THE WEEKEND: March 23-25.

EDITOR’S PICKS:

Floating Points: Francisco López
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2012/02/14/floating-points-francisco-lopez/
03/24/2012-03/25/2012
8pm-

Stephan Moore and ISSUE Project Room have commissioned a new piece by sound artist Francisco López for Moore’s unique multi-channel sound system. Francisco López has worked with a variety of multi-channel systems, both in live performances and sound installations, from constellations of small transducers to Wave Field Synthesis systems with hundreds of speakers, and acoustic spaces ranging from concert halls to galleries to underground water reservoirs. For his new piece, López has worked in residency at ISSUE Project Room to develop a detailed sonic construction resulting from the actual space and multi-channel sound system. It is a true site-specific composition that unfolds with richness and detail as an intense and immersive experience inside a self-contained virtual world of sound.

THE SECRET CITY – THE BODY
http://dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/25/2012-03/25/2012
11:30am-

It’s time for blossoms and daffodils and wearing shorts, even though it might still be cold out. The world is coming back to life and our bodies feel ALIVE!! Join us as we celebrate THE BODY with a beautiful roster of guest artists, fresh performances, and a lot of wonderful human bodies making up what we call a community. It’s gonna be good.

ECSTATIC MUSIC FEST: THE MOUNTAIN GOATS & ANONYMOUS 4
http://kaufman-center.org/mch/event/new-sounds-live-the-mountain-goats-anonymous-four
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
7:30pm-

The Mountain Goats are joined by the vocal quartet Anonymous 4 in a collaborative presentation of songs from Transcendental Youth, a new work by John Darnielle (pictured) of the Mountain Goats (“one of America’s most startling lyricists,” Boston Globe). Anonymous 4, celebrating their 25th anniversary, are famous for their purity of tone and astounding blend, gaining wide recognition for their intense scholarship and attention to historical context, both in medieval and early American repertoire.

KEEPING IT WEIRD: JONATHAN NOCERA’S BIRTHDAY MEMORIAL CONCERT
03/25/2012-03/25/2012
7pm

 On March 25, 2012, Friends and colleagues of Jonathan “JP” Nocera will gather at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 7PM to Midnight to celebrate his life and legacy. Featured performers include The London Souls, Erica Lindsay, Sticklips, Captain for Dark Mornings, and Squiggle, with artwork by Charles Sainty.

Hazmat Modine
http://hazmatmodine.com/gigs.html
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
7pm-10pm

HAZMAT MODINE draws from the rich soil of American music of the 20’s and 30’s through to the 50’s and early 60’s, blending elements of early Blues, Hokum Jugband, Swing, Klezmer, New Orleans R & B, and Jamaican Rocksteady. The band is fronted by two harmonicas which use call and response, harmony, melody, and syncopated interweaving rhythms. The band includes tuba, guitar, and percussion, claviola and Hawaiian steel guitar. The band’s sound reflects musical influences ranging from Avant-garde Jazz to Rockabilly and Western Swing to Middle-Eastern, African, and Hawaiian musical styles.

Ghost Stories for the Hunted
https://www.facebook.com/events/336653496370482/#%21/events/336653496370482/
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
7pm-11pm

In 1889, the Ghost Dance religion began in the Paiute community of Nevada as a transfiguration of the circle dance to summon and communicate with their ancestors. By the early 1890s, it had caught on in Native American communities and nations throughout the Western United States. In almost exactly the same vein, Leigh Stein, (the spirit of) Ben Mirov, Brian Foley, Marisa Crawford, Christie Ann Reynolds, and myself will be telling ghost stories, reading ghosty poems, and making jokes at the WILDLIFE loft (AKA my living room). We’re unjustly lucky to have the poets reading that we do (CHECK THEIR BIOS BELOW). It’s been damn near precisely a year since the last poetry reading here. And so, pretty much just like the Paiute prophet Wovoko led his brothers and sisters in a new ceremony that mimics the old one but is infused with new power and intent, the absurdly lovely Lily Ladewig will host. Read more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/336653496370482/#%21/events/336653496370482/

Steve Dalachinsky & Miriam Stanley
http://www.jujomukti.com/
03/25/2012-03/25/2012
6pm-

Steve Dalachinsky & Miriam Stanley reading.

Sam’s Enchanted Evening
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_PERF_the_residents
03/24/2012-03/27/2012
7:30pm-

With four decades of album releases, world tours, and museum shows behind them, the pioneering performance collective The Residents present a work-in-progress of a new solo music-theater event: Sam’s Enchanted Evening is the story of one man’s fumbling journey through a wasted life consumed by years of pathetic self-deception, unrequited desire, and rock ‘n’ roll. Performed in character by Randy Rose, The Residents’ lead singer, and set against a cycle of aggressively deconstructed American pop songs, Sam’s is a relentless, violent mash-up of laughter, pain, and elusive redemption,sometimes all in a single song.

BROOKLYN OLD-TIME EXTRAVAGANZA: REPRISE! with The Whistling Wolves / Union Street Preservation Society / The Third Wheel Band
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=4312215
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
8pm-

BROOKLYN OLD-TIME EXTRAVAGANZA: REPRISE! with The Whistling Wolves / Union Street Preservation Society / The Third Wheel Band

The Wizard of Oz Sing-Along
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=4356965&pl=bellpl
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
7:30pm-

Lions and tigers and bears and a Sing-Along oh my! Grab your ruby slippers and click your heels three times to transport yourself to The Bell House on March 24th for The Wizard of Oz Sing-Along! We’re transforming the Bell House into the Emerald City and you’re invited to watch this classic movie musical with all the words to the songs on the screen for you and all your friends to Sing-Along with! -Dress up as the Cowardly Lion, Dorothy, the Wicked Witch, one of the Munchkins or any other of your favorite Wizard of Oz characters for the Costume Contest! -Help defeat the Wicked Witch in the Whack the Witch Piñata Battle! -Is your Oz knowledge as strong as a Kansas tornado? Find out in the Trivia Competition! -Get Dorothy home to Kansas in the Over the Rainbow Toss! -Sample Wizard of Oz themed sweets from Geek Treats! -Enjoy themed drinks such as the Flying Monkey, Lollipop Guild, Oil Can, Professor Marvel or the Wicked Witch’s Cauldron! -Play along with Rocky Horror Picture Show style

Brooklyn Village
http://roulette.org/events/brooklyn-philharmonic-brooklyn-youth-choir-present-brooklyn-village/
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
7:30pm-

From its early settlement through present day, Brooklyn remains a village of workers and artists bursting with creativity, passion and rebellion; a community where the famous and the faceless make history together. Join us for a groundbreaking musical and multimedia experience, as we journey through time to connect Brooklyn’s past and present with a program of classics and stunning world premieres. Program: World Premieres by David T. Little, Matthew Mehlan and Sarah Kirkland Snider, with additional works by Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frederich Bristow, Aaron Copland and Sufjan Stevens This concert is a co-production of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and Roulette Theater.

Dr. Dog
http://www.terminal5nyc.com/event/78977
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
8pm-

After a one-album sojourn away from their band-built recording studio Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog returned home to Meth Beach to self-produce their latest collection of gloriously ramshackle rock ‘n’ roll reveries. Out February 7, Be The Void (Dr. Dog’s second release on Anti-Records) showcases the critically adored band’s renewed commitment to cultivating a stripped-down live sound. “This record comes from our pushing toward a rawer, more powerful, somewhat jittery competence,” explains guitarist-vocalist Scott McMicken. “We drew a lot of inspiration from soul music and the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground—music that’s got its roots in live expression rather than that studio-perfected sort of vibe.”

MORE EVENTS:

Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop with Former AMNH Senior Insect Preparator Daisy Tainton
http://observatoryroom.org/2012/01/18/insect-shadowbox-workshop-ii/
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
1pm-4pm

Rhinoceros beetles: nature’s tiny giants. Adorable, with their giant heads and tiny legs, and wonderful antler-like protrusions. If you think they would be even more adorable drinking tiny beers and holding tiny fishing poles, we have the perfect class for you! In today’s workshop, students will learn to make–and leave with their own!–shadowbox dioramas featuring carefully positioned beetles doing nearly anything you can imagine. An assortment of miniature furniture and foods will be made available to decorate your habitat, but students are strongly encouraged to bring any dollhouse props they would like to use. 1:12 scale is generally best.

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.

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 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/

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.

Future Pieces
http://vaudevillepark.org/events/future-pieces
03/24/2012-04/03/2012

Future Pieces features recent works work by Lisha Bai,Leah Tacha and Sun You. This show explores the limitless potential that exists for a piece as it develops in the studio based on the unexpected ways that the work will change when placed in another space and arranged in a new way. For these artists, it is this kind of momentum and fluidity that is key to a piece’s realization. Their approach emphasizes their ambivalence with the appearance of singular works, focusing instead on each piece as it plays a part in an ensemble. For the artists in this show, production is almost always about working towards something and it’s the unique combination of their “pieces” that helps this notion succeed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kris Kuksi
http://joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/kuksi_triumph_march_8_2012/
03/08/2012-04/07/2012
11pm-6pm

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Terrarium Class #2 with Jon
http://thegreenpointers.com/
03/15/2012-04/01/2012

Terrarium Class #2 with Jon Sunday, April 1, 2012 at The Diamond, (43 Franklin St) $40 includes all materials, plus a pint of beer. Make and take home a gorgeous terrarium! Our last class was a blast and sold out in a few days. Classes fill up quickly. To sign up, email greenpointers@gmail.com. If you have ideas want to teach a class, please email me.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

SINDY BUTZ AND HIROSHI SHAFER
http://www.englishkillsartgallery.com/future/
03/16/2012-04/16/2012
9pm-

Opening: 3/16 9pm Experimental theatrical imitation play from 70’s Japanese movie Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.

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

“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.

Fire Fans series with Claire de Luxe
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cts=1331235646387&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhouseofyes.org%2F&ei=IwtZT_ODI9Cy0QHzppXHDw&usg=AFQjCNE2YWMdAU9SpQr5QK0hTxE262t-sw&sig2=Odn-Zs-9pnh-eVvBZNOBVA
03/17/2012-06/23/2012

Saturdays, 2:30-4 pm:::10-week series (March 17, 24, 31, April 7, 21, 28, May 12, June 2, 16, 23) This class will be focused on outlining ideas and concepts for working out your own moves and sequences, and will guide you through a process of how to discover the fun of this wonderful prop. We will focus on various aspects of fan technique, including lines & patterns, body placement, tech, tricks, spins, tosses, story, movement, and sequencing. Much of the class will be student-based, with a focus on sharing, communicating, and exploring with each other. The last class will be a FIRE class!. Location: Battery Park. Price: special debut price of $125.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DUSTIN YELLIN
http://halfgallery.com/
03/20/2012-04/22/2012

Law School for Visual Artists
http://www.vlany.org/lawschool_comments.php
03/20/2012-04/17/2012

Topics that will be covered during the 5-week course: Tuesday March 20, 2012 Introduction: * Legal Hypothetical: Analyzing legal issues in your art projects Tuesday March 27, 2012 * Basic business models (non-profit and for-profit corporations, LLC’s) * Fiscal Sponsorships * Employment issues A. Studio and gallery assistants B. Working as a preparator for art galleries Tuesday April 3, 2012 * Free Speech * Right of Privacy Tuesday April 10, 2012 Contracts * Consignment Agreements * Licensing Agreements * Commissioning Agreements Tuesday April 17, 2012 * Intellectual Property (copyright and trademarks)

Submissions for SLIDELUCK BIKESHOW
http://slideluckpotshow.com/submissions
03/20/2012-04/30/2012

We invite artists, cyclists, racers, commuters, enthusiasts and Sunday-riders from around the globe to submit their most compelling and creative cycling-related imagery! If biking inspires your art, your art is directly about bicycles/travel, you use bicycles to make sculptures or custom bikes, or if you put a camera on your helmet before bombing down a moutainside – we want to see it! Our goal is to create the most dynamic, engaging, inspiring and fun collection of bike art/imagery ever collected in one place. As well, following the slideshow, Peloton Magazine will select one piece to be published in the magazine! Submission deadline: Monday April 30th.

The Brontë Sisters
http://brooklynbrainery.com/courses/the-bronte-sisters?utm_source=Brooklyn+Brainery+List&utm_campaign=ef6fc9e53d-early+march&utm_medium=email&mc_cid=ef6fc9e53d&mc_eid=655643ee4c
03/21/2012-04/04/2012
10pm-

he Brontë sisters — Charlotte, Emily, and Anne — are a fascinating study in contradictions: ardent feminists whose works nevertheless seem to embrace patriarchy, reclusive outsiders with a thorough knowledge of human nature, and devout Christians and royalists whose works nevertheless evince a skepticism about the established church and monarchy. Over three sessions we’ll resolve these contradictions and place the lives and works Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë within a broader historical and literary context. There’s no need to have read their books ahead of time: if you’re interested in history, feminism, sociology, or psychological portraits of interesting people, you’re sure to find something to spark your imagination.

From Planet Krypton to Printed Page: An Insider Look at How Comic Books Are Made
http://brooklynbrainery.com/courses/from-planet-krypton-to-printed-page-an-insider-look-at-how-comic-books-are-made?utm_source=Brooklyn+Brainery+List&utm_campaign=ef6fc9e53d-early+march&utm_medium=email&mc_cid=ef6fc9e53d&mc_eid=655643ee4c
03/21/2012-03/28/2012
6:30pm-8:30pm

Do you fancy yourself the next Stan Lee or Chris Ware? Got the next WATCHMEN or GHOST WORLD in your head and don’t know how to get it out? Or do you just want to learn more about one of America’s only indigenous art forms? Then From Planet Krypton…is the class for you. Marvel Comics veteran Sven Patrick Larsen takes you through the complete creative process, from initial concepts and character designs through the technical aspects of coloring and lettering to the nitty gritty details of finding a printer or distributor. Along the way, he’ll share personal anecdotes of his over 20 years in the comic book business, provide advice for aspiring professionals, and explore some of the exciting new ways creators can get their four color creations exposed to the reading public.

John Torreano/Mamie Holst
http://www.featureinc.com/future.html
03/21/2012-04/22/2012

John Torreano/Mamie Holst: http://www.featureinc.com/future.html

Virginia Overton
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/301/0/1/
03/21/2012-04/06/2012

Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 21, 6–8pm In her works in sculpture and installation, Virginia Overton employs readily available or repurposed building materials as well as common found imagery in reaction to the particular conditions of the exhibition space and its environs. She has developed a sculptural vocabulary that uses and reuses these materials and images. While the work often incorporates large-scale elements, Overton still allows for a sense of ad hoc fragility in the provisional relationships she sets up between the architecture and her materials. The heightened awareness of the weight-bearing loads and the pull of gravity underscore how the materials have been asked to perform, holding traces of past uses and process to become more than just “raw” material.

Mystics: A blessed rage for order
http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/opening-reception-mystics-a-blessed-rage-for-order
03/21/2012-04/28/2012
7pm-9pm

Mystics: A blessed rage for order focuses on artists who obsessively and willfully engage in compulsive processes to create meticulous work spanning a range of media. The exhibition illustrates the delicate balance of technique and materiality, when process is as integral to a work’s meaning. Mystics is a formal exploration of art and labor: intensive individualism and form are enhanced by painstaking, methodological creations that evoke awe and wonder. Artists to be announced.

FEAST #13
http://feastinbklyn.org/?p=714
03/21/2012-03/29/2012

Brooklyn’s FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) will hold its 13th event on April 14th, 2012 at the Church of the Messiah in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. We are accepting project applications around the theme of Cultural Labor. The deadline for applications is March 29th at 11:59pm. As we look forward to the coming month of May, two distinct but overlapping commemorations are on our minds: the ancient festivities of the May Day holiday that celebrate the rebirth, growth, and potential of spring and the more historically recent International Workers’ Day, honoring those whose labor produces the social and material world we inhabit year round. The record-breaking warmth of the winter has softened the seasonal distinctness of this year’s spring. Yet the ever-increasing uncertainty and inequality generated by the contemporary labor market—in the arts and otherwise—has fortified the second significance of May Day. In an era when the logic of austerity increasingly favors private

NEO-PEONY exhibition
www.galleryho.net
03/22/2012-04/03/2012
6pm-8pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “NEO-PEONY” Exhibition Date: March 21 – April 3, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, March 22, 6 – 8 p. m. NEW YORK, March 7 – Gallery Ho is honored to present “Neo-Peony” exhibition by Seongmin Ahn on view at 547 West 27th street #208 from March 21 through April 3, 2012. An opening will be held on Thursday, March 22 from 6 – 8 p.m. In this exhibition, Seongmin Ahn unveils thirteen of her new modernized peony paintings. From the paintings, people can enjoy flower’s visual scent in their hectic life and learn more about Minhwa, which is a traditional Korean Folk Art, mingled in Contemporary art.

Elephant Room
http://www.stannswarehouse.org/current_season.php?show_id=72
03/22/2012-04/08/2012
8pm-

Three magicians. Two acts. One show. Zero boring stuff. Sub-zero intelligence. It’s time to make it all add up… In the Elephant Room. Illusionists Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah invite you to a place of secrets. Of mystery. The place between the back of your mind and the tip of your tongue. Let’s pretend it’s a room – a real room. And you’re really here. In the Elephant Room. Oh, and by the way – your mind was just totally blown clean through the back of your head. We will confound, amaze, mystify and move you. We’ll leave you slack-mouthed, devoid of any bodily function, your hands twitching from their wrists, a puddle of crushed perception. (Sorry – that’s just what we do.)

Reading Octavia Butler
http://brooklynbrainery.com/courses/reading-octavia-butler?utm_source=Brooklyn+Brainery+List&utm_campaign=ef6fc9e53d-early+march&utm_medium=email&mc_cid=ef6fc9e53d&mc_eid=655643ee4c
03/22/2012-03/29/2012
10pm-

Octavia E. Butler is arguably one of the best sci-fi writers of her time. A rarity in her day–African-American and female– she broke boundaries and created extraordinary, life-changing stories. In this class, we will examine three of her short stories from the collection BloodChild. We will discuss the central themes throughout her work which include female sexuality, dystopia, and loss of humanity. Participants will receive electronic copies of the short stories before each class, so that they can come prepared to discuss. Class will include some delicious, sci-fi themed snacks!

Color Photographs from the WPA (1939-1943)
http://www.carriagetrade.org/
03/22/2012-04/29/2012

Largely forgotten until the mid-seventies when they resurfaced in the Library of Congress archives, the color photographs of the Works Project Administration (1939-1943) document the later period of FDR’s New Deal, an ambitious series of government programs designed to address the brutal effects of the Great Depression on the social and economic fabric of 1930’s America. While the Library’s archive of black and white depression-era photographs is more familiar and more often reproduced, the color images, taken within three years of the invention of Kodachrome film, are striking for their rich, saturated colors and rigorously formal compositions.

DEVIL IN THE HOLE
http://www.houseofyes.org/
03/22/2012-03/25/2012

Devil in the Hole tells the story of Jabe, a poor farmer who desperately wants to provide for his new wife and accidentally unlocks an evil from deep within the forest. With only a mysterious guitar and faith to spur him on, Jabe must battle the forces of evil in order to save everything he loves. Tree spirits fly on aerial silks, giant puppets emerge from the darkness and an onstage country rock band underscores the mammoth clashes between good and evil in… Devil In The Hole.

Brian Ulrich Is This Place Great or What: Artifacts and Photographs
http://www.saulgallery.com/chronicle/ulrich_2012.htm
03/22/2012-04/05/2012
6pm-8pm

Our third solo exhibition with Brian Ulrich is the culmination of his decade-long photographic investigation of American consumerism. Previous exhibitions at the gallery have presented three overlapping yet distinct chapters in the Copia series: Copia (2002-06) examines the complex relationship between consumers and the industries that seek their consumption, while Thrift (2005-07) focuses on the trickle down of goods. His most recent work, Dark Stores (2008-11) looks at the empty malls and big box stores which have gone belly up during recent years. “The work is a sustained exploration and critique of the rabid half-life of appetitive consumption,” writes Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, “of its scale, its apparent inevitability, its wastefulness and its cynicism” (Appetite for Consumption: Brian Ulrich’s Copia, http://thegreatleapsideways.com).

So to Speak
http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/opening-reception-so-to-speak
03/22/2012-04/28/2012

So to Speak creates an encounter between visual and verbal forms of representation. Each work in the exhibition weighs the difference between these two forms of expression, reflecting on the faults, slippages, and tensions that arise when representing images with words. Curated by Emily Berçir Zimmerman, as part of the Lori Ledis Emerging Curator Program, So to Speak presents artworks by four artists – Fiona Banner, Hollis Frampton, Melinda McDaniel, and Klub Zwei – that question the status of the photographic image as a purveyor of truth, and the predominance of still and moving images within the current visual regime. It also seeks to draw attention to the use of text in the exhibition itself – wall labels, postcards, brochures, and other documentation – to speak for objects, deeply altering their meaning.

4 Walls / Doubletoss Interludes
http://www.bacnyc.org/
03/22/2012-03/24/2012
8pm-

Two separate works of life-long collaborators John Cage and Merce Cunningham are uniquely merged in this performance that pairs Cage’s powerful score, Four Walls (1944), with a new staging of Cunningham’s 1993 Doubletoss, in which a double role of the dice determined the order of two distinctive but overlapping movement sequences. 4 Walls / Doubletoss Interludes is arranged by Robert Swinston and performed by Alexei Lubimov, piano; Joélle Harvey, soprano; and former Merce Cunningham dancers.

New Traditionalists
http://www.martosgallery.com/exhibitions/2012-03-22_new-traditionalists/
03/22/2012-04/21/2012

Martos Gallery is pleased to present New Traditionalists, a group exhibition featuring works by American artists Justin Adian, Jess Fuller, Leif Ritchey, and B. Wurtz, organized by Mary Grace Wright. Justin Adian (b. 1976, Fort Worth, TX) manipulates painterly surfaces into playful psychosexual conglomerations. Canvas is wrapped tightly around bulbous upholsterer’s foam and sprayed with sleek industrial paint, its contours overlapping in tantalizing ways. Jess Fuller’s (b. 1972, Portland, ME), hand dyed fabric paintings have evolved into plush sculptural reliefs. These distressed canvases are both stuffed and dismembered, exploiting and exposing the material’s structural limits. Fuller presents these sprawling, colorful hides in various formats, shapeshifting from wall to floor, image to text.

DOMA / At Home
http://www.abcnorio.org/pcgi-bin/suite/calendar/calendar.cgi?request=detail&event_id=11461&user_id=100001&page=featured&session=4f6631c20a06d7d9
03/22/2012-04/19/2012

DOMA / At Home March 22 — April 19, 2012 Jarvis Earnshaw, Victoria Law Ricardo Nelson, Alex Pergament and Amy Westpfahl OPENING: Thrs March 22 at 7:00pm VIEWING HOURS: Sun 1:00 — 3:00pm Wed & Thrs 5:00 — 7:00pm or by appt: abc@abcnorio.org Exhibition supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

River to River Festival Wants YOU
http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/
03/22/2012-04/04/2012

This summer The River To River Festival and The Joyce Theater will present the U.S. premiere of Le Grand Continental by Montréal-based choreographer Sylvain Émard at the South Street Seaport. This exciting performance will bring together a diverse group of 200+ participants to perform a contemporary version of a traditional festive line dance. WE WANT YOU! No Experience Necessary! Recruiting sessions will be held April 4-5. E-mail slo@lmcc.net for more information.

Cultures of Resistance
http://squeaky.org/events/2012/winter/culturesresistance
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
7pm-10pm

screening of a documentary about art and activism w/ Skype Q&A by Arthur Philips presented in conjunction w/ Burning Books

Dr. Dog
http://www.terminal5nyc.com/event/78977
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
8pm-

After a one-album sojourn away from their band-built recording studio Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog returned home to Meth Beach to self-produce their latest collection of gloriously ramshackle rock ‘n’ roll reveries. Out February 7, Be The Void (Dr. Dog’s second release on Anti-Records) showcases the critically adored band’s renewed commitment to cultivating a stripped-down live sound. “This record comes from our pushing toward a rawer, more powerful, somewhat jittery competence,” explains guitarist-vocalist Scott McMicken. “We drew a lot of inspiration from soul music and the Rolling Stones and the Velvet Underground—music that’s got its roots in live expression rather than that studio-perfected sort of vibe.”

W.H. AUDEN’S “THE SEA AND THE MIRROR”
http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2012/mar/23/wh-audens-sea-and-mirror/
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
7pm-

W. H. Auden’s “The Sea and the Mirror” is a lively consideration of theater, nature, life through the struggles and imaginings of the individual characters in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Beginning where Shakespeare’s play ends, The Sea and the Mirror exploits the ironic premise implicit in the drama. In the Shakespearean work, the magician Prospero is about to leave his exile on an island in the New World. The old man and his daughter, Miranda, had been cast adrift by his brother, Antonio, and left to die. Where does Auden take us from here? Join us in The Greene Space as this piece is reinterpreted as a Radio Drama.

Join us for a night of art, science and technology with Stefani Bardin as we look at two of her latest multi-media projects. First, we will look at M2A: The Fantastic Voyage, which examines the impact of technology on our food system using wireless gastroenterology devices to look at how processed foods versus whole food effect the body. The second project Phantom Lim(b)inality uses phantom limb syndrome (and neuroplasticity) as a metaphor for examining the brain’s ability to rewire itself based on the imaginings and re-imaginings of our relationship to a severed natural world (i.e. nature and the wilderness). In the same way the brain imagines a severed limb to still be present – so too does the contemporary brain try to imagine a severed connection to nature – via the somatic wilderness of the built environment, market culture and our relationship to the city.
http://www.3rdward.com/mu-pan-the-way-of-the-dog/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UPCOMING+EVENTS+%2F%2F+Member+Trunk+Show+%2B+…&utm_source=YMLP&utm_term=0312-mu.jpg
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
7pm-10pm

Join us as we celebrate our Summer 2011 Solo Show Winner with a gallery opening of epic proportions! Grand Prize Winner Mu Pan has been working on a new body of work for his 3rd Ward Solo Show and the results are breathtaking! Pan’s vibrant work is a masterpiece of storytelling refracted through the artist’s Taiwanese upbringing, his American schooling, and the world of his fertile imagination. These epic myth-meets-reality paintings captivated our judges with their beauty, detail, humor and intelligence. Now is your chance to experience them at 3rd Ward.

RED AND BLACK MASQUERADE BALL
http://www.houseofyes.org/
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
8pm-3am

Red Bedlam and Money Pile Media present the Red and Black Masquerade Ball, a bordello-themed event featuring live music, film, acrobatics, and an after-hours party with DJ Rock Pony. Friday, March 23rd 8pm at the House of Yes L train to Grand 342 Maujer St. in Bushwick. Full bar and beer sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery,

CREATIVE MORNINGS: JAIME SALKA OF STORY PIRATES
http://galapagosartspace.com/event/creative-mornings-4
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
8:30am-

this month’s speaker is jamie salka, ceo of story pirates, a nationally respected education and media organization founded in 2003 to celebrate the words and ideas of young people. with acclaimed programs in place at over 200 schools from coast to coast, story pirates challenges first-rate actors and comedians to perform stories written by children to celebrate students’ innate creativity. dually based in new york and los angeles, they are best known for the idea storm program, a master-class writing workshop that brings teaching concepts to life, followed by a musical sketch comedy show featuring stories by students and performed by professional artists. their acclaimed programs and professional development services for teachers are in place at over 200 schools from coast to coast.

CENTER FOR PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP PUBLIC VOICES: STEVEN PINKER AND ROBERT JAY LIFTON
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77799
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
6pm-

Join us for this conversation between two distinguished social researchers and commentators, Steven Pinker and Robert Jay Lifton, about violence today. Sponsored by the Center for Public Scholarship.

BIRD AMONGST THE BLOSSOM – A TRIBUTE TO THE BLOSSOM DEARIE SONGBOOK
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/performances.asp
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
6pm-

Singer Jaye Maynard pays homage to (but doesn’t try to imitate) the wised-up jazz-babydoll stylings of the late Blossom Dearie – with Jon Delfin accompanying her on Dearie’s own piano. Leon Lee Dorsey plays bass, as Maynard interprets “Blossom Dearie’s First Songbook” containing songs written exclusively for or by Dearie by, among others, Bob Dorough, Johnny Mercer, and Dave Frishberg. Dearie was a unique and inimitable singer whose legacy of material is fresh, hip, smart, and sassy. Maynard styles her show in a mid-Century modern cabaret to inform and entertain.

Selling the Dead: Anatomy as Business in the Dutch Golden Age
http://observatoryroom.org/2012/02/05/dead-anatomy/
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
8pm-

What can dead bodies tell you about the secret of life? And how can you make money from investigating these secrets? This lecture takes us back to the Dutch Golden Age when anatomists busily engaged with cutting up cadavers, orangoutans and exotic toads to study the circulation of blood, sweat and tears. Sumptuous paintings, color prints, illustrated atlases, wax preparations and bottled embryos showcased and touted the latest discoveries about the human body.

Instrumentals
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/302/0/1/
03/23/2012-03/24/2012
8pm-

Program 1, March 23: William Basinski, Vivian & Ondine Tristan Perich, Dual Synthesis Program 2, March 24: Arthur Russell, Instrumentals directed by Peter Gordon Mary Halvorson, Septet nos. 30-33 Curated by Nick Hallett Co-presented with Carnegie Hall as part of the 2012 American Mavericks Festival The Kitchen dips into the Music Program archive and extends its envelope-pushing legacy to a new generation with this weekend of shared double bills. Launching the event is William Basinski’s ambient electronic opus Vivian & Ondine, which identifies the haunting materiality of sound through the physical process of tape loop manipulation, with light art by Seth Kirby and Brock Monroe. Sharing the evening, Tristan Perich—in his Kitchen debut—demonstrates his unique 1-Bit universe, mixing custom-built microchips and harpsichord performed by Daniel Walden.

PAINTED BETTY
http://www.dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
8pm-

“Sophisticated and eccentric” and “hot and sexy” say Hudson Valley reviews. Painted Betty buoyantly blends Americana, tango, country, and blues into a good-time sound all their own. Themes of sex, death, and Poughkeepsie (?) pervade their songs. A six piece acoustic band featuring two female lead singers, Painted Betty has been wowing their Hudson Valley fans over the past year, playing songs from their recent debut album Fifty Bucks and I’ll Show You. The Lounge is their first show in the Big City. Give a listen to them on their website then come hear them live!

Dream Acts
http://here.org/shows/detail/870/
03/23/2012-03/25/2012
7pm-

Imagine that you don’t have a country. It doesn’t matter if you believe you’re American, because no one else believes you. You don’t exist. Worse, you are hunted for deportation. You love this country, but the country does not love you back. In Dream Acts, five undocumented teens from Nigeria, Mexico, Ukraine, Korea, and Jordan face the extraordinary challenge of living ordinary lives under the radar. Panel discussion: March 25, at 5 pm: FREE panel discussion with undocumented youth, theatre artists and experts on immigration issues. Dream Acts is part of the 2012 Spring Artist Lodge.

Monkeys
http://www.bricktheater.com/
03/23/2012-03/31/2012
8pm-

Three friends who can’t stand each other yet can’t function without each other spend all night—just as they do every night—in a 24-hour coffee shop that serves as both a haven and a prison. Nosedive Productions and The Impetuous Theater Group stage the debut absurdist comedy by James Comtois (Infectious Opportunity, The Adventures of Nervous Boy) about the comforts and horrors of drinking coffee until dawn with the same people each night for a limited run at The Brick.

Mu Pan Presents : Way of the Dog
http://www.3rdward.com/events/
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
7pm-10pm

Join us as we celebrate our Summer 2011 Solo Show Winner with a gallery opening of epic proportions! Grand Prize Winner Mu Pan has been working on a new body of work for his 3rd Ward Solo Show and the results are breathtaking! Pan’s vibrant work is a masterpiece of storytelling refracted through the artist’s Taiwanese upbringing, his American schooling, and the world of his fertile imagination. These epic myth-meets-reality paintings captivated our judges with their beauty, detail, humor and intelligence. Now is your chance to experience them at 3rd Ward. Pan’s Solo Show Grand Prize included traveling to Taiwan to be featured in an exclusive feature booth at Art Tapei. There he sold almost all of his featured work and gained the attention of art lovers from around the world. Join us for a night of Pan’s storytelling journey told with intricate watercolors and larger than life oil paintings. Plus, music and complimentary drinks.

ABC No Rio Zine Library Benefit
http://www.abcnorio.org/pcgi-bin/suite/calendar/calendar.cgi?request=detail&event_id=11460&user_id=100001&page=featured&session=4f6631c20a06d7d9
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
8pm-12am

ABC No Rio Zine Library Benefit!!! Help us buy archival materials to store our zines!!! Cristy Road!!! Seth Tobocman!!! Chester Comedy Improv!!! + Music and more fun with your favorite zine librarians!!! Sliding Scale: $3 — $20!!! Support your local zine library!!!

Uncanny Valley Reading Series #1
http://www.facebook.com/events/387849684560703/
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
8pm-11pm

Uncanny Valley themed readings: Alyssa Pelish reads from her YA novel Uncanny Valley High Molly Kottemann reads from her vampire serial Creighton Crossley: Lazy Intellectual Vampire Hunter …plus music, refreshments, conversation….

JANDEK at Vaudeville Park
http://www.facebook.com/events/264723590272354/
03/23/2012-03/26/2012
7pm-

oin us March 23rd, and March 26th, at Vaudeville Park, for a very special live performance, sound recording, and E.S.P. TV taping of the legendary Jandek joined by Ian M. Colletti, Valerie Kuehne and special accompanying artists. http://www.vaudevillepark.org Buy Tickets Now to save a spot for March 23 (Fri) and March 26 (Monday) http://vaudevillepark.org/events/jandek Accompanying Jandek March 23rd, will be Ian M Colletti, classical guitar, harps, violin, vocals and Valerie Kuehne, cello and vocals, and Rachelle Lalonde with vocals. March 23rd’s performance will be taped live for an upcoming Episode of ESP TV.* There will also be a 2nd Performance of Jandek at Vaudeville Park, Monday March 26, with Rachelle Lalonde, vocals, Alan Lewandoski, guitar and Ian M Colletti on various instrumentation.

Poem as World / World as Poem: Natasha Trethewey and Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma
http://www.facebook.com/events/248917828535884/
03/23/2012-03/23/2012
7pm-9pm

Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey’s fourth collection of poetry, “Thrall,” is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Fall 2012. Born in Nakodar, Punjab, poet and translator Yuyutsu Ram Dass Sharma is the author of many books, including “Hunger of Our Huddled Huts and Other Poems” (Nirala Publications, 2011). This event is co-sponsored with the NYU Office for International Students and Scholars.

Arianna Carossa: Argo
http://nurtureart.org/?p=3994
03/23/2012-04/30/2012
7pm-9pm

NURTUREart is pleased to present Argo, a solo exhibition by emerging artist Arianna Carossa, a winner of the 2011/2012 open call for Artists and Curators. Carossa’s artistic practice aims to question an object’s potential, not only how we interact with it, but the imaginary (or real) possibilities of its autonomous existence. Can an object be alive? Moreover, would human presence be necessary to validate the life of something inanimate? Would that something even exist, without us?

JEN DENIKE “SÉANCE” AT VOGT GALLERY
http://vogtgallery.com/index.php?/news/events/
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
6:30pm-8:30pm

Curator John Connelly invites artist Jen DeNike to act as the medium in a performance seance with the artists of The End for the closing of the exhibition on Saturday, February 25th. “The End” is a group exhibition, featuring works by mostly New York-based artists ranging from sculpture to drawing, painting, video and installation. Participating artists are: Kamrooz Aram, Amber Brown, John Divola, Kota Ezawa, Susan Goldman, Van Hanos, Matthew Higgs, Sabrina Mansouri, Keith Mayerson, Arthur Ou, Ruby Sky Stiler, Luke Stettner, and Tom Thayer. The show is curated by Michael Bühler-Rose and John Connelly.

Rabid, Wild & Docile: A collection of bear inspired artwork
http://www.myplasticheart.com/
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
6pm-9pm

myplasticheart is excited to announce our next show opening on February 24 – Rabid, Wild & Docile: A collection of bear inspired artwork. Curated by Jessica George (aka Team Sweet), this exhibit features an impressive lineup of 18 artists and their bear creations. You’ve seen these characters popping up in the pop-pluralism and low-brow movements but whether it be a panda, a grizzly or a polar bear, this animal has been gracing artists’ brains and finding its way onto canvases, stickers, and 3D figures for awhile now. It’s time to bring some of the greatest bear characters together in one room! Opening reception will take place on Friday February 24th from 6-9pm. Select artists will be in attendance and refreshments will be served.

While you were sleeping
http://choiceroyce.tumblr.com/
03/24/2012-03/24/2012
7pm-10pm

Following up his successful “Rather Unique” opening at the Woodward Gallery, Royce Bannon curates an exhibit featuring established and up and coming NYC artists from different walks of life which will all be contributing one piece to the show.

Jessie Montgomery: Composers OutFront!
http://www.americancomposers.org/rel20120225.html
03/25/2012-03/25/2012
8pm-10pm

Music by composer/violinist Jessie Montgomery is featured in a FREE Composers OutFront! program. Jessie is ACO’s 2011-12 Van Lier Emerging Composer Fellow. With performances by PUBLIQuartet, members of Catalyst String Quartet, ICE, and Threeds. Composers OutFront! puts composers onstage, bringing audiences closer to the creative process, and making connections between composers’ roots as performers and their music for the concert hall.

Part & Parcel: The Deconstruction of the Female Form in Contemporary Art
http://www.partandparcelexhibition.wordpress.com
03/25/2012-04/26/2012
1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

The works in this group exhibition are united in their use of bodily fragmentation to investigate the role of women in modern society. Fragmentation is a versatile tool in visual art, as it allows us to simultaneously see the human body in a more focused manner, and to step back from it and view the body as an abstract form – it can lead to reactions ranging from analytical to emotional. While interpretations are individual to both artist and viewer, Part & Parcel undoubtedly inspires us to think about the body in novel ways.

Natural Perfume Making Workshop with Julianne Zaleta
http://observatoryroom.org/2012/01/19/perfume-workshop/
03/25/2012-03/25/2012
1pm-4pm

***Very limited class size! You must RSVP to phantasmaphile [at] gmail .com if you’d like to attend. You will then receive a payment request via Paypal. Smell is the most neglected of our senses yet it has an instantaneous power to penetrate our consciousness, invoking memories and emotion. Odors are ethereal and elusive yet can strongly attract or repel. As a concerned consumer, you are choosing organic food, seeking out sustainable products and opting for eco-friendly packaging. But what about the fragrance you wear? That signature scent is likely composed of synthetic materials (as most commercial fragrances are), mass-produced, packaged and shipped around the world in the millions of units.

Steve Dalachinsky & Miriam Stanley
http://www.jujomukti.com/
03/25/2012-03/25/2012
6pm-

A party for queer librarians and those who love them! Ft. DJ Amber Valentine — and other DJs TBA With: Nerdy Gogo Dancers — Gay-A$$ Raffle — Queer-Lit Drinks $5 – $10 suggested donation at the door A benefit for Gerber/Hart Library and Archives (Chicago) http://www.queeryparty.org http://www.gerberhart.org

Little Languages / Coded Pictures
http://www.markelfinearts.com/html/exhibresultsfull.asp?exnum=7835&exname=%3Cb%3ELittle+Languages%3C%2Fb%3E+%3Cbr%3E%3Cb%3E+Coded+Pictures%3C%2Fb%3E+
03/25/2012-04/07/2012

Kathryn Markel is pleased to announce a group exhibition curated by Theresa Hackett and Michelle Weinberg titled Little Languages/Coded Pictures. A painter creates a lexicon. A glossolalia of marks, swerves of the brush, scrapes, dabs, drips. An anthology of the painter’s experience is translated into pigmented pastes of varying transparencies and densities. Application of these little languages to the surface of a painting, builds a story, intimate or epic. Of space and time, of the weight of gravity and slipping free from gravity. Pictorial space and logic is built of hermetic symbols created by the painter. One thing stands in for another. One gesture is surrogate for a single thing, or an entire range of experience. Learning to de-code he painting’s surface is part of the pleasure for the viewer. Exhibition Reception: Thursday, March 15th 6 – 8 PM

CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER: AN OPERA-BURLESQUE CIRCUS IN WONDERLAND
http://galapagosartspace.com/event/american-opera-projects-opera-on-tap-present-curiouser-and-curiouser
03/25/2012-03/26/2012
7pm-

don’t be late for this very important date! in celebration of his 75th birthday in march, david del tredici, the composer whose name has become synonymous with “alice’s adventures in wonderland,” will perform his rarely-seen “haddocks’ eyes“ at a two-evening alice-themed opera-burlesque party. composers manly romero and susan botti will also be on hand to present music from their alice-inspired operas alongside rita menweep‘s burlesque-circus “through the peeping glass.”

Natural Perfume Making Workshop with Julianne Zaleta
http://observatoryroom.org/2012/01/19/perfume-workshop/
03/25/2012-03/25/2012
1pm-4pm

Smell is the most neglected of our senses yet it has an instantaneous power to penetrate our consciousness, invoking memories and emotion. Odors are ethereal and elusive yet can strongly attract or repel. As a concerned consumer, you are choosing organic food, seeking out sustainable products and opting for eco-friendly packaging. But what about the fragrance you wear? That signature scent is likely composed of synthetic materials (as most commercial fragrances are), mass-produced, packaged and shipped around the world in the millions of units. Natural perfumery is a much different process that uses only essential oils and precious absolutes that are extracted from plants. Like fine wine, subtle differences can be found from the same plant from year to year depending on soil conditions and climate meaning that it is not an exact science but a creative alchemical process.

CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER: AN OPERA-BURLESQUE CIRCUS IN WONDERLAND
http://galapagosartspace.com/event/2248-2
03/25/2012-03/26/2012
7pm-

don’t be late for this very important date! in celebration of his 75th birthday in march, david del tredici, the composer whose name has become synonymous with “alice’s adventures in wonderland,” will perform his rarely-seen “haddocks’ eyes“ at a two-evening alice-themed opera-burlesque party. composers manly romero and susan botti will also be on hand to present music from their alice-inspired operas alongside rita menweep‘s burlesque-circus “through the peeping glass.”

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.

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/

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.

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
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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
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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.

Terrarium Class #2 with Jon
http://thegreenpointers.com/
03/15/2012-04/01/2012

Terrarium Class #2 with Jon Sunday, April 1, 2012 at The Diamond, (43 Franklin St) $40 includes all materials, plus a pint of beer. Make and take home a gorgeous terrarium! Our last class was a blast and sold out in a few days. Classes fill up quickly. To sign up, email greenpointers@gmail.com. If you have ideas want to teach a class, please email me.

6X6 Call for Submissions of Short Video: Mazurka
http://hexadic.blogspot.com/
03/15/2012-03/31/2012

We are quietly pleased to announce the impending birth of the 6X6 movie production “Mazurka,” the story of a two siblings, their quests for love and serenity, and the best song ever. As always, 6X6 seeks to co-parent with the world, so we are also announcing a call for submissions for possible use in the movie, as well as in the associated 6X6 Mazurka event on April 4, 2012. We seek submissions in three categories: The Best Song (or Record) Ever: 30 second video about your choice for best song or record ever Piano Lesson: 30 second video about learning to play the piano Mazurka: media art responses to the Chopin Mazurka Op. 68, No. 2 (http://youtu.be/OuVt4cyc42Y) Deadline: March 31, 2012 Submission Details and Entry Form Fast, fun, and free: submit to 6X6 today!

SVA Summer residences
http://www.sva.edu/special-programs/summer-residency-programs
03/08/2012-04/01/2012

SVA’s Summer Residencies in New York City offer emerging and mid-career artists time, space and a supportive community in which to develop ideas and focus on their artistic direction.

River to River Festival Wants YOU
http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/
03/22/2012-04/04/2012

This summer The River To River Festival and The Joyce Theater will present the U.S. premiere of Le Grand Continental by Montréal-based choreographer Sylvain Émard at the South Street Seaport. This exciting performance will bring together a diverse group of 200+ participants to perform a contemporary version of a traditional festive line dance. WE WANT YOU! No Experience Necessary! Recruiting sessions will be held April 4-5. E-mail slo@lmcc.net for more information.

FEAST #13
http://feastinbklyn.org/?p=714
03/21/2012-03/29/2012

Brooklyn’s FEAST (Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) will hold its 13th event on April 14th, 2012 at the Church of the Messiah in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. We are accepting project applications around the theme of Cultural Labor. The deadline for applications is March 29th at 11:59pm. As we look forward to the coming month of May, two distinct but overlapping commemorations are on our minds: the ancient festivities of the May Day holiday that celebrate the rebirth, growth, and potential of spring and the more historically recent International Workers’ Day, honoring those whose labor produces the social and material world we inhabit year round. The record-breaking warmth of the winter has softened the seasonal distinctness of this year’s spring. Yet the ever-increasing uncertainty and inequality generated by the contemporary labor market—in the arts and otherwise—has fortified the second significance of May Day. In an era when the logic of austerity increasingly favors private

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