EDITOR’S PICKS:

Drew Maillard Solo Show: “Living In Interesting Times”
http://www.mfgallery.net/DrewMaillard/DrewMaillard.html
03/31/2012-05/05/2012

MF Gallery, fine purveyors of the eccentric and bizarre, are proud to present the collected works of one of their own. “Living In Interesting Times” is an exhibition of the drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures of Drew Maillard. There is an ancient Chinese curse that goes “May you live in interesting times.” Drew Maillard was born and raised in America in the last quarter of the 20th century… A fascinating era to be sure. He is a product of his environment. Nature and nurture; habitat and conditioning combined. Drew’s adolescence was divided between comic books, horror and sci-fi films, and fantasizing about girls he didn’t talk to. Also there was Punk Rock and L.S.D.. After spending some time in the army and leaving his hometown in upstate NY, he received his Bachelor Of Fine Arts degree from SVA in 2000. His life experiences and travel, as well as an interest in scuba diving and ju-jitzu is what informs Drew’s crazy crazy artwork.

Dr. John: Insides Out: A Louis Armstrong Tribute
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=3974
03/29/2012-03/31/2012
8pm-

Featured artists: Kermit Ruffins Rickie Lee Jones Roy Hargrove Arturo Sandoval Blind Boys of Alabama Wendell Brunious Telmary Diaz James Andrews For over 40 years, Dr. John has taken the exuberant and raucous sound of New Orleans under his wing, preserving its lore and channeling it through his own style of rhythm and blues. This spring, the good doctor comes to BAM with an extraordinary entourage of musical guests for an artistic residency, offering three distinct perspectives on his formidable career. In “A Louis Armstrong Tribute,” Dr. John leads an all-star celebration of New Orleans’ greatest musical son, Louis Armstrong.

Nari Ward Liberty and Orders
http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/exhibitions/2012-02-24_angel-otero-at-istanbul-74/
03/29/2012-04/21/2012
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Liberty and Orders picks up where we left off with Nari Ward’s 2010 exhibition LIVESupport. In 2010, Ward exhibited “Father and Sons,” a video work depicting two sons and their police officer father. The father stands as a symbol of the safeguards we have in place, but as we are aware, oftentimes these safeguards do no operate as intended. In the past year, Nari Ward went through the process of naturalization. One of the reasons being that it offered him protection. Wishing to “cover” himself, Ward became a U.S. citizen and in the process faced various questions and subjects concerning law and authority. These experiences became key influences for the works in this exhibition. Becoming a citizen for many is an emotional experience, one that is celebrated with tears of joy. For Ward, the act of making these works was cathartic in the same way tears of joy are. The exhibition explores a range of themes dealing with anxiety – such as the anxiety of being stopped by police …

MICHAEL SAPPOL: HOW TO BE MODERN WITH SCIENTIFIC ILLUSTRATION: FRITZ KAHN, POPULAR MEDICINE AND THE VISUAL RHETORIC OF MODERNITY, 1916-1960
http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/michael-sappol-how-to-be-modern-with-scientific-illustration-fritz-kahn-popular-medicine-and-the-visual-rhetoric-of-modernity-1916-1960
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
6:30pm-

Fritz Kahn (1888-1968), a German-Jewish physician and popular science writer, was one of the first proponents of modernist scientific illustrations, which were conceptual, metaphorical and self-consciously modern in their aesthetics. Historian Michael Sappol situates Kahn’s illustrations and larger agenda within Weimar cultural politics, analyzes key images and genres and discusses the global diffusion of modernist conceptual scientific illustration. Sappol is a curator and historian at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department. Thursday, March 29, 6:30pm 133/141 West 21 Street, Room 101C Free and open to the public

Guernica Magazine Salon
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3221
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
6:30pm-

Writers, friends, and contributors all welcome! From our series of meetups/happy hours, in which we take our magazine offline and make it into a social (and very real) community. Come catch up over a drink or two, in the heart of Greenwich Village. This is a general admission event in The Gallery at LPR.

of Montreal Computer Magic, Hard Nips
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004788F7C5C155?brand=bowery
03/30/2012-03/31/2012
6pm-

How do you approach an album as tantalizingly complex as Paralytic Stalks? You could begin from a lyrical perspective and appraise the occasion it provides for an unobstructed view directly into the psyche of Kevin Barnes, of Montreal’s principal songwriter. But be prepared — one listen to “I spend my waking hours haunting my own life / I made the one I love start crying tonight / And it felt good” (“Spiteful Intervention”) immediately reveals this is not Barnes filtered through the lens of an adopted persona or invented alter ego. Rather, these are confessions of an infinitely more personal nature than anything he’s written since 2007’s Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

GIVERNY By E.V. Day and Kembra Pfahler
http://theholenyc.com/2012/03/23/giverny-by-e-v-day-and-kembra-pfahler/
03/30/2012-04/24/2012
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The Hole is proud to announce the exhibition “Giverny,” a collaboration between E.V. Day and Kembra Pfahler opening March 30th. The artists created photographic works in the famous French gardens built and immortalized in paint by Claude Monet, and will be exhibiting them for the first time here on the Bowery. Playboy.com has generously funded this massive exhibition, for the duration of which the Hole will be transformed into a living, breathing garden—with a lily-padded pond traversed by Monet’s signature green Japanese arched bridge, and scattered with the indigenous plants he is famous for painting. The walls of the exhibition will be printed with the almost claustrophobically green willow trees that surround this historic French site, and your first step into the gallery will be onto grass.

Beyond The Machine 12.1: Synchroneity
http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/204310?show_date=2012-03-29%2020:00:00
03/29/2012-04/01/2012
8pm-

Featuring: Julie Jesneck and Alejandro Rodriguez, actors Program: CAGE “Radio Music” for 1-8 Radios (1956) CAGE “Third Construction” for Percussion Quartet (1941), featuring percussionist Samuel Budish Nick DIDKOVSKY “Zero Waste” CAGE “Winter Music” for 1-20 Pianos (1957) “Basetrack” Based on Multimedia Artwork by Teru Kuwayama; Adapted by Roderick Hill Juilliard Music Technology Center Edward Bilous, director

EARTHLY DELIGHTS
http://www.katharinemulherin.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=391&Exhibit=Upcoming#!prettyPhoto
03/29/2012-04/21/2012
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Earthly Delights is an exploration into the seductive nature of the apocalypse. Based loosely on Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, the works of Oscar de Las Flores, Kim Keever and Christy Langer are integrated in this exhibition to explore human, animal, and landscape in a fantastical, prophetic and tangible take on the world we live in. Both menacing and enchanting, the works in this exhibition comment on our complexities negotiating our relationships within in an increasingly unnatural and complex world, pointing to past and current transgressions.

Object Lessons
http://proteusgowanus.org/2012/03/object-lessons/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
8pm-9:30pm

Object Lessons is a one-evening series of tiny lectures based on the objects from the current Proteus exhibition, Object Migration. The exhibition is comprised entirely of objects, each one accompanied by a concise story of the object’s migration through space and time. Object Lessons takes some of these objects and zeros in on the stories. The object becomes a lense to magnify matter, history and social patterns. The talks will address the history of ornithology in America, nuclear waste since the Bomb, plastics manufacturing, and the contours of the generic object.

New Works: X
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/e/232781
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7:30pm-

X, a duet, opens on a moment before an end. This singular moment protracted into an evolutionary display of impact by force, choice, image and influence reveals both clandestine and candid ways to disappear. Empty space is filled with shapes that die upon birth; molds are sculpted and quickly abandoned; perspectives are deliberately shifted and altered; images are looped, etched, and scored; rituals are observed. When all outlets have been exhausted, the moment will end and a choice will be made. Lights out.

NewOp Week: Cage, Satie, and a Cheap Imitation
http://www.theflea.org/show_detail.php?page_type=0&page_id=3&show_id=110
03/30/2012-04/01/2012
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The Center for Contemporary Opera is proud to present NewOp Week featuring four operas-in-progress as part of CCO’s Development Series, as well as a triple-bill, Cage, Satie, and a Cheap Imitation which includes Cage’s Europera 5, performed for only the second time in the United States, the world staged premiere of Eric Satie’s Socrate as arranged by John Cage and Cheap Imitation, a work for piano by John Cage.

Bryan Zanisnik: Every Inch a Man
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_EXH_every_inch_a_man
03/30/2012-04/06/2012
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March 30-May 6, 2012 Opening Reception: Friday, March 30 | 6-8 pm Curated by David Everitt Howe, 2011-2012 AIRspace Curator in Residence Performances Weekly, Thursday-Sunday, 1-6 pm The Abrons Arts Center is pleased to present Every Inch a Man, a five-week, site-specific performance and installation by Bryan Zanisnik in the Upper Main Gallery. From Thursday through Sunday each week (1-6 p.m.) Zanisnik will read Philip Roth’s The Great American Novel within a life-size Plexiglas container specially designed to fan baseball cards and outdated currency. Taking intermittent breaks to eat lunch with his parents, Bob and Carol Zanisnik, the artist will also tinker with an expansively cluttered installation of junk sourced from both Abrons storage spaces and his own childhood home; police costumes, hardware shelving, and cardboard share strange proximity with his childhood comic books, toys, baseball cards, and other icons of boyhood.

Flash/Bang: Fireside Follies
http://culturefixny.com/events/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7pm-9pm

In collaboration with RAC | Recession Art at culturefix, Bushwick-based poet and Fireside Follies Reading and Arts Series co-curator Mike Lala will this spring be introducing “FLASH/BANG,” a new, monthly series of flash-readings by acclaimed and up-and-coming poets and authors in an intimate gallery setting downtown. All readings will be free and open to the public.

Optipus Laboratory
http://www.thekitchen.org/event/303/0/1/
03/30/2012-03/31/2012
8pm-

For the first evening of this weekend of live cinema and sound work, a group of audio-visual experimenters comes together for a lab is a lab is a lab, a structure for improvisation and collaboration that film artist Bradley Eros premiered at The Kitchen in 2007. Here, sound- and image-makers engage in interlocking solos and duos involving projections and music made with tape machines, film loops, contact mikes, glass slides, modified synthesizers, and stringed instruments. Players include Gill Arno, Jonas Asher, Lea Bertucci, MV Carbon, Eros, Victoria Keddie, and Lary Seven.

panoramasfoldslosthorizons
http://www.bigandsmallcasual.net/pages/upcoming.html
03/30/2012-04/08/2012
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Artists Linda Ganjian, Jesse Lambert and Jeremy Stenger share a fascination with real and imagined space, the pleasures of pattern, and an intimate engagement with their immediate surroundings. Working in different media, these artists combine the logic of decoration and design with elements from the real world, creating hybridized and unique perspectives of their urban, domestic or natural environments.

Ladies of Experimental Music NYC III
http://vaudevillepark.org/events/ladies-experimental-music-nyc-iii
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
8pm-

The third in LOXM’s series at Vaudeville Park, this event features up and coming experimental noise projects of various slants, featuring multimedia elements. CUMBLOOD SNAYKHUNT LAZURITE OPAL ONYX

ITINERANT 2012 -Festival for Contemporary Performance Art
http://www.qmad.org/itinerant/
03/30/2012-05/12/2012
8pm-11pm

QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, launches ITINERANT, a citywide festival for Contemporary Performance Art to be hosted at various venues in the five boroughs of New York City. ITINERANT starts its five week program at GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE in Brooklyn on Friday, March 30th, featuring the work of local, national and international performance artists. ITINERANT 2012 focuses on live performative works that treat notions of intimacy, self-reflection, and introspection. Artists working in Contemporary Performance Art were selected to participate from an open call that attracted more than 175 local, national and international submissions. Forty five artists will be featuring new and existing works that explore the program’s theme over a period of 5 weeks starting on March 30th through May 5th.

Radical Localism: Art, Video and Culture from Pueblo Nuevo’s Mexicali Rose Curated by Chris Kraus and Mexicali Rose, together with Artists Space
http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/
03/30/2012-05/27/2012
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Opening Reception Friday, March 30, 6 – 8pm Artists Space is pleased to announce a survey of work from Mexicali Rose, a community media center and gallery in the Mexican border city Mexicali. A nexus for cultural and personal exchange between artists, journalists, activists and filmmakers on both sides of the border, Mexicali Rose exemplifies the possibilities of 21st century hybridized culture through its pursuit of artistic expression grounded in barrio life. The work of the center has been recently featured in Artforum, May Revue, Mexico City’s Generacion, and media throughout Baja California.

Ken Jacobs: Recent Works
http://www.movingimage.us/films/2012/03/30/detail/ken-jacobs-recent-works/
03/30/2012-04/01/2012
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Avant-garde film pioneer Ken Jacobs, whose early movies were deeply rooted in the physical and mechanical nature of 20th-century cameras, projectors, and celluloid, has been reinvigorated by the seemingly limitless possibilities of digital technology. He has been remarkably prolific in recent years, using the manipulative, elastic power of computer-based editing and processing to create works that reinvent the medium while expanding our perception. And his own invention, the Nervous Magic Lantern, uses pre-cinema means to create stunning big-screen experiences.

Load OUT!
http://fabnyc.org/loadout.php
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
11am-3pm

:Join FABnyc as we bring together gently used materials of all sorts from arts organizations throughout the East Village/LES for a one of a kind re-use & repurposing event. Take home all the costumes, props, and furniture you need for your next artistic endeavor. The items you leave behind will be recycled by GrowNYC, WeRecycle! and the NYC Department of Sanitation. Admission to Load OUT! swap event is $5 for the general public. Whatever you decide to take away with you is FREE of charge! There will also be corresponding FREE E-Waste collection by WeRecycle! and clothing/textile recycling by GrowNYC, open to the public,

WHAM CITY comedy tour: Education Seminar 2012
http://www.whamcity.com/
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
7pm-10pm

Fresh off a second successful national tour, Wham City is taking a stripped-down, educational revamp of their batshit comedy variety show to select Northeast cities in March and April. “Just in time for April Fools day” The Wham City Educational Seminar is a blitzkrieg of gonzo lectures (and one administered test) by Dina Kelberman, Connor Kizer, Ben O’Brien, Robby Rackleff, Alan Resnick, and Mason Ross. The two-hour,seated show covers far-ranging topics like: *How to Make More Money *How Alien Advertising Affects Us All *Outlive Your Friends and Family (Through 3D Scanning And other Digital Archiving Techniques) *Meditation and Its Effects on the Brain & more! Like much of Wham City’s output, the Educational Seminar is equal parts serious and absurd. In fact, the more outrageous the material, the more likely it’s sincere. (especially if it’s Connor.) And while they’ve won accolades in recent years for their comedy, the Baltimore collective has always been more…

Workshop: OWS Archive Share Day
http://www.eyebeam.org/events/workshop-ows-archive-share-day
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
3pm-6pm

At this free event, the public will be invited to explore and archive the many views of democracy. Anyone wishing to present their work in art and activism can sign up for a short time slot. Email taeyoon [at] eyebeam [dot] org to reserve your slot now. OWS Archive Share Day is presented in collaboration with OWS Archives members Anna Perricci and Christine O’Heron, in conjunction with ‘Speakers’ Corners,‘ an exhibition by Taeyoon Choi currently on view at Eyebeam.

Queers in a Space!
http://www.facebook.com/events/374697755896586/
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
9pm-12am

Drag King and Queen performances, make overs, poetry readings, video art and networking.

Baby Soda Jazz Band
http://www.jalopy.biz/performance_show.php?eventid=2575
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
9pm-

Baby Soda! Developed by hoboes, perfected through science… Baby Soda is on the cutting edge of a new movement loosely known as street jazz; with an eclectic set of influences ranging from New Orleans brass bands, jug music, southern gospel and hot jazz. The ensemble doesn’t desire to recreate the past, rather they bring the concept and joy of the music to the present. Baby Soda is an adaptable and ever changing group made up of New York’s finest musicians; featuring trumpet, accordion, clarinet, washboard, banjo and one string box bass. Accordionist Patrick Harison also does double duty as the bands vocalist with a voice described as Tom Waits meet’s Rudy Vallee. The band can be seen regularly at some of New York’s finest venues like Cafe Moto, Barbes, The Knitting Factory and the Plaza Hotel. In addition to their busy schedule of club dates, Baby Soda loves performing on the street.

The Ghost Train Orchestra
http://www.jalopy.biz/performance_show.php?eventid=2576
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
10:30pm-

The Ghost Train Orchestra was founded in 2006 by composer Brian Carpenter. That year Carpenter was hired as the musical director for Voltaic Vaudeville, an event marking the 90th anniversary of the historic Regent Theater in Arlington, MA. He selected five composers from a transitional time and place in America: the late 1920s Chicago and Harlem, when the jazz orchestra was being developed by bandleaders such as Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman, Tiny Parham, Fess Williams, and Charlie Johnson. Carpenter began transcribing the parts from old 78s and arranged the music for a 9-piece ensemble to back performers on stage. The reaction to the band’s debut at the Regent Theater was tremendous, and since then the band has performed regularly in New York City, home of all its members except the leader, a Boston resident.

Baby Copperhead duo w /Brent Arnold + Revival Times + Jason Loughlin
http://www.vaudevillepark.org/events/baby-copperhead-duo-w-brent-arnold-revival-times-jason-loughlin
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
7:30pm-

New York City-based performer, Baby Copperhead, is a banjo player, guitarist, and alchemist in electronics & oddball circuitry. WNYC calls him “the banjo visionary, who’s specialty is taking the banjo and treating it with a sci-fi glaze.”

The Hut Project
http://renaissancenbk.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/the-hut-project-and-the-earth-day-celebration-at-ar/
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
10am-1pm

HOW CAN YOU HELP: We need your stories, photos, videos and documents! Jill is working with cultural anthropologist Gillian Goslinga and students from their Ritual, Health, and Healing course at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut to capture the stories of our neighborhood and the critical issues we face as a community through interviews, and video recordings during three visits to Brooklyn. The resulting projects will be displayed at a community celebration on April 22 and will be available to community members as archives for future use. WHEN: The first meeting will be on March 31st. Join us for breakfast to find out more about the project and share your stories of North Brooklyn. Bring a photo, video, object, or piece of trash if you like!

Same as the Old Boss: On the Very Rich History of the Right
http://www.uniondocs.org/2012-04-01-a-discussion-on-the-new-old-right/
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
7:30pm-

Rarely has a GOP presidential primary offered such vista of folly, arrogance, ignorance, and outright political self-destruction. The party’s tether to big business is more openly transparent than ever, yet the year-long parade of postures carries on. What are the deeper roots of this nauseating season of political theater? In a conversation moderated by journalist Christian Parenti, political scientist Corey Robin will speak with leftist economist (and former conservative) Doug Henwood about the history of reactionary theory, the creation of the right wing, and the role of the ruling class in fostering the conservative movement.

OTHER EVENTS:

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

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

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

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

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

Puppet & Costume Workshops
http://www.earthcelebrations.com/arts-pageants/hudson-artecology-workshops/
03/07/2012-05/09/2012
12pm-4pm

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

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
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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
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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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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
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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
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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.

Kris Kuksi Triumph
http://joshualinergallery.com/exhibitions/kuksi_triumph_march_15_2012/
03/15/2012-04/07/2012
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Reception Thursday March 15th from 6-9pm Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Triumph, an exhibition of new works by the Kansas artist Kris Kuksi, including mixed-media sculpture, painting, work on paper, and a large-scale installation. This is Kuksi’s third solo outing with the gallery and the most diverse presentation of his work to date. With its cautionary title, Triumph skewers the hubris and folly of human ambition. This cavalcade of epic works references mythology, the occult, and organized religion, and uses age-old techniques of visual storytelling to voice personal angst. Depicting grand themes with extravagant embellishments, Kuksi’s assemblages of small, mass-produced materials are intrinsically narrative. Like gilt Baroque altarpieces, their stunning excess of detail is the ideal vehicle for the artist’s critique of power and piety. And like those early works of public art, they appeal to the viewer to transcend the strife and striving associated with greed.

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

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
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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
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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.

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

“Past the Future & Beyond” Hiroshi Shafer Solo Exhibition at English Kills Art Gallery
http://englishkillsartgallery.com/
03/17/2012-04/08/2012
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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.houseofyes.org/
03/17/2012-06/23/2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Law School for Visual Artists
http://www.vlany.org/lawschool_comments.php
03/20/2012-04/17/2012
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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)

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-

The 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.

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

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
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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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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
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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

‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=3695
03/25/2012-03/31/2012
7:30pm-

The internationally acclaimed Cheek by Jowl (Macbeth, 2011 Spring Season) returns to BAM with John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, one of the most controversial plays in the English theatrical canon. Siblings Giovanni and Annabella are of noble birth and madly in love. Full of the idealism of youth, their passion is all-consuming—and can only bring about their ruin. With the men of Parma ready to fight and kill for Annabella’s hand, religion, morality, and madness all collide as the brother and sister’s terrible secret is revealed.

Tamara Gonzales: Untitled an exhibition of new paintings
http://nortemaar.org/projects/tamara-gonzales-untitled/
03/25/2012-04/29/2012
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Bushwick, Brooklyn-Norte Maar is pleased to present new paintings by Tamara Gonzales. The exhibition will feature the artist’s new series of works that combine her use of spray painting through lace. Also on exhibition will be a new sketchbook by Austin Thomas and recent sculpture by Kevin Curran. The exhibition opens with a reception for the artists, which will coincide with Beat Nite: Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late, Saturday, March 10, 6-10pm. The gallery at Norte Maar is open weekends, 1-6pm or by appointment.

New Works Residency 2012/13
http://harvestworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28:new-works-residency&catid=21&Itemid=53
03/25/2012-05/01/2012
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Deadline May 1 – Residencies run from Jul 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013 Click here to start the online application. The Harvestworks New Works Program offers commissions of up to $5000 to make a new work in our Technology, Engineering, Art and Music (TEAM) lab. Each artist receives up to a $2000 artist fee with the balance of the award used for the TEAM lab activities. The artist works with a team comprised of Harvestworks’ Project Manager and consultants, technicians or instructors. New works may include multiple channel audio or video installations, interactive performance systems, data visualization or projects involving hardware hacking, circuit bending or custom built interfaces, as well as projects that use the web. Up to 12 residencies will be selected (depending on project size and funding) along with up to five $1000 project scholarships. Priority will be given to the creative use of the Harvestworks’ production facility and the innovative use of sound and/or picture.

ALGEDONICS
http://www.daciagallery.com/
03/25/2012-04/07/2012
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Featured Artists Jada Fabrizio, Kristin Holcomb, Leslie Lyons, Jessica Maria Manley, Hitomi Machizuki, Christophe Piallat and Benjamin Sperry

In No Strange Land
http://www.fivemyles.org/
03/25/2012-04/22/2012
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In this multi-media installation Edouard Steinhauer pays homage to James Hampton’s extraordinary shrine “The throne of the third heaven of the nations’ Millennium General Assembly” at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Opening Reception: Saturday, March 31, 5 – 8 pm Gallery Hours: Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun, 1 to 6 p.m. or by appointment: 718-783-4438

Irina Korina: “Demonstrative Behavior”
http://www.scaramoucheart.com/
03/25/2012-05/13/2012
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Scaramouche is pleased to present the first U.S. exhibition of Moscow-based artist Irina Korina. Known for her oversized, elaborate installations, the artist debuts a group of compelling works conceived for the gallery space and assembled under the title “Demonstrative Behavior”. Originally trained in theater design, Korina’s work takes the forms of columns, anthropomorphic sculptures, and architectural constructions. These complex configurations, with their myriad parts and appendages, bring to mind the opulent and playful stage sets of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Her work however, does not reflect the splendor of Imperial Russia. Rather, the artist seeks to illuminate the last three decades during which the Soviet Union has undergone a painful transition from socialism to its own peculiar brand of capitalism. With wholesale furniture markets serving as her source of inspiration, Korina utilizes makeshift materials such as veneer, plywood, fabric and plasticine. Self-adhesive faux m

THE ART OF THE BOOK IN BUTLER LIBRARY
http://arts.columbia.edu/art-book-butler-library
03/26/2012-05/18/2012
6pm-

An exhibition of collaborative projects created by MFA Visual Arts and Writing Students at Columbia University School of the Arts “The Art of the Book” was a class offered by the School of the Arts Writing Program, conceived by Binnie Kirshenbaum, Chair of the Writing Program, and Matvei Yankelevich, the course instructor, and developed in collaboration with Gregory Amenoff, Chair of the Visual Arts Program and Tomas Vu Daniel, Director of the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. This exhibition was created by Nancy E. Friedland, Librarian for Butler Media, Film Studies & Performing Arts; Irini Miga, Visual Arts MFA student; Emma Balazs, Director of Visual Arts; and William Wadsworth, Director of the Writing Program.

13th Annual Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival
http://www.centralbrooklynjazzconsortium.org/
03/26/2012-04/20/2012
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This music series is New York City’s longest continually running festival dedicated to jazz. Festival 2012 offers 35 events over 22 days with more than 100 musicians performing in venues from Coney Island to Williamsburg.

DANIEL FISH – A (RADICALLY CONDENSED AND EXPANDED) SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN (AFTER DAVID FOSTER WALLACE)
http://www.chocolatefactorytheater.org/e_danielfish.html
03/26/2012-04/07/2012
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*the Friday April 6 performance will begin at 7pm, with an extended running time. Drawing exclusively from audio recordings of David Foster Wallace (readings he gave of his short fiction, essays, and an extensive interview he did for German television), director Daniel Fish and an ensemble of 5 actors seek to re-create the amazing presence Wallace brought to everything he wrote about, be it professional tennis, a boy’s thirteenth birthday, or America’s obsession with entertainment. Individual listening devices serve as functioning props, delivering the text live to the actors in performance. The selection, order, and tempo of the recordings are mixed live. Wallace is not a character in the piece. Rather, his work as translated by the performers is like the garment of a dear, dead friend: an artifact that simultaneously and dramatically evokes his presence and his absence, asking us: How present can we be? How generous in the way we experience the cacophony of our world?

Carlos Vanegas: Optical Journal
http://support.henrystreet.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AAC_EXH_carlos_vanegas
03/26/2012-04/22/2012
6pm-8pm

The Abrons Art Center is pleased to present new work by New-York based Colombian artist Carlos Vanegas. The artist’s background in television production and journalistic photography has informed the playful sensibility that governs this group of collages created since his move to New York City in 2006.

Dean Millien Foil Sculptures
http://conartistnyc.com/blogs/news/5667452-dean-millien-curses-foiled-again-march-21st?utm_source=Con+Artist+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=98ae172a92-Curses032012&utm_medium=email
03/26/2012-04/11/2012
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Recently featured in the New York Times, and 2012 Outsider Art Fair’s featured artist and Con Artist Member, Dean Millien, will exhibit a dozen plus new and original tin foil sculptures in his first ever solo show.

Urban Odyssey
http://lamama.org/ellen-stewart-theatre/urban-odyssey/
03/26/2012-04/08/2012
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Urban Odyssey depicts the experience of immigration to America through movement and visual theatre. This new work is the culmination of a ten-year investigation that began in 2002 with a production created from Federico Restrepo’s personal experience as a Colombian immigrant. The first episode 9 Windows revealed a series of multi-media experiences of being a displaced immigrant. The second episode Open Door (2006) addressed the impact of the many immigrants from diverse cultural backgrounds that make up NYC; revealing their histories and states of mind. The third episode Room to Panic (2008) depicted the joy, fear, alienation and struggle that reveal the allure, disillusionments and rites of passage to achieve the American Dream. Urban Odyssey will merge all these concepts, creating an epic journey that acknowledges the inevitability of a new American culture. A voyage of human experience, from leaving ones homeland, to finding a new country, to making a new home and setting down roots

PITCH: LONNIE HOLLEY FABIENNE LASSERRE HALSEY RODMAN
http://baileygallery.com/exhibition_01.cfm?exh=884
03/26/2012-04/21/2012
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Jeff Bailey Gallery is pleased to present Pitch, an exhibition of recent sculpture by Lonnie Holley, Fabienne Lasserre and Halsey Rodman. Each artist combines disparate materials in innovative ways, resulting in works that hover between painting, drawing and sculpture.

Sleep no More
http://www.sleepnomorenyc.com/tickets.htm
03/26/2012-05/19/2012
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Sleep No More is an indoor promenade performance lasting up to three hours. There are five arrival times: MONDAYS — SATURDAYS 7:00PM | 7:15PM | 7:30PM | 7:45PM | 8:00PM

Between Mountain
http://open-source-gallery.org/2011/11/between-mountain/
03/26/2012-03/31/2012
7pm-

Between Mountain is a collaborative art project by the Norwegian artists Margrethe Aanestad, Else Leirvik, and Ole Martin Lund Bø. During the duration of March, 2012 in NYC the artists will create a dynamic body of work, both as individuals, as a group and with strangers, based on the overarching theme of personal / public space, particularly as it relates to cultural differences. THURSDAY 29 APARTMENT #: 7 PM Works by: Ole Martin Lund Bø Performance by: Lene Aareskjold Limited access FRIDAY 30 APARTMENT #6: 8 PM Works by: Margrethe Aanestad/ Andrea Ray Limited access SATURDAY 31 APARTMENT #7 Works by: Else Leirvik Limited access CLOSING PARTY OPEN SOURCE GALLERY: 8 PM

The Secret Lives of Bacteria
http://brooklynbrainery.com/courses/the-secret-lives-of-bacteria?utm_source=Brooklyn+Brainery+List&utm_campaign=ef6fc9e53d-early+march&utm_medium=email&mc_cid=ef6fc9e53d&mc_eid=655643ee4c
03/27/2012-03/29/2012
6:30pm-8:00pm

Did you know that the bobtail squid glows because it has an organ specifically dedicated for bioluminescent bacteria? Neat! Did you know that there are more bacteria in your intestines than there are humans on earth? Creepy. You need only peruse your daily news source to see yet another story of bacteria making the rounds everywhere…or are they? From disinfectant cleaning products to yogurt that makes you poop, bacteria have become ubiquitous members of our daily lives, albeit not always in the most accurate light.

New Ohio New Work Week
http://www.newohiotheatre.org/NewWorkWeek.htm
03/27/2012-03/30/2012
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Tuesday Mar 27 7:30 People Like Us by Dan Trujillo dir Tom Butler Brendan and Neil live the charmed life: model girlfriends, gorgeous renovated loft, six-figure incomes. Exit Neil, on an unannounced sabbatical; enter a strange homeless couple who seem to have moved in overnight. Amidst cryptic emails, miniature paintings, violence against sandwiches, and an ill-fated trip to Singapore, the questions begin to arise: how far will Brendan go to drive them away… and whose loft is it, really? Wed Mar 28 7:30 Girls in the Eddy by Stacy O’Neill dir Samuel Buggeln On the west coast of Florida, in a laundromat near the beach, 17-year-old Chrissy Ford has been washing her clothes every day for the past four weeks. When a note from the laundry attendant threatens her long-term plans, she enlists the help of two unsuspecting customers only to discover she’s not the only one trying to make a clean break. MORE: http://www.newohiotheatre.org/NewWorkWeek.htm

Kazuhiro Mizumoto
http://ouchigallery.com/upcoming.html
03/27/2012-04/01/2012
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Being homogeneous island race, rather than expressing personal thoughts and feelings, the Japanese progressed uniculturally through cooperation and harmony. Perhaps because of a result of that, they are not good at showing their genuine emotions. They create their face expression as described in the manual of their Japanese cultural programming, based on the time, circumstance, and who they are addressing. I am also Japanese. However, since I had spent my childhood outside Japan, my manual seemed to be bit modified under the influence of foreign culture. Thus, the smile my face is showing is probably real.

The Wild & The Innocent
clicgallery.com
03/28/2012-04/16/2012
6 pm-8 pm

Bree Apperley, Brendan Baker, Alexander Binder, Siobhan Bohnacker, Coley Brown, Patrick Buckley, Ana Cabaleiro, Samantha Casolari, Cody Chandler, Daniel Evans, Todd Fisher, Hannah Godley, Alexis Gross, Todd Jordan, Kohey Kanno, Mikael Kennedy, Collin LaFleche, Nicole Lesser, Jeff Luker, Jennilee Marigomen, Brian Merriam, Aaron McElroy, Skye Parrott, Emma Phillips, Henry Roy, Bryan Schutmaat, Brea Souders, Jordan Sullivan, Agnes Thor, Logan White — The Wild & The Innocent juxtaposes portraits of bodies and landscapes culled from various photographers’ personal archives. How do these pictures of the human body and natural landscapes relate to one another? How do the two, when shown together, affect our perceptions of nature and ourselves? The Wild & The Innocent seeks to complicate the modern oppositional relationship between the body and nature in order to explore the truths of our own transience and infinitude — our dual limitlessness and powerlessness — as reflected in the wilds of nature and the slopes of the human form. Included in this exhibition are emerging and established photographers, many of whom often obsessively document their personal lives. These are photographers who constantly seek to reframe the ways we perceive our environment and bodies.

Nir Hod: Mother
http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2012-03-28_nir-hod
03/28/2012-04/28/2012
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Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of 10 new paintings by the artist Nir Hod. Referencing the iconic photograph of Nazi soldiers clearing out the Warsaw Ghetto taken by the Nazi photographer Franz Konrad in 1943, Hod’s paintings focus on the anonymous woman rather than the iconic boy. The “Boy from Warsaw,” as he is known, has been the primary focus of this horrific photograph, and has become a symbol of the Holocaust. As Dan Porat of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem writes in his book The Boy: A Holocaust Story (H&W/FSG), “Looking at a photograph, the viewer sees the surface facts and comes to believe he or she has grasped the inner truth of the events depicted, can feel the pain, can see the evil, while in fact knowing nothing of the protagonists, circumstances or context associated with those events.”

2012 Chapbook Festival
http://chapfest.wordpress.com/
03/28/2012-03/30/2012
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Book Fair, On: Thu Mar 29 and Fri Mar 30, Noon–7pm Featuring: Agnes Fox Argos Books Augury Books Belladonna* Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop Binge Press Bridge Journal Chax Press Cy Gist Press DoubleCross Press Drunken Boat Dusie Kollektiv EOAGH Epiphany Flying Guillotine Press Factory Hollow Press Forklift, Ohio Greying Ghost Press H_NGM_N Hyacinth Girl Press Immaculate Disciples Press Instance Press Least Weasel @ Propolis Press Magic Helicopter Books Minutes Books Monk Books NOEMI Pen Press Pilot Books Poets Wear Prada Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs Publishing Genius Projective Industries Slapering Hol Press Small Fires Press The Corresponding Society The Physiocrats Toadlily Press Ugly Duckling Presse X-ing Press/Agriculture Reader FULL LINE UP: http://chapfest.wordpress.com/

LIEBE LOVE AMOUR!
http://here.org/shows/detail/869/
03/28/2012-04/01/2012
7pm-

LIEBE LOVE AMOUR! is a theatricalized “live film” of an epic search for love. In their latest work of interactive theater, Anonymous Ensemble uses a green screen to weave together the silent films of Erich Von Stroheim, live performance, and your very own stories. The film, starring Tall Hilda and you, explores the connections and disconnections between Hollywood depictions of love and love in our real lives. The lushly underscored LIEBE LOVE AMOUR! spins layers of romance and reality until it reels into its inevitable Hollywood finish! LIEBE LOVE AMOUR! is part of the 2012 Spring Artist Lodge.

THE ART & TECHNIQUE OF COMIC BOOK INKING
http://moccany.org/content/education
03/28/2012-04/25/2012
6:30pm-8:30pm

This hands-on inking course, taught by Phyllis Novin,is designed for those new to comic book inking as well as for those who want to expand their basic inking skills. The course is primarily brush-orientated, but will also include instruction in the use of crow quill pens and other tools. Through working with these tools of the trade, you’ll learn inking techniques and develop a sense of the “thinking behind the inking.” The goal for the course is for each student to have created at least two inked pages by its end.

Ruth Hardinger NORMAL FAULTS @ CREON
http://www.creongallery.com/
03/28/2012-04/19/2012
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the constituent parts of each sculpture swell like flesh . . . tension between the earthly and the ideal.” Stephen Westfall In Normal Faults, Hardinger plays out a dialogue between nature and culture. The underground is alive. When subterranean rock formations are stressed by natural tensions and gravity’s pull, cracks and breaks occur, creating normal faults. These faults are fluid passageways of activity and life forms. Special Event: Poetry reading and artist discussion by Jonathan Goodman and Robert C. Morgan Wednesday April 4, 6:30 pm Opening Reception March 28th, 6-8pm

Movement in Three Parts
http://www.nicoleklagsbrun.com/exhibitions_upcoming.html
03/28/2012-04/05/2012
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JOHN GIORNO OSCAR MURILLO BRIE RUAIS MOVEMENT IN THREE PARTS

Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows
http://www.airgallery.org/
03/28/2012-04/21/2012
5:30pm-8:30pm

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 29th, 6 – 8:30pm Curator’s Talk: 5:30 pm Celebrating Kindred Spirits and Strange Bed Fellows brings together twenty different artists, all of whom create work within the enduring feminist concept: the personal is political. With Catherine J. Morris’ curatorial eye, each artist is represented as an individual. A.I.R. Gallery’s National and International Artists include: Kate Ali, Judy Cooper, Leigh Craven, Phyllis Ewen, Melissa Furness, Ann Ginsburgh Hofkin, Terry Gips, Nicole Jacquard, Jan Johnson, Julia Kim Smith, K. A. Letts, Gladys Tietz Mercier, Haley Morris-Cafiero, Nancy Morrow, Esther Naor, Ardine Nelson, Meghan Quinn, Belle Shafir, Marie Sivak, and Erin Wiersma.

Artist Talk: Joanie Lemercier (AntiVJ)
http://www.eyebeam.org/events/artist-talk-joanie-lemercier-antivj
03/28/2012-03/29/2012
6pm-9pm

AntiVJ is a visual label working in performance and installation initiated by a group of European artists whose technology driven work is focused on the use of projected light and its influence on perception. At this talk, we will meet Joanie Lemercier, one of the artists behind AntiVJ. She will define the term visual label and describe AntiVJ’s collective history in authoring luminous works of architectural design, stage settings, and exhibitions. Technology drives the development of these large scale works and these artists employ creative coding, develop software, create realtime visuals, scan 3D space, and produce stereoscopic imagery. The future of interactive projection mapping will be discussed as well, including its far-reaching potential within and beyond the spheres of art and social space.

“Nose Bleed” Curated by Erik Foss
http://fusegallerynyc.com/12nosebleed/nosebleedpr.html
03/28/2012-04/25/2012
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Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 28, 7-10pm Nosebleed takes its name from the prevailing motto of that sensibility, that we wouldn’t go up there (up being anything north of 14th Street ) because we’d get a nosebleed. It is redolent of all the provincialism that makes New York City so myopically special, where neighborhoods do matter and where the global view remains much the same as Saul Steinberg’s classic New Yorker magazine cover, View from 9th Avenue, where the details of the city end at the Hudson River as the west gapes beyond like an insignificant wasteland. Make that drawing looking up from Fuse and you’ll see a similar void outside the center of our universe. Downtown may have been colonized by money and gentrified into something way white and polite, but the attitude persists. These are the artists of that particular place of mind. – Carlo McCormick

‘Dimensions Variable’, New York
http://www.waterhousedodd.com/exhibitions/dimensions-variable
03/28/2012-04/27/2012
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PRIVATE PREVIEW Wed., March 28th, 6-8pm Dimensions Variable, curated by Max Weintraub, brings together four artists who radically reconsider, recast and re-present the sculptural object. Employing a broad range of forms, materials and processes, Creighton Michael, Jae Ko, Derrick Velasquez and Golnar Adili create works that challenge our conventional understanding and definition of sculpture and invite us to look anew at the aesthetic object and the space it inhabits. The works assembled in this exhibition push the boundaries of sculpture into new and variable directions, allowing us to appreciate how the sculpted form, and our relationship to it, continues to be nomadic and unsettled.

DanceBrazil
http://joyce.org/performancestickets/calendar_detail.php?event=427&theater=1
03/28/2012-04/08/2012
7:30pm-

Applauded for its “high-octane, high-flying” (The New York Times) fusion of African dance forms, modern dance and capoeira, the company performs Dance like a Fight – Fight like a Dance, a sensuous, fast-paced new work by Artistic Director Jelon Vieira that draws upon the ongoing dialogue of a capoeira roda, (the circle where capoeira lives). Also on the program—the revival of last season’s hit Batuke, a hard-driving piece exploding with the rhythms created by smooth samba steps, capoeira lethal kicks, and the stick dance Maculelé.

LECTURE SERIES: SUBJECTIVE HISTORIES OF SCULPTURE
http://sculpture-center.org/
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
6:30pm-00pm

Lucy Skaer
Wednesday, February 29, 6:30pm Wollman Hall 65 West 11th Street (enter at 66 West 12th Street), 5th floor SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, is excited to continue the artist-led lecture series Subjective Histories of Sculpture. This program, initiated in 2006, furthers SculptureCenter’s exploration of how contemporary artists think about sculpture; its history and its legacies. Lucy Skaer is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, photography, installation, printmaking, and film, who displaces the familiar through manipulations in scale and material.

WERNER HERZOG: DEATH ROW & Other Journeys, a conversation with Paul Holdengräber
http://www.nypl.org/events/live-nypl
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7pm-10pm

In February 2007, Werner Herzog had a “discourse” — as he calls them — with Paul Holdengräber, entitled Was the 20th Century a Mistake? Five years later, the legendary director returns to discuss with Paul Holdengräber his most recent film, Into the Abyss, as well as his four-part television series, Death Row. Herzog will discuss his conversations with a death row inmate–who recently came within 23 minutes of execution–about The Epic of Gilgamesh (7th century BC) and the persecution of the Knights Templar (active from 1119-1314 AD). He will tell us how another prisoner decided to confess, on camera, to having committed two more murders.

NPR’s Ask Me Another Live Taping
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218979
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7pm-10pm

oin us for a live taping of NPR’s newest radio show–an hour of puzzles, games, and trivia called Ask Me Another. Taping will begin at 7:30pm, but we ask that all attendees be in their seats no later than 7pm. Doors are at 6PM so feel to come early and scope out your seat. All tickets are FREE and every show will be different. We encourage you to join us for as many as you wish. Look for announcements about mystery guests and additional dates soon! All shows (unless indicated) will be hosted by Ophira Eisenberg and feature music by the one and only Jonathan Coulton.

The Guerrilla Girls
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/5122
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7pm-

Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminists fighting sexism in the art world, stage a multimedia performance in full jungle drag. Over the course of the evening, the artists will illustrate their history of creating posters, books, and actions to expose discrimination in areas including art, film, and politics. The performance will also include participatory exercises from the newly released edition of The Guerrilla Girls’ Art Museum Activity Book. A book signing will follow the performance.

CAIO FONSECA
http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2012-03-29_caio-fonseca/7
03/29/2012-04/28/2012
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Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of some 20 new paintings by Caio Fonseca (American, b. 1959). This show, his fifth with Paul Kasmin Gallery, is the artist’s first New York exhibition in five years. Fonseca has created a new body of work, using a freshly invented visual language. This work represents a bold departure in both spirit and technique from the work for which Fonseca is most known. Gone are the over-painting, ground form relationships, and embellishments present in work of the last ten years. Here, irreducible forms in precise architecture belie their apparent rigor. One form through its placement creates the form beside it, which in turn creates the next, activating both the vertical and horizontal forces in a uniquely processional movement. Working in both large-scale and intimate formats, these

SOUND OF SPRING FESTIVAL: TALENT SHOWCASE
http://kaufman-center.org/mch/event/sound-of-spring-festival-talent-showcase
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7:30pm-

The Sound of Spring Festival will feature some of the most promising young artists including several competition prize winners. It brings together top talents from schools such as Julliard, Columbia, and NYU, presenting the best combination of pianists, violinists, and singers.

Shoot The Lobster
http://www.shootthelobster.com/
03/29/2012-04/21/2012
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Shoot The Lobster is pleased to announce our inaugural site-specific installation by Chris Martin. This exhibition is organized by Mary Grace Wright. Shoot The Lobster is a project space located at 540 W 29th Street, Ground Floor. Chris Martin born 1954, Washington D.C., lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Artist courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

AU Howth Skeletons (Acoustic Set) Leverage Models
http://cameony.blogspot.com/
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
8:30pm-

AU Howth Skeletons (Acoustic Set) Leverage Models

Born to Giglio with Fulbright Scholar Stephanie Trudeau and Danny Vecchiano, leader of the Vecchiano Festival Band
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html#b0328
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7pm-

oin Fulbright scholar Stephanie Trudeau and Danny Vecchiano, leader of the Vecchiano Festival Band, for an exploration of the roots and traditions of Brooklyn’s Giglio Festival. Trudeau will present on the history and cultural significance of the Giglio Festival celebrated in Nola, Italy and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This event is part of BHS’s spring series, Inventing Brooklyn, which examines key people who have influenced Brooklyn and highlights cultural trends rooted in Brooklyn’s rich and diverse history. Tickets $10/$8 BHS members. Purchase your ticket here.

TOM CHANG QUARTET
http://corneliastreetcafe.com/performances.asp
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
8:30pm-

NY Jazz Guitarist Tom Chang has performed and or recorded with Greg Osby, Joey Calderazzo, Rich Perry, as well as pop icons the Supremes, Luther Vandross and Southern Indian Percussion Master Subash Chandran. His newly formed unit will perform original contemporary jazz compositions influenced by Southern Indian Carnatic concepts as well as contemporary classical music and contemporary jazz.

Bonobo Presents “Black Sands Remixed” Album Launch
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3130
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
10pm-

Bonobo’s original ‘Black Sands’ came out in 2010 to almost universal critical acclaim and worldwide commercial success. Released on Ninja Tune in February, ‘Black Sands Remixed’ is the latest project Bonobo. Featuring a host of re-imaginings of Bonobo’s work, the remixes come courtesy of various cutting-edge electronic producers that share Bonobo’s love of lush atmospherics, loops of sound and sheer sonic experimentation. Contributors include: ARP101, Banks, Blue Daisy, Cosmin TRG, Dels, Duke Dumont, FaltyDL, Funkineven, Lapalux, Machinedrum, Mark Pritchard and Mike Slott.

THE NEW SALON: READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS Glyn Maxwell with Alice Quinn and Belinda McKeon
http://cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/readingseries
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7pm-

Glyn Maxwell is the author of several collections of poetry, including Out of the Rain (1992), which won the Somerset Maugham Award; The Nerve (2002), which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems (2011). He has taught at Amherst College, Columbia University, and The New School, and was poetry editor of The New Republic from 2001 to 2007.

SCAPEGOATING BRADLEY MANNING, WIKILEAKS AND THE TERROR OF THE WAR AGAINST TERROR
http://arts.columbia.edu/scapegoating-bradley-manning-wikileaks-and-terror-war-against-terror
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
9pm-

Scapegoating Bradley Manning, Wikileaks and the Terror of the War on Terror Thursday March 29, 7:30 pm Prentis: 632 125th Street Room 101 Great Small Works presents The Toy Theater of Terror as Usual: Episode 13 with John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, Roberto Rossi, and Mark Sussman and commentary on the persecution of Bradley Manning by Ed Steck. With its tiny personae and miniaturized tableaux, puppet theater/toy theater provides an unusual perspective on the terrorism our leaders never fail to warn us about. Such theater also provides new modes for thought and action in these dire times that talks and conferences fail to do. Supported by Columbia School of the Arts, The Humanities Center, and the Department of Anthropology

RED/READ Honoring Barbara Kruger & Bernard Tschumi
http://storefrontnews.org/benefit#tickets
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
6:30pm-

Auction featuring works by artists and architects including: Vito Acconci, Dennis Adams, Erieta Attali, Daniel Arsham, Iwan Baan John Baldessari , Gabriele Basilico , Phong Bui , Beth Campbell , James Casebere , Matilde Cassani , Peter Eisenman , Tony Feher , Haas & Hahn , Anthony Hamboussi , Steven Holl , Patrick Jackson , Louis I. Kahn , Rem Koolhaas, OMA , Barbara Kruger , Louise Lawler , An Te Liu , Antonio Muntadas , Shirin Neshat , Mikael Olsson , Roxy Paine , Lucy Raven , Pedro Reyes , François Roche , Cordy Ryman , Fanny Sanín , Tomas Saraceno , Gedi Sibony , Xaviera Simmons , Mikhael Subotzky , Stephen Talasnik , Marjan Teeuwen , Bernard Tschumi , Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown , Lawrence Weiner and James Welling.

BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRKUS CABARET
http://dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7:30pm-

The legendary Cirkus Cabaret returns to the Big Apple! For 18 years, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus has provided a stage for the world’s best in circus, sideshow, vaudeville and burlesque.

The π-Roject
http://lamama.org/the-club/the-π-project/
03/29/2012-04/01/2012
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The Persians is the oldest surviving play in the history of Theater. It was produced in 472 BC. This play is also the only extant Greek tragedy based on contemporary events. A soldier in the battle, Aeschylus wrote the play following the battle of Salamis. This tragedy focuses on the aftermath of this historic battle, a major turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars.

OBAMA 44
http://lamama.org/first-floor-theatre/obama-44/
03/29/2012-04/15/2012
7:30pm-

Written by Mario Fratti Directed by Wayne Maugans By Voyage Theater Company “Maja: (excited and joyous) Obama, our 44th president, What a triumph! I admire him so much. I love him. I’m proud of all Americans. We elected an African-American, showing the world that we are truly democratic.” Who killed Maja, the beautiful young woman who loved Obama and worked for his re-election?

State of Translation: Trends in Innovative Publishing
http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/State-of-Translation-Trends-in-Innovative-Publishing
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7pm-

What is the state of translation in the US and abroad? How has it changed in the last decade, and what is the political and cultural significance of those shifts? What role do small presses and innovative publishing methods take in changing the landscape of what is translated and read? Noted US translators Ammiel Alcalay (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY; translator of Semezdin Mehmedinović), Susan Bernofsky (Queens College; Chair of the PEN Translation Committee), Esther Allen (Baruch College; author of To Be Translated or Not To Be, a report on translation and globalization), Eliot Weinberger (Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges) will be joined in discussion by translator, poet and publisher Anna Moschovakis (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Croatian translators, poets and publishers Ivan Herceg and Damir Šodan (also a translator for the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague). Moderated by Ana Božičević (The Graduate Center, CUNY).

Challenging Islamophobia: Panel Discussion
http://jfrej.org/upcoming-events
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7pm-9pm

Please join us at 7 PM on Thursday, March 29th for a panel and discussion on: Challenging Islamophobia We are excited to host this discussion with leaders in the Muslim community and representatives from groups organizing against Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism. This will be an opportunity to learn about the issues they are addressing–such as police surveillance, detention, infringements on civil and human rights, and issues facing young people–and to learn how we can meaningfully organize against Islamophobia. Panelists: Amna Akbar, Attorney-in-Residence/ Adjunct Professor of Law in the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project, at CUNY School of Law. Cyrus McGoldrick, Civil Rights Manager, Council on American Islamic Relations – New York (CAIR-NY) Linda Sarsour, representative, Muslim-American Civil Liberties Coalition and director of the Arab American Association of New York Representatives from Khadijah’s Caravan, an organization of Muslim youth t

“Where Were You Then?” Shelley Hirsch & Simon Ho in a 9 Member Ensemble
http://roulette.org/events/shelley-hirsch-simon-ho-2/
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
8pm-

Over two nights, Shelley Hirsch and Simon Ho celebrate the release of their new CD, “Where Were You Then?” on Tzadik’s Key Series Composed by Hirsch and Ho, “Where Were You Then?” blends songs, story telling and rich atmospheric soundscapes and represents a new chapter in their longstanding collaboration. With a voice that slips effortlessly between speech melody and pure sound, Hirsch’s stories work perfectly with the dreamlike state and shifting moods of their music (with instrumental arrangements by Ho). The stories cover a wide territory, from hitch hiking in Germany in 1972, to living in a squat in Amsterdam, to a song about online dating and remembering the passing of a loved one. The multilayered stories are filled with vivid details, humor, tenderness, loss and many odd twists in which each listener is likely to find their own meaning. David Garland of WNYC called the CD “compelling and engrossing”.

Metronomy at Irving Plaza
http://irvingplaza.com/event/0000485B9D7AA7C7
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
8pm-

Metronomy at Irving Plaza

Big Band Hits
http://lc.lincolncenter.org/shows/204517?show_date=2012-03-29%2020:00:00
03/29/2012-03/31/2012
8pm-

Once upon a time, America was an enchanted land where million-selling hits on the pop charts were by jazz musicians. Classics like “Cherokee” and “In The Mood” are not part of a fairy tale of the past but live happily ever after with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, winner of the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition. If there were iPods in the 1940s instead of jukeboxes, surely among the top downloads would be “Satin Doll” and “Shiny Stockings.” Those timeless classics and others will be reinterpreted as freshly as if they were written last week.

AcapaJewza: A Celebration of Jewish Acapella Music
http://www.92y.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=80397
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
8pm-

Headlined by the award-winning ensemble Six13 and world-renowned Maccabeats (Yeshiva University), the program features performances by Tizmoret (Queens College), S’madar (Columbia/Barnard), the Ramaz Chamber Chorus and the Heschel Harmonizers. For fans of acapella, Jewish music, catchy rhythms and inspired harmonies, AcapaJewza 6 is the place to be!

Bookstore: Fair Exchange
http://www.eyebeam.org/events/bookstore-fair-exchange
03/29/2012-04/14/2012
12pm-6pm

Eyebeam will host an opening reception on March 29th at 6PM. How much can we share and how much can we ask from audience? “Fair Exchange,” featuring work by David Horvitz and Kyle McDonald, questions the systems of knowledge production and human interaction with machines in the public space. For the duration of the exhibition the Eyebeam Bookstore will present editions and publications by the artists. A schedule of related performances is available at the project website. “Fair Exchange” is curated by Eyebeam Fellow Taeyoon Choi as part of his initiative New Normal Business. David Horvitz creates instructions for participation that utilize the Internet as a space of exchange. In November of 2011, he staged ‘life drawing’ sessions at Occupy Wall Street in collaboration with Adam Katz. Kyle McDonald creates software for interactive experience. His project ‘People Staring at Computers’ was installed at Apple stores in NYC and took photographs of shoppers gazing at the screen.

Gudjon Ketilsson
http://www.luiserossgallery.com/
03/29/2012-04/05/2012
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Gudjon Ketilsson’s art revolves around the human body in its presence as well as absence. Starting with the cranium, the sensuousness of hair is felt through his carved and painted sculptures. Continuing the corporal investigation, Ketilsson draws in exquisite detail, abstractly rendering elements of his own body. Further, he investigates the questionable and surprising beauty of skin diseases, in jewel-like watercolor. In a major, segmented wall relief, the artist recreates only the headwear used in Brueghel’s famous painting, The Peasant Wedding. These hats indicate the occupation of the wearer and are as animated as the original painting. The body, Ketilsson feels, is the most classical subject of art and philosophy and never ceases to be of interest as it is the core of our existence. The body is everything and nothing, mysterious and yet scientifically mapped, fragile and strong. This is Gudjon Ketilsson’s first one person show in New York.

HENNING BOHL NAMENLOSES GRAUEN
http://www.caseykaplangallery.com/
03/29/2012-04/28/2012
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For the last few months these pictures have been my monsters of the week. They form the consequences of the decisions I have taken and these consequences have an afterlife of consequences, which I have had to face. So, I accepted the fate that these fictions of mine have become truth – and more – actual materializations; that I have, from the depth of my windowless studio, unleashed another artwork upon a world already crowded with others. These pictures are not about painting. They are also not about being monochrome, despite the fact that some of them are monochrome paintings. The ones that are painted, I painted as my own assistant for economical reasons but also out of interest. You can, if you have the taste for it, look out for an artist “touch” but it was merely a paint job: I p..painted those p..pictures because there was no other way. These pictures are about the reasons why they are what they are.

Out Side: Lisa Sigal Michele Araujo Elana Herzog
http://www.studio10bogart.com/pages/exhibitions_future.php
03/29/2012-04/22/2012
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Out Side showcases the work of three artists, Michele Araujo, Elana Herzog and Lisa Sigal. All three work abstractly, with an awareness of the theatrical potential of materials and a desire to dislodge the viewer from a sense of previously understood terrain. Formal abstraction becomes a means to step outside, to lead the viewer through and past boundaries to an intimation of meaning that cannot be fulfilled in the traditional sense.

Daddy’s Basement: A Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting Joint
http://www.facebook.com/events/211875268913075/
03/29/2012-03/29/2012
7:30pm-9pm

SBJM’s Monthly variety show! This month we have an incredible line up! Ilana Glazer (Broad City) BoF with Mamrie Hart and Steve Soroka (UCB) Erik Bergstrom (Time Out New York’s Joke of the year) Keisha Zollar (Doppleganger, Nobody’s Token, The Scene) and hosted by Leah “Kooky Kunt” Rudick and Katie “the Shittier One” Hartman Thursday Mach 22nd starts at 7:30! Only $5! tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/173282

The Annual: 2012
http://nationalacademy.org/art-museum/exhibitions/
03/29/2012-04/29/2012
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Featuring works by over 100 artists and architects, the Annual reveals the cross-generational dialogue occurring in the art world by juxtaposing contemporary masters with emerging and mid-career artists, showcasing Academicians and invited artists and architects. Featured artists include Ellen Altfest, Karl Benjamin, David Diao, Lesley Dill, Kate Gilmore, Joan Jonas, Roberto Juarez, Glenn Ligon, Malcolm Morley, Alison Saar, Arlene Shechet, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Carrie Mae Weems, Stephen Westfall, among many others. Architectural projects will include work by Jeanne Gang, Peter Gluck, Cesar Pelli, Thomas Phifer, Robert A. M. Stern, Bernard Tschumi, and Billie Tsien, and others.

Balint Zsako
http://mulherinpollard.com/current_exhibition.html
03/29/2012-04/21/2012
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Balint Zsako’s work filters the disparate elements of contemporary art through the language of figurative painting. Its like performance art recorded using Indian miniatures, land art described by medieval illumination, conceptual art acted out by the figures on a Greek vase or installation art transcribed into Egyptian hieroglyphs.

AGAMEMNON
http://www.thewildproject.com/performances/index.shtml
03/29/2012-04/01/2012
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In this world premiere, acclaimed poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell brings us a new adaptation of one of the oldest plays in existence. Ten years following the start of the Trojan War, and the bloody sacrifice of his daughter, King Agamemnon returns home to Greece with his war prize, the clairvoyant Cassandra, only to meet a welcome of retribution from his determined wife, Clytemnestra.

SOUNDCHECK LIVE WITH ANDREW BIRD
http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2012/mar/30/soundcheck-live-andrew-bird/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
2pm-

Join host John Schaefer as he welcomes Andrew Bird to The Greene Space stage. Bird’s brand of indie rock doesn’t sound like anyone else’s. The violinist, singer and film composer uses digital delay and electronics to blend the sounds of pop and chamber music. He’ll play songs from his new album, “Break It Yourself” live in The Greene Space.

FINE CUTS SCREENING SPRING 2012
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=71422
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7pm-

This screening series features a compilation of short film and video works produced by students in the School of Media Studies over the past year as part of their coursework. The screening is followed by a faculty-led Q&A with the student media makers and an award for the best work, voted on by the audience.

UNHINGED: A NIGHT OF QUEER SONGWRITERS
http://www.dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7:30pm-

Featuring: Frightened Cellar with Cici James & Jessica Kimple, Lucas Kane Hall with AJ Khah, and Jana Fisher. Unhinged is some of NYC’s best underground queer songwriters coming together for a night of music and madness. Go nuts with us!

Master Class: Kim Longinotto on Documentary Filmmaking
http://www.uniondocs.org/2012-03-30-kim-longinotto-on-documentary-filmmaking/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7pm-

Critically acclaimed, Peabody, Sundance, Cannes, and BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto (Rough Aunties, Sisters in Law), will give a special Master Class for documentry filmmakers. Longinotto is renowned as a purveyor of cinéma vérité and lauded by critics for her sensitive treatment of groundbreaking subject matter, and rarely seen perspectives from around the globe. Longinotto will share clips, documentary techniques, working experiences, as well as craft and process from her 30+ year career as a documentarian. She will talk about the difficulties of filming in foreign countries and cultures, about the ethics of documentary filmmaking, and her relationship to her subjects.

Duologue, Free Blood, Evi Antonio
http://glasslands.blogspot.com/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
8:30pm-

Duologue, Free Blood, Evi Antonio

NEW GEORGES’ TRUNK SHOW
http://corneliastreetcafe.com/performances.asp
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
6pm-

The Cornelia Street Cafe is proud to welcome back one of New York’s most innovative and exciting theatre companies, New Georges, in the series that began in early 2011. New Georges’ original and irreverent artists whip out new pieces from the ol’ trunk! This installment of TRUNK SHOW celebrates New Georges turning 20th and features the work of affiliated artists and friends: LaShea Delaney and Pirronne Yousefzadeh, a playwright/director team who are part of New Georges’ Jam – our group for awesome emerging theater makers – will present some perspectives on Condeleeza Rice. Mary Elizabeth Hamilton, a playwright who’s also part of The Jam tests out some new material. One of our all time favorite actresses who played the Tooth Fairy in our production of GOD’S EAR, Judith Greentree, will entertain us silly with excerpts from WHAT DOES NOT KILL ME MAKES ME STRANGER. Our host will be the spirited Andrea Lepcio, a playwright and librettist who splits her time between New York and Maine!

PSA Chapbook Fellows Reading
http://chapfest.wordpress.com/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7pm-

2011 PSA Chapbook Winners: E. J. Garcia, Angela Veronica Wong, Alison Roh Park, Marni Ludwig. Welcome by Alice Quinn. Introduced by Sarah Arvio, Deborah Landau, David Lehman, and Timothy Donnelly. Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, corner of 34th Street Please visit chapbookfestival.org for further details.

CATAHOULA CAJUN BAND
http://dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
9:30pm-

If you’re in the mood for reminiscing about comfort food, come on out for a taste of “Northern fried” Cajun music with New York’s own Catahoula Cajun Band: Maggie Hoffee, Julie Winterbottom, Ric Heald and Frank Luschinsky. Accordion, fiddle, guitar and song will be on the menu for tonight, so if you’re craving the taste of but can’t hop the plane to Louisiana, head to Dixon Place Lounge for upbeat, danceable roots music that includes spirited two-steps and beautifully heartwarming, bittersweet waltzes that express the unique culture of the Cajun people and is gaining popularity around the country.

ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: SEASON SIX SNEAK PREVIEW
http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/art-in-the-twenty-first-century-season-six-sneak-preview-3
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7pm-

Screenings on March 16, March 23, March 30, April 6; 7pm 209 East 23 Street, Room 502 Free and open to the public In partnership with Art21, the MFA Fine Arts Department at SVA presents a sneak preview of the sixth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only primetime national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art. Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the four-part series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of today’s most thought-provoking artists. The series is being screened at SVA over four consecutive Fridays in advance of the April 13 premiere on PBS.

PERFORMING THE ECONOMY | L.M. BOGAD & PABLO HELGUERA
http://www.acfny.org/event/performing-the-economy-lm-bogad-pablo-helguera/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
6:30pm-

The Austrian Cultural Forum is pleased to present an evening of performance art in conjunction with its current exhibition, It’s the Political Economy, Stupid. Artists L.M. Bogad and Pablo Helguera will take on the global economic crisis in their performances, which will utilize the ACFNY’s gallery space as well as it’s state-of-the-art theater. Bogad will perform the well-known piece in which he poses as a bureaucrat from the “Department of Dreams, Hopes and Fears”. In a second performance, he will present his Economusical piece, Keeping Score, in which he uses key economic indicators as a musical score.

Human Rights v. Civil Rights: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/64/node/155473?lref=64%2Fnode%2F132394
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7pm-9pm

On Friday, March 30, 2012, the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy (ACS) and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will host a panel in celebration of Bayard Rustin’s hundredth birthday. Rustin was a civil rights trailblazer, a passionate advocate for equality, and an early champion for LGBT rights. Early in the Civil Rights Movement, he identified the larger issue of attaining social and economic equality, emphasizing broader “human rights” as being an essential second phase of the Civil Rights Movement. But, after a burst of stunning advances in the legal equality of all Americans, the United States never moved beyond civil rights toward the acceptance of a broader human rights framework. What kept the United States from embracing Rustin’s viewpoint and, more importantly, what can our society do to move toward greater equality in the future?

Bright Pink Mosquito
http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/bright-pink-mosquito.html
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
10pm-

This event will celebrate the release of the second issue of Bright Pink Mosquito. Edited by Whit Griffin and Andy Hughes, Bright Pink Mosquito is a poetry journal that publishes generous selections of work by a range of contemporary writers. Issues of the journal will be available and readings will be given by Christopher Rizzo, Debrah Morkun, Russell Dillon, Tracey McTague, Ben Mazer, Michael Peters, Jess Mynes, and more TBA.

True Confessions: Robin Graubard
http://www.agapeenterprise.com/agape-enterprise_upcoming.html
03/30/2012-04/29/2012
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Robin Graubard was born, lives and works in New York City. Her exhibition history includes “Incomplete” White Columns (2011), “New Age End of the World” Taxter & Spengemann (2011), “The Hold Up”, Participant Inc (2010), “Lush Life, curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud ((2010), “50 Artists Photograph the Future” Higher Pictures (2010), “Presumed Innocence” DeCordova Museum (2008), “Noise: Young American Photography” TH-Inside Milan and Berlin (2007), “The Doll Hospital” Anthology Film Archives (1998), “Indigestible Correctness I” curated by Rita Ackermann & Lizzi Bougatsos, Participant Inc., (2004). She is a recipient of The Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant and has been nominated for two Pulitzer prizes. Her photographs have been published in The New York Times, Paris Match, The Guardian, Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Berliner Morgenstern, The European, Unicef, International Rescue Committee The New York Post and others. In 1976 Graubard produced, directed and e

Andy Coolquitt chair w/ paintings
http://www.lisa-cooley.com/
03/30/2012-04/06/2012
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Lisa Cooley is thrilled to announce the opening of Andy Coolquitt’s new exhibition, chair w/paintings. This will be the first solo show in our new location at 107 Norfolk Street. Andy Coolquitt will present a dense arrangement of 35 sculptures thatexplores the continuum betweenenvironments and discreet artworks, and between public and private realms.Coolquitt transforms found objects and assemblages into sculptures. His choice of scavenged materials – plastic lighters, discarded straws, striped fabrics, hands making rude gestures, beer cans, and metal pipes – suggest metaphors for energy and spark various social dynamics. This exhibition, his third with the gallery, illuminates qualities of togetherness, a constant motif for Coolquitt. The title chair w/paintings suggests objects gravitating towards each other, an object casually placed against the wall, or multiple works functioning as a whole.

Lawrence Graham-Brown: Rites of Passage/Sacred Spaces
http://www.facebook.com/events/178562985586709/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7pm-8pm

A performance variable/media production based on Afro, Caribbean, and Gay Folklore via the Ras-Pan-Afro-Homo-Sapien construct. Lawrence and company will venture into socially, sexually, physically and mentally defined sacred spaces and employ liturgical actions of: cleansing/confession, exhortation, mourning/lamentation and Gay, religious, love/sex feast.

Not a Particle or a Place but an Action
http://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/2012-03-30_not-a-particle-or-a-place-but-an-action/
03/30/2012-04/05/2012
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James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present Not a Particle or a Place but an Action, an exhibition of works by California-based artists MAURICIO ANCALMO and SARAH RARA, opening on March 30th and running through May 5th, 2012. This will be the first New York gallery exhibition for both artists. In the front gallery, Sarah Rara’s hour-long film A Ray Array (2011) comprises 15 visual and aural essays on the idea of interference, that range, in the artist’s words, “from the failure of a message to be discernable, to sudden interruptions, visual disturbances, the interaction of two sound signals, instability, and optical effects.” Fingers twinkle in the sun; a felt hat spins; a stained glass moon slowly turns. A Ray Array is a wonky, wordless and amused bit of science that harkens back to Ed Ruscha’s early meditations on the banal and John Baldessari’s Surrealist, saturated Pop while also defining a contemporary left-coast aesthetic—one that is disarmingly sincere, visually beautiful and une

YOUR HEAD IS ON A BODY THAT IS NOT YOUR BODY
http://www.dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7:30pm-

Point is about to undergo a public surgical process, which may leave your mouths dry, your palms sweaty, and your head irreparably damaged. Theresa, Amy, and Ryan will each bring their insides out in three short eventpieces, as Charlotte pulls the strings. There will be demons and dances and barely masked sexual repulsion (which may actually be attraction). We are engaging in this night at Dixon Place to reveal things in the light and hide others in the dark, but also to see where our parts fit into parts and our heads onto bodies within our company.

MARGOH! CHANNING IS TIPSY
http://www.dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
9:30pm-

Written by MargOH! Channing (BT Shea), musical direction Jarad Astin, direction and special material by Thom Fogarty. Performed by MargOH! Channing, MAN-ee Champagne (Jeff Catlow-Shea) and Diamond Daquiri (Crystal Rona Peterson). MargOH! Channing is Tipsy deconstructs drag through storytelling, song, and drunkglama dysfunction. MargOH! reminisces about her family, gay lovers and the ups and downs of her career while tackling such subjects as rape, incest, race, political correctness, sexual orientation, the power of Liza and most of all survival. Tipsy features MargOH!’s long time Gayiance’ MAN-ee Champagne, Diamond as back up divas, The MargOH!-tinis, and the Jarad Astin Trio.

Kevin Geeks Out About…Wrasslin’!
http://www.92y.org/tribeca/tickets/production.aspx?pid=81031
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
8pm-

Kevin Geeks Out is the comedy-variety show hosted by writer-comedian Kevin Maher—a confabulation of vintage film clips and videos, new finds, guest experts, games and curiosities. To geek out with Kevin, you don’t need to be a geek, you just need to love cool stuff. This March, during Wrestlemania weekend, Kevin Geeks Out about Wrasslin’, looking at some of the weirdest, wildest moments in sports entertainment, including a retrospective on Mexican icon “El Santo” and a tribute to inter-gender wrestling champion Andy Kaufman. The two-hour cultural cavalcade includes guest speakers presenting rare film footage and TV clips you won’t find on YouTube or Netflix

Reading: Howard Waxman “Venceremos”
http://bluestockings.com/events/
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
7pm-

Brooklyn-born Jay Cardinale, Vietnam War hero turned deserter is offered a full pardon if he’ll assassinate an American radical living in exile in Cuba. Traveling with the Venceremos Brigade, idealistic American leftists going to help in Cuba’s sugar cane harvest, Jay cuts cane, gets political, plots murder, drinks with Hemingway’s ghost, makes Fidel laugh, turns twenty-one, falls in love and becomes a new man. Join Waxman as he reads from his new progressive political thriller.

An Øje at The Hole Curated by Jens-Peter Brask
http://theholenyc.com/
03/30/2012-04/12/2012
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Michael Kvium Jan S. Hansen Peter Funch Kasper Sonne John Kørner HuskMitNavn Maiken Bent Søren Behncke Jesper Dalgaard March 30th – April 12th, 2012 OPENING March 30th, 7-9PM The Hole is proud to announce a group show of young Nordic artists curated by Jens-Peter Brask opening in Gallery 3 here at the Hole, this Friday March 30th. Mr. Brask has put together a group of the nine most exciting young artists from Denmark with works across media from painting and drawing to sculpture and installation.

FREE YOUNG COMPANY PERFORMANCE
http://irondale.org/young_company.html
03/30/2012-03/31/2012
7pm-

Irondale’s Young Company proudly presents an ensemble-written new play, LIFE OUT LOUD, a performance of viewpoints, improvisation, and teen ensemble-written work. This piece explores living, struggling… and life in the circus!

“Well Hung” An eclectic group show
http://northlightgallery.tumblr.com/
03/30/2012-04/29/2012
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“Well Hung” An eclectic group show Reception: March 30th 6 to 8 PM Featuring: Rachael Bridge, Laura Grenier*, Marris Mielnick, Kevin Smith, Jessica Sugerman, J.A. Holt+, and Tom Thompson

A Year in the Life of 8 String Theory Drawings
http://jenbekman.com/
03/30/2012-05/06/2012
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Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to present A Year in the Life of 8 String Theory Drawings, eight works on paper by represented artist Carrie Marill. An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 30th, 2012, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. A Year in the Life of 8 String Theory Drawings will be on view Saturday, March 31st, through Sunday, May 6th. Every day over the course of a year, Marill methodically worked upon each of the eight gouache paintings in A Year in the Life of 8 String Theory Drawings. Both strong and delicate woven colors twist through a stark white landscape, creating fanciful silhouettes of the natural world. With titles such as Fear, Solace and Growth, the interactions depicted between crows and trees take on an anthropomorphic quality. Writhing branches become more than just nature but cathartic symbols unfolding in a chronicle of a tumultuous year in the artist’s life.

REVERSE SILENCE
http://nycams.bethel.edu/gallery-events/
03/30/2012-04/06/2012
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Reverse Silence, a live collaborative performance in conjunction with the Chelsea Music Festival, features work by French photographer and videographer Karine Laval, jazz composer and trombonist James Hall, experimental composer and cellist Meaghan Burke, woodwind player Aaron Kruziki, and live transmission artist Morgan O’Hara.

AMEN DUNES MIKE WEXLER HIRO KONE
http://zebuloncafeconcert.com/?p=4658
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
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AMEN DUNES/MIKE WEXLER/HIRO KONE

THE WATERFRONT FOLLIES
http://galapagosartspace.com/event/the-waterfront-follies
03/30/2012-03/30/2012
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allow us to transport you a century into the past to the golden age of vaudeville, where our fearless ringleader has searched far and wide to bring you the most remarkable acts from all over the world. let your senses be soothed by our singing sirens, your spirits soar with our flying trapeze, your jaws drop at death defying feats of skill, your hearts flutter in the seductive embrace of our cabaret dancers and your minds be confounded by the unexpected twists and turns our puckish host has in store . . .

HELL TO PAY Scott Hug
http://rawsonprojects.com/
03/31/2012-04/06/2012
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Rawson Projects is pleased to present HELL TO PAY: Scott Hug opening March 31st, 2012. The exhibition is the second in a series in which artists are commissioned to make a poster for purchase. Artists are encouraged to explore the history of the poster as well as consider their role when working in an uneditioned, unsigned format.

Remakes and Reverse Shots: Amie Siegel in conversation with Michael Almereyda
http://www.uniondocs.org/2012-03-31-amie-siegel-with-michael-almereyda/
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
7:30pm-

Amie Siegel joins us to present The Sleepers, a film that voyeuristically explores the space between cinema and architecture, sceerning alongside Siegel’s recent film which intertwines histories of cinema and architecture with the cinematic gesture of the remake serving as an uncanny reflection on gender, history and the production of images. Amie Siegel in attendance to present the works and would be joined for a conversation with filmamker Michael Almereyda.

Eva Respini on Jean-Luc Moulène
http://www.diaart.org/events/main/436
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
2pm-

Eva Respini is the Associate Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. There, she has organized numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and photography including Boris Mikhailov: Case History (2011); Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 (2011); Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (2010); 1969 (MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 2010); Projects 89: Klara Liden (2009); Vik Muniz: Artist’s Choice, Rebus (2008); Out of Time: A Contemporary View (2006); Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990 (2004); and New Photography (2009, 2007 and 2005). The author of Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West and co-author of Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990, Respini is a visiting critic at Columbia University School of Arts, and has lectured on photography at Yale University; Parsons The New School for Design; School of Visual Arts, New York; and Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. She is currently organizing a re

Michael Alan studio party/ Performance
http://www.facebook.com/events/349208158450625/
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
7pm-9pm

Next Living Installation/ party! DINNER PARTY FOR TWO Special Event! Limited to 40 people each show/ 2 shows! March 31, 2012 | Two Shows: 7-11pm and 11:30-2:30am One ticket, one show; two gets you the whole night Ticket only show! Address given with ticket $20 China town, NYC WOOP http://www.michaelalanart.com/art/upcoming-projects/

FIORE DEROSA & JEN SENKO THE VANISHING CITY
http://www.dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
7:30pm-

Told through the eyes of city planners, developers, politicians, small business owners, landlords, and tenants this documentary exposes and explains the policies and economic philosophy behind New York’s finance dominated economy, the concentration of wealth, and the process that has jeopardized the social fabric and neighborhoods that have always made New York unique. Issues of class formation, land use, rezoning decisions and the upheaval of longstanding neighborhoods combine to provide a critical look into the deeply rooted policies of one of the world’s most iconic cities. Like other global trends in major cities around the world, these are most exemplified in the city of New York.

GLITTA
http://www.dixonplace.org/index2.html
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
9:30pm-

It is a sad day in the South when a man can’t eat what he wants. It is an even sadder day in the South when a man can’t have the sex he wants. When his wife puts him on a strict diet and his porn addiction escalates, Morrison Bogartʼs life spirals out of his control. He soon discovers his friends–Paul Clarence and Timothy Luther–are losing it just as fast as he is. They meet a giver of all sexual fantasies, and must answer to the call of the fetish! Ass! Donuts! And a whole lot of Glitta: get addicted to the shine!

Swear and Shake / Tall Tall Trees / Plume Giant
http://www.92y.org/tribeca/tickets/production.aspx?pid=80816
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
9pm-

An indie-spirited triple bill of up-and-coming artists featuring a little bit of everything… from rock to bluegrass to Americana to world music to folk.

Q&A With THE ISLAND PRESIDENT Filmmaker Jon Shenk
http://www.filmforum.org/events/more/qa_with_the_island_filmmaker_filmmaker_jon_shenk
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
7:50pm-

Q&A with filmmaker JON SHENK at the Saturday, March 31, 7:50 show.

Life! with King Regis
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/e/236743
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
9:30pm-

LIFE! with King Regis is an evening of alternative comedy and comedy alternatives, showcasing the next model of robot programmed to make you laugh! Featuring: improv group TONKA musician COLIN SUMMERS stand up ADDISON ANDERSON a film by DAN ERICKSON the dance stylings of TOBIN AND BRIAN and your hosts in all their improvised glory, KING REGIS

Reading: Patrick Suraci “SYBIL in Her Own Words”
http://bluestockings.com/events/
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
7pm-

Dr. Patrick Suraci, a friend of Sybil/Shirley Mason reads from “SYBIL in Her Own Words: The Untold Story of Shirley Mason, Her Multiple Personalities and Paintings.” Projections of the paintings of 5 of Sybil’s 16 personalities are accompanied by his interpretations. Shirley’s recorded conversations with Dr. Suraci will be heard in public for the first time. Documents will be produced exposing the untrue statements made by others attempting to claim the Sybil case is a fraud, including how documents were distorted and sometimes fabricated.

Mirrors: Designing Interactivity with Jitter
http://www.harvestworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28:new-works-residency&catid=21&Itemid=53
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
12pm-6pm

Creating a dialog between person and artwork, user and computer, can be difficult, and what better way to dive into interactivity than through designing interactive mirrors. This class will utilize techniques found within Jitter to create user generated visual experiences with both traditional cameras and the Kinect. If you are looking to gain a better understanding of lower level image processing, this class is perfect for you. While we will be working with Max/MSP/Jitter, topics covered are applicable to other languages.

Panel Discussion: “Transnationalism and Women Artists in Diaspora”
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/5131
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
2pm-4pm

o recognize women in the arts, and in celebration of National Women’s History month, A.I.R. Gallery, the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers, and The Feminist Art Project copresent a discussion exploring New York’s international feminist diaspora community. This panel will also explore the personal experiences of its panelists, Indian American artist Chitra Ganesh; Korean artist Kira Greene; Yulia Tikhonova, a curator specializing in Russian contemporary art; Dr. Yasmin Ramirez, a curator and art historian, currently with the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter College, New York; and Dr. Abena Busia, professor and chair of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, and a Ghana-born collector of contemporary African art. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Ferris Olin (Codirector, the Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers), Julie Lohnes (Director, A.I.R. Gallery), and commentator Kat Griefen (Director, Accola Griefen Gallery).

CELEBRATE SPRING! WORKSHOPS
http://www.flushingtownhall.org/events/event.php?id=883
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
2pm-

Mexican Paper Art Workshop Join Master Mexican paper artist, Aurelia Fernandez, for a workshop based on the tradition of celebrating spring by giving children feathers in school. This lively workshop will show children and adults alike how to make animal hats from paper and found objects. Andean Instrument-Making Workshop Juan “Pepe” Santana will lead a workshop in making Andean instruments from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Participants will have the opportunity to build a pentatonic panpipe called palla and will learn how to play simple Andean Melodies. No need to read music!

BEN ALLISON BAND
http://corneliastreetcafe.com/performances.asp
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
9pm-

Bassist/composer Ben Allison is one of a few band leaders working in jazz today who has developed his own instantly identifiable sound. Known for his lyrical melodies, inventive grooves and inspired arrangements, Ben draws from the jazz tradition and a range of influences from rock and folk to classical and world music, seamlessly blending them into a cinematic, cohesive whole. The Ben Allison Band has toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, South America and Europe, winning fans and building new audiences with an adventurous yet accessible sound and a flair for the unexpected.

Knot Your Average Knit
http://www.cwow.org/see/feature.php?f_id=344&s_id=2&c_id=3
03/31/2012-05/11/2012
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Join us Saturday, March 31, 2011, 6-8 PM, for the opening reception of Knot Your Average Knit, at cWOW’s Crawford Street Gallery. Curated by Lovina Purple, the show examines artwork that has been created in traditional craft techniques such as weaving, quilting, lace-making, knitting and embroidery. The exhibition features works by artists Elisa D’Arrigo, Karen Margolis, Christina Massey, Hyo Jeong Nam, Gail Rothschild, and Katya Usvitsky. Also: In our New Media Room: paperJAM: a collaboration between Hannah Lamar Simmons and Rebecca Kinsey. The exhibition is free and open to the public Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6 PM.

Spring Member Salon
http://www.brooklynartistsgym.com/
03/31/2012-04/16/2012
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Spring 2012 Member Salon On view Saturday, March 31st through Monday, April 16th. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 31st from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

YUJI AGEMATSU

03/31/2012-04/29/2012
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YUJI AGEMATSU March 31 – April 29, 2012 Opening March 31, 7-10 PM

Harry Dodge: Frowntown
http://www.wallspacegallery.com/MEDIA/01447.pdf
03/31/2012-05/06/2012
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Over the past four years, Harry Dodge has generated a viscerally affective and prolific multimedia body of work, employing all manner of drawing, performance, video, and sculpture. The trilogy of videos, masses of drawings, and selected sculptures presented here are united by their pointed interest in unnameability, brutality, humor, precariousness and resilience.

Through a glass, darkly
http://www.postmastersart.com/
03/31/2012-05/05/2012
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Postmasters is pleased to announce a three-person exhibition featuring the works of OASA DuVERNEY, JULIA KUL and JAYSON MUSSON. Each of us at Postmasters selected one artist. Together they create an explosive zeitgeist moment.

MIchael Collins: Pictures from the Hoo Peninsula
http://www.janetbordeninc.com/
03/31/2012-05/05/2012
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Charles Dunn : HELL ON EARTH
http://www.numberthirtyfive.com/
03/31/2012-05/06/2012
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Charles Dunn : HELL ON EARTH

Michael Hearst – Songs For Unusual Creatures
http://roulette.org/events/roulette-kids-michael-hearst-songs-for-unusual-creatures/
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
1pm-

To celebrate some of the most bizarre animals on the planet (as well as some of the most bizarre musical instruments), Michael Hearst has devised Song For Unusual Creatures. Together with his five-piece band (dressed in unusual animal costumes), the group performs instrumental songs inspired by such beastly oddities as the aye-aye, the magnapinna squid, the bobfish, the elephant shrew, the blue-footed booby, and many more. Instruments include daxophone, theremin, claviola, stylophone, trombonophone, and more. Fun for the whole family!

“Where Were You Then?” Shelley Hirsch & Simon Ho in a 9 Member Ensemble
http://roulette.org/events/shelley-hirsch-simon-ho-3/
03/31/2012-03/31/2012
8pm-

Over two nights, Shelley Hirsch and Simon Ho celebrate the release of their new CD, “Where Were You Then?” on Tzadik’s Key Series Composed by Hirsch and Ho, “Where Were You Then?” blends songs, story telling and rich atmospheric soundscapes and represents a new chapter in their longstanding collaboration. With a voice that slips effortlessly between speech melody and pure sound, Hirsch’s stories work perfectly with the dreamlike state and shifting moods of their music (with instrumental arrangements by Ho). The stories cover a wide territory, from hitch hiking in Germany in 1972, to living in a squat in Amsterdam, to a song about online dating and remembering the passing of a loved one. The multilayered stories are filled with vivid details, humor, tenderness, loss and many odd twists in which each listener is likely to find their own meaning.

Sleep No More
http://sleepnomore.com/remixed/
04/01/2012-05/01/2012
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Tickets on sale April 1st, Sleep No More is an indoor promenade performance lasting up to three hours.

Willis Earl Beal She Keeps Bees, Fenster
http://www.willisearlbeal.com/
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
7pm-

Willis Earl Beal isn’t an easy person to find. He isn’t on Facebook and never had a MySpace page. All he had was some flyers tacked to the wall of a used bookstore on Chicago’s west side. It started “I want friends & stuff” and ended “I am not a Weasel”, signed WILLIS EARL BEAL and a phone number. XL Recordings will release Beal’s debut album, Acousmatic Sorcery, in the US on March 20th (UK/Europe, March 19th). The album’s 11 songs are taken from a series of recordings Beal made while living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He arrived in Albuquerque without a plan, a place, or enough money to live off and began singing warm, visceral and moving tunes to help him cope while sleeping rough. He spent days drawing and printing up flyers, distributing them all over his new city. Eventually Beal found work as the night porter at a motel. It was during the late-night shifts that the 27-year-old musician from the south side of Chicago taught himself to make music.

ANN RANDOLPH LOVELAND
http://www.dixonplace.org/index2.html
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
7:30pm-

Award-winning writer/performer Ann Randolph takes you on an unforgettable cross-country flight that is both hilarious and deeply human. She embodies multiple characters, including our heroine, Frannie Potts—an out-of-control, sexually-charged misfit overwhelmed by grief. Facing loss, Frannie stumbles from outrageous confrontation to awkward confusion and finally glimpses the mystery, tragedy, and beauty that unites us all.

In the News with Jeff Greenfield
http://www.92y.org/tickets/production.aspx?pid=76675
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
7:30pm-

Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives in the 112th Congress. From 2007 to 2011, she served as the first woman speaker of the house and is also the first woman in American history to lead a major political party in Congress, having served as House democratic leader from 2003 to 2007. Leader Pelosi will mark her 25th year of service in the House representing San Francisco, California’s Eighth District in 2012. Pelosi brings to her leadership position a distinguished record of legislative accomplishment. She led the Congress in passing historic health insurance reform, key investments in college aid, clean energy and innovation, and initiatives to help small businesses and veterans. She has been a powerful voice for civil rights and human rights around the world for decades. Pelosi comes from strong family tradition of public service in Baltimore. Married to Paul Pelosi, she is a mother of five and grandmother of nine.

Cadillac Moon Ensemble
http://www.vaudevillepark.org/events/cadillac-moon-ensemble
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
7:30pm-

Cadillac Moon Ensemble presents an adventurous concert featuring a diverse array of composers: James Romig, Brooks Frederickson, Ethan Pakchar. Eric Allen, Sam Crawford, who are all premiering CME commissioned works. The program also includes composer Noam Faingold’s Knife in the Water. With its unique instrumentation of flute, violin, cello and percussion, CME is dedicated to retaining the intimacy and artistry of traditional chamber music, while greatly expanding its palette of sonic possibilities.

Writers Read w/ Kim Powers , Alan Herman , Laura Kelly , Odette Heideman and
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/2880
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
6pm-

Writers Read presents 6 readings a year featuring current work by novelists, short story magicians, thoughtful essayists, passionate poets and playful playwrights.

De Profundis: The Deep End (Music for Low Instruments)
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2012/4/1/0730/PM/De-Profundis-The-Deep-End-Music-for-Low-Instruments/
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
7:30pm-

Frank Morelli, Bassoon Scott Hartman, Trombone Jerome Stover, Tuba Ole Akahoshi, Arnold Choi, Ying Zhang, and Mihai Marica, Cello Donald Palma, Double Bass Ransom Wilson, Conductor With alumni and student performers from the Yale School of Music

Delancey Underground Exhibit Open House
http://inhabitat.com/nyc/event/delancey-underground-exhibit-open-house/
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
12pm-6pm

Join the Delancey Underground team to learn more about the initial design and technology behind the proposed “LowLine” park, hosted by the Mark Miller Gallery. The month-long exhibition will showcase the solar technology enabling a subterranean park, allow visitors to preview initial designs, and engage the broader community on the potential uses of a community-based public space in the 21st century. To open the exhibit, the Delancey Underground Co-Founders James Ramsey and Dan Barasch, along with key members of the design and engineering teams, will be present for an Open House on Sunday, April 1. The exhibit is free and open to the public throughout the month of April. The show will include a life-size rendering of how the park could look and feel, as well as a 3D model of the proposed park. Images of the current location as well as architectural renderings of its potential future will be available for viewing and for purchase.

Talking Fiction, Talking Fact: Colm Tóibín and Mick Moloney on Brooklyn
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.html#b0401
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
2pm-

BHS partners with The New York Review of Books for Talking Fiction, Talking Fact, a programming series that pairs notable fiction writers with scholars who have written on similar topics for engaging and thought-provoking dialogue. This month we host Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn, whose protaganist Eilis Lacey travels from Ireland to Brooklyn in the early 1950’s, and Mick Moloney, Irish folklorist and musician. This event is free with museum admission.

Gertrude Stein Paris Festival
http://www.symphonyspace.org/series/167?source=homepage
04/01/2012-05/05/2012
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The Paris of Gertrude Stein was wild and exhilarating with the creative spirits of the time collaborating, canoodling, and conspiring, and at the center of it all — Stein’s salon. Join in our month-long celebration of this magical time of music, film, literature, and art. Come to Symphony Space, and make her world yours.

BARRED MUSIC–SHAKESPEARE’S FOOLS DAY
http://corneliastreetcafe.com/performances.asp
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
5:45pm-

“Barred Music” Shakespeare’s Fools Day Readings by Paul Hecht and Roberta Maxwell. With composer/performer Demetrius Spaneas and pianist Jed Distler ROBERTA MAXWELL: Broadway: Our Town, Equus, Othello, Henry V. Off-Broadway: CSC, The Public Theater, MTC. Regional: Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe, Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Stratford Connecticut, Stratford Ontario. Film: Dead Man Walking, Brokeback Mountain, Popeye, Philadelphia, Last Night, Sudden Disclosure, Scar Tissue. TV: “Law & Order,” “Another World,” “Mourning Becomes Electra” (PBS), “Airwaves, (CBS Series), “What Makes A Family,” Warehouse 13.” Awards: Obie (Whistle in the Dark, Ashes), Drama Desk (Slag), Willager (Mary Stuart), Carbonell (Lettuce and Lovage).

PopGun Presents… Johnny Flynn, Peggy Sue
http://glasslands.blogspot.com/
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
8:30pm-

Johnny Flynn, Peggy Sue

SUNDAY SESSIONS
http://www.momaps1.org/calendar/view/345/
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
1pm-7pm

1–4 PM · Modules: Liz Magic Laser hosts an afternoon of performances 5–7 PM · Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers Box Launch in collaboration with DFA Records

The City Reliquary’s 10 Year Anniversary!
http://www.cityreliquary.org/the-city-reliquarys-10-year-anniversary/
04/01/2012-04/01/2012
12pm-6pm

We’re so very pleased to report that the City Reliquary is starting its 10th year of existence. We’ve grown so much over the past 10 years; from tiny windowfront displays to a legitimate Museum and events space. AND we’ve been working harder than ever to make this our biggest year yet! On April 1st, we will unveil… An all new GIFT SHOP featuring local, hand-made products and NYC gifts! Two new room-sized DIORAMAS and several new civic DISPLAYS! A meet and greet with the newest member of our civic organization, a MANAGING DIRECTOR!

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
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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
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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.

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
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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
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