WEDNESDAY, 8/8
“Eyes Closed/Eyes Open: Recent Acquisitions in Drawings,” at MoMA, 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
11 West 53 Street, Midtown West
Akira Horikawa "1000 Drawing Project," at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
137 Leroy Street, West Village
"Summer Feeling,” at FB gallery (Panini Cafe), 2 - 6 PM
188 Lafayette Street, Soho
Closing Reception: One Hundred Dollars, at Littlefield, 6 PM
622 Degraw Street, Gowanus
Jon Nalley, at Michael Mut Gallery, 6 - 8 PM
97 Avenue C, East Village
Panel Discussion: "Art and Community Development," at Nicholas Cohn Art Projects, 6 - 9 PM
26-15 Jackson Avenue, Queens
Lecture: Stacy C. Hollander "Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions," at American Folk Art Museum, 6 PM
2 Lincoln Center, Upper West Side
"SMALL," at Art In FLUX Harlem, 6 - 9 PM
1961 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, at 118th Street, Harlem
Artist Talk: China Marks, Iviva Olenick, Patricia Dahlman, Rebecca Carter, at Center for Book Arts, 6:30 PM
28 West 27th Street, Floor 3, Chelsea
Artist Talk: "Tell Me How You REALLY Feel: Diaristic Tendencies," at Center for Book Arts, 6:30 PM
28 West 27th Street, Floor 3, Chelsea
Artsministratist?? Behind the Scenes and Center Stage Divided, at EFA Project Space, 6:30 PM
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor, Midtown
BATTLE: Elka Krajewska vs. John Williams, at Postmasters Gallery, 7 PM
459 West 19th Streeet, Chelsea
Performance: "Total Styrene: Breakdown,” at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 7 - 9 PM
54 Ludlow Street, Lower East Side
"Détournement : Signs of the Times,” at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 7 - 9 PM
529 West 20th Street, Floor 9, Chelsea
BxIndie Music at Sunset: Jazz Trio, at Wave Hill, 7 PM
West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, The Bronx
"Lost Mirrors," at Con Artist, 8 PM
119 Ludlow Street, Basement, Lower East Side
Screening: “The Heretics,” at Spectacle Theater, 8 PM
124 South 3rd Street, Williamsburg
Opening Night: “Bullet for Adolf,” at New World Stages, 8 PM
340 West 50th Street, Midtown
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: “Emperor” Concerto, at Avery Fisher Hall, 8 PM
132 West 65th Street, Upper West Side
THURSDAY, 8/9
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Jessica Rath "take me to the apple breeder," at Jack Hanley Gallery, 5 - 7 PM
136 Watts Street Tribeca
“‘Edible fruits are not born of nature, but are cultural objects carefully preserved through grafting,’ says the press release for Rath’s applecentric show at Jack Hanley Gallery. The artist worked with Cornell University’s apple curator (yes, that’s a thing!) Philip Forsline to make porcelain sculptures of esoteric species endangered by centuries of husbandry.” - Chloe Wyma
Global Projects, at Broadway Gallery, 6 - 8 PM
473 Broadway, 7th Floor, Soho
Rob Servo: "Silent Conversations," Midoma, 6 - 8 PM
545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 750, Midtown
Altered Land: “Perspectives from Tohoku,” FiveMyles
558 St Johns Place, Brooklyn
Scott Weingarten "hide and seek,” at Orchard Windows Gallery, 6 - 9 PM
37 Orchard Street, Lower East Side
"Room No. 5 Circle of Arts," at Skylight Gallery, 6 - 9 PM
538 West 29 Street, Chelsea
Aidan Sofia Earle "Bricolage," at Gallery Ho, 6 - 8 PM
547 West 27th Street, #208, Chelsea
“This quirky series of works in bas relief and embroidery from found materials brings new meaning to the show’s title, a reference to the process by which people acquire objects from across cultural strata to assemble new ideas and altered aesthetic identities.” -Reid Singer
Artist Talk: Ji Dachun "Splendid Isolation," at Fred Torres Collaborations, 6:30 PM
527 W 29 Street, Chelsea
"HEATWAVE,” at MISC. (The Fuller Building), 6 - 9 PM
41 East 57th, Suite 702, Upper East Side
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Closing: Abigail Deville “Invisible Men,” at Recess in Red Hook, 6 PM - 8 PM
159 Pioneer Street, Red Hook
“The closing celebration for Deville’s summerlong residency in Red Hook, in which she has utilized masses of material found in the South Bronx to explore the tension between a material-obsessed culture and its invisible inhabitants.” -Sara Roffino
Artist Talk: Crystal Clarity, at Heath Gallery, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
24 West 120 Street, Harlem
“Children of Hercules,” at Naumburg Bandshell, 6:30 PM
Central Park
Lawn School Workshop: Kites Fly, at Fort Greene Park, 7 - 8 PM
Fort Greene
Screening: “An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,” at Brooklyn Museum, 7 PM
200 Eastern Parkway, Prospect Heights
Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, Socrates Sculpture Park, at 7 - 8:30 PM
3205 Vernon Boulevard, Astoria
"Still Figuring it Out: a feminist coming-of-age" curated by Ana Cecilia Alvarez, at RAC (Recession Art at Culturefix), 7 PM
Clinton Street, Lower East Side
Simon Amstell: Numb, at Theatre 80, 8 PM
80 St. Marks Place, East Village
Performance: Catherine Jauniaux, at The Stone, 8 PM
2nd Street and Avenue C, Alphabet City
Celebrate Brooklyn: Complexions Contemporary Ballet, at Prospect Park Bandshell, 8 PM
Prospect Park West at 9th Street, Brooklyn
Performance: "Shake In/Shake Out," at flux factory, 8 - 11 PM
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City
Kevin and Matt Geek Out about Shark Cinema, at The Observatory, 8 PM
543 Union Street, Gowanus
FRIDAY, 8/10
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FringeNYC, New York International Fringe Festival
Venues around Downtown
“The 16th year of FringeNYC brings another 16 days of theatre, with around 200 plays, musicals, and performances. The choices are overwhelming, with everything from comedy ‘The Abduction of Becky Morris’ about an abducted psychic pregnant woman, to the already sold out ‘Tail! Spin!’ with Mo Rocca, Rachel Dratch, and Sean Dugan, and ‘The Importance of Doing Art,’ contemplating the reasons for creating art.” - Allison Meier
Chris Stain, Joe Iurato "Deep In The Cut," at Mighty Tanaka Gallery, 6 - 9 PM
111 Front Street, Suite 224, DUMBO
“My Love For You Burns All The Time,” at Soloway, 6 - 8 PM
348 South 4th Street, Williamsburg
Closing Reception: "Dog Days," at Gitana Rosa Gallery, 6 - 9 PM
19 Hope Street, #7, Williamsburg
RAISE THE ROOF 2: Workshops, Benefit Party, and Night Market, at Brooklyn Fireproof East, 7 PM - MIDNIGHT
119 Ingraham Street, Bushwick
"Growing the Garden: up from the sand comes cities,” at Secret Project Robot, 8 - 11 PM
389 Melrose Street, Bushwick
Screening: “Red Hook Summer” and Q&A with Director Spike Lee, at BAM Rose Cinemas, 7:10 & 10 PM
30 Lafayette Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn
dacops "Linejams," at PiPs, 7 PM - LATE
158 Roebling Street, Williamsburg
“Who'z Got Game!,” Sacred Gallery, 8 - 11 PM
424 Broadway , 2nd Floor, RSVP required
Panel Discussion: "Boys with Toys" moderated by Amy Kisch, at Causey Contemporary, 6:30 PM
92 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg
“Curator Tracy Causey-Jeffrey talks about how her eighteen years of experience as a gallerist and curator informed her selection process for this exhibition, a vision of sculpture that characterizes sculpture and the tools used to make it as ‘toys’ in the artist’s hands.” -RS
Model Theories, at fordPROJECT, 6 - 8 PM
57 West 57th Street, Penthouse, Upper West Side
Target Passport Fridays: Taiwan, at Queens Museum of Art, 6:30 - 10 PM
New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Amanda LaMarco "HAIR" curated by Verrinia Amatulli, at The One Well, 7 - 10 PM
165 Greenpoint Avenue, Greenpoint
“Alli Uccelli e Al Lupo: The Birds and The Wolf,” at chashama 461, 5 PM
461 West 126 Street, Harlem
Karen Marston and Kerry Law, at Storefront Bushwick, 6 - 9 PM
16 Wilson Avenue, Bushwick
Tom Rush, at Rubin Museum of Art, 7 PM
150 West 17 Street, Chelsea
Performance: Kohji Setoh: "Elegy for Graveyards," Mount Tremper Arts, 7 - 10 PM
647 South Plank Road, Mount Tremper, New York
SATURDAY, 8/11
Summer Streets, from Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park, 7 AM - 1 PM
Manhattan
Tour: "Virtual/Monumental,” at Bronx River Art Center (BRAC on the Block),11 AM - 4 PM
2064 Boston Road, The Bronx
29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 12:30 - 4 PM
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side
2nd Annual History Day Celebration, at Deno’s Wonder Wheel & Park and the Coney Island History Project, 1 - 6 PM
Coney Island, Brooklyn
Battery Dance Company, at Downtown Dance Festival, 1 PM
Venues in Lower Manhattan
Lecture: Christoph Cox on Max Neuhaus, at Dia Art Foundation (Dia:Beacon), 2 PM
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, New Yor
Dance Heginbotham, at Doris Duke Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, 2:15 & 8:15 PM
358 George Carter Road, Becket, New York
Screening: Andy Warhol’s “Since,” at New Museum, 3 PM
235 Bowery, Bowery
Closing Reception: Cassius Fouler "Four Borough," at Weldon Arts, 3 - 7 PM
181R Irving Avenue, Bushwick
PS1: Warm Up: Photek, Morgan Geist DJ (Storm Queen), Shlohmo, Autre Ne Veut, Howse, at MoMA PS1, 3 PM
22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
Free Art for the People, at Dorian Grey Gallery, 5 - 8 PM
437 East 9th Street, East Village
"Streamlines,” at KANSAS, 6 - 9 PM
59 Franklin Street, Tribeca
The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 6 - 9 PM
26 Wooster Street, Lower East Side
The Nutriarts, at RH Gallery, 6 - 9:30 PM
137 Duane Street, Tribeca
"Parts & Service," at Eric Firestone Gallery, 6 - 9 PM
4 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, New York
Eddie Martinez, Jose Lerma, at Halsey Mckay, 6 - 8 PM
79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, New York
Closing Reception: "India: Time, Space and Astronomy - A Quest to Depict Akasa,” at Lambert Fine Arts, 8 - 11 PM
57 Stanton Street, Lower East Side
Rooftop Films: “Detropia,” at Old American Can Factory, 8 PM - 12:30 AM
232 Third Street, Gowanus
Screening: “The Night of the Hunter,” at MoMA, 8 PM
11 West 53 Street, Midtown West
Performance: “Self Made Man Man Made Land,” at Mount Tremper Arts, 8 PM
647 South Plank Road, Mount Tremper, New York
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Gemini & Scorpio: The Lost Circus, at Irondale Center, 9 PM
85 South Oxford, Fort Greene
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Screening: "ART + ANGER: a Kenneth Anger Screening," at RAC (Recession Art at Culturefix), 10 PM - 1 AM
9 Clinton Street, Lower East Side
“Anger’s occult world of Biker gangs, Crowleyan ritual, and rock and roll will go down easy with Culturefix’s extensive beer selection.” -Chloe Wyma
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Cheryl’s 4th Birthday Party: At the Car Wash, at The Bell House, 11 PM
149 7th Street, Gowanus
“Brooklyn based art collective Cheryl celebrate their 4th birthday with a day of their usual bizarre dance party antics. Car washes hosted by the group all over Brooklyn, including one at the Brooklyn Museum, lead up to an all night car wash themed dance party at the Bell House. The $5 admission fee, ‘$1 for every year plus $1 for good luck,’ will let revelers get wet and wild.” - Ashton Cooper
Screening: “House (Hausu),” IFC Center, 12:20 AM
323 6th Avenue, West Village
SUNDAY, 8/12
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Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets, at MoMA, 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM
11 West 53 Street, Midtown West
“The curious and enticingly creepy stop-motion and live-action film work of the Quay Brothers is deservedly celebrated in this MoMA retrospective. Their unique and otherworldly perspective, infused with 1950s and 60s surrealism, is explored through an exhibition of objects and illustrations related to their 30 years of creation, as well as screenings of their haunting films.” - Allison Meier
"eMerge: Danny Simmons & Artists on the Cusp Gallery Talk,” at Strivers Gardens Gallery, 3 - 5 PM
300 West 135th Street, Harlem
Discover Watermill 2012, at The Watermill Center, 3 - 6 PM
39 Watermill Towd Road, Watermill, New York
Easy Sunday, at The Brecht Forum, 4 - 7 PM
451 West Street, West Village
The 3rd Annual American Beatbox Championships, at le Poisson Rouge, 6 PM
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village
Sap, Straddle and Joy, at Wayfarers, 6 - 9 PM
1109 Dekalb Avenue, Bed-Stuy
Pardon Our Analysis: An All-Star Gathering for Gil Scott-Heron performed by Black Rock Coalition Orchestra, at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, 8:15 PM
Damrosch Park Bandshell, Lincoln Center
MONDAY, 8/13
CHOEL NAM Solo Exhibition "Stories From the Stars,” at Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, 11 AM - 5 PM
511 West 25th Street, Chelsea
MyWays: The Art Book Club hosted by Court Square, at Meulensteen, 6 - 8 PM
511 West 22nd Street, Chelsea
Opening Night: “Soul Doctor,” New York Theatre Workshop, 7 PM
79 East 4th Street, East Village
Smuin Ballet, at Joyce Theatre, 7:30 PM
175 Eighth Avenue, Soho
TUESDAY, 8/14
The Small Works Show, at Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion at Columbia University, 5:30 - 7 PM
1150 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem
Colleen Blackard: "Shifting Perception,” at Orchard Windows Gallery, 6 - 9 PM
37 Orchard Street, Lower East Side
Performance: Peter Edwards "Nova Drone," at The Clocktower, 6 - 8 PM
108 Leonard Street, 13th Floor, Soho
Screening: "Vision Quest,” at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (Anthology Film Archives), 7 - 9 PM
32 Second Avenue, East Village
Shuhei Mochizuki "GEKKO," at Ouchi Gallery, 7 - 10 PM
170 Tillary Street, Suite 507, Downtown Brooklyn
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Panel Discussion: Gary Hustwit, Jon Pack: "The Post-Olympic City," Storefront for Art and Architecture, 7 - 9 PM
97 Kenmare Street, Lower East Side
“An evening with the artists and other guests invited for a panel discussion about the long-term effects of the Games on their host cities.” - Sara Roffino
Previews: “The Train Driver,” Pershing Square Signature Center, 7:30 PM
480 West 42nd Street, Midtown
Having a Whiskey Coke With You, Freddy’s, 8 PM
627 5th Avenue, Brooklyn