Spring is in a delighted full swing:

"The Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit" at The Kitchen, and Life on Mars Gallery presents "Mother Love: An Evening of Art and Music".

There are events throughout the week, with more being added all the time. So have a look at this week's listings, and hope to see you out there.

- Alexandra, Editor

Wednesday:

+ Guido van der Werve, Mark Dion, Michael Hoepfel & Jenny Michel, Pierre Huyghe, Roxy Paine, Tomer Sapir "The Hidden Passengers" curated by Avi Lubin at apexart

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Friday:
+ Benigna Chilla "Transmutations" at Tibet House Museum/Gallery

Tuesday, May 20

"Polish" at ROX
Chinatown/LES: 86 Delancey Street, 7-10pm

Ali Bouchard, Allisone Lundwall, Chandra Giambrone, Christian Weeks, Corrine Carpenter, Daniela Gomez, Emily Brown, Jade Greene, Jennifer Gomes, Kelsey Harrison, Kenzie Manning, Madeline Yee, Matthew DeSanctis, Rachel Schaming, Rebecca Timman, William Beatty "Premium Quality" curated by Jess Wilcox at Abrons Arts Center
Chinatown/LES: 466 Grand street, 6-8pm

"Shadow Stories" The Art of Mobile Black & White at Soho Arthouse
Soho: 138 Sullivan street, 7-10pm

Screening: Ali Van "Body Temperature, film" curated by Yulia Topchiy at CoWorker Projects (Entwine) 12 street: 765 Washington Street, 7-10pm

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? "Burt Van Deusen" at Blue Mountain Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, floor 4, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Panel Discussion: Leo Rubinfein, Matthew Witkovsky, Miwako Tezuka "Tomatsu on the Americans" at Aperture Foundation
27 street: 547 W 27 street, floor 4, 6pm

? "Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection" at Morgan Library
36 street: 225 Madison avenue, at 36 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Nancy Graves at Mitchell - Innes & Nash (Uptown)
78 street: 1018 Madison avenue, at 78 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Brett Graham, Ursula von Rydingsvard "Brooklyn Commons" at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 1040 Metropolitan avenue, 6:30pm

Performance: Sari Carel "Flight Song & Opera Feroce Performance" at Silent Barn (Big Law Country Club)
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 603 Bushwick Ave, 7pm

"By Invitation Only" at Kinz + Tillou Fine Art
Brooklyn, Clinton Hill: 59 Cambridge Place, 6-9pm

Workshop: Allison Maletz "Watercolor Technique" at Brooklyn Art Space (Trestle Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, Tuesdays 6:30-9:30pm

Sona Lee "Opening Reception: Sona Lee - Interlude" curated by Arisa Itami at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, Suite 105, 7-10pm

Sumire Sugisaki "The Magic Of Life" curated by Arisa Itami at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, Suite 105, 7-10pm

Wednesday, May 21

+ Guido van der Werve, Mark Dion, Michael Hoepfel & Jenny Michel, Pierre Huyghe, Roxy Paine, Tomer Sapir "The Hidden Passengers" curated by Avi Lubin at apexart Downtown: 291 Church street, b/w Walker & White, 6-8pm

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Performance: "Mothers Without Boundaries" at 14th Street Y
14 street: E 14th street , (between 1st and 2nd Avenues), $18, 7:30pm

Performance: Inbal Segev at Flag Art Foundation
25 street: 545 W 25 street, floor 9, RSVP required rsvp@flagartfoundation.org, 7pm

Artist Talk: Ann Hamilton, Christian Marclay, Jennifer Dalton, Jessica Rankin, John Baldessari, liz Larner, Oasa DuVerney, Oskar Dawicki, Rivane Neuenschwander, Sara Al Haddad, Shahab Fotouhi, Taysir Batniji, William Powhida "Thanks for Writing" curated by Mariam Rahmani at 601Artspace 26 street: 601 W 26 street, suite 1755, 6:30-8pm

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Randy D. Smith "New Works" curated by Nicholas and Misuzu Bergman at Caelum Gallery
26 street: 526 W 26 street, Suite 315, 6-8pm

Oscar Oiwa "Oscar Oiwa" curated by chashama at chashama (Anita's Way)
42 street: 4 Times Square, 6-8pm

A. Tsoukker, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander Zhitomirsky, Alexey Titarenko, Ann Rhoney, Baron Adolf De Meyer, Cirenaica Moreira, David Tippit, Deborah Turbeville, George Seeley, Grete Stern, Heather Evans Smith, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Jan Lauschmann, Man Ray, Marcia Resnick, Sarah Moon, Steve Wilson "About a Woman" at Nailya Alexander Gallery
57 street: 41 E 57 street, suite 704, 6-8pm

Benefit: Brenda Goodman, Farrell Brickhouse, Joan Snyder, Karen Schwartz, Loretta P. Bennett, Michael David, Works by: Mary Lee Bendolph "Mother Love: An Evening of Art and Music" at Life on Mars Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 56 Bogart street, $50-$150, 6-9pm

? Closing reception: Al Johnson "COSMOSIS : The Visionary Art Of Al Johnson" curated by Micha Hamilton at SOPAC South Orange Performing Arts Center (The Herb & Milly Iris Gallery) South Orange, NJ: 1 SOPAC Way, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

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Thursday, May 22

Judy Blum Reddy "Mash Up 2" at Station Independent Projects
Chinatown/LES: 164 Suffolk Street, 6-9pm

Jonah Emerson-Bell, Serban Ionescu "GOOD SPELL BAD CRAFT The Trailer" at Senaspace
Soho: 229 Center street, 6-10pm

Jonah Emerson-Bell, Serban Ionescu "GOOD SPELL BAD CRAFT The Trailer" at Senaspace
Soho: 229 Center street, 6-10pm

Benefit: "The Kitchen Spring Gala Benefit" Honoring Robert Longo at The Kitchen
19 street: 512 W 19 street, $500-$5,000, 6pm-12:30am

Meredith Pardue "Nova Supernova" at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
20 street: 529 W 20 street, suite 6W, 6-8pm

Book Signing: Blake J. Harris "CONSOLE WARS" Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation at Kim Foster Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

? Shannon Ebner "Black Box Collision A" Gasoline & Auto Electric at Kaufmann Repetto
22 street: 535 W 22 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Amy Park "1200'" at Morgan Lehman Gallery
22 street: 535 W 22 street, floor 6, 6-8pm

John Henry "Precision/Logic" at Jim Kempner Fine Art 23 street: 501 W 23 street, 6-8pm

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Jen Davis "Eleven Years" at ClampArt
25 street: 531 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"May Art at Agora Gallery in NYC" at Agora Gallery (chelsea)
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Ji Eun Kim "The Construction of Ruins" at Doosan Gallery
25 street: 533 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Lautaro "Ablution" at Praxis International Art
25 street: 541 West 25th St, 6-8pm

Tomislav Gotovac "Public and Intimate" at Alexander Gray Associates
26 street: 508 W 26 street, suite 215, 6-8pm

Brett Williams "Artifact of the Equinox" at Rare
27 street: 547 W 27 street, suite 514, 6-8pm

"From Virtual To Actual" curated by Vernita Nemec at Viridian Artists
28 street: 548 W 28th, suite 632, 6-8pm

Nikki Lindt "dis place" at Heskin Contemporary
37 street: 443 W 37 street, 6-9pm

Friday, May 23

Tour: "Fortunato Depero" at CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art
Downtown: 421 Broome street, RSVP required $10, free for students, 11 am, 1pm, 3 pm

Preview: Andrew Salgado ""Variations on a Theme"" curated by Beers Contemporary at One Art Space Downtown: 23 Warren street, 6-9pm

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Alison Mushalko, Chris Nosenzo, Eric Wiley, Henry Gunderson, Ivana Basic, Mitchell Charbonneau, Paris Hynes, Robert Blair, Suhee Kang, Tin Nguyen "Pure Fucking Armageddon" curated by Sorry at shny
Chinatown/LES: 116 Suffolk street, 6-10pm

+ Benigna Chilla "Transmutations" at Tibet House Museum/Gallery
15 street: 22 W 15 street, 6-8pm

Tour: "Visual Antidotes" The Stories behind Himalayan Art at Rubin Museum of Art
17 street: 150 W 17 street, at seventh ave, 7-7:45pm

Allan Sekula, Amy Balkin, and Knut Åsdam., Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Bani Abidi, Bianco-Valente, Cybermohalla Ensemble, Huong Ngo and Hong-An Truong, Klara Liden, Mary Mattingly, Natalie Bookchin, Sreshta Rit Premnath, Yorgos Sapountzis "Common Spaces" curated by Joo Yun Lee, Kristine Jærn Pilgaard, Maria Teresa Annarumma, Molly Everett at Whitney Museum of American Art (The Kitchen)
19 street: 512 W 19 street, 5:30-7:30pm

Performance: Tricot (Thessia Machado and Merche Blasco) "Acoustic Formulae" at REVERSE
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 28 Frost Street, 7-9pm

Walter Zimmerman "Vision/Re-Vision" at Amos Eno Gallery
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 1087 Flushing avenue, 6-9pm

Performance: Alvin Lucier, Crys Cole, Eyvind Kang, Giacinto Scelsi, Iancu Dumitrescu, Jessika Kenney "Tectonics Festival New York" at Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, Misc.: 22 Boerum Place, $20/ $15 MEMBERS + STUDENTS, 7pm

Ben Coode-Adams, Brent Owens "Congratulations on Everything" at Wayfarers
Brooklyn, Misc.: 1109 Dekalb avenue, 7-10pm

A collection of Long Island outsider artists "East of the Boroughs" curated by Michael Barraco at Human NYC Brooklyn, Misc.: 110 Meserole avenue, 6-10pm

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Saturday, May 24

Tour: "Fortunato Depero" at CIMA Center for Italian Modern Art
Downtown: 421 Broome street, RSVP required $10, free for students, 11 am, 1pm, 3 pm

Performance: Harley Gaber ""The Winds Rise in the North"" at Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, Misc.: 22 Boerum Place, $15/ $12 MEMBERS + STUDENTS, 8pm

Amy Brener, Ben Dowell, Raphael Taylor, Zuriel Waters "Articulated Lair's" at helper
Brooklyn, Misc.: 495 Rogers Avenue, 7-10pm

"Dazed & Confused" at Eric Firestone Gallery
East Hampton, NY: 4 Newtown Lane, 6-9pm

Michael Manning "WILD FUSION" Vol. II - I Want To Believe at Retrospective
Hudson, NY: 711 Warren street, 6-8pm

Gina Beavers "Saturdate" at Retrospective
Hudson, NY: 727 Warren street, 6-8pm

Sunday, May 25

Angela Dufresne, Carroll Dunham, Dasha Shishkin, Judy Glantzman, Lyle Ashton Harris, Nancy Grossman, Nayland Blake, Norman Paris, Richard Bosman, Tommy White, Tony Matelli, Vera Iliatova "Vintage Violence" at Monya Rowe Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 34 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Workshop: Sarah Zidonik "Bookmaking" at Brooklyn Art Space (Trestle Gallery)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 168 7th street, floor 3, noon-3pm

Performance: Aaron Cassidy, Alvin Lucier, Eric Richards, Evan Johnson, Giacinto Scelsi, Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir at Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, Misc.: 22 Boerum Place, $15/ $12 MEMBERS + STUDENTS, 7pm

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