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MOMA Celebrates Brazil...

MoMA Thursday Nights w/ Forro In The Dark @ Museum of Modern Art

During the month of July the MoMA will be celebrating the vibrant culture of Brazil with live music, food and dancing! There will live samba and bossa nova music, regional tapas in the Sculpture Garden and live performances by Brazilian bands. This weeks performance will be by Forro in the Dark. Should be a great event at an awesome museum!

@ MoMa
Location: 11 W 53rd St (map)
Starts: 5:30 PM
Cost: $20 adults; $16 seniors, 65 years and over with I.D.; $12 full-time students with current I.D.

Interesting event

Sweatshop Social @ 3rd Ward

Bags for the People and 3rd Ward have partnered up to bring you "Sweatshop Socials" every last Monday of each month, from 7 to 10pm. You bring the fun and the fabric; we'll provide the sewing machines, instruction, drinks($1 if you bring a cup, $3 if you don't), snacks and live music.

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 8:00 pm
Cost: TBA

Present you ideas..

Pocket Utopia presents: "Finally Utopic" The Final Salon @ Pocket Utopia

Come out to the Final Salon today at Pocket Utopia.

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

NIfty Keen..

Piñata Party @ Secret Project Robot Gallery

An artist made piñata show that will happen in conjunction with the Make Music New York Festival. Twelve bands will perform on the streets outside of the gallery, while a barbecue will be simmering with all sorts of goodies for this backyard ho down. Salome and Jmikal have brought artist together from all across the U.S. and a few from Europe to lend their vision to the classic Mexican piñata. The works will be on display all day in the gallery, but come night fall we will choose people to choose a piñata they want to destroy. And oh yes there will be some goodies inside. It will be a day of fun and art and music. Fun starts at 1p and will go into the night, can't wait to see you.

@ Secret Project Robot Gallery
Location: 210 Kent Avenue, Brklyn (map)
Starts: 1 pm
Cost: Free

Chocalate and Surf Photos...

Chocolate Bar at Henri Bendel presents ‘Endless Summer’ Surf Soiree @ Chocolate Bar at Henri Bendel

Here is a unique event to celebrate the launch of a new surf photography exhibition from Matt Schwartz’s She Hit Pause Studios. Enjoy beverages and beach bites while checking out this great new exhibit.

@ Chocolate Bar at Henri Bendel
Location: 712 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor Atrium (map)
Starts: 6-8 PM
Cost: Free

Should be cool....

Sacrosanct @ St. John's Episcopal American Catholic Church

Sacrosanct is a group exhibit dealing with issues of religious resonance and spirituality. Sacrosanct takes place at a church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The building was built in 1920, and acted as a church from 1941. Since the dissolution of the church body in the 1990s, the space has been abandoned and closed to the public. Despite its subsequent deterioration, the space still retains its sense of holiness and importance.

Featured artists include: Antoine Catala, Stephen Collier, Patrick Duncan, Zaq Landsberg, Sophie T. Lvoff, Heather Jones, Santiago Mostyn, Eric Payson, Grant Willing and Alana Celii. Featured musicians for the closing reception include: Young Man About Town, Patrick Cleandenim, Trent Wolbe and Flaming Fire, and the St. John’s Choir.

@ St. John's Episcopal American Catholic Church
Location: 1610 Lexington Avenue (map)
Starts: 4:30
Cost: Free

Interesting Installation

IMAGINARY PLASTIC: projections and music (live and not) created by Bradley Eros @ Issue Project Room

For this evening, the artist Bradley Eros creates a synergistic combination of original filmworks inspired by and including repertoire by Messiaen and Stockhausen, and audiovisual performances of works by Cage and Stockhausen, including Eros's original method of 'musique plastique,' burning projected gels and film with contact microphones. Collaborations with Nastya Osipova and Twisty Cat (Lea Bertucci and Ed Bear) round out the evening.

@ Issue Project Room
Location: 232 Third Street 3rd floor(map)
Starts:8 PM
Cost: $10

Late night museum fun!!

MOMA Monday Nights@ Museum of Modern Art

Enjoy a warm-weather MoMA Monday Nights on June 8. PopRally presents an evening of site-specific performances by the unpredictable Brooklyn music collective Stars Like Fleas.

Come and Spend an excellent night at the MoMA when they stay open until 8:45 so you can check out the exhibitions films, as well as rock to the DJ, and enjoy a drink at the cash bar.

@ MoMa
Location: 11 W 53rd St (map)
Starts: 5:30 PM
Cost: $20

The arts Abound

This weekend's Bushwick Open Studios Festival looks simply incredible. Taking place is "a self-organized art festival including artists opening their studios to the public, an art parade and the Cabaret ¡Art Spectacular! at Nutroaster Saturday night. To end the weekend participants are invited to unwind at a film screening and community BBQ on Sunday night. Anyone in the community is welcome to participate by presenting art work, organizing activities, or by helping to produce the event. The purpose of the festival is to create an open and inclusive event that benefits the entire community by sharing artistic projects and encouraging community interaction and dialogue."

Here's a list of individual festival events including times and locations. Celebrate free culture and community at BOS 2009 this weekend!

Fine Arts Abound in Bushwick

This weekend's Bushwick Open Studios Festival looks simply incredible. Taking place is "a self-organized art festival including artists opening their studios to the public, an art parade and the Cabaret ¡Art Spectacular! at Nutroaster Saturday night. To end the weekend participants are invited to unwind at a film screening and community BBQ on Sunday night. Anyone in the community is welcome to participate by presenting art work, organizing activities, or by helping to produce the event. The purpose of the festival is to create an open and inclusive event that benefits the entire community by sharing artistic projects and encouraging community interaction and dialogue."

Here's a list of individual festival events including times and locations. Celebrate free culture and community at BOS 2009 this weekend!

Interesting Discussion

Martin Krenn Art & Activism @ The Change You Want to See Gallery

This Thursday evening artist and activist Martin Krenn will present his work that ranges from co-operative, socially committed and participatory projects to politically symbolic, provocative actions. Based in Vienna, Austria, Krenn is an artist, curator, filmmaker, and activist whose work focuses on strategies and methods of resistance to the governing relations of power. He uses different media such as photography, video and the internet to develop projects that are realized in exhibitions, the web and in public space. His talk will give insights in his newer projects where an extended concept of art, subversive techniques and testing the so-called 'freedom of art' are deployed mostly strategically.

@ The Change You Want To See Gallery
Location: Location: 84 Havemeyer Street(map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: Free

New Exhibit to Check out...

Extreme Mammals: The biggest, smallest, and most amazing mammals
of all time @ Museum of Natural History

Last Friday I was given a chance to experience this amazing new exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. It was a wonderfully curated multimedia exhibit that was as fun as it was engaging. You got to learn about amazing mammals that have lived through out planet earths existence and how they have changed or ceased to exist over time. I got to learn about a mammal that ate dinosaurs! Pretty intriguing stuff!

So if you are looking for something fun to do with younger cousins or nephews or tapping in to your childlike wonder than this is really worth checking out!

@ The American Museum of Natural History, LeFrak Theater
Location: Central Park West at 79th St (map)
(use the Museum’s 77th Street entrance between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
Starts: 9 AM- 5:30PM
Cost: $24 for adults, $14 for children, and $18 for seniors and students.

Art and Boooze...

Drink-N-Draw @ 3rd Ward

Booze fueled art! How can you go wrong? 3rd Ward will be combining the two for a solid midweek art event that will most definitely be a great time. Not sure if there are nude models, but if so this could possibly be the best weds event ever.

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 8:00 pm
Cost: $15, or $20 for two

New Exhibit to Check out...

Extreme Mammals: The biggest, smallest, and most amazing mammals
of all time @ Museum of Natural History

Last Friday I was given a chance to experience this amazing new exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. It was a wonderfully curated multimedia exhibit that was as fun as it was engaging. You got to learn about amazing mammals that have lived through out planet earths existence and how they have changed or ceased to exist over time. I got to learn about a mammal that ate dinosaurs! Pretty intriguing stuff!

So if you are looking for something fun to do with younger cousins or nephews or tapping in to your childlike wonder than this is really worth checking out!

@ The American Museum of Natural History, LeFrak Theater
Location: Central Park West at 79th St (map)
(use the Museum’s 77th Street entrance between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
Starts: 9 AM- 5:30PM
Cost: $24 for adults, $14 for children, and $18 for seniors and students.

Groovy art opening

Opening Reception: Installation Five @ The Showroom NYC

Tonight is the opening reception to a great new installation of spectacular artist who include Blek le Rat, Christina M. Felice, Edwin Ushiro, Angela Boatwright, Logan Hicks and Tessar Lo will all be in attendance. Also Turntable Lab affiliate Blue Jemz, who recently released a CD through Scion A/V, will be spinning. Should be a good event.

@ The Showroom NYC
Location: 117 2nd Ave (map)
Starts: 7 pM
Cost: Free

New Moma Exhibit to Check out....

Aernout Mik @ Museum of Modern Art

This exhibition presents a series of discrete installations by Aernout Mik (Dutch, b. 1962), placed in both non-gallery and gallery spaces throughout the Museum. Mik—whose work encompasses motion picture, sculpture, architecture, performance, and social commentary—interrogates the nature of reality and subverts the traditional relationship between viewer and viewed. The exhibition includes eight time-based works, including Mik's earliest 16mm film Fluff (1996), shown on television monitors in several locations. A newly commissioned two-screen work is projected in the corridor facing the second-floor Special Exhibition Galleries, where the six-screen Vacuum Room (2005) and the single-screen Training Ground (2006) are also on view. Raw Footage (2006), Mik's only piece edited from actual newsreel documents, hangs in the Titus 1 Lobby Gallery, while the widescreen Osmosis (2005) floats inside the Museum's main lobby near the Fifty-fourth Street entrance. The single-screen floor piece Middlemen (2001) greets visitors in the main lobby near the Fifty-third Street entrance.
@ MoMa
Location: 11 W 53rd St (map)
Starts: 10 PM
Cost: $12

Great New Exhibit

Pocket Utopia presents: Maggie Michael, “Emotional Infinity Opening Reception @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia is pleased to present “Emotional Infinity (Subtitling Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles)”featuring the work of Maggie Michael, with Michele Araujo and Will and Mary Pappenheimer in the project space, and a new print edition by Brece Honeycutt.

“Emotional Infinity (Subtitling Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles)” marks a shift for artist Maggie Michael toward text and sculpture. Michael weaves a groove between relationships and time by using marquis signs, a mirror, and vinyl records with custom-made engraved text, in a tone of time suspended.

A Washington, D.C. artist, Maggie Michael pieces together an inaudible soundscape of intense and desolate feelings reverberant with art, film and literary pasts. On the flipside, Michael arranges the presidential, the monumental and the still. Spreading out over the walls of the space, Michael allows references to Beuys and Houellebecq to resonate while her entire installation reads as a book from left to right. For Michael, the rhetorical and romantic, sound, sign and a little haute couture deconstruct into a well-written and performed language full of possibilities.

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

Cool Exhibit to check out...

Opening Reception: Delhi to Manhattan, Photos by Paul Blackburn @ Tibet House Gallery

Delhi to Manhattan is a collection of photographs from Blackthorne’s trip to India in May 2008. The first part of his trip was spent with The Missing Peace project en route to meeting His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The second part was spent in the Himalayas, trekking in Ladakh, followed by a stop in Bombay to catch up with friends. The exhibition captures some interesting things that popped up along the way: Former NBA star John Salley playing basketball with the children of the Tibetan Children's Village, musician and composer Gustavo Santaolalla playing his charango for the Tibetan Oracle, full circle rainbows of the sun, curious donkeys and Buddha's birthday celebrations, to name a few.

Come and check it out!

@ Tibet House Gallery
Location: 22 West 15th Street (map)
Starts: 6 PM
Cost: Free

Last Chance...

Closing Reception for Two-Week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia's two-week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud featuring: Silvina Arismendi (Uruguay), Mauricio Limon (Mexico) and the collaborative team of Martin y Sicilia (Canary Islands) is coming to an end.

Come on out tonight for your last chance to check out the artist's in residency's works!

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

Art Spanning the Globe...

A Two-Week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia presents this two-week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud featuring: Silvina Arismendi (Uruguay), Mauricio Limon (Mexico) and the collaborative team of Martin y Sicilia (Canary Islands)

Come and check out the artist's in residency works in progress! Should be a great show!

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: Free

Silk Screen YOUR FACE! Party....

SILK SCREEN PARTY for Brian Leo's - Brian Leo is every Soldier in the World @ Leo Kesting Gallery

Brian Leo will be providing 5 images for you to customize your clothing with tonight at the silk screen party! Bring your gear, be it shirts, blouses, dresses, ties, book bags and the like to get the following screens on them! Kelso of Brooklyn will be pouring the beers and music will be provided by DJ Masta Kim.

@ Leo Kesting Gallery
Location: 812 Washington St, NY (map)
Starts: 7 Pm
Cost: Free

Art Spanning the Globe...

A Two-Week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia presents this two-week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud featuring: Silvina Arismendi (Uruguay), Mauricio Limon (Mexico) and the collaborative team of Martin y Sicilia (Canary Islands)

Come and check out the artist's in residency works in progress! Should be a great show!

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: Free

Art Spanning the Globe...

A Two-Week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia presents this two-week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud featuring: Silvina Arismendi (Uruguay), Mauricio Limon (Mexico) and the collaborative team of Martin y Sicilia (Canary Islands)

Come and check out the artist's in residency works in progress! Should be a great show!

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: Free

I'm Walkin'

Soho Arts Walk @ SOHO

Experience SoHo’s art scene like never before with a walk down famous cobblestone streets that were once the stomping grounds of such greats as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. New York's SoHo Arts Walk is a collaboration of more than 20 of the neighborhood's fine, established galleries who exhibit their new works simultaneously.

@ SOHO (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: Free

Art Spanning the Globe...

A Two-Week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia presents this two-week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud featuring: Silvina Arismendi (Uruguay), Mauricio Limon (Mexico) and the collaborative team of Martin y Sicilia (Canary Islands)

Come and check out the artist's in residency works in progress! Should be a great show!

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: Free

Art Spanning the Globe...

A Two-Week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia presents this two-week International Residency Organized by Omar Lopez-Chahoud featuring: Silvina Arismendi (Uruguay), Mauricio Limon (Mexico) and the collaborative team of Martin y Sicilia (Canary Islands)

Come and check out the artist's in residency works in progress! Should be a great show!

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 7 pm
Cost: Free

Art and Boooze...

Drink-N-Draw @ 3rd Ward

Booze fueled art! How can you go wrong? 3rd Ward will be combining the two for a solid midweek art event that will most definitely be a great time. Not sure if there are nude models, but if so this could possibly be the best weds event ever.

@3rd Ward
Location: 195 Morgan Ave @ Stagg St. (map)
Starts: 8:00 pm
Cost: $15, or $20 for two

Bike to the art museum

MOMA Monday Nights@ Museum of Modern Art

Bike to MoMA on April 6 and get half-price admission and free bicycle valet parking!

Come and Spend an excellent night at the MoMA tonight when they stay open until 8:45 so you can check out the exhibitions, films, as well as rock to the DJ, and enjoy a drink at the cash bar.

@ MoMa
Location: 11 W 53rd St (map)
Starts: 5:30 PM
Cost: $20

Building Rome!!!

The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project, or, Building Rome in a Day @ New Museum

Los Angeles-based artitst Liz Glynn and an army of fellow volunteers to build Rome, in a day. Using salvaged building material and cardboard we will recreate the ancient capital in historical order, from the thatched hut of Romulus 753 BC to the sacking by the Visigoths AD 410.

The evening begins with pagan revelries, seven empty hills and a spotty archaeological record. Overnight, periods of frenzied construction are interrupted by invasions and fires. Ideologies shift and the ambition of the empire is realized through increasingly grand designs - power made concrete. But inevitable decline brings orgiastic feasting and mass destruction.

Stay up all night in the museum. The best part is you can join in on the building! Should be a great event!

www.rebuildromegmail.com

@ The New Museum
Location: 235 Bowery (map)
Starts: 6:30 Pm
Cost: free

The one the only yoko

yoko ono in conversation with Alexandra Munroe Passages for Light @
Guggenheim Art Museum

The legendary Yoko will be discussing I am guessing her art with Alexandra Munroe should be interesting conversation for a really cool exhibit.

@Guggenheim Museum
Location: 5th Ave at 89th St (map)
Starts: 6:30 PM
Cost:$30, $25 members

Iconic Director Talks Art Work

JOHN WATERS talks with leading contemporary art scholar ROBERT STORR @ 92nd Street Y

You know John Waters’ iconic films Pink Flamingoes, Polyester, Serial Mom, Female Trouble, Cry-Baby and, of course, Hairspray. But do you know his art? Find out about it tonight when he talks with contemporary art scholar Robert Storr.

@ 92 Street Y
Location: 1395 Lexington Avenue (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: $27 or $10 with student idea

pretty nifty....

NEW PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION FEATURING: FOUR BMW ART CARS BY STELLA, WARHOL, LICHTENSTEIN AND RAUSCHENBERG AND A PROJECT BY CONTEMPORARY ARTIST ROBIN RHODE UNVEILED @ GRAND CENTRAL STATION

A two-week free public art installation featuring two distinct sections – a collection of four iconic BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg and a project by South-African born artist Robin Rhode who used a BMW Z4 Roadster mounted with special paint dispensers behind its wheels to create a football-field size painting , a 30’ x 40’ section of which will be shown – will be unveiled today at Grand Central Station.

@ Grand Central Station, Vanderbilt Hall
Location: 87 East 42nd St. (map)
Starts: 11 PM
Cost: Free

Intriguing Documentary...

screening of Dissociationism @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia presents a screening of Dissociationism-an art movement at the end of the millennium a-40-minute video 'documentary' in conjunction with Adam Simon's solo exhibition "Paintings and Prototypes," with footage of David Zwirner, Pat Hearn and other luminaries from the New York art world of the early 1990s.

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 7 pm
Cost: Free

Late night museum fun!!

MOMA Monday Nights@ Museum of Modern Art

Come and Spend an excellent night at the MoMA tonight when they stay open until 8:45 so you can check out the exhibitions, films, as well as rock to the DJ, and enjoy a drink at the cash bar.

@ MoMa
Location: 11 W 53rd St (map)
Starts: 5:30 PM
Cost: $20

Coffee and art

Kevin Regan's Coffee talk @ Pocket Utopia

Pocket Utopia's resident artist Kevin Regan resumes his "coffee talk". Be sure to come out and do a little chit chatting about the arts.

@ Pocket Utopia
Location: 1037 Flushing Avenue (map)
Starts: 2 pm
Cost: Free

Another Great Arts and Tunes party..

MIXER: EXPO + Juan Maclean @ Eye Beam

This is event is going to be pretty awesome! you get to check out some great art while DJ Juan Maclean spins some awesome tunes! Not a bad night if you ask me.

Featuring:

* Taeyoon Choi + Cheon pyo Lee
* Angela Co + Aeolab
* Anakin Koenig, Chris Jordan, Caspar Stracke
* The Institute for Faith-Based Technology
* The Loud Objects
* Di Mainstone
* Not An Alternative
* Mark Shepard
* Cati Vaucelle, Steve Shada, Marisa Jahn

@Eyebeam
Location: 540 W 21st St (map)
Starts: 8 PM
Cost: $15 for single day pass and $30 for 2 day

New Solo Exhibits...

La Revolucion Es Poder Para El Pueblo Featuring Blane De St. Croix Carlos Motta Artist Reception @ Smack Mellon

Smack Mellon is pleased to present two powerful and timely exhibitions featuring the work of Blane De St. Croix and Carlos Motta. In the main gallery space, De St. Croix's eighty foot long installation draws our attention to the physical landscape of the Mexico/US border. While in the back project room, Motta's video installation focuses on the influence of the US and its foreign policy on the Latin American population.

@ Smack Mellon
Location: 92 Plymouth Street (Map)
Starts: 5 PM
Cost: Free

Check it out...

Artists' Reception @ Smack Mellon

Come visit Smack Mellon's six studio artists as they finish up their year-long residency on the lower level of our building at 92 Plymouth Street.

Chitra Ganesh
Wayne Hodge
Jennie C. Jones
Emcee CM, Master of None
Carlos Motta
Ginger Brooks Takahashi

@ Smack Mellon
Location: 92 Plymouth Street (Map)
Starts: 12 AM
Cost: Free

Opening Day in Brooklyn

Adam Simon: "Paintings and Prototypes" @ Pocket Utopia

Great new exhibit opens at Pocket Utopia. Come and check it out!

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

Check it out

Opening Reception: The Portrait: Painted and Personal @ Tabla Rasa Gallery

The Portrait: Painted and Personal curated by Robin Ross, and Giustina Surbone. This exhibition presents the viewer an opportunity to see beyond traditional portrait painting. Included is a portrait of the gay icon, Quentin Crisp, English writer, raconteur and theatrical performer. In this larger-than-life painting, Giustina Surbone, captures a quiet moment as this singular figure fills the canvas with a larger-than-life personality, even as he sleeps.

@ Tabla Rasa Gallary
Location: 224 48 st, Brooklyn (map)
Starts: 6 pm
Cost: Free

Interesting exhibit...

Alex Fleming @ Lisa Cooley Fine Art

Exhibit opens today and runs until April 12. Definitely worth checking out.

@Lisa Cooley
Location: 34 Orchard Street (map)
Starts: 6 PM
Cost: Free

Pretty Awesome Saturday Event..

Soho Arts Walk @ SOHO

Experience SoHo’s art scene like never before with a walk down famous cobblestone streets that were once the stomping grounds of such greats as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. New York's SoHo Arts Walk is a collaboration of more than 20 of the neighborhood's fine, established galleries who exhibit their new works simultaneously.

@ SOHO (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: Free

Cool Event

Animalania group show @ FUSE Gallery

Come on out to this great ASPCA benefit show. Featuring works from such artists as James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Karen O and Nick Zinner (the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs) and Spike Jonze. Should be pretty cool stuff.

@ FUSE Gallery
Location: 93 2nd Ave (map)
Starts: 12 PM
Cost: Free

Cool Event

Animalania group show @ FUSE Gallery

Come on out to this great ASPCA benefit show. Featuring works from such artists as James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Karen O and Nick Zinner (the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs) and Spike Jonze. Should be pretty cool stuff.

@ FUSE Gallery
Location: 93 2nd Ave (map)
Starts: 12 PM
Cost: Free

Cool Exhibit....

Animalania group show @ FUSE Gallery

Come on out to the opening reception of this great ASPCA benefit show. Featuring works from such artists as James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Karen O and Nick Zinner (the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs) and Spike Jonze. Should be pretty cool stuff.

@ FUSE Gallery
Location: 93 2nd Ave (map)
Starts: 7 PM
Cost: Free

Cool Sounds Performance...

Arctic Circle @ Lisa Cooley- 34 Orchard Street

Today at Lisa Cooley gallery there is going to be a pretty nifty Artic Circle sound performance going on with Jen DeNike, Carlton DeWoody, Tyler Burba and special guest Dan Perrone

Organized by Scott Calhoun

The Circle beckons! Which is cool

@Lisa Cooley
Location: 34 Orchard Street (map)
Starts: 5 PM
Cost: Free

Opening Reception...

MAKE LOVE WAR Multimedia Event @ Anonymous Gallery

NY Creative Director little marvin becomes the Johnny Appleseed of Love after a beloved family member is caught in the crossfire of the recent terrorist attacks on Mumbai, and begins his world-tour and MAKE LOVE WAR campaign.

MULTIMEDIA EVENT: MAKE LOVE WAR, opening on Valentine's Day, a month-long exhibition where little marvin invites New Yorkers to cut hearts from a huge shimmering gold army tent into thousands of gold hearts that will cover the gallery walls in a blanket of gold light, while being simultaneously broadcast live-feed throughout the world.

@ Anonymous Gallery
Location: 329 Broome St (map)
Starts: 7-10 Pm
Cost: Free

Cool Event

Jon Burgerman & Jim Avignon, Anxiety Room @ Factory Fresh

Jon Burgerman flies across the pond to collaborate with his friend Jim Avignon and fill the gallery with many drawings and paintings of their beloved characters. It will be a space to relieve your anxieties, or
perhaps further incubate them.

@ Factory Fresh
Location: 1053 Flushing Ave (map)
Starts: 6 Pm
Cost: free

Cool Event

Jon Burgerman & Jim Avignon, Anxiety Room @ Factory Fresh

Jon Burgerman flies across the pond to collaborate with his friend Jim Avignon and fill the gallery with many drawings and paintings of their beloved characters. It will be a space to relieve your anxieties, or
perhaps further incubate them.

For opening night there will be a live painting performance with Jon and Jim. Also open bar! Enjoy the night!

@ Factory Fresh
Location: 1053 Flushing Ave (map)
Starts: 6 Pm
Cost: free

Cool Exhibit to check out...

Alexander Calder: The Paris Years @ The Whitney

If you've ever spent a day at the Whitney, it's likely you've stumbled upon Alexander Calder's miniature circus. The DIY cloth and wire figures that look like they could be children's toys have been a fixture there since the artist lent them to the museum in 1970. The Paris Years documents Calder's development from a painter into a sculptor and gives more space than normal to see the ringmaster, sword swallower, tightrope walker and other characters come to life on screen and as still-lifes in large cases.

@ Whitney
Location:945 Madison Ave (map)
Starts: 11 am
Cost: $15 or $10 with a student ID

Late night museum fun!!

MOMA Monday Nights@ Museum of Modern Art

Come and Spend an excellent night at the MoMA tonight when they stay open until 8:45 so you can check out the exhibitions, films, as well as rock to the DJ, and enjoy a drink at the cash bar.

@ MoMa
Location: 11 W 53rd St (map)
Starts: 5:30 PM
Cost: $20

Cool beans..

Invisible Somethings:f eaturing the Artwork of Brian Willmont, Eric Shaw, and Denise Kupferschmidt @ 92YTribeca

Come on out to the Opening wine reception with the artists:Brian Willmont, Eric Shaw, and Denise Kupferschmidt. Should be a really cool installation. Check it out!

@ 92YTribeca
Location: 200 Hudson Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: Free

Pretty Cool Slide Show...

Aki Onda Cinemage with Loren Connors @ 34 Orchard Street

inemage is an audio-visual or cinematic project started by Aki Onda in 2005. Cinemage means "images for cinema," or "homage for cinema." Performances are composed of slide projections of still photographs and guitar improvisation.

The visual images in Cinemage are snapshots taken from Onda's daily life. He applies similar methods developed from his work as a composer, particularly his ongoing project Cassette Memories, in which he plays field-recordings which he made as a sound diary. By documenting fragments of his personal life, something is revealed in their accumulation. The meanings of the original events are stripped of their significance, exposing the architecture and essence of memory.

On this occasion, Loren Conners plays guitar along with Onda's visuals.

Pretty cool stuff...

@ 34 Orchard Street (map)
Starts: 7:30 PM
Cost: $8

Check out this Exhibit..

Ruud van Empel, Dawn, Souvenir, World, Moon @ Stefan Stux Gallery

Ruud new exhibit looks pretty amazing! Come and check out tonight and have a drink.

@ Stefan Stux Gallery
Location: 530 West 25th Street (map)
Starts: 6 PM
Cost: Free

Check it out..

Separate Entities @ Museum 52

SARAH BRAMAN | ANDY CROSS | TAMAR HALPERN | AMY GRANAT | MATT KEEGAN | JACOB ROBICHAUX

Referencing the mechanics of collage, Separate Entities presents artworks fabricated from complete singular elements. Whilst these combinations result in an autonomous work, the discrete elements still maintain their individual properties. The artists in the show use varying methods that include assembling groups of objects, following particular steps or tasks, going through multiple processes to create one work amongst others.

@ Museum 52
Location: 95 Rivington (map)

Interesting Discussion..

What is Chine Collé ? Kathleen Hayek Reveals Her Printmaking Process @ Tabla Rasa Gallery

Fine artist and printmaker, Kathleen Hayek, will discuss and illustrate how she creates her abstracted landscapes using the chine collé technique in printmaking .

@ Tabla Rasa Gallary
Location: 224 48 st, Brooklyn (map)
Starts: 6 pm
Cost: Free

Movement at Lana Santorelli

6-9PM

Movement at Lana Santorelli,
110 West 26th Street, betw 6th & 7th

Vampires rock..

Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon Theater presents Vampira's Bloodbath Concert @ Don Pedro's

Vampira's Bloodbath Concert. Twelve nude performers will eat and suck each others blood, sanity, and love. Desire and drawing along with seven amazing musicians playing along to the bloodbath.

Six hours, 12 models, seven bands, seven live music acts. Hosted by Miss Vivian and Theresa Megario. Music by Biz, Orwel, Dead Stars, Hiroyuki Tani, Jesse Jones of Yuppicidie, Jarvis Earnshaw, and Noodle Boy of WLWL.

@ Don Pedro's
Location: 90 Manhattan Avenue (map)
Starts: 8pm
Cost: $17 online, $20 door

Interesting exhibit...

Tristen Perich @ ISSUE Project Room

Impulse Manifold

for 18 televisions, 5 dancers, 15-channel 1-bit music

Tristan Perich's last show as artist in residence at Issue Project
Room, featuring the premiere of Impulse Manifold, a dance about the
physicality of the transition from one state to the next. The
performance involves the architectural manipulation of 18 televisions,
each containing a 1-bit video chip and modified to function without
wires. The movement is accompanied by a new 15-channel composition for
1-bit electronic music.

@ ISSUE Project Room
Location: 232 3rd street, Bklyn (map)
Starts: 8 pm
Cost: Free

Opening Reception...

The Piece Process @ Anonymous Gallery

Anonymous Gallery is proud to combine three generations of prolific artists whose work has been influenced by, or has directly influenced popular culture, design, and the urban environment. The Piece Process will unite relevant artists with their contemporary counterparts through artwork that serves as a reference or an impetus to something larger or more complete. Come an check it out at this Open Reception!

@ Anonymous Gallery
Location: 329 Broome St (map)
Starts: 7-10 Pm
Cost: Free w/ RSVP

Alive & Kicking: NYC Independent Business Owners' Illustration Series

Nate Padavick, Illustrator presents:
'Alive & Kicking: NYC Independent Business Owners' Illustration Series

4-7PM

Jeffrey's Meat
Essex Street Market, 120 Essex Street (at Delancey Street)
New York, NY, 10002
212-475-6521
http://www.jeffreysonessex.com/

COST/REGISTRATION:
Free.

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DESCRIPTION:
Illustrator Nate Padavick exhibits Alive & Kicking: NYC Independent
Business Owners, a series of portraits of 17 small business owners in New
York City. These are the folks who work hard to keep family businesses
running despite tough economic times.

This series celebrates the "little guy," you know them - Jeffrey the
butcher, Moishe the baker, Felix the tailor. The opening reception offers everyone a chance to show support of our local small businesses and to meet the people featured in the portraits (and nosh on treats compliments of Jeffrey).