, 7pm

Dennis Congdon "Recent Paintings" at Horton Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 55-59 Chrystie Street, #R106, 6-8pm

Ursula Schneider "Ursula Schneider" curated by John J. McGurk at Culturefix Chinatown/LES: 9 Clinton street, 10002, 6-9pm

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Performance: Jessica Posner "Butter Body Politic" curated by Jade Yumang, Sara Jimenez at Strange Loop Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 27 Orchard Street, 6pm

Performance: Niv Acosta "i shot denzel" at New York Live Arts
19 street: 219 W 19 street, 7:30pm

Performance: Tess Dworman "macromen" at New York Live Arts
19 street: 219 W 19 street, 7:30pm

Book Signing: Ian Wallace "Magazine Piece 1969-2014" Yvon Lambert On Paper at Yvon Lambert Gallery
21 street: 550 W 21 street, 6:30pm

? Mounir Fatmi "They were blind, they only saw images" at Yvon Lambert Gallery
21 street: 550 W 21 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

"Frohawk Two Feathers" Heartbreaking And Shit, But That's The Globe at Morgan Lehman Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 6, 6-8pm

Iva Gueorguieva at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe
22 street: 525 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Fred W. McDarrah "Save the Village" at Steven Kasher Gallery
23 street: 521 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Marjorie Kramer, Sam Thurston "Painting and Sculpture" at Blue Mountain Gallery 25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 5-8pm

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John Bradford "Biblical Space" Recent Works by John Bradford at Bowery Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 6-8pm

? Pat Metheny & Stephen Doyle "The Evolution of Album Cover Art for Pat Metheny by Stephen Doyle and his Team" at Azart gallery 27 street: 617 W 27 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

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Anne McKeown "Getting In Front of Flow" at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 6-8pm

+ Lisa Fischetti "About A Window" at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 6-8pm

Michael Gregory "Northwest Passage" at Nancy Hoffman Gallery
27 street: 520 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Susan Hockaday "After Nature" Photograms and Drawings at SOHO20 Gallery
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 301, 5:30-7:30pm

Eun Hyung Kim "The Muse of Narrative" curated by Sunny Shin at COOHAUS
27 street: 547 W 27th St, 307, 6-8pm

Frank Thiel "Nowhere is a Place" at Sean Kelly
36 street: 475 Tenth Avenue, 6-8pm

Jemila MacEwan "Where a Stone Once Stood" at EFA (The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts) (Blackburn 20|20)
39 street: 323 W 39th street, 5, 6-8pm

Anna Hyatt Huntington "Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902-1936" curated by Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Art History, Barnard College and Columbia University, Professor Anne Higonnet at Columbia University (Schermerhorn Hall, Morningside Heights campus)
116 street: 116 street & Broadway, 8th floor, 6-8pm

Art Fair: Aleathia Brown, Carlton Murrell, Danny Simmons, Eric Edwards, Leroy Campbell, Synthia Saint James "2014 Harlem Fine Arts Show" curated by Aleathia Brown, Andrew Nicholas, Luis Martine at Harlem Fine Art Show
120 street: 91 Claremont avenue, $10 general adm. VIP passes available, Thurs 6-8pm, Fri 12-8pm, Sat. 10am-8pm, 12:30-7pm

Artist Talk: Katrina Bello, Marcy Chevali, Margaret Murphy, Vikki Michalios "Four from Aferro" curated by Evonne M. Davis at Gallery Aferro
South Orange, NJ: 5 Mead street, 7pm

Friday, January 31

Closing reception: JIM JOE "JANUARY 2014" at The Hole
Chinatown/LES: 312 Bowery, 6-9pm

Azikiwe Mohammed "Black Internet" at Gallery Sensei Chinatown/LES: 278 Grand street, 6-9pm

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Lecture: Fionn Meade "Labor of Love" at Laurel Gitlen
Chinatown/LES: 122 Norfolk Street, 6:30pm

Performance: Laraine Goodman "Muse & Amuse" at La Mama Gallery
Soho: 6 E 1 street, 8pm to 10pm

Performance: Seven Collage Artists "Collage Uncontained" curated by Matt Nasser director at La Mama Gallery
Soho: 6 E 1 street, $10, 8-10pm

+ Gao Brothers, Gao Weigang, Hu Qinwu, LI HUI, Meng Zhigang, Ni Youyu, Pan Jian, Qiu Anxiong, Qiu Deshu, Yan Bing, Yang Yongliang, Zheng Chongbin "Outside the Lines" at RH Contemporary Art
16 street: 437 W 16 street, 6-8pm

David Musgrave at Luhring Augustine Gallery
24 street: 531 W 24 street, 6-8pm

David Altmejd "Juices" at Andrea Rosen
24 street: 525 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Kathleen Gilje "Witch’s Brew" at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art
57 street: 24 W 57 street, Suite 305, 6-8pm

Performance: "Sounds of Serendipity" curated by Peter Breiner at Bohemian National Hall (Czech Center)
73 street: 321 E 73 street, 7pm

Ben Godward "Portfolio x Appunti 8" Walls Spoke curated by Paul D'Agostino at Centotto :: galleria [simposio] salotto
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 250 Moore Street, suite 108, 7-10pm

Björn Meyer-Ebrecht, Osamu Kobayashi at Storefront Ten Eyck
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 324 Ten Eyck, large gallery, 6-9pm

Olivie Ponce at Storefront Ten Eyck
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 324 Ten Eyck, project space, 6-8pm

Performance: "7th Annual John Hartford Tribute Night" at Littlefield performance + art space
Brooklyn, Misc.: 622 Degraw street, $15, 8pm

Craig Hein, Renee Delosh "Not Everyone Feels Like They Have To Win All The Time" at Wayfarers Brooklyn, Misc.: 1109 Dekalb avenue, 7-10pm

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Performance: Leah Singer, Lee Ranaldo "sight unseen" at SHOW ROOM
Brooklyn, Misc.: 460 Union street, 8:30pm

Performance: Los Angeles Poverty Department "State of Incarceration" curated by Larissa Harris at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 7:30-9pm

Stanford Kay "Collected Works" at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art
Scarsdale, NY: 37 Popham Road, 6-8pm

Saturday, February 1

+ Art Fair: "festival to celebrate Chinese cultural traditions" at Museum of Chinese in America
Chinatown/LES: 215 Centre Street, $10 RSVP education@mocanyc.org, 11am-4pm

Book launch: Lorrie Goulet "The Sculptures of Lorrie Goulet" And five meditations on sculpture at The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation
Soho: 526 LaGuardia Place, 4-6pm

A Dworin, C Vargas, D Channon, Jonathan Bauch, M Meisler "Climate Change!" curated by Jonathan Bauch at Westbeth Gallery
12 street: 55 Bethune street at Washington street, 6-8pm

Panel Discussion: Jennifer Samet ""Slow Art"" a talk by Jennifer Samet at Nancy Margolis Gallery
25 street: 523 W 25 street, 2-4pm

Marjorie Kramer, Sam Thurston "Woods Landscapes and Sculpture" at Blue Mountain Gallery 25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, 3-5pm

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Jiha Moon "Foreign Love Too" at Ryan Lee Gallery
26 street: 527 W 26 street, 4-6pm

Simon Evans "Edible Landscape" at James Cohan Gallery
26 street: 533 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Workshop: Morgan Post "URANOTYPE" at Center for Alternative Photography (Penumbra Foundation)
30 street: 36 East 30th Street, $355.50-$395 + $100 materials fee, 10am-6pm

Workshop: Jan Mun "Winter Workspace Workshop" Seed Language curated by Gabriel de Guzman, Jennifer McGregor at Wave Hill (Glyndor Gallery)
249 street: W 249 street and Independence avenue, 1-4pm

Constantin Boym "Learning from the East" at UrbanGlass (Interim Gallery Space)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 126 13th st, 6pm

Brooke Smith, Chris Shonting, Gigi Elmes, James Stone, Jammi York, Justin Vogel, Michael Koehler, Nick Zinner "Slang Relflections" curated by Lesley Doukhowetzky at Yes Gallery Brooklyn, Greenpoint: 147 India street, 5-9pm

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Performance: Los Angeles Poverty Department "State of Incarceration" curated by Larissa Harris at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 7:30-9pm

Los Angeles Poverty Department "Do you want the cosmetic version or do you want the real deal?" Los Angeles Poverty Department, 1985-2014 curated by Larissa Harris at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 3-5pm

Sunday, February 2

Francois Ilnseher "Disorderly Conduct" at Gallery Molly Krom
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, 6-8pm

Workshop: "Winter 2014 Pre-College Course" From Still-Life to Life Drawing at New York Studio School
8 street: 8 W 8 street, $290, 10am-1pm

Performance: Molly Soda "Tween Dreams" curated by Alison Sirico at Silent Barn (Big Law Country Club)
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 603 Bushwick Ave, 7-8 Free, 8-11 $6, 7pm-11pm

Accra Shepp "The Islands of New York: Photographs by Accra Shepp" curated by Louise Weinberg at Queens Museum of Art (New York City Building)
Queens: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 3-5pm

Monday, February 3

? "BRURAL" Shattering Phenomena at BronxArtSpace
140 street: 305 E 140 street, suite 1A, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Artist Talk: Yael Ben-Zion "Intermarried" Photographs by Yael Ben-Zion curated by Gabriel de Guzman at La Galeria, Boricua College
156 street: 3755 Broadway, 6-8pm

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