A light week in the art world as we gear up for the fall.

Be sure to check the site often as new shows are up daily! - Alexandra Schoell, Editor.

Thursday:
+ Performance: Fia Backstrom "Aphasia as a Visual Shape of Speaking" a-production and other language syndromes at Lisa Cooley

Tuesday, August 19

Performance: French Horn Rebellion, King Mono, Steve Arrington, Tim ‘Love’ Lee at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, $15-$20, 8pm

The Youth of Givat Haviva's Face to Face program "Through Other's Eyes" at 14th Street Y
14 street: E 14th street , (between 1st and 2nd Avenues), 5-6:30pm

Givat Haviva's Face to Face Youth "Through Other's Eyes" at 14th Street Y
14 street: E 14th street , (between 1st and 2nd Avenues), 5-6:30pm

Performance: Go! Push Pops, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Mette Sterre, Xhosa "HYSTERIA # 3 Abjection Issue Launch" curated by Bjørk Grue Lidin (HYSTERIA Editor) at CUE Art Foundation
25 street: 137 W 25 street, 6:30pm

Book launch: GO! PUSH POPS and XHOSA, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Mette Sterre "Launching HYSTERIA #3 ABJECTION New York" curated by HYSTERIA at CUE Art Foundation
25 street: 137 W 25 street, 6-9pm

Antonio Serna "SOME KIND OF PRIMITIVE" at chashama
125 street: 457 W 125 street, Wed-Fri: 3-8pm; Sat-Sun: 12pm-5pm

Wataru Takahama at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, Suite 105, 6-8pm

Jason Wicks "Biddy village, after hours" at Ouchi Gallery
Brooklyn, Misc.: 170 Tillary street, Suite 105, 7-10pm

Wednesday, August 20

Bill Burns, Brad Phillips, David Kramer, Eric Doeringer, Geoffrey Pugen, Lisa Levy, Megan Whitmarsh, Michael Scoggins, Oscar de las Flores, Patrick Lundeen, Paul Gagner, Sojourner Parsons, Sto, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel "How To Write An Artist Statement" curated by Katharine Mulherin at MULHERIN
Chinatown/LES: 124 Forsyth street, 6-9pm

Group Show "Starrcade" curated by Daniel Lamanna at Con Artist
Chinatown/LES: 119 Ludlow, basement, 8-11pm

Berk Cakmakci, Craig Callison, Daniel Cherrin, Daniel L. Williams, Gabriel H. Sanchez, Jonathan David Smyth, Jordan Hood, Kristin Sigurdardottir, Lara Atallah, Magali Duzant, Michael Winfrey, Michelle Claire Gevint, Woo-Ram Jung, Xiao Chen "#IRL: In Real Life - 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition in Photography" at The New School (Sheila C. Johnson Design Center)
13 street: 66 Fifth avenue, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Gabrielle Bernstein "On Meditation" at Rubin Museum of Art
17 street: 150 W 17 street, at seventh ave, $18-$20, 7pm

Artist Talk: Peter Coffin & Clocktower Radio "LIVING Live: The Art of the Soundtrack" curated by Fabio Roberti, host of Strength Through Failure (WFMU) at Red Bull Studios
18 street: 220 W 18 street, 6-9pm

Open Studio: Special Guests "The Art of the Soundtrack" at Red Bull Studios
18 street: 220 W 18 street, 6-9pm

Thursday, August 21

Harry McNally, Michael Crim, Osvaldo Chance Jiminez aka Slutlust, PJ Monte "Never Too Young" at No Romance
Downtown: 355 Broadway, 7-10pm

+ Performance: Fia Backstrom "Aphasia as a Visual Shape of Speaking" a-production and other language syndromes at Lisa Cooley
Chinatown/LES: 107 Norfolk Street, between Delancey and Rivington, 6:30-7:30pm

Performance: Ben Vida "Slipping Control (LC Edition)" at Lisa Cooley
Chinatown/LES: 107 Norfolk Street, between Delancey and Rivington, 8-8:30pm

Performance: Bridget Barkan "Bright Light Bright Light" at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, $15-$20, 7pm

Performance: "The Hood Internet, Body Language (DJ), and Skinny Friedman, presented by PopGun" at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, $15, 10pm

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

Alan Alejo, Andrew Francis, Bill Cullen, Brooke Marcy, Dani Stelle, Elizabeth Albert, Eric Banks, Frances Sniffen, Gun Roze, Hyeonkyeong Yeo, James Strong, Laura Murray, Lauren Garfinkel, Lisa Tubach, Lucas Novaes, Mary DeVincentis, Meagan Thompson, Melissa Walker, Mitsuko Brooks, Neal Levin, Patricia Denys, Rachel Youens., Sarah Allen, Tali Margolin, Toni Silber-Delerive, Zel Brook "Food for Thought" Annual National Juried Exhibition at 440 Gallery Brooklyn, Misc.: 440 Sixth avenue, 6-9pm

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Friday, August 22

Performance: "Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes w/ SugarBad (formerly JuiceBox)" at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, $18-$20, 7:30pm

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

Performance: Liliana Dirks-Goodman "Personal-Political-Universal" curated by chashama at chashama (window space)
37 street: 266 W 37 street, 10am-8pm, 6-8pm

Tour: F. T. Marinetti "Curator’s Eye Tour" Italian Futurism, 1909 curated by Susan Thompson at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, 2pm

Screening: Dante Cerano, Juan Downey, Sebastián Lingardi "Under the Same Sun" Art From Latin America Today, Cinema Tropical Series: Gone Native: Three works made by a heterogeneous group of artists showcase the limitations and pitfalls of ethnographic cinema curated by Carlos A. Gutierrez, Pablo Léon de la Barra at The Guggenheim Museum
89 street: 1071 Fifth avenue, at 89 street, 1pm

? "Masterpieces & Curiosities" A Russian American Quilt at The Jewish Museum
92 street: 1109 Fifth avenue, at 92 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery)

Txelo "Artist Txelo and El Gravat Restaurant POP UP" curated by Court Tree Collective at Court Tree Collective
Brooklyn, Misc.: 371 Court street, 2nd Floor, 7-10pm

Brendan Loper, Michael Dickey, Mike Schreiber "In Every Dream Home..." at GCA (group club association)
Brooklyn, Misc.: 119 Ingraham street, #315, 7-9pm

Saturday, August 23

Open Studio: Aki Sasamoto, Jessica Weinstein, Madeline Best "Open Studios with Aki Sasamoto" at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) (Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island)
Downtown: Governors Island, Building 110, 1-2pm

Open Studio: A Canary Torsi, Yanira Castro "Open Studio with a canary torsi / Yanira Castro" at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) (Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island)
Downtown: Governors Island, Building 110, 3-4pm

Performance: Kyle Eyre Clyd, Liturgy, White Suns, Wreck and Reference "ISSUE and Pioneer Works Present: Liturgy with Wreck and Reference, White Suns, and Kyle Eyre Clyd" curated by Issue Project Room, Pioneer Works at Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, Misc.: 22 Boerum Place, $12-$15, 3-8pm

Performance: Liturgy, White Suns, Wreck and Reference curated by Issue Project Room, Pioneer Works at PIONEER WORKS
Brooklyn, Misc.: 159 Pioneer street, $12-$15, 3-8pm

Sunday, August 24

Jennifer Froshaug "90's Moog" curated by Mark Blum at Agora Gallery (chelsea)
25 street: 530 W 25 street, 6-9pm

Closing reception: Alexandra Posen, Amanda Alic, Daniel Aycock, Ethan Crenson, Halsey Hathaway, Jessica Sucher, John Currin, Jolynn Krystosek, Katherine Newbegin, Kathleen Vance, Nils Folke Anderson, Rachel Feinstein, Sascha (Prinz zu Schaumburg-Lippe) Mallon, Sasha Bezzubov, Stephen Mallon, Todd Knopke "Summer Love" curated by Julia Whitney Barnes at Front Room Gallery
Brooklyn, Williamsburg: 147 Roebling street, 3pm

Monday, August 25

Performance: Taka Kigawa "piano" performing Pierre Boulez' complete solo piano music at Le Poisson Rouge
Soho: 158 Bleecker street, b/w Thompson & Sullivan, $20-$30, 7:30pm

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? = Opening not confirmed - check site for updates.