EDITOR’S PICKS: 

Left Forum
http://www.leftforum.org/
03/16/2012-03/18/2012
–

A unique phenomenon in the U.S. and the world, Left Forum convenes the largest annual conference of a broad spectrum of left and progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public. Conference participants come together to engage a wide range of critical perspectives on the world, to discuss differences, commonalities, and alternatives to current predicaments, and to share ideas for understanding and transforming the world. The conference is held each spring in New York City.

Baby Soda
http://barbesbrooklyn.com/calendar.html
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
9pm-

They play an eclectic mix influenced by New Orleans brass bands, jug music, southern gospel and hot jazz and feel at home at the Village Vanguard or playing on the street. The band features members New Orleans band the Loose Marbles and alumni of Stephane Wrembel’s Hot Club of NY. With Ben Polcer, Trumpet; Patrick Harison, Accordion; Jared Engel, Banjo; David Langlois, Washboard and Peter Ford, Washtub bass.

Presentation Party Night!
http://www.facebook.com/events/108551925941948/
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
7pm-11pm

It’s that time again! You bring the brains, we bring the beer. This month we are happy to be hosted by our friends @ the 538 Johnson lofts. Topics on the bill: • Indie Publishing • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: 1912 to 2012 • Slugs! • Edith Wilson: Our First Female President • The Novartis/RFID Scandal • TBD Presentation Party Night is a lecture series that combines a love of community, education, and drinking. We offer the chance for individuals to share a short presentation on any topic and spark group discussion. The evening will consist of 6 brief/educational/entertaining presentations followed by Q&A, with free food and beer while it lasts. The event is traditionally held potluck style. Bring a snack to share and BYOB if you can. Let me stress that THIS IS A FREE EVENT and no one is required to bring a damn thing if they don’t feel like it. Come join us for a night of drinking with friends and learning from your peers — there’s nothing else quite like it!

THE CAVE
http://TheCave2012.blogspot.com/
03/16/2012-03/31/2012

Superhuman Happiness/Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of The Leprechauns/EMEFE
http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/96683/
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
8pm-

Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from his native country Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the country. Coinciding with the rise in the public’s interest of world music, Cyro has managed to record and tour with some of music’s most popular names. His mastery of Brazilian percussion and the many instruments he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown. With his own project, the percussion and dance ensemble known as ‘Beat the Donkey’ Cyro gives free reign to his imagination, mixing his tremendous musical skills, his natural humor and theatrical ways with instruments from Brazil, Middle East, Indonesia, Africa and US.

ECSTATIC MUSIC FEST: ONEIDA AND RHYS CHATHAM
http://kaufman-center.org/mch/event/ecstatic-music-festival-oneida-and-rhys-chatham
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
7:30pm-

Legendary composer Rhys Chatham, “who toys with the expectations of amplified guitars so mirthfully in his punk-influenced orchestrations” (New York Times), is joined by the “Brooklyn psych alchemists” (Pitchfork) Oneida, whose performance at the recent All Tomorrow’s Parties festival was called “some of the best music I heard all weekend” by Ben Ratliff in the New York Times. An early innovator and stalwart of the Brooklyn underground music scene, Oneida has been making genre-defying, decidedly uncompromising music for over a decade. Unhindered by limitations of time or energy, Oneida has also become known for their epic 24-hour improvisational performances, most notably at recent All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals. Their latest project is a triptych of albums collectively called Thank Your Parents started in 2008 with Preteen Weaponry, followed by 2009’s triple-album Rated O and completed with 2011’s Absolute II.

String Theories: The String Orchestra of Brooklyn @ St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2012/02/14/string-theories-the-string-orchestra-of-brooklyn-st-anns-cathedral/
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
8pm-

String Theories is a joint partnership between ISSUE Project Room and the String Orchestra of Brooklyn designed to provide innovative artists with a unique opportunity to premiere new experimental works for string orchestra. For many of the selected artists, this is their first opportunity to work on this large a scale. The March 17 concert will feature works by Anthony Coleman, C. Spencer Yeh, MV Carbon, and Eric Wubbels. Program will be 90 minutes.

Radio Cabaret
http://www.uniondocs.org/2012-03-17-radio-cabaret/
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
7:30pm-

Radio Cabaret is a variety show where radio stories come to life before your eyes. Producers bring the traditions of public radio to the stage through storytelling, musical performance, visual animation, theater and live interviews. Performances range in topic but share a common reference to audio documentary.

“Past the Future & Beyond” Hiroshi Shafer Solo Exhibition at English Kills Art Gallery
http://englishkillsartgallery.com/
03/17/2012-04/08/2012
–

Opening reception: Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm Performance by Hiroshi Shafer w Collaborator :Friday, March 16, 7-10 pm / Friday, April 6, 2012 English Kills Art Gallery is pleased to present “Past the Future & Beyond,” which combines documentation from Hiroshi Shafer’s most recent project regarding his relationship with other people, the world and the universe. This group of works exposes the invisible but unrecoverable connections between individuals and engages the viewer to consider the nature of our relationships, to overcome barriers and to undertake an empathetic exchange with the artist and everyone else. Ultimately, Shafer attempts to tickle a profound truth out of each person he encounters in each project. His props and costumes are tools that make it easier for people to share their personal truths with the public.

Eleventh National Black Writers Conference: Nikky Finney
http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/record=g1004088&searchscope=63&SORT2=R
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
4pm-6pm
Finney Reads from Head Off & Split, which recently won the National Book Award. The reading is presented in conjunction with the National Black Writers Conference, http://www.nationalblackwritersconference.org.

PERFORMANCY FORUM XXI: ARS ONOMATOPOETICA
http://www.panoplylab.org/performancy/
03/17/2012-03/18/2012
8pm-1am

Lorene Baboushian Laylage Courie Lindsey Drury Tess Dworman Kyli Kleven Caitlin Marz Brian McCorkle Jordan Morley Michael Newton This PF features performance-disciplined artists whose work deals with being itself, constructing reality instead of being constructed by reality, not mirroring it, representing it, nor otherwise being anything other than what is Is, in and of itself. Onomatopoeia, that term for words that are both an utterance themselves and the word for the utterance, becomes a poetics of self-made feedback loops, of cyclical, gestural and often violent (WHACK!)material, as it meets Ars, slang for “tough guy/working class/bully/redneck/thug,” becoming work that asserts itself, theorizes itself, pushing other images out of the way, strange and too big for constraint. This work grew up being bullied, now it is a mean machine, scarred and bitter, or maybe it is just plain self-assertive.

RAGGED KINGDOM
http://subliminalprojects.com/exhibition/ragged-kingdom/
03/16/2012-04/14/2012
–

SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS is pleased to announce Ragged Kingdom, the first solo exhibition on the West Coast of work by British artist Jamie Reid. For nearly four decades, the political convictions and visual narratives of Reid have successfully driven the strength of his presence in art, music, performance, politics, and publications. From his collaboration on the Suburban Press (1971-1975) to his iconic album artwork for the Sex Pistols to his poignant support of movements such as Occupy London, the Criminal Justice Bill and the current environmental crisis, Reid is best known for exposing and protesting modern society’s social and cultural injustices.

Cage Transmitted: Evening 3 Part 1
http://nortemaar.org/cage-transmitted-evening-3-part-1/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
6:30pm-

Cage Transmitted: Evening 3 Part 1: Channeling John Cage’s revolutionary use of radios as instruments, sound artist Tamara Yadao will construct an improvised score for this unique evening celebrating Cage. Yadao will also be sourcing melodic ornaments, drones, and rhythmic pulses from her Game Boy. Part performance, part installation the event will take place at New York Center for Arts and Media Studies as part of the closing reception of the exhibition “What I Know,” curated by Norte Maar’s Director, Jason Andrew. This evening of Cage Transmitted comes with special thanks to Ian Colletti and Jessen Jurado.

IT’S BETTER WITH PUPPETS!
http://www.operaontap.org/newyork
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-

The members of New Brew have spent the last year singing their hearts out showcasing the work of 20th and 21st century composers. The shows were fantastic and we all had a lot of fun. This time our co-curators Delea Shand and Alissa Hunnicutt are back with an evening where we set out to prove that as awesome as those songs are…they would be WAY better with PUPPETS! Here’s how the game worked. Since Alissa is also a puppeteer, she reached out to the NY puppetry community to ask who would like to participate in a grab-bag puppet slam of sorts. To create a short puppetry piece for an adult audience based on a contemporary classical art song NOT of their choosing. The very brave puppeteers who answered that call have less than a month to come up with some visual representation of the music Delea programmed with the singers from their repertoire of music from previous New Brew shows.

Souvenir
http://camelartspace.com/souvenir-•-3162012-31812/
03/16/2012-03/18/2012
–

Opening reception: Friday, March 16th, 6 – 10 p.m. Souvenir is an exhibition not of art but of objects which recall and refer to the work of artists who have exhibited at Camel Art Space. Artists were invited to produce a memento of their work, of the sort that might be sold in the gift shop of their mid-career retrospectives (or their multi-gallery show of dot paintings). These objects are very close to, but not quite art; things we wouldn’t stand in line to see, but might stand in line to purchase. Although the souvenir is often only the faintest echo of our experience, we grow attached to these objects in a way that is different from, but not necessarily less potent than, our attachment to art. It’s this attachment that makes us prefer a particular coffee cup in the morning. It’s this desire for a concrete memory that makes us take a book of matches, even if we don’t smoke. This is a show of objects that court that attachment, and are willing to forgo their status as art to get it.

Community of Community at Fleisher/Ollman
http://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com/
03/16/2012-03/17/2012
–

Community of Community at Fleisher/Ollman Friday, March 16 – Saturday, March 17 during gallery hours Artist Stephanie Diamond gathers with participating artists Tim Belknap, Alison Feldish, Joe Lacina, Jebney Lewis, Jess Perliz, Ben Volta, and Nicole Wilson for Community of Community, a retreat wherein community-based artists convene to create an open forum around the topic of “Balancing Community in Art: How to Walk the Line, Be the Line and Erase the Line.” Over the course of two days, Diamond will facilitate personal and professional sharing amongst the artists and gallery visitors, who wish to engage and understand how community based artists work.

Moon Hooch
http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event/86449/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
11:59pm-

Cave Music / ˈkāv myo͞ozik / It’s like House, but its more wild, more jagged, more free, more natural to live in. Spawned from New York City’s subways in 2010, busking trio Moon Hooch (Wenzl McGown and Mike Wilbur on Tenor Saxophone, James Muschler on Drums) has developed a style of dance music all their own – Cave Music. Moon Hooch creates frenzied foot-stomping bashes with nothing more than two saxophones, drums, and the occasional contrabass clarinet.

The Infamous Stringdusters/Hot Day at the Zoo
http://www.boweryballroom.com/event/87575
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-

The Infamous Stringdusters are doing something right. They’ve earned critical acclaim, from their inception, awards and nominations aplenty, host their own successful music festival, have their own record label and a quickly growing and enthusiastic fan base across the country.New England’s genre-bending American roots string band, Hot Day at the Zoo, is spreading their “zoograss” sound nationwide. The high-energy quartet mixes folk, blues, ragtime and jazz with progressive bluegrass and Americana-infused rock and roll. Hot Day at the Zoo is pioneering their sound in a way that is reminiscent of how Johnny Cash transformed traditional country music.

WHY? For what? Which reason, cause or purpose? What unnamed goal? In abstract, WHY? is the process of adapting to the somehow simple business of existing. WHY? is the searching for something clearly unreachable, with hopes of finding small significance along the way. The attempt to understand what’s really going on by observing, neither by telescope nor microscope, but by naked eye, the intimate details in the most mundane of life’s happenings. The attempt to describe the gist of the feeling of the tiniest modicum of The Great Universal Unutterable Joke we are all always not laughing at—except when we are. WHY? is living out the set-up of that old gag over and over, until we finally reach a punch-line. Or we die and we don’t.

SON OF PONY: FIFTH ANNUAL DADA POETRY SALON
http://corneliastreetcafe.com/performances.asp
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
6pm-

It’s back! And more madcap than ever before! The fifth annual one-night-only Dada Poetry Salon, with Dada hostess Kat Georges! Wear your favorite Dada fashion, bring your Dada-inspired poetry for the open reading (sign up at 5:45, limited spaces available!). Featured guest poets include Dada superstar boxer/poet Arthur Cravan, brought back to life for this special event. Plus Live Dada Twitter Feed, and performances by DADA NYC founders Lois Kagan Mingus and Joanie Fritz Zosike, Romanian Dada poet/performance artist Valery Oisteanu, mysterious Dada musician/poet/instigator Steven Retchard, Personable Peter Carlaftes, Juggernaut John J. Trause, and more.

Heliotropes, Lead Stones, Not Blood Paint
http://glasslands.blogspot.com/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8:30pm-

Popgun Presents… Heliotropes, Lead Stones, Not Blood Paint http://heliotropes.bandcamp.com/ http://leadstones.com/ http://notbloodpaint.com/

THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE: HOW OUR SEARCH FOR SAFETY INVADES OUR LIBERTIES
http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/david-k-shipler
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
6:30pm-8:30pm

How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize-winner David K. Shipler takes an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives when he discusses his book at The Cooper Union–The Rose Auditorium on Friday, March 16 at 6:30 PM.

Swing House 4th Anniversary
http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
9pm-12am

The Jazz Age never ended, it just got funky. Dress accordingly: “An event worth wearing that ridiculous zoot suit for.” – TimeOut NY; “Corsets and top hats tweaked with studs and leather are totally appropriate.” – The New York Times. Suggestions: vintage (1920s-1940s) with a modern twist, cabaret, burlesque, Weimar Berlin, classic Hollywood, classy, sassy, tailored, hats, feathers, sequins, beads. Effort required. Dress code more modern-friendly after 1am for the electro-swing dance party.

Kris Kuksi Triumph
http://joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/kuksi_triumph_march_15_2012/
03/15/2012-04/07/2012
–

Reception Thursday March 15th from 6-9pm Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Triumph, an exhibition of new works by the Kansas artist Kris Kuksi, including mixed-media sculpture, painting, work on paper, and a large-scale installation. This is Kuksi’s third solo outing with the gallery and the most diverse presentation of his work to date. With its cautionary title, Triumph skewers the hubris and folly of human ambition. This cavalcade of epic works references mythology, the occult, and organized religion, and uses age-old techniques of visual storytelling to voice personal angst. Depicting grand themes with extravagant embellishments, Kuksi’s assemblages of small, mass-produced materials are intrinsically narrative. Like gilt Baroque altarpieces, their stunning excess of detail is the ideal vehicle for the artist’s critique of power and piety. And like those early works of public art, they appeal to the viewer to transcend the strife and striving associated with greed.
64
http://here.org/shows/detail/866/
03/15/2012-03/17/2012
2pm-

64 is a vaudeville of the mind. There is nothing we do, say or think that stands alone. Using photographs from the NY Times, Jennilie Brewster created 64 paintings which inspired Timothy Braun to write 64 one page plays. Surf Reality reimagined the plays as a multimedia collage of theater, painting, soundscapes, video, animation and song. Like fireflies, ideas blaze, wink out and reappear in a new context. Life is just as complex and nonlinear. It’s all interconnected: the brutal with the absurd. After all, no rain means no rainbows; without mud there can be no lotus flower

Stephanie Skura: Two Huts
http://roulette.org/events/stephanie-skura-two-huts/
03/15/2012-03/18/2012
8pm-

Roulette presents award winning choreographer and director Stephanie Skura in her first NYC appearance in over 20 years with piece Two Huts. Hailed by Dance Ink as “a great American experimentalist” Skura has been creating and performing original works for over thirty years to international and national acclaim. Her stellar reputation for adventurous work precedes her while her unique skills and approach have seen her teach and train performance at some of the worlds most prestigious colleges and studios. Skura has been passionate about empowering and celebrating individual diversity and finding ways to do this through dance. Her rehearsal process involves unpeeling methods: revealing subconscious layers both strange and familiar. For decades, she has researched, practiced, and taught approaches to movement that allow dance to be a manifestation of the complexity of our consciousness.

0,2012: The Last Futurist Lab
http://thebushwickstarr.org/
03/15/2012-04/07/2012
7:30pm-

Target Margin Theater (TMT) returns to The Bushwick Starr for their 2012 Lab to present short-run fully-produced pieces running in rep, emphasizing artistic freedom above all. The 2012 TMT Lab’s artistic focus will be a close examination of the Russian avant garde art movement. Expect Meyerhold, Kharms, Mayakovsky and more!

Opening Reception: Ben Wolf . Fresh Hordes .
http://kestingray.com/2012/02/exhibitions-2012-wolf/?utm_source=KESTING+%2F+RAY+News&utm_campaign=586396dce0-fntn_wolf_2012&utm_medium=email
03/15/2012-04/01/2012
–

A reception will be held on Thursday, March 15th, 7–9pm KESTING/RAY is pleased to present Brooklyn-based artist Ben Wolf’s first Manhattan solo exhibition, Fresh Hordes. Wolf’s sculptures, or “architectural collages,” rescue beauty from the chaos of forgotten, industrial wreckage to create a spirited new aesthetics expressing the transformative power of scavenging, collecting, and rebuilding found material. The exhibition opens on March 8th and runs through April 1st. A reception will be held on Thursday, March 15th, 7–9pm at KESTING/RAY, located at 30 Grand Street, New York. Please note that the reception takes place one week after the exhibition opens.

ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE GATZ
http://www.publictheater.org/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,141/id,1048
03/14/2012-04/06/2012
3pm-

One morning in the office of a mysterious small business, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk. He starts to read it out loud and doesn’t stop. At first his coworkers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences, it’s no longer clear whether he’s reading the book or the book is transforming him.

NO PLACE TO GO: Ethan Liption
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,6062
03/14/2012-04/08/2012
–

NO PLACE TO GO Written by Ethan Lipton Directed by Leigh Silverman Music composed and performed by Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra March 14 – April 8 at Joe’s Pub The company where he’s worked for the past ten years is moving to another planet, and playwright Ethan Lipton doesn’t want to go. Part love letter to his co-workers, part query to the universe, part protest to his company and country, NO PLACE TO GO delivers a hilarious, irreverent and personal musical ode to the unemployed.

Carnegie Hall Presents NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: ALARM WILL SOUND
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_PERF_upcoming
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
2:30pm-

Sometimes new music is challenging; with Alarm Will Sound, it’s mind-blowing. Playing the most innovative performances of contemporary classical music with fierce talent and enjoyment, this 20-member ensemble is “as close to being a rock band as a chamber orchestra can be” (The New York Times). This concert is part of American Mavericks, a citywide celebration of the pioneers of the American sound, presented by Carnegie Hall and San Francisco Symphony.

“On Photography and Humor,” with Blind Spot, Tim Davis, and guests
http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/blind_spot.php
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
3pm-6pm

Cabinet is pleased to host a program by Blind Spot to celebrate the magazine’s new issue, guest edited by Tim Davis. Join Davis and guests for a series of stories on the relationship between photography and humor. Storytellers include: Corinne Botz Ben Coonley Larry Fink Christopher Miner Richard Mosse Laurel Nakadate Joel Smith Penelope Umbrico Michael Vahrenwald

Live Drone Performance w/Acupuncture
http://www.facebook.com/events/287317651340788/
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
4pm-7pm

In this performance David First will be combining his spherical overtone tuning system with the techniques of binaural beating and isochronics to model the rhythms and hum of the Earth (aka the Schumann Resonances) as well as the range of brainwave frequencies, with the intention of revealing and amplifying the very interesting correlations between the two. Various acupuncture treatments will be offered by Isobeau Trybula M.S., L.ac and her Chinese Worksong staff: Detoxification Four Gates Vitality Window of the Sky 4 Horses. 4:00pm or 5:30pm start time (please choose one)

Christine Sun Kim Feedback: VVAVE (3 of 6)
http://www.recessart.org/activities/4921
03/17/2012-03/18/2012
6pm-8pm

Mid-way point reception: March 17th, 6-8 pm With continuous 72-hour broadcasting March 16-18 “The wave…is the only visible embodiment of what physicists tell us all matter is composed of.” —David Milch On March 16th, Christine Sun Kim will initiate a live and continuous 72-hour radio and internet broadcast as the third event in, Feedback, her six-part Session at Recess. Session invites artists to use its public space as studio, exhibition venue and grounds for experimentation. The artist, deaf since birth, will perform auditory investigations that initiate a slippage of audio into visual. Using non-vocal methods of dialogue to form collaborative vision with visitors to Recess and a cast of collaborators, the artist will create multiple aural perceptions through the use of bodies in motion, microphones, delay pedals, and more.

GHOST FACE
http://www.facebook.com/events/334412159930261/
03/17/2012-03/25/2012

Bushwick Victorian-Gothic Landmark Reopens as Project Space with Debut Show “Ghost Face” Featuring Local Contemporary ArtistsArtists include: Andrew Ohanesian, Xaviera Simmons, Kristof Wickman, Adam Parker Smith, Brent Owens, William Powhida, Ben Godward, Amy Brener, Don Pablo Pedro, Nathan Gwynne, Audrey Hasen Russell, Fabian Tabibian, Fabio Ernesto Corredor and Steven Mykietyn
Opening Event Saturday, March 17th, 6 pm – MidnightFeaturing music by Ice Machine & Swift and Rachel Mason & Little Band of Sailors
Exhibition open 11 am – 7 pm on March 18th, 24th and 25th
Closing Event Sunday, March 25th 6 pm – 9 pm
Featuring music by Young Heel

OTHER EVENTS: 

Bruce Brosnan: See, hear, remember/Tyler Vlahovich: recent work
http://www.featureinc.com/
02/15/2012-03/18/2012
12pm-6pm

Bruce Brosnan began exhibiting with Feature Inc. in 2000 and See, hear, remember is his fourth one-person exhibition witht he gallery. He lives and works in Brooklyn, has a BFA from Maine College of Art (19915) and an MFA from Hunter College (1998), which is where I first saw his inspired installations. Tyler Vlahovich has a BFA (1989) from California Institute of the Arts and lives and works in Los Angeles. This recent work is his third one-person exhibition with the gallery and coincidentally, we also began working together in 2000.

THE DUMPSTER PROJECT
http://www.theinvisibledog.org/?p=8759
02/21/2012-03/31/2012
00pm-00pm

FROM JANUARY 8 Premiering at the DUMBO Arts Festival on September 23, 2011, The Dumpster Project is a work of transportable public art. The Dumpster Project is also a daily blog (www.thedumpsterproject.com). Fundamentally, though, The Dumpster Project is a physical taxonomy of one man’s existence. Mac Premo is a Brooklyn-based collage artist. His longtime Boerum Hill studio was a sanctuary for an assortment of objects accumulated over decades. Included among the hundreds of items are old baseball cards he shared with his dad, the shoes his eldest daughter first walked in, recently extracted wisdom teeth from an eccentric friend, a Persian music mix-tape, and a fortune cookie message that warns him against the pitfalls of relaxation (it reads: ‘You’ve had a good start. Work Harder!’). More than just objects of ephemera, they are participants in Mac’s artistic repertoire that act as both influence and raw material for his body of work.

Lehmann Maupin Gallery Presents Angel Otero at ISTANBUL’74
http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/exhibitions/2012-02-24_angel-otero-at-istanbul-74/
02/23/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-9pm

ngel Otero is a visual artist best known for his process-based paintings. While much of his works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures of 20th century painting, his latest works highlights the artist’s unique process as a form of narrative in itself. Through his innovative process of oil paint scraping, Otero venerates historical oil painting while confronting it head on. Otero’s ‘deformation’ approach to painting his works, first across glass and then once dry, flaying the dried paint and reconstructing the composition anew across large canvasses, is representative of how the artist perceives the process of reconfiguring both personal and historical narratives. Otero’s work sometimes uses process as a way of confronting deep, personal memories. Instead of representing his life through art, he archives moments within it by creating opportunities of surprise and discovery.

Marcia Hafif: Pomona Houses and Ink Drawings
http://www.npgallery.com/
02/23/2012-04/14/2012
6pm-8pm

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 23, 6-8pm Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-6pm The Ink Drawings were painted using a practice developed during the making of the Pencil Drawings, 1972, always beginning in the upper left corner and finishing in the lower right. The support and medium change while the technique remains the same. Here the ink mixture is more or less diluted, with darker and lighter results. The technique is based on the idea that repetition will produce changing results; the titles of the drawings are the date of completion – a record of the day’s work.

Bo Joseph Fragments of a Worldview
http://www.searspeyton.com/html/home.asp
02/23/2012-04/05/2012
5pm-7pm

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 23 5 – 7 pm Sears Peyton is pleased to present Fragments of a Worldview, the gallery’s third solo exhibition of New York artist Bo Joseph, on view February 23 – April 5, 2012. This exhibition will feature seven large works on paper, five of which measure nearly seven feet high, from an ongoing series that has been the focus of Joseph’s practice since his return from Berlin in 2009.

CECILIA VISSERS: ULTIMA THULE (THE FAR NORTH)
http://masterspelavin.com/upcoming/
02/23/2012-03/31/2012
6pm-8pm

Masters & Pelavin is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of recent sculptures by Dutch artist, Cecilia Vissers. Inspired by the landscape of ‘the far north’ of Scotland during a trip in 2011, Cecilia decided to focus on the cliffs and extreme edges of land, this is the most north-westerly point in mainland Britain. Isolated and dramatic. This work is an abstraction of the landscape, its purity, color and clear line. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in the US.

Allison Gildersleeve: Let Me Show It To You Unfixed
www.asyageisberggallery.com
02/23/2012-04/07/2012
6pm-8pm

February 23 – April 7, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday February 23, 6 – 8 pm Artist Talk: Saturday March 10, 12 pm Starting with recycled drawings, photographs, and revisited childhood places, Allison Gildersleeve builds an increasing complexity – and like a visual puppetmaster, deftly orchestrates our eyes’ travel in perpetual motion. Rather than a passively-observed vista that reveals itself immediately, she aims to orient the viewer in a specific way. Then she allows the paint to swirl into a deliberate morass, forcing us to constantly lose the thread. Finding parallels in poets such as Wallace Stevens, Gildersleeve fights against a sense of order or stasis, and instead leaves borders undefined, odd juxtapositions of scale, vibrations of lush color and constant mark variation. We see a rock and just as soon have forgotten that cognition, as the patch of grey “rock” quickly erases into paint, movement, dab, or stroke. Often the most clarity is found in an unexpected corner or edge

THE NUDIST MUSEUM GIFT SHOP: ELLEN HARVEY
http://dodge-gallery.com/cgi-bin/DODGE?s=exhibitions&v=20121614673721738569463792
02/23/2012-04/01/2012
6pm-8pm

A museum is nothing without a gift shop. A museum without nudes is really no fun at all. This the best of all worlds: a museum attached to a gift shop with nothing but nudes. In her inaugural exhibition at DODGEgallery, Ellen Harvey offers several strangely beautiful and hilarious explorations of the art nude that both question and exploit our fascination with depictions of our naked bodies to create an intentionally contradictory and often incoherent model of art as a form of desire. These works which are part of Harvey’s ongoing Museum of Failure, explore the paradox that at a time when no one need resort to figure drawing classes to see naked members of either sex, the popular imagination still clings to the nude as one of the great subjects of art.

Michiel Ceulers
http://www.anacristeagallery.com/
02/23/2012-03/31/2012
11am-6pm

Ana Cristea Gallery is proud to present the first solo show in the United States of the Belgian artist Michiel Ceulers (born 1986). As an artist, Ceulers concentrates on the bare essentials of painting: canvases and wooden panels, paint and spray paint. Ceulers is entirely committed to painting as an ongoing art form, saying in an interview that painting “has been declared dead a few times, but still many people consider painting the most relevant medium.” Part of the impulse associated with the logic of chance the artist submits his canvases to can be seen as an attempt to move beyond from the boundaries of painterly tradition. As a result, the artworks’ origins are not only painterly, they are also conceptual. As stated in the artist’s own words, his “paintings are the result of events that form a chain reaction, so in a way they are larger than the canvases themselves – they are spatial.” Thus, true to himself, Ceulers maintains steady ground, balancing the idiosyncrasies of his pra

That Old Time Religion
http://www.endofcenturynyc.com/
02/24/2012-04/05/2012
7PM-9PM

End of Century is pleased to announce, “That Old Time Religion,” an exhibition of work by Colin Ruel. Like manger scenes on a Christmas cards or a drawings in the Lascaux cave, Ruel has created an entire visual vocabulary for the cult of his imagination, influenced by shaman practices and catholic iconography. His subjects – Virgin Mary’s, Feather-haired Navajo Chiefs, and diving birds – save, sacrifice, misguide, and redeem, on salvaged wood, stretched denim, and rain gutters from Martha’s Vineyard. Opening Reception Friday, February 24th, 7-9 PM at End of Century, 237 Eldridge Street, New York, New York. DJ Set by Will Roan of Amazing Baby.

PS3* PEDRO SANCHEZ3: ON THE OUTER EDGE
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_EXH_gallery
02/24/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-00pm

The Abrons Arts Center is pleased to announce On the Outer Edge, an exhibition by Spanish-born New York based artist PS3* Pedro Sanchez3 in the Upper Main Gallery. The artist presents a new video work in his full-scale model home designed for a life of deliberate deprivation. Based on Brazilian favelas and built from materials found in and around the Lower East Side, this continually adaptable structure participates in an international language of habitation. Dwellings like the one presented in this exhibition are a global response to poverty — usually inhabited by immigrants or slave workers in the suburbs of large cities in Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, Morocco, and many other African and Asian countries.

CHRISTINE HOU & LISA IGLESIAS: ME, WE
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_EXH_me_we
02/24/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-00pm

The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present me, we, a multi-platform collaboration partnering with the Dia Art Foundation’s education program, Abrons Arts Center StudioLab program, and 11th-grade Studio Art majors at Lower Manhattan Arts Academy (LoMA). Grounded by a continuously evolving installation on view at the Abrons Arts Center from February 17-March 17, 2012, me, we is an exploration and articulation of collective authorship that blurs the lines between studio space, exhibition, and public forum.

ANDRES BEDOYA: FROM ULTRA MADRE
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_EXH_from_ultra_madre
02/24/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-00pm

Andres Bedoya’s performance installation Ultra Madre was originally presented at the Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia, in 2009. Born of private mourning, the piece ultimately speaks of loss as a collective experience. Installed within the main arch of the museum’s patio, a steel and wood scaffold holding 57 women disrupted its architecture physically and functionally. For approximately one hour, participating women lay still with their long hair cascading down the 15-foot structure. In stark contrast to the hardness of the building, the body appeared soft, impermanent, and ephemeral.

Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/
02/26/2012-03/26/2012
0pm-0pm

The Brooklyn Museum seeks an assistant curator of Contemporary Art to participate in a fast-paced and dynamic area of growth within the Museum. The successful candidate will be deeply familiar with a broad range of contemporary art and will assist with development and implementation of both collections growth and programs.

Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal

http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=4039
02/26/2012-12/31/2012
8pm-10pm

Every Monday at 8pm Hosted by Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords), this weekly variety show features comedy from New York’s best comics and sketch groups, new music, special guests, and the occasional, unpredictable oddity. Past guests have included Eugene Mirman, Ted Leo, Aziz Ansari, and more. For more information, please visit http://www.littlefieldnyc.com.

Made By Hand
http://here.org/shows/detail/855/
02/26/2012-03/31/2012
2pm-7pm

Some nights I sit at home and sew and the hours fly by and I look at the clock and see it’s 2 am, time to go to bed. Using my hands has always been a big part of my existence- an art, a craft, a meditation. The exponential growth of technology has also spawned its antithesis – a revival of craft – an elevation of handiwork to a fine art.

Cindy Sherman
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1170?book
02/26/2012-06/11/2012
10:30am-5:30pm

Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has captured herself in a range of guises and personas which are at turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props, Sherman has deftly altered her physique and surroundings to create a myriad of intriguing tableaus and characters, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite.

Print/Out
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1169?book
02/26/2012-04/14/2012
10:30am-5:30pm

Over the last two decades, geopolitical borders have shifted and new technologies have forged channels of communication around the world. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. This exhibition examines the evolution of artistic practices related to the print medium, from the resurgence of traditional printmaking techniques—often used alongside digital technologies—to the proliferation of self-published artists’ projects. Bringing together some 70 series or projects drawn substantially from MoMA’s extensive collection of prints and books, with the addition of several important loans, the exhibition features major artists and publishing projects, such as Ai Weiwei, Trisha Donnelly, Martin Kippenberger, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, Museum in Progress, Edition Jacob Samuel, Thomas Schütte, SUPERFLEX, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Christopher Wool, among many others.

Eugène Atget: “Documents pour artistes”
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1216?book
02/26/2012-04/09/2012
10:30am-5:30pm

This exhibition presents six fresh and highly focused cross sections through the career of master photographer Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927), drawn exclusively from the Museum’s unparalleled holdings of his work. The sign outside Atget’s studio read, “Documents pour artistes,”—declaring his modest ambition to create images for other artists to use as source material. This humility belied the visual sophistication and distinctive vision that characterized much of Atget’s own work.

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1230?book
02/26/2012-07/30/2012
10:30am-5:30pm

Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis. During summer 2011, five interdisciplinary teams of architects, urban planners, ecologists, engineers, and landscape designers worked in public workshops at MoMA PS1 to envision new housing and transportation infrastructures that could catalyze urban transformation, particularly in the country’s suburbs. Responding to The Buell Hypothesis, a research report prepared by the Buell Center at Columbia University, teams—lead by MOS, Visible Weather, Studio Gang, WORKac, and Zago Architecture—focused on a specific location within one of five “megaregions” across the country to come up with inventive solutions for the future of American suburbs. This installation presents the proposals developed during the architects-in-residence program, including a wide array of models, renderings, animations, and analytical materials.

Exhibition and Artist-led Community Engagement Initiative
http://garrisonartcenter.org/
02/26/2012-03/17/2012
00pm-00pm

Garrison Art Center, located on the Hudson River in Garrison,New York, has a new opportunity for an artist to realize a project with a community engagement component. The opportunity includes an exhibition in the Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center, a community engagement project with teens and their schools, studio resources, administrative support, and a stipend. The exhibition, in October 2012, includes two galleries (one gallery is 700 sq. ft. — one is 250 sq. ft.) The artist will work with teens from 1- 2 local schools to realize a project with an end product that will be shared through an exhibition, performance, or through public art Garrison Art Centerwill manage the logistics and administration with the schools and serve as liaison to the community The artist will have use of the Garrison Art Center studios, including printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and a film darkroom Stipend will be determined by experience and scale of project

SOLOWAY presents: Krypta by DRAOK
http://www.soloway.info/
02/26/2012-03/30/2012
6pm-8pm

Giorgio Guidi and Marta Pierobon formed Draok in 2010 to work collaboratively on shared interests including architecture, perception and social systems. Both Guidi and Peirobon have long been fascinated by the secretive and hidden: crypts, cults, ghosts and memories. Italian cities are built on the foundations of previous settlements–Etruscan, Roman and medieval–producing a stratification of civilizations. New buildings rise on the ruins of the old, burying earlier structures in rubble and debris. In Italian Catholicism there is a long tradition of covering and hiding the past; it is deeply embedded in the hierarchy of the church. Beneath the modern city lies the still present and living past and its treasures, relics, and corpses.

Ingredients of Reality: the dismantling of New York City
http://www.lantuazon.com/
02/28/2012-04/07/2012
7pm-9pm

Ingredients of Reality: the Dismantling of New York City by Lan Tuazon presents sculptures, drawings and prints that discuss how history, the law and class structures are written on the physical environment. Surrealist in concept, Tuazon takes real/existing parts of the built environment — including buildings, lots, and monuments – and creates a new reality against the repressive logic of property. The exhibition includes the presentation of two new works: Architectures of Defense and New York City Bar Graph, which paired with Tuazon’s Army Park and Parking Lot Landscape, present the city disassembled into parts and functions unveiling taxonomies of power reordered into new composite figures that render visible what reality has ceased to distinguish.

Liz Biddle, Regine Granne, and Katherine Tzu-lan Mann at A.I.R. Gallery
http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.artists&artistid=885
03/01/2012-03/24/2012
6pm-9pm

This exhibition showcases Biddle’s continuing interest in mixed media, with a twist of humor found in much of her work. Old wires, light bulbs, screws and other found objects protrude from holes in ceramic objects, while creature-like robots – strange, disturbing and endearing – appear in collages and drawings. Liberty is a contemplation of the present in the wake of 9/11. The Statue of Liberty itself simultaneously represents an overused icon and a diminishing concept. These works offer a means of viewing such images and enable reflection of our world, our nation, our politics, our person, our perspective, and our relationship to all. Mann’s large paintings in Root, created by combining chance stains with highly rendered decorative elements on oversized, un-stretched paper, function as human-sized portholes into a landscape alive with minute details, patterns and interlocking systems.

THE MODERN BEETHOVEN
http://www.Nyphil.org/beethoven
03/01/2012-03/20/2012
0pm-0pm

Hear Beethoven the way Beethoven intended. Over three extraordinary weeks, conductor David Zinman leads the New York Philharmonic in his “exhilarating” (Gramophone magazine) approach to the masterpieces of Beethoven, revealing fresh vitality in the music. Performed with the brash vigor, passionate joy and raw pathos that Beethoven himself intended, these symphonies will sound bold, dramatic and new. You might call it modern; you’d certainly call it unforgettable. VENUE: Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall Check website for times.

deanna lee
http://www.rhvfineart.com/
03/01/2012-04/01/2012
6pm-8pm

rhv fine art is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawings and paintings by Brooklyn based artist Deanna Lee. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, March 1, 6pm to 8pm Cocktails and after-party at Lot 2

John Wood
http://www.brucesilverstein.com/galleries.php?gid=716&i=0&page=next
03/01/2012-04/21/2012
6pm-8pm

Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of mixed-media works by the artist John Wood. The exhibition will feature Wood’s groundbreaking conceptual and process driven series: Baltimore Steps, 1991-94; Nine imaginary Oil Spills, 1995; Triangle in the Landscape: Eleven Second 90 Degree Turn of a Paper Triangle, 1985; Beach Drawings, c. 1983 and his Gun in Landscape Series c.1967. In addition, the show will include a selection of significant works spanning Wood’s career that emphasize the social and environmental issues that have informed his works since the late 1950s.

Harriet Korman: New Paintings
http://lennonweinberg.com/current/current_1.html
03/01/2012-04/14/2012
00pm-00pm

Harriet Korman’s last solo exhibition of new work took place at the gallery in 2008. She has continued to focus on color and shape in new paintings that attain a decisive and brilliant clarity. Basing the compositions on line drawings, Korman uses the location of the lines as boundaries between colors, and selects individual unblended pigments for the resulting shapes. She exposes each color’s intrinsic qualities of hue, brightness, transparency, and texture through the juxtaposition of related or contrasting colors and a deceptively casual paint application. Diagonals that slice across the mostly four by five foot canvasses give rise to an interesting reverse symmetry; horizontals and verticals further divide wedges into triangles and polygons. In the end, Korman achieves a shifting dominance between whole and divided shapes through the purposeful selection and arrangement of color.

Heathens
http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/heathens.htm
03/01/2012-03/18/2012
3pm-8pm

Set on an isolated farm in eastern Kentucky, Heathens is an unsettling comedy that makes the term “family values” take on new meanings. When a wandering laborer follows a woman home for the night, he finds a lot more than he bargained for in the home she shares with her sister and her Mamaw. The play explores mourning, faith, and the dangers of isolation as the characters do battle with themselves and each other. Wednesday – Sunday, March 1 – 18 Wednesday – Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm Additional Performances Saturday, March 3 at 3pm

La MaMa and Talking Band present Hot Lunch Apostles
http://talkingband.org/
03/01/2012-03/18/2012
7:30pm-10pm

To survive in a time of desperate competition and fervent religion, a traveling troupe of carnival strippers switches to performing stories from the Bible. For this production, Talking Band transforms La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theatre into a fairground, complete with game booths, food stands, and geek shows.

Mark Ruwedel: Records
http://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/2012-03-mark-ruwedel/
03/01/2012-04/07/2012
6pm-8pm

Artist’s Reception Thursday, March 1, 6:00–8:00 pm Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce Records, an exhibition of black and white photographs by Mark Ruwedel. Records will open on Thursday, March 1, and will close on Saturday, April 7, with a reception for the artist on March 1 from 6:00 to 8:00PM. This is Ruwedel’s second solo exhibition with the Gallery, which presented his first New York show, Westward the Course of Empire, in 2009. The exhibition will present the artist’s recent projects in the western United States, focusing on the collision of promise and reality. The photographs, primarily of homes and landscapes, were made in the desert regions surrounding Los Angeles, from the western Mojave Desert to the Salton Sea region, as well as in Utah and on a small island in British Columbia.

Corinne Wasmuht
http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2012-01-12_joyce-pensato/
03/01/2012-04/28/2012
6pm-8pm

Wasmuht is widely known for her large-scale, multi-layered oil paintings. Her work derives from an array of pictorial inventions, culminating in an aesthetic tension that aims to reconcile what the artist refers to as the “dualism of modernism,” a melding of representational and abstract structures in painting. The paintings’ images are generated from an array of abstracted and overlapping photographic imagery that Wasmuht sources from a combination of the Internet and her own personal photographs. The images, both appropriated and her own, mine daily life, nature, science and art, fusing into staged abstracted productions. As Wasmuht describes her process, “In a film, one image is followed by another, whereas I pile the images up on top of one another.” Above all, her labor-intensive painting technique characterizes her work.

BAC Gallery presents: FUNNY HA HA
http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/
03/01/2012-07/27/2012
6pm-9pm

Opening Reception Thursday, March 1, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Join us during the Dumbo 1st Thursday Gallery Walk at the opening reception for BAC Gallery’s latest exhibition Funny Ha Ha. Can art be critical and humorous? This group show will explore different approaches to using humor in art. Artists include: Ernest Concepcion, Katy Higgins, Beth Krebs and Iviva Olenick. Curated by Courtney J. Wendroff.

GEORGE PLATT LYNES
http://www.stevenkasher.com/html/home.asp
03/01/2012-04/07/2012
6pm-8pm

Exhibition: March 1 – April 7, 2012 Opening Reception: March 1, 6-8pm Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present George Platt Lynes, an exhibition of over 40 vintage prints drawn from an important private collection. The exhibition includes major examples of nudes, portraits, ballet pictures and surreal images photographed by this American master between 1933 and 1953.

SPAR: Photographs from Cuba by Paul Meleschnig
http://www.stevenkasher.com/html/home.asp
03/01/2012-04/07/2012
6pm-8pm

Exhibition: March 1 – April 7, 2012 Opening Reception: March 1, 6-8pm Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to present Spar: Photographs from Cuba by Paul Meleschnig. Included in the exhibition are over twenty gelatin silver prints. In his recurring travels to Cuba between 1997 and 2009, Meleschnig captured boxers and their everyday life of physical training. Gymnasium, ring and street collectively unfold the lives of young men in a sort of visual poem.

Fad Gadget
http://www.envoyenterprises.com/#opening
03/01/2012-04/08/2012
–

MARCH 1ST – APRIL 8TH March 1 – Exhibition – envoy enterprises (131 Chrystie St.) March 3 – Live Performances – Dixon Place (161 Chrystie St.) March 10 – Screening, Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey – Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave.) PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Olaf Breuning, Nick Cash, Nathan Cash Davidson, Thomas Dozol, Casey Spooner, David Flinn, Erik Hanson, Kelsey Henderson, Tom Kalin, Erika Keck, Brian Kenny, Robert Knoke, Terence Koh, Lovett/Codagnone, Slava Mogutin, Micki Pellerano, Edwin Pouncey, Alex Rose, Desi Santiago, Matthew Sims, Stephanie Snider, Gail Stoicheff, Una Szeemann, Frank Tovey, Conrad Ventur, Martynka Wawrzyniak, Liz Wendelbo, Grant Worth…MORE:http://www.envoyenterprises.com/#current

MOMENTUM
http://www.the-impossible-project.com/projects/exhibitions/
03/01/2012-06/26/2012
6pm-8pm

OPENING RECEPTION: MARCH 01, 2011 6:00 PM It has been almost two years since the very first release of Impossible instant film, the wildly anticipated new black & white instant film for Polaroid SX-70 cameras. Although the film was initially in a developmental stage and highly experimental, it dawned on both fanatics and photographers alike that the impossible actually could become possible. Just 19 months later, Impossible has released 12 unique film types for three separate Polaroid camera systems. Although the journey has been short, the length Impossible has come represents a milestone in reviving instant analog photography. Using Impossible’s latest color and black & white films, twelve carefully selected photographers are illustrating a MOMENTUM that will carry instant analog photography through the digital age and beyond.

Eat Peter to Feed Paul by John Felix Arnold III and Christopher Burch
http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/exhibit/
03/01/2012-03/31/2012
–

John Felix Arnold’s drawings and mixed media pieces combine a fine art aesthetic with a stylistic execution that’s intentionally derivative of graphic novels and comics. Equally influenced by this subversive genre of literature, modern dance, and his father’s collection of modern and abstract art, Arnold layers imagery with commentary to create a hybrid reality that references his synthesized human experience and aims to inform people of an ever hurtling machine that they are being wrapped inside of that is eating away at their humanity, yet seemingly cannot live without.

The Ungovernables
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/448/the_ungovernables
03/01/2012-04/22/2012
–

The 2012 New Museum Triennial will feature thirty-four artists, artist groups, and temporary collectives—totaling over fifty participants—born between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, many of whom have never before exhibited in the US. The exhibition title, “The Ungovernables,” takes its inspiration from the concept of “ungovernability” and its transformation from a pejorative term used to describe unruly “natives” to a strategy of civil disobedience and self-determination. “The Ungovernables” is meant to suggest both anarchic and organized resistance and a dark humor about the limitations and potentials of this generation.

EMERGING FEMALE ABSTRACTIONISTS: Lauren Luloff
http://www.hortongallery.com/
03/01/2012-03/31/2012
–

Lauren Luloff’s recent collage paintings bring to mind the sky, the worn floor of a textile mill, tea in an old porcelain cup and laundry drying in the sun. Her process is simple: first she stretches semi transparent fabric over stretcher bars, then glues swatches of fabrics and paints on this “ground”. Nothing is hidden and everything is revealed. The process, laid bare, yields something mysterious; the work becomes hazy and atmospheric, like dawn or a memory of childhood. The fabrics simultaneously root and dislocate the painted colors, like Matisse who famously always painted with scraps of printed fabrics hanging around his studio.

Shelley’s Ghost: The Afterlife of a Poet
http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/shelley’s-ghost-afterlife-poet
03/01/2012-06/24/2012
–

For the first time ever, selections from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein manuscript will be available for public viewing in the United States in this exciting exhibition, which is being shown in collaboration with the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in England and will highlight the literary and cultural legacy of P.B. and Mary Shelley, and that of her parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Bobbi Beck at Grand Central Library: A Traveling Exhibition of Autobiographical Drawings
http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/bobbi-beck-grand-central-library-traveling-exhibition-autobiographical-drawings
03/01/2012-03/28/2012
–

Bobbi Beck has exhibited her artworks at five New York City Public Libraries. She now travels to the Grand Central Library Branch for another exhibition. Included are many new drawings rendered with vibrant colors. The drawings are autobiographical and reflect her day-to-day observations and feelings. They convey her emotional and visual renderings of humor, love, gender conflicts, marriage, family, health, joy and sorrow, anguish and global issues.

Peter Tunney // Skull Session
http://www.clicgallery.com/index.htm
03/01/2012-03/25/2012
–

Opening Receptions: Wednesday, March 14, 6-10pm Thursday, March 15, 6-10pm In the latter half of the 2000s, skull iconography experienced a massive cultural renaissance. Alexander McQueen, arguably the most influential designer of the last twenty years, adopted the skull as his brand trademark in the early 2000s; reproducing it on everything from scarves to jeweled clutches. Meanwhile, in 2007, British enfant terrible Damien Hirst sent shockwaves through the art world when he sold a diamond-encrusted human skull for $122 million dollars. Gradually, throughout the course of the 2000s, skulls shed their more macabre, foreboding implications and became widely accepted as signifiers of not only dark luxury and good taste but of the precariousness and preciousness of human existence.

PIERRE FICHEFEUX THE KING OF CHICKENS MAKES HAVOC IN HEAVEN
http://www.rabbitholeprojects.com/
03/01/2012-03/31/2012
–

Opening Reception w/ guest DJ Taka: THU 01 MAR, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Artist Talk w/ Live Performance by Bow Ribbons & Smiles Guthrie: FRI 16 MAR, 7:00 – 10:00 pm Rabbithole Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by French artist Pierre Fichefeux from his series The King of Chickens Makes Havoc in Heaven. Opening March 1st and extending through to the 31st, this will be Pierre Fichefeux’s first solo exhibition in New York City.

Cut and Paste at Muriel Guépin Gallery curated by rhv fine art
http://www.murielguepingallery.com/
03/02/2012-04/15/2012
6:30-8pm

Although the process of collage has been around for millennia it was George Braques and Pablo Picasso who, in the early 20th century, made the act of cutting and pasting disperate elements of paper, cardboard, string or basically whatever into works of fine art. This marked the beginning of a mash-up between “high” and “low” culture that would eventually occupy an enormous movement in contemporary art. RHV Fine Art has selected three artists, James Cullinane, Sharon Lawless and Andrew Zarou, from it’s exceptional roster of artists, each of whom uses the technique of collage in different ways and to different ends. March 2 – April 15, 2012 Opening reception: Friday, March 2, 6:30 – 8pm

CENTRALIA
http://www.brooklynlyceum.com/
03/02/2012-03/23/2012
8pm-10pm

In this immersive theatrical experience, UglyRhino brings you the story of real ghosttown Centralia, Pennsylvania, where you’ll travel throughout the warehouse space, encountering the nine intriguing characters who refuse to vacate the town. While you hear their extraordinary stories, you will be served signature drinks that have been specially designed to pull you further into the world of the play

Norbert Bisky: Stampede
http://www.leokoenig.com/exhibition/view/2269
03/02/2012-04/07/2012
6pm-8pm

Heide Fasnacht: Loot
http://www.kentfineart.net/exhibitions/main.html
03/02/2012-04/21/2012
–

Since 2008 Heide Fasnacht has been exploring landscapes of cultural destruction and in the process has recovered images long dormant and silent. Against our social climate, marked as it is by an inability to face history, Fasnacht takes on the challenge of excavating the past as she examines the fate of cultural artifacts in times of conflict. She begins in medias res, figuratively and literally, and assembles arrays of things stolen, hoarded, lost, recovered, and demolished as a result of war. Fasnacht draws on multiple sources, including the Nazi’s confiscation of art and treasure, the Allies’ bombing of Monte Cassino, looting and damage at the Umm al-Aqarib archaeological site in Iraq following the US invasion, the methodical looting of treasure by Japanese forces in WWII, Japanese internment camps in the US, the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, the London Blitz, the TET offensive, the Monuments Men, and the Rubble Women.

Chakaia Booker: Print Me.
http://davidkrut.com/exhibitions.html
03/02/2012-04/14/2012
–

David Krut Projects is pleased to present Print Me, the first exhibition dedicated to Chakaia Booker’s prints. Booker began collaborating with Master Printer, Phil Sanders, of Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in 2009, and has created over 100 unique prints to date. The title of the exhibition, Print Me, refers to the collaborative dialogue between Booker and Sanders, in which Booker would leave hand written notes for Sanders once her compositions were finished and ready to print. This exhibition features a selection of these collaborative prints, which highlight Booker’s investigation of the two-dimensional framework through experimental print media.

SIMONE GILGES
http://www.foxyproduction.com/
03/02/2012-04/07/2012
–

Reception March 2, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM SIMONE GILGES presents, in her second New York solo exhibition at Foxy Production, a new series of photographic portraits. Her photographs draw astute visual connections between the people she portrays and the settings in which they are posed. Gilges channels the tropes of portrait, design, and fashion photography into an enigmatic idiom that both discloses and holds onto its secrets.

Mesmer Eyes Kathy Goodell
http://www.causeycontemporary.com/
03/02/2012-04/16/2012
–

This March, Causey Contemporary is pleased to present Mesmer Eyes, a solo exhibition by Kathy Goodell. Sculpture and drawing, Goodell’s most familiar forms, are utilized as physical accents within Mesmer Eyes, the tactile qualities leading one from nature to the metaphysical. Mesmer Eyes is characteristic of Goodell’s meditative approach to space, time and consciousness, while optimizing her interests in light and prismatic color to create a hypnotic effect, allowing the tangible to meet the abstract. This will be the first solo exhibition by Ms. Goodell at the gallery, which will include a large-scale, interactive painting installation, aqueous pigment print photographs, sculptures and drawings from 2011-2012.

FRANKLIN EVANS:EYESONTHEEDGE
http://www.suescottgallery.com/
03/02/2012-04/15/2012
–

OPENING RECEPTION 2 MARCH, 6 – 8 PM Evans examines the processes of making art — the generation of ideas and materials, their transformation from one to the other, and the many varied states in between. For this exhibition, he will present paintings, sculptures, photographs, and a sound piece in an all-encompassing environment. The wall paintings and collage environments of past installations, such as timecompressionmachine from Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1, have been collapsed by the artist and transferred to the surface of large-scale canvases. Mundane materials such as artist’s tape that previously played a key role as a barrier, frame, and drawing tool, are carefully recreated as trompe l’oeil representations, as the use of actual tape in the final compositions diminishes.

RADIATOR GALLERY presents TOGETHER AGAIN
http://www.radiatorarts.com/Gallery.html
03/02/2012-03/20/2012
–

Opening: March 2, 6 – 9PM Special event: March 9, 6 -9PM The show’s title is based on a piece by Vikenti Komitski, which presents an intriguing world map whose continents have come together in a single, interconnected body. Is this restored Panguea, a Utopian island or a new world order? Is it the result of natural disaster or of carefully engineered forces of globalization? “Together Again” is charged with both contradiction and potential, fueled by a Romantic sentiment that togetherness/ solidarity is still possible. The show is immersed in the “ideal,” presenting artistic gestures that push beyond a possible yet desirable future. Landscape is a recurring motif, behind which lie attempts to observe and contemplate, efforts either enhanced or mediated by technology. This detour back into nature is interrupted by an accelerating tension between nature and culture. Thus is formed the overall arch among these artists’ exercises in Utopia.

Scissors, Paper, Glue and Books I Can’t Cut U
http://www.studio10bogart.com/pages/description_page.php?page=12
03/02/2012-03/26/2012
–

Studio10 is pleased to announce Scissors, Paper, Glue and Books I Can’t Cut Up,an exhibition of new work by the Brooklyn-based artist Tim Spelios. Spelios’s original source materials become the means to mine obscure connections and create irrational associations through juxtapositions of images and objects. The obsolete materials he collects include flyers, books, magazines, trade catalogs and manuals which are often found at flea markets, second hand book shops or on the street. Spelios has a particular wonderment in the printed matter with the covers torn, important pages removed or defaced. Performances in association with the exhibition: March 10, 7:30 – 10:00 pm March 24, 7:30 – 10:00 pm

Jesse Hulcher The Remaster Cycle
http://interstateprojects.com/
03/02/2012-04/08/2012
–

Opening Reception, Friday March 2, 6-9 pm INTERSTATE PROJECTS is pleased to present The Remaster Cycle, Jesse Hulcher’s first solo exhibition in New York. Through a wide range of digital and analog mediums, Hulcher explores the ways that corporate media influences how we view such disparate cultural experiences as the Vietnam war, Groundhog Day, and the Grateful Dead, among others. With Groundhog Days – or – Same Shit, Same Day, Hulcher has written a custom DVD script that alters the playback of 1993’s Groundhog Day, dictating that the central portion of the film devolves into an endless loop, rendering it a more realistic depiction of Phil Connor’s experiences in Punxsutawny, PA. Staying within the medium of mass market film, The Vietnam Experience – or – Same Shit, Different Song, the viewer is presented with a distallation of the entertainment industries cinematic representation of the Vietnam War thoughout the previous four decades.

Brooklyn Navy Yard Tours
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/brklyn_wk_talks.html
03/03/2012-03/31/2012
12:30pm-3:30pm

Saturdays and Sundays, March 3, 4, 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25, and 31, 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. As part of BHS’s Brooklyn Walks and Talks program series, join Urban Oyster, in collaboration with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, for public bus tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Urban Oyster offers two Navy Yard Tour options: a two-hour comprehensive tour for $30 and a one-hour highlights tour for $18. These tours explore the Yard’s transition from one of the nation’s foremost naval shipbuilding facilities to a national leader in sustainable urban industrial parks. Tours will begin and end at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92. BHS members receive 10% off all tours. For dates, tickets, and more information, please visit http://www.urbanoyster.com or call Urban Oyster at 347.618.8687.

Immigrant Foodways Tour
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/brklyn_wk_talks.html
03/03/2012-03/17/2012
11:30am-2pm

Saturdays, March 3, 10, and 17, 11:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m. As part of Brooklyn Walks and Talks, join Urban Oyster for this tour. Based on oral histories with residents and business owners in East Williamsburg, this tour explores the history of Brooklyn’s “Avenue of Puerto Rico” – once the heart of a Jewish community – and takes an in-depth look at the Moore Street Market, built in 1941 to mark the end of the pushcart era. Today the market is a centerpiece of the Spanish-speaking community. By the end of the tour, you’ll be equipped with new knowledge about Latin American ingredients and a booklet of traditional recipes to help you recreate the tastes and smells of the market in your own home. Tickets: $39 (10% off for BHS members). Advance ticket purchase is required. Go to http://www.urbanoyster.com or call 347.618.8687.

Dark Pop 4
http://www.lastritesgallery.com/darkpop_4.php
03/03/2012-04/08/2012
7pm-11pm

Last Rites Gallery, for the fourth consecutive year, presents the “Dark Pop 4” group art exhibition guest curated by Gary Pressman (director of Copro Gallery). Artists are asked to create One piece that is truly considered ‘Dark Art’. Many artists find themselves in the groove of creating a certain mood or emotion through their work and have, understandably, become quite comfortable following this path in their art-making. At Last Rites Gallery we want to break that mold and challenge artists to create a piece that searches through new or buried feelings and emotions. The artist’s will let go of the light and allow the dark to thrive, as pop takes on a new form.

THE POP-UP MUSEUM Opening!
http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com/
03/03/2012-04/22/2012
8pm-

THE POP-UP MUSEUM of the Gowanus Canal March 3 – April 22, 2012 Opening Reception: 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 3rd Tumblr: http://gowanuslab.tumblr.com/ A museum’s mission involves the categorization, preservation, and contextualization of objects within a finite space. The Pop-Up Museum is designed to function as the inverse of these practices, bringing together a set of local, “unremarkable” objects that then become art or serve as a springboard for art that references them. Through the playful contextualization and re-contextualization of these objects, we will redefine the museum—both what a museum looks like, physically, and what it does, culturally. Specifically, we will work with found materials from all around the Gowanus neighborhood to create a new “history” of the region and its traditions (a not entirely serious one).

MOLLY SMITH TIDAL
http://www.katewerblegallery.com/
03/03/2012-04/14/2012
6pm-8pm

Molly Smith’s second solo show at Kate Werble Gallery addresses the artist’s personal response to the impermanence and cycles of change within the world. The works in this exhibition are purposely unfixed and mutable; they lean, balance, rest or hang precariously, suggesting the possibility of further transformation. Playing with varied heights and angles, Smith’s sculptures intersect one another across sightlines. Along one wall, strips of painted and cut paper are reassembled to span the thirty-five foot length, creating an undulating panorama. As they reference one another with recurrent materials, gestures and objects, the works suggest changing states. In the windows of the gallery, rotating displays show various combinations of a landscape painting, a photograph, and collected ephemera. These displays change daily to reflect how looking, seeing and making are part of Smith’s everyday.

JOHN ALMANZA AND DAVE HARDY
http://www.reginarex.org/
03/03/2012-04/08/2012
7pm-10pm

The paintings of John Almanza and the sculptures of Dave Hardy reflect the reckless abandon of progress, with an emphasis on looking at how materials get relegated to the side as other forces push forward. Indulging in the abundances available to them, both artists consider excess and overflow as vital to the physicality and construction of their work. Almanza’s viscous oil paintings rely on a process of application and removal of paint. While the paintings are still wet, he traverses the canvas with a thin strip of plywood—simultaneously scraping away paint with the swipe of a line and adding paint that is carried across on the plywood. This forms a pattern of hard parallel lines that reveals underlying ghosted abstractions perpetually in limbo. Hardy’s sculptures of found glass, foam and an assortment of other materials build tension from the interplay between hard and soft edges. Engineered to confound notions of structural integrity, these works borrow from the urgent language of p

Awkhold
http://www.booklyn.org/exhibition/000610.php
03/03/2012-04/01/2012
–

The Booklyn Art Gallery is pleased to present Awkhold, a publication, and corresponding show, featuring: Annemieke Beemster Leverenz Christine Buckton Tillman Sam Kalda Andrew Liang Aimee Lusty Becca McCharen Asa Osborne Jan Razauskas Jason Roy Ryan Jacob Smith Crystal Stokowski Erin Womack Awkhold is a portfolio of unbound contributions by 12 artists, produced in an edition of 150, on the condition that each artist is responsible for reproducing his or her own work.

The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens.
http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2012/orchid-show/
03/03/2012-04/22/2012
–

The vertical gardens of French botanist and artist Patrick Blanc–featuring structures covered in orchids, ferns, exotic plants, and epiphytes freed from the constraints of gravity–transform the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory into an exotic spectacle to dazzle the senses in The Orchid Show: Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens. Blanc’s vertical gardens are world-renowned for their cutting edge approach to horticulture. After years of travelling around the world as a professional botanist observing how plants grow in their natural habitats, Blanc pioneered a cutting-edge approach to vertical gardens that is celebrated by horticultural and design communities alike. Learn more about Patrick Blanc, his exciting gardening techniques, and about the fascinating world of orchids through a series of lectures, tours, demonstrations, and public programs.

Speakeasy Dollhouse
http://www.speakeasydollhouse.com/
03/03/2012-06/01/2012
7:30pm-

Inspired by Lee’s miniature crime scene sets, von Buhler decided to create the scenes from her family mystery using her own handmade sets and dolls. Utilizing evidence from autopsy reports, police records, court documents, and interviews, she has built a dollhouse-sized speakeasy, a hospital room, a child’s bedroom, and a pre-war apartment. She also created lifelike dolls with moveable limbs to live in these sets. Taking it to another level, von Buhler has now created an immersive theatrical experience to go along with the sets and her own investigation. The play stages these events in mobster Meyer Lansky’s former Lower East Side speakeasy. The location is elaborately set up to mirror the dollhouse sets from the book. The play’s tagline is “The speakeasy is our dollhouse and the actors are our dolls.”

anne-lise coste: m, l, e
http://www.toomerlabzda.com/Site/alc_-_m,l,e_1.html
03/04/2012-04/15/2012
6pm-8pm

toomer labzda is proud to present a series of new spray paintings by anne-lise coste, which explore the gesture and shape of letters in black on white.

skin hides: 2×2 Collective
http://www.aferro.org/websitebaker/wb/pages/home.php
03/04/2012-04/14/2012
7pm-10pm

From nameless nudes to portraits of monarchs, the figure in art has served to codify power. So have art objects, splitting viewer from viewed. Our figures have agency. Our work empowers viewers as complicit participants, as centers of process and experience. We complicate and push against dichotomies and hierarchies: self/other, rural/urban, black/white, perpetrator/victim, family/stranger, performer/observer. We are four artists who met through NYFA’s MARK program. We quickly found common ground in our disparate uses of the figure at intersections of the social/political/personal.

THE AARON COPLAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC GUERRILLA ARTS ENSEMBLE
http://www.flushingtownhall.org/
03/04/2012-03/25/2012
2pm-

Sundays, March 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2012, 2:00 PM Suggested Admission: $5 / Members & Students Free Solo, Chamber & Jazz Performance by ACSM Students & Alums. Guerilla concerts highlight the talented musicians from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College featuring classical and jazz ensembles. These young musicians will provide excellent performances and also engage its audience through their innovative programs and educational conversations.

Sam Moyer: Slack Tide
http://www.racheluffnergallery.com/future/sam-moyer/2/
03/04/2012-04/22/2012
–

Rachel Uffner Gallery is pleased to present a show of new work by Sam Moyer. For her second solo show at the gallery, Moyer will exhibit pieces that continue her examination of the liminal space between the two- and three-dimensional, albeit in a larger, more imposing scale than her work has explored before. In paintings that hover on the edge of sculpture, and sculpture that hovers on the edge of painting, Moyer recalls the rigorous language of mid-20th-century minimalist art, but also the modest, playful and scattershot material processes of home design projects.

Unconventional Tableaux
http://afanyc.com/lin-esser/event-press-release/
03/04/2012-03/20/2012
–

Lin Esser’s new exhibition, “Unconventional Tableaux,” began, in part, as an effort to replace a Dia de los Muertos box lost during childhood. Further inspired by the eccentric subjects of English symbolism, sinister figures of the renaissance and the anthropomorphic tableaux of Victorian naturalism, Esser soon found himself caught up in the creation of an entire body of three-dimensional works that he later began calling “tableaux.” His dark introspective vision and extensive experience with film and theater lend a sense of the dramatic to these macabre yet playful narratives about the joys and sorrow of everyday life and beyond.

The Laramie Project
http://www.heightsplayers.org/now_more.html
03/04/2012-03/17/2012
8pm-

In 1998, a young college student at the University of Wyoming, Matthew Shepard was beaten, tied to a fencepost and left to die by two men of similar age. After, the nature of the crime was revealed to be from hate and fear of homosexuality. A national debate ensued in America that painfully endures to this day. As the tragic events exploded all over the national media, a group of New York City based actors and writers, the Tectonic Theater Project, known for their unique style and view, were intrigued and went to Laramie, Wyoming to study the impact of these events and the result is the Heights’ March production of The Laramie Project.

Gorey Preserved
http://library.columbia.edu/news/libraries/2012/20120210_gorey_exhibit.html
03/05/2012-07/27/2012
–

The Rare Book and Manuscript Library presents a major exhibition of works by the idiosyncratic illustrator, designer, and writer, Edward Gorey (1925-2000), beginning March 5 and running through July 27, 2012

Lebbeus Woods: Early Drawings
http://www.friedmanbenda.com/exhibitions/2012-02-24_lebbeus-woods-early-drawings/
03/05/2012-04/06/2012
–

or more than four decades, Woods’ drawings have expressed compelling ideas and portrayed otherworldly scenes that suggest alternate histories and futures. With an inventive drive akin to that of Leonardo da Vinci and Giambattista Piranesi, and following the lineage of Enlightenment architect Etienne-Louis Boullée and Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger, Woods invites us to imagine worlds as they might be. His drawings embrace decomposition alongside construction and ruin along with rebirth, presenting a heady brew of politics, history, and graphic bravura that never fails to astonish.

Khosrow Hassanzadeh Haft Khan: The Seven Labors of Rostam
http://www.ltmhgallery.com/exhibitions/2012-03-01_khosrow-hassanzadeh/
03/05/2012-03/31/2012
–

The first solo exhibition in New York City of paintings by Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh will be on view at Leila Heller Gallery’s Chelsea location at 568 West 25th Street from March 1 through 31, 2012. Haft Khan: The Seven Labors of Rostam will feature two monumental murals on tile, as well as works on paper. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Hassanzadeh’s murals are enormous in size: the largest is more than 6 feet tall and nearly 28 feet long. Inspired by Iranian traditions of manhood that existed in a pre-revolutionized Iran, Hassanzadeh combines Persian visual traditions with pop representations of the once-celebrated icon of the wrestler.

Swept Away Projects
http://collections.madmuseum.org/html/exhibitions/551.html
03/06/2012-05/14/2012
–

An extension of the Swept Away exhibition, Swept Away Projects will include a series of “live” installations occurring during the run of the exhibition that will allow audiences to experience and interact with artists and their site-specific installations made of ash, dust, sand, and dirt. The series includes the floor installation of Catherine Bertola of the U.K., who works with dust, among several others. In some instances, visitor will actually get to sweep away the installations by walking through and touching them, participating in the ephemeral nature of these artists’ output. Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design is made possible by the Inner Circle, a leadership Museum support group, and with public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services.

Honey Me To Tears
http://www.honey-space.com/current.shtml
03/06/2012-03/17/2012
–

Adam Stanforth, Aesthesia, Allison Read Smith, Benjamin Heller, Carlton DeWoody, Chadwick Tyler, Daphane Park, David Brooks, David Walsh, Hackett, Ian Campbell, INNER COURSE, Iona Rozeal Brown, John Wells, Kirsha Kaechele, Lisa Lozano, Max Schumann, Maynard Monrow, Mickey Western, Midori Harima, Nils Folke Anderson, Peter Schumann, Swoon, Thomas Beale, Tora Lopez

Colin Snapp: Continental Drift
http://www.thejournalinc.com/gallery/events/1216190/colin-snapp
03/06/2012-04/29/2012
–

FROHAWK TWO FEATHERS: IT’S YOURS: WARS OF THE FRENGLISH REVOLUTION AND OTHER CONFLICTS 1782–1797
http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/exhibitions/2012-03-06_frohawk-two-feathers/
03/06/2012-04/14/2012
–

Morgan Lehman Gallery is pleased to announce, “It’s Yours: Wars of the Frenglish Revolution and Other Conflicts 1782 – 1797”. This is the first New York solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Frohawk Two Feathers. Two Feathers’ intricate ink and tea-stained portraits on paper bring to life his complex historical narrative detailing the colonial uprisings against the imagined 18th-century superpowers Frengland and Fenoscandia. Using actual historic events as points of departure, Two Feathers creates fantastical riffs on Europe’s colonial past, revealing how that history plays out in the cultural and political complexities and neo-colonial global conflicts of the contemporary world.

Marie Lorenz ARCHIPELAGO
http://jackhanley.com/
03/07/2012-03/31/2012
6pm-8pm

The exhibition is made up of three videos projected together with objects found along the harbors. “The tide acts like a giant centrifuge,” writes the artist, “reorganizing things according to their shape and density”. In “collaboration” with the tide, Lorenz makes a record of these objects by printing, casting, or videotaping them. Each video was shot from an apparatus connected to the body of the artist and to the boat while en route from Barren Island to her home in Bushwick. This same geographical path is shown three different ways: from a birds-eye view of the artist, at the horizon line and along the shifting contour of the land.

BILL WALTON
http://jttnyc.com/
03/07/2012-04/01/2012
–

The son of a printmaker, Walton inherited his father’s trade, and for the first fifteen years of his career, practiced and taught printmaking. Interested in the materials used for printmaking-­wood,lead,steel-­more than the finished product,Walton began to make sculptures that spoke to the in after seeing an exhibition of sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1964.

The House of Fitzcarraldo
http://www.bricktheater.com/
03/07/2012-03/17/2012
8pm-

In 1979 director Werner Herzog and his megalomaniac best fiend, Klaus Kinski, pulled a 300-ton steamship over a mountain under its own steam. In this highly theatrical performance work, the performers, taking on the role of the Collective Ego of Herzog & Kinski, ponder the significance of dreams and the insanity one must invest in pursuing the useless conquest of unconscious wishes. Pulling and culling from a myriad of source texts, videos, and dreams, Buran uses its distinctive style to situate itself between high and low culture – creating mayhem, shooting cap guns, prompting sing-a-longs, and integrating a folksy existentialism to explore our nature as beings who cannot help but desire our own dumb dreams.

MAKE A WISH CLAUDIA TROMBIN
http://www.daciagallery.com/
03/07/2012-03/17/2012
–

Dacia Gallery and Contaminate NYC is pleased to present “Make a Wish”, a solo-show by Italian artist Claudia Trombin. Through multi-media paintings, watercolors, and installations revisiting the fascinating and complex language of the unconscious, Claudia’s seductive yet unsettling creations aim to bewilder the viewer, generating doubts and questions, unleashing desires and dream-like visions. In her attempt to shape the invisible – emotions, feelings, fears, obsessions, reveries – she creates imaginary spaces, juggling reality and fantasy, the ordinary and the unique. Inspired by Surrealism principles and fascinated by psychoanalysis and archetypes nature, Claudia develops her artwork along ambivalent, symbolic, and philosophical themes. Dragonflies and dandelions, flowers composed of a seed head and hundreds of smaller florets, become her inspiration to materialize this process.

Alexandre Orion SPOIL
http://alexandreorion.com/ossario/
03/08/2012-04/21/2012
6pm-8pm

Foley Gallery is pleased to host its second solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Alexandre Orion. The installation will feature video footage from the Ossário tunnel intervention project, several soot on canvas paintings from Art Less Pollution and unique prints made by “Pollugraphy” (collecting toxic soot directly from vehicle exhaust tailpipes). The gallery exhibition coincides with Orion’s participation in Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York.

Celebrating Our Legacy: Oral History Photographic Exhibit of the League of Professional Theater Women
http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/celebrating-our-legacy-oral-history-photographic-exhibit-league-professional-thea
03/08/2012-04/28/2012
–

The League of Professional Theatre Women, an advocacy organization dedicated to promoting visibility and increasing opportunities for women in the professional theatre, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2012. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is pleased to collaborate with the League to celebrate the oral history legacy which, since 1992, documents an outstanding array of women who have contributed to contemporary American theatre.

SPRING/BREAK Art Show
http://www.envoyenterprises.com/#future
03/08/2012-03/22/2012
–

SPRING/BREAK Art Show March 8-11, preview March 6; David Alexander Flinn, Desi Santiago Old School 233 Mott Street – New York, NY 10012

Arlene Shechet Parallel Play
http://dieudonne.org/main.cfm?chID=2&inc=press-detail&ID=159
03/08/2012-04/28/2012
6pm-8pm

Dieu Donné announces the opening of an exhibition of new paper-based works by artist Arlene Shechet beginning Thursday, March 8, 2012 and on view through Saturday, April 28, 2012. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, March 8, 2012 from 6—8 pm, and the artist will be present.

The Long Fight for Kawtoolie: Portraits from the Jungles of Burma
http://www.messineowyman.com/
03/08/2012-04/28/2012
–

Messineo Art Projects and Wyman Contemporary are pleased to announce an exhibition of 15 color portraits by renowned photographer Jason Florio of freedom fighters and civilians who have struggled for independence in the Karen State of Burma, along the Thailand border.

The Irondale Center presents Theatre Three Collaborative Another Life
http://irondale.org/
03/08/2012-03/24/2012
–

Called “Stinging & Satirical” by the Kenyon Review, Another Life is a roller-coaster ride, surreal and real, through the past ten years which tells of the titanic struggle between a mogul and his physician daughter who become embedded in the War on Terror torture program. Greed, war-lust, and sexual enslavement lead to a subtle but growing resistance and whistle-blowing.

Katherine Wolkoff
http://sashawolf.com/artists/katherine-wolkoff/
03/08/2012-04/28/2012
–

OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY, MARCH 8, FROM 6-8 PM Block Island, located 11 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, is an important stopover for birds on the offshore migration route of the Atlantic Flyway, offering respite at sea during their seasonal flight. Elizabeth Dickens, a long time resident, began collecting dead birds on the island beginning in the early 20th century. She had them stuffed and catalogued, amassing a valuable ornithological record consisting of 172 specimens. The cause of death- flew into a lighthouse, death by cat, death by telephone wire- was always noted.

SARAH CHARLESWORTH
http://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions.php
03/08/2012-04/14/2012
6pm-8pm

Susan Inglett Gallery is pleased to present Available Light , a new series of photographic works by Sarah Charlesworth from 6 March to 14 April 2012. The exhibition will open to the public Tuesday 6 March with a reception for the artist Thursday evening, 8 March from 6 to 8 PM. Light, in both a physical and metaphysical sense, is at the center of this new body of work from Sarah Charlesworth. Making use of a crystal ball, an assortment of prisms, and other optical instruments, Charlesworth engages the play of light from her studio window as it reflects and refracts to conjure a mysterious animated presence. At various turns our expectations are questioned and confounded by optical inversions and visual illusions. Composed images of spectral phenomena are shown side by side with documentary style images of the studio. Props arrayed on a desk and studio materials leaning against a wall hint at the show in progress.

Celebrating Women’s Work
http://www.penandbrush.org/
03/08/2012-03/25/2012
5pm-8pm

The Pen and Brush, Inc. proudly presents Celebrating Women’s Work. This all media group exhibition features just over three hundred new works by one hundred thirty of our artist members and past exhibitors. The exhibition opens on March 8th and will close on Sunday, March 25th featuring readings from our literary artists from 2-4pm.

Hall of Fame
http://fordproject.com/
03/08/2012-04/05/2012
–

Hall of Fame,” on the 19th floor of the gallery’s penthouse space, features new paintings by Joe Andoe. Andoe has created these instantly recognizable works with his distinct style of applying oil paint and wiping it away, shaping shadow and light, blurring the contours of his subjects. These subjects are specific to his practice and reflect his fascination with iconic American imagery. Here he has returned to horses. It is the combination of his technique and use of a monochromatic palette, which result in the powerful images that comprise the current exhibition.

Benjamin Butler SOME TREES
http://www.klausgallery.com/exhibitions/2012/benjamin-butler/
03/08/2012-04/22/2012
–

Klaus von Nichtssagend is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Benjamin Butler, entitled Some Trees. Featuring new oil paintings, the show will open on March 8th and run through April 22nd. An opening reception will be held for the artist on Thursday, March 8th from 6-8pm. The exhibition will feature a variety of Butler’s oil paintings on canvas, from the large scale to smaller pieces conceived of and hung as a series. The title of the show is borrowed from the John Ashbery poem, ‘Some Trees’, and points to Butler’s specific meditation on painting. For most of the past decade, ‘trees’ and ‘forests’, have served for Butler as a pictorial stand-in and a point of departure for making abstract paintings. In these recent works, Butler is seen approaching his paintings more directly as objects, considering not only the front surface of the canvas, but the sides as well.

Theo A. Rosenblum & Chelsea Seltzer “Two Heads are Better than One”
http://theholenyc.com/category/upcoming/
03/08/2012-03/17/2012
–

The Hole is proud to announce the collaborative exhibition “Two Heads are Better than One” by Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer opening this February 14th. This exhibition will feature sculpture, painting and drawing by these two artists, who, working in tandem over the past year, have created a significant assortment of deeply unsettling, playfully odd, and unavoidably memorable works.

mounir fatmi Oriental Accident
http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm
03/08/2012-04/14/2012
–

Lombard Freid Projects is pleased to present Oriental Accident, Mounir Fatmi’s second solo show with the gallery. The exhibition features a collection of works never before shown in the United States made between 2009-2012. As always with Fatmi’s work, the art is political in nature and confronts issues in the contemporary Arab world. The native Moroccan, who lives and works in Paris, uses installation, sculpture and video to explore modern day industrialization, recent insurgencies throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East, and the inevitability of history repeating itself.

ODD NERDRUM
http://forumgallery.com/artist/odd-nerdrum/
03/08/2012-05/10/2012
–

Odd Nerdrum was born in Sweden in 1944. He studied at The Art Academy in Oslo, Norway and later studied with the conceptual artist Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf, Germany. Nerdrum developed a style of painting that is unique by any standard. His work is in the permanent collections of several international museums and many American museums including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The New Orleans Museum, New Orleans, LA; The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, and The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA.

Ruins in Reverse
http://www.roomeast.com/
03/08/2012-04/01/2012
–

ETHAN BRECKENRIDGE / DAVID BROOKS / ZIPORA FRIED / EMILY HENRETTA / WYATT KAHN / ZAK KITNICK / ERIK LINDMAN / DAVID SCANAVINO / ERIN SHIRREFF / NICK VAN WOERT

30 Days of New Plays by Women
http://womencenterstage.org/
03/08/2012-04/07/2012
–

Launched before the formal incorporation of Culture Project, Women Center Stage is our longest-running programmatic initiative. From the first collection of works presented under the festival mantle in 1996, Women Center Stage has grown into a multi-pronged initiative, an echo chamber for women artists to build community and share their stories, and a launch pad for provocative and relevant new work. The cornerstone of WCS is the annual Women Center Stage Festival, a dynamic and diverse laboratory for works in progress from women artists at all levels of their careers. Presented every March for Women’s History Month, the month-long Festival provides a much-needed setting for exploring new ideas and inspiration, testing out early stages of new work, and putting women artists in dialogue with their peers, new audiences, and critical review.

NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN PRESENTS THE EXHIBITION “THEATRICAL BY DESIGN: A CENTURY OF THE SHUBERT ORGANIZATION’S THEATRE INTERIORS”
http://www.nysid.edu/shubertexhibit
03/08/2012-04/27/2012
–

New York’s Broadway theatres are known for their elaborate musicals, dramatic plays and big stars, but how often do audiences stop to think about the historic interiors of these glorious theatres? To bring attention to the interior design and restoration of many of the most famous Broadway theatres, New York School of Interior Design will present “Theatrical By Design: A Century of The Shubert Organization’s Theatre Interiors,” on view at the NYSID Gallery (161 East 69th Street, btw Lexington Ave. & 3rd Ave.) from March 8 – April 27, 2012. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm. The gallery is closed Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.

Stephen Prina Painting
http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/
03/08/2012-04/28/2012
–

Stephen Prina’s seventh exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery will consist of three triptych paintings. These paintings are made on commercially produced linen window blinds with the final installation comprised of 9 blinds that hang from the ceiling. The blinds function both as sculptural objects as well as a support for Prina’s typical abstract gestural brushstrokes in shades of red, yellow, and blue. Prina transfers the three primary colors that have been repeatedly drawn on by modernist artists such as Piet Mondrian or Barnett Newman into an architectural setting.

Russell Maltz: The Ball Park Series, 1977-2012
http://www.minusspace.com/2012/02/russellmaltz/
03/08/2012-04/21/2012
6pm-8pm

MINUS SPACE is delighted to announce the exhibition Russell Maltz: The Ball Park Series, 1977-2012. This is the New York-based artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in New York in over a decade. The exhibition presents the first comprehensive overview of the artist’s ongoing Ball Park Series spanning the past 25 years. Since the late 1970s, Russell Maltz has produced sculptures, installations, and wall works informed by the aesthetics of baseball fields and stadiums. Executed with a broad array of off-the-shelf, unrefined construction materials, including sheets of plywood and glass, metal wall studs, 2x4s, sawhorses, enamel paints, and more, his Ball Park Series works can be characterized by their consistent use of the colors green and white, which directly reference the vibrant green Astroturf of the field and stark white chalk lines demarcating the boundaries of the game of play.

Cellar Door Brian Fekete & Nathan Schiel
http://www.571projects.com/
03/08/2012-03/16/2012
–

Often cited as an example of phonasthetics, here Cellar Door forefronts the concept of thresholds. The hidden, forgotten and stratified belong to the cellar, and a door grants or denies passage into this alternate realm. In literature gateways, portals and even rabbit holes are used as a device to define the transition between perceived truth and enlightenment, and the few who gain access must earn it. Painters Fekete and Schiel both explore similar boundaries between an apparent surface reality and an enigmatic world below in their work on view at 571 Projects. Activating similar thresholds, they challenge us to engage and interact with their work.

Now Playing The Kreutzer Sonata
http://lamama.org/first-floor-theatre/the-kreutzer-sonata/
03/08/2012-03/25/2012
–

Potent memories and criminal confessions—this chilling one-man account of sexual jealousy and murder will keep you wanting more. Featuring live accompaniment and original cast members Hilton McRae, Sophie Scott, and Tobias Beer.

Ken Rosenthal & Vojtech V. Slama
http://www.klompching.com/kenrosenthal/thumbs.htm
03/09/2012-04/20/2012
6pm-8pm

EXHIBITION: INTERWOVEN WORLDS- EXPLORING DOMESTIC AND NOMADIC LIFE IN TURKEY
http://www.flushingtownhall.org/events/event.php?id=868
03/09/2012-04/29/2012
12pm-5pm

OPENING RECEPTION & LECTURE Friday March 9, 5:30 pm at Flushing Town Hall TURKISH ANATOLIA KILIMS, Belkis Balpinar, founding Director, Vakiflar Carpet Museum, Istanbul and modern kilim artist Archeological findings and written material indicate that Anatolia was a textile center for more than 10,000 years. Added to this, the migration of nomadic Turkic tribes after the 11th century resulted in a great variety and diversity of Turkish flat woven rugs. Celebrated curator, author and weaving artist Belkis Balpinar discusses the dating, techniques and symbolism of the various types of flat-woven rugs and pile carpets that have made Turkey famous.

COMMONALITIES: 4 Norwegians + 4 New Yorkers
http://no-in-nyc.org/upcoming
03/09/2012-04/01/2012
6pm-8pm

Founding editor of WhitehotMagazine.com, Noah Becker is a curator, writer, artist and jazz musician, and contributes to Art in America, Interview Magazine, Canadian Art and The Huffington Post. “This exhibition shows an aspect of high quality work being produced in Europe and North America in our time. The idea of artists being automatically connected in some way is a fallacy fed to us subliminally and linearly. Art history is wound together with globalism through the mass distribution of images and imagery delivered in a linear digital mold. Much of what is documented in two-dimensional artistic practice is fed to the public in a manner that has a host of attached biases. The presumption of a common thread is an attitude propagated by linear thinking as linear thinking is part of everything we do now. In relation to contemporary art, the non-linear holds an important place.

Melissa Pokorny:Useful Things (For Getting Lost)
http://frontroom.org/upcoming.htm
03/09/2012-04/15/2012
7pm-10pm

Reception: Mar. 10th, 7-10 Armory Event

CRISTÓBAL LEHYT: EAT YOUR EMBLEM
http://www.vogtgallery.com/index.php?/current/upcoming/2/
03/09/2012-03/22/2012
–

Vogt Gallery is pleased to present the first New York solo show of Chilean artist Cristóbal Lehyt. Bringing together three recent related bodies of work exploring identity, figuration, and dramatic narrative, the exhibition will showcase drawings, photographs, and paintings, each taking Lehyt’s vision into a new direction. The Drama Projections are single images made up of 32 joined inkjet prints depicting human figures. These works originate from graphite and ink drawings of city dwellers created in an altered state induced not with the aid of substances, but through quick visual responses and repetition. They then undergo heavy filtering in a process involving photography, Photoshop, and then magnification.

BIKE SHOP
http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/bikeshop.htm
03/09/2012-03/18/2012
6pm-

BIKE SHOP tells the story of a Brooklyn bicycle store circa 1993 and its owner, Bobby, an exuberant bike mechanic who runs a shop that was first opened by her grandmother in 1936. Two years after a tragic bike accident, Bobby tries to get back on her bike and get her own life in gear. As the sole performer in this musical, Elizabeth Barkan brings to life three generations of this bike-obsessed family, as she builds and fixes real bicycles onstage while backed up by a 4-piece “Bicycle Band”.

Jessica Stoller
http://hionasgallery.com/home_page.html
03/09/2012-04/07/2012
–

ionas Gallery is pleased to announce Lend Me Your Eyes, the first New York solo exhibition by sculptor and ceramicist Jessica Stoller. Stoller’s sculptures range from table-top figures and busts to large scale multi-piece works. In this solo endeavor Stoller continues using clay as a vehicle to explore issues of idealized beauty, vanity and the subjugation of the female body using porcelain as her primary media, a material inextricably linked to desire, secrecy and commodification.

TEN TEN
http://jasonalexander.biz/
03/09/2012-03/30/2012
–

opening: March 9th, 6-9 PM Dena Yago Ben Schumacher Darren Bader Asher Penn Debo Eilers Valerie Keane Dominic Nurre Alisa Baremboym Jared Madere Jason Lee Torey Thornton Andrei Koschmieder Peter Demos Ryan Foerster Sebastian Black Jeffrey Joyal Bradley Kronz The early history of the sewing machine was a contentious one. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, three different inventors simultaneously came up with designs. One died young and penniless after pouring his entire lifesavings into a prototype. Another started a factory only to have it destroyed by angry French tailors afraid of his invention. A third produced no working model, despite being the first patent-holder.

Borderless Map: Taiwanese Painting Now
http://www.roostergallery.com/EXHIBITIONS/BorderlessMap/BorderlessMap1.html
03/09/2012-04/15/2012
–

http://www.roostergallery.com/EXHIBITIONS/BorderlessMap/BorderlessMap1.html

Hey, Hot Shot! 2011 Second Edition Showcase
http://jenbekman.com/upcoming/
03/09/2012-03/25/2012
6pm-8pm

Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to present Hey, Hot Shot! 2011 Second Edition Showcase, an exhibition featuring works from the five winning photographers of the Second Edition 2011 round of competition: Michael Cappabianca, Phil Jung, Brendan George Ko, Cristina De Middel and Meike Nixdorf. An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 9th, 2012, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Hey, Hot Shot! 2011 Second Edition Showcase will be on view Saturday, March 10th, through Sunday, March 25th.

Pro Choice Presents Wolfgang Breuer and Anita Leisz
http://www.renwickgallery.com/
03/09/2012-04/14/2012
–

BHS Building Tour
http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html#b0310
03/10/2012-03/25/2012
2pm-00pm

Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 25, 2:00 p.m. Come explore our beautiful landmark building. Designed by architect George Post and built in 1881, Brooklyn Historical Society’s building was ahead of its time. Using the latest technology, Post created a magnificent structure with amazing craftsmanship. On this guided tour you’ll learn not only about the building as an architectural gem, but you’ll also find out the “more than meets the eye” history of one of Brooklyn’s premier cultural institutions. This tour is free with museum admission and open to the public. Admission is always free for BHS members. This tour is part of BHS’s Brooklyn Walks and Talks program series.

Distorting (A Messiah Project 13C)/Daniel Horowitz’s 365 drawing project/The Artists of The Invisible Dog
http://www.theinvisibledog.org/?p=9305
03/10/2012-04/05/2012
11am-6pm

The Invisible Dog Art Center is thrilled to announce the opening of three solo exhibitions, one group exhibition, and in house artists open studios, all on Saturday March 10th. On the ground floor, R Justin Stewart’s sculptural installation Distorting (A Messiah Project 13C). In the garden gallery, Daniel Horowitz’s 365 drawing project. In the third floor gallery, Malcolm Brown’s photo-portraits The Artists of The Invisible Dog. Each of these in-house artists will contribute a piece to a group show Work/Space 2012 also on the third floor, and offer Open Studios on the second floor. The show hours and open studios are Saturday March 10th, 1-10pm and Sunday March 11th, from 11am-6pm.

The Other Ken Weathersby
http://www.aferro.org/websitebaker/wb/pages/home.php
03/10/2012-04/14/2012
7pm-10pm

Ken Weathersby’s exhibition includes easel-sized, patterned abstract paintings, photographic works, and several wall-mounted boxes containing tiny, crafted objects resembling miniature paintings. The works in the show shuffle the traditional given stuff of pictures and picture-making. The paintings are subtly pulled apart, or have pieces cut out and removed, or their painted faces refuse to be seen. The wall-mounted boxes may be mere models for groupings of larger works, or may be works in themselves. This intentional ambiguity extends to photographs included in the show, paired portraits, where false resemblance and mistaken identity might seriously undermine what a profile picture is supposed to do.

Ann LePore Mapping for Empathy (The Landscape is Deadly)
http://www.aferro.org/websitebaker/wb/pages/home.php
03/10/2012-04/14/2012
7pm-10pm

Social activism, American history, and a love of technology and science collide in Ann LePore’s recent work. “I used to think that landscape images were innocuous, boring even, until I was 16 and had re- occurring nightmares about being trapped inside a Wyeth painting. Now during my research trips to historical societies, environmental research centers and even aboard the research vessel SeaWolf, I keep one eye on the landscape, looking for correlations between my findings and their immediate natural surroundings. There are often subtle indicators in our landscape which can be interpreted to reveal what divides or unifies us.”

IAN DAVIS Jewel Sermons
http://www.tonkonow.com/
03/10/2012-04/21/2012
–

The title of the exhibition refers to a strategy used by preachers to examine different aspects of complex ideas. Just as one might inspect the facets of a diamond by turning it over in the light, Davis offers his viewers multiple possibilities for understanding his narrative intentions. While contemplating subjects such as wealth, collapse, futility and hubris, he creates a diverse population of oligarchs, imposters, subversives, scientists, African soldiers, TV journalists, insurance adjusters, and “various types of frauds and charlatans.” In a formal departure from the flat patterning and ordered geometry of his earlier work, many of the recent paintings are newly energized by circular compositions and spiraling vortex-like structures. In Curriculum Vitae (2011) Davis stages a vainglorious celebration around concentric banquet tables.

Alasdair Duncan
http://www.theodoreart.com/artist_pages/duncan-artistpg.html
03/10/2012-04/21/2012
–

Alasdair Duncan makes colour saturated graphic Signs for the Future. Recalling the lexicon of our designed world, Duncan’s signs are stand-ins, signifying things that do not yet exist: not futurological predictions, rather they are emblems of the not yet imagined. They are familiar, but withhold their intentions; indeterminate yet full of promise. They often sink into their own representational space, or logical game.

Buy Local (Fowler Arts Collective)
http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/BuyLocal.html?utm_source=Fowler+Arts+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=c7d6d7349b-Buy_Local2_26_2012&utm_medium=email
03/10/2012-03/25/2012
–

Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Buy Local, an exhibition featuring new work by Brooklyn and Philadelphia artists Susan Fang, Maria Rajewksi, Samuel Stabler, and Brian Willmont. These four artists make works that explore subject matter as varied as the magic and melancholy of objects, awkwardness and fleeting moments of failure, vaganuses and octipenises, and the construction of a new American folktale. Buy Local, timed to coincide with New York’s greatest marketplace for contemporary art, The Armory Show, acknowledges that while all of the work in the exhibition has been made with the zeal of an art-for-art mentality, at the end of the day it would be nice to sell something. Taking it’s name from the retail movement, Buy Local aims to showcase exciting new art with the hopes that maybe, just maybe, we’ll at least break even.

SANTIAGO TACCETTI Smoke & Mirrors / Nothing To See Here
http://www.blackandwhiteartgallery.com/
03/10/2012-04/15/2012
–

The exhibition will also feature a dramatic site-specific installation “Smoke & Mirrors / Nothing To See Here” by the Berlin-based, Argentine artist Santiago Taccetti. Integrating with the Black & White Project Space’s architecture, the simple plastic structure lit from inside and filled with smoke will occupy the outdoor gallery revealing itself as an illusion on closer inspection. The illusion of entering an area clearly defined by four walls is broken as soon as the observer enters the brightly lit cube triggering the smoke machine. What is to be experienced is the infinite space without any clear distinction between the inner and outer spaces.

Hyper/Hypo
http://www.secretprojectrobot.org/secretprojectorobot/Home.html
03/10/2012-03/28/2012
8pm-11pm

In this month long installation and group show curator Brad Truax turns the lens onto the artist and asks them to explore themselves and the way in which they make art. Are they- HYPER overactive, active, energetic; busy, fidgety; excited, frantic, frenetic,frenzied, adrenalized, feverish; or Hypo- low, under, beneath, down, below normal. The exploration of the state of mind of the artist will give incite into their work offering a glimpse at the creative process and the aesthetic accomplishments and styles which develop out of these different emotional states… It will be interesting to see if the viewer’s expectations correlate to how the artists actually approach their work- which in turn puts the lens onto the viewer, asking them to gauge their assumptions about the way in which they look at art.

STEFAN SEHLER: BECAUSE IT’S THERE
http://www.parkersbox.com/events.html
03/10/2012-04/08/2012
–

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 10, 6-9 PM Parker’s Box is delighted to welcome back the Berlin-based painter, Stefan Sehler. In each of his exhibitions at the gallery, the artist has never failed to surprise, always giving the impression that he has pushed his subtle reverse glass painting process and its challenging discourse to its absolute limit, before embarking on another equally challenging new proposition. Speaking in Artforum about the artist’s previous exhibition at the gallery, Donald Kuspit suggested that Sehler’s paintings “demonstrate that modernist painting is not necessarily dead – it still has some tricks up its sleeve – and show that a quasi-photorealistic picture can have a [striking] message”.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO
http://blackandwhiteartgallery.com/
03/10/2012-04/15/2012
–

The exhibition showcases the diversity of the gallery program. The 8 artists included with works representing a variety of media (paintings, installations, sculpture, photography and design) reveal the sharp awareness they have of today’s circumstances. Ranging from Michael Van den Besselaar’s witty and wry observations on a range of familiar social subjects and Eric White’s insightful commentary on the absurdities of life, Isidro Blasco’s artist-designed architectural environments, Amy Talluto’s investigation of the in-between states of painting through quiet and expansive natural worlds and Roberley Bell’s focus on the artifice of nature, to Alejandro Moreno’s and Julian Montague’s exploration of everything from the mundane to the sublime through text and image, the works in this exhibition cover a wide range of practices, lending the exhibition an uncanny edge.

DOROTHY PALANZA NEW YORK BEFORE PROZAC
http://www.launchf18.com/Home.html
03/10/2012-04/01/2012
–

The late 1980’s were a time marked by economic boom and bust, racial tensions, homelessness and crime. While you could easily score drugs to get high, there were no proven drugs to cure AIDS, and depression colored the landscape. Regardless of Ed Koch’s proclamations otherwise, a malaise, a pall, a frenzied fatigue blanketed the city in a torporous cloud. 1988 – PROZAC released with marketing campaign 1990 – PROZAC achieves most prescribed status By the 1990’s, half of the people I knew in Manhattan were on Prozac – many of who still are. These works on paper capture moments and moods from the late 1980’s period in New York before Prozac. NEW YORK BEFORE PROZAC: Drawings 1985-1990, was part of a solo exhibit (The New York Series) presented at the Interkulturelle Kunstwerkstatt, Berlin Germany in 2005.

Kaleidoscope
http://www.c24gallery.com/exhibitions/kaleidoscope/
03/10/2012-06/09/2012
–

Opening reception: Saturday, March 10, 6-8 PM C24 Gallery is pleased to present Kaleidoscope, a group exhibition curated by C24 Gallery Executive Director, Kristen Lynn Johnston. The gallery’s fourth exhibition includes the work of four international artists: Shannon Finley (CA), Grazia Toderi (IT), Canan Tolon (TR), and Rob Voerman (NL). The exhibition will be on view through April 21, 2012. There will be an opening reception on March 10, 2012 from 6:00-8:00 pm.

Jean-Philippe Delhomme: Dressed for Art
http://www.fiaf.org/events/winter2012/2012-02-24-gallery.shtml
03/11/2012-04/14/2012
–

The winter Fashion at FIAF series extends into the Gallery with a witty collection of colorful fashion drawings and paintings by Jean-Phillipe Delhomme, one of the most delightful satirists in fashion today. Delhomme is a painter, writer, cultural blogger, and fashion illustrator, whose illustrations have been featured in renowned magazines such as Vogue, W, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The New Yorker. In this exhibition, he explores how fashion, contemporary art, and design interact with each other and influence today’s popular culture.

David Lynch
http://www.jacktiltongallery.com/
03/11/2012-04/14/2012
–

An icon among American filmmakers, David Lynch is equally committed as a visual artist. He began his career as a painter and started making short films while a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia to find a way to make his paintings move. Lynch works across many different media to create paintings, sculpture, works on paper and photographs. Recent paintings combine primitively drawn figures and text with thick textured areas of paint and, often, inserted lit colored light bulbs. Framed in thick gold frames under glass (inspired by Francis Bacon’s frames), they become box-like, objects in their own right. Narrative subjects exhibit Lynch’s trademark whimsy, wit and humor along with his recognizable penchant for the ambiguous, yet precisely depicted, frozen moment that unveils an instinctual, often violent or tragic human emotion, almost verging on the absurd.

The 10th A.I.R. Gallery Biennial
http://www.airgallery.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.page&pagename=Biennial&pageid=148
03/12/2012-03/30/2012
–

A Juried Exhibition Open to All Women ArtistsJuror: Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania Ingrid Schaffner earned a BA from Mount Holyoke College, an MA from New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, and was a fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. She joined the ICA in 2000 as Senior Curator. Her past exhibitions at ICA include Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry in 2011 with consulting curators Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss and William Whitaker; Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World) in 2010; Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay in 2009 with curator Jenelle Porter, which won the award for “Best Show in a University Gallery” from the United States section of the International Art Critics Association; Douglas Blau in fall 2009, The Puppet Show in 2008 with curator Carin Kuoni; Karen Kilimnik in spring 2007; and Barry Le Va, Accumulated Vision in 2005.

Artopia: Art and Design Book Sale
http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/artopia-art-and-design-book-sale
03/13/2012-03/19/2012
–

All art books are 30% off our already-low prices. Hundreds of art, design, architecture, interior design and photography books, including never-before-seen stock.

Nick Ghiz: Fiction Paintings
http://www.lesleyheller.com/
03/14/2012-04/16/2012
–

Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 6-8pm Influenced by my daily devouring of literature, I would say the pictures which I paint are a visual form of fiction writing. They are essentially pre-narrative set-ups containing fictional elements hopefully encouraging subjective interpretation. Painted into raw panels with thin paint they become a sort of contemporary fresco into wood. Nick Ghiz 2006

Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1256
03/14/2012-07/09/2012
–

In a collaborative, chance-based drawing game known as the exquisite corpse, Surrealist artists subjected the human body to distortions and juxtapositions that resulted in fantastic composite figures. This exhibition considers how this and related practices—in which the body is dismembered or reassembled, swollen or multiplied, propped with prosthetics or fused with nature and the machine—have recurred in art throughout the 20th century and to the present day. Artists from André Masson and Joan Miró to Louise Bourgeois and Robert Gober to Mark Manders and Nicola Tyson have distorted and disoriented our most familiar of referents, playing out personal, cultural, or social anxieties and desires on unwitting anatomies. If art history reveals an unending impulse to render the human figure as a symbol of potential perfection and a system of primary organization, these works show that artists have just as persistently been driven to disfigure the body.

Byzantium and Islam Age of Transition
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/byzantium-and-islam
03/14/2012-04/08/2012
–

The Eastern Mediterranean, from Syria across North Africa, comprised the wealthy southern provinces of the Byzantine Empire at the start of the seventh century. By that century’s end, the region was central to the emerging Islamic world. This exhibition will be the first to display the complex character of the region and its exceptional art and culture during the era of transition—from its role as part of the Byzantine state to its evolving position in the developing Islamic world. The dialogue between established Byzantine and evolving Islamic styles and culture will be shown through images of authority, religion, and especially commerce. Iconoclasm as it emerged during that period among the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic communities of the region will be addressed.

Downtown Urban Theater Festival
http://www.here.org/shows/detail/846/
03/14/2012-03/31/2012
–

Downtown Urban Theater Festival (DUTF) returns for a much-anticipated 10th Anniversary season at its inaugural stage at HERE in SoHo, Manhattan, NYC. The season showcases 15 theatrical works over three weeks beginning March 14, 2012. Reg E. Gaines, Tony-nominated writer of Broadway’s 1996 hit musical Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk, is back as the festival’s Artistic Director and Adrienne Kennedy, recipient of Lifetime Achievement awards from the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards and OBIE Awards, will be honored with the DUTF Playwright Master’s Award.

Cruel and Unusual Comedy, Part 3: Selections from the Eye Film Institute, The Netherlands
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1253
03/15/2012-03/28/2012
–

In the wake of World War I, American film comedy dominated screens around the world. But between 1908 and 1914, before the international stardom of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd, there were the European comedies of Zigoto, Bébé, Onésime, Little Moritz, Robinet, and Max. These distinctively named screen characters were part of a phenomenal outpouring of Euro-clown comedies, featured in over 70 different series in France alone. Produced by prestigious companies like Ambrosio in Italy, Messters in Germany, and Gaumont and Pathé in France, this body of work was, on the whole, more psychologically complex, self-consciously surreal, and edgier than American slapstick. Long deserving of greater notoriety in the U.S., these films are accessible again after 90 years, thanks to ongoing preservation efforts.

Questions Without Answers

http://www.viiphoto.com/news/questions-without-answers-2/
03/15/2012-05/04/2012
–

In anticipation of the long-awaited book of the same name, VII is proud to exhibit Questions Without Answers, a powerful visual history of our ever-changing world and recent defining events. Published in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the founding of the agency, Questions Without Answers: The World in Pictures by the Photographers of VII demonstrates the unparalleled excellence of the VII photographers in chronicling the impact of unseen conflicts, humanitarian crises, and catastrophic events

Blood Memory George Boorujy
http://ppowgallery.com/exhibition.php?id=103
03/15/2012-04/14/2012
–

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 15, 6-8pm P.P.O.W is proud to present “Blood Memory,” George Boorujy’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In his expansive and finely observed drawings, Boorujy uses a trained naturalist’s eye to depict iconic North American animals and landscapes, presenting an intriguing vision of life on the continent that is at once foreign and familiar.

Colette Calascione
http://eyebeam.org/events/opening-reception-flock-house-pod-speakers-corners
03/15/2012-04/21/2012
–

The next exhibition at Nancy Hoffman Gallery is new work by Colette Calascione, her first solo show in New York in six years. The exhibition opens on March 15th and closes on April 21st. A female figure is the focal point of each oil painting, seated, standing or reclining, and most often nude. While the paintings stretch to 2×3 feet in scale, they are generally of a more intimate size, from 8×10 inches to 20×20 inches, on wood panels. Inspired by books and images of earlier eras of art history, particularly the Deco era, as well as Japanese aesthetics, Calascione invents a world that is her own. Images of women and children in old photographs are transformed in the artist’s hands. She never literally copies a photo or its background. When she sees a figure she likes, her vision forms around it. Clothed figures in photographs are sometimes undressed by Calascione in her paintings, and placed in a mise-en-scene she creates.

“Dreams from the dark room” Thomas Barbey solo exhibition
http://www.facebook.com/events/383919091618461/
03/15/2012-04/21/2012
–

Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is pleased to announce its second exhibition for renowned photographer Thomas Barbèy. “Dreams from the dark room” will be an exhibition of black and white photo compositions that give evidence to the artist’s ability to capture the impossible and fantasied through the manual process of developing film negatives and the assemblage of various imagery.

Martha Graham Dance Company
http://www.joyce.org/performancestickets/calendar_detail.php?event=425&theater=1
03/15/2012-03/18/2012
–

Inner Landscape, the latest offering in the company’s innovative series of thematic performances including contextual media and narration, features the acclaimed Graham psychological works in which she laid bare the human psyche. The Joyce season includes premieres by Lar Lubovitch and Yvonne Rainer, a revival of Mary Wigman’s Witch Dance and Graham’s comic Every Soul is a Circus, as well as Graham classics Night Journey, Deaths and Entrances, and Chronicle.

Rupert Deese
http://www.nancyhoffmangallery.com/index.php?/
03/15/2012-04/21/2012
–

The next exhibition in the Project Space at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, will be Rupert Deese’s “Array 1000,” a new suite of monumental woodcuts published by Manneken Press, opening on March 15th and continuing through April 21st. Comprised of five 45×45 inch prints, it is the latest and largest addition to the ongoing Array project, 25 circular woodcut prints, which commenced in 2005 and will culminate with the publication of “Array 1400” in 2013.

“HELLO EARTH,” The Loom Gallery’s First Friday Exhibition
http://www.facebook.com/events/345528905478879/
03/15/2012-03/29/2012
7pm-11pm

HELLO EARTH is a group exhibition of artists whose works investigate notions of perception, mutability, knowledge, and definition. Sparked by ideas about cognitive development and control, the exhibition focuses on ways in which accumulated sensory experience informs knowledge. The works included offer both unique and universal approaches to memory, visualization, and object permanence. Using a variety of media and processes, these artists consider interconnected, momentary relationships with the exterior—creating a distillation of parts and exploring how parts hint at a whole.

Duro Olowu: Material
http://www.salon94.com/exhibition/duro-olowu-material–february-09-2012–march-04-2012
03/15/2012-03/31/2012
–

London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu will present a show and pop-up shop of fashion and art at Salon 94’s Freeman Alley Gallery. The show will present a group of limited edition fashion and accessory designs from Duro’s Spring 2012 collection as well as a selection of vintage and contemporary photography, textiles, contemporary art, furniture, music, books and objets trouvés.

Lisa Colley Gallery Opening
http://www.lisa-cooley.com/exhibitions/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
–

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! You really are beautiful! Pearls, harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all the stuff they’ve always talked about still makes a poem a surprise! These things are with us every day even on beachheads and biers. They do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks. – Frank O’Hara, 1950 Inaugural exhibition of our new gallery space at 107 Norfolk Street. Opening March 16, 2012.

Occult Bloodlines: Sex with Fairies, the Celtic faith, and the Nephilim
http://observatoryroom.org/2012/02/07/sex-with-fairies/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-

The mysteries of the fairy races have haunted our cultures since primitive times. Where do stories of “other folk” come from? Why does every race seem to have tales of humanoid creatures who steal human babies, interbreed with them and have supernatural powers? Join Maja, the White Witch, as we examine some of the meaning behind the stories of the fairy folk through Celtic, Jewish, and Vedic cultures. Look at fossil evidence showing parallels to the possibilities of different hominoid species, not quite human, that have been spoken of since time immemorial. One of the biggest symbols of St. Patrick’s day is the Leprechaun, which we all know about through this holiday or from the covers of cereal boxes. But what are the real origins of the images of these little people that will fill our eyes so much this time of year? Let’s delve into the Occult and hidden histories of these fascinating creatures.

Buffalo Poets Reading
http://www.tribes.org/web/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-

Every Third Friday of the Month Buffalo Poets host an open forum poetry reading starting at 8pm

Keith Haring: 1978–1982
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/keith_haring/
03/16/2012-07/08/2012
–

Current Upcoming Past Touring Exhibition Archive Keith Haring Keith Haring (American, 1958–1990). Untitled, 1980. Sumi ink on Bristol board, 20 x 26 in. (50.8 x 66.0 cm). Collection Keith Haring Foundation. © Keith Haring Foundation March 16–July 8, 2012 Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th Floor Keith Haring: 1978–1982 is the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Tracing the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, posters, subway drawings, and documentary photographs.

SCREENING Touch of Evil
http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2012/03/16/detail/touch-of-evil
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
7pm-

Dir. Orson Welles. 1958, 95 mins. With Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles. Welles’s technically audacious B-noir masterpiece opens with one of the most justly celebrated single takes in film history. But everything that comes after that in this gripping tale of a Mexican narcotics officer (Heston, in a controversial casting choice) up against a corrupt American cop (a brilliant Welles) in a border town is equally startling. Much of the virtuosic, shadowy cinematography is considered equal to that of Welles’s Citizen Kane.

Marc Wolf and Robert Westfield THIS BLESSED PLOT
http://www.maboumines.org/productions/blessed-plot-mabou-minessuite-resident-artist-program
03/16/2012-03/18/2012
8pm-

March 16 & 17, 2012 @ 8PM March 18, 2012 @ 3PM From the Roman Forum to Zuccotti Park… Wolf and Westfield take the battle of Central Park, fought between Robert Moses and Joe Papp in 1959, to explore the never-ending struggle over Public Space.

Little Languages/Coded Pictures
http://www.lesleyheller.com/
03/16/2012-04/15/2012
–

Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 6-8pm Artists: Mike Carroll, Alan Crockett, Julie Evans, Ron Gorchov, Theresa Hackett, Sharon Horvath, David Humphrey, Margrit Lewczuk, Laura Newman, Jennifer Reeves, David Storey, Michelle Weinberg

SECRETS | THE UNTOLD STORY OF SIGMUND FREUD AND CARL JUNG
http://www.acfny.org/event/secrets-the-untold-story-of-sigmund-freud-and-carl-jung-1/
03/16/2012-03/18/2012
7pm-

GEHEIMNISSE, the German translation of the original drama, SECRETS – The Untold Story of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, is based on nearly 1000 letters that were exchanged by Freud and Jung in the early years of psychoanalysis, between 1907-1913, and is historically accurate. Much is known about the professional relationship between two of the greatest innovative thinkers of the 20th Century but the intense, intimate, soul-searing personal relationship between the two men has remained rather obscure. After a successful reading at the Austrian Cultural Forum, a theatrical performance of the original drama SECRETS by Broadway Producer Ken Wydro will be presented as a Showcase Production in German on March 16, 17 and 18 at the MAMA Foundation in Harlem, which was just modernized by the Nate Berkus Show. There will be a Q&A discussion-session afterwards and wine and snacks will be served.

16mm Noir films & the “Villains of Vaudeville”
http://vaudevillepark.org/events/16mm-noir-films-villains-vaudeville
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-

A curated night of rare and out of print 40’s-60’s Noir Films and TV projected on 16mm, and in between the screenings live “Dark Synth Jazz” sets from the Villains of Vaudeville. Past music scores and have been homages to Vertigo, CheckMate, Dark Shadows, The Fugitive, Jonny Staccato and more. Ian M Colletti’s Dark Synth Jazz Ensemble for “Noir Night” at Vaudeville Park featuring: Ian M Colletti, Keith Abrams, Tim Byrnes, Shawn Lovato with special guest Daniel Carter. No Cover. Free Popcorn! Plus, all that is horribly true and unfair in the Black and White reels of our program.

The Rub Housewarming Party
http://www.itstherub.com/?page_id=102#381
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
10pm-

DJ AYERS DJ ELEVEN COSMO BAKER MAX GLAZER DJ SURESHOT SCOTT MELKER KOOL KEAR

Thomas/ Alexiev Collective
http://295douglass.org/?id=263
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-

8 p.m.::Thomas/ Alexiev Collective::Alejandro Aviles (flute, clarinet, and alto saxophone), Gerald M. Thomas (soprano and tenor saxophones), Scott Reeves (tenor trombone and alto flugelhorn), Josh Sinton (bass clarinet and baritone saxophone), Diana Herold (vibraphone), Mark McCarron (guitar), Louis J Rainone (piano), Tom Hubbard (bass), Grisha Alexiev (drums), with special guest Catarina Racha (vocals and percussion) 10 p.m.::Projeto B::Yvo Ursini – guitar, noises, arrangements e compositions, Leonardo Muniz Corrêa – alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet, arrangements and compositions, Vicente Falek – piano, arrangements and compositions, Amilcar Rodrigues – trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn, Henrique Alves – electric bass, Mauricio Caetano – Drums Featuring the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos and Igor Stravinsky $10 Suggested Donation

The Dustbusters
http://www.therockshopny.com/event/104485/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-

The Dust Busters are an old-time string band based out of Brooklyn, New York. Ballads, fiddle tunes, old-time songs & banjo breakdowns — their distinct sound is contemporary, meaningful, raw… and foremost, fun!

Election!
http://www.facebook.com/events/354018804642758/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-11pm

Closing reception of Don’t Think About Amputation w/ live performances by PPL Esther Neff & Brian McCorkle, The Push Pops, Ivy Castellanos and Elan Jurado. Videos by Alison Ward, Amapola Prada and work by Sarah Beck. 8-11pm $5-10 sliding scale

MITCH EPSTEIN
http://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/?v=exhibition&exhibition=4f32c901b84cd
03/16/2012-04/14/2012
–

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present an exhibition of a new series of black and white photographs by Mitch Epstein on view from March 16 through April 14, 2012. Mitch Epstein’s new work features the idiosyncratic trees that populate New York City, underscoring the importance of trees in urban life and their complex relationship with the city’s human dwellers. Trees have long been a leitmotiv in Epstein’s projects, especially in his series American Power (2003-2008). After five years of photographing the manifestations of energy production and consumption across the United States, Epstein decided to make pictures that reflect how he, “would like to see the world, not simply how I have inherited it.”

Kirk Stoller: still standing… sort of
http://storefrontbushwick.com/2012/02/kirk-stoller/
03/16/2012-04/15/2012
6pm-9pm

Two consistent themes in Kirk Stoller’s work are connection and support. He builds sculpture using found wood, plastics, and other elements divorced from their original intent. He fuses the worn states with new, clean, glossy surfaces: the narratives that arise when things are placed on or near one another reflect how the artist makes sense of the world. All life is a collection of small precariously placed pieces that rely on each other for strength, in actual form or through a labyrinth of memories. Stoller’s foundation is in painting, though he works and understands the world through a sculptor’s lens. His work echoes this tension, as he continues to be intrigued by the space that exits between the two mediums, both in the physical sense and through the myriad possibilities that are inherently distinct to each. He uses an interdisciplinary approach to push the boundary, while highlighting desired issues that can only be deciphered when the two are combined.

Knickerbocker Mini Maw
http://storefrontbushwick.com/2012/02/kirk-stoller/
03/16/2012-04/15/2012
6pm-9pm

featuring: Brent Owens, Rachael Morrison, David Pappaceno, & Don Pablo Pedro curated by Brent Owens Knickerbocker Mini Maw is a curatorial extension of artist Brent Owens’ Knickerbocker Maw, an online store-style project presenting small-batch series of objects that explore the novelties and commerce of Bushwick’s Knickerbocker Avenue. The imagery and the pricing of these objects are inspired by the bargain-blasting bustle of Knickerbocker.

Wu Jian’an: Seven Layered Shell
http://www.chambersfineart.com/exhibitions/2011/WJA_Seven_Layered/image-1.shtml
03/16/2012-03/24/2012
10am-6pm

Wu Jian’an: Seven Layered Shell 16 – 24 March Tue – Sat 10 – 6pm Open House Weekend 17 – 18 March Sat – Sun 10 – 6pm

An Exhibition of Painting Obscured by an Evening of Performance
http://realfinearts.com/index.php?/projects/upcoming/2/
03/16/2012-03/31/2012
7pm-10pm

DAVE MIKO An Exhibition of Painting Obscured by an Evening of Performance March 16, 7-10 PM Performance at 9 PM

“20” a solo exhibition by Stikman
http://www.pandemicgallery.com/
03/16/2012-04/06/2012
–

Opening Reception: Fri. March 16th 2012 • 7-11pm hat more can be said about the mysterious artist known only as “Stikman” that hasn’t been uttered hundreds of times by passersby all over the city? His work is sneaky, incredibly thought provoking and uncommonly satisfying to come across, and if you have been living on the east coast or, well, basically anywhere in the states you no doubt have discovered it in some aspect. It could be in the form of 3D men made of small sticks to figures hidden in iconic imagery pasted to doors, or literally under your feet, smashed into the concrete. The range of mediums used and the calculated creativity given to each piece is overshadowed only by the sheer amount of work he has affixed to our cities surfaces. Tireless efforts aside, his stick formed character remains one of the most recognizable images in urban art culture.

THE POCKET OPERA OF NEW YORK PRESENTS: APOLLO AND DAPHNE
http://galapagosartspace.com/event/the-pocket-opera-of-new-york-presents-apollo-and-daphne
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
7pm-

join us tonight for a delightful musical treat, presented by “the feisty little pocket opera of new york” (opera uk) as part of it’s adventurous spring 2012 season. an amuse bouche of monteverdi madrigals will open this presentation. from visions of mortal combat to the struggle of war and love in men and women’s hearts, six singers will take you on a passionate journey of intensely human and strikingly mythical proportions. we then move onto our main course, handel’s cantata: apollo and daphne.

ARTIST TALK + BOW RIBBONS + SMILES GUTHRIE PIERRE FICHEFEUX
http://www.rabbitholeprojects.com/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
7pm-10pm

Artist Talk w/ Live Music Performances by Bow Ribbons & Smiles Guthrie: FRI 16 MAR, 7:00 – 10:00 pm Rabbithole Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by French artist Pierre Fichefeux from his series The King of Chickens Makes Havoc in Heaven. Opening March 1st and extending through to the 31st, this will be Pierre Fichefeux’s first solo exhibition in New York City. In Pierre Fichefeux’s paintings, natural landscapes dissolve into cryptic symbols of chaotic animalesque creatures forefronted by figures of the divine. Monsters or Saints, these figures, entangled within the forces of nature and the cycle of life, shine a light on the labyrinth of humanity. Despite his colorblindness, Fichefeux engages his viewers with bold colors spilling his own folkloric fantasies onto oversized canvases with dreamlike textures and compositions.

Francesca Woodman
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/press-room/releases/4188-schedule-of-exhibitions-2011-2012
03/16/2012-06/13/2012
–

Francesca Woodman will be the first major American exhibition of this artist’s work in more than two decades, and the first comprehensive survey of her brief but extraordinary career to be seen in the United States. The retrospective will include more than 100 vintage photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, and includes several of the large-scale blueprints she created at the end of career, as well as the intimate black-and-white photographs for which she is best known. Now nearly thirty years since her death, the moment is ripe for a historical reconsideration of her work and its reception. Born in 1958, Woodman’s oeuvre represents a remarkably rich and singular exploration of the human body in space, and of the genre of self-portraiture in particular.

Dance Conversations 2012
http://www.theflea.org/show_detail.php?page_type=0&page_id=1&show_id=106
03/16/2012-03/25/2012
–

The Flea Theater is delighted to announce Dance Conversations 2012, a FREE festival continuing the spirited debate on dance and dancers. Visit this link for scheduled dancers/moderators: http://www.theflea.org/show_detail.php?page_type=0&page_id=1&show_id=106

Robot Koch , Astrolith
http://glasslands.blogspot.com/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
11:30pm-

Robot Koch , Astrolith

Urban Agriculture Conference
http://thehort.org/programs_forums.html#uac2012
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
10am-2:30pm

Is urban farming here for the long haul, or just the latest iteration of a “back to the land” reflex that occurs whenever the nation or economy is threatened? While the potential of urban farming is huge—NYC alone has some 25,000 acres suited to it—this potential remains largely untapped. We will explore urban farms that have made it in NYC, as well as discuss hurdles to further development, promising avenues for activists, and what role we can expect urban farming to play in the larger food system. Whether you’re new to the concept, have been scratching city dirt for decades, or hope to make your mark on our food system, this conference will put urban farming in a “big picture” context with something for everyone.

E.S.P. TV 14+15 Live Taping
http://www.louisvesp.com/
03/16/2012-03/16/2012
8pm-4am

E.S.P. TV Taping for Episodes 14-15 March 16th, 8pm-4am Present Company, 29 Wythe Ave. Brooklyn NY 11211

Color & Motion
http://www.mightytanaka.com/
03/16/2012-04/06/2012
–

On the heels of a successful showing at the Fountain Art Fair this past weekend, we gear up to bring you a new show opening on Friday, March 16th! Come out and join us for a colorful explosion of abstraction with JMR and See One in their upcoming show, Color & Motion. On display until April 6th, the combined artists work will liven up the walls through an inviting combination of texture, movement and radiance. Join us for the opening reception on Friday, March 16th, 6pm – 9pm.

Across Doom Hopes the Guiding Fever
http://lmakprojects.com/exhibitions?id=82
03/16/2012-04/10/2012
–

LMAKprojects is pleased to present Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ third solo exhibit with the gallery titled Across Doom Hopes the Guiding Fever. For this exhibition, the artist continues her exploration of how our minds process information, dealing with perception, navigation and language, but further exploring concepts of noise and randomness. The exhibit consists of prints, works on canvas, and a wall drawing installation.

BIG SKY MIND
http://dailyoperation.org/blog.php
03/16/2012-03/28/2012
–

Big Sky Mind features recent works by Holly Coulis, Elisa Soliven and Mitchell Wright. Each of these artists approach a traditional genre – classical busts, painterly landscapes and intuitive drawings – in an overwhelmingly physical way. Though divergent in production and methodology, their works are as tactile as they are cerebral, abstractly and literally layered. Separately, these works exude personal visions of the most general notions: body, self, and environment. The group, though, is specifically aligned to embrace the multiple contexts that particular objects inhabit and to exploit these viewpoints as spaces for contemplation. big. sky. mind. For more information, please go to: dailyoperation.org

JORDAN SULLIVAN: Natural History
http://www.underlinegallery.com/
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
–

The Gallery presents the first New York solo show of Jordan Sullivan, who will create a two-part installation exploring the nature, force, and rituals of memory through two narratives separated by seventy years.

Independent Curators International and the New Museum present The Curator’s Perspective: Rosina Cazali
http://www.newmuseum.org/events/612?utm_source=New+Museum+News&utm_campaign=c27c070da7-2012_03_EVENTS_2&utm_medium=email
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
3pm-

Rosina Cazali speaks at the Curator’s Perspective, an itinerant public discussion series that features international curators who distill current happenings in contemporary art, including the artists they are excited by, exhibitions that have made them think, and their views on recent developments in the art world. Cazali is the former director of the Centro Cultural de España of Guatemala. She currently works as an art critic and curator. About Independent Curators International Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, and training opportunities for diverse audiences around the world. In thirty-five years, ICI has organized 118 traveling exhibitions, profiling the work of more than 3,700 artists. The resulting networks include 621 museums, university art galleries, and art centers in forty-eight states and twenty-nine countries.

Lee Fields & The Expressions (Album Release Party) The Jay Vons
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/event/87779
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
8pm-

There arenʼt too many artists making soul music today who had a release in 1969, back when R&B was first beginning to give the drummer some. Lee Fields, however, is one such artist—or maybe heʼs better labeled a phenomenon. Since the late sixties, the North Carolina native has amassed a prolific catalog of albums and has toured and played with such legends as Kool and the Gang, Sammy Gordon and the Hip- Huggers, O.V Wright, Darrell Banks, and Little Royal. With a career spanning 43 years, releases on twelve different record labels, and having toured the world over with his raucous-yet- tender voice, itʼs mind-blowing that the music heʼs making today with Brooklynʼs own Truth & Soul Records is the best of his career. Lee’s new Album, Faithful Man (out March 13, 2012), is the latest testament to how his music and voice continue to amaze and inspire listeners around the world.

Drawn Out Storytelling: DIY
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/e/234113
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
9:30pm-11pm

This is the show where narcissism goes nuts. Each month Drawn Out Storytelling puts on a show where we have storytellers tell stories and artists illustrate parts of that story and musicians accompany those stories. This month those roles are getting combined into one person! We have three storyteller/artists who will be accompanying themselves through their storytelling journey, and one who will be accenting his story with his own musical stylings. Michele Carlo, Cammi Climaco, and Katherine Perkins will be telling and drawing stories of love, loss, and Led Zeppelin. Steven Lipschutz will be playing alongside himself as he tells his story of looking for himself far away from himself.

Dissection and Drawing Workshop with Real Anatomical Specimens
http://observatoryroom.org/2011/12/07/dissection-and-drawing-workshop-with-real-anatomical-specimens/
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
10am-4:30pm

Modern scientific dissection and illustrations commenced in the Renaissance. Basic anatomical dissection, illustration and knowledge are still fundamental in many fields such as evolutionary biology, surgery, quality medical schools, and forensic science. In today’s workshop, we will dissect and draw a Didelphis virginiana–the North American opossum–a “living fossil” whose anatomy has remained virtually unchanged over the past 70 million years; this creature is considered to be a good model for a basal–i.e. early or original–mammal. Many comparative skeletal materials will be available for examination and illustration, and additional specimens may also be available. Gloves, scalpels and probes will be provided. Marie Dauenheimer, medical illustrator (and instructor of tomorrow’s carbon dust workshop), will assist with this workshop.

PERFORMANCY FORUM XXI
http://www.facebook.com/events/342324035808435/
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
8pm-12am

PERFORMANCY FORUM is a suddenly serious series, a selection of serial sociological faux pas. It is shouting HEY! in public, it refers only to itself, it is working class, it is phenomimes and psychomimes, it is phonosemantic (words, notes), and ideophonetic (sounds, actions, movements), and now its racket resounds: CLUNK, CLICK, BOING, MEOW. Lorene Baboushian Laylage Courie Lindsey Drury Tess Dworman Kyli Kleven Caitlin Marz Brian McCorkle Jordan Morley Michael Newton

Translating Spaces: Translating Law
http://www.sculpture-center.org/eventsEvent.htm?id=91377
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
4pm-5:30pm

With LaToya Ruby Frazier, Sina Najafi, Huong Ngo, and Sean Raspet Moderated by Kristen Chappa and Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento SculptureCenter and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts are proud to present the conversation Translating Spaces: Translating Law. Panelists will discuss projects that are situated in between the physical and immaterial, the public and private, and the artistic and legal. Some projects enact discursive, conceptual gestures through enforceable agreements, while others raise legal issues in specific geographic spaces and virtual communities. Often co-opting and repurposing multiple spaces as a strategy, these artists destabilize notions of use, appropriation, and function in relation to property, particularly when considering the problematic of increasingly hybrid, interconnected sites, spaces, and loci.

RESIDENCY TALK: ApexArt
http://apexart.org/residency/robinson.php
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
12pm-

Kiron Robinson is a visual artist who uses a range of mediums including neon, video, photography, and installation to investigate the idea of doubt and failure as constructive devices. Robinson also participates with Melbourne music performance groups Des Peres (2001-2007) and the Escalators Project (ongoing). Robinson graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004, where he currently works as a lecturer in the Photography department. From 2005–07 Robinson was a Gertrude Contemporary Studio resident. Robinson exhibits his work nationally and internationally. (Meet at Wall St. Dock entrance)

Christine Sun Kim Feedback: VVAVE (3 of 6
http://www.recessart.org/activities/4921
03/17/2012-03/18/2012
6pm-8pm

Mid-way point reception: March 17th, 6-8 pm With continuous 72-hour broadcasting March 16-18 “The wave…is the only visible embodiment of what physicists tell us all matter is composed of.” —David Milch On March 16th, Christine Sun Kim will initiate a live and continuous 72-hour radio and internet broadcast as the third event in, Feedback, her six-part Session at Recess. Session invites artists to use its public space as studio, exhibition venue and grounds for experimentation. The artist, deaf since birth, will perform auditory investigations that initiate a slippage of audio into visual. Using non-vocal methods of dialogue to form collaborative vision with visitors to Recess and a cast of collaborators, the artist will create multiple aural perceptions through the use of bodies in motion, microphones, delay pedals, and more.

Stuck on You
http://recessionartshows.com/ai1ec_event/stuckonyouopening/?instance_id=
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-11:45pm

Stuck on You is an exhibition of six artists – Matthew Conradt, Paloma Crousillat, Catherine Gavriel, Lawrence Mesich, and Johanna Povirk-Znoy – who have previously exhibited with Recession Art at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn. Melanie Kress and Risa Shoup, staff members and frequent curators for Recession Art, have built the show as a celebration of these artists and their ongoing relationship to the organization. Stuck On You is revelry, a joyful exaltation of the artists, their work, and the successful first three years of Recession Art. As an encapsulation of Recession Art’s history, the exhibition dares to combine work that runs the gamut of color, dimension, media, and content.

NIGHT
http://www.munchgallery.com/
03/17/2012-04/14/2012
–

Munch Gallery is pleased to present ‘NIGHT’ – a group exhibition featuring five remarkable artists; Neke Carson, Erik Foss, David Hochbaum, Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen and Anton Perich. The five artists have stayed connected through years of art collaboration; writing, filmmaking, photographing, painting, performing, etc. – all while pursuing a career as individual artists. ‘New York at night’ was the starting point for the years long correlation, whether it’d be working behind a bar or DJ’ing, or plunging deep into nights of arousal, courage, seduction and obscurity. The title of the exhibition reflects upon the diverse associations that come with the word ‘night’. From being a time of serenity and stillness to excursions and indulgence into the derangement of nightlife.

Jim Shaw
http://www.metropicturesgallery.com/exhibitions/2012-03-17_jim-shaw/
03/17/2012-04/21/2012
–

For Jim Shaw’s exhibition at Metro Pictures the Los Angeles-based artist presents a large mural and 20 drawings comprising a comic book that center on his fictional religion Oism, a narrative Shaw has been developing for more than 20 years. The works draw on eccentric aspects of American history and quirky old imagery to illustrate part two of Shaw’s proposed, four-part Oist prog rock opera. Its story, told through the comic book, follows two small-time crooks as they break into the Museum of Oist History in Omaha. Seeking refuge from encroaching FBI agents the pair ducks into a 24-hour wig museum where a helpful curator hides them beneath wigs that inexplicably render them invisible and transport them to the ancient homeland of the religion’s founding deity O.

Tribute to Conrad Schnitzler
http://www.harvestworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=50&Itemid=163
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
–

In honor of Conrad Schnitzler, “Gen” Ken Montgomery will conduct 5.5.85, an 8-channel “Cassette CONcert” composed by Conrad Schnitzler. Cassette CONcert are boxed sets of cassettes that Schnitzler composed with the intent that others could perform and listen to his CONcerts without his presence. This was the first CONcert given to Montgomery by Conrad in 1985. Montgomery traveled extensively conducting this and other octophonic CONcerts by live mixing the cassettes through whatever speaker set-ups he could find on the fly.

Yoko Inoue/Jeanne Quinn
http://smackmellon.org/index.php/exhibitions/upcoming1/
03/17/2012-04/22/2012
–

Smack Mellon is pleased to present two solo exhibitions of new projects by New York-based artist Yoko Inoue and Colorado-based artist Jeanne Quinn.

NAMING RIGHTS
http://www.apublicspace.org/events/
03/17/2012-03/17/2012
6pm-9pm

Join us at APS headquarters for a night of art. Naming Rights: A group show of painting, sculpture, and digital art. Curated by Bryon Finn With work by: Jesse Chapman Emily Hall Millree Hughes Jonah Koppel Michelle Mackey Natalie Moore

Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora
http://www.crossingart.com/home.html
03/17/2012-04/20/2012
3pm-6pm

The Indo-American Arts Council’s 9th Annual Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora features work by 41 artists who confront issues like sexuality, terror, disease, the environment and racial politics through various artistic mediums like paintings, prints, installations, video and sculpture. This eclectic mix of artists is chosen by curator Vijay Kumar and is free and open to the public. The resulting works often meld Indian and Western ideas about color, form and subject. The opening reception will take place at Crossing Art Queens on March 17 from 3pm to 6pm.

Artist Talk: ‘Tis Pity
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=3713
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
6pm-

’Tis Pity She’s a Whore is the last of the great English Renaissance tragedies. Written in 1633, it continues to resonate powerfully for its intriguing exploration of religion, morality, and madness. Director and co-founder of Cheek by Jowl Declan Donnellan talks about his production with James Shapiro, Columbia professor and author of Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

ACSM GUERRILLA ARTS ENSEMBLE SERIES Ackbar Percussion Quartet
http://www.flushingtownhall.org/events/event.php?id=874
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
2pm-

The Ackbar Percussion Quartet (APQ) was founded at Queens College during the summer of 2011, with the intent of recording Daniel Levitan’s piece, “Conservatory Garden”. Since then, the APQ has performed multiple new music initiatives including various educational concerts and community outreach programs throughout New York City. The APQ members extend their gratitude to professor Michael Lipsey at the Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College for being a supportive coach and mentor throughout the quartet’s existence.

Carbon Dust Drawing Workshop, Featuring Real Anatomical Specimens
http://observatoryroom.org/2011/12/07/carbon-dust/
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
10am-4:30pm

Carbon dust is a technique perfected by medical artist Max Brodel, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, in the late 19th century. This technique–which, until the digital age, was an essential component of medical illustration education–allows the artist to create luminous, textural, three-dimensional drawings by layering carbon dust on prepared paper.

Ace Reporter/Live Footage
http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/event/100443
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
7pm-

In 2008 a humble basement apartment in Brooklyn became the laboratory for the Brooklyn-based electroacoustic duo, Live Footage. Mike Thies and Topu Lyo first met at a Halloween party, unaware that years later they would be described as some of the finest “surrealist soundtrack composers” in the making by scoring some of the most eclectic contemporary pieces on air, in dance and in tune

Live Drone Performance w/Acupuncture
http://www.facebook.com/events/287317651340788/
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
4pm-7pm

In this performance David First will be combining his spherical overtone tuning system with the techniques of binaural beating and isochronics to model the rhythms and hum of the Earth (aka the Schumann Resonances) as well as the range of brainwave frequencies, with the intention of revealing and amplifying the very interesting correlations between the two. Various acupuncture treatments will be offered by Isobeau Trybula M.S., L.ac and her Chinese Worksong staff: Detoxification Four Gates Vitality Window of the Sky 4 Horses. 4:00pm or 5:30pm start time (please choose one)

PERMANENT WAVE & LOXM NYC PRESENT: A FEMINIST POTLUCK
http://www.vaudevillepark.org/events/permanent-wave-loxm-nyc-present-feminist-potluck
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
12pm-

Perm Wave & Ladies of Experimental Music cordially invite you to a feminist potluck! Sunday, March 18th from 12-3PM we’re setting up shop for some informal meet and eat with a DJ set from Mursi Lane of The Artichects. Please bring your favorite dish to share (for brunch and beyond). Mix, mingle, brunch, and booze while learning about feminist groups and projects and contribute to a recipe zine! All feminist and LGBT-positive groups are invited to present for a few minutes about what they’re working on.

East Coast/West Coast
http://www.vaudevillepark.org/events/east-coast-west-coast
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
7:30pm-

A special night of experimental music from both coasts! Representing for the West Coast : experimental funk performance art orchestra Sister Mantos and the intergalactic thumping sounds of Erthngel. Representing for the East Coast: multi-disciplinary artist turned acoustic storyteller Mark Golamco, experimental-metal-punk-prose-noisers from Philly EX. By V. and local noise makers and mind alterers 12,000 Trees. With an all too mighty DJ set by the goddess of dance hooks Tiffany Roth

“On Photography and Humor,” with Blind Spot, Tim Davis, and guests
http://cabinetmagazine.org/events/blind_spot.php
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
3pm-6pm

Cabinet is pleased to host a program by Blind Spot to celebrate the magazine’s new issue, guest edited by Tim Davis. Join Davis and guests for a series of stories on the relationship between photography and humor. Storytellers include: Corinne Botz Ben Coonley Larry Fink Christopher Miner Richard Mosse Laurel Nakadate Joel Smith Penelope Umbrico Michael Vahrenwald

Carnegie Hall Presents NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: ALARM WILL SOUND
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_PERF_upcoming
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
2:30pm-

Sometimes new music is challenging; with Alarm Will Sound, it’s mind-blowing. Playing the most innovative performances of contemporary classical music with fierce talent and enjoyment, this 20-member ensemble is “as close to being a rock band as a chamber orchestra can be” (The New York Times). This concert is part of American Mavericks, a citywide celebration of the pioneers of the American sound, presented by Carnegie Hall and San Francisco Symphony.

WIDE OPEN 3
http://www.bwac.org/current_exhibition.html
03/18/2012-04/01/2012
–

BWAC is proud to present the finalists in our third annual national juried art show, Wide Open 3. The show opens on March 18, 2012, with a total of 134 works selected by eminent juror Charlotta Kotik, Curator Emerita of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. With gratitude to Charlotta Kotik and to every artist who applied to Wide Open 3, we look forward to a really awesome show. The venue for Wide Open 3 is our massive Civil War-era warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront in Brooklyn, NY. Its enormous space affords us the opportunity to exhibit really huge work, and we will be using 8,000 square feet for this show.

Dani Leventhal and Samita Sinha: Salt
http://www.uniondocs.org/2012-03-18-dani-leventhal-and-samita-sinha/
03/18/2012-03/18/2012
7:30pm-

This evening will start with a captivating solo vocal performance by Samita Sinha and then Dani Leventhal will present three acclaimed recent short videos. Vocalist/composer Samita Sinha and video artist Dani Leventhal met at Bard in 2008, and since 2009 they have been working side-by-side and in collaboration. In their collaborations, Leventhal makes videos in which Sinha performs and/or creates sound. In their side-by-side practice, Sinha sings and sounds while Leventhal draws. They take inspiration from each other’s images and sounds, allowing their creative practices, which are generally solo and rather singular, to become permeable to each other’s influence and energy. Both work from a place of intuition and make work that is deeply embodied.

OPPORTUNITIES:

OPEN CALL FOR FIXINS SHOW
https://the22magazine.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/upcoming-fixins-show-open-call-for-visual-artists/
03/15/2012-04/10/2012

Part potluck, part sing along, part performance, and part puppetry this Fixins show is a combination of some amazing talent from Virginia, Michigan and New York alike. We are so pleased to combine the forces of Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Elizabeth LaPrelle, Katherine Fahey and Andru Bemis for an amazing night of performance, good food and collaboration. Anna, Elizabeth and Katherine will be presenting shadow puppetry, along with their “crankie” (a hand quilted, hand cranked puppet show) as well as singing, teaching a shadow puppet workshop and even teaching a little bit of square dancing! We are currently looking for artists to participate  on April 26th at Vaudeville Park! We are particularly looking for artists whose works deal with traditional or folks arts (fiber, natural materials, etc) and puppetry. We are also possibly looking for other puppetry groups to perform depending on space. Read more about the show here: http://wp.me/p17EQu-7I2 Submission deadline is APRIL 10th. Please send all submission to the22magazine (at) gmail.com

THE 22 MAGAZINE VOLUME 3/III/THREE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
 http://www.the22magazine.com/Pages/submissions.html
03/01/2012-04/30/2012

If you are reading this, then you probably already know what The 22 Magazine is. If not, we are a Brooklyn based artist run magazine, centering around 22 contributor’s each volume. Artists, writers, musicians and the like welcome. For Vol 3/III/THREE there is no theme or restriction. We will accept work on any topic. We are particularly looking for fiction or essay writers, as well as musicians for this volume but are happy to receive art submissions as well. Be creative, push the limits of what these generes define. Don’t be afraid to speak your mind. Submissions guidelines are here.

2012 Scene: Brooklyn Call for Entries
http://www.brooklynartscouncil.org/documents/1629
02/22/2012-03/08/2012
00pm-00pm

Scene: Brooklyn seeks short and feature narrative films, short and feature length documentaries, animations, and video art from Brooklyn based filmmakers and artists for our Screening Series this May. Deadline: February 24, 2012 Late: March 8, 2012

Open Call for NYC Area Boatmakers, Builders, and Artists
http://www.marina59.com/Marina59_Residency_2012.pdf
02/24/2012-03/09/2012
00pm-00pm

The Boatel is a fleet of refurbished abandoned boats clustered around a floating platform. Some of our newly salvaged boats are gutted, others have existing interiors. Design proposals should consider functionality. The structural integrity of the boats should not be compromised. Artists will be able to stay part-time or full-time in a boat with water & electricity for the duration of the project. The beach is five blocks away. You are also welcome to bring a kayak or canoe to explore Jamaica Bay, or use one of ours

The 2nd ANNUAL GREENPOINT FILM FESTIVAL SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN!
http://greenpointfilmfestival.org/submissions-guidelines-2012/
02/23/2012-05/03/2012
00pm-00pm

We are pleased to announce: the 2nd Annual Greenpoint Film Festival has expanded and is now accepting submissions. After the wonderful success of our inaugural event last October, we have expanded to include selected works from submissions to be screened along with high quality curated film programs. We are scheduled for early Fall 2012. Please check our guidelines for more information http://greenpointfilmfestival.org/submissions-guidelines-2012/

Exhibition and Artist-led Community Engagement Initiative
http://garrisonartcenter.org/
02/26/2012-03/17/2012
00pm-00pm

Garrison Art Center, located on the Hudson River in Garrison,New York, has a new opportunity for an artist to realize a project with a community engagement component. The opportunity includes an exhibition in the Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center, a community engagement project with teens and their schools, studio resources, administrative support, and a stipend. The exhibition, in October 2012, includes two galleries (one gallery is 700 sq. ft. — one is 250 sq. ft.) The artist will work with teens from 1- 2 local schools to realize a project with an end product that will be shared through an exhibition, performance, or through public art Garrison Art Centerwill manage the logistics and administration with the schools and serve as liaison to the community The artist will have use of the Garrison Art Center studios, including printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and a film darkroom Stipend will be determined by experience and scale of project.

Fourth Annual Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant Needs Artists, Volunteers, Interns
http://www.earthcelebrations.com/
02/26/2012-05/12/2012
00pm-00pm

The Hudson River Pageant – Saturday May 12 A community based ecological art and performance project that engages the participation of artists, youth, local residents, schools, community centers, and organizations to participate in the project and our three month educational environmental art workshop series from March -May. Participants work with our resident artists to create the spectacular puppets and costumes for the parade. The culminating parade and theatrical pageant follows a route from Battery Park North to Gansevoort Street, in the downtown portion of the Hudson River Park, on Saturday May 12, 2012 (rain date Sunday May 13), from 1-5pm. The parade of spectacular costumes, giant puppets, mobile sculptures, and live musical bands, features 13 site-specific performances at the piers and significant sites along the route.

Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/careers/
02/26/2012-03/26/2012
0pm-0pm

The Brooklyn Museum seeks an assistant curator of Contemporary Art to participate in a fast-paced and dynamic area of growth within the Museum. The successful candidate will be deeply familiar with a broad range of contemporary art and will assist with development and implementation of both collections growth and programs.

BUFFALO YOUTH MEDIA INSTITUTE
http://www.squeaky.org/bymi
02/26/2012-03/31/2012
0pm-0pm

We are looking for applicants for this video production & community history summer program, open to students currently in 9th-11th grades.

Fourth Annual Earth Celebrations Hudson River Pageant Needs Artists, Volunteers, Interns
http://www.earthcelebrations.com/
02/26/2012-05/12/2012
00pm-00pm

The Hudson River Pageant – Saturday May 12 A community based ecological art and performance project that engages the participation of artists, youth, local residents, schools, community centers, and organizations to participate in the project and our three month educational environmental art workshop series from March -May. Participants work with our resident artists to create the spectacular puppets and costumes for the parade. The culminating parade and theatrical pageant follows a route from Battery Park North to Gansevoort Street, in the downtown portion of the Hudson River Park, on Saturday May 12, 2012 (rain date Sunday May 13), from 1-5pm. The parade of spectacular costumes, giant puppets, mobile sculptures, and live musical bands, features 13 site-specific performances at the piers and significant sites along the route.

Exhibition and Artist-led Community Engagement Initiative
http://garrisonartcenter.org/
02/26/2012-03/17/2012
00pm-00pm

Garrison Art Center, located on the Hudson River in Garrison,New York, has a new opportunity for an artist to realize a project with a community engagement component. The opportunity includes an exhibition in the Riverside Galleries at Garrison Art Center, a community engagement project with teens and their schools, studio resources, administrative support, and a stipend. The exhibition, in October 2012, includes two galleries (one gallery is 700 sq. ft. — one is 250 sq. ft.) The artist will work with teens from 1- 2 local schools to realize a project with an end product that will be shared through an exhibition, performance, or through public art Garrison Art Centerwill manage the logistics and administration with the schools and serve as liaison to the community The artist will have use of the Garrison Art Center studios, including printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and a film darkroom Stipend will be determined by experience and scale of project

Call for entries, 12th Annual Coney Island Film Festival!
http://www.coneyislandfilmfestival.com/
03/01/2012-07/12/2012
–

indiefilmpage.com and Coney Island USA present the 12th annual Coney Island Film Festival September 21 – 23, 2012 at Sideshows by the Seashore and The Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York! Coney Island Film Festival named one of the “25 Festivals worth the entry fee” and “25 Coolest Film Festivals” by MovieMaker Magazine. Regular Deadline – April 27, 2012 Late Deadline – June 28, 2012 Extended Late Deadline – July 12, 2012 Entry categories: Feature, Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Experimental, Silent Film, Horror, Animation, Music Video. The Coney Island Film Festival is open to filmmakers working in ALL GENRES, SUBJECTS AND FORMATS.

Low Lives 4: Call for Proposals
http://www.lowlives.net/
03/01/2012-03/25/2012
–

Now entering its fourth year, Low Lives is an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Artists working in any media are invited to submit proposals for live performance-based works.

Open Call! Field Projects Show #4 curated by David C. Terry
http://fieldprojectsgallery.com/Index/Submissions.html
03/03/2012-04/06/2012

Field Projects is pleased to announce our first open call exhibition; emerging and mid-career artists are invited to submit their work for consideration in our April exhibition, Show #4. Submissions will be viewed and selected for Show #4 by David C. Terry, Senior Program Officer and Curator at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Field Projects is an NYC-based project space committed to opening the field and exhibition opportunities to other working artists. All of the submissions we receive will be considered not only for Show #4 but also for our upcoming exhibition calendar. As a growing space, this is a fantastic time to submit your work. We are looking for new talent, ideas and practices in the contemporary art field.

CASTING CALL: Seeking Performers for The Lady Show- Sky Box Aerial and Variety Show! Thursday March 29th!
http://houseofyes.org/
03/08/2012-03/29/2012

CASTING CALL: Seeking Performers for The Lady Show- Sky Box Aerial and Variety Show! Thursday March 29th!
Now accepting proposals! If you would like to perform an act, please email Anya with a brief treatment of your 3-5 min. act at anya@ladycircus.com. Your act must fit the “LADY” theme, as we honor women for this show! Show is Thursday, March 29th. Doors at 8, show at 9pm

Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Book Arts

http://www.centerforbookarts.org/opportunities/

03/10/2012-05/01/2012

The Center for Book Arts is pleased to continue the Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Book Arts. In 2012, the Center will award two to three scholarships to individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to the artistic endeavors in the book arts. The purpose of this program is to provide opportunities to emerging artists committed to developing careers in the book arts field, and to further the growth of this artistic profession. The award includes a cash stipend plus a materials budget and 24 hour access to the Center’s printing and binding facilities for a full year. Artists also receive a tuition waiver for courses throughout the year, planned in conjunction with the staff. Scholars will be required to complete an artist project by the end of the scholarship period, with an exhibition in our gallery space and public presentation the following autumn. Artists are invited to submit applications postmarked by May 1, 2012.

Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers

http://www.centerforbookarts.org/opportunities/

03/10/2012-05/01/2012
-

The Center for Book Arts invites applications for Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers. The next section of this seminar is scheduled for Wednesday through Sunday, June 6 through 10. The seminar is tuition free for participants and includes the cost of materials. Those selected must attend the entire five-day workshop. Deadline May 1, 2012.

Puppet & Costume Workshops
http://www.earthcelebrations.com/arts-pageants/hudson-artecology-workshops/

03/07/2012-05/09/2012
1
2pm-4pm

Costume Workshops every Wednesday 6-9pm with Artist-in-Residence Soule Golden Puppet Workshops every Saturday 12-4pm with Artists-in-Residence Lucrecia Novoa @Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Teatro LATEA Rm. #201 (107 Suffolk St. btw Delancey and Rivington in the Lower East Side. http://www.earthcelebrations.com/arts-pageants/hudson-artecology-workshops/ Contact mail@earthcelebrations.com

2012 Artist Members Exhibition Call for Entries

http://www.centerforbookarts.org/opportunities/
03/07/2012-04/20/2012

The Center for Book Arts is pleased to invite Artist Members to submit artworks produced post 2008 to be considered for the 2012 Artist Members Exhibition tentatively titled: Tell Me How Your REALLY Feel: Graphic Novels, Journals, and Travelogues. The exhibition is to be organized by Rory Golden, Artist and Former Executive Director, The Center for Book Arts, and Alexander Campos, Executive Director and Curator, The Center for Book Arts. This exhibition will focus on artwork that has been influenced by the concept and content of graphic novels, memoirs, and travel journals with a strong visual presence. It is intended to present artworks (not actual diaries or sketchbooks, however these are not necessarily excluded) in which the concept and/or content of the graphic novel, diary, or travel book were influential in the creation of the artwork.

Figment: Submissions for our third City of Dreams Pavilion Competition
http://newyork.figmentproject.org/long-term-exhibitions/2012-city-of-dreams-pavilion/
03/08/2012-04/01/2012
–

The City of Dreams Pavilion will be a gathering place for people to meet, learn about the arts programs on the island, be able to enjoy a performance or lecture, and experience the interaction of art and the historic context of Governors Island. Our theme for the pavilion, the City of Dreams, points toward the future. If we imagine a future New York City where anything is possible, what would it look like? In our wildest and most optimistic dreams, what is the future of the city?

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: FIGMENT NYC
http://newyork.figmentproject.org/get-involved/submit-a-project/
03/08/2012-05/01/2012

Founded in 2007 on New York City’s Governors Island, what began as a few thousand enthusiasts enjoying a handful of participatory art projects on a sunny July afternoon has ballooned into a multi-day, multi-city event that drew over 30,000 participants in NYC, Jackson, Detroit, and Boston in 2011. In 2012, FIGMENT seeks to continue its mission to offer free, inclusive and participatory art to our entire community, removing the barriers of museum and gallery walls and entrance fees and blurring the lines between those who create and those who enjoy art. This year, FIGMENT NYC will take place during the weekend of June 9-10.

Scratch & Paint Film Weekend
http://www.squeaky.org/workshops/2012/winter/1013
03/17/2012-03/18/2012
1pm-5pm

[March 17+18] Saturday & Sunday 1-5 PM $10 members / $15 non-members Instructor: Patrick Cain Create a film using hand-painted techniques, then use garage band to create a soundtrack for your new movie!

A-Lab Forum: DOCUART
http://www.qmad.org/alabforum/
03/15/2012-03/18/2012
–

QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, invites artists to submit works for presentation in the upcoming A-Lab Forum: DOCUART. This month’s forum will focus on documentary practices across a variety of disciplines. The forum will explore the documentary as an art form capable of (de)constructing and (re)shaping realities and histories. A-Lab Forum: DOCUART will treat issues of authenticity, point of view, historicity, and the dialectical forms of what might constitute art as historical or (a)historical document. Artists whose work is created based on the idea of documentation (photography, film, sound, visual arts, etc.) are encouraged to apply.

*Want to get your event listed on The Week/Weekend? Visit our brand new submission page or email your listing (in the correct format please!) to the22magazine {at} gmail {dot} com.