Krappy Kamera

So while I can't take a decent photograph with a digital camera that has automatic flashes, shutter speeds, etc. Others can capture a beautiful image with no more than a pinhole camera. Today is the opening of the National Krappy Kamera Competition. "The exhibit features images that are produced using equipment from the lowest end of the technological scale. The concept underlying this show is that an artist can use any piece of equipment to create engaging photographs. Cameras generally range from the well-known Diana, Holga and Lubitel to obscure junkstore finds and homemade pinhole jobs." The entire gallery is dedicated to the collection of about 25 peices of "krap" and will remain on exhibit through April 2nd.

Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: SoHo Photo Gallery, 15 White Street
Cost: Free

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Being Julian Schnabel

Julian Schnabel is kind of a jack-of-all-trades in the art/media world. He first broke into the art world in the 80's during the "neo-expressionist" movement which was an emotional reaction to the saturation of minimalism in the art world., Schnabel then went on to produce two full length feature films, "Basquiat" and "Before Night Falls." Tonight he lectures on what he knows best... himself.

Time: 6:30pm
Venue: New York Studio School (8 West 8th Street)
Cost: Free

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Tabiamo Opening... Japanese Bathhouse-Gents

James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tabaimo of two video installations, Japanese Bathhouse-Gents (2000) and hanabi-ra (2002). In her animated videos, Tabaimo explores complex issues in contemporary Japanese society. By combining iconic symbols from Japanese culture with images of the everyday, Tabaimo explores the contrast between the smooth veneer of urban life and the societal changes that have transformed Japan’s cultural landscape. Tabaimo conflates time and history with her use of traditional formats and the palette of Hokusai's ( 1760-1849 ) woodcuts. Continues through April 2nd. (More after the fold)

Date: Friday, March 4th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: James Cohan Gallery (533 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free

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Drive the Car Into A Ditch

Show Dates: March 4th - March 23rd
Brooklyn local Joseph Whitely is well travelled in both the street and fine art worlds. With the ability to transend both, his murals adorn NYC streets while his collage world hangs in both public and private collections worldwide.

"Drive the Car Into the Ditch" will be Whiteley's first solo show on home turf. The majority of the material is comprised of classical figurative painting combined with line drawing and collage playing heavily on animal and human theme. It will be good to finally see first hand what Whitley can when he is not out on the streets.

Reception Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: McCaig-Welles Gallery (129 Roebling Street, Suite B, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Second Nature

Second Nature is an exhibition of new collages and a site-specific wall painting/installation by NYC's own Greg Lamarche. His collage work incorporates "found materials literally gathered from the street, which reflect, play off and move beyond graffiti letterforms and iconography. They combine graffiti, signage, design and words in original ways that echo the urban setting." Continues through March 27th.

Date: Friday, March 4th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Riviera Gallery (103 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Bronx Hip-Hop Academy

All four pillars come together at this free jump-off every Saturday from March 5th - April 13. There is art from CRASH and LADY L, Spoken Word from La Bruja, breakdancing and of course the DJ. Check the flyer for full info.

Note: we can't find anything to confirm when and where this event goes down, but we assume that it is at the Bronx Museum. We suggest that you email or call 718.588.1936 to confirm all the info.

Date: Saturday, March 5th
Time: ????
Venue: ???
Cost: Free

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Nomadic Museum - Ashes and Snow

"A breathtaking and emotionally moving exhibit, Ashes and Snow features more than 200 large-scale photographic works and an accompanying 35mm film by artist Gregory Colbert that explore the capacity for wonder that all animals share. The images of elephants, whales, manatees, and falcons, among other species, reveal the artistic nature of animals as they interact with man. These stunning photographic artworks illuminate a timeless realm in which all living things communicate and coexist in a state of grace.

Renowned architect Shigeru Ban designed the first-ever Nomadic Museum that houses Ashes and Snow. This 45,000-square-foot temporary structure, composed largely of recyclable and reusable materials (used shipping containers for the walls and paper tubing for the roof and columns), provides a transitory environment that evokes the journey of the exhibition as it travels to ports of call around the globe." Photo from GammaBlaBlog.

note: rarely do we write about anything this expensive, but anytime someone builds a giant museum out of shipping containers and cardboard, it reminds us of our day of eating ramon and living over by Newark, NJ. Plus, its really impressive in a WTF kind of way.

Time: 11:00am - 8:00pm
Venue: Nomadic Museum (Pier 54 @ West 13th Street)
Cost: $12

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Other America

"We live in a world that is defined by American Pop icons like MTV, Hollywood, CNN, Disneyland, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Superman. What are the views of America beyond the dominant commercial aesthetic? What are the other faces of our country tha twe want to present to the rest of the world? What are the issues and ideas that concern us? What and where is the 'Other America'?" All of these ideas and more are confronted in this group show. Continues through May 7th.

Date: Saturday, March 5th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Exit Art (475 Tenth Ave)
Cost: Free? (may be $5)

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First Saturday at BMA

On the first Saturday of each month, the Brooklyn Museum of Art opens its doors for free and packs the evening with family-friendly events and a dance party. This is a great chance to see the Roman Bearden exhibit before it closes down on Sunday to make room for the upcoming Basquit exhibit. Tonight's activities include award-winning short films, scorching cabaret by members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, a one-act play starring Joanna Merlin (Fiddler on the Roof, Law and Order), and classic funk and soul spun by DJs from Brooklyn’s own Black Underground.

Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Venue: Brooklyn Museum of Art (200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

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Veil of Reality

Created by Serbia-based designer Ivana Popov, Veil of Reality is an exhibition of her newest cycle of textiles. Popov creates textile collages that beautifully combine an assortment of herbs, flowers, glittering powder, and transparent sheets. Fascinated by eastern culture, her textiles form a subtle dialogue of ancient rituals and traditions. Her bold mixtures of colors and shapes transport the viewer into the realm of tea rituals, flower ceremonies, and Tibetan mandalas. At the same time, Popov's textiles contain a type of organic sensuality and childlike joyfulness. Continues through April 2nd

Date: Monday, March 7th
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Venue: Felissimo Design House (10 West 56th Street, 4th floor)
Cost: Free

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Second Wednesdays

In the same spirit as Philly's First Fridays, on the Second Wednesday of each month over twenty galleries in TriBeCa open their doors for a veritable "art crawl." This is a great chance to see Michael Zansky's exhibit at Gigantic Art Space if you have not already, or just get your monthly art quota filled in one evening. Click here for a map.

Date: Wednesday, March 9th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: Various
Cost: Free

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Tom Banjo's Warehouse Sale

Printed Matter is throwing open the doors to our storage space and inviting the public in! Come join us as we unearth hidden treasures from Printed Matter's history! Pore over thousands of artists' publications we simply have not had the shelf space to display until now! Buy books and multiples at discounts of up to 80%! The warehouse sale will be free and open to the public Thursday through Saturday and Printed Matter is pleased to present a special performance by veteran Vermont banjo player and populist artist Tom Banjo on Friday evening at 5 PM. Continues through March 12th (more below the fold)

Date: Thursday, March 10th
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Printed Matter (535 West 22nd street)
Cost: Free

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The Colonel and I opening

"Inspired by media imagery of violent occupation and incarceration, Cnaani's new work investigates the gloval ritual of violence from a fresh perspective. In her commanding black and white ink drawings the oppressing soldiers are replaced with forceful feminine figures, revealing a dark world that contends with the reotic dimensions of combat and the absurdities of war..."

Date: Thursday, March 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: Andrea Meislin Gallery (526 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free

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Second Skin Opening

John Matos Crash is kind of like the godfather of streetart in galleries. He got big when graffiti first broke onto the traditional art scene in the 80's. He was even in my "Understanding Art" textbook back in college. Now, he's back with a new set of works to prove that he's still got it.

Date: Thursday, March 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: Wooster Projects (418 West 15th Street)
Cost: Free

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Crazy, Sexy, Hollywood

Their website says: "Much more than a photojournalistic journey, CRAZY SEXY HOLLYWOOD looks beyond the landmarks and celebrities, to the patchwork of souls, personas and styles that make Los Angeles the unique city that it is. Crazy, Sexy, Hollywood is an exhibition of photographs of various views on Glamour & Sex in Los Angeles by: Carlos Batts, Dave Naz, Rick Castro, Estevan Oriol, Patrick Hoelck, Steve Diet Goedde."

We say: "Crazy, Sexy, Hollywood is like taking Venice Beach into your mother's wood-paneled basement, dressing it up in vaudeville rags, and shooting it like Deb from Napoleon Dynamite. There is a beauty in the awkwardness and an awkwardess to the beauty in this raw portraiture."

Continues through March 26th

Date: Thurday, March 10th
Time: 7:00p, - 9:00pm
Venue: Art at Large (630 Ninth Ave, betwen 44th and 45th)
Cost: Free

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The 59th Minute

Simultaneously with one hour screenings of her videos A Needle Woman, A Beggar Woman and A Laundry Woman, Kimsooja has choreographed a group performance. Right in the middle of Time Square 40 performers will meditate, capturing gestures present in Sooja's videos. Her films will be shown on the NBC Astrovision screen as a large group of volunteers help to integrate the performers into the chaos that is Times Square.

Date:Friday, March 11th
Time:2pm-3pm
Location: Times Square, 44th and Broadway
Cost: Free

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Let's Play Double Deitch

Both Deitch Galleries switch over tonight bringing double the cutting edge art to your evening. First up is David LaChapelle's Artists and Prostitutes retrospective. LaChapelle is one of the most innovative and creative photographers working today. He has photographed some of the biggest celebrities and personalities in the worlds of music, entertainment, fashion and art. His work has been featured on numerous magazine covers around the world. In addition to still photography, LaChapelle has directed music videos for pop music stars such as Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Whitney Houston and numerous others.

Artists and Prostitutes will showcase 3 oversized L.E.D. projection screens (15 feet x15 feet) featuring a collection of images taken throughout LaChapelle's illustrious career. To add to the excitement, LaChapelle will also install a life-sized set in the gallery allowing visitors to freely experience a slice of “LaChapelle's world”. Continues through April 16th.

Date: Saturday, March 12th
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: Deitch Gallery (18 Wooster Street)
Cost: Free

Next up is Os Gemeos' Cavaleiro Marginal. Os Gemeos (pronouced "ose zhe'-mee-ose.") are two artists from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Born in 1974, they are identical twin brothers (Octavio and Gustavo Pandolfo) and their name translates to "the twins" in Portuguese. In recent years Os Gemeos have gained international notoriety for their unique works created on the streets of Sao Paulo. They also paint canvases, make sculptures, and are both graphic designers and photographers.

In 1993, Os Gemeos met Barry McGee, who was in Sao Paulo on a painting fellowship. They became fast friends and immediately collaborated on pieces in the city. This experience opened them up to a wealth of information and mutual influence. As a result, their works changed from almost exclusively large murals to smaller, site-specific installations on the streets and in galleries. Since then Os Gemeos have exhibited their work internationally including exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cuba, and throughout Europe as well as numerous exhibitions in Sao Paulo and Latin America. Continues through April 2nd.

Date: Saturday, March 12th
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: Deitch Gallery (76 Grand Street)
Cost: Free

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Art After Hours

For the thrid year in a row, The Williamsburg Gallery Association brings a night of amazing art right into the FreeNYC stomping ground. Staying open fashionably late (like most of the 'Burgs residents) each gallery will host their own mini events. Participating galleries include 31 Grand, 65 Hope Street, Black and White Gallery, Boreas 133, CH'I, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, The Dollhaus, Figureworks, Front Room, Galeria Galou, Goliath Visual Space, Holland Tunnel, Jack The Pelican Presents, Lunar Base 197, McCaig Welles Gallery, Momenta Art, Open Ground, NURTUREart, Parker's Box 193, Pierogi 177, Plus Ultra 235, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, Roebling Hall, Schroeder Romero, and SouthFirst. If your not familiar with the area or want more information on the galleries, stop at Spike Hill (a bar right across the street from the Bedford L stop) for a map and details.

Date: Saturday, March 12th
Time: Galleries open until 11pm
Location: Various areas in Willimasburg
Cost: Free

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Greater New York 2005

Greater New York 2005, jointly organized by P.S.1 and The Museum of Modern Art, will go on view at P.S.1 on March 13, 2005 showcasing approximately 150 artists from the New York area. This exhibition builds from the spirit of its first incarnation, Greater New York, which opened at P.S.1 in 2000, shortly after the two institutions became affiliated.

Greater New York 2005 presents artists who have emerged since 2000. Their work explores both this specific time period, during which New York City has changed dramatically; shows vitality, energy, and exciting promise; and anticipates new artistic directions. The exhibition includes artists from New York’s five boroughs, as well as nearby towns in New Jersey. Continues through September 26th.

Date: Sunday, March 13th
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: P.S.1. (22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City)
Cost: $5 donation

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Protest of Greater New York 2005

The Brainstormers are up in arms about the current Greater NY Show opening today at PS1. Apparently, only 1/3 of the participating artists in the show are female while most MFA programs in the tri-state area are woman dominated. Today, they protest the opening of the exhibition so bring a blank t-shirt to be "brainstormified" and make your way out to LIC. Complete press release below the fold, full info on their website.

Date: Sunday, March 13th
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: Meet at Crane Street off of Jackson Ave, across from PS1
Cost: Free

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Constructing the Ephemeral

James Carpenter, the innovative glass sculptor, engineer, and designer discusses the artistic and technical potential of glass. His work draws from architecture, engineering, materials science, and sculpture, extending the boundaries of each. In collaboration with architects and engineers from around the world, Carpenter creates fluid and elegant designs that incorporate new fabrication technologies to address contemporary environmental and energy considerations.

Date: Monday, March 14th
Time: 6:15 - 7:30pm
Venue: Parsons School of Design (25 East 13th Street, 2nd Floor)
Cost: Free

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Crossed Destinies

This exhibit actually opened last Saturday as part of Williamsburg's Art After Hours,but thought we'd give you a heads up as it should be an intresting show. Crossed Destines features a group of 22 artists, each of which have recreated one of the faces of tarrot cards. "Crossed Destinies has been assigned to artists whose work is richly immersed in the language of allegory and the nuance of magical realism. In this "Tarot of the Artists" they hope to bring their personal voices to a crossroads of creative destiny, validating the myths, histories, and legends of these archaic imageries, not through traditional replication, but by new interpretations of old forms."

Date: Showing until April 3rd
Time: Gallery Hours are Saturday and Sunday 12pm-6pm
Location: Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, 135 Broadway
Cost: Free

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This time, It's Personal

Ward Yoshimoto “It’s Personal” is the American Dream washed ashore, picked over, and reassembled in an attempt to piece together a sense of identity amid the constant flux of contemporary life.

Xanadu* is delighted to present Yoshimoto’s solo exhibition "It’s Personal," featuring new works incorporating box constructions and assemblages of industrial materials and mass produced products. His work blends the duality of social concerns and fragments of his personal history. Paying special to the object the artist is able to create a contextual visual metaphors between his formal concerns of the traditional arts and explore the creative act of selection. [swiped from Creative Thrift Shop]

Date: Thursday, March 23rd
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Xanadu (217 Thompson Street)
Cost: Free

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Ryan Bubnis at Kid Robot

Ryan Bubnis is a California born painter and illustrator that currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Strongly influenced by comics, cartoons, toys, and graffiti, Ryan's work borders the line between cute and creepy. In a world full of bunnies, bears, vampires and super heroes, Ryan's characters play and reach beyond the realm of normal cartoon caricature. They manage to express a broad range of human emotion exhibiting bravery, sadness, loneliness and joy. His work has been exhibited in Chicago, Vancouver B.C, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles. Heroes and Heartbreakers is his first showing in New York.

Date: Thursday, March 24th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: KidRobot (126 Prince St. between Greene and Wooster)
Cost: Free

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The Elusive Truth

(note... the creepy monkey photo has been removed due to a freaked out FreeNYC editor. It has been replaced by this soothing photo of medication. You can still view the original image here.)

Damien Hirst is back in NYC with his first solo show since 2000. This new series of approximately thirty paintings. In classic Hirst style, expect the canvases to deal with an exploration of the space between art, science, and design. Show continues Tuesday through Saturday until April 23rd. Official press release below the fold.

Date: Tuesday, March 29th
Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Venue: Gagosian Gallery (555 West 24th Street)
Cost: Free

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Hipster Gallery Hop

The Hipster Travel Guide is having another gallery tour this week. "Meet at 3 pm at the benches in front of Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street for the Damian Hirst Exhibit. From there, its non stop art action until we stop for dinner at 5. Your eyes will explode like a Jackson Pollack painting from all the amazing stuff we shall see. At 6 pm we meet again in the hallway outside of Von Lintel Gallery, 555 West 25th Street, 2nd floor, so we will be warm during the inevitable wait. There will no doubt be free wine and beer along the journey. From there we will hit a few more openings and the whole thing should wrap up around 8 pm. Please RSVP if you are coming.

Date: Thursday, March 31st
Time: 3:00pm
Venue: Meet at Gagosian Gallery (555 West 24th Street)
Cost: Free

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Hop like... DUMBO?

Ten galleries in DUMBO, all located in the same converted warehouse, open their doors for a mini gallery hop. 111 Front St. at Washington Street will throw open their doors from 6 pm to 8 pm, so visitors can participate in the "Gallery Hop." Among the works on display will be photographs by Manuel Geerinck at 5+5 Gallery (pictured); as well as works inspired by that other artist-rich neighborhood, Williamsburg, at Safe-T-Gallery; paintings by Andre Martinez at Henry Gregg Gallery; photographs by Richard Avedon at Howard Schickler Fine Art and more.

The reception will be catered by DUMBO's own Bubby's and Rice restaurants, with wines from Mionetto and tea from Ito En.

Date: Thursday, March 31st
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: 111 Front Street (at Washington Street), DUMBO
Cost: Free

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Trust your Techno Lust

As far as we can tell, Compact Impact is a gallery/store created to satisfy our love for all things geeky. Tonight's opening is four their installation dedicated to all things game. "The games we exhibit will exist in a variety of formats: computer games, networked games, technology oriented toys, electronic gadgets, installations.... almost anything that is new media based and retail-oriented." Opening features visuals by Forward Motion Theater and sound by DJ Duane Reade.

Date: Friday, April 1st
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Compact-Impact (21 Avenue B, New York)
Cost: Free

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Male Multiple

How many young male artists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Ok, well I have no idea so lets try another one. How many young male artists does it take to have a group show at the Stay Gold Gallery in Williamsburg? The correct answer is six, Walter Cassidy III, Edward J. Luce, Tara Mateik, Darrin Martin, Desi Santiago and Joshua Thorson. Male Multiple is a multi medium show including photography, sculpture and painting and will touch on topics including but not limited to "...any men, gender, male, male group, cults, packs, dogs, gangs, school of thought, thoughts, alpha male, zombie cults, witch cults, warlocks..." Tonight is the opening reception, but the show runs through May 8th.

Date: Friday, April 1st
Time: 7pm-10pm
Location: Stay Gold Gallery, 451 Grand St, W'burg
Cost: Free

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First Saturday

If you cross over the East River, living in the shadows of other more popular and well known art museums, you will find the Brooklyn Museum. With 560,000 square feet on its side, and minus the heavy foot traffic that most Manhattan Museums tend to get from tourists, this museum has a lot going for it. Every first Saturday of the month admission is free (thanks to big name corporate sponsorship, but we dont have to talk about that), and there are a slew of events for the whole fam. This week check out the Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective of more than 90 paintings and works on paper. Additionally, participate in dance workshops, a family drum circle, and a talk lead by the curator of the Basquiat exhibit (here is a full line up of evernts).

Date: Saturday, April 2nd
Time: 11am - 11pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Cost: Free

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Cronick Valentine's Day

Today at Cronick Valentine check out art and design from Shelly Scott, Thom Theyer, Tivi, and Lucille Cronick. In case your not familiar with CV, they aren't some estranged boyfriend (or girlfriend) lurking in the backround, they are in fact "most simply put, a modern general store." They "aim to fill the world with fun and unique life accessories, allowing our customers to express their uniqueness and have fun with the little things in life." In case you have any questions, artist Shelly Scott will be at the store to meet you and explain the stories behind her paintings and photography. Plus, if you show up early, you'll get wine and snacks. And come on now, I know you all love snacks.

Date: Saturday, April 9th
Time: ?
Location: Cronick Valentine, 324 East 9th Street
Cost: Free

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Jet and Rubble Opening

"jet+rubble are a team-of-two living in New York who set out to change perspectives. Primarily posting multi-layered, multi-colored stencil work and hand-cut stickers, they've spent the past few years taking what is overlooked in our everyday lives and flipping those things back on themselves." Copy ganked from Freshness.

Date: Tuesday, April 12th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Orchard Street Art Gallery (139 Orchard, 2nd floor)
Cost: Free

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MOTUG

Hmm where do I even begin on this one? Lets start by explaining that MOTUG actually stands for "Monsters Of The Unda-Ground." It is an art collective made up of 10 artists, including Futura, TKID170, Doze Green, NYC LASE, Ghost, Shepard Fairey, CES, EWOK, Dizmology, and TOOFLY. Ok here is the part where the sneaker freaks need to pay attention, in conjunction with JB Classics, the 10 artist produced a pair of limited edition sneakers. Now they only made 24 pairs (most of which went to the artists themselves) leaving only 7 pairs to be bought up by the masses. The show will also feature original artwork and tee shirts. The entire collection will be on display at The Showroom NYC from April 13th through May 13th.

Date: Wednesday, April 13th
Time: 2pm - 7pm
Location: The Showroom NYC, 117 Second Ave
Cost: Free

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Mumble on, Mumbleboy

Mumbleboy makes really cute toy dolls and has a crazy website. He also made Beck's latest video according to sources. Of course, we've never seen this video because we are too poor for cable so unless it is going to be features at a carribean boat party on BCAT anytime soon it is out of our reaches. Check out some of his art and video work at the 55DSL store this evening.

Date: Thursday, April 14th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: 55DSL (Union Square West and 14th Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Prayingproject

"Twenty-one performance artists explore prayer as an act of creativity, contemplation, and auto-analysis. Exit Art, an experimental cultural center, explores the impact of faith on contemporary society. Realizing that faith has become one of the most relevant issues of the 21st Century, Exit Art saw a need for artists to respond to issues such as the influence of the religious right on politics, the widespread interest in Zen practices, worldwide religious intolerance, use of religion to connect to personal heritage, mixing of business, politics and religion, the quest to achieve enlightenment, and many others. Some Prayingproject performances will last only 30 minutes while others last for six hours, and all will occur simultaneously on eight stages in the street windows. Complete schedule on the Website." [found via NonsenseNYC]

Date: Friday, April 15th
Time: 3:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: Exit Art (475 10th Avenue, at 36th Street)
Cost: Free

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The David Choe Show

[Ed. note: I wrote my usual lame ass write up for this show and did Mr. Choe no justice. Trudy over at Windchill - where I stole this event from - had a much better write up so I am using hers instead]
Our friend the artist David Choe got arrested for punching out an undercover detective in Tokyo in December of 2004. Then he spent four months in solitary confinement in a Japanese prison. Deprived of his usual drawing and painting tools, David improvised materials out of whatever he could scrape together in his tiny cell — including soy sauce and his own urine. His prison stay resulted in the works in this show, a stunning collection of drawings that illustrate what a genius draftsman gets up to when he has nothing to but draw. There are lots of dirty renderings of nubile women, and there are also fantastical imaginary landscapes and tableaus that are apocalyptic, hilarious, and beautiful. You really should come see them. If you can't make the opening, they're up for four weeks afterward.

Date: Friday, April 22nd
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: powerHouse Gallery (68 Charlton Street btwn Hudson and Varick)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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LMCC

LMCC stands for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, I prefer LMCC, because its way easier to type, and well if you haven't already noticed, I clearly love acronyms. Enough early morning jabber though, lets get down to it... This weekend the LMCC opens their doors for some open studio workshops. Friday night is the opening reception and party, followed this weekend by a series of workshops and studio tours. Click here for a full list of events.

Date: Friday, April 22nd through Sunday, April 24th
Time: Reception on Friday begins at 6pm
Location: LMCC, 120 Broadway
Cost: Free w/ RSVP

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Brooklyn Big Art Show #2

So this is kind of hard for me to explain, so lets just go with the words straight from the horses mouth...
"BIG ART SHOW is available to all who wish to participate. The shows we throw are for the participants more so than for the audience. The ideal is for everyone to have a good experience and feel they have been given every chance to do whatever they wish to get across.

BIG ART SHOW is our banner. It is the guise in which we rally a dream of something cool, something real, something unspoiled by money and politics. Art shows guerrilla style morphing into a location. We are something to experience, something to remember."

Basically, I think that a bunch of artists and musician get together throw a party, make music and art and have a grand ol' time. These parties happen in a handful of cities, and this being the second one in New York. They are 30 artist showing their work and music by Suran Song in Stag, Fake Gimms, Mimi Cross, Moon and Water Planet.

Date: Saturday, April 23rd
Time: ???
Location: 78 Kingland Ave, Brooklyn
Cost: Free

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TOAST

The TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour is one of the most eagerly anticipated downtown NYC events of the season, offering a great experience for anyone interested in viewing artwork at the source-- the artist's own studio. It's an opportunity to walk around the neighborhood and meet directly with the artists-- and often see artwork not accessible in gallery settings.

Visitors will see the working spaces-- from basement to loft, individual to shared -- of both established and emerging artists. The works range from abstract to representational, realistic to expressionist, traditional to cutting edge, in all media and sizes.

This year's TOAST event features additional programs. The Church Street School for Music and Art* will hold drop-in art activities for children; and the group Collective Unconscious will offer a performance of Tesla Mania*, featuring NYC's largest Tesla Coil*, and Mikon Hall of Worlds*, an interactive, voice- and computer- driven exhibit. Best of all, the whole tour experience is relaxed, informal and absolutely FREE!

Date: Saturday, April 30th (continues Sunday at the same time)
Time: 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Tribeca (download map here)
Cost: Free

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Canceled Flight

Enjoy 45 original words from personal heros such as Tiffany Bozic and Ryan McGuiness in this group show dedicated to pigeon killing methods

Date: Tuesday, May 3rd
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Venue: Reed Space Gallery (151 Orchard Street between Rivington and Stanton)
Cost: Free

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Tedious Limbs

While Tedious Limbs does actually sound like a description of my legs after my weekend at Coachella, it is really the name of the show up at Deitch this week. Yes, we are a day late and a dollar short on this one, as it started on Tuesday, but please see my previous statement for my excuse. But look, you have until Saturday to see "a collection of the most cutting-edge, underground video art being produced today. Organized by three of the artists themselves-- Devin Flynn, Takeshi Murata, and Kendra Gaeta-- this exhibition includes eye-popping visual disruptions that delve deep into a psychedelic symbiosis of the auditory and the visual."

Date: Thursday, May 5th - 7th
Time: 12pm - 6pm
Location: Deitch Gallery, 26 Wooster
Cost: Free

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The Vs. Project

Bob Partington exhibits at the Triple 5 Soul stores for the next few months. Catch the "opening" tonight as DJ Language spins. Flyer looks like there might be some free Bacardi as well.

Date: Friday, May 5th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Triple 5 Soul Brooklyn (145 Bedford Ave at N. 9th)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Parker's International Art Market with performance by Le Fa She

Parker's Box is delighted to announce its fifth anniversary, and in the true spirit of this celebration we have invited a houseful of guests (artists, galleries, art publications, activists and nonprofits) to participate in a three-day art "market" event that turns the tables on galleries representing artists, in order to have a number of artists "represent" their galleries through specific projects presented together under the same conditions and in similar spaces. Local psychedelic troupe Le Fa She present a drum ceremony at 8p. Continues through Sunday

Date: Friday, May 6th
Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Parker's Box (139 Grand Street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Adobe Empire Opening

Filipino artist Louie Cordero meets Filipino American artist Jordin Isip in the temple of doom. Louie's paintings are saturated with Philippine pop culture, American sci-fi, monster and pulp images, twisted piles of feces, Catholic religious iconography and large servings of indigenous food.

Jordin's iconic figures are poised in symbolic interaction. Anthropomorphic beings like monkeymen grasping nunchakus, mask wearing spotted beasts, and Philippine Ifugao rice gods are the protagonists inhabiting the landscape of his narrative. The two artists are in a dialogue connected by an ancient tribal bloodline.

Date: Friday, May 6
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Riviera (103 Metropolitan Ave. at Wythe Ave.)
Cost: Free

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Another First Saturday In Brooklyn

If you cross over the East River, living in the shadows of other more popular and well known art museums, you will find the Brooklyn Museum. With 560,000 square feet on its side, and minus the heavy foot traffic that most Manhattan Museums tend to get from tourists, this museum has a lot going for it. Every first Saturday of the month admission is free (thanks to big name corporate sponsorship, but we dont have to talk about that), and there are a slew of events for the whole fam. This week check out the Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective of more than 90 paintings and works on paper. Additionally, check out "Audio Graffiti," paint your own Japanese scroll, and hear DJ Sintalentos spin soul, funk and hip hop to close out the day (here is a full line up of evernts).

Date: Saturday, May 7th
Time: 11am - 11pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Cost: Free

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Oh...And One More Thing

If you can't find the FreeNYC kids this Saturday there is a good chance they will be looking at art most of the day. I am currently formulating a plan which involves a stop off at the Brooklyn Museum followed by hitting up the opening of the new Barry McGee show, One More Thing, at the Deitch Gallery. "The vitality and chaos of the street are always present in Barry McGee’s exhibitions. The visitor is greeted by over turned trucks, over flowing dumpsters, and dozens of discarded Thunderbird and Night Train bottles. Animated drawings flickering on piles of television sets surrounded by hundreds of geometrically painted panels create a cacophonic environment." Tonight is the opening reception, but the show runs until August 13th.

Date: Saturday, May 7th
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Location: Deitch Gallery, 18 Wooster St
Cost: Free

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Novel: A Living Installation

Three novelists will be enclosed within three individual habitats designed and constructed by three teams of architect and artists. For 30 days, this will be their reality. Nightly, they will dine together (courtesy of a revolving cast of chefs). Public readings of the novels-in-progress will be held every Saturday evening. There will also be public viewing hours during the week. On June 4, each writer will emerge from his or her habitat, having completed a novel.

The opening for Novel is something more than your average art opening. There will be time from 7-9 to view, enter, and explore the habitats created by our three artist/architects. At 9p the novelists will enter their habitats for the first time, bringing with them the personal items, books, supplies, etc., that will serve them over the next month. For the next hour, their initial acclimation to their new homes will be a public event. And then the experiment begins. Please join us for this very special event.

Writers include Laurie Stone, Ranbir Sidhu, and Grant Bailie. Architect and artists include Salazar Davis Architects, Tricky Ink, and Ian Montgomery.

Date: Saturday, May 7th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Flux Factory (click for directions)
Cost: Free

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Neo Ranch Opening

Renegation, Neo Ranch's new collection of paintings, opens today. Its supposed to be weird and crazy so check it out.

Date: Monday, May 9th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: David Zwirner (525 West 19th Street)
Cost: Free

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Chuck Close - Recent Paintings

Nine large-scale, oil-on-canvas paintings from 2002-2005 will be on exhibit, including portraits of the artists Lynda Benglis, Inka Essenhigh, and Andres Serrano; choreographer Merce Cunningham; Close's family friend, Herb Kramer; and three self-portraits rendered in both black and white and color. A full-color catalogue with a text by Robert Rosenblum will accompany this exhibition. This is a great chance to see some of Close's work without the crowd and tourists of the MOMA.

Date: Tuesday, May 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: PaceWildenstein (534 west 25th Street)
Cost: Free

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Second Wednesdays

In the same spirit as Philly's First Fridays, on the Second Wednesday of each month over twenty galleries in TriBeCa open their doors for a veritable "art crawl." Click here for a map.

Date: Wednesday, May 11th

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Venue: Various

Cost: Free

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JK5

Joseph Ari Aloi (aka JK5) is a tattoo artist, a sculpter, a figurine maker, and tonight, the guy with the opening at Kid Robot. Art and toys, you can't go wrong.

Date: Thursday, May 12th
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: Kid Robot, 126 prince St.
Cost: Free

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The Muster

"THE MUSTER IS A PUBLIC ART EVENT IN WHICH ARTIST ALLISON SMITH invokes the aesthetic vernacular of the American Civil War battle reenactment as a stage set for a polyphonic marshalling of voices in her artistic and intellectual communities. The Muster takes form in a creative encampment on the Fort Jay marching grounds of Governors Island, in which fifty enlisted participants fashion uniforms, build campsites, and declare their causes publicly to an audience of spectators. Smith creates a literal platform, complete with banners and flags, to identify the creative minds in her midst and to celebrate what they are fighting for. Smith directs but does not script the event, so that its outcome is only revealed at the Muster itself." See site for full info.

Date: Saturday, May 14th
Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue: Governer's Island (click for directions)
Cost: Free

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Just Doodle it

Doodle Down: A Transatlantic Scrawl is a doodle off from both sides of the Atlantic featuring over twenty artisits. Using fancy pants scanners and a little thing called the internet, the scribble will cross the pond in order to be viewed by both sides. The exchange will go on for about four hours. While the live action can be viewed Saturday afternoon, the work will be up for the next three weekends.

Date: Saturday, May 14th
Time: 1pm
Location: Orchard Gallery, Orchard between Delancy and Rivington
Cost: Free

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Get a Taste of the 'Burg

Hopefully a lot of you will be doing the AIDS walk today, but if not, you should get brave the L train and head over to Williamsburg. Twenty galleries will open their doors (as well as twenty restaurants, but that costs money so we won't mention that part) for a lovely afternoon in Brooklyn. If you have never walked through these galleries before this would be a great day to check them out. You should be able to get a gallery map from the website.

Date: Sunday, May 15th
Time: All afternoon
Location: Various galleries and restaurants in Williamsburg
Cost: Galleries are free

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Living Spaces

I have this problem where instead of calling this bar by it's proper name, Supreme Trading, I end up calling it Trading Spaces. And now with this show, Living Spaces, going on there, I should just call it Extreme Home Make Over and be done with it.

"LIVING SPACES 2005 have amassed an exciting collection of innovative and distinctive works for the home from over 30 designers...The iPod, the Eames lounge chair, and the Tiffany lamp are among the highlights of American design. They are held up to the rest of the world as if to say, "Look, we can do it too"...Living Spaces 2005 will again attempt to remove contemporary American design from the shadows and celebrate that which makes it great."

This show is one of nine events going on in Williamsburg as part of the design project Joint Ventures (it actually began this past weekend but we were late on finding out about it). So tonight you got the Living Spaces show and the after party of the whole event. I have a feeling this will make me feel my home needs a serious face lift.

Date: Monday, May 16th
Time: 9pm - 2am
Location: Supreme Trading, N. 8th and Driggs
Cost: Free

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Skid Rows

Ummmmm.... yeah.... "As part of the Queens Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, join us for a kick-off hoe-down on Thursday, May 19, from 6:15 to 7:30 pm, as artist Brian Tolle and Diana Balmori Landscape will careen around a two-acre grassy expanse of the Queens Botanical Garden doing doughnuts in a red 1991 Chevy pickup truck covered with flower decals. Not once. Not twice. But again and again and again. “What?” and “why?” you ask." Answer after the fold. As part of the launch of Skid Rows, country music, bbq and “down home” refreshments will be served.

Date: Thursday, May 19th
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Venue: Queens Botanical Gardens (43-50 Main Street, Queens)
Cost: Free

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SONYA Studio Stroll 2005

The SONYA studio stroll "is a free, self-guided walking tour through the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Bed-Stuy. Strollers can visit among 47 artist studios and galleries showcasing the work of over 100 artists!"

Date: Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22
Time: 12pm - 6pm
Location: Sonya, 1110 Fulton Street
Cost: Free

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3rd Annual Wooster Collective Street Art Walking Tour

The Wooster Collective know street art. Their website is a go-to worlwide on what's going down right now and what you will be hearing about in the future. So who better to be your faithful guide the the overwhelming world of public art in NYC. Today and Sunday they lead a walking tour through the LES to view works by some of the newest, hottest names on the scene as well as some great legents. Expect works form Twist, Faile, Bast, London Police, Revs, and others. Official release after the Fold. Continues Sunday.

Date: Saturday, May 21st - repeats Sunday
Time: 2:00pm
Venue: Meet at Orchard Street Art Gallery (139 Orchard Street)
Cost: Free

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Style Sessions

Style Sessions takes place through out this weekend. There is a lot involved in this one so I think it's best I just use their words...

"Style Sessions began in 2002 as an event to promote the surf style of skateboarding, and strengthen the riding community. This year, the Style Sessions Art Exhibit at Milk Gallery in New York City includes the Skateboard Art Collection. The Style Sessions Art Exhibit is open to the public from May 26th through June 3rd. Proceeds from art sales benefit Boarding for Breast Cancer.

This year's Style Sessions Competition takes place throughout the duration of the exhibit. Skaters and photographers compete for "Best Rider" and "Best Photo" at a series of free-ride sessions throughout New York City."

The Style Sessions link above will give you details on all the skating events this weekend.

Date: Friday, May 27th - June 3rd
Location: Milk Gallery, 450 West 14th
Cost: Free

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Eight is Enough

Stay Gold Gallery draws the curtain once again for its third annual group show and open studios. Pooling its diverse force of eight together into one multimedia exhibition, the hidden collective behind the Stay Gold Gallery celebrates its creative independence. Since Stay Gold's inception in 2003, the Stay Gold collective has dedicated itself to innovation, excellence, and diversity. Now the very organizers that shape emerging art scenes set an eclectic stage for their own truth seeking minds.

Date: Friday, May 27th
Time: 7:00PM - 10:00PM
Venue: Stay Gold Gallery (451 Grand Street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Broadway Stars in the Alley

Broadway's Stars in the Alley, as far as we can tell, is an annual event where broadway shows come out into the street to perform for free. There is a pretty serious list of perfomances including some from Hairspray, Putnam County Spelling Bee, Wicked, and Phantom of the Opera. The concert takes place in Shubert Alley, right at the epicenter of the Broadway Theatre District in Midtown Manhattan. The alley is located between 44th and 45th Streets just west of Seventh Avenue. Access is via 45th Street only.

Date: Wednesday, June 1st
Time: 11:00am
Venue: Shubert Alley (45th and 7th)
Cost: Free

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Blending Art, Music, Mags and Some Soda

If you were ever unclear on exactly how big name corporations work together to bring free stuff to the masses, this event should clear it right up. Blender magazine is thowing a party, on hand will be art from Geoff McFetridge (think the Oneify adds), Princess Superstar spinning records and some cola cocktails.

Date: Wednesday, June 1st
Time: 7:30 - 9:30
Location: 20 Green St
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Posthumous Choreographies Opening

Posthumous Choreographies stages a group of outstanding artists involved in art-making that bends and flexes performance, gesture, dance, and other fleeting art-making choreographic modes. The Annex¹s Other Optical Labyrinths combines artists dealing with residues, fusions and crossovers, mixing the optical-retinal, digital and electronic media as though an exercise in Dust Breeding. The concept Dust Breeding is loosely based on an artwork by Man Ray that emerged from observing the Œdust¹ collected on Marcel Duchamp¹s Grand Verre. Having been placed on the ground, and by biting the dust, another artful dimension, not intended by Duchamp, materialized.

Date: Thursday, June 2nd
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: White Box (525 West 26th)
Cost: Free

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Art on the Beach

Battery Park City’s esplanade comes alive in this homage to Art on the Beach, the landmark series conceivedand presented by Creative Time from 1978 to 1988 when Battery Park City was just landfill. Starting at Rockefeller Park, visitors will take a 90-minute journey from one site-specific performance to the next. Five of the original Art on the Beach choreographers and composers - Yoshiko Chuma, Jane Comfort, Butch Morris, Marta Renzi, and David Van Tieghem - have created new works for the occasion.

Date: Thursday, June 2nd
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Starting at Rockefeller Park (just west of Chambers & West Sts.)
Cost: Free

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Another First Saturday

If you cross over the East River, living in the shadows of other more popular and well known art museums, you will find the Brooklyn Museum. With 560,000 square feet on its side, and minus the heavy foot traffic that most Manhattan Museums tend to get from tourists, this museum has a lot going for it. Every first Saturday of the month admission is free (thanks to big name corporate sponsorship, but we dont have to talk about that), and there are a slew of events for the whole fam. This week check out the Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective of more than 90 paintings and works on paper. Click here for the full day's line up.

Date: Saturday, May 4th
Time: 10am - 11pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum
Cost: Free

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Atlantic Avenue Art Walk

The Atlantic Avenue Art Walk is a weekend event featuring a self-guided tour of open studios, public art exhibitions, gallery shows, and special retail and restaurant events. All events are free and open to the public.

Based on the response to the first tour, the Art Walk route has grown to double the number of open studios, exhibiting artists, and additional forums to experience the vibrant fine arts, culture, and community of this historic Brooklyn area. Sculpture, music, film, workshops, and new venues for arts and media programming that are youth and family oriented will be integral to the tour route and events slated for 2005.

Date: Saturday, June 4th
Time: 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Atlantic Ave (download map here)
Cost: Free

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Atlantic Avenue Art Walk (continued)

The Atlantic Avenue Art Walk is a weekend event featuring a self-guided tour of open studios, public art exhibitions, gallery shows, and special retail and restaurant events. All events are free and open to the public.

Based on the response to the first tour, the Art Walk route has grown to double the number of open studios, exhibiting artists, and additional forums to experience the vibrant fine arts, culture, and community of this historic Brooklyn area. Sculpture, music, film, workshops, and new venues for arts and media programming that are youth and family oriented will be integral to the tour route and events slated for 2005.

Date: Sunday, June 5th
Time: 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Atlantic Ave (download map here)
Cost: Free

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Gold Spot Sundays

Stop by after brunch and check out what is going on at the Stay Gold Gallery. There will be art (of course!), artists talks, film screenings, listening parties, demostrations of all kinds and all of this will be accompanied by music. This is going to be a weekly event that kicks off today with Gotham Girls Roller Derby! Free beer from Carlsberg.

Date: June 5th
Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Stay Gold (451 Grand Street at Keep, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Museum Mile Festival

One day a year, for the past 26 years, nine of the country's finest museums, all ones that call Fifth Avenue home, collectively open their doors for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free, music- and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially designated as Museum Mile. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival annually. Click here for map and schedule.

Date: Tuesday, June 7th
Time: 5:45pm
Venue: 5th Avenue between 82nd & 105th
Cost: Free

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I Pity the Dolls!

This takes OCD to a new level. "Come view the most important collection of handmade Mr. T Dolls in existence – Over 150 vintage dolls lovingly made by parents for their children in the early 80's inspired by Mrs. Martha's Doll Pattern of the popular fool-pittier." Now if they would just bring the cereal back...

Date: Thursday, June 9th (continues through HJuly 9th)
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Orchard Street Art Gallery (139 Orchard Street)
Cost:Free

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Freewheeling

20 professional bikers perform a group “dance” on bicycles traveling a route from Canal Street, river to river. Bikers will re-create music composed for this project by David Homan incorporating bike sounds such as whistles, bells, spokes, and the rhythmic breathing and voices of the riders. Check site for full details.

Dates: June 11, 12, 18, 19
Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Bike path at Rutgers Street between Cherry and South Streets.
Cost: Free

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Gigantic Release

The crew over at Gigantic Brand have been busy this week. Tonight, Gigantic Brand will host a record release party for DJ Ezekiel Honig and Morgan Packard featuring a live collaborative performance and showcasing art from New York artists. There will be live music, free drinks and shopping discounts! There is even a raffl eof some limited edition Microcosm merchandise!

Date: Friday, June 17th
Time: 7:30
Venue: Gigantic Brand (59 Franklin street between Broadway/Lafayette)
Cost: Free

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Dreamland Artist's Club 2005

The Dreamland Artists Club is back again this year to take over Coney Island. For the second year in a row, a group of global artists will bring their contemporary visions to Coney Island, NYC's beach front destination with a long history of hand-painted signage. Personal favorites from this years class include Crash, Swoon, and Os Gemeos who have painted a 130 foot mural to welcome guests to Coney Island (see image above).

But this year, the Dreamland Artists Club goes one step further to design special prizes for some of the booths along the boardwalk. So now, instead of winning some lame inflatable fish, you can score limited edition prints, stuffed toys, and playing cards. I can feel the dollar bills slipping out of my pocket right now.

The experience starts today and runs through October 2005.

Date: Saturday, June 18th
Time: N/A
Venue: Coney Island, Brooklyn
Cost: Free to view

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Atomica Opening

On July 25th, 1945 the President of the United States of America, Harry S. Truman ordered the atomic bomb dropped on Japan. On August 6th, 1945, the rest of the world learned of the specter of nuclear apocalypse: a new and unimaginable force had been unleashed and the threat that all life could come to a sudden and horrific end became a reality.

On the sixtieth anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ATOMICA pays homage to the power of art and its continuing relevance to engage the public in a dialogue about war and peace. ATOMICA brings together a group of international artists of different backgrounds and generations in an interactive dialog on the subject of nuclear threat, which is as much of a presence today as it was sixty years ago. The exhibition, comprised of 35 artists, is an awareness platform from which the audience can, in response to a past catastrophic event, understand and react to a present and future danger. Continues through July 29th

Date: Wednesday, June 22nd
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: Esso (531 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free

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Wasteland: 21st Century Landscape

Roebling Hall is proud to present Wasteland: 21st Century Landscape, a group exhibition featuring new landscape work illustrating current trends towards the fantastic, the dystopic and the political. The show features examples in all media by 13 artists. [more after the fold]

Date: Through August 1st
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Venue: Roebling Hall (390 Wythe at South 4th, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Renegade Crafts!

First off, anything entitled with the word 'renegade' conjurs crazy images in my head, add that to 'crafts' and 'McCarren park' and in my mind there are Williamsburg-hipster-rebels hiding behind trees weaving baskets. In reality though, this first annual Renegade Craft Fair is a two day event, featuring over "150 crafty superstars." Now, the crafts may well be to costly to purchase for my overpriced Brooklyn abode, but its fun to go look and get inspired by all the cool stuff people create.

Date: June 25th and 26th
Time: 10:30am to 5pm
Location: McCarren Park, N. 12th and Bedford, Williamsburg
Cost: Free

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Giant Robot Grand Opening!

Giant Robot is coming to NYC! For the past several years, Giant Robot has been one of my staple stop offs on west coast visits. the store is filled with fantastic toys and books and the gallery, GR2 features some of the best west coast up-and-coming art. Now they are heading right to our hometown and I can only hope they bring more of the same. Check out the opening for their first exhibit by Eishi Takaoka tonight. Afterparty at Morrissey Park

Date: Saturday, June 25th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Giant Robot NY (437 E. 9th Street between 1st and A)
Cost: Free

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Renegade Crafts!

First off, anything entitled with the word 'renegade' conjurs crazy images in my head, add that to 'crafts' and 'McCarren park' and in my mind there are Williamsburg-hipster-rebels hiding behind trees weaving baskets. In reality though, this first annual Renegade Craft Fair is a two day event, featuring over "150 crafty superstars." Now, the crafts may well be to costly to purchase for my overpriced Brooklyn abode, but its fun to go look and get inspired by all the cool stuff people create.

Date: June 25th and 26th
Time: 10:30am to 5pm
Location: McCarren Park, N. 12th and Bedford, Williamsburg
Cost: Free

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9 Drawings for Projects

9 Drawings for Projection is an outdoor performance and film screening that brings together all of the short animated films from internationally renowned South African artist William Kentridge's Soho Eckstein series. Made between 1989 and 2003, the series follows the fictional story of Kentridge's iconic antihero, a wealthy South African mine owner, land developer, and cuckold. The nine films chronicle the rise of Soho's Johannesburg empire, his wife's passionate affair with Felix Teitlebaum, loss, love, injury, and much more, all set against the backdrop of South Africa's shifting political and social realities. In making his films, Kentridge creates an entire animation sequence from a single drawing, which he augments bit by bit, working without script or storyboard. His narratives and imagery--at once melancholy, graceful, and open-ended--emerge through this unusual, labor-intensive working process. In the end, he is left with one short film and a very small stack of drawings, one for each scene in the film.

Date: Monday, June 27th
Time: 9:00pm
Venue: Central Park Bandshell (click for directions)
Cost: Free

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A Summer Wasting b/w Spaceship Earth, I Think I Love You

Combine 1 Part Cody Hudson - Graphic Wonderboy AKA Struggle Inc. - Equal parts Staple Design, Re:Up Magazine, and Gravis and what do you get? What looks to be one amazing art opening. RSVP is a must for this one. Continues through July 31st

Date: Tuesday, June 28th
Time: 9:00pm
Venue: The Reed Space (151 Orchard Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Live Through This

Live Through This: New York in the Year 2005... RELEASE PARTY with LIVE BANDS!!!! Deitch Projects is pleased to announce the publication of Live Through This: New York in the Year 2005, a huge anthology edited by Jeffrey Deitch and Kathy Grayson showcasing the most exciting and fresh art being made right now in and around New York.

Live Through This brings together over thirty of the most innovative and influential art, music, and fashion people who are changing artmaking now. New art practice is now intimately tied to the lived experience of the artists themselves, and this book-- through more than three hundred color reproductions of artists, artworks, events, zines, concerts, openings and parties-- illustrates and examines the nature of this relationship.

Date: Thursday, June 30th
Time: 9:00pm - midnight
Venue: Deitch: 110 North 1st Street, Brooklyn
Cost: Free

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First Saturday

If you cross over the East River, living in the shadows of other more popular and well known art museums, you will find the Brooklyn Museum. With 560,000 square feet on its side, and minus the heavy foot traffic that most Manhattan Museums tend to get from tourists, this museum has a lot going for it. Every first Saturday of the month admission is free in the afternoon (thanks to big name corporate sponsorship, but we dont have to talk about that), and there are a slew of events for the whole fam. This week check out the new Monet exhibit. Click here for the full day's line up.

Date: Saturday, June 2nd
Time: 5pm -11pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Cost: Free

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Matsuyama

Our local drinking hole, Triple Crown, takes a step up tonight with their first artist exhibition, "INSITU: Matzo MTP Expo." Tomo Matsuyama (Matzu MTP) blends traditional Japanese art with Mission style street influence in this large scale installation. Tonight, is the opening reception for the show, which will be up at Triple Crown until October. DJ Language will be on hand to help you celebrate. Artist bio after the fold

Date: Saturday, July 2nd
Time: 6pm
Location: Triple Crown (108 Bedford Ave at North 11th, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Red White and Blue

Over 60 artists have been asked to choose one of three colors: red, white or blue and create a work that is predominately that color or that conceptually/thematically refers to that color. There are no limitations or parameters to the size, subject or medium of the works, and artists may submit works in each of the three colors. The works will be installed salon-style grouped by color on three large walls of the gallery space. It all kicks off with a block party on Wooster Street tonight.

The exhibition provides a platform for an exploded view of nationalist symbolism, a celebration of the gloriously skewed ‘old glory’ that is art making and the contribution it makes to identity formation, nationalist or otherwise.

Date: Thursday, July 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: Spencer Brownstone Gallery (39 Wooster Street)
Cost: Free

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SWOON Invades Deitch

Deitch Projects is at it again with what looks to be another amazing show. This time they are bringing NYC artist SWOON in to turn the gallery "into a ramshackle labyrinthine city of paper and paint." You are probably familiar with SWOON's delicate paper cutouts that she wheat pastes throughout the city. We can only wait to see what she will do with an entire gallery. Continues through August 13th

Date: Thursday, July 7th
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Deitch Projects (76 Grand Street, Manhattan)
Cost: Free

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Good Wood

"WE invite you THIS WEEK to celebrate the launch of the GOOD WOOD GANG! Come to play and dance dance dance! We will transform into our newest costumes the SPIRITS of MANY COLORS and all are welcome to give hugs and pets!! We will have SUPER SIZE GOOD WOOD SILK SCREEN POSTERS limited to 150, PAINTINGS of 1000 GODS and DEMONS (NYC), FREE GIFTS!**, surprises, and more........"

Translation: Giant Robot is dropping some new toys from the makes of Friends with You. They look amazing so this may be a good time to check out the new NYC store if you have not yet done so. Plus, the Friends with You site has some music that rivals Deitch

Date: Friday, July 7th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Giant Robot NYC (437 East 9th Street between 1st and A)
Cost: Free

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Topylabrys

Cronick Valentine, our favorite shop for high level crafts is bringing Ornella Piluso - aka topylabrys - to town. Topylabrys creates a line of amazing accessories - check the photo - made from modified industrial plastics. Free wine and snacks during the event as well as 10% off everything in the store

Date: Friday, July 8th
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Cronick Valentine (423 East 9th Street between 1st and 2nd)
Cost: Free

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Fifty/Fifty

Becky Hickey of Beck(y) Bags has taken over 35 skate decks from a veritable who's who of deck designers including Barry McGee, Os Gemeos, Sam Flores, and David Kinsey, and turned them into her classic hand bags. Come out tonight to see the work and bid on these unique creations. All proceeds go to Adaptive Action Sports. RSVP is required.

Date: Thursday, July 14th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: PowerHouse Gallery (68 Charlton Street between Hudson and Varick)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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From A to B

In honor of their contribution to the form, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities presents “From A to B”, an exhibition featuring the artwork of the AKB graffiti crew. While few graffiti writers make the transition from the street to the studio, even fewer bring their creativity into the professional world. Formed in Minneapolis and St. Paul in the late 1980s, many AKB members are successful within art and design as painters, graphic designers, illustrators and tattoo artists. AKB members have spread across the country influencing other graffiti writers as well as growing artistically in their own right. [found on the always amazing Freshnessmag.com]

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2005
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities (64 Grand Street between West Broadway and Wooster)
Cost: Free

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Proof Denies Faith / systemanderrors Openings

In a super double gallery opening, The Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents two opening this weekend. The first is an instillation by Philly's own Jim Houser (think if Margaret Kilgallen and Mr. Scruff had a kid) and the other is a two person show of Daniel Peacock and AJ Fosik. The Jonathan LeVine Gallery always comes correct with amazing artists (think Jeff Soto, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, etc.) and this show is no exception.

Date: Saturday, July 16th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: Jonathan LeVine Gallery (529 West 20th Street, #9E)
Cost: Free

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Scion Art Tour

Continuing my love-hate relationship with Scion, they are bringing a who's who of street artists to the McCaig-Welles Gallery tonight. Think David Choe, Daze, Crash, Buff Monster, Fuse Green, Stay High 149, Sam Flores, etc. Expect a packed opening. Continues through July 31st. Unofficial afterparty will probably be at Triple Crown.

Date: Saturday, July 16th
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Venue: McCaig-Welles Gallery (129 Roebling, Suite B)
Cost: Free

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RE:Place

Date: Thursday, July 21st
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: The Annex (601 West 26th Street, 14th Floor)
Cost: Free

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Gallery Time

In case we haven't supplied you with enough to do today, you may want to check out the opening of the Tonybones and Resk show at Orchard Gallery. I am sure you have seen their work up on the walls of this fine city. Accoring to Wooster Collective "the two of these apes plan to make a really big mess, and eventually set the gallery on fire. No less than four fights will break out and at least 3 people will be killed. No arrests will be made as the police will be busy trying to solve the case of the missing twinkie." but you know, thats just a rumor.

Date: Thursday, July 21st
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Location: Orchard Street Art Gallery, 139 Orchard
Cost: Free

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Hiroki Otsuka Opening

"In his native Japan, Otsuka worked as a both a writer and illustrator for several manga magazines such as Hi-5, Badi, Rabumani and Erotics. Since 1994 he has published seven of his own graphic novels with over 150,000 copies now in print. Here in the U.S., Otsuka continues to pursue his career in the graphic arts, even working for a time as a technician for the Takashi Murakami studio. He is currently freelancing as a graphic artist and illustrator for Tokyo Pop in Los Angeles in addition to designing and illustrating his own t-shirts and skate-boards. This show of all new artwork will primarily feature paintings and drawings. Examples of the artist's pursuits in other media - including skate-boards, t-shirts, and copies of his comics, will also be available."

Date: Friday, July 22nd
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Stay Gold (451 Grand Street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Painters who Paint Paintings

Williamsburg's Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery brings two painting shows to the table tonight. First, Jeff Schneider gathers a diverse crowd on canvas to explore meanings transferred through association and a painting’s ability to dispute such shallowness in "These Days". Secondly, Cristobal Dam expands his 8" x 8*’ minimalist graphics of a box into a commentary on Land Art in "Paint Box." His canvases are cartoons, a satire upon giant environments, small images expressing the same ambitions of a massive square mile production.

Date: Saturday, July 23rd
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Sam, Stuhltrager Gallery (38 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn
Cost: Free

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Juxtapoz Party

Juxtapoz Magazine is throwing down this Tuesday at Lit. There will be givaways and drink specials as well as music from Jefrodisiac and Vito. Alos, you can bring your art (slides, digital, or photos) by to subit to the magazine. The party is sponsored by Fernet Branca so their may be open bar but no guarantees.

Date: Tuesday, July 26th
Time: 10:00pm - Close
Venue: Lit (93 2nd ave)
Cost: Free

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Sasquatch Society

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization has Jane Goodall on their side. According to the group's website, Goodall, "believes these animals exist," and that the group's research is "another milestone in the effort to demarginalize this subject."

The Sixtyseven gallery has the Sasquatch Society: Bigfoots, Yetis and Other Hominoids. Including work from Jesse Bercowetz & Matt Bua, Chris Bors, Peter Caine, Eun Young Choi, eteam, Matthew Fisher, Aurélie Fourrier, Helena Fredriksson, Robert Grunder, Craig Hein, Ijan Hilaire, I-Manifest, Ketta Ioannidou, John Jodzio, Chris Kannen, Seth Kirby, Emily Lambert, Franziska Lamprecht, Stephen Lipuma, LoVid, Tony Luib, Julie Mann, Tricia McLaughlin, Nicholas Parisi, William Powhida, Troy Richards, Michael X. Rose, Anke Sievers, Mike Skinner, Jennifer Sullivan, Jeremiah Teipen, Megan Whitmarsh, and more.

Primatologist or nice art opening? Tonight, you decide.

Date: Thursday, July 28th (through September 3rd)
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Sixtyseven (547 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor)
Cost: Free

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Mariko Mori Performs

I first came across Mariko Mori at the Brooklyn Museum of art a few years ago. She produces these large scale photos and video installations combining futuristic imagery with asian spiritual thought. The result is a picture of a world that could be, or may me, filled with opimism and promise.

Tonight is an special treat as she presents a live performance of Rei-okuri, her first performance in New York City since 1999. The piece is based "on a Jomon period (13,000-12,000 B.C to 240-230 B.C.) ritual in which villagers formed circular spaces to honor their ancestors, believing that they would return as spirits. Rei-okuri is translated as “ceremony of the transcendence.” The performance will feature Mori wearing a replica of a Jomon-period style clay mask from the Aso site, symbolizing the spirit of her Jomon-period ancestors. Utilizing an ancient tradition in a contemporary setting, Mori creates a space in which to connect the past and the future." This is a one shot deal and a rare chance to see one of the more inspirational living artists today.

Date: Friday, July 29th
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: The Kitchen (512 West 19th Street)
Cost: Free

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DIY: The Aesthetics of Life

"Invisible NYC in collaboration with Metro Color Collision is pleased to present DIY: The Aesthetics of Life. Unlike other group shows, the artists here have created works directly pertaining to their lives as artists who choose to dissociate from corporate strongholds and make their own clothes, jewelry, stuffed animals or anything that turns unique art objects into a lifestyle and vice versa. Did they figure out the perfect existence to incorporate punk rock productivity and creative innovations? Their creative drive is entirely infused into their daily existence; for them, art is inextricably linked to life as creation is the sole means of survival. This exhibition hopes to convey not only their DIY aesthetics of self-reliance and self-sufficiency but also a philosophy carried on in the true spirit of modern anarchy."

Date: Thursday, August 4th (through September 3rd)
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: InvisibleNYC (148 Orchard Street, between Stanton and Rivington)
Cost: Free

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The Tank Summer Art Show

Tonight is the opening reception for the Tank's summer art show, Works On Paper. It's "a group show presenting recent works by a dozen emerging and mid-career artists from the east coast. All of the work in the exhibition falls under the broad category of works on paper, but ranges greatly in media and style from watercolor to work with transparent tape. Featuring Stacey Alickman, Daniel Arcand, Martin Bland, Marietta Hoferer, Timothy Hull, R.B. Morris III, Elisa Nadzieja, Kathleen Padden, Mu Pan, Ilene Sunshine, Tae-Eun Yoo, John Zaso."

Date: Thursday, August 4th (show runs to Aug. 27)
Time: 6pm
Location: The Tank, 208 W. 37th
Cost: Free

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Drunk vs. Stoned 2

Sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you dont... Drunk vs Stoned 2 is an art show but also more a "...psychological study than hedonistic manifesto, this year's installment surveys intensive ganja ruminations and impulsive booze-propelled outbursts through a multigenerational roundup of artists." Showing work will be R. Crumb, Mary Heilmann, Martin Kippenberger, Sarah Lucas, Paul Noble, Evan Holloway, Franz West, Monique Prieto, Dearraindrop, Nick Lowe, Rachel Harrison and Martin Creed. Tonight is the opening but the show will be up until September 7th. Rumor has it there there will off shoot events like Drunk vs Stoned soccer and a stoned drawing party, we will keep you posted on the details. [stolen from Flavorpill]

Date: Thursday, August 4th
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 436 W 15th St
Cost: Free

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First Thursday

First Thursday is a casual meeting of graphic designers. Think of it as a crit for post-college grads who find themselves lacking valuable criticism in their workplace. All are welcome to come by and share work. Last time I was there it was very type designer heavy but I am not sure if it is still that way. This is the first week that the meeting has moved to Brooklyn.

Date: Thursday, August 4th
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Iona Bar (180 Grand Street between Bedford & Driggs, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Dreams

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A new collection of mixed media, art and accessories by design duo, BITTERSWEET. This is going to be an elaborate store installation by artists & designers, James O'Brien & Jenn Leong. This is what they have to say...

"As some of you may know or not, jenn leong and myself have teamed up to triumphantly slay another creative dragon, so upon mighty steeds we invite you to ride into battle at our side and bear witness as we defeat many foes, sing songs, drink drinks, and pronounce ourselves rulers of this fine land. Rumor has it there shall be many a fine
maiden serving up enough mead and spirits to quench even the mighty oden's great thirst. - james"

Date: Thursday, August 4th
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Venue: River Fawn (11 Harrison Street btwn Hudson and Greenwich)
Cost: Free

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PublicAds PublicArt

I went to one of those weirdo, lefty, liberal arts, writing schools for my college edumacation, so I totally dig events like this...

"PublicAdCampaign is an ongoing public art project dedicated to reclaiming public advertising space from commercial forces, and in doing so, questioning the nature and usage of our shared public environment. On March eleventh 2005 PublicAdCampaign posted PaperChampion, our largest public project to date, as a part of the - scopeNewYork art fair. Works covered a total of 84 individual public advertisements and reclaimed 24 commercial public advertising locations in the heart of Times Square. Within 6 hours of installing the PaperChampion project, approximately 70 pieces had been removed, the police had threatened -scopeNewYork with a lawsuit... This exhibition revisits the events surrounding the PaperChampion project in an effort to explore more closely the conflicting ideas we have as a community about our cities shared environments and communal spaces."

The 3 Legged Dog is hosting the opening event tonight, and will be showing all the peices through the month of August. We recommend you check it out.

Date: Friday, August 5th
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: 3 Legged Dog, 45 John Street between Dutch and Nassau
Cost: Free

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Passport Fridays

We are a little slow on this one but there are still a few good Passport Fridays left at the Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Each night features dance, film, and music out by the Unisphere. Tonight centers around Brazil, with Capoeira, Samba, Modern Dance, and a film. A nice place to kick of your shoes and settle into the weekend. Check site for full info.

Date: Friday, August 5th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Cost: Free

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Ingenuous Means Opening

Ingenuous Means is an exhibition that shares an indomitable experimental spirit, from improvised brushstrokes and fragmented photography to meditation-guided sketches. The artists in the exhibition are: Tove Langridge, Ted O'Sullivan, Pete Petrone and Yejin Yoo. Curated by Rachel Gugelberger. More after the fold

Date: Saturday, August 6th (through August 20th)
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Venue: SVA Gallery (209 East 23 Street)
Cost: Free

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Another First Saturday

If you cross over the East River, living in the shadows of other more popular and well known art museums, you will find the Brooklyn Museum. With 560,000 square feet on its side, and minus the heavy foot traffic that most Manhattan Museums tend to get from tourists, this museum has a lot going for it. Every first Saturday of the month admission is free in the afternoon (thanks to big name corporate sponsorship, but we dont have to talk about that), and there are a slew of events for the whole fam. This week check out the new Monet exhibit. Click here for the full day's line up.

Date: Saturday, August 6th
Time: 5pm -11pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Cost: Free

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America Recycled

"What started as a $10 bid on other people’s “junk” has made it’s way into a new genre of art. Over thirty years ago, Lenny Kislin took a friend's offer to accompany him to an antiques store where dusty treasures could be had for mere coins. Spending the last money he and his wife had, Kislin bought antiques in Albany, took them back to Woodstock, where he had made his home, and sold them at significant profit.

Over the next two decades, Kislin collected and sold antiques, keeping for himself those relics deemed “not salable.” When his wife finally threatened to get rid of his personal collection unless he did something with it, the transformation began: from relics of the past to exciting contemporary art. Kislin combines his eye for rarity, his razor-sharp wit and pithy sense of humor to create truly individual one-of-a-kind pieces. Limiting himself to using only the pieces he has in front of him, a veritable treasure trove of antique miscellaneous items, the artist produces three-dimensional wall sculptures and stand-alone sculptures. Kislin considers his work to be collaboration with artists from the past."

Date: August 11th
Time: 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: 43 8th Avenue Gallery (between Horatio and Jane)
Cost: Free

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WilKill Art

"Come experience an evening of art, music, wine, and painting with some of the coolest people around. We will be premiering WilKil Art with its first public show with our most favorite summer wine. Paint with the artist and signature socks, and mingle with art lovers and critics from all walks.

WilKil Art is the simultaneous collaboration between two different artists, with uniquely different styles, creating on the same canvas using one theme. We will present a series on redefining stereotypes on urban America and hip hop culture -- that it is more than the commercialized materialism that it is made out to be."

Date: Thursday, August 11
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Venue: The Curb Art Space (535 West 34th Street between 10th and 11th)
Cost: Free

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From Out of Nowhere Opening

For some reason, the Riviera still refuses to send me info about their openings. Luckily, Trudy over at Windchill is always on top of it. Tonight's opening is a solo show by local Brooklyn artist Matt Hollister who's drawings - ranging from a few inches to several feet - document the places he has lived.

Date: Thursday, August 11th
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Venue: Riviera (103 Metropolitan Avenue and Wythe, Williamsburg))
Cost: Free

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Passport Fridays

Another evening of Passport Fridays in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Each night features dance, film, and music out by the Unisphere. Tonight centers around Africa with dance, drumming, and film. Check site for full info.

Date: Friday, August 12th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Cost: Free

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Passing Ships Opening

Giant Robot brings together 4 artists known for their illustation, comic, and graphic novel works at their new NYC location. The show features Allison Cole, Susie Ghahremani, Jack Long (who rocks), and Jillian Tamaki. The artists will be on hand at the reception.

Date: Saturday, August 13th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Giant Robot NY (437 East 9th betwen 1st and 2nd)
Cost: Free

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Paintball by numbers

Its an all out assault on mural painting! There will be live music, DJs, dancing, and refreshments. It all begins with a big black and white mural. From there, participants will fire the correct colored paintballs at the correct arias of the painting to create a full color reproduction. All hopes are aiming for something between a pointillist masterpiece and a chaotic disaster, changing every day as more paint layers on to the wall.

Date: Saturday, August 13th
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Flux Factory (Long Island City, click for directions)
Cost: Free

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Bonds of Love

"Bonds of Love unites a group of artists if only for a few weeks. Their work is not bound by issues of love or romance, but only by a curatorial premise questioning the meaning and validity of an all-women exhibition (and celebrating the idea at the same time). Their work is also bound in part by the desire to achieve a dialogue with the all-male-show Today's Man of 2004 which was also held at John Connelly Presents and so in that sense it is site-specific. Bonds of Love, in its diversity of approach and reliance upon each artist's experience in the world rather than stereotyping, challenges all of the labeling that comes before it, leading us from unreal to real and giving us something to think (and talk) about along the way." - Lisa Jaye Young.

Date: Monday, August 15th
Time: ???
Venue: John Connelly Presents (526 West 26th, Suite 1003)
Cost: Free

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Another Expo Opening

"Another Expo strives to transcend the idea of the established ‘Expo’ by rejecting violence and favoring co-existence. There is no “outside” and “inside” and no “foreign country.” There is no distinction between enemy and ally. Instead, Another Expo aspires for an open system. In this exhibition, curator Shinya Watanabe goes back to the purist idea of an ‘Expo’, one that can explore art related contexts and is free from promoting the Nation-State institution." [more after the fold]

Date: Monday, August 15th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: White Box (525 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free

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To Hell with the Hamptons

Sangria. BBQ. Pool. Pinata. Music. Art.

Brooklyn Art Bash sponsored by the McGaig-Welles Gallery features the sickest art on this side of a brush stroke including such artists as Logik, The Goldmine Shithouse , Joel Dugan (above pic), and SP. ONE.

All artists slotted for display have had solo shows at the McGaig-Welles Gallery already this year.

Date: Wednesday, August 17th
Time: 7-10pm
Venue: McGaig-Welles Gallery 129 Roebling Suite B
Cost: FREE

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Passport Fridays

Another evening of Passport Fridays in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Each night features dance, film, and music out by the Unisphere. Tonight centers around India with dance (Parijat Desai), music from Indofunk, and film (Dhoom). Check site for full info.

Listen to some Indofunk (mp3)
Check out a click of "Dhoom"

Date: Friday, August 19th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Cost: Free

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Savory Scraps at Secret Project Robot

Savory Scraps, a group of ladies who have had a little summer residency at Secret Project Robot are having a opening for an installation they have created at Secret Project Robot. It is really cool and fun and beautiful. The opening is in the day. There will be a barbecue and picnic stuff.
Saviour Scraps fashions nature from fabric, bringing summertime swingset sweetness into Secret Project Robot's raw space. Watch outside for a troop of synchronized braiders weaving a braid the length of one block on River Street.

Date: Saturday August 20th
Time: 12pm-6pm
Venue: Secret Project Robot in Monster Island, 210 Kent Avenue, corner of Metropolitan, Williamsburg
Cost: Free

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Destroy You

So this one scares me a bit as I am not really sure whether to bill it as art, toys, skate, music or titilation. It seems everyone in NYC may be in on it. Maybe I should let the Destroy You press release speak for itself...

"In a world full of apathy and low expectations, two northeast artists—MCA (Boston) and Magmo (Rhode Island)—descend upon New York through billowy clouds of fire to tear the city apart. On Saturday, August 20th , the barriers between artwork and art viewer will be broken down; the human limits of over-stimulation will be shattered; and conceptions of what a gallery experience is supposed to be like will be changed forever. There will be enough granite to crush the skulls of 20 men, an army of trash-filled dolls, ear-bleeding noise beats, and rays upon rays of eye-dazzling projections. Plus drawings, paintings, skateboards, custom toys, screen prints, T-shirts, and stickers—every inch of the gallery will be covered. And some of the amazing Suicide Girls will be on hand to help orchestrate a parade of erections."

Tonight is the opening reception but the show runs through September 18th.

Date: Saturday, August 20th
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Location: Orchard Street Art Gallery, 139 Orchard St.
Cost: Free

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walk your ART out

Check out the East Village Art Walk going on all week
as a result of Allen Ginsberg Howl Festival. Here are a few freebees worth walking around for...
A Painting on the Fence by Eileen Doster (3rd street musical school settlement & 235 East 11th) - Hide Outs by J. Kathleen White (El Sol Brilliante Community Garden East on 12th St. btwn A&B) - Sugar Egg Dioramas by Alexandra Zevin (208 East 7th street) - Punk Spirit Beat Culture by Shell Sheddy (242 East 10th St, 1/2) - Glittered Shield on a Firehouse by Ann Animus
(Engine 5-340 East 14th st) - Token of Love by Jan Lynn (East 8th Street Between 4th Ave and Ave D and at the Creative Little Garden at 530 East 6th Street) - Stroller Art by Chris Twaney (341 East 9th st) - Gallery Art (Bowman Bloom Gallery, 95 East 7th st) - African Hippos by Oxcar Alzate (East 4th btwn B & C)

Date: August 24-28th
Time: All Day
Location: East Village
Cost: Free

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Passport Fridays

Another evening of Passport Fridays in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Each night features dance, film, and music out by the Unisphere. Tonight centers around India with dance (Yin Mei), music from NYC ensemble Music for China, and the staff favorite House of Flying Daggers. Check site for full info.

Check out a clip of House of Flying Daggers

Date: Friday, August 26th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Cost: Free

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Spiral-Bound with Aaron Renier

"A special book signing for Spiral-Bound with creator Aaron Renier will be held at Giant Robot New York from 3 to 7PM on Saturday, August 27th, 2005. Giant Robot invites guests to take part in a collaborative comic strip drawing along-side Aaron Renier.

Aaron Renier got his start making comics for his high school newspaper in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After studying art in New York and Milwaukee, Aaron moved to Portland and immersed himself in the indie comics scene, polishing his intricate, narrative style. Since then, he has contributed to anthologies for Dark Horse Comics and Top Shelf Productions, as well as publishing his own line of mini-comics. Fresh from this summers reknown Comic-Con in San Diego, Aaron launched his first major title Spiral-Bound- an all-ages adventure story of self-discovery filled with a cast of endearing, personified animal characters." [swiped from Giant Robot NY]

Date: Saturday, August 27th
Time: 3-7pm.
Venue: Giant Robot New York (437 East 9th St btwn 1st Ave. & Ave. A)
Cost: Free

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Collision Machine Party

Collision Machine is D&S Knitwear, 6 member art collective that live and work out in Bushwick. Every other month they open their doors for an art/party extravaganza. Tonight performances begin at six and include roof deck party, a reading, modern dance, tango, acoustic performances, and new paint/video works.

Date: Saturday, August 11th
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: D&S (97 Wyckoff Avenue, second floor, at Hart... L to DeKalb)
Cost: Free ($10 open bar)

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Final Float

This is the last Sunday to checkout Float at the Socrates... "Socrates Sculpture Park is pleased to announce the 2005 edition of Float, a biennial series taking place in the Park on Saturdays and Sundays in August. Launched in 2003, the series was first organized in response to Socrates Sculpture Park's location on the East River waterfront. This year, Float continues to address the environment of the Park, enabling participating artists to test the limits of performative and site-specific practice through a variety of media and formats. Float presents a new selection of temporary artworks that will be installed, performed, activated, and screened throughout the Park on weekends." Check the site for more info.

Date: Sunday, August 27th
Time: 3:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: Socrates Sculpture Park (LIC)
Cost: Free

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Brooklyn Shakers

Tonight at Wooster Arts Space check out the opening for Brooklyn Shakers, a group show of paintings and photographs featuring work by Jaishri Abichandani, Eric Ayotte, Lisa di Donato, Jon Elliott, Gwenessa Lam, Tod Seelie and curated by Kathleen Smith.

Date: Wednesday, August 31st
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: Wooster Arts Space, 147 Wooster
Cost: Free

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Gundelfinger Retrospective

School of Visual Arts presents a retrospective exhibition of the work of John Gundelfinger, illustrator, painter and longtime instructor at the School of Visual Arts. Best known for his misty landscape paintings, which were widely exhibited during his lifetime, the exhibition brings together a diverse body of work including lesser-known drawings, collages and illustrations in addition to the oil paintings. The retrospective--which includes approximately 70 paintings and works on paper--is drawn from the personal collection of Beret Arcaya, who was married to Gundelfinger for twenty years.

Date: Tuesday, September 6th
Time: 9:00am - 8:00pm
Venue: Visual Arts Museum (209 East 23 Street)
Cost: Free

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Drunk Vs. Stoned Soccer Match

A while back we talked about an art exhibit, Drunk vs. Stoned. Well tonight, a series of hand picked artists in hand made jerseys will take to the field to find out which is the best (?) performance enhancing of the pair. Personally, I am going with Drunk because playing soccer after drinking a bottle of Wild Turkey would just cause me to beat the crap out of the other team and after they were lying on the ground, the rest would be a cakewalk. Plus, I think the other team would get distracted after like 5 minutes, take frequent water breaks and really want to lay in the grass and enjoy the day. Of course, only this afternoon's match will decide this age old battle.

Date: Wednesday, September 7th
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Venue: Chelsea Waterside Park on 23 Street (at 11th Ave)
Cost: Free to watch

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Jim Isermann Opening

"Deitch Projects is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by Jim Isermann. Seamlessly covering three contiguous walls in the 18 Wooster gallery with an expansively curving wall system, Isermann will also adapt his modular design to the gallery façade. For this 2,700-panel project, Isermann uses five types of concave quadrilateral-based pyramids, whose slight differences in base shape are perceived as undulating rivulets of disruption." Click here to read more. Continues through October 15th

Date: Wednesday September 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street
Cost: Free

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Garden of Earthly Delights

It's a double Deitch opening again. This time, Raqib Shaw joins the action with some crazy works. "Oriental, psychedelic, surreal, pornographic, and decorative, these works feature efflorescent genetalia put to work by all manner of hybrid creature. In his outrageous private phantasmagoria we find surfaces nippled and crevassed, space enigmatic in a suffused underwater thicket, and time clenched in perpetual orgasm." Catch a review ohf the show here. Continues through October 8th

Date: Wednesday, September 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00 PM
Venue: Deitch Projects (76 Grand Street)
Cost: Free

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Too Many Gallery Openings

So I have already listed a couple of great gallery openings for today but it seems that just about every gallery is changing over either Thursday, Friday, or Saturday of this week. So I will continue to put my picks up but if you want the full score, check out the DKS list. Its my go to resource for openings. You will still have to do some hunting to find out whats right for your but its a great resource to have. Enjoy!

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Awakening Opening

"In a series of 10 color photographs of various sizes, Shochat appropriates the concept of perceived beauty, blending interior with exterior, to highlight the unpredictable boundary between the real and the artificial. Shochat depicts portraits of women and of trees with various calculated backdrops that on first glance look very natural, yet on further observance appear magically produced. Mathematically and logically proportioned, the images that Shochat creates represent a highly composed ephemeral world... where one lives among nature but not reality." Continues through October 22nd.

Date: Thursday, September 8th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: Andrea Meislin Gallery (526 West 26th Street, #214)
Cost: Free

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Sasquatch Society Closing

The Sasquatch Society is definatelly one of the more interesting shows I have seen this summer. It is loosely connect with a love for all things sasquatch and features just about every possible medium from paint to feathers to embroidery and so on. The opening was packed and full of warm PBR. Perhaps the closing will be the same.

Date: Thursday, September 8th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: SixteySeven Gallery (547 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor)
Cost: Free

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Trepanation Series Opening

"Trepanation is one of the oldest medical procedures dating back to the New Stone Age. Performed as a perforation to the cavalarium for cases of splintered fractures of the cranial vault, closed head trauma, and psychotherapeutic treament, the controversial procedure has been practiced in almost every culture and civilization. In The Trepanation Series Constance Brady bores tunnels through found paintings to the sheetrock of the gallery wall below revealing the kindred umbra previously bound inside each canvas. Her method addresses “the stresses conferred upon an artist by painting-as-practice… by blemishing conventionally attractive paintings I have realized and announced true paragons of beauty.” By electively intruding upon a revered surface (the brain; the canvas), a higher level of awareness is exposed." Continues through October 8th. More after the fold.

Date: Thursday, September 8th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: Magnan Projects (317 10th Ave between 28th and 29th)
Cost: Free

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Justine Reyes Opening

Invisible NYC is proud to host a solo-exhibit of photographs by multi-media artist Justine Reyes, entitled "My Uncle Vinny."
For the past two years Ms. Reyes has been painstakingly photographing and documenting her immediate family and their belongings. For her exhibit at Invisible NYC she will present, My Uncle Vinny, a series that juxtaposes large-scale color portraits of her uncle with smaller photographs of his personal objects. Each object is a unique treasure, an artifact deeply imbued with implied history and usage. Through the camera’s lens they are taken from the mundane plane of their everyday existence and transformed into monumental icons.
The show will run from September 8th through October 8th, Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 8:00 PM.

Date: Thursday, September 8th (opening only)
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: Invisible NYC, 148 Orchard Street
Cost: Free

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Double Dam, Stuhltrager

Its another double opening at Dam, Stuhltrager. In gallery one, Mark Esper premieres "Second Orrery", an installation encompassing a whirling tornado. The ethereal twisting column of gasses is reflected in other spiral forms that constitute the work, including a double helix and train running on looped track.

In the other gallery is the New York Debut of Ryan Wolfe. For his New York debut, Ryan Wolfe presents "Sketch of a Field of Grass" an installation that encapsulates the experience of watching the rise and fall of a summer breeze across a field. Just as in a real field, every single blade responds to the wind in a slightly different way. Individual blades in the installation are computationally autonomous, possessing the ability to sense and respond to local environment independently. Continues through October 16th

Date: Friday, September 9th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Venue: Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery (38 Marcy Ave. Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

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Art on Parade

So I am not really sure whether this is an art show, a parade, or an art show on parade, but regardless it should be a damn good time. Deitch has commissioned number of artists, performers and designers to create floats, placards, spectacles and street performances. There aren't too many details available yet, but I do know that Ryan McGinness, Steve Powers (aka Espo) Os Gemeos, Brad Kahlhamer, Kehinde Wiley are all involved. The parade will take place on Grand Street between Crosby and Wooster.

Date: Sarurday, September 10th
Time: 4pm
Location: Deitch Gallery and Grand Street btw Crosby and Wooster
Cost: Free

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Bereavement Art Therapy for Children and Adolescents

"This lecture focuses on art therapy interventions and treatment for children and adolescents with a sudden death or the anticipation of death. The audience will learn the developmental stages of children and adolescents’ understanding of death and dying. A variety of art therapy approaches will be presented along with case presentations."

Date: Monday, September 12th
Time: 6:30 - 8:30pm
Venue: SVA (132 West 21st Street, 3rd floor)
Cost: Free. Attendees must RSVP at 212.592.2610.

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Do Your Like Stuff?

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"Do You Like Stuff? investigates the exploding mass of information that inundates our current reality. From a paranoid desire to make order out of chaos or a brave embrace of entropy, this exhibition focuses on artists with inventive practices of collecting, cataloging and presenting masses of stuff. The young artists presented in Do You Like Stuff? deal with an ever-growing ‘whole’ that has reached gloriously monstrous heights with the current chaotic ordering of digital information."

Date: Tuesday, September 13th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: The Swiss Institute (495 Broadway between Broome and Spring, 3rd Floor)
Cost: Free

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New student center at Parsons

This exhibition will celebrate the creation of a new campus center at Parsons, the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, designed by Lyn Rice Architects. The design of the center will create a new street-level presence for the school at its Fifth Avenue and 13th Street location.
The center will feature public gathering spaces, state-of-the-art galleries, lecture and meeting spaces, a design store, and a new home for the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Archives, a significant collection of drawings, photographs, letters, and objects documenting 20th century design. The exhibition will preview the new center through drawings, models and full-size mock ups of construction details. In addition, Parsons will highlight current and recent work by Lyn Rice Architects, including the Dia:Beacon, and introduce the center’s benefactor, the noted philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television.

Date: Wed, Sep 14 ( Through Tue, Nov 8)
Time: Galleries open Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Venue: 66 Fifth Ave. Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Cost: Free

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Jeanne Silverthorne Lecture

"Jeanne Silverthorne presents her objects as elements in a system of careful analysis or communication: sometimes as pictures in cast-rubber frames, sometimes as parts of a network of rubber pipes and wires. The new scale or context can render images unrecognizable and abstract, placing them in a new poetic realm of subjective interpretation. Silverthorne has exhibited in many galleries and museums in Europe and the United States." Tonight she talks about getting it done.

Date: Wednesday, September 14th
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Parsons Auditoriun (66 Fifth Ave.)
Cost: Free

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Double Drawing Center Openings

It seems that everyone is big on these double openings these days. This time it is The Drawing Center's turn. First its LineAge, a selection of 9 emerging artists who "explore the genealogy of the drawn line in terms of formal development, biographical content, or demarcations of identity." Then its Looking at the Spirits: Peter Minshall's Carnival Drawings which features small intense sketches such as the one above. Both continue through October 29th.

Date: Friday, September 16th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: The Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street between Broome and Grand)
Cost: Free

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S&P Stanikas Opening

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"The question that these artists pose is, at the end of the day, as simple as it is sounds: knowing that we are destined to an inescapable end, why do we invent systems, types of relations that are absolutely destructive and, ultimately, suicidal? This exhibition will showcase a new series of photographs, paintings, drawings, sculpture and video. The Stanikas remain equally faithful to their understanding and masterful knowledge of each of these media, while not seeking to develop a “style” recognizable and designed immediately to offer a “product” tailored solely to the market place." Continues through October 22nd

Date: Friday, September 16th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: White Box (525 West 26th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues)
Cost: Free

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Fire and Beer

"Urban Glass, in Ft. Greene, which is the country's largest public glass facility, will be having their ROCK THE HOT SHOP, featuring three great Brooklyn bands playing in front of the epic scenery of kilns & glass blowing furnaces: APOTHECARY HYMNS (psych/folk/rock), ELECTROLYTE (farfisa-driven instrumental surf) and ST. CHRISTOPHER & THE SLEEPING DOORMEN (roky erickson-via-david byrne art punk)." Unlimited Magic Hat and Sierra Nevada make the cover well worth it

Date: Friday, September 16th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Urban Glass (57 Rockwell Place, 3rd Floor (bet Fulton & DeKalb, Ft. Greene)
Cost: $10

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Floating Island

This week check out Floating Island to travel around Manhattan by Robert Smithson. "Never realized during the artist’s lifetime, Floating Island is a 30 x 90-foot barge landscaped with earth, rocks, and native trees and shrubs, towed by a tugboat around the island of Manhattan. The fabricated “island” will be on view from September 17 to 25, visible to millions of residents, commuters, and visitors along the Hudson and East Rivers." While you have eight days to cath up with the island, tonight is the opening reception. The Floating Island will circle Manhattan on September 18th, 24th and 25th.

Date: Saturday, September 17th
Time: 5pm - 7pm
Location: info given when you RSVP
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Feric Opening

Giant Robot New York is proud to announce Roda, a solo show with Eric Yi Feng. Eric Yi Feng will be exhibiting drawings and animations based on his current venture called Roda. [more after the fold]

Date: Saturday, September 17th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Giant Robot (437 East 9th Street)
Cost: Free

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Almost Something

"In September of 2005 Flux Factory will present Almost Something, a show of subtle, beautiful, and often-strange original works. Artists include Yuji Oshima, Robert McCarren, Reuben Lorch-Miller, Nick Normal, Elodie Huet, Eric Baudart, Jayeon Kwon, Miwa Koizumi, Celine Coville, Kerry Downey, Stefany Anne Golberg, and Marco Scoffier."

Date: Saturday, September 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Flux Factory (LIC, click for directions)
Cost: Free

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Bon Voyage to Water Street!

DUMBO's Smack Mellon gallery is having a little party in honor of their relocation. There will be cocktails (with a $3 "suggested donation"), video projections, a DJ, and a sneak preview of the new space.

Date: Saturday, September 17th
Time: 7:30pm - 12:00am
Venue: Smack Mellon (56 Water Street, DUMBO)
Cost: Free

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Pin-UPStairs Affordable Art

"For anyone who’s ever fancied themselves an aspiring art collector, The Pin-UPStairs is the place to begin. Everything in the exhibition is priced under $500, and most pieces are less than $300. All of the work is shown unframed and hung directly on the walls. Unlike other gallery exhibitions, the work is refreshingly cash/credit and carry, allowing buyers to fall in love and purchase a piece of art on the spot that they can take home with them that day. For the cost of a handbag or a pair of shoes, a client can acquire a piece of original art created by an emerging artist."

Date: Wednesday, September 21st
Time: 6:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Fanelli (94 Prince Street at Mercer, Buzz #2)
Cost: Free

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Tonefield

"TONEFIELD is an audio intervention in the sonic fabric of New York city. Over a large area of the city, in public spaces, a 'field' of tones will be broadcast creating a unique auditory experience for the listening pleasure of the people of New York. Explore the psycho-geographical impact of urban sonics as you drift through the city in an act of spontaneous spatio-temporal composition. Use public space for unsanctioned acts of carefree creativity."

Date: Thursday, September 22st
Time: 4:00pm
Location: See Site
Cost: Free

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Overspray Issue Party

Free drinks, djs, and cheap art from the likes of Evol, Pisa73, and others make this the packed opening of the night. May be worth the crowds though

Date: Thursday, September 22nd
Time: 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: Orchard Street Gallery (139 Orchard Street bet. Delancy and Rivington)
Cost: Free

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Halloween Comes Early

Haloween is still a month away, but the people over at the MF Gallery are like really excited about it, it seems. Their 3rd Annual Halloween Art Show opened last weekend, but tonight is there opening reception. The show will feature work from Lisa Petrucci, Dave Burke, John John Jesse, Eric Pigors, Stephen Blickenstaff, Bob Scott, Derek Hendrickson, Molly Crabapple, Mitch O'Connell, Axel, Douglas Thompson X, Joe Simko, MAGMO, John Detrich, Frank Russo and Martina Secondo Russo. Anyone is really down with Halloween and shows up in costume will get "free treats," whatever that means.

Date: Saturday, September 24th
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Venue: MF Gallery, 157 Rivington St
Cost: Free

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KCDC Art Show

What do you get when you mix art and skateboarding? Hot Boys! Uh, oops, wrong answer. What I meant was Mathew Terwillger, Ryan Gee, Zer, Tim Artz, Jesse Geller, Skrew MSK and Earsnot showing their stuff on the walls of KCDC Skate Shop while the local dudes skate the shop's mini ramp. Expect boys, skateboards, art, and maybe some cheap beers.

Date: Saturday, September 24th
Time: 8pm - 12am
Location: KCDC Skate Shop, 99 N. 10th, Williamsburg
Cost: Free

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Guild the Lily Yard Sale

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Guild the Lily is a loose collective of New York artists. Today they are gathering their power in numbers to hock their handcrafted consumable. Its a great place to get a "just because" gift for your friend or someone special (or yourself.

Date: Sunday, September 25th
Time: 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Secret Project Robot at Monster Island (210 Kent at Metropolitain, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free to attend

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I NY launch party

I NY is a bound collection (re: book) of 325 photographs of NYC taken over the last five years documenting (and questioning) the notion of street art. Tonigh is the opening party with Djs, an open bar, and poster givaways.

Date: Thursday, September 29th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: New Museum for Contemporary Art (556 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free

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For The City

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"For eleven consecutive nights in late September and early October, internationally renowned artist Jenny Holzer and Creative Time will present For The City, a series of light projections at Rockefeller Center (September 29 - October 2), New York University, Bobst Library (October 3 - October 5), and The New York Public Library (October 6 - October 9).At Rockefeller Center and The New York Public Library, light projections of poems that detail hope, pain, and longing will envelop the buildings with beauty and power, fusing location and projection. For the City will include poems by Wislawa Szymborska, Yehuda Amichai, Henri Cole, Mahmoud Darwish, and other celebrated poets. Countering the ubiquity of the sound bite, Holzer offers a range and plurality of viewpoints and voices."

"For the first time in New York, Holzer will project recently declassified United States government documents at Bobst Library, New York University, just south of Washington Square Park. The artist’s public presentation of the documents explores the problem of achieving a just and workable balance between secrecy and transparency. Under the landmark Freedom of Information Act passed in 1966, all of the selected texts are now public record and available to anyone with access to the Internet or libraries such as Bobst, though some remain heavily redacted. Thomas Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, with whom Holzer worked while researching the documents, said, “She turns every surface into a page, she illuminates not only texts but perception, and by projecting these secrets into the night she transforms the words of power into transitory bolts of lightning.”

Date: Thursday, September 28th
Time: Dusk to Midnight
Location: Rochafeller Center (47th and 5th)
Cost: Free

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"Dr. Death"

This is a wierd one so I am giving it to you just as I found it... "An exhibition of art by Jack Kevorkian curated by The Fusion Arts Museum and Baird Jones. * Private free wine reception from 10:30 - 11:30PM. Free admission for you and your guests from 10:30 until 12:30 by saying that you are there for this art show."

Date: Saturday, October 1st
Time: 10:30pm
Location: Spirit Nightclub(540 West 27 St. at 10th Ave)
Cost: Free

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Kurt Kauper Lecture

Kurt Kauper's paintings have, for the past ten years, been images of familiar cultural icons-Opera Divas, Cary Grant, and hockey players.
Kauper has had several solo shows and has participated in many group exhibitions, including the 2000 Whitney Biennial. He has received numerous awards, including a Tiffany Foundation Grant in 1999, the Pollack-Krasner, and two Elizabeth Greenshields grants. His work is included in the collections of The Oakland Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Parsons Auditorium (66 Fifth Ave)
Cost: Free

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Art Against the Wall

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Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Exit Art Fast Track Gallery (475 10th Ave)
Cost: Free

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Vik Muniz Speaks

"Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer (Aperture, September 2005) takes us on a guided tour of the inner workings of artist Vik Muniz’s pyrotechnic imagination. Walking us through each of his major series, Muniz reveals himself as a brilliant writer as well as image-maker. In each chapter, Muniz tickles our minds with amusing anecdotes detailing his working method and unveiling the thinking and historical influences behind his images. His own images explore all possible materials and modes of making photographs, while at the same time making us think about how perception works and what happens in pictures. This book secures Muniz’s role as trickster and philosopher as well as creator of compelling, delightful images." Tonight Muniz speaks and signs.

Date: Thursday, October 06th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Apeture Gallery (547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor)
Cost: Free

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Happy First Thursday

If you are tired of discussing this week's episode of Lost (we are obsessed with this show) around the water cooler all day and are looking for topics with a lil more meat and substance, head over to First Thursday at Iona Bar. Essentially a loose collective of designers and artisist get together, grab a beer and discuss relevent topics of interest. Anyone with an interest in design is welcome.

Date: Thursday, october 6th
Time: 7pm
Venue: Iona Bar, 180 Grand Street, W'burg
Cost: Free

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Big Pimpin'

Sneaker Pimps is back in town this week. No, not the trip hop band, but the touring exhibition of kick ass kicks. If you are a sneaker whore, you need to check them out. Come for the shoes and stay for the Public Enemy preformance with DJ Elle and Robots in a Coma plus a Motug live art instillation featuring FUTURA, LASE, DOZE, GREEN GHOST, SHEPARD FAIREY, TKID 170, EWOK 5MH, CES, DIZMOLOGY, TOOFLY and STASH.

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 8pm
Venue: Avalon, 20th and 6th
Cost: $5

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The Sodium Fox

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I have to admit that we have been light on art events over the past few days. September is kind of like back to school time for the galleries so everything was live and fresh then. Most of that stuff is still up so look through the archives and - if you have not done so already - check out the exhibits by Gary Baseman, Miss Van, Marcel Dzama (all three end Saturday), or Lauri Anderson while they are still up.

But tonight my eye was caught by a 14 minutes video piece, Sodium Fox by Jeremy Blake which examines "internal and external landscapes as similar vessels for subjectivity." The visuals look stunning and the soundtrack is intriguingly created by a Nashville poet/musician named David Berman. While unfamiliar with Blakes work, the press release promises that he creates "formal inventions with a unique and deeply psychological exploration of Pop portraiture." May be worth a visit.

Date: Friday, October 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Feigen Contemporary Gallery (535 West 20th Street)
Cost: Free

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Project Playdate

"Every artist needs a room of her own; that is, a rec room. In PROJECT PLAYDATE artist Amy Beecher invites three unacquainted emerging artists to create art together for a day. On October 7th Beecher will transform the recently opened bodega cum art gallery Diamonds and Oranges into a play room and workshop for artists Orit Ben-Shitrit, Jen Dunlap and Jess Ryan, supplying them with plastic and audiovisual materials for the most productive play date ever." Milk and cookies will be served.

Date: Friday, October 7th
Time: 7:00pm -9:00pm
Location: Diamonds and Oranges (156 1st Ave between 9th and 10th)
Cost: Free

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Open House New York

Its time for the 3rd Annual Open House New York - a celebration of New York Architecture. Finally, you can freely meander through some of the most elequent home's and landmarks in NYC, see how the fancy folks do it up, and check out some of the more historical spots in NYC that you usually have to pay for. High on our list is the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage which usually has an admission charge, but check the site out for a complete list and make an itinerary of your own. Continues Sunday.

Date: Saturday, October 8th
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Various locations throughout the Boros
Cost: Free

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Keep A Breast

Most of us girls are pretty attached to our breasts (literally) and and most of you guys, uh, well, maybe only half of you guys (this is New York after all) like a breast here and there too. Tonight, check out Keep A Breast at the Stay Gold Gallery in the 'Burg. To increase breast cancer awareness in young people Keep A Breast has put together an exhibit of casts of some well known boobies including "Dita Von Tesse, Catherine D'lish, Maya Ford of The Donnas, Rosa Blasi of Strong Medicine, Kelly Hu of X2, Lisa Anderson, Layne Beachley, The Suicide Girls - Brie, Posh, Aiden, Xtine, Bee, and a bevy of beautiful, bold female volunteers from New York, San Diego and Los Angeles." As well as some special guest artists you may have heard of like Foo Fighters, Dj Greyboy, Tom Delonge, Tom Dumont of No Doubt, Adrian Young of No Doubt, Tony Kanal of No Doubt, New Found Glory, Taking Back Sunday, Alkaline Trio, Dj Shadow, Switchfoot, Aaron of Guru Tattoo. There are a whol slew of other artisit involved as well (click here for full list of contributers.) The work will be auctioned off with proceeds benefiting Keep A Breast Youth Awareness Program.

Date: Saturday, October 8th
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Location: Stay Gold Gallery
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Boozing With the Art at Avalon

Its a rainy Saturday, and today is the perfect day to kick back and contemplate the simpler things in life, you know, like this, "Who is the Most Complex Conceptual Artist of Our Time?" Ok fine, thats not a simple one. But if you swing by Avalon (yes, Avalon, thats 3 solid events for them in one week!) tonight you may get an answer to this very question. From 10 'til 12 work from Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Congo The Chimp, Trova, Christo, Robert Rauschenberg,Chris Ofili, and Julian Schnabel will be on view. Admission is free to the mega club for those two hours by saying that you are there for this art show. There is also a "private" open bar from 10 to 11:30, but I'm not really sure what "private" means, so try and get in on that!

Date: Saturday, October 8th
Time: 10pm - 12am
Venue: Avalon, 20th and 6th Ave
Cost: Free

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Sans Soleil

French artist Chris Marker recounts a slide collection of memories from Japan, Africa, and Iceland. "Chris Marker's amazing talent is in the timing of the images and sound, you are lulled into his observations." Accompanied by short films by Elisabeth Smolarz and Marie Daubert. Music by Thomas Mery.

Date: Sunday, October 9th
Time: ???
Location: Flux Factory (click for directions)
Cost: Free

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Resurrections

I usually have a rule that if you can not maintain your own site then I really can't reference your event. But it is another slow Monday so we are going to cut the Latin Collector Gallery some slack even though they have not updated since July.

They are having a photo exhibit and auction this week to raise some funds for Katrina relif. I am unfamiliar with most of their huge laundry list of photographers (see above) but this may be a good way to see some new work and support a good cause. The auction and reception are Wednesday from 6-9.

Date: Monday, October 10th
Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Latin Collector (153 Hudson Street between Hubert and Laight)
Cost: Free

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Edward Burtynsky Speaks

"EDWARD BURTYNSKY’s photographs, monumental in both scale and subject, capture visions of nature that are outside the realm of ordinary experience. His quest to photograph landscapes which have been reshaped through human industry has taken him to recycling yards, oil refineries, quarries, and shipbreaking beaches." Tonight Burtynsky talks about his current exhibit on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery (537 West 24th Street between 10th and 11th).

Date: Monday, October 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Parsons Auditorium (66 Fifth Ave.)
Cost: Free (first come first served)

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Dalek, The Ice-Bot King

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Dalek, famous for invading the street art world with his crazy space monkeys, will be on hand tonight at Kid Robot to sign his latest creation, the Ice Bot. Consider it a classic collectible or an eBay profit maker.

Date: Thursday, October 13th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Kid Robot (126 Prince Street)
Cost: Free

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Ricky Powell is a Powerhouse

Ricky Powell says the first photo he ever had published was "FUTURA 2000 and Keith Haring hangin’ at some opening in June of ’85. It was in The East Village Eye, for the party people section in the back. It was only about two by two inches but my photo credit lookdeded dope! I was like, “Oh Sssit! Even a lazy bum like me can do something worthwhile.” Now, 20 years later, he "has prowled the streets of his native New York, toured the world with hip hop’s biggest acts, and full-on crashed celebrity-studded parties on both coasts. Equipped with only his wits and an instamatic camera, Powell elbowed his way into the center of the scene with no shame." In honor of their new release, Ricky Powell Photographs 1985–2005, powerHouse books has set up an exhibit of Powell's photography. The opening reception is tonight, but the show will be up until November 11th.

Date: Thursday, October 13th
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location: The powerHouse Gallery, 68 Charlton Street
Cost: Free with RSVP

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DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival

For the 9th year in a row, the galleries, businesses, and general art collective that is DUMBO will concentrate there efforts for a long weekend of openings, live art performances, and parties. Many of these events are free and the party continues all weekend so check the site out for full details and to download a map. Perfect Saturday activity.

Date: Friday, October 14th - Sunday, October 16th
Time: Various
Location: Various Locations in DUMBO
Cost: Free

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Mighty McGinness

"Deitch Projects is pleased to present installationview, an immersive installation of new works by Ryan McGinness. The exhibition is an environment of wall paintings punctuated by numerous two-sided circular discs of various sizes. McGinness has titled these new pieces “universals” in reference to the contained universes they represent and the iconic universal language for which McGinness is best known. The flat graphic worlds within each universal take the viewer into various scale-shifting landscapes and transform the gallery into a playful candy-like cosmos with these slick, brightly colored works." Tonight is the opening reception, but the show will be up until November 5th.

Date: Friday, October 14th
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Venue: Deitch Gallery, 76 Grand St
Cost: Free

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Novelties Opening

"For his exhibition at Invisible NYC, Mr. Howard employs recognizable, painted images and icons from various mass-produced publications and advertisements, merged with his own fantastical characters and symbols. The result is a dream-like world comprised of popular images and imaginary creatures. He re-interprets familiar objects through his use of dazzling and dizzying combinations of pattern and vibrant color, recalling large billboard and neon advertisements. The work is a forceful carnival of images, colors, motifs and symbols. The result is pleasing, yet somewhat absurd. The compositions unconventional."

Date: Friday, October 14th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Invisible NYC (148 Orchard Street)
Cost: Free

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Disney... Shocked

It's another heavy art weekend and this is clearly one of the more interesting events. David Willardson, well known for his Disney inspired paintings, will paint live while Michelle Shocked creates and aural backdrop of reinterpereted Disney classics. Check the site for more info.

Date: Friday, October 14th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Animazing Gallery (461 Broome Street between Greene and Mercer)
Cost: Free (RSVP is suggested to (212) 226-7374)

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Antarctica in Central Park

Eight months ago, a team of seven artists and ten crewmembers left Argentina in seach of a rare species rumored to live on an unnamed island in teh Polar Antartic Circle. The entire adventure was documented on film and will be "reproduced" tonight in Central Park.
"A Journey That Wasn’t is an orchestral musical in Central Park based on this journey to Antarctica. Using ice, atmosphere, light, and an original score - written by composer Joshua Cody and performed live on the ice by a symphonic orchestra [artist Pierre{ Huyghe will transform the distant island in Antarctica into musical form. New York-based composer and guitarist Elliott Sharp will be a featured soloist and musical collaborator on the project."

Oh, one more thing... The whole thing will documented as part of this ongoing process. Spectators are invited to sit and watch as the 30 minute film is played three times in a row with subtle pauses to reshoot. Both the audience and the performance will be filmed. Audience members are encourage to wear dark and neutral tones.

Date: Friday, October 14th
Time: Dusk
Location: Wollman Rink, Central Park (click for map)
Cost: Free

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The Plain of Heaven

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Tonight is the launch party for "The Plain of Heaven" with free Pabst and DJ Jonny Cragg. I can't really start to explain this one because there is so much stuff going on but the team over at Creative Time has put together an international art exhibition inspired by the impending redevelopment of the High Line, the disused elevated rail structure that runs up the west side of Manhattan.

“The Plain of Heaven” takes off from this elegiac and exciting moment of transformation to consider how we imagine, and long for, inaccessible spaces; the relationships between transfiguration, destruction and rebirth; the opposition between nature and the urban environment; and more generally, the way in which we re-mystify the world we already know." Check the site for more info, artist talks, and more.

Date: Friday, October 14th
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Courtyard at 832 Washington Street
Cost: Free

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DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival

For the 9th year in a row, the galleries, businesses, and general art collective that is DUMBO will concentrate there efforts for a long weekend of openings, live art performances, and parties. Many of these events are free and the party continues all weekend so check the site out for full details and to download a map. Perfect Saturday activity.

Date: Friday, October 14th - Sunday, October 16th
Time: Various
Location: Various Locations in DUMBO
Cost: Free

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Biskup + Dalek + Plankton = Damn Good Art

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Okay, I promise this is my last art post for the weekend. And I'll be quick as these guys need no introduction to FreeNYC fans.

In a continued effort to present amazing combination openings, the Jonathan Levine Gallery is presenting new works by Tim Biskup, Dalek, and Plankton all in one night. This is like an east coast / west coast art clash at its best as each artist brings his unique, illustrative characters to the canvas. Check the site for full info if you have no idea what I am talking about.

Date: Satruday, October 15th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Jonathan Levine Gallery (529 West 20th Street, 9E)
Cost: Free

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So Rad

Paper Rad are awesome. Its kind of like what would happen if a zine with rabies was using mac paint and BASIC to create art? Don't believe, check the site. This shit is like Q-Bert on acid. I love it. Best of all they have no contained the madness (genious) to a bound book. Imagine that... all that wild art tamed with simple glue.

Tonight the Paper Rad crew are going to DJ and "perform live" for the book launch after their signing at Printed Matter (5-7). So come down, listen to the crazyness and image what it is like to be inside their heads.

Date: Saturday, October 15th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: EAI, 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
Cost: Free

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Play

If DUMBO is a little far to travel for your art fix this weekend, then perhaps you should check out the Play show at Jen Bekman. "Coming off of a hot New York summer with the introduction of winter, the photographic exhibition Play will lighten the mood for the darker months to come, while exploring through pictures the idea behind the broad meaning of this timeless word." Continues through November 12th.

Date: Saturday, October 15th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Jen Beckman Gallery (94 Prince St. #2)
Cost: Free

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DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival

For the 9th year in a row, the galleries, businesses, and general art collective that is DUMBO will concentrate there efforts for a long weekend of openings, live art performances, and parties. Many of these events are free and the party continues all weekend so check the site out for full details and to download a map. Perfect Saturday activity.

Date: Friday, October 14th - Sunday, October 16th
Time: Various
Location: Various Locations in DUMBO
Cost: Free

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Postcards from the Edge

Postcards from the Edge is an AIDS benefit in which over 1400 postcard-sized works of art by renowned and emerging artists displayed anonymously and sold for $50 each. You could end up with a card from Sol Lewitt or some sloppy kid from Pratt. No one knows because the names are on the back. So you really have to trust your taste and buy what you like. Or just come and check it out for free and hopefully they will have free cocktails. Buy five cards and get one free. Proceeds benefit Visual AIDS. Continues Tuesday.

Date: Monday, October 17th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Robert Miller Gallery 524 W. 26th St.
Cost: Free

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Last Night's Anniversary

Unless you have been under a rock in NYC for the last year, you most likely have been in the same room with Bronques, a man whom I envy if only for his ability to get sloppy, drunken girls to get naked for photos. Celebrate his love for the hipster underbelly tonight as the LNP gallery presents a gallery of his last year of adventures. Open Svedka Bar. There is also an afterparty at Happy Ending so click on the flyer for full info.

Date: Tuesday, October 18th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: LNP Gallery (218 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Recent Work: a lecture by Ada Karmi-Melemedi

"Reknowned Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melemedi presents her work, focusing on architecture in the public realm. She will discuss the transformation of public spaces in the urban context and the natural landscape, beginning with the Supreme Court Building in Jerusalem through to the recently completed Open University Campus in northern Tel-Aviv."

Date: Thursday, October 20th
Time: 6:15 - 7:30
Location: Parsons (2 West 13th Street - Glass Corner, 2nd Floor)
Cost: Free

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Transitio_NYC

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This is kind of psychogeography on a huge scale. Transio_NYC is a 40 minute video loop of street life in Nanning and Shanghai, China, being projected billboard style on the streets of NYC. The larger life of this project, Solange Fabião, is dedicated to a sort of cross parallel examination of modern city life. The loop can be seen on the corner of Canal and Centre through the end of the month. Tonight is the opening party at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

Date: Thursday, October 20th
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Storefront for Art and Architecture (97 Kenmare Street between Mullberry and Center)
Cost: Free

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War Making

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Joseph Ari Aloi, Kevin Devine, Dan Funderburgh, and more present individual perspectives on both war and nature. The work within the War Making show aims to explore the wars role within humanity and the individuals place within that war.

Date: Thursday, October 20th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Riviera Gallery (103 Metropolitan Ave between Berry and Wythe, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
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Seaport Free Fridays

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Once a month, the South Street Seaport Museum opens its doors for free. Tonight is that night with a special halloween tinged evening. Events include maskmaking and a tour of the hidden secrets of Schermerhorn Row by torchlight. Tour tickets on a first come and first served basis. Tour begins at 6pm sharp.

Date: Friday, October 21st
Time: 6:00pm
Location: South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton Street)
Cost: Free

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Cole Gerest Opening

"Stay Gold Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition for the artist Cole Gerst. Current and Resistance will feature paintings, prints, t-shirts, and several examples of his commissioned design work. As an independent artist, Gerst paints, makes prints, designs t-shirts, and also has a monthly comic, LaLa Land, appearing in the LA Weekly. He has had solo shows at Koo's Art Gallery in Long Beach, L Salon in Hollywood, Black Market Gallery in Los Angeles, and Magpie in San Diego." After Party with DJ's, dancing, and free Pilsner Urquell from 10 - 11 at Savalas (285 Bedford Ave. btw S. 1st & Grand).

Date: Friday, October 21st
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Stay Gold Gallery (451 Grand St. between Keap & Union, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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The Pony Project

The My Little Pony was a staple in my life as a little girl in the 80s. We're talking ponies here people, and lots of them, plus castles and stables and tiny litle pony maine brushes. Well its good to know that other people share in my nostalgia as The Pony Project opens tonight.

"Hasbro has invited a group of talented women to transform oversized versions of this iconic toy into works of art. Each artist will receive an 18 inch tall blank My Little Pony figure. Using their creativity, the artists are being challenged to customize these figures from their own perspectives. This creative challenge, given to exceptional women in the fields of fashion, fine art, illustration, photography and graffiti, will result in an exhibition set to debut in New York City’s Milk Gallery on October 21st 2005." Tonight is the opening, but the show runs through the 25th.

Date: Friday, October 21
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Venue: Mike Gallery, 450 West 15th
Cost: Free

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Panelist Show

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Giant Robot - one of NYC favorite purveyors of cool toys, books, and art "stuff" - has compiled an exhibit of 20 of their favorite comic artists. Included in the line-up is is FreeNYC favorite David Choe amongst many talented others. We are admittedly not very versed in comics because we spend all our time writing for this website. Tonight is a good chance to change that. Continues through November 16th.

Date: Saturday, October 22nd
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Giant Robot New York (437 East 9th Street)
Cost: Free

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Shut Up and Rock Art Show III

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Beer (not sure if its free though), Art, and Punk Rock... what more do you need to know. Live Music by: Check Your Face, Bombtown, and Bloodshot Hooligans. Dozens of artists. Really, what else are you doing this early on a Saturday.

Date: Saturday, October 22nd
Time: 7:00pm
Location: East River Bar (96 South 6th Street & Berry)
Cost: Free

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Heinz Edelmann Opening

"School of Visual Arts (SVA) honors Heinz Edelmann, one of the leading art directors, illustrators and designers of our time, with its Masters Series Award and retrospective exhibition. Every year, SVA bestows the award to a groundbreaking visual artist, designer, photographer or illustrator who, over the course of his/her career, has been recognized as a great visual communicator.

The exhibition will include over 100 posters, screen prints, magazine spreads, book designs, animations and comic books spanning Edelmann’s prolific career. His work is internationally known, and he has been actively working in Germany, England and the Netherlands since the late ‘50s, doing design, illustration, advertising and animation. Unlike many designers working today, Edelmann has never made a clear distinction between the role of the designer and the role of the illustrator, and the majority of his designs for books, magazines and posters use his own illustrations. He was always a solo operation with no assistants, and was able to create a new technique or style for each job, depending upon its needs. 'I was always a one-man band' says Edelmann, 'I was my own art director, illustrator, designer and paster-uper and I also swept the floor and made the coffee.'”

Date: Monday, October 24th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Visual Arts Museum (209 East 23 Street)
Cost: Free

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White Box Viewing

Check out White Box to get an early look at all the art work they will be auctioning off at their benefit auction and seventh birthday party. Starting the 25th about all the work will be on view at White Box. The event will commence on the 29th, with the party kickin' it off at 6 and the final bidding at 8. Come for the art and stay for the birthday cake!

Date: Tuesday,October 25th
Time: 12pm - 7pm daily
Venue: White Box, 525 West 26th St
Cost: Free

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Syrup, not the Girls

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"Syrup invites you to explore your expectations. Stir your thoughts. Wander into a world and take part in an exhibition of inspiration." Okay... sounds interesting at least. Maybe the site has more info? Looks like free Amstel and Heineken.

Date: Tuesday, October 25th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: The Newspace (530 West 21st Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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White Box Bidding

Check out White Box to get an early look at all the art work they will be auctioning off at their benefit auction and seventh birthday party. Starting the 25th about all the work will be on view at White Box. The event will commence on the 29th, with the party kickin' it off at 6 and the final bidding at 8. Come for the art and stay for the birthday cake!

Date: Saturday, October 29th
Time: 6pm
Venue: White Box, 525 West 26th St
Cost: Free

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New Work New York

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Photobloggers unite! We need some of these guys working with us... The New York City Photobloggers get together for a new show starting tonight. Photoblogging is a very "real" view of NYC... scene without the lighting and makeup that the more traditional outlets rely on. The result is a little more grit, a little more beauty, and a little more truth. Check it out tonight. Show continues through November 19th

Date: Thursday, November 3rd
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Chrystie Street Gallery (167 Chrystie Street, 2nd floor)
Cost: Free

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Green Lady Opening

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Gary Benzel and Todd St. John, better know as the collaborative project Green Lady, are some of the innovators on the street-cum-commerce game. St. John is also quite well known as film/video/design project HunterGather. Tonight is the opening for Builded, an exhibit of some of their most recent work. The show is also a part celebration for the release of the Green Lady 10th Anniversary Book. Show continues through November 20th

Date: Thursday, November 3rd
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Riviera (103 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Imagescape Estonia

"In Imagescape Estonia - New York Scherrer is as interested in the images that are projected as in the landscape the images are projected onto. Footage of abstracted nature was collected during a residency at the Polli Talu Arts Center in rural Estonia. These moving images are projected into one of the East Village's beautiful Community Gardens, illuminating the autumn leaves of the trees and bushes, the flowers and the walls of the surrounding buildings, shaping the garden into a new, mysterious land and lightscape. The garden becomes part of the projections - the projections part of the garden."

Date: Friday, November 4th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Green Oasis Community Garden (East 8th Street between Avenues C & D)
Cost: Free

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Hypnogoogia Opening

I can't put this any better than the press release... a perfect "hazy afternoon" if you ask me... " Deitch Projects is pleased to present Hypnogoogia, a collaborative installation by Jim Drain and Ara Peterson. In this incredible cumulative show, 18 Wooster St. will be transformed into an interactive, spinning landscape- a psychedelic music of the spheres- featuring work produced by the artists over the past two years. Moving through corridors of rainbow pinwheels, a huge kaleidoscope hallway, and four exactingly gorgeous geodesic sphere-shaped paintings rotating slowly on the ground and ceiling, the viewer becomes immersed in their lyrical, spherical environment. Hypnotically spinning on the first platform is a twelve-foot rainbow ottoman, and above, almost absurdly surveiling this rotating, morphing, glowing heterotopia is a chromed set of stocks. All pieces are bathed in the skylight-altering light disks that slowly mix the primary colors onto the artscape below." Continues through December 24th.

Date: Friday, November 4th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street)
Cost: Free

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DRIFT

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"Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS] is pleased to present DRIFT, a collaboration between musician/poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth and visual artist Leah Singer. This exhibition features a one-hour installation version of DRIFT, an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds, and texts by Ranaldo in response to Singer’s dual projection 16mm analytical film system. The exhibition also includes collaborative and individual works on paper, films, and sound works. DRIFT has been performed live in museums, galleries, concert halls and performing arts centers worldwide since 1991, most recently at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the Robert Smithson retrospective."

Date: Friday, November 4th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Gigantic Art Space (59 Franklin Street)
Cost: Free

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Shoot weekend

For the next 3 days, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in Williamsburg will present Shoot, an hour long currated collection of 15 short films culled from over 150 selections from around the world. There are various show times and all are free but you can email to reserve a spot. Check the site for full info as there is too much to write here. Continues through the 6th.

Date: November 4th
Time: First show, 8:00pm
Location: Dam Stuhltrager (38 Marcy Ave)
Cost: Free

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Eye of Perception VJ Performance

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Glass Bead Collective's Eye of Perception is a live VJ performance, combined with a live DJ performance, and all shot on a dome above your head. Its kind of like the Pink Floyd laser light show times 100. This particular production was created for the FocFeria festival this summer and will be shown for one time only here in New York. Great way to start out your night. Freestyle DJing will follow the piece.

Date: Friday, November 4th
Time: 10:00pm - 2:00am
Location: 75 Greene Street (between Spring and Broome)
Cost: Free

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24-Hour Incidental

"The Swiss Institute is pleased to announce 24-Hour Incidental, a one-day program of simultaneous performance works by 10 visual artists, as part of Performa05. From noon to noon, the SI will host a marathon of work by 10 innovative synthesizers of visual art and performance. Works will range from the necessarily interactive, as with Karl Holmqvist's project involving visitor's favorite songs from the Magnetic Fields' album 69 Love Songs, to the virtually immaterial, as with Jason Dodge's piece Kristin Larson has been to the South Pole, which consists simply of an anonymous visit from Ms. Larson. 24-Hour
Incidental will intersect two days, carving out an irregular passage of time and space. Projects will start and finish, overlap, interfere and ultimately wash away within the parameters carved out by the project's curator, artist Jordan Wolfson. More after the fold. Found on NonsenseNYC.

Date: Saturday, November 5th
Time: 12:00pm (until 12:00pm Sunday)
Location: Swiss Institute (495 Broadway, third floor)
Cost: Free

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David Salle Opening

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I Don't know much about David Salle but his Vorex Painting series is opening tonight. If you are doing the Saturday Chelease art crawl thing then this may be a great spot to end with a cocktail as most of the other galleries will close around 6.

Date: Saturday, November 5th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Mary Boone Gallery (541 West 24th Street)
Cost: Free

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The Ganzfeld 4: Art History? - Book Signing with PAPER RAD!

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Artists Julie Doucet (Me Most Secret Desire), Gary Panter (Jimbo in Purgatory, Pee Wee's Playhouse), Paper Rad (Paper Rad, B.J. and
da Dogs), and Dan Sandlin (The Avengelist) will be on hand at Giant Robot tonight to celebrate and sign the latest installment of The Ganzfeld, an anthology covering the gamut of art, design, comics, and more. More info on The Ganzfeld after the fold.

Date: Saturday, November 5th
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: Giant Robot New York (437 East 9th Street)
Cost: Free

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Picture This...

"Picture Israel offers a fresh look at everyday life in Israel from a group of both new and veteran photographers, most of whom have never before exhibited their work.

The nine photographers go beyond the standard images found in the media to capture the diversity of the people and landscapes of contemporary Israel. Sometimes sublime, sometimes commonplace, always immediate and complex, these images range from Miki Kratsman's photographs of children from the Palestinian village of Carmel swimming in a reservoir filled with algae, to Rina Castelnuovo's powerful images of families evacuating from Gaza. Each artist brings his or her own vision and style, be it intimate portrait, natural landscape or photomontage."

Date: Monday, November 7th
Time: 10 am -6pm
Venue: Andrea Meislin Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 214
Free

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Three Cities Against the Wall

"Three Cities Against the Wall is an exhibition protesting the Separation Wall under construction by Israel in the Occupied Territories of Palestine. This project involves groups of artists in Ramallah, Palestine; Tel Aviv, Israel; and New York City. The show will be held simultaneously in all three cities in November 2005. Through this collaborative exhibition, the organizers and participating artists will draw attention to the reality of the Wall and its disastrous impact on the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the separation of Palestinian communities from each other and from their fertile lands, water resources, schools, hospitals and work places; thereby "contributing to the departure of Palestinian populations," as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has warned." Continues through December 8th.

Date: Wednesday, November 9th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: ABC No Rio (156 Rivington Street) and 6th Street Community Center (638 East 6th Street)
Cost: Free

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Goldmine Shithouse Teeshirt Throwdown

Goldmine Shithouse is having another screenprinting marathon out at their studios. Bring whatever you want screened (tees, jackets, panties, etc.), pay the boys $5, and their hook it up for you. There will also be some limited edition pre-made tees on sale. I am sure you can probably go and watch the madness for free.

Date: Thursday, November 10th
Time: 5:00pm
Location: David Hochbaum Studio (93 Second Ave #1)
Cost: Free to watch, $5 to screen

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Talisman of Doom

Talisman of Doom, Chris Caccamise's second solo show at the Sixtyseven gallery is opening tonight with a series of cut paper, painted, and enameled sculptures dealing with domestic and industrial iconography. Sixtyseven openings are always really approachable and the last one had a PBR pyramid which is pretty lax for a Chelsea gallery. official release - which says it all way better than I can - after the fold. Show continues through December 10th.

Date: Thursday, November 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: SixtySeven (47 West 27 Street, 3rd fl)
Cost: Free

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Black, White, and Modern All Over

Whether your in college or just like to pretend that you still are, here is a free night at The Met for you...

"In celebration of modern art at the Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art's College Advisory Committee will host its second FREE party and after-hours viewing of art on Thursday, November 10, from 8-11pm. The evening will feature a black-and-white theme, with students encouraged to dress accordingly. A reception will take place in the Museum's Great Hall, and the entire Modern Wing of the Metropolitan as well as parts of its Greek Galleries and galleries for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas will be open. In addition, the evening represents a special opportunity for guests to view the new exhibition Santiago Calatrava: Sculpture into Architecture.

The party will also feature desserts and drinks, student DJs and performers, special Met prom pictures, for which guests pose and take- home as souvenirs, and a number of additional interactive activities throughout the evening"

Date: Thursday, November 10
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cost: Free with RSVP

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The Rumors Are True

Rumors of War is "a painting installation by Kehinde Wiley inspired by the history of equestrian portraiture. The installation features four larger-than-life canvases each updating a specific Old Master painting with a contemporary sitter, framed in custom-designed ornate, gilded frames. Soaring to heights of over nine feet, the paintings’ exaggeration of scale and high-keyed cinematic colour highlight Wiley’s interest in the aestheticization of power and masculinity.

Retaining the trappings of power implied in their sources, Wiley reproduces the rippling shoulders of thoroughbreds, the baroquely billowing fabrics, and the vague, idealized pastoral backgrounds-- but instead of polished riding boots in the gilded stirrups, we find Nike High-tops." But whether you are looking for the stirrups or the Nikes you should swing by Deitch for tonights opening.

Date: Friday, November 11th
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Venue: Deitch Gallery, 76 Grand Street
Cost: Free

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Bill Viola Opening

Video artist Bill Viola is my quite hero of video art. While people such as Paper Rad are out there making acid-inspired video works that remind me of the early rave days, Viola is studying the sublte colors of dawn over an old oak tree. This new exhibition of his works features two large projects and a flat screen work. His work transends conciousness and is well rooted in pan-religious enlightenment. This show is highly recommended but I suggest not only going to the opening tonight but on your lunch hour when you can contemplate the work in peace. Continues through December 22nd

Date: Friday, November 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: James Cohan Gallery (533 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free

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Tiffany Pollock

A comparison show of the art of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Jackson Pollock. "It will feature paintings and drawings by Pollock and lamps, vessels, enamels, a stained-glass window, and other objects by Tiffany from three prominent collections." Continues through December 23rd.

Date: Friday, November 11th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: The Jack Tilton Gallery (8 East 76th between Madison and 5th)
Cost: Free

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David Hollier's Club27

So yeah, you are stuck in Brooklyn this weekend. So yeah, the L sucks. So yeah, go check this art show out after you go to BAP. David Hollier's "Club27 is a remembrance of the lives of some of the most influential contemporary musicians. Although they achieved musical greatness and, in most cases, global recognition they all died at the age of 27. The list begins with Robert Johnson, a Mississippi Bluesman, who died in 1938 and includes, amongst others, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison D. Jones and Kurt Cobain. In astrology, the age of 27 represents a pivotal point called ‘Saturn Return’. In every one of these cases, whether the cause of death was falling asleep at the wheel on the way back from a gig, or gruesomely violent suicide, the music led them to their deaths. Now it is the music that keeps them alive." David is a good man and one of the bartenders at Spuyten Duyvil to boot. This show comes highly recommended for wasting away your Saturday night. Cocoa Cracker Brown from Nublu spins.
DJ set from Cocoa Cracker Brown (Nublu).
Opening: Saturday 12th November at 6pm
@ Supreme Trading :213 North 8th Street btwn Driggs and Roebling
www.club-27.com | www.davidhollier.co.uk

Date: Saturday, November 12th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Supreme Trading (213 North 8th between Driggs and Roebling)
Cost: Free

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Powell Party

Well we told you about the Ricky Powell Powerhouse exhibit when it opened, and tonight we wish it a fond goodbye as it heads west to Cali. After you check out the gallery head over to double happiness for free vodka drinks from 10 'til 11.

Date: Saturday, November 12th
Time: 7pm - 9pm (closing party at gallery)
Venue: Powerhouse Gallery, 68 Charlton St.
Cost: Free

Date: Saturday, November 12th
Time: 10pm (after-party)
Venue: Double Happiness, 173 Mott Street
Cost: Free

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Modernity Yu, Yu Got What I Need

"Modernity in YU deals with the modernism of Yugoslavia in its communist or more precisely Titoist era. The sculptural works in this series are remakes of modernist partisan monuments. The original partisan monuments were erected as heroic gestures throughout Yugoslavia, according to designs that appealed to a lingering belief in utopian ideals. In contrast, Lulic's works are small, some the size of a nightstand, while others measure as large as six-cubic feet..." Tonight from 6:30 to 7:30, Marko Lulic will present his projects and screen Mysteries of Disco, 2000, The Moderns (Vienna), 2005, and Lulic House No.1 (Weekend Utopia), 2005.

Date: Tuesday, November 15th (runs through December 23rd)
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30 pm
Venue: Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street
Cost: Free

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Dirt Reynolds

The boys from Goldmine Shithouse do more than just screen your clothing for you. They also make art of some sort. Come find out which sort at their gallery opening tonight.

Date: Wednesday, November 16th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Metalstone Gallery (175 Stanton)
Cost: Free

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Tantamounter 24/7

In one of the more interesting art installations/performances I have heard about this year, the Viennese art collective "Gelitin" will spend 7 straight days in an enclosed "copy-duplicator-transformation maching" at the Leo Koenig Gallery. Visitors are invited to insert and object, idea, or smell into the machine and - after an announced waiting time - the machine with "export" the result out the other end. The machine will be a sealed chamber for 7 days and the artists will not be able to leave. Wish I had a picture so I knew what this looked like because it sounds crazy. Continues through the 23rd

Date: Wednesday, November 16th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Leo Koenig, Inc. (545 West 23rd)
Cost: Free

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Painting Flowers and Diaries

Nobuyoshi Araki is the man when it comes to japanese erotic photography. Whether shooting the red light distict, bondage, or erotic photos of his own wife, Araki has a eye for the subtle beauty of lusty extremes. This exhibit, however, also includes another side of his work. Painting Flower is a 2004 series of wax flowers daubed with glowing paint. The result is both subtle and haunting. These images share the gallery with Araki's Diaries which is a collection of "bound women, autoerotic transgressions that transcends confinement, discipline, hierarchy and ritual compression. Highly recommended and continues through January 14th.

Date: Thursday, November 17th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Anton Kern Gallery (532 West 20th Street)
Cost: Free

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Dust by Alexandre Arrechea

What? Blown glass punching bags? What? Each contains "debris from a specific ciy that has great significance to the artist?" That's Crazy! Magnan Projects presents the first solo U.S. exhibition for Alexandre Arrechea, former member of the internationally renowned Cuban artist collaborative Los Carpinteros. More info after the fold. Continues through January 7th

Date: Thurday, November 17th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Mangan Projects (317 10th Ave)
Cost: Free

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Damon Soule at Kid Robot

"Painter and sculptor Damon Soule will be on-hand to sign KR08 Tengu, the latest installment to the Kidrobot vinyl figure line. 3 versions of the figure will be available that night. Refreshments will be served."

Date: Thursday, November 17th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Kid Robot (126 Prince Street)
Cost: Free

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Re:Vision (late entry

Getting this one up at the last minute so if you are down then RSVP now... "The re:vision project is the effort to self-publish the book in a unique and independent manner. Starting November 7 and running through December 9, all photos on [their] site are available for $85. Sales will go directly to the first printing of the book. Purchase of a photo, entitles you to receive one advanced copy of the 176 page book. Each image is 8x10 and printed on high quality gloss photo paper." Tonight is the launch party.

Date: Thursday, November 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Dactyl Foundation for the Arts (64 Grand Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Made in the UK Continues

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Made in the UK, an exhibit of Janette Beckman's photographs documenting the UK's music scene between 1977 and 1983. Included in the show are photographs of Joe Strummer, The Bean, The Specials, and more. Continues through December 23rd.

Date: Friday, November 18th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: MK Gallery (103 Havermeyer Street, Store 3, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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FEAST 2005

"FEAST is the fifth annual student-organized push-pin exhibition of photography sponsored by PhotoFEAST, the Parsons Photography Department Student Group. Every year photography students from Parsons, The School of Visual Arts, NYU-Tisch, Cooper Union and LaGuardia Community College come together at FEAST to exhibit their current photographs."

Date: Friday, November 18th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Parsons, 66 Fifth Ave. 3rd Floor
Cost: Free

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The Wide World of Toys

Toy2R, Stephan Weiss Studio and YoyaMart have joined forces for a world wide touring exhibition of Art Toys. Toy2R are right up there with Medicon as kings of this game so expect some great rarities and new releases from the likes of Baseman, Kosik, and the rest of the usual hooligans to make your adult-toy-collecting heart pitter patter. Show contunues through the weekend from 12pm - 8pm. [found via WUNY]

Date: Friday, November 18th
Time: 7:30pm - 10:30pm
Location: The Stephan Weiss Studio (711 Greenwich Street)
Cost: Free

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Art is a Smile That Gives You a Hug

Giant Robot New York announces Art is a Smile That Gives You a Hug - an exhibition by Andrew Jeffrey Wright. Andrew Jeffrey Wright will be showcasing original paintings, drawings, screen prints, photos and collages of his most recent work.

As the founding member of Space1026, a creative community / gallery in Philadelphia, Andrew Jeffrey Wright is a front-runner for the Pennsylvania's burgeoning, underground art scene. Wright's artwork exemplifies a range of concepts using a kaleidoscope of colors, pop-culture references, and absurd humor. The multi-faceted artist procures his adventurous style working in mediums ranging from animation, video and photography to painting, print making, and sculpture. In keeping with his fortitude for zine production, Wright is creating a limited edition run of hand-made books especially for his GRNY opening.

Date: Saturday, November 19th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Giant Robot New York (437 East 9th Street)
Cost: Free

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The Plain of Heaven Closing

For the past month or so, Creative Time have taken over a disused elevated rail structure that runs up the west side of Manhattan and converted it into an amazing art space. The line is going to be destroyed at the completion of the project. Well, tonight is the final night of The Plain of Heaven and the only time that Trisha Donnelly’s sound installation will play (from 5:40 - 6:00pm). Highly recommended if you have not yet seen this exhibit.

Date: Sunday, November 20th
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: 820 Washington Street
Cost: Free

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Sugar Sugar

Dreading the trip home this week? Needing something to take your mind off turkey? Beer and cartoons oughta do it. Tonight Club Sugar will do a free 90 minute screening of animated shorts. Happy hour will run from 5 to 7 and then the screening begins at 8(ish). Animation line up after the fold.

Date: Tuesday, November 29th
Time: 8pm
Venue: Club Sugar, 311 Church Street
Cost: Free

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Taqueria Pendejo

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Abe Lincoln Jr. is best none for all those cute little bird paste-ups that you see around the LES (or that I see at least). Tonight he has teamed up with Kid Robot to turn the Orchard Street Art Gallery into a virtual taco stand as a terribly creative and delicious art installation. "Showcasing both his vector work, a new series of his hand rendered pieces and 4 t-shirt designs for both men and women. 'Super Pendejo Meals' will be available while supplies last (complete with a veg or chicken taco and beer). Strictly limited edition, Abe’s art will be packaged in signed and numbered boxes commemorating the opening of Abe’s show and the opening of 'Taqueria Pendejo.'” The First 50 people get free toys from Kid Robot.

Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Orchard Street Art Gallery (139 Orchard Street)
Cost: Free

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Faux Real

Tracey Middler, Anna Gallof and Gabe Godin drop some of their latest arworks at this Avenue B gallery.. Continues through Dec. 23rd. Thats about all I know about this one.

Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Philip Alan Gallery (30 Avenue B between 2nd and 3rd)
Cost: Free

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Tarred and Feathered

Time and time again Riviera hits us with great art shows. They are street without being full of graffiti and spray paint, contemporary but accessible, and always inspiring. Tonight signifies the opening of Tarred and Feathered, a group show featuring Kiersten Essenpreis, Anthony Macbain, Ted Mcgrath and Holly Stevenson. I don't know much about it - beyond the image above - but I can only assume more great stuff as usual. A must see if you are in Williamsburg tonight.

Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Riviera (103 Metropolitan & Wythe, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Myths, Legends, Ghosts, and Demons

Jason Loui, owner and operater of Redemption Tattoo in Cambridge, is one of the unique voices in tattoo-inspired art today. Loui intermingles Japanese folklore and ghost stories into contemporary tattoo motifs to create a very unique voice. Tonight these styles come alive in the form of watercolor paintings. "The show presents both triptychs as well as large-scale individual paintings. An otherworldly, nightmarish landscape spills from each work while the subjective elements flow throughout the exhibit. A totem of images in one painting recalls the severed heads and venomous ghosts in another work. The overall effect is unsettling, but also delicately beautiful through Mr. Loui’s unique, contemporary take on the fragility of Japanese folklore and aesthetic." Continues through February 18th

Date: Thursday, December 1st
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Invisible NYC (148 Orchard Street)
Cost: Free

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In Flux

Stay Gold Gallery big ups BK based artists with its newsest exhibition In Flux. "What does it mean to be in flux? The transformation is not complete: There is a piece of ourselves that grasps the past, a piece of ourselves that grapples with the present, and a piece of ourselves that glimpses the future. These segments of our emotional being churn inside of us while at the same time our rational thought tries to make sense of the chaos." These ideas will be conveyed through Haley Hara’s oil paintings, Miranda Hellman’s silk screens, the photography of Helena Petersen and Lara Robby, with the ideas fo love and loneliness exemplified through Jess Levey’s series of projected images of an online dating experience. The show will run thorugh January 8th, but tonight is the opening, so expect a crowd but probably some free beer to got with it.

Date: Friday, December 2nd
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Venue: Stay Gold Gallery, 451 Grand St. Brooklyn
Cost: Free

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Hard Times 2

Tonight is round two of Halcyon's Hard Times benefit. A $5 donation gets you an open Svedka vodka and a chance to buy some amazing $100 pieces of art donated by a variety of artists. The artist list is a well guarded secret at this point but I will tell you that there is a nice Dave Kinsey drawing hanging in my apartment as a result of this show. DJs Justin Strauss, Brennan Greene, and Qool DJ Marv provide the audio backdrop.

Date: Friday, December 2nd
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Halcyon Gallery (57 Pearl Street, DUMBO)
Cost: $5

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Bucked Eyed Fury

Don't really know anything about this one but if you are down with street art, designer toys, and plush then this may be up your alley.

Date: Friday, December 2nd
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Showroom NYC (117 2nd Ave, 2nd floor)
Cost: Free

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Breaking the Light

"Whirling around like a dervish, I race past a horde of onrushing Times Square traffic at night. I dodge a turning taxicab and aim a camera. My instincts take over. To know too much will obstruct my work. I attempt to reveal the asymmetric architecture of lights hidden in the blazing signs of Broadway. I hardly notice honking horns, screaming sirens and throngs of tourists. I trust my intuitive vision to reveal what I cannot see."

Harvey Lloyd paints photographs... (not so) plain and (not so simple). 40 years of photographic experimentation have led to the creation of abstract canvases in both soft and hard color washes as he documents city streets, jazz musicians, and everyday life. Tonight is the opening of Breaking the Light, an exhibition on long, single exposure in urban settings. There is a party and live music afterwards... highly recommended as a fantastic alternative to the usual Friday bar hop.

Check out Harvey Lloyd's Charlie Decker Jazz series

Date: Friday, December 2nd
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Canal Chapter Gallery (343 Canal Street, 4th Floor between Greene and Wooster)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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First Saturday... Again

I know at this point we have really pounded the idea of the Brooklyn Museum's First Saturday into your heads, but here is a refresher course. If you cross over the East River, living in the shadows of other more popular and well known art museums, you will find the Brooklyn Museum. With 560,000 square feet on its side, and minus the heavy foot traffic that most Manhattan Museums tend to get from tourists, this museum has a lot going for it. Every first Saturday of the month admission is free in the afternoon (thanks to big name corporate sponsorship, but we dont have to talk about that), and there are a slew of events for the whole fam. This month check out the Burtynsky exhibit. Click here for the day's line up.

Date: Saturday, December 3rd
Time: 5pm -11pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Cost: Free

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Brad Nelson Photography

"Brad Nelson is a self-taught photographer hailing from the City of Angels. Brad began studying photography 14 years ago in a studio. Since then his work has graced the pages of Esquire, ESPN Magazine, Vapors Magazine, Time Out New York, and GQ."

Date: Saturday, December 3rd
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Race Lifestyle Boutique (258 Bergen Street, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

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Los Super Elegantes

"Collaborative performance art team Los Super Elegantes returns to the Whitney at Altria for a record release and listening event for Tunga’s House Bar, the eclectic pop soundtrack to their Whitney Biennial 2004 performance. As musicians, playwrights and visual artists, Los Super Elegantes mix original music with live theatrical stage performances — engaging a range of venues and collaborating with fellow artists. This is part of Topic Magazine's Breakout Sessions: Using an 'open studio' format, the series provides rare access to artists’ visual inspirations ranging from works of fellow artists to elements of pop culture." [swiped from Gemini and Scorpio]

Date: Monday, December 5th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria (120 Park Avenue at 42nd St)
Cost: Free

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Jenisfamous... And So Is The New Lindsay

Well ladies and not so gentle-men, I would like to inform you all that FreeNYC has yet another new writer on our team. Now here comes the confusing part... her name is also Lindsay, so we will have to think of a nickname for her. Anyway, we dont have her fully set up yet but we wanted to you to get a taste of what she will offer, so see her very first post below...

Tonight CBGB's gallery hosts a free birthday party for the Jenisfamous Spectacular that normally plays at Petes Candy Store every month. Featuring burlesque performances, live old music and comedy. There is also a hula hooping contest open to all, and prizes for best dressed '20 - '50s costumes. Art by Molly Crabapple from the illustrated Jenisfamous Portable Comedy Compendium, an art book available in 2006, will be on display in the gallery.

Date: Tuesday, December 6th
Time: 8pm - 12am
Venue: CB's Gallery, 313 Bowery, between 1st and 2nd st
Cost: Free

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I am Beautiful

3 contemporary Japanese painters make their NYC debut at this group show. Yoshitaka Azuma, Yoriko Kita, and Sakiko Kurita each have a unique relationship with contemporary Japanese society. "Post-War Japan’s image of an infallible utopia of logic, now revealed as fiction, and the economic bubble period’s utopia of overheated, ephemeral hedonism, now collapsed, have left in their wake an alienated populace. In the midst of this, these artists express an unprecedented new generation of beauty through works that affirm subjective feeling." Continues through January 28th.

Date: Thursday, December 8th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: PH Gallery (547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor)
Cost: Free

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I was There

For the past 9 years, Michal Heiman has been teaching art and art criticism in various Israeli universities and schools. Tonight, she presents a collection of photographs that she has either taken or collected over those years. "Using these photographs as backdrop, Heiman incorporates text and her own portrait to create new meanings. The result is a fusion of past and present, word and image. These pictures address artistic, cultural, national and psychological issues. As a result, they lend themselves to multiple readings, encouraging the viewer to give free rein to his or her imagination."

Date: Thursday, December 8th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Andrea Meislin Gallery (526 West 26th Street, Suite 214
Cost: Free

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Russia 2: Bad News from Russia

Originally debuting at the Moscow Biennial in January, Russia 2 presents the cutting edge of avant-guard Russuan Art. These pieces approach many usually taboo topics such as Chechnya, religion, and the figure of the president. continues through January 11th. Special performances on the night of the 15th.

Date: Thursday, December 8th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: White Box (525 West 26th)
Cost: Free

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Weapons of Mass Attraction

"High School Lab Specialist by day, self-proclaimed dumpster diver by night; artist Stuart Ross presents Weapons of Mass Attraction at Astor Place Hair, a 7000 square-foot barber shop nestled in the heart of Manhattan. Ross creates his artwork out of literally, well, uh, garbage. An accomplished trash tracker, Ross represents an advanced welder and creative visionary – building masterpieces out of his findings. His ultimate show in December will consist of 6 rooms, all with a theme of their own; such as 'Sexual Chinatown' (showcasing old signage that means one thing in Chinese, and a sexier connotation in English) and 'Weapons of Mass Destruction.'" Continues through Saturday. Should be some sort of open wine according to myopenbar.com [paraphrased, quoted and stolen from press release]

Date: Thursday, December 8th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Astor Place Hair (2 Astor Place at Broadway)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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NYU Experimental Animation Show

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Check out stopmotion, installation, rotoscopation, chicken scratchation, and many other types of "ation" at this student showcase. This may get you motivated to work on that freelance project all weekend long.

Date: Friday, December 9th
Time: 4:30pm - 7:00pm
Location: NYU (721 Broadway, 8th Floor Animation Area - take the North elevators on the right as you enter)
Cost: Free (bring ID for security man)

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N.Y.C.E. ONE

For all you graf lovin' people out there, this is the opening for you... Nic One Presents: "WHO'S N.Y.C.E." (New York City's Elite)
"is all about the pure unification with in the Aerosol (Graffiti)Culture. Giving the state of the way things are in New York we need to come together so we can deal with our real enemy. Politics always chooses us by that I mean we are always going to be the subject of full on hate towards what we do. From certain Public Officials and the NY Finest. Don't let us be Policed." This will be the first graffiti show at the Haven Gallery since the 80's. Holdin' it down for the writers will be 2FLY, BROKER, CERN, CEOS, CLYDE, COL, DEMER, EMA, FARGO, F.D.T. FUME, HOPS, HOST ONE, IMUNE, JNUB, LASK, LOU, MERES, NERO, NIC1, PART, REE, SASHA (SHR) JENKINS, SEK3, SENSE3, SETER, SNATCH, SONIC, STEM, TOPAZ, VENG, and ZIMAD. Tonight is the opening reception but the show runs through the 30th.

Date: Friday, December 9th
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Venue: Haven Gallery, 235 E. 141st St., Bronx
Cost: Free
Directions: Take the number 4 or 5 train to 138th St. Walk under the Metro North underpass two blocks up to RIDER Ave make a left and walk two blocks to 141st St.

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Flying Objects

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Tristan Eaton - well known as Director of Toy Design for Kidrobot - drops some new canvases tonight at McCaig-Welles. Expect flat renditions of his illustative style, free Sierra Nevada beer, and a room packed full of Williamsburg hipsters. This may be a good show to catch over the weekend when the gallery is much less crowded (but with much less free beer)

Date: Friday, December 9th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: McCaig-Welles Gallery (129 Roebling St of Metropolitain, Suite B1, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Night Fisher Signing

"Night Fisher is a compassionate, hard-nosed coming of age story about two high school friends growing up in Hawaii. The tale reveals the unsentimental portrait of that most awkward period between adolescence and adulthood, and the rarest of things - a mature depiction of immature lives. Their friendship is stretched to its breaking point when they get mixed up in a frivolous crime. The compelling storyline matched with Kikuo's striking artistry pushes this graphic novel as one not to miss this season." Johnson signs copies today at Giant Robot.

Date: Saturday, December 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Giant Robot NY (437 East 9th Street)
Cost: Free

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Go Get Saved

Here is a last minute post for your after work pleasure...

Tonight join the Saved Gallery of Art and Craft and Refinery29 for an art opening with mulled wine, holiday cookies, music, and a little holiday shopping incentive (20% off at the store for the night).

Date: Wednesday, December 14th
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Venue: Saved Gallery of Art and Craft, 82 Berry Street, W'burg
Cost: Free

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Accumulation Project

Today I came home from work, walked into my bedroom, took a look around, and was totally annoyed by the piles of stuff I have all over the place. While the piles of crap I have in my room have accumulated solely because I'm lazy and well frankly, too busy to clean, others have been accumulating their stuff in the name of art. The Accumulation Project "is both an experiment and a challenge. The idea is simple. Twenty-one selected accumulators (people) have chosen an accumulate (usually an object of some kind) to either acquire or produce over the course of one year. (Accumulation began September 1, 2005, and will continue until September 1, 2006.) The accumulates will be used as source material for two gallery exhibitions... The purpose of these two exhibitions is to compare the development and progress of each project, and to explore the role that time plays in them." Today is the opening of the first show and the 21 artists will have the first three months worth of their stuff.

Date: Thursday, December 15th
Time: 11am - 5pm
Venue: Lunarbase Gallery, 197 Grand Street, Williamsburg
Cost: Free

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Monuments for the USA

For this exhibit, 50 international artists have drafted proposals for a monument to the United States of America. "Freed from contextual, budgetary, or practical constraints, the proposals reflect each artist's ideas about the type of monument the people of the United States currently need or deserve. Their proposals may address particular values or ideals, group or individual histories, institutions or places. The nature of these hypothetical monuments, meanwhile, may be material or immaterial, permanent or ephemeral, practical or whimsical." The proposals will take the form of "drawings, diagrams, maquettes, photo collages, written descriptions, wall paintings, sculptural models, or other media." Sorry, no graphic.

Date: Thursday, December 15th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: White Columns (320 west 13th street.. entrance on horatio street between 8th avenue and hudson street) map
Cost: Free

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JD's Lesbian Utopia

JD Sampson from Le Tigre is launching her new calendar JD's Lesbian Utopia with an installation and photography exhibit at Deitch that opens tonight. The project is an account of JD and friends road trip across Southern US, visiting lesbian campgrounds in search of a 'Lesbian Utopia.' The gallery exhibit includes a life size rainbow RV replicate of the one they traveled in, video footage, and collaborative works by Cass Bird, Lex Vaughn, Dusty Lombardo, and Sasha Anthome. Hollin Gammag and Lesbians on Ecstasy play live.

Date: Thursday, December 15th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects (76 Grand Street between Wooster and Greene)
Cost: Free

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La Superette, Artist's Market

If you are still in need of Christmas gifts head down to La Superette this Saturday or Sunday. La Superette is an art market where artists sell handmade gifts including light fixtures, stuffed animals and homemade clothes. In addition to the sale there will be live performances by PG Six, Chris Nelson, Watersports, Anti:Clockwise, Fire in the Kitchen, Rhizome, and Mighty Robot. Continues Sunday (1-6).

Date: Saturday, December 17th
Time: 2:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue
Cost: Free

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ITP Winter Show

While I have no idea about this event, everyone I mention it to is totally excited about it or jealous that their work is not in it so I will simply quote flavorpill who have the drop on it... "Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) features a small group of new-media misfits that shares genes with the tech-inspired artists at the MIT Media Lab and Parsons' Design and Technology program. Final projects are on display from a variety of ITP courses with intriguingly weird titles, such as "Designing for the Five Senses," "The World: Pixel by Pixel," and "Personal Expression and Wearable Technologies." Like all student shows, it can be a mixed bag, but there are enough brilliant ideas here to balance out any mediocre virtual-reality screensavers. (GD)" continues Monday from 5 - 9

Date: Sunday, December 18th
Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: 721 Broadway at Waverly Place (4th Floor, South Elevators)
Cost: Free, may need ID for security

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About Glamour Book Show

Book arts have always been my first design love. I don't care if they are letterpressed books of the 19th century, hand crafted journals, or a photocopied 'zine, there is something gripping about the marriage of a books tactile effect along with the contents paginated storytelling. Tonight is a rare chance to enjoy About Glamour's exhibition of hand crafted books, zines, prints and more. Check out some of the work on the site. Continues through the 29th

Date: Friday, December 23rd
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: About Glamour (103 North 3rd St. between Berry & Wythe, Williamsbug)
Cost: Free

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Dewanatron

Winning the award for most original party is the Pierogi 2000 gallery who will be having an opening party for their Dewanatron show for New Year's Eve. "Leon Dewan and Brian Dewan are Dewanatron—a collaborative team who make hand-crafted, semi-automatic, electronic musical instruments. This exhibition will feature twelve wall mounted analog solid-state instruments that produce occasional electronic utterances at ever-shifting intervals of time. Also included in the show are parlor and concert instruments such as the Swarmatron and the Dual Primate Console. Visitors will be able to play the Coin-Op Melody Gin, an arcade instrument in which 25 cents buys the customer a four minute hands-on electronic music-making-odyssey with knobs and toggle switches." Sure there will be some sort of free booze.

Date: Sunday, December 31st
Time: 9:00pm - 1:00am
Location: Pierogi 2000 (177 north 9th street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: standard gallery fare

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Politically and Socially Engaged Printmaking

Josh MacPhee's Paper Politics Printmaking show opens in Brooklyn tonight and runs until February 19th. Be prepared for much political stimulation with 180 artists showcasing social justice and global equity themed prints.

Date: Thursday, January 5th
Time: 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 5+5 Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 210
Cost: Free

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Second Nature Opening

In Second Nature, a collection of Mary Mattingly digitaly enhanced photographs, she "looks at the distant future of the human race. After the fall of post-industrial civilization, nomads wear their homes on their backs like snails, using patched-together machines to gather resources from the ravaged environment. Forced to be self-sufficient, this new breed of human is detached from its fellow wanderers, isolated in austere but beautiful landscapes, preoccupied with the need for survival. Mattingly tempers her bleak outlook with a caustic sense of humor, making signposts for industrial conglomerates one of the few remaining traces of 20th-century culture." Continues through February 25th.

Date: Thursday, January 5th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Robert Mann Gallery (210 11th Street)
Cost: Free

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Beer + Designers = First Thursday

If you are tired of discussing this week's episode of Lost around the water cooler all day and are looking for topics with a lil more meat and substance, head over to First Thursday at Iona Bar. Essentially its a loose collective of designers and artisist who get together, grab a beer and discuss relevent topics of interest. Anyone with an interest in design is welcome. Think of it as a crit for post-college grads who find themselves lacking valuable criticism in their workplace.

Date: Thursday, January 5th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Iona Bar, 180 Grand St. btw Bedford & Driggs
Cost: Free

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Synthetic Aesthetic Opening

"Carcinogenic society: unnatural food additives; blasphemous compounds, pills, and quick fixes. Fertilizers, hormones, microwaves … Prepackaged readymade phosphorescence..." These are just a few of the topics explored by the sculptures and bas-reliefs of the Synthetic Aesthetic show. This group exhibit "focusing on the use of tangible synthetic new media such as plastics, epoxies, and the like to create an abstracted and futuristic art that stylistically draws on many sources; from current industrial design to modernism in general."

Date: Friday January 6th
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Roger Smith Lab Gallery (corner of 47th and Lexington)
Cost: Free

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More Object Opening

In More Object, sculptor Mai Braun draws "on everyday materials—house paint, cardboard, lumber and papier-mâché—to make objects that are diverse in form and color but always characterized by a sense of the hand-built and homemade" to create largely improvised structures which combine organic and sythentic shapes. "Her work attempts to locate a balance between humor and gravity, precision and irregularity, order and entropy." Continues through February 5th.

Date: Friday, January 6th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Fireproof (110 Richardson Street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Death Defying Dervish Gangbuster Rebel

I am going to let the press release speak for itself on this video installation opening tonight... "The art-destroying stuntman hijinks of Tim Folland spring from the cartoon antics of Wile E. Coyote. At the center of his video installation, Death-defying Dervish Gangbuster Rebel is the stupendously resourceful, maniacal idiot Goldhead, who, in his oversized helmet mask with hooked little nose, bears a striking resemblance to Richard Nixon. This video is a tightly edited well-paced and highly entertaining spectacle, a cross between a standup routine and a sports highlights video. Buster Keaton meets Evel Knievel."

Date: Friday, January 6th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Jack the Pelican (487 Driggs Avenue, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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The Kitchen Cooks Up Walid Raad

The Kitchen "is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition by Walid Raad, titled The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive. The exhibition includes video projections, digital prints, and two performance-lectures, which are all components of the artist’s ongoing venture, The Atlas Group. As the name of both a project and a foundation, The Atlas Group researches and documents the contemporary history of Lebanon, with a particular emphasis both on the wars from 1975 to 1991, and on the consequences of war more broadly on life in cities such as Beirut, New York, Madrid, London, and Baghdad. Presenting a collection of photographic and video documents on subjects as varied as car bombs, horse racing, and captivity, The Atlas Group explores the ways that experiences of violence are formed, represented, and remembered."

Date: Saturday, January 7th
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: The kitchen, 512 West 19th
Cost: Free

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First Saturday...Again...And Again

I know at this point we have really pounded the idea of the Brooklyn Museum's First Saturday into your heads, but here is a refresher course. If you cross over the East River, living in the shadows of other more popular and well known art museums, you will find the Brooklyn Museum. With 560,000 square feet on its side, and minus the heavy foot traffic that most Manhattan Museums tend to get from tourists, this museum has a lot going for it. Every first Saturday of the month admission is free in the afternoon (thanks to big name corporate sponsorship, but we dont have to talk about that), and there are a slew of events for the whole fam. This month check out the Burtynsky exhibit. Click here for the day's line up.

Date: Saturday, January 7th
Time: 5pm -11pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway
Cost: Free

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Punk Art Opening

Exene Cervenka, of punk band X, showcases her first New York exhibition which opens tonight at DCKT. Over three decades of her journals will be displayed along with song lyrics, photographs, drawings and collages reflecting her career and experiences on the road.

Date: Saturday, January 7th
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: DCKT Gallery (552 West 24th Street)
Cost: Free

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Chris Mars / Ray Caesar Openings

The Graduate by Chris Mars

Precious by Ray Caesar

The Jonathan Levine gallery astounds me once again by opening two fantastic shows in one night. On the one hand you have Subderma, the first solo show by Chris Mars. Here, Mars presents a collection of haunting canvases about social injustice largly influenced by the artist's frequent visits as a young boy to the mental hospital where his sixteen-year-old brother was treated for schizophrenia.

And in the other gallery is Sweet Victory, a solo exhibit of single edition digital prints by Ray Caesar. In Sweet Victory, Caesar continues to push the boundries of the digital canvas. His portraits are provocative, disturbing, beautiful and haunting all at once. Both shows continue through February 4th

Date: Saturday, January 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Jonathan Levine Gallery (529 West 20th Street, 9E)
Cost: Free

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Open Wide

Galapagos Art Space has been bringing the good people of Williamsburg art and music for 8 years now. Tonight in honor of the renewal of the 8-year-old art space's lease, the reopening of their backroom, and the launch of a new high-profile theater series, they venue will hold The First Annual Galapagos Staff Show Off Festival. The show will be packed with music, theater, dance, performance and visual art, all of it created and performed by members of the staff.

"Hosted by comedianne/performance artist Desiree Burch, the evening includes a reading of an original play by Barbara Hammond, burlesque from Allison Belolan, a piano piece by John Moran, new dance from Ori Lenkinski, an oscilloscope piece from Ray Sweeten, art installations by Max Jones and Bryan A. Moore, video installation by Katja Loher, plus performances from the bands R.U.O.K., Afrofunk Massive, Pal Secam, Electric Lights, The Family Cave, and The Feel It Hards (a side project of The Fabulous Entourage)."

Date: Saturday, December 7th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Galapagos, 70 N 6th St., W'burg
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Free X-Rated Brand Vodka at somepoint

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The Studio Visit Opening

"The Studio Visit features the work of over 160 national and international artists who were invited to create a short video on the subject of their workspace. This exhibition reveals an intimate look at how artists perceive the studio. The works will be presented as projections and on single channel monitors throughout the gallery." Continues through January 28th

Date: Saturday, January 7th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Exit Art (475 Tenth Ave)
Cost: Free

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Mikon Hall of Worlds

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Some people draw on walls, some people paint on canvas, some people take pictures and some people... well... some people build micro-museums of "computer and voice driven kinetic sculpture, sound, and viewer-manipulated virtual zooarium(s) of imaginary life forms." Enter Mikon, an ever expanding exhibition of visitor manipulated sculture and installation. The exhibition light, sound, and form to create their etherial, inflatable garden. "Parents, children, and infants welcome."

See video footage of the exhibit (Real)

Date: Sunday, January 8th
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Collective Unconscious (279 Church Street at White Street)
Cost: $5 (free if you bring a functioning back massager)

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Blade Gets Up

If you have been keeping up with the news in NYC lately, I'm sure you have heard about the city's new crack down on graffiti. Well Blade here has been gettin' up on the city's walls for some time now and has a solo show opening today at the historical New York Mercantile Exchange building. The show will be up until February 3rd.

Date: Monday, January 9th
Time: viewing available weekdays 9:00am - 5:00pm
Location: New York Mercantile Exchange - World Financial Center, 1 North End Ave
Cost: Free

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Anarchy to Affluence

"This exhibition examines interiors, furniture, graphics, fashion & illustration produced in NYC between 1974 -1984, a period in which downtown artists, musicians, playwrights & designers created some of the most avant-garde work produced in America during the last century. This period was a time of anxiety & uncertainty in NYC. It was also a time of unprecedented creativity, marked by the birth of Punk, both as a style & a form of music; the rise of fashion designers such as Patricia Field, Stephen Sprouse, & Betsy Johnson; & a movement toward industrial austerity in interior & graphic design, as practiced by designers such as Massimo & Lella Vignelli." Continues through April 2nd.

Date: Monday, January 9th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Parsons (66 Fifth Ave.)
Cost: Free

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The Downtown Show

The Downtown Show opens tonight and is a retrospective of the legendary New York art scene of the '70s and early '80s.
Make sure you go and check out the art by legends like Basquiat, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Cindy Sherman that made downtown New York so cool.

Date: Monday, January 9th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East
Cost: Free

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Julliard / SVA Sessions Reception

"Fabian Tejada proudly presents his most recent installation work 'Sessions,' a three-channel Audio/Video installation featuring motion studies of Juilliard dancers, in segmented repetition, each movement representing a drum pattern. The choreography becomes a visual representation of the sound loops composed for the project."

Date: Thursday, January 12
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm.
Location: Visual Arts Gallery (601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor)
Cost: Free

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Bubble Fetiltism

European Grafitti artist TILT, who has done some amazing work with personal hero FAFI, is the latest in a long line to get down with Kidrobot's Dunny project. Tonight is a rare chance to meet the man as he signs his latest pieces in the store.

Date: Thursday, January 12th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Kidrobot (126 Prince Street)
Cost: Free

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Radical Earth Magical Flower

Tonight Deitch hosts the grand opening of its latest exhibition of video, sculpture and performance by Bec Stupak. Her installations are inspired by cult 1940s B movies and use costume, sculpture and light to create a sense of euphoria.

Date: Thursday, January 12th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Deitch, 76 Grand Street
Cost: Free

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Gore.b Show

Tonight the Orchard Gallery hosts the opening of the Gore.b show, expect free appetizers, graffiti from the ELC crew and burlesque performances.

Date: Thursday, January 12th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Orchard Street Art Gallery,139 Orchard Street
Cost: Free

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Auroville

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Auroville is an "immersive music and visual environment by nick hallett and seth kirby documenting the experiment in human unity and spirituality existing in india since 1968" From the flyer (above) it looks like some sort of indoor garden of non-specific spirituality to ease your soul into the new year. I am going with free on this one because it's art and art is free unless you want to own it. Looks like a good alternative this evening.

Date: Thursday, January 12th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Secret Project Robot (210 Kent at Metropolitain, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Juergen Teller

There is all sorts of art happeneing this weekend. And while I like art, maybe you have noticed that I have a limited vocabulary in which to describe it, thus, it's press release time...

"For his third exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, German photographer Juergen Teller presents a major new body of work entitled Nrnberg. The exhibition is an emotional panorama that draws on personal history, both new and old. It is a celebration of family and an investigation of the past, in private and public terms, as represented by the city of Nuremberg."

Date: Friday, January 13th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 540 West 26th
Cost: Free

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Too Art For TV

Too Art For TV is totally too cool for school. The Stay Gold Gallery has brought in the animated and painted works of 24 artists from 10 different animation studios around the city. Too Art for TV is a multimedia peek into the animated minds who have long been in demand but also repressed by television’s corporate ideals.

"Artists in the industry must be the best draftsmen and painters that art schools produce, yet their careers leave little time for individual creativity. 'Too Art for TV!' pools together the toys, prints, drawings, paintings, and comics of a talented workforce breaking free. Featuring the artists that bring to life beloved cartoons such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Fox Network), Code Name: Kids Next Door (Cartoon Network), Stanley (Disney TV), Venture Brothers (Adult Swim), Daria (MTV Animation), Blue's Clues (Nick JR), and more. Join Stay Gold and proclaim their first show of the year 'Too Art for TV!'"

Tonight is the opening, but the show will run through February 13th.

Date: Friday, January 13th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Stay Gold Gallery, 451 Grand Street, W'burg
Cost: Free

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Hopes and Schemes

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Another group exhibit at FreeNYC favorite, Riviera, featuring Julie Benoit, KC Collins, Rob Erickson, Cara Ober, and Travis Pack. "Hopes. Dreams. Wishes. You can't pretend to know what a person was thinking from looking at their art, but if you are moved, something is stirred. Is this a common unuttered hope? Schemes. Plans. Our clumsy attempts to coexist in this world occasionally yield a grace and charm that shortens the distance between dreams and plans. What connects KC's homesteads, Cara and Julie's conversation, Rob's icons of freedom and Travis's stories of stories? And will it reassure us that hopes and schemes occasionally can converge?""

Date: Friday January 13th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Riviera Gallery (103 Metropolitain Ave, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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'No Skool'

Tonight a collaborative exhibition by Seen and Tristan Eaton opens at The Showroom. It is worth checking out the creative direction of the exhibition as Seen is from a bygone generation subway painters and today both artists receive high recognition as toy designers.

Date: Friday, January 13th
Time: 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Location: The Showroom, 117 Second Ave, 2nd Floor
Cost: Free

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Roxy Paine

"Beginning January 14, 2006, the James Cohan Gallery will present an exhibition devoted to new work by sculptor Roxy Paine. The exhibition runs through February 25.

In his new work, the artist mirrors natural processes themselves, drawing increasingly on the tension between the organic and the built environment, between the human desire for order and nature’s drive to reproduce. As Steven Henry Madoff noted in The New York Times, Paine creates work in which 'the pastoral and the processed bump heads with dizzying force.'"

Date: Saturday, January 14th
Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Location: James Cohan Gallery, 533 W. 26th St.
Cost: Free

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School Days

Yale, Bad Idea, by Robert Snead

School Days presents "a group exhibition of paintings, sculpture and video by 19 promising young artists culled from the top MFA programs on the East Coast. Representing the best of the graduate programs at Hunter, Yale, and Columbia, “School Days” artists come from a diversity of ethnic backgrounds and work in a wide range of mediums, while half of the artists represented are women."

Date: Saturday, January 14th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Jack Tilton Gallery (8 East 76th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues)
Cost: Free

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I Aint Affraid Of No Zombie

Yo don't be scurred! A couple zombies never really hurt anybody... uh ok well maybe they did. Either way stop by the MF Gallery tonight for opening of the Zombie Art Show. The zombie art comes to you courtesy of Martina Secondo, Frank Russo, Mike Machin, Jeff Gaither, David Brockie, Putrid, James Wrona, Johnny Crap, Joe Simko, Lawrence Van Abeema, Lauren Utter, Dennis Dread, Jake Karns, Drew Maillard, Jeff Zornow and More. Plus drinks by Zygo Vodka and Anheuser Busch and an all Heavy Metal soundtrack, including live performances.

Date: Saturday, january 14th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: MF Gallery, 157 Rivington
Cost: Free

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Ricky Swallow Gallery Talk

"Ricky Swallow leads a talk on his new exhibition in P.S.1’s galleries. Renowned for their basis in personal memory and pop iconography, Swallow’s wood sculptures bridge the gap between monumentality and the everyday, between tradition and disposability. His recent work focuses on themes at the heart of this exercise: the passage of time, (im)mortality, evolution, and survival. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the works on view at P.S.1 have been selected from Swallow’s exhibition at the Biennale Venezia in 2005, where he represented the Australian Pavilion."

Date: Monday, January 16th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: PS1
Cost: Free

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Reconstructing Photography

Oh Tannenbaum by Anita Eberhard

After work stop by the opening for Reconstructing Photography "a group exhibition of work by current students from the BFA and MFA Fine Arts Departments, MFA Computer Art Department, BFA Graphic Design Department and BFA Photography Department.

Experimental in nature, the works in this exhibition literally deconstruct, reconstruct and question the role of photography in today's art world. Curated by Richard Brooks, SVA's assistant director of student galleries, the artists included are: Anita Eberhard, Koji Kakubari, Ilias Koen, Sho Ma and Ricky Sears." The show opens today and will run through February 11th.

Date: Wednesday, January 18th
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Westside Gallery, 141 West 21 Street
Cost: Free

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Black Music: From Bebop to Hip Hop

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As part of their Martin Luther King Day celebration, BAM is presenting a photography exhibition documenting the history of black music. Artist include Salimah Ali, Anthony Barboza, Mark L. Blackshear, Spencer Anthony Burnett, Adger W. Cowans, Gerald Cyrus, June DeLairre, Collette Fournier, Russell K. Frederick, Wayne Lawrence, Herb Robinson, Radcliffe Roye, Jamel Shabazz, Ming Smith and Frank Stewart.

Date: Thursday, January 19th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: BAM, Natman Room at the Peter J. Sharp Building (click for directions)
Cost: Free

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William Kentridge Opening

You may know South African artist William Kentridge for his humanistic charcoal drawings animations. Or, you may know him from his paintings of workers in the PS1 staircases. Or, you may not know him at all (which is a shame). Regardless, tonight is a great opportunity to get reaquanted as he presents his adaptation of Mozart's Magic Flute. On hand will be over 50 working drawings and projections create for the piece. Also on hand is a preparatory theatre-in-miniature which incorporates projections and sound as a study for Black Box/Chambre Noir (now at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin). The show continues through February 25th.

Date: Thursday, January 19th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Marian Goodman Gallery (24 W 57th St, 4th Fl)
Cost: Free

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2nd Annual East Village Survey Show

The Tastes Like Chicken Art Space celebrates local artist of East Williamsburg tonight at this annual show. This is a great chance to see what is going on behind closed doors in the creepy neighbor's apartment. Continues Through February 19th

Date: Friday, January 20th
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Tastes like Chicken Art Space (300 Morgan Ave at Metropolitan, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Bronx Center Library Opening Weekender

Celebrate the Bronx’s new state-of-the-art Library Center opening with two days of free music, dance, and theater. Happenings include free tours of the building, Ibrahim González Orchestra, The Valentinos, ice sculpting, stilt walking, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Maya & Miguel, percussionist Angel Rodriguez, Trio Sentimiento Latino and much more.

Date: Saturday, January 21st
Time: 10:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Bronx Library Center,310 East Kingsbridge Road
Cost: Free

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The Nearest Faraway Place

The Nearest Faraway Place, a solo show by Jack Long opens tonight. And on that note, its press release time folks. Usually I dont like doing this, but sometimes letting Giant Robot speak for themselves is best...

"Jack will be showcasing original paintings based on his most recent work. Hailing from West Chester, Pennsylvania, Jack Long began his formal art training at the Rhode Island School of Design studying illustration. Moving in a different direction from the Providence art scene, recognized for its use of bright colors, silkscreens, pop-culture reference, and humor, Jack nurtured his craft in oil painting with a more subtle, serious, and darker content.[...] Jack Long’s work unfolds a mystical, poetic, and suspenseful tale that captivates the viewer evoking the wonder of where this world stems." The show will run through Febuary 22nd.

Date: Saturday, January 21st
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Giant Robot, 437 East 9th
Cost: Free

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Bronx Library Center opening

Celebrate the Bronx’s new state-of-the-art Library Center opening with a day of free music, dance, theater! On offer are free tours of the building and performing are the Drum Café NY, Retumba: A Caribbean Journey (Afro-Caribbean dance and percussion group), Ray Mantilla Quintet, The Valentinos, Stilt Walker, storytelling, the Ebony Hillbillies, Mariachi Real de Mexico.

Date: Sunday, January 22nd
Time: 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Bronx Library Center,310 East Kingsbridge Road
Cost: Free

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Twenty Eyes Reception

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Tonight is the reception for the second of three MFA student Special Projects exhibitions at the School of Visual Arts. This show appears to me a multi-medium demonstration of the schools finest. Continues through February 4th.

Date: Tuesday, January 24th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Visual Arts Gallery, SVA (601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor)
Cost: Free

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THE THING Swing Space

Come celebrate the end of this season's THE THING. As the digital art portion of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center's Swing Space, THE THING has long been known to house a who's who of the cutting edge. Tonight there will be works on view by Swing Space grantees Oscar Alzate, Aissa Deebi, Dave Eppley, Joshua Howard, Timothy Hutchings, Cynthia Lovett and Pamela Matsuda-Dunn along with this season's current residents, Daniel Pflumm, Jan Gerber, 0100101110101101.org and, Luka Freli"

Date: Tuesday, January 24th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 32 Avenue of the Americas (betw Canal and Walker)
Cost: Free, RSVP Recommended

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ICI NYC

ICI, the roving celebration of front line visionaries blending fashion, design, media and the arts at a concious level, invades Libation tonight with a combination of art, dance, and society. DJ Ing (Learned Evolution) + Evil Genius spin. Definately worth checking into.

Date: Wednesday, January 25th
Time: 7:00pm (DJs at 9)
Location: Libation (137 Ludlow St. btw. Rivington and Stanton)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Daily Noise

"The Daily Noise exhibition coincides with the launch of the third volume of the vibrö cd-magazine, "The Citizen Band Issue", dedicated to home-made and experimental radio. Tenzin G. Wangchuk (Columbia University), Valérie Vivancos & Rodolphe Alexis (artists and editors of vibrofiles.com) are turning the white cube of the LeRoy Neiman gallery into a listening booth. A minimalist setup allows the audience to focus on the audio sensations and experience an inner shift of space triggered by the invisible flux. 12 sound artists and organizations have been asked to curate a daily 1 hour -looped- playlist to present the plural aspects contemporary audio works. More than 200 sound pieces are thus showcased in the ongoing stream."

Date: Thursday, January 26th
Time: 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall (2960 Broadway at 116 St.)
Cost: Free

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Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Oh, You Beautiful Doll opens today at the Andrea Meislin Gallery. Douglas F. Maxwell is a curator, writer, licensed psychoanalyst, and Adjunct Professor of Arts at NYU. This exhibit examines his "interest in the symbolic usage of dolls to express various aspects of, and dilemmas in, the human condition, and explores this unique relationship in Oh, You Beautiful Doll through the use of paintings, videos, photographs, and multi-media sculptural installations." The exhibition includes work by Donna Bassin, Corinne May Botz, Davis & Davis, Elena Dorfman, Julie Farstad, Stephen Roach, Elena Sisto, Sharon Switzer, Lydia Venieri, and Karen Yasinsky.

Date: Thursday, December 26th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Andrea Meislin Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 214
Cost: Free

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Emily Nemens' Art Reception

Enjoy new work by artist/writer/graphic novelist Emily Nemens at this episod of Bar Rio's Thursday Introducing. The show includes new drawings on cardboard as well as a beautiful new triptych painting. There will be complimentary wine, beer and snacks for the first hour, and drink specials thoughout the night.

Date: Thursday, January 26th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Bar Rio (558 Broome between Sixth Ave and Varick)
Cost: Free

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Arsenal for Democracy; War Corporatism

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In Arsenal for Democracy; War Corporatism, Brooklyn based artist Alfredo Martinez presents "drawings and sculptures of prototypes of modified tactical military vehicles as well as explosive devices and large caliber firearms. The artist has compiled sketches and drawings over the past several years depicting invented assault rifles, tank-like mobiles, and robotic soldiers with fanatic obsession and childlike inquiry. Martinez’s art is rooted deep in America’s obsession with conflict, from it’s humble revolutionary beginnings to the infamous War on Terror."

Date: Friday, January 27th
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: The Canal Chapter (343 Canal Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Do You Think I'm Disco?

Tonight is the opening reception for Do You Think I'm Disco?, a mixed medium group show dedicated to 60's and 70's club culture and its effect on the arts. Expect the usual mixed bag of good and bad that comes with these group shows but with artwork titles like "Funky Cold Medina" it may be worth checking out. Show runs through March 18th

Date: Wednesday, February 1st
Time: 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Community College (450 Grand Concourse at 149th, Bronx)
Cost: Free

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Beach Paintings

"New Beach Paintings" is that latest solo show from photorealistic painter Hilo Chen. "This body of work, which is arguably his best, is reminiscent of iconic Pop images such as the Girl with Ball painting created by Roy Lichtenstein in 1961. Chen's use of color is especially suggestive of this era as seen in Beach 146 in which a topless sunbather lounges on a vibrant arrangement of colorful beach towels. The swimsuit top prominently displayed in Beach 150 authenticates the Pop trend with its elaborate, geometric patterns."

Date: Thursday, February 2nd
Time: 10:00am - 5:30pm
Location: Bernarducci Meisel Gallery (37 East 57th St)
Cost: Free

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Saving Graces

Another great show at the Rivera! This group show features works by Peter Calvin, Hyemi Cho, and Joshua Johnson

Date: Thursday, February 2nd
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Riviera (103 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Net Aesthetics 2.0

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Rhizome and EAI are bringing together some serious heavy hitters in the world of next-wave and internet art tonight for Net Aesthetics 2.0, a cultural panel discussion on "Internet art in light of larger technological and cultural shifts. For this panel, artists Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Marisa Olson, and Wolfgang Staehle will join curators Caitlin Jones and Michael Connor to discuss how the nature of online practice has changed over Internet art's first decade." More after the jump.

Date: Monday, February 6th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Electronic Arts Intermix (535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor)
Cost: Free

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Art Star Opening

Tonight's art opening at Deitch features single and collaborative works by Gigi Chen, Sy Colen, Abigail Deville, Christian Dietkus, Zackary Drucker, Anney Fresh, Bec Stupak and Virgil Wong. While unfamiliar with these artists, Deitch rarely disappoints so this one may be worth checking out.

Date: Thursday, February 9th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street)
Cost: Free

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Terrible Toy Fair III

For the third year in a row, Dollhaus NYC is bringing their Terrible Toy Fair to the CBGB's Gallery. "This is an alternative to the corporate toy fairs that are held across New York City in large venues and private toy rooms within the toy industry. Dollhaus artists have all been highly unusual and yet have retained a child like sense of playfulness to their work. The work is well highly executed and skillful, always valuing technique as much as concept. The concept is simple... all toys are modified, wholly made or adapted. The idea of a toy-based show is a continuation of the theme of The Dollhaus Art gallery and all of its concepts and artists." The opening party will feature live music by The Miracle of Birth (Psyche experimental black rock), Vulgaras (shock horror [sic]), and FreeNYC Fav's the Pure Fire DJs spinning Grime all night.

Date: Friday, February 10th
Time: 8:00pm - 12:00am
Location: CBGB's Gallery (313 Bowery)
Cost: Free

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Made with Love

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"Made With Love" is a Valentine's assault of creative energy. A group extravaganza of photography, painting, scultpure, fashion, jewlery, and music, the event will showcase the work of over 15 local artists and designers. Music by DJ Duckcomb. Open bar from 7-8 and free food are an added bonus.

Date: Saturday, February 11th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Collective Artisan Gallery (198 Columbia Street between Sackett and Degraw, Carrol Gardens)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: unknown, 7-8

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Strange Carnival

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Having the Toy Fair in town means crazy toy parties like this one. there will be gues artist appearances by Friends With You, Nathan Jurevicius & James Jarvis! "Come early for presents/ prizes/ and maybe pineapple"

Date: Sunday, February 12th
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Yoyamart (15 Gansevoort Street at Hudson)
Cost: Free

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Emerging Artists in Fine Arts: Made in New York at SVA

"This multimedia exhibition brings together a diverse selection of paintings, sculptures, videos and prints from select BFA Fine Arts Department students." Continues through February 25th

Date: Tuesday, February 14th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: SVA Visual Arts Gallery (601 West 26th St, 15th Floor)
Cost: Free

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Swear to Save

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Swear to Save will feature 150 Musicians and Gigposter Artists customized SwearBear figures. Each artist will display 1 custom 7" SwearBear figure and 1 piece of original art. The shows theme is somewhere between "Love" and "Rock n' Roll". 50% of sales go to saving CBGBs (ed: I thought they were already resolved to close in the fall). Continues through March 10th

Date: Tuesday, February 14th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: CBGB 313 Gallery (313 Bowery)
Cost: Free

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Toys! MTV Overground Book #3 Launch/Exhibit

Who knew that MTV made books? Tonight is the launch of MTV Overground Book #3. Watch as MTV attempt to capitalize on the art toy sensation (a little behind the game are we). Who carse though, the hot toys and free booze will more than make up for the corporate sponsorship.

Date: Tuesday, February 14th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Showroom NYC (117 Second Ave, 2nd floor, between 7th and 8th)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Sapporo and Gekkeikan, 7-10

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"Guerra de La Paz" opening

"The extraordinary NY debut of Guerra de la Paz, the collaborative team of Cuban artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. Featured among the works are a larger-than-life Pieta recasting Michelangelo's masterpiece to honor the pathos of the Gulf warrior; Tribute, a 2-ton rainbow pyramid of used clothing; and GI Joes in queer poses." Continues through March 12th

Date: Friday, February 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Jack the Pelican Presents (487 Driggs Avenue, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Artists on Art: Julian LaVerdiere and Sanford Biggers

In a series that focuses on open minds and enlightenment tonight Julian LaVerdiere and Sanford Biggers take part in an informal talk organized in collaboration with Art Asia Pacific magazine. Sanford Biggers comes to rap about the Buddha, colorful Tibetan gods, and other characters encountered in this renowned collection of Himalayan religious art. Julian LaVerdiere is a sculptor and installation artist who worked on the Twin Towers, Tribute in Light.

Date: Friday, February 17th
Time: 7:30pm and 8:30pm
Location: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W 17th Street
Cost: Free

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Jeff Soto: Supernova Opening

Jeff Soto is back with a solo show in NYC once again. This boy has been high up on my "art hero's" list for some time now. Soto's work bears a resemblance to that of Tim Biskip or Gary Basemen through a mudded palate and complicated, fantastic figures. His work, however, deals more with the concepts of futuristic and space-like creates. Aliens, robots, and outherworldy beings inhabit Soto's world and are exhibited on canvases that combine tranquil landscapes with post-apocalyptic torment. This show continues through March 18th

Date: Saturday, February 18th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Jonathan Levine Gallery (529 West 20th Street, 9E)
Cost: Free

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Heather Cantrell: The Extended Family

Newman Popiashvili Gallery is showing the second solo exhibition of Heather Cantrell entitled The Extended Family. The photographic series encompasses 10 black and white portraits of Generation X-ers falsely accused of being the offspring of Charles Manson's Family. Through these haunting modestly sized, black-and-white prints, accompanied by an album of counterfeit birth certificates, Cantrell's continues to explore her interest in collectives and communities.

Date: Saturday, February 18th
Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Newman Popiashvili Gallery, 504 W 22nd Street
Cost: Free

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Jeff Soto Book Signing

In honor of his solo show at Jonathan Levin, Jeff Soto will be signing copies of his latest book tonight.

Date: Sunday, February 19th
Time: 4:00pm -7:00pm
Location: Jonathan Levine Gallery (529 West 20th Street, 9E)
Cost: Free

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Christopher Reilly Opening

Opening today at the Winston Wächter Gallery is New York born artist Christopher Reilly's new solo exhibition. The work address imagery of natural transformation and evolution, drawing inspiration from iconic eastern and western imagery including the goddess and nature. His work emerges from an interest in the juxtaposition of inherent duality and the fusion of opposites, incorporating natural life forms like the frog and dragonfly, which symbolize the eternal cycle of evolution and the jellyfish, which alludes to pleasure and pain. His paintings often include foliage, seeds, and blossoms to indicate the eternal nature of natural cycles and the nascent stages of growth. Though based primarily on natural forms and spiritual embodiments, Reilly creates a dream-space, a realm characterized by imagination and mystery. [chopped and screwed press release]

Date: Tuesday, February 21st
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Winston Wächter Gallery (39 East 79th Street)
Cost: Free

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Neo Sincerity: The Difference Between the Comic and the Cosmic is a Single Letter

From the Peloponnesian Wars to the Black Death and the war in Iraq, in dire times laughter has always been the best revenge. Neo-Sincerity... brings together arists, graphic novelists, and comedians for a humourous assault on some very serious issues. Also, mark your calendar for March 1st when currator Amei Wallach discusses the topic with grapic novel legend Art Spiegelman at 6:30pm. Continues through April 8th. Offical release after the jump.

Date: Wednesday, February 22nd
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Apexart (291 Church St.)
Cost: Free

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The Man in Black opening

In his solo-exhibition of silhouetted self-portraits, San Franciscan tattoo and graffiti artist Grime presents a commentary on the idea of beauty, banality, consumerism, politics, death and life through figurative expression. "His gritty subject matter, while varied, is impressed on the viewer by his general use of graphic, unyielding imagery and color - or the pelting prose of his writing....

We are subscribers. Faithfully. Our lives are slaves to vanity.
What will not be done in attempt to satisfy this bane of divinity.
It exists everywhere. Perverted.

For his exhibition at Invisible NYC Grime will show new works, works that are more subtle and contemplative than his earlier bolder and at times grotesque work. They seem to reflect a new stage in his life and creative thrust. This exhibition is a rare opportunity to view his work on the east coast. It is not to be missed. Continues through March 25th

Date: Thursday, February 23rd
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: InvisibleNYC (148 Orchard Street NYC 10002)
Cost: Free

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The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black

Tonight the Legendary Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black perform their new show The Sound of Magic at Deitch Projects. The band are high fashion glamour combined with cult horror archetypes and their classic rock, punk energy and signature and memorable visual language have etched them deeply into the New York underground scenes. The Sound of Magic will be performed in tandem with the release of the new limited edition vinyl picture LP by the same name and promises to be one of the groups most ambitious works to date. So get out your stilettos and come join in the with the glam horror!

Date: Thursday, February 23rd
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street
Cost: Free

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Odds and Ends

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Tonight is the long-awaited solo opening of AZStar78's newest work. Part illustrative, part etherial, AZ's work combines the visual clash of urban living with the delicacy of quiet thought... all blended through the guise of a post-apocalyptic street style. Come see for yourself tonight. Complimentary drinks and hor d'oeuvres.

Date: Friday, February 24th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Orchard Street Art Gallery (139 Orchard St. between Rivington and Delancey)
Cost: Free

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Waves of Mutilation Opening

The Stay Gold Gallery brings us another amazing group opening... this time all wrapped around the eponymous Pixies song, "Waves of Mutilation". "For many of the artists, 'Wave of Mutilation' sparked apocalyptic visions. Their work was based on the cataclysmic events that many believe will immediately precede the end of the world. Other artists in the show, however, saw this devastation in context of the natural cycle of life. They concentrated on the idea that regeneration can only come from destruction: one cannot exist without the other. Still others took the show's title as an instruction - rather than depicting a scene of mutilation, they literally destroyed their own work and used the materials in the formulation of new pieces. This exhibition will include drawing, painting, installation and some collaborative pieces." Continues through April 2nd.

Date: Friday, February 24th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Stay Gold Gallery (451 Grand St, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

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Tats Cru

The Tats Cru continues to impress with this art opening, Tats Cru Product. Consumerism, need, and irony combine to form a stance on the place of social media. La Bruja performs along with NYC LACE (MOTUG) and DJ Grimace on the tables... looks like there is free Sapporo. This show is only up tonight and Saturday.

Date: Friday, February 24th
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: The Aurora Gallery (515 West 29th, 2nd floor)
Cost: Free

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The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black

For the second and final night the Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black perform their new show The Sound of Magic at Deitch Projects. The band are high fashion glamour combined with cult horror archetypes and their classic rock, punk energy and signature and memorable visual language have etched them deeply into the New York underground scenes. The Sound of Magic will be performed in tandem with the release of the new limited edition vinyl picture LP by the same name and promises to be one of the groups most ambitious works to date. So get out your stilettos and come join in the with the glam horror!

Date: Friday, February 24th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street
Cost: Free

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Too Many Planets, Not Enough People

"Giant Robot New York announces Too Many Planets, Not Enough People - An Exhibition by Leif Goldberg showcasing original paintings, drawings, screen prints and sculpture of his most recent work. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception. Originally from Maryland, Leif Goldberg has made his name synonymous with the underground art scene of Providence, Rhode Island. Graduating from The Rhode Island School of Design for film animation, Leif is recognized for his trademark vibrantly colored, psychedelic drawings and printmaking based on philosophical humor and nature. Given his affinity for comics, Leif Goldberg is the co-founder, editor and contributor to Paper Rodeo, an eponymous comic tabloid. From this project sprouted his book Free Radicals, featuring contributions from readers which include pieces through prison book programs. Goldberg also produces the comic zine National Waste, and has contributed to The Ganzfeld, Kramer's Ergot, and McSweeny's Dear New Girl. Leif Goldberg has been an integral member of the prolific art, music and performance collectives Force Field, Fort Thunder and Paper Rad working with a range of contemporary artists.

Date: Saturday, February 25th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: GRNY (473 East 9th Street)
Cost: Free

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Knitting Olympics

Join the East Village knitting circle, Booze and Yarn, and others for the closing ceremony of New Yorks first ever knitting Olympics!

Date: Sunday, February 26th
Time: 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery)
Cost: Free

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Napkin Idol!

Come and doodle your way to free drinks at Napkin Idol! A Monday evening "talent" search for the best two napkin doodles! Winners are announced at 9:00pm and 11:30pm and the prizes up for grabs are:
1st Place: a Free Drink and a "Personal Extended Happy Hour" for the winner and two friends. 2nd Place: a Free Drink and a "Personal Extended Happy Hour" for that winner and two friends on the following Monday.

Date: Monday, February 27th
Time: Last competition winners announced at 11:30pm
Location: Dusk Lounge, 147 West 24th Street
Cost: Free

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Creative Commons Art Show

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Copywrite, and it's infringement, is something that most of us "blogger" have to deal with everyday. I mean, the images are not ours, nor is the text some times, but they are all related to the event that we are referencing. In the digital word, it seems these lines are blurring constantly. Thankfully, there is the Creative Commons license, as sort of simple copywrite that basically says "you can share my _____ as long as you give me credit." Tonight is the opening of NYU celebration of artists working under the Creative Commons license. Continues all month.

Date: Wednesday, March 1st
Time: 7:00pm
Location: NYU, Kimmel Center, 7th Floor (60 Washington Sq. North)
Cost: Free, bring ID and mention show

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The Cremery

Today is the first day of The Cremery, a two week long installation series that aims to discover new common ground between experimental film and electronic sound art. "Subverting the typical preplanned screening/ music performance, the audience will be given a choice of focus - allowing them to synthesize their own audio-visual experience outside of the Creamery's control. The use of unusual and/or homemade instruments and antiquated technology alongside the new is emphasized. On occasion, unannounced secret performances will occur throughout the space, utilizing the window and visual space." Check the site for full infor and mind the Opening party on Friday at 8pm.

Date: Wednesday, March 1st
Time: Various
Location: Chashama (266 West 37th)
Cost: Free

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Slugganauts NYC Opening

Date: Thursday, March 2nd
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Kid Robot (126 Prince Street)
Cost: Free
Summary:Some of street art's finest take gallery work to New York's premier toy store for adults.

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Until The Kingdom Comes

Date: Thursday, March 2nd
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Yossi Milo Gallery (525 West 25th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary:Insane photo and sculture exhibit

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Thoroughfare Opening at Riviera

Date: Thursday, March 2nd
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Riviera Gallery (103 Metropolitan Ave, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary:Williamburg's finest gallery continues to impress with a group installation.

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Experiential Art Night

Date: Friday, March 3rd
Time: 10:00pm
Location: The Glass House Gallery (38 South 1st street)
Cost: Free
Summary:Open painting, dancing, talking and all around wierdness at this left-of-center gallery space

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Girls and Skulls Opening

Date: Saturday, March 4th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects (76 Grand Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Sex and Death, what more could you want in an art opening?

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Switching Worlds: Desires and Identities

Date: Monday, March 6th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Austrian Cultural Forum (11 East 52nd Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Austrian artist working in New York comment on global civilization in a digital era at this group show.

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7th Side of the Die Opening

Date: Wednesday, March 8th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Alona Kagan Gallery (540 West 29th St)
Cost: Free
Summary: A group show that examines identity in the wake of an over-hyped media-driven society

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Type Club

Date: Thursday, March 9th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Skinny (174 Orchard St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Break out your Haber Rule and join Type Club for their first meeting ever. Tonight's meeting teaches you how to auto-convert a hand-drawn alphabet into a usable font. Perfect for typophiles everywhere.

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Garden Party Opening Party

Date: Friday, March 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Deitch gallery transforms into an erotic garden laced with experimental artworks.

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Barry Frydlender Exhibit Reception

Date: Saturday, March 11th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Andrea Meislin Gallery
Cost: Free
Summary: In this collection of large-scale photographs, Frydlender examines the complexities of modern live in Israel.

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After Hours with the Williamsburg Art Galleries

Date: Saturday, March 11th
Time: until 11:00pm
Location: various, Williamsburg
Cost: Free
Summary: With the Armory Show in town, the Williamsburg art community shows its strength with a late night gallery hope. Check the site for a map and participating galleries. Read the press release (pdf)

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Homebase Closing Reception

Date: Sunday, March 12th
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Polish and Slavic Credit Union (126 Greenpoint Ave, Greenpoint)
Cost: Free
Summary: Closing party for this group exhibition of Brooklyn-based Israeli, American, and Polish artists revisiting notions of home.

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Made In Palestein

Date: Thursday, March 16
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Bridge (521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight is the opening of Made in Palestein, the first U.S. exhibition of contemporary Palestinian art.

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Art Digest Launch Party

Date: Wednesday, March 15th
Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Galapagos (70 North 6th St, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Summary: Three bands, one comedian, and a pool art exhibition transformm Galapagos for the launch of Artworld Digest.

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Hey, Your a Hot Shot

Date: Wednesday, March 15th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Jen Bekman Gallery (6 Spring Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Winter selections from the "Hey Hot Shot" emerging photographer's exhibition go on display today. Continues through sunday. Free Moonshot beer

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Rift Opening

Date: Thursday, March 16th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Eyebeam (540 W. 21st St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Bill Dolson brings two site-specific laser beam wall drawings to this cutting edge gallery. On view through March 21st from dusk to 10pm

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Ides of March Exhibit

Date: Friday, March 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: ABC No Rio (156 Rivington Street bet. Clinton and Suffolk)
Cost: Free
Summary: Over 80 artist take over all 4 floors of ABC No Rio for this biennial exhibition. Check the site for full info.

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Esoteric Art Show

Date: Sunday, March 19th
Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Livewithanimals at Monster Island (210 Kent at Metropolitan Ave, W'burg)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Livewithanimals Gallery has an exhibition of artwork focused on occultism, psychedelia, tantrism, hermeticism, psychic phenomena, and various esoteric schools.

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Deflowered

Date: Tuesday, March 21st
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects (18 Wooster St)
Cost: Free
Summary: In honor of the Vernal Equinox, Julie Atlas Muz has created a fertility dance that will be performed every half hour to live music by Lance Cruce, Armen Ra and Benjamin Marcantoni. Danced by James Tigger! Ferguson, Linda Dirty Martini, Lesley Bunnell Rus, Laure Leber, Vanessa Walters, Lynn Lukki Sally, David Bishop, The world famous *BOB* and more.

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Fine Art Photography Opening

Date: Thursday, March 23rd
Time: 6:00 pm to 8:00pm
Location: Agora Gallery (530 West 25th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight the Agora Gallery opens its latest new display, Tripping the Light Fantastic, a show of fine art photography by artists from all over the world.

Artists in the display bring fresh ideas to the medium of photography through working with the latest technologies in computer and digital imaging, arranging multiple photographs together into "photomosaics", and using poetry to create "poetic photographs." Trees, desert landscapes, water and sky figure in these artist's diverse interpretations of the man-made and natural worlds.

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Aquatecture

Date: Thursday, March 23rd
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Sixtyseven (547 West 27th St. #309)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tricia McLaughlin's solo show of 3D animation, sculpture and installation exploring the relationship between designed environments and human behavior.

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Port Sulphur to Biloxi

Date: Thursday, March 23rd
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Stackhouse (276 Lafayette)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight is the opening of Jason Campbell's exhibit, Port Sulphur to Biloxi: People and Places in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Strip Down

Date: Thursday, March 23rd
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Riviera Gallery (103 Metropolitan Ave)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight the Riviera Gallery transforms into a Strip Club of sorts with their new installation/performance.

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Re-Zoning

Date: Friday, March 24th
Time: 7:00pm - 12:00am
Location: Goliath Visual Space (117 Dobbin Street, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free
Summary: "Goliath Visual Space will celebrate eight years of innovative projects with a final public event [...] RE-ZONING features a fundraiser to benefit Goliath, with donated artworks available for sale, followed by Outro, an improvisational performance evening by sound and media artists."

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Lies 2006

Date: Saturday, March 25th
Time: 1:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Chashama Center Gallery (112 W 44th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Today is the closing reception for Rob Miller's 10,000 Pages in the back gallery. Celso and the Endless Love Crew, an NYC based street collective, will host an afternoon painting jam.

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Wounded but not Broken

Date: Saturday, March 25th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Giant Robot, (437 East 9th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Caroline Hwang's explores the nooks and crannies of the heart and the vulnerability of love through fabric, stitching, paint and collage to create beautifully poignant work.

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FluxBox

Date: Saturday, March 25th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Flux Factory (Long Island City, click for directions)
Cost: Free
Summary: Flux Factory is back in full swing! This time around, they are turning the space into a giant interactive music box! Continues through April 29th

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Surge

Date: Tuesday, March 28th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Participant, Inc. (95 Rivington St)
Cost: Free
Summary: In honor of Surge, their current online exibition exploring the aesthetics of wireless transmission, free103point9 and Rhizome present this reception with presentations by 31 Down, Angel Nevarez, and NYSAE (New York Society for Acoustic Ecology).

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