tuesdayapril27
Joseph Nechvatal’s installation Viral Venture opens at White Slab Palace, 77 Delancey St at Allen, 8:30pm, presented by The Thing
wednesdayapril28
John Breiner opens at Panda, 139 Chrystie St, btw Delancey and Broome, 6-9pm
Open City reading at KGB, 85 E 4th St, btw Bowery and 2nd, 7pm
Schadenfreude Sports Bar at 179 Canal, 179 Canal at Mott, 9pm
Book signing with April Winchell, creator of Regretsy.com, at Housing Works, 126 Crosby St, btw Prince and Houston, 7pm
Remember the Upstairs Lounge, curated by Dan Cameron and No Longer Empty, opens at 447 W 16th St, btw 9th and 10th, 6-8pm
thursdayapril29
Dorothea Lasky and Geoffrey Nutter read at Bar 82, 136 2nd Ave, btw St Marks and 9th, 7:30pm, presented by St Mark’s Bookshop
Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom opens at David Zwirner, 525 W 19th St, btw 10th and 11th, 6-9pm
Dee Shapiro and Peter Reginato open at Andre Zarre, 529 W 20th St, 7th Fl, btw 10th and 11th, 6-8pm
SVA MFA Open Studios, 133/141 W 21st St, 8th and 9th Fl, btw 6th and 7th, 5pm
Convergence opens at Paula Barr, 508/526 W 26th St, #9G, btw 10th and 11th, 6-8pm
Richard Barnes opens at Foley, 547 W 27th St, btw 10th and 11th, 6-8pm
Carmen Herrera opens at Latin Collector, 37 W 57th St, btw 5th and 6th, 6-9pm
Joseph Szabo opens at Gitterman, 170 E 75th St, btw 3rd and Lexington, 6-8pm
Christopher Payne signs and discusses his monograph at Barnes and Noble, 86th and Lexington, 7pm
Tara DePorte opens at Gitana Rosa, 19 Hope St, btw Roebling and Havemeyer, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
Poets Rachel Levitsky, Rick Snyder and Karen Weiser read at Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza, 7pm
Arty Party, a guided stroll with SONYA, meet at Brooklyn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 412 Myrtle Ave, btw Vanderbilt Ave and Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, 5:30pm, rsvp info@sonyaonline.org
ACRIA Unframed 2010 Benefit, curated by Neville Wakefield, opens at The Iconic Manhattan House, 200 E 66th St at 3rd Ave, 6-9pm $20
fridayapril30
Greg Smith opens at Susan Inglett, 522 W 24th St, btw 10th and 11th, 6-8pm
John Giorno opens at Nicole Klagsbrun, 525 W 26th St, btw 10th and 11th, 6-8pm
Reception for Eric Freeman at Fred Torres, 527 W 29th St, btw 10th and 11th, 6-8pm
Liu Bolin opens at Eli Klein, 462 W Broadway, btw Prince and Houston, 6-9pm
Last night at Freddy’s Bar and Backroom, 485 Dean St at 6th Ave, Brooklyn, all day
Monica Canilao opens at Cinders, 103 Havemeyer, btw Hope and Grand, Brooklyn, 7-10pm
Joel Mellin with Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson perform at the Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Ave at Vernon Blvd, LIC, 8pm, $15
saturdaymay1
Graham Caldwell, Wilfredo Ortega, and Pawel Wojtasik, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, open at Cuchifritos, 120 Essex St at Delancey, 4-6pm
Power to the People opens at Feature, 131 Allen St at Delancey, 6-8pm, Free Art, one piece per person
Sarah Vanderlip opens at APF Lab, 15 Wooster St, btw Canal and Grand, 6-8pm
Reverse, a play by Lily Feinn, at Barnard’s Minor Latham Playhouse, 3009 Broadway at 116th St, 4pm, Free, reserve seats
Drawing Blood opens at Work, 65 Union St at Van Brunt, Brooklyn, 6-9pm
It’s Good To Be Home opens at Dam, Stuhltrager, 38 Marcy Ave at Hope St, Brooklyn, 8-11pm
Grand opening of Shangri-La, 100 Sutton St, btw Norman Ave and Nassau Ave, Brooklyn, 8pm, rsvp@shangrilastudio.com
Bronx Food Summit at Hostos Community College, 500 Grand Concourse at E 149th, Bronx, 9am-5pm, Free but register
sundaymay2
Columbia School of the Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, hosted by Emily Fisher Landau, at Fisher Landau Center, 8-27 30th St, LIC, 2-5pm
Spero Plagianos and Ellen Takata open at Southfirst, 60 N 6th St, btw Kent and Wythe, Brooklyn, 1pm
Tik Tok, Robin Aigner, and Feral Foster play at the Jalopy, 315 Columbia, btw Hamilton and Woodhill, Brooklyn, 8pm, $10
mondaymay3
Annual Chapbook Festival at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave at 34th St, 10am-8pm
tuesdaymay4
Small Voices, works by Community Word, a reading curated by Joyce Manalo, at Whole Foods, 95 E Houston St, 2nd Fl, at Bowery, 6-8pm
Art Spiegelman and Ken Jacobs in conversation at Thirty Days, 70 Franklin St, btw Church and Broadway, 7pm
The Museum of Commerce opens, back of Galleria, Front St, btw Jay and Pearl, Brooklyn, 7-9pm
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