To help our readers pick a path through the dizzying maze of events each week, ARTINFO offers a few choice selections — one neighborhood per night — complete with a handy map for orientation. Happy trails! (Click here for more event listings.)
Wednesday 9/19: Soho/Lower East Side
Haroon Mirza: “Preoccupied Waveforms” and Come Closer: “Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989” at the New Museum, 11 am – 6 pm
235 Bowery, through January 6, 2013
“Get doses of nostalgia for the way things used to be in these two exhibitions, one looking at artists who lived and worked on the Bowery before the metal tower of the New Museum was even a gleam in a developer’s eye, and the other featuring a transformation of space through Mirza’s noisy landscape of obsolescent audiovisual technologies.” —Allison Meier
Del LaGrace Volcano: A Mid-Career Retrospective at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 6 - 8 pm
26 Wooster Street, through November 11
Peter Scott: “Pardon Our Disappearance Part Two” at Sometimes (works of art), 6 - 8 pm
83 Canal Street # 610, through November 2
Performance: “Patrick Coyle delivers a script originating from the titles of Kate Stecw’s work” at Toomer Labzda, 7 pm
100a Forsyth Street
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Thursday 9/20: Uptown
Peter Coffin: “A, E, I, O, U” at Venus Over Manhattan, 8 - 10 pm
980 Madison Avenue, through November 2
“Merry prankster Peter Coffin, who is perhaps most famous for dressing tree trunks in blue jeans, doesn’t get nearly enough play in New York, so this show at the increasingly well-programmed Venus Over Manhattan gallery is a welcome surprise.”— Julia Halperin (from ARTINFO's 40 Most Anticipated New York Fall Gallery Shows)
Tatzu Nishi: “Discovering Columbus” at Columbus Circle, 10 am - 9 pm
59th Street and Central Park West, through November 18. Get a free pass online.
Ferdinand Hodler: “View to Infinity” at the Neue Galerie, 11 am - 6 pm
1048 Fifth Avenue, through January 7
A Tribute to FIFA: The International Festival of Films on Art: “Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour” at the Film Society at Lincoln Center, 8:30 pm
144 West 65th Street, $13
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Friday 9/21: Williamsburg/Bushwick
Shantell Martin: “Continuous Line” at Black & White Gallery/Project Space, 7 - 10 pm
483 Driggs Avenue, through October 28
“Shantall Martin brings her internationally acclaimed large-scale line drawings to Brooklyn’s Black & White Gallery, where she has been in residence, employing the indoor and outdoor walls of the gallery as her canvas.” —Sara Roffino
“Colliding Complexities: Extreme Feats of the New York-New Aesthetic” at Storefront Bushwick, 7 - 10 pm
16 Wilson Avenue, through October 7
“Selections from the Hoggard/Wagner Collection” at English Kills Art Gallery, 7 - 10 pm
114 Forrest Street, through October 28
Chelsea Knight: “Frame” at Agape Enterprise, 7 - 9 pm
56 Bogart Street, 1Q, through October 14
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Saturday 9/22: Chelsea
Walid Raad & David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, 10 am - 6 pm
534 West 21st Street, through October 27
“Two established artists extend their conversations as friends into a visual discourse between Raad's ‘Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World’ project and Diao's exploration of the life of Konstantin Melnikov through the structure of the Russian architect's studio.” —Allison Meier
“Petrochemical America” at Aperture Foundation, 10 am - 6 pm
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, through October 6
Jenny Scobel: “Women” at Thomas Erben Gallery, 10 am - 6 pm
526 West 26th Street, through October 27
Locating the Sacred Festival: Momenta Quartet at the Rubin Museum of Art, 4 pm
150 West 17th Street, $12
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Sunday 9/23: Soho/Lower East Side
Habit at Essex Street Market, 1 - 9 pm
130 Essex Street, through September 30
“The set for David Levine’s ‘Habit’ is a house with windows through which the audience observes the actors living out their dramas in a performance that runs on loop for eight hours straight. Each run of the show is about an hour and a half, but depending on the actors improvisation and the windows through which one chooses to peer, each performance is distinct.” —Sara Roffino
Takeshi Murata: “Synthesizers” at Salon 94 Bowery, 11 am - 6 pm
243 Bowery, through October 20
Van Neistat: “The Golden Word” at Museum
Cortlandt Alley, through October 3. Purchase an appointment online.
Curator’s Perspective: Mami Kataoka at the New Museum, 3 pm
235 Bowery, through January 6, 2013
Peter Lamborn Wilson: “Vanish Artworks & Hoodoo Metaphysics” at 1:1, 4 - 7 pm
121 Essex Street, Second Floor, through October 20
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