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Cool Exhibit to check out...

George Lois: The Esquire Covers @ MoMa

Looks like an awesome exhibit to check out before it leaves!

From 1962 to 1972, George Lois changed the face of magazine design with his ninety-two covers for Esquire magazine. He stripped the cover down to a graphically concise yet conceptually potent image that ventured beyond the mere illustration of a feature article. Lois exploited the communicative power of the mass-circulated front page to stimulate and provoke the public into debate, pressing Americans to confront controversial issues like racism, feminism, and the Vietnam War. Viewed as a collection, the covers serve as a visual timeline and a window onto the turbulent events of the 1960s. Initially received as jarring and prescient statements of their time, the covers have since become essential to the iconography of American culture.

@MoMA
Location: 11 W 53rd St (map)
Starts: 10:30 am
Cost:$20, Seniors , $16 senior,$12, Children 16 and under

Great Husband and Wife Exhibit...

APAK! Worlds of Wonders @ Giant Robot Gallery

Here is an imaginative collection of art from the stellar husband and wife team, Apak! called Worlds of Wonders. Get ready to be swept away in to a fantastical world filled with fairies and mythical creatures in these boldly painted highly imaginative works that are not to be missed!

@ Giant Robot Gallery
Location: 437 East 9th St (map)
Starts: daily

Excellent Installation Art...

Charles Juhasz-Alvarado: Complicated Stories Sculptures and Written Testimonies, 1998-2008 @ Exit Art Gallery

Come and check out Charles Juhasz-Alvarado: Complicated Stories presenting the artist’s past and present bodies of works as an ongoing dialogue on social consciousness and cultural identity. Charles Juhasz-Alvarado’s elaborate site-specific installations engage the viewer through narrative, performance, audio, and sculpture to introduce a fantasy world that serves as an acute and humorous allegory of today’s multicultural society and the artist’s own background. Should be great.

@ Exit Art
Location: 475 Tenth Avenue (map)
Starts: 10 am
Cost: Free

Interesting Drawing classes...

Michael Alan's Twister Draw-A-Thon @ Teatroiati

Every Saturday, Michael Allan holds one of the craziest all day draw-a-thons that I have ever heard of. He supplies an all star cast of strange and beautiful models set in unusual theatrical poses that have do with the theme chosen for the day. This week is Michael Alan's "Twister"- Naked twister long poses, pain and fun. Draw- a -game How can you miss this?

Come make art.

@ Teatroiati
Location: 64 east 4th (map)
Starts: 4 PM, 8:30 PM
Cost: $15 for one half $20 for both

Bklyn Exhibit To Check Out....

Opening Reception: Brece Honeycutt and Audra Wolowiec @ Pocket Utopia

Come and check out this exhibition of artists Brece Honeycutt and Audra Wolowiec. In conversation with the physical space and with an acknowledgement of history, particularly the history of feminist art (materials, production, and execution), both artists create an open dialogue or a presence.

Honeycutt, literally in attendance, working as a Pocket Utopia artist in residence, knits and weaves within a cultural context, referencing myth, memory, and the web that may or may not hold it all together. Using her fingers to knit and sometimes incorporating plastic bags, she spins the space into a place of permission.

Wolowiec removes and receives space from the architecture and the body, by drawing on the gallery walls, embedding human hair within it and removing circles of it in a wall exchange program or what she terms “points of exchange.” Wolowiec also “exchanges” a freckle with a friend by getting a tattoo; here a circle of ink is shared. Certificates and photographs document her process.

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 6-10 pm
Cost: Free

Graffiti Art and Booze..... AMAZING COMBO

A Puerto Rican, An Iranian and An Egytian: We No Joke, Artwork from Nine, Then, Faro @ Gallery Bar

Come and check out this off the chain graffiti art exhibit showing off the works of Nine, Then and Faro. The work being showcased are astounding pieces of graffiti art with that urban edge. The event has some sick sponsors so while you checking out the pieces you can sip on a little free Absolut Vodka and Red Bull drinky drinky. Should be the event to be at this Friday night so be sure to stop by the Gallery Bar and take a gander.

@ Gallery Bar
Location: 120 Orchard St (map)
Starts: 6-11 PM
Cost: Free

Interesting Drawing classes...

Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon "Mummies babies"@ Teatroiati

Every Saturday, Michael Allan holds one of the craziest all day draw-a-thons that I have ever heard of. He supplies an all star cast of strange and beautiful models set in unusual theatrical poses that have do with the theme chosen for the day. This weeks theme is "Mummies babies" -Mathew Brennan is the reborn messiah, disfigured but adored by all, will he eat his models? or draw them?music by The bones of Davey Jones

Come make art.

@ Teatroiati
Location: 64 east 4th (map)
Starts: 4 PM, 8:30 PM
Cost: $15 for one half $20 for both

Math and Crochet Together As One....

ART/SCI COLLISION: CROCHETING THE CORAL REEF @ THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Science enthusiasts, fans of experimental mathematics, and people who crochet are invited to join Margaret Wertheim, director of the Institute for Figuring, and Kate Holmes, AMNH marine biologist, for a discussion about the plight of coral reefs and the art of “hyperbolic crochet,” a woolly tribute to these disappearing wonders of the marine world. Global warming and pollution threaten to devastate coral reef in the coming years and hyperbolic crochet is a beautiful and intriguing way to raise awareness. The Discussion will cover how this fusion of handicraft, mathematics, marine ecology, conservation activism, and collective artistic practice works as a creative testimony to the coral reef’s important place in the natural world.

@American Museum of History
Location: Central Park West at 79th St (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $15.00 for adults, $13.50 for Members, students, and senior citizens.

Artastic Bushwick!!

Libby Hartle @ Pocket Utopia

Come and join Hartle as she “hosts” a salon of drawn and collaged structures (homes and bus-mobiles), cut and glued through a semi-architectural drawing process or what Hartle has termed “stickitecture.” The space is filled and formed for the viewer to sit and plan their escape. For some reason this whole exhibit just reminds me make forts when I was a kid and that just excites me way too much.

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 6 pm
Cost: Free

Great Art Exhibit..

Opening Reception: Escape Color, a solo exhibition by Hans Yim @ APW Gallery

Hans Yim describes his work as "A reality of imagination in a world that ecsapes color.". Each of the works, created by random imagination and everything else about reality, you can see the minor detail and it raise the question“ What is minor and what is detail?” One can sense all the question the artist has and all the answer the artist gets in all process of making each pieces.

Come and check out this new exhibit at todays ope reception, should be pretty amazing.

@ APW Gallery
Location: 195 Chrystie St Suite 200 (map)
Starts: 6
Cost: Free

Excellent Portuguese Illustrators..

Jorge Nesbitt & Glória Oliveira Collective Drawing Exhibition @ White Box

"Recent Drawings". This show features a selection of drawings from two Portuguese artists, Jorge Nesbitt and Glória Oliveira. The expression of the work of Glória Oliveira is of a symbolical nature reporting to forms and subjects in a defying and new way.The work of Jorge Nesbitt reflects a process of appropriation, creating connections between what we recognize as culturally artistic in a historic sense and the present time.

@ White Box
Location: 601 West 26th Street 14th floor (map)
Starts: Tue - Fri, 2 - 6 pm, Sat - 11 am - 6 pm.
Cost: Free

Can you Feel it???

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair @ Pier 40

Three days 95 Exhibitors, a children’s VIP lounge, a reading room designed by students at the New School, a performance by Chez Bushwick, and more of the original installations and large-scale sculptures that have become the fair’s trademark. It's a must see event that will blow you away!

@ Pier 40
Location: West Side Highway at West Houston Street (map)
Starts: 12 Pm
Cost: Free

Artastic!

The Exploration of New Work by Emerging & Established New York Artists @ Gallery JAC

Come and check out this ONE NIGHT ONLY art exhibit showcasing some of the best and most innovative New York artists out right now. It's an exhibit that is set on exploring new realms of visual expression from the works some of the most creative minds in the art scene right now. It's an eye opening exhibit that is not to be missed! Showcasing artists include: Jon Allen, Mira Alibek, Vincent Arcilesi, Alex Callender and much much more!

@Gallery JAC
Location: 814 Broadway, 4th Floor (map)
Starts: 6-10 Pm
Cost: Free

Can you Feel it???

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair @ Pier 40

Three days 95 Exhibitors, a children’s VIP lounge, a reading room designed by students at the New School, a performance by Chez Bushwick, and more of the original installations and large-scale sculptures that have become the fair’s trademark. It's a must see event that will blow you away!

@ Pier 40
Location: West Side Highway at West Houston Street (map)
Starts: 12 Pm
Cost: Free

New works from Mr. Drawathon

Michael Alan 25 new works @ Jonathon Shorr Gallery

Come and check Michael Alan's latest work Time Travelers, creatures that are caught in the past, present and the future surviving in a alternate reality. The chronic time exaggerators are a critique on the progression of art history, They question the idea of history and are a reaction to living in a confusing art period. The travelers are alive and believable their time and place is unexplainable. It will be featured Jonathon Shorr Gallery. Should be amazing.

@Jonathon Shorr Gallery
Location: 109 Crosby street (map)
Starts: May 25th, 10 am
Cost: Free

Interesting Drawing classes...

Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon "PropAganda"@ Teatroiati

Every Saturday, Michael Allan holds one of the craziest all day draw-a-thons that I have ever heard of. He supplies an all star cast of strange and beautiful models set in unusual theatrical poses that have do with the theme chosen for the day. This weeks theme is "PropAganda" Get ready to draw a fake election, A hanging, A religious crisis, all them will probabl be in the buff. Basic human conditioning for your art making pleasure.

Also Live music by My Pet Dragon

Come make art.

@ Teatroiati
Location: 64 east 4th (map)
Starts: 4 PM, 8:30 PM
Cost: $15 for one half $20 for both

Artastic!

NYC: Art For Progress presents 'Clash of the Artists 2008'@ 320 Studios

A night of international art, music, film and fashion. This incredible night of entertainment will take place at 320 Studios in
Manhattan. With spectacular views of the Hudson River and a huge outdoor terrace this is a setting like no other. AFP will transform the space into a multi-media arts playground where our
guests will decide who wins the amazing prizes.

Featured artists:

FILM: Arth (Paris, France), Michael Brettler (New York), Ryan Ullman (Boca Raton, Fla)

FASHION: Ricardo Ramos (London, UK), Ritu K. Yellai (Boise, ID), Prizy
Sebastian (New York, NY)

Visual Arts: Ana Canet (Alcorcon, Spain), Juan Salgado (Puerto Rico, U.S),
Berry Breene (Meadville, PA)

Music: Arth (Paris, France), Emperor City Motorcade (New York, NY),
Reaheadphone (New York, NY)

DJs: Jimmy Sky (New York, NY), MarkS1 (Toronto, CA), Nickmatic (New York, NY)

Proceeds to support Art For Progress' Art Education Program.

@ 320 Studios
Location: 320 West 37th St, 14th Floor (map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: $25

Interesting Drawing classes...

Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon "Making Faces with naked bodies"@ Teatroiati

Every Saturday, Michael Allan holds one of the craziest all day draw-a-thons that I have ever heard of. He supplies an all star cast of strange and beautiful models set in unusual theatrical poses that have do with the theme chosen for the day. This weeks theme is "Making Faces with naked bodies" 8 models will hold amazing poses set for great portraits while being nude just incase you hate drawing heads

Come make art.

@ Teatroiati
Location: 64 east 4th (map)
Starts: 4 PM, 8:30 PM
Cost: $15 for one half $20 for both

An excellent exhibit to check out...

Curtis Ripley,Another World: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper @ Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

Come and check out Curtis Ripley's first solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper.

"Drawing inspiration from the structure and abstraction of music, shadows, maps and charts, Mexican architecture, and "the process of day fading into night", Curtis Ripley combines intentional illusiveness with the ideals of strict interpretation to form the basis of Another World."

It's a great exhibit of this artists talent, come and see the brilliance.

@Kathryn Markel Fine Arts
Location: 529 W 20th Street 6W (map)
Starts: Artist Reception- 6

Tuesday - Friday, 10am to 6pm
Saturday, 11am to 6pm
Cost: Free

Interesting Drawing classes...

Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon "The Conveyor Belt"@ Teatroiati

Every Saturday, Michael Allan holds one of the craziest all day draw-a-thons that I have ever heard of. He supplies an all star cast of strange and beautiful models set in unusual theatrical poses that have do with the theme chosen for the day. This weeks theme is "Conveyor Belt" There will be Performers and models lined up passing random objects emulating each other creating bountiful foreshortening's and body play. Who are we as a human culture? Also their will be 2 acts of Cannibalism in this show. Come make art.

@ Teatroiati
Location: 64 east 4th (map)
Starts: 4 PM, 8:30 PM
Cost: $15 for one half $20 for both

EYEBEAM MIXER

Fuse | Bubblyfish/CHiKA | DJ Spinoza | Lady Firefly
Plus interactive art by:
David Jimison + Jeff Crouse | Zach Lieberman
Saturday, February 23, 9:00PM - Midnight. Tickets: $10.

MIXER, Eyebeam's new series dedicated to showcasing leading performing artists in the fields of live video and audio.

In addition to live performance by video artists, musicians, VJs and DJs, each MIXER event will present new interactive work by Eyebeam artists that encourages audience participation and creative play.

Hybrid in format, and Eyebeam in spirit - collaborative, spontaneous and a little off-the-wall - MIXER will electrify Eyebeam's Chelsea warehouse for a Saturday night quite unlike any other.

TICKETS

Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind, an exhibition of new work by Michel Gondry,

February 16, 2008 — March 22, 2008
18 Wooster Street, New York

Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12PM to 6PM

Be Kind Rewind, an exhibition of new work by Michel Gondry, opens at Deitch Projects on February 16, 2008, shortly before his identically titled film is released in theaters.

Be Kind Rewind is a film about two childhood friends living in Pasaic, New Jersey, trying to make ends meet. After one of the characters accidentally gets his brain magnetized by trying to sabotage a local power plant, he visits the video store his friend is taking care of while the owner is away and unknowingly erases all of the video tapes in the store’s inventory. The characters decide to make their own homemade versions of popular films in a junkyard behind the store. These new “sweded” films—recreations using commonly available, everyday materials—prove more popular with the customers than the originals, making the two friends local celebrities.

Be Kind Rewind

Be Kind Rewind, an exhibition of new work by Michel Gondry,

February 16, 2008 — March 22, 2008
18 Wooster Street, New York

Open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12PM to 6PM

Be Kind Rewind, an exhibition of new work by Michel Gondry, opens at Deitch Projects on February 16, 2008, shortly before his identically titled film is released in theaters.

Be Kind Rewind is a film about two childhood friends living in Pasaic, New Jersey, trying to make ends meet. After one of the characters accidentally gets his brain magnetized by trying to sabotage a local power plant, he visits the video store his friend is taking care of while the owner is away and unknowingly erases all of the video tapes in the store’s inventory. The characters decide to make their own homemade versions of popular films in a junkyard behind the store. These new “sweded” films—recreations using commonly available, everyday materials—prove more popular with the customers than the originals, making the two friends local celebrities.

Opening Reception in Dumbo..

Opening Reception: Julie Pochron & Mireille Vautier @ The Safe T Gallery

Come and check out these two great exhibits opening at the Safe T Gallery in DUMBO. Both artists are extremely talented individuals with brilliant visionary works that refuse not to be recognized!

Julie Pochron -"Omami"

Large format photographs that combine elements of fashion and food commercial photography.
Opening Feb 14th 6 to 8

Mireille Vautier "Embroidered"

Embroidery on fragile media, especially plastic bags.
Opening Feb 14th 6 to 8
Show running from Feb 14th to March 23rd

@ Safe T Gallery
Location: 111 Front St. Suite 214 (map)
Starts: 6 Pm
Cost: Free

Billy the Artist

“Billy the Artist: New Work”
Hosted by GalleryBar

When:
Wednesday, February 6, 2007
6 pm – 10 pm

Where:
GalleryBar
120 Orchard St. between Delancey and Rivington Streets
No Cover, Complimentary Wine from 6-8

Who:
Artist: “Billy the Artist”
Special Guests: Kevin McCollum, Jennifer Missoni
Music By: Nerd Allen

Drawathon Starter get Exhibit..

Michael Alan Solo show, DRAW-A-THING at Mccaig & Welles Gallery

Michael Alan, the founder of Drawathon and infamous graffiti artists has created a brand new exhibit which will be featured at McCaig & Welles gallery. The exhibit will include 50 small works, 15 mixed media on wood, small sculptures, 40 framed and unframed drawings, canvas and music. Come and check the opening reception on February 1, there will be live performance by Michael Alan and Asereht and then at 8pm the exhibit will open to the public the opportunity to draw. Should be a great exhibit, be sure to check it out!

@ McCaig & Welles Gallery
Location: 129 Roebling St, Brooklyn (map)
Starts: 7
Cost: Free

Exhibit to Check out this weekend...

New Exhibit "People" Featuring NYC debut of Thomas Benjamin Scott, as well as works by Robet Attansio, and more @ Jim Kempner Gallery

Come and see this brand new collection of paintings from some of the brightest artist out right now including the NYC debut of Thomas Benjamin Scotts. The theme of the exhibit is "People" and it include some of the most richly painted portraits I have seen in a while. Other artists featured include Diane Arbus, Vincent Arcilesi, Robert Attansio and many other excellent artists! The exhibit runs until Feb. 23rd be sure not to miss it!

@ Jim Kempner Gallery
Location: 501 West 23rd St (map)
Starts: 12 AM
Cost: Free

Great Exhibit to Check out..

New Exhibit "People" Featuring NYC debut of Thomas Benjamin Scott, as well as works by Robet Attansio, and more @ Jim Kempner Gallery

Come and see this brand new collection of paintings from some of the brightest artist out right now including the NYC debut of Thomas Benjamin Scotts. The theme of the exhibit is "People" and it include some of the most richly painted portraits I have seen in a while. Other artists featured include Diane Arbus, Vincent Arcilesi, Robert Attansio and many other excellent artists! The exhibit runs until Feb. 23rd be sure not to miss it!

@ Jim Kempner Gallery
Location: 501 West 23rd St (map)
Starts: 12 AM
Cost: Free

NYC Debut as well as other great artists..

New Exhibit "People" Featuring NYC debut of Thomas Benjamin Scott, as well as works by Robet Attansio, and more @ Jim Kempner Gallery

Come and see this brand new collection of paintings from some of the brightest artist out right now including the NYC debut of Thomas Benjamin Scotts. The theme of the exhibit is "People" and it include some of the most richly painted portraits I have seen in a while. Other artists featured include Diane Arbus, Vincent Arcilesi, Robert Attansio and many other excellent artists! The exhibit runs until Feb. 23rd be sure not to miss it!

@ Jim Kempner Gallery
Location: 501 West 23rd St (map)
Starts: 12 AM
Cost: Free

Shopping, booze and art...

Kevin Bright Opening Reception @ Harriets Alter Ego

Drinks and shopping at Harriets Alter Ego while you check the new brilliant works of Kevin Bright. Definitely sounds like an excellent early evening event that should be hit up. Be there to save on ALL WINTER STOCK which will be reduced TO $3O. Plus shop Harriet's 2008 collection at 20% off tag price. Pretty good deals, excellent art and top it all off with some alcohol drinks, a perfect sunday event be there for it!

@ Harriet's Alter Ego
Location: 293 Flatbush Ave (map)
Starts: 3 PM

Opening Reception ....

Site 92: Phase II @ Smack Mellon

Tonight at Smack mellon begins the second incarnation of Site 92, an exhibit that concentrates solely on Installation art. The exhibit includes work from Gail Biederman, Sonya Blesofsky, Heide Fasnacht, Monika Goetz, Ken Landauer, Steven Millar, Kirsten Nelson, Anne Peabody, Mia Pearlman, Gelah Penn,Bryony Romer, and Anne Thulin. All of this work will be exhibited in this historically remarkable industrial space situated on the park between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the space is full of history and architectural details that combined with the installations should deliver an artistic exploration unparalleled by any other.

This exhibition is made possible with public funds from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Jerome Foundation, Richard Massey, Judith and Donald Rechler Foundation Inc., Eve Sussman and Smack Mellon’s Members.

To Learn More about the exhibits and artists: CLICK HERE

@ Smack Mellon
Location: 92 Plymouth Street (Map)
Starts: 5-8pm
Cost: Free

Brainwaves...

Secrets of the Mind @ Rubin Museum of Art

A moderated discussion follows this documentary by pioneering brain detective V.S. Ramachandran, hailed as “the Sherlock Holmes of neuroscience,” who investigates four mysterious cases and delivers mind-boggling conclusions. Learn about his breakthrough research in phantom-limb syndrome and his discovery of how the brain undergoes a massive "re-wiring" when a person loses a limb.

@Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street (map)
Starts: 1 PM
Cost: $10 (* Free to Museum Members)

Street Art European Style...

The Streets of Europe @ Jonathan Levine Gallery

Every relevant street artist out of Europe under one roof.... The Streets of Europe, a group exhibition featuring installations by six of Europe’s most dynamic Street Artists pack up and head back over the pond today. "The Jonathan LeVine Gallery has invited Blek le Rat, Blu, Bo130, D*Face, Microbo and Space Invader directly from the streets of Europe, to present their work to New York audiences." The show went up on the first and today is your last chance to get a peek.

@ Jonathan Levine Gallery
Location: 529 W. 20th St, 9th Floor (map)
Starts: 11 PM
Cost: FREE

A Holiday themed draw - a - thon

Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon "The Shame of Christmas"@ Teatroiati

Every Saturday, Michael Allan holds one of the craziest all day draw-a-thons that I have ever heard of. He supplies an all star cast of strange and beautiful models set in unusual theatrical poses that have do with the theme chosen for the day. This weeks theme is "The Shame of Christmas" which will allow you to draw models who will be in an evil and happy toy factory sponsored by the devil, trolls and beautiful women. .. Santa and the Dog will be supplying the musical backdrop starting at 9:30 Pm.

@ Teatroiati
Location: 64 east 4th (map)
Starts: 4 PM, 8:30 PM
Cost: $15 for one half $20 for both

Art Skate Extravaganza..

X-Mas SkateBoard Group Art Show @ Avenue.A Japanese Restaurant Gallery

The holidays are here and Mike A is throwing an insane party with great drink specials , over 50 painted skateboard decks and a chance for you to get one of your own painted! So if you are in to drinking some fine wine ($4), Beer ($3) or Sake ($4), while kicking it with some money painters then come get in the holiday mood skater style!

@Avenue A Sushi
Location: 103 Avenue A (map)
Starts: 6-10pm
Cost: $15 for Blank Deck , but no cover to get in

Excellent new Exhibit....

Melanie Prapopoulos @ Broadway Gallery

Melanie Prapopoulos' new exhibit Through Her Eyes at the Broadway Gallery is a compilation of many of her diverse works from her wide collection of series. It includes works from “Rooms of Thought,” which concentrates on abstracted depictions of night shadows and reflected light, “Myth Translated” which is series of Charcoal paintings heavily influenced by Afro-Cuban myths and “Shatterings of Light on Paper” are acrylic-on-paper paintings, representing the penetration of light. It is a beautiful exhibit that is a must see for anyone!

@Broadway Gallery
Location: 473 Broadway, 7th Floor
Starts: Opening Reception- 6-9
Cost: Free

Cool Beans...

Pamplemousse Gala 2007 @ The Safe-T-Gallery

Tonight, Ensemble Pamplemousse will be taking over the
gallery for its annual gala event. Pamplemousse will perform “Pure
and Adulterated Tones,” a full-length concert exploring the building
blocks of sound. The concert showcases the recent compositions of
Andrew Greenwald, Rama Gottfried, and Natacha Diels, and will be
performed by: Kiku Enomoto, vln; Rose Bellini, vcl; Natacha Diels,
fl; Jacob Wick, tpt; Andrew Greenwald, perc; and David Broome, Rhodes/
electronics.

The gala includes an auction with works donated by six
internationally recognized artists: Don Burmeister, Larry Davis,
Marlies Diels, Caitlin Glaser, R. Wayne Parsons, and Chiyoko
Slavnics. In addition to these works, Safe-T-Gallery is donating 20%
of all gallery sales throughout the day.

@ The Safe-T-Gallery
Location: 111 Front St. Gallery 214 (map)
Starts: 6:30
Cost: $10

Indie Icon 's Art Show....

Robert Pollard's Do the Collage @ Studio Dante

Ex Guided By Voices Frontman Robbert Pollard will be premeiring is debut art exhibit tonight at Studio Dante. Come and check his mad skills in art and decide for yourself if he is as brilliant an artist as a musician!

@Studio Dante
Location: 257 West 29th Street (map)
Starts: 10 AM
Cost: Free

Indie Icon 's Art Show....

Robert Pollard's Do the Collage @ Studio Dante

Ex Guided By Voices Frontman Robbert Pollard will be premeiring is debut art exhibit tonight at Studio Dante. Come and check his mad skills in art and decide for yourself if he is as brilliant an artist as a musician!

@Studio Dante
Location: 257 West 29th Street (map)
Starts: 6 PM
Cost: Free

Opening Reception....

Adrian Tomine Art Show - SHORTCOMINGS AND GOINGS @ Giant Robot NY

Giant Robot is pleased to present SHORTCOMINGS AND GOINGS, the artwork of acclaimed cartoonist Adrian Tomine. This is Adrian's second solo show for Giant Robot. On view will be original illustrations from the myriad of publications for which he illustrates, including The New Yorker and Giant Robot. Original artwork from Shortcomings will also be on view. Tonight at the opening reception Adrian will be signing SHORTCOMINGS. Should be a great event.

@Giant Robot NY
Location: 437 E. 9th St (map)
Starts: 6:30 PM
Cost: Free

Check it out...

Tripping the Light Fantastic: an Exhibition of Fine Art Photography @ Agora Gallery

In this extraordinary exhibit the simplest items from the world are captured in the brilliance through the lens of the photographers from all over the world. The exhibiit includes works from Cariappa Annaiah, Gary Auerbach and many other spectacular photographers! Come and check some of the most breathtaking pictures of this century. A definite must see exhibit.

@Agora Gallery
Location: 530 West 25th St (map)
Starts: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm
Cost: Free

Remarkable photo exhibit...

Tripping the Light Fantastic: an Exhibition of Fine Art Photography @ Agora Gallery

In this extraordinary exhibit the simplest items from the world are captured in the brilliance through the lens of the photographers from all over the world. The exhibiit includes works from Cariappa Annaiah, Gary Auerbach and many other spectacular photographers! Come and check some of the most breathtaking pictures of this century. A definite must see exhibit.

@Agora Gallery
Location: 530 West 25th St (map)
Starts: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm
Cost: Free

Blip What??

Blip Festival @ Eyebeam

Tonight begins this 4 day not to miss live music and multi media event featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world. This years festival theme focuses on "the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology... the Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware - such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy - exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character. The festival's nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops, and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world."

Also Open Bar for Singha beer from 7:30- 8

For the Lineups and to Purchase Tickets: HERE

@Eyebeam
Location: 540 W 21st St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10.00 individual night or $35.00 festival pass (including daytime film screenings) *All ticket purchases include a one-year subscription to Time Out New York

Grand Re- Opening!!....

The New Museum Grand Reopening, 30 hours of free admission @ The NEW New Museum

Today The New Museum is opening it's door to their new building and in celebration there will be 30 hours straight of free admission! So come and check out the NEW new museum building and the inaugural exhibition. May contemporary art reign at the New Museum!

@ The New Museum
Location: 235 Bowery St (map)
Starts: Sat. 12 pm to Sun. 6 PM
Cost: Free (w/ticket)

Blip What??

Blip Festival @ Eyebeam

Tonight begins this 4 day not to miss live music and multi media event featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world. This years festival theme focuses on "the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology... the Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware - such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy - exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character. The festival's nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops, and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world."

Also Open Bar for Singha beer from 7:30- 8

For the Lineups and to Purchase Tickets: HERE

@Eyebeam
Location: 540 W 21st St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $10.00 individual night or $35.00 festival pass (including daytime film screenings) *All ticket purchases include a one-year subscription to Time Out New York

Grand Re- Opening!!....

The New Museum Grand Reopening, 30 hours of free admission @ The NEW New Museum

Today The New Museum is opening it's door to their new building and in celebration there will be 30 hours straight of free admission! So come and check out the NEW new museum building and the inaugural exhibition. May contemporary art reign at the New Museum!

@ The New Museum
Location: 235 Bowery St (map)
Starts: Sat. 12 pm to Sun. 6 PM
Cost: Free (w/ticket)

Art Exhibit to Check out....

Richard Prince's Spiritual America @ Guggenheim Museum

Here is an art exhibit that is a must see! So if you have any time over the Thanksgiving break this is the exhibit to check out! Spiritual America includes some of Princes most celebrated paintings including his pulp romance novel influenced collection of nurses. Absolutely brilliant!

@Guggenheim Museum
Location: 5th Ave at 89th St (map)
Starts: 10 am
Cost: $15 (BUY NOW)

Art Exhibit to Check out....

Richard Prince's Spiritual America @ Guggenheim Museum

Here is an art exhibit that is a must see! So if you have any time over the Thanksgiving break this is the exhibit to check out! Spiritual America includes some of Princes most celebrated paintings including his pulp romance novel influenced collection of nurses. Absolutely brilliant!

@Guggenheim Museum
Location: 5th Ave at 89th St (map)
Starts: 10 am
Cost: $15 (BUY NOW)

Pretty Sweet Art Event....

Sound of Art Presents Fall Through @ NOSTYLGIA

Here is an excellent event that has every key element that anyone would need for an amazing party. It's got Free Booze thanks to Budweiser, Free food, some excellent art to check out and a pretty sweet shoe store to have it all in. So be sure to let yourself "Fall Through" to last and final Sound of Art event of the year, you wont regret it.

@ NOSTYLGIA
Location: 281 Dyckman Street (map)
Starts: 4 PM
Cost: Free (w/ RSVP)

Exhibit to Check Out!!

Peter Gallo "I Will Not Be Judy Garland" @ Sunday L.E.S

Vermont-based artist Peter Gallo dabbles with painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture. Gallo's works are jam packed with literary, art historical, cultural, political and musical references that when seen together, combine to create a poetic, visually compelling experience not to be missed. Be sure to check out his new exhibit at the Sunday L.E.S, it is brilliant.

@ Sunday L.E.S
Location: 237 Eldridge Street (map)
Starts: 12 PM- 6 PM (Weds- Sun)
Cost: Free (Appointments strongly encouraged)

Painting Nude portraits.

Michael Alan's Dinner Party Draw-A-Thon @ Teatroiati

Every second Saturday, Michael Allan throws one of the craziest all day draw-a-thons/dinner parties that I have ever heard of. He supplies an all star cast of strange and beautiful models set in an unreal and imaginary mix matched nude and costume dinner feast for ARTISTS TO PAINT OR DRAW. There are 12 models,1 nude butler,3 bands, and a theater art making performance. I would say it is definitely worth the price of admission.

@ Teatroiati
Location: 64 east 4th (map)
Starts: 4 PM, 8:30 PM
Cost: $15 for one half $20 for both

Excellent Exhibit... and booze

Miguel Paredes– B-Boys @ Capla Kesting Fine Art

Miguel Paredes' boundless approach to the canvas is evident upon sight, communicated through his vibrant and eclectic artistic style; a meshing of abstracted figurative painting, rich with line drawings and floral elements. Working in mixed media, Paredes' work is energetic, sometimes frantically so. His new exhibit, B-Boys opens today and it is a must see! Come to check out the new exhibit and enjoy the free Kelso Brewery Beer that will be getting served. Should be a great event.

@Capla Kesting Fine Art
Location: 121 Roebling St. (map)
Starts: 7
Cost: Free

Not to miss Art Exhibit/ Party...

The RE*Generation Gallery 2007 Auction and Benefit @ Skylight

Come and join Virgin Mobile USA & DJ James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem for an evening of entertainment, cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and the silent auction of new works by:

Diane Barcelowsky, Melinda Beck, Calef Brown, Thomas Campbell, Clayton Brothers, Daniel Davidson, James Gallagher, Julie Goldstein, Matt Hansel, Caroline Hwang, Jordin Isip, Rich Jacobs, Chesiel John, Greg Lamarche, Matt Leines, Julia Marchand, Taylor McKimens, Jean-Pierre Roy, Antonio Sanchez, Denise Tassin and Eric White.

Great Art, an amazing DJ set by James Murphy, drinks, food and 100% of proceeds raised will benefit non-profit organizations working on the issue of youth homelessness. Seems like an event that should most definitely not be missed!

@ Skylight Studio
Location: 275 Hudson St. (map)\
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $25

A day at Galapagos

Galapagos New Media Showcase @ Galapagos Art Space

A great showcase of visual media artists as well as live art performances that will blow you away.

Live Performances:
Matt Freedman (Cartoon Drawing)
Tim Spellos (Percussion)
Bubbly Fish (GameBoy Music)
Ken Butler(Hybrid instruments)

Visual Media:
Richard Kern (Video Short)
Marcin Ramocki (Video Short Comedy)
Jillian McDonald (Zombie Animation)
William Stone (dvd)
Linda Post (video installation)

@ Galapagos Art Space
Locations: 70 N 6th St(map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: Free

artastic!!

Lucas Reiner @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia is pleased to present the work of Los Angeles based artist Lucas Reiner. In Reiner's neighborhood in Los Angeles there are trees from every continent of the world and as a result he has become fascinated visually by one thing often overlooked about them-curbside trees are trimmed, often radically, by the Department of Transportation to accommodate buildings, commerce, and traffic.

Reiner discovers trees while driving. By visualizing the trees against a neutralized but smoggy background, Reiner finds subject for portraiture. Reiner is constantly impressed in Los Angeles by the insistent dedication of nature to grow in spite of the restrictions placed upon it, and by the forms that result from this contest.

So yeah go and check out this exciting new exhibit on trees in weird places. Should be cool!

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Ave (map)
Starts: 6 PM
Cost: Free

Fantasy Art exhibit Nice!

Meta Majesty @ Chashama 217

Come and check out the opening reception of the excepetionally creative art exhibit that will blow you mind. Here is a little bit more about the show:

"Meta-Majesty," curated by Tracy Candido, suggests that perhaps this curious channeling of all things magical is a very real response to our current earthly chaos. This form of escapism is proposing a spectral reflection towards a nation diseased with war, ignorance, and environmental disregard. Jessie Rose Vala describes her installations and drawings as having themes of health including the vitality of the planet which she juxtaposes against the reality of living as an American; a predator to the environment, living amongst a garble of information. Her therapy is performed through fabricating the antithesis of these current conditions, by sliding into a landscape made purely of the fantastical.

@Chashama 217
Location: 169 Avenue C (map)
Starts: 7 Pm
Cost: Free

Halloween Comes Early @ MF Gallery...

MF Gallery Rock N Roll Pre-Halloween Bash@ MF Gallery

Halloween comes a little early this year as MF Gallery kicks off their annual Halloween Art Show and Horror Film Festival tonight. The opening - on top of lots of spooky-centric art - will be an all out party with live performances by the Satanic Superhero Robot Band and DETHRACE. (a unique mix of Speed Metal and Crazy Performance Art). And the best part is anyone in a costume will drink free beer all night!

@MF Gallery
Location: 157 Rivington St (map)
Starts: 7
Cost: Free

Check it out before it's gone...

Richard Serra, Sculpture: Forty Years @ Museum of Modern Art

Come and check out this amazing exhibit before it leaves the MoMA. His wholly innovative sculptures mainly processed with industrial materials has made him one of the pioneering installation artists of the last century. Come and check out this exhibit which surveys his 40 year career from his early works mainly based with rubber to the last 20 years of torqued steel sculptures he has created. Exhibit end Sept 24, so be sure to check it out before it leaves.

@MoMA
Location: 11 W 53rd St (map)
Starts: 10:30 am
Cost:$20, Seniors , $16 senior,$12, Children 16 and under

Land of a Million Barts...

Bart Simpson DIY Show @ The Showroom NYC

Genevieve Gauckler, Eiko Maekawa, Arthur Kinmore and more than 100 other artists were given the chance to create customized ten-inch versions of the world's most famous juvenile delinquent. The results, featured in this weekend exhibit sponsored by collectibles haven ToyTokyo, run the gamut from Homer Jr. and Donut Bart to zombified takes on the spiky haired hooligan.

@The Showroom NYC
Location: 117 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 2 PM
Cost: Free

Land of a Million Barts...

Bart Simpson DIY Show @ The Showroom NYC

Genevieve Gauckler, Eiko Maekawa, Arthur Kinmore and more than 100 other artists were given the chance to create customized ten-inch versions of the world's most famous juvenile delinquent. The results, featured in this weekend exhibit sponsored by collectibles haven ToyTokyo, run the gamut from Homer Jr. and Donut Bart to zombified takes on the spiky haired hooligan.

@The Showroom NYC
Location: 117 Second Ave (map)
Starts: 2 PM
Cost: Free