Many galleries take a break during August, which makes it a great time to see new spaces, group shows and emerging artists. Some great shows lie ahead this week:

Wednesday:
+ Performance: Peter Coffin "Living Live: The Free Music Archive & WFMU" hosted by Clocktower Radio at Red Bull Studios

Thursday:
+ Aram Saroyan, Ben Vida, Christopher Knowles, Fia Backstrom, James Hoff, Julien Bismuth, Michael Dean, Research Service, Rick Myers, Ryan Gander, Sophia Le Fraga, Sue Tompkins, Susan Howe "Itself Not So" curated by Rachel Valinsky at Lisa Cooley

Saturday:
+ Andrew Woolbright, Colette Robbins, Giordanne Salley, Sophia Narrett "Wanderers above a sea of smog" curated by Christian Ruiz Berman at Katrina Van Tassel Projects

Tuesday, August 5

Dingding Hu "There is a kiwi in my head" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, Suite 105, 7-10pm

Rei Uchida "Fuku" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, Suite 105, 7-10pm

Wednesday, August 6

Jasper Fields, Jessica Prusa, John Arzayus, Josef Pinlac, Katie Killary "Thinking Inside the Box" curated by Josef Pinlac at Con Artist
Chinatown/LES: 119 Ludlow, basement, 8-11pm

Sak Romano "Sculptures & Drawings" at Artifact Chinatown/LES: 84 Orchard Street, b/w Broome & Grand, 6-8pm

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Pierre Huyghe at The Artist's Institute
Soho: 163 Eldridge street, 6-8pm

Gayle Ruskin at Undercurrent Projects
5 Street: 215 E 5 street, off Bowery, 6-8pm

+ Performance: Peter Coffin "Living Live: The Free Music Archive & WFMU" hosted by Clocktower Radio at Red Bull Studios
18 street: 220 W 18 street, 6-9pm

"Cruel Summer" curated by Roger Gastman at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
20 street: 529 W 20 street, floor 9, 7-9pm

"Cruel Summer" curated by Roger Gastman at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
23 street: 557 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Ewerdt Hilgemann "Freeze Frame" at Magnan Metz Gallery
26 street: 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: "Ranee Ramaswamy, Rudresh Mahanthappa and Aparna Ramaswamy on Song of the Jasmine" at Asia Society
70 street: 725 Park avenue, 6:30pm

Thursday, August 7

+ Aram Saroyan, Ben Vida, Christopher Knowles, Fia Backstrom, James Hoff, Julien Bismuth, Michael Dean, Research Service, Rick Myers, Ryan Gander, Sophia Le Fraga, Sue Tompkins, Susan Howe "Itself Not So" curated by Rachel Valinsky at Lisa Cooley
Chinatown/LES: 107 Norfolk Street, between Delancey and Rivington, 6-8pm

Archer Dougherty, Evan Kitson, Iliya Mirochnik, John Hampshire , Laura Fantini, Mike Selbach, Rachel Burgess, Seung-Jong Lee, Shaina Craft, Shari Weschler Rubeck "Works on Paper" curated by Lee Vasu at Dacia Gallery
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, 6-9pm

Kayode Ojo "You Gotta Keep Your Head Up But You Can Let Your Hair Down" at 55 Gansevoort
12 street: 55 Gansevoort street, 7-9pm

Sarah Doherty Heinrichs "Abiogenesis" curated by Paul Calendrillo at New Century Artists, Inc.
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Noho M55 Life Drawing participants "The Nude as a Muse" curated by Emily Stedman at Noho-M55 Gallery
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Closing reception: Amy Pleasant, Christopher Hanrahan, Dean Levin, George Woodman, Ruby Sky Stiler "Contrapposto & Other Stories" curated by Katia Rosenthal at Jeff Bailey Gallery
27 street: 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Performance: A.E. Zimmer, Abdu Ali, BD GRMMR, Chris Udemezue, David Serotte, D’hana Perry, False Witness, Hannah Daly, Juliana Huxtable, MEGA MAX, Peter Fankhauser, Raul de Nieves, Sam Banks, SHY BOI "UR HEAD IS MINE" curated by Yolene and Yulan Grant at AC Institute
27 street: 547 W 27 street, # 210, 6-9pm

Casey Watson, Casper Smith, Charline Bourcier, Corinne Thomas, Elizabeth Roman, Indie184, Jean-Marc Calvet, Kashink, Kathy Ostman-Magnusen, Liam Alexander, Lou Patrou, Madrolinone, Mari Yamagiwa, Mathieu Jaïs, Pilar Jimenez, R.d.H., Sebastien Aurillon, Valerie Degaulmyn "Summer Small Works Show" at Chelsea 27
27 street: 617 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Hector Rene "Horses and Bayonets" curated by Briana Thornton at COOHAUS ART
27 street: 547 W 27th St, 307, 6-8pm

Benjamin Bacon, Marianne Petit, Vivian Xu "Kick" at Gallery Ho
27 street: 547 W 27th St, #208, 6-8pm

Agnes Eperjesi, Arion Gábor Kudász, Buharov Brothers, Gábor Kerekes, Imre Kinszki, Jenő Detvay, József Hajdú, Kálmán Gábos, Károly Halász, Klára Langer, Krisztina Erdei, Lá, László Géza Mészáros, Nándor Bárány, Péter Herendi, Péter Kecskés, Tibor Ebergényi "The Experiment: What is Hungarian Photographic Art" curated by Shandor Hassan at International Center of Photography (ICP) (School)
43 street: 1114 Avenue of the Americas, 6-8pm

"Project EATS Farm Stand" at Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, Misc.: 200 Eastern Parkway, Plaza on Eastern Parkway, 3:30-9pm

Sam Tufnell "Outdoor Sculpture: Gnomes and a Rosebush" at FiveMyles
Brooklyn, Misc.: 558 St. Johns place, 5-7pm

Friday, August 8

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

Screening: Cao Guimaraes, Carlos Motta, Laura Huertas Millán "Under the Same Sun" Art from Latin America Today, Cinema Tropical Series: Remapping the New World: Three visual artists reconsider the New World by advancing provocative alternative cartographies curated by Carlos A. Gutierrez, Pablo Léon de la Barra at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, 1pm

Kathleen White "(A) Rake’s Progress" curated by Rafael Sanchez at Momenta Art
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 56 Bogart st, 6-8pm

Brian Scott Campbell, Chris Ulivo, David Humphrey, Devon Troy Strother, Dona Nelson, Dustin London, Julian Kreimer, Lucia Hierro, Margrit Lewzcuk, Rachael Gorchov, Rebecca Morris, Rubens Ghenov, Stephanie Washburn "In the Office of the Drunken Monkey" curated by Christopher Ulivo, Julian Kreimer at TSA
Brooklyn, Bushwick: 44 Stewart Ave, #49, 7-10pm

Saturday, August 9

+ Andrew Woolbright, Colette Robbins, Giordanne Salley, Sophia Narrett "Wanderers above a sea of smog" curated by Christian Ruiz Berman at Katrina Van Tassel Projects
4 Street: 34 1 street, 6-10pm

Aditya Shringarpure, Cyrille Allanic, Ian James Carr, Kyu Seok Oh ""BROKON LANGUAGE" " curated by Daine Coppola at REVERSE
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 28 Frost Street, RSVP at http://www.broken-language.com/, 6-9pm

Gavin Kenyon, Jeff Williams "The Microwave Mint" at helper
Brooklyn, Misc.: 495 Rogers Avenue, 7-10pm

Enoc Perez "Summer Job" at Harper's Books
East Hampton, NY: 87 Newtown Lane, 6-8pm

Eric Freeman, Eric White, Evan Robarts, Holton Rower, JIM JOE, Kadar Brock, Max Snow, Sanford Biggers "Storage Wars" (partial list of artists in the show) curated by Eric Firestone Gallery and The Hole at Eric Firestone Gallery
East Hampton, NY: 4 Newtown Lane, 6-9pm

Ben Fenske at Grenning Gallery
East Hampton, NY: 17 Washington Street, 6-8pm

August Ventimiglia, Björn Meyer-Ebrecht, Brece Honeycutt, Theresa Gooby "booksmart" at Matteawan Gallery
Beacon, NY: 464 Main street, 6-9pm

Sunday, August 10

Amanda C. Mathis, Katerina Marcelja "Stripped" at Gallery Molly Krom
Chinatown/LES: 53 Stanton street, 6-8pm

Monday, August 11

Book launch: "Murakami Midnight Moontime Madness" Midnight release of Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage at Spoonbill & Sugartown, Booksellers
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 218 Bedford avenue, 10:30pm

Screening: Brendan Smyth, Jeremy Smyth "CONNECTIVITY THROUGH CINEMA PRESENTS : Ideal of Reality - The films of the Smyth Brothers IN PERSON" curated by Mono No Aware, Steve Cossman at Center for Performance Research (CPR)
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 361 Manhattan avenue, Unit 1, $6 suggested, 7-10pm

Closing reception: Debra Drexler "Defying Gravity: Closing reception" at Java Street Studios Brooklyn, Misc.: 252 Java street, 6-9pm

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Closing reception: Debra Drexler "Defying Gravity: Closing reception" at Java Street Studios
Brooklyn, Misc.: 252 Java street, 6-9pm

Closing reception: Debra Drexler "Defying Gravity: Closing reception" at Java Street Studios Brooklyn, Misc.: 252 Java street, 6-9pm

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