Thursday, January 19, 2012

Thoughts | YOGA OF YOUR MIND (& BODY)




The sensationalist article “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body” (NY Times magazine, January 8) provoked countless reactions from yogi and yogini —and from the studios and multi-billion fitness industry with the word “yoga” in their branding and labels.
I am a certified hatha yoga teacher and have been a yogini for over two decades, before it became trendy and then mainstream. My hatha yoga practice spanned many different traditions and styles, from “classic hatha” to “vinyasa flow”, “ashtanga” and “kundalini” —quotation marks have a reason, as it will be explained later. I often resorted to yoga for solace, stress release, flexibility or strength training, as a morning prayer or for relief from fibromyalgia symptoms. Sometimes minor injuries resulted from inadequate prior warm-up, but definitely I never suffered major damage from my yoga practice. So I was quite puzzled reading that “some yoga postures threatened to cause strokes even in relatively young, healthy people” or that there are cases in “which yoga’s extreme bending and contortions resulted in some degree of brain damage.”

Is yoga to blame? My answer is no, as I strongly believe that the cause of physical injuries is strictly related is how yoga has been taught and learned in the western world over the last two decades.
Yoga is a 5000 year old discipline, born and practiced (until less than 100 years ago) almost exclusively in India, a country with a culture, geography, climate and lifestyle very different from the western world. Yoga is not only a series of physical exercises, but also a philosophy, spiritual belief system and lifestyle: yoga is overall an integrated discipline and practice where body mind and spirit are interconnected. A rigorous written discussion of yoga can be found in the “Yoga Sutras” a compilation of 194 sutras (aforisms) attributed to Patañjali (2nd century BCE)
What is commonly referred to as yoga in our contemporary vocabulary should instead be called “hatha yoga”, as one of the branches of yoga dealing with the physical body. Hatha yoga was introduced in the 15th century by Yogi Swatmarama in the classic Hindu text “Hatha Yoga Pradipika.” The treatise presents a series of asanas (postures) and pranayama (breathing techniques) which can aid in purifying the body to achieve optimal conditions for meditation. Asana is defined already in the “Yoga Sutra” of Patanjali as “a steady, comfortable posture (sthira sukham asanam)”.
This semantic introduction is not a scholarly diversion, but can help to explain why I believe injuries happen in hatha yoga as practiced here.

The word yoga comes from the Sanskrit yuj (union), and the union in hatha yoga happens at different levels, including the union between breath and movement and the union between the body and the mind, which can be interpreted in our western vocabulary as awareness of movement. Mindfulness is what perhaps differentiates hatha yoga from the majority of physical exercise routines we are accustomed to. And mindfulness is often what is missing from the many styles derived from the original yoga asanas.

Typically hatha yoga instructors, especially in fitness centers, have very little training in yoga philosophy or even in anatomy and physiology. The often twenty-something instructors have flexibility and agility —by birth or obtained through other types of exercise training— and teach twisting and extreme back bending without the proper physiology knowledge, measuring by their own body capabilities. Often no consideration of the individual student's physical background is given and asanas are demonstrated without modifications.  “One size fits all”  does not lead to a safe hatha yoga practice. Every person has a different body and our own body flexibility and strength changes with age, seasons and even time of the day.  For instance, my range of flexibility changes dramatically —low to high— from morning to evening; in my individual yoga routine, I have different sequences for the AM or PM practice. Inversions should not be practiced during the menstrual cycle or with a blood-pressure conditions or glaucoma. And there are many other asanas which should not be practiced in the presence of chronic or acute medical conditions. Warning the student of negative effects was very much emphasized when I attended the teacher training at Integral Yoga Institute, one of the oldest yoga communities in the US.

Temperature is another major influencing factor in many hatha yoga related injuries. Warm-ups and cool down are common in any athletic training: the increase of blood flow to the working muscle results in decreased muscle stiffness, improves elasticity and reducing the risk of strains and the range of motion around a joint is increased. Blood vessels also dilate with increased heat, lowering the resistance to blood flow and stress on the heart. With the rising of blood temperature, the binding of oxygen to hemoglobin weakens and the oxygen is more available to working muscles, improving endurance. Hatha yoga classes are instead taught usually without proper warm-up routines, leading the student to the bending, twisting and jumping of numerous sun salutations routines (a typical class opener) without adequate rising of the natural body heat. We should not forget India’s climate with temperature much higher than ours, making not necessary warm-ups before the asanas practice. ENERGIA, my yoga inspired routine includes 10 minutes of cardiovascular movements, inspired by Kundalini yoga, right after the initial centering sequence .  The Indian lifestyle, where cross-legged sitting positions and squatting was part of daily life (as mentioned in the NY Times article), also promotes a greater natural flexibility. So is the Indian vegetarian diet, much better suited to the asanas and their influence on internal organs.

Another major cause of injuries is the competitiveness of our culture, which is often present in the group practice. Looking at the flexible twisted bodies of the instructor or the other students compel us to go beyond our own body limitations, causing frustration or injuries: we are constantly brainwashed to achieve the look and coolness forced upon us by our consumerist culture, often coming from the fashionable gym du jour with the photos of sexy models performing a dhanurasana wearing a bikini—New Yorkers know what I am talking about :-)

These are my initial reactions and thoughts on such an important topic, more to come soon on dogmatism and hatha yoga celebrities. In the meantime my advice is very much inline with the good old common sense: practice hatha yoga with mindfulness of how you move and breath, without challenging your body but understanding what causes discomfort in asanas; you will progress into flexibility and strength with a regular practice. And, instead of forcing your body to twist like a pretzel, educate your mind on yoga as an integrated discipline, science and lifestyle, much older than the health club schedule.

Shanti

Monday, January 16, 2012

Martin Luther King "I Have A Dream"


Excerpts from the speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom:
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Events | Occupy the Dream


Hundreds of people of any race, faith and age —many as activists of the Occupy Wall Street movement — gathered at the Riverside Church to honor the spirit of Martin Luther King. The gathering started in front of Saint John Divine, to become a candlelight march to the Riverside Church.

Short speeches alternating to music performances made this celebration greatly inspiring, and giving hope for real change. The music included soul, hip-hop, country and chanting from Buddhist Monks. The call for economical justice —enmesh with world peace and respect for the our planet resources— is the common goal for this leaderless non-violence movement, as the world-spread Occupy becomes increasingly representative of the interests of the 99% of people.

For me one the most beautiful moments perhaps was the silent Buddhist meditation initiated by the Buddhist Monk Rev. T.K. Nakagaki; it reminded me of the 1991 sunrise meditation for world peace with  the Dalai Lama, one of the most powerful moments of collective energy.

A gathering which filled my heart with hope and gave energy to continue the daily struggle, making the Martin Luther King dream alive as:

“We believe in a world in which all people are created equally in all nations, of all faiths”

 

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Vernissages | NYC, January 12

 Shirin Neshat at Gladstone Gallery



 Paula Sher "Maps" at Bryce Wolkowitz


Thomas Scheibitz at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery


HoodWincked at Nyehaus 

And of course, Damien Hirst "The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011" the exhibition vernissages took place at  all of Gagosian Gallery's eleven locations in New York, London, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Athens, Geneva, and Hong Kong. As usual, no photos allowed!

My Evening Walkabouts

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Vernissages | First of 2012




 James Nares "1976: Movies, Photographs and Related Works on Paper"  
at Paul Kasmin


supernatureal at Mihako Yoshinaga Art Prospects


Tula Telfair "Out of Sight: Imaginary Landscapes" @ Forum Gallery

Sunday, January 1, 2012

CALENDAR 2011

DECEMBER

Art, culture, thoughts, and not only... 

 Events, December 8

Occupy Wall Street, Worldwide 
Betty Woodman "Roman Frescos/Pleasures and Places" @ Salon 94, 243 Bowery, 6-8pm
Sto "My Slow Called Life" @ Mulherin + Pollard, 187 Chrystie Street, 6-9pm
Kara Hamilton "Gift.Provenance:unknown" @ Salon 94, 1 Freeman alley, 6-8pm
Anne Morgan Spalter "Traffic Circle" @ Stephan Stoyanov (Luxe Gallery), 29 Orchard Street, 6-8pm
"Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet: An Evening with Transition" @ New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, New Museum Theater, 7pm
D&W and Metropolis Magazine "Show Snapshots: Greenbuild" 96 Spring Street
"Play Station" @ Postmasters Gallery, 459 W 19 Street, 6-8pm
"Cities and Things That Matter" @ Lombard-Freid Projects, 518 West 19th , 6-8pm
"The Birdwatchers" curated by Laura Bardier @ bitforms gallery, 529 W 20 Street, 6-8:30pm
Lucy Jones "Reflections in a Landscape" @ Flowers Gallery, 529 W 20 Street, 6-8pm
Performance: Sue Tompkins "Hallo Welcome To Keith Street" @ Dia Art Foundation, 6:30pm
Bosco Sodi "Ubi sunt" @ The Pace Gallery, 545 W 22 Street, 6-8pm
Kianja Strobert "Going on Foot" @ Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 W 22 Street, 6-8pm
Dark Christmas" @ Leo Koenig Inc.,545 W 23 Street, 6-8pm
Pierre Gonnord "Relatos" @ Hasted Kraeutler,537 W 24 Street, 6-8pm
Laleh Khorramian "Water Panics In The Sea" @ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (Project), 534 West 24th st, Tenth avenue, 6-8pm
Gordon Moore "Paintings & Photo-Emulsion Drawings" @ Betty Cuningham Gallery, 541 W 25 Street, 6-8pm
Hisae Ikenaga "Ambiguous Situations" @ Praxis International Art, 541 West 25th St, 6-8pm
Matthew Sleeth "The Rise and Fall of Western Civilization" @ Claire Oliver, 513 W 26 Street, 6-8pm
Sean Slemon "The Sun Stands Still" @ Magnan Metz Gallery, 521 W 26 Street, 6-8pm
Alex Webb "The Suffering of Light" @ Aperture Foundation, 547 W 27 Street, floor 4, 6-8pm
Peter Liversidge "Where We Begin" @ Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 West 29th Street


 Events, December 1

Day With(out) Art World AIDS Day, worldwide
Day With(out) Art World AIDS Day, Screening of Untitled, Flag Foundation, 545 West 25th Street, 1:00PM, 2:30PM, and 4:00pm
Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square and Lincoln Center 10:30pm

 
NOVEMBER

Art, culture, thoughts, and not only... 


 Events, November 12

Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, for donations >


Vernissages, Rome, November 12
Piero Dorazio e gli Artisti di Forma 1 @ Spazio 88 Via dei Cappellari, 88, 7pm
Marcello Maugeri "Circus" @ Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Via Dei Soldati 25a, 7pm
Gabriele Morrione "Cinque Donne" @ spaziottagoni, Via Goffredo Mameli 9, 6pm


 Events, NYC, October 30

Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, for donations >

 Events, NYC, October 29

Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, General Assembly, 7-9pm
 "Identity" "The Serving Library" @ Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 6-8pm
Perfomance: "? ! ? ! ? " by PG Macarena @ White Columns, 320 W 13 Street, 7pm
"All Folked Up" MC'd by Loren Munk @ Andrew Edlin Gallery, 134 Tenth avenue, 4-8pm
Claudia Hart "When A Rose is Not a Rose" @ bitforms gallery, 529 W 20 Street, 6-8:30pm
Andrea Bowers "The New Woman's Survival Guide" @ Andrew Kreps, 525 W 22 Street, 6-8pm
Leslie Hewitt "Blue Skies, Warm Sunlight" @ D'Amelio Terras, 525 W 22 Street, 6-8pm
"When Vibrations Become Forms" @ Marianne Boesky Gallery, 509 W 24 Street, 6-8pm
Ginny Bishton @ Marc Jancou Contemporary, 524 W 24 Street, 6-8pm
Martin Bromirski "Here's Bro Bro!" @ Art Blog Art Blog, 508 W 26 Street,6-9pm


 Events, NYC, October 28

Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square
Screening: Amy Sillman, Charles Bernstein "Duplexities" @ Bowery Arts + Science, 310 Bowery, 5:30-7pm
Nava Lubelski "Roomful"  LMAK projects, 139 Eldridge street, 6-9pm
Sue de Beer "Haunt Room"  The Highline, 14th Street Passage, 5-7pm
Amy Sillman, Charles Bernstein "Duplexities" Elizabeth Murray Art Wall  Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, 5:30-7pm
Yoko Ono "Uncursed "  Galerie Lelong, 528 W 26 street, 6-8pm
Performance: W.M. Hunt "The Unseen Eye: A life in photographs and other disgressions"  Aperture Foundation, 547 W 27 street, RSVP   7pm


 Events, NYC, October 27

Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, 7pm General Assembly
Cedric Christie "Color Movement" @ Flowers Gallery, 529 W 20 Street, 6-8pm
Uta Barth, Jack Strange @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 W 21 Street, 6-8pm
"Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb" @ The Pace Gallery, 545 W 22 Street, 6-8pm
Lisa Ross "After Night" @ Asya Geisberg Gallery, 537B W 23 Street, 6-8pm
Freddy Chandra "Synthetic Resonance" @ Margaret Thatcher Projects, 539 W 23 Street, 6-8pm
Kristen Schiele "Beyond The Rocks" @ Freight + Volume, 530 W 24 Street, 6-8pm
Llyn Foulkes "Bloody Heads" @ Kent Fine Art, 210 Eleventh avenue, 6-8pm
Hiroshi Sugimoto "Surface of the Third Order" @ The Pace Gallery, 510 W 25 Street, 6-8pm
Whitney McVeigh "Dialogue" @ David Krut Projects, 526 W 26 Street, floor 8, 6-8pm
Sarah Braman "Yours" @ Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 34 W 26 Street, 6-8pm
Klara Kristalova "Sounds of Dogs and Youth" @ Lehmann Maupin, 540 W 26 Street, 6-8pm
"Splash!" @ Porter Contemporary, 548 W 28th Street, 3, 7-9pm
Richard Artschwager @ David Nolan Gallery, 527 W 29 Street, 6-8pm
Jorge Tacla "Altered Remains" @ Cristin Tierney Gallery, 546 W 29 Street, 6-8pm


 Events, NYC, October 6

Performance: Aldo Tambellini "Black Zero" @ Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W 22 Street, 5-8pm
Maelee Lee "Infinite Space" @ Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W 22 Street, 6-8pm
Connie Walsh "Drowning" @ Marianne Boesky Gallery, 509 W 24 Street, 6-8pm
Peter Gregorio "The Many Worlds Interpretation" @ ArtGate Gallery, 520 west 27, 6-8pm
Lecture "Contemporary Art and Neuroscience" Suzanne Anker, Adrienne Klein @ CUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities, 365 Fifth avenue, The James Gallery, 6pm
Eiko and Koma media works, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, 6pm
Matthew Fischer, Rebecca Purdum @ Tilton Gallery, 8 E 76 Street, 6-8pm

 
 Vernissages, NYC, September 30

Robert Wilson "147 Spring Street Byrd Loft" @ Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 W 21 Street, 5-7pm
Performance: "Irvin Morazan: Gods of New York" Salvajes @ Asya Geisberg Gallery, 537B W 23 Street, 6:30pm
Harumi Noguchi "KAMI -The Elemental Spirits of Nature" @ Ippodo Gallery, 521 W 26 Street, 6-8pm 
Rico Gatson "Three Trips Around the Block" @ Exit Art, 475 Tenth avenue, @ 36 Street, 7-9pm


 Vernissages, NYC, September 21

Group Exhibition, Center for Book Arts, 28 W 27 Street, 7-9pm 
Red Grooms "New York: 1976-2011" at Marlborough Gallery, 40 W 57 Street, 6-8pm
Emilio Sanchez "Shaping Light" at Frederico Sève, 37 West 57th St, 6-8pm
Nick van Woert "Terra Amata" at French Institute Alliance Francaise, 22 E 60 Street, 6-8pm


 Vernissages, NYC, September 16

"1107 Manhattan Avenue" @ Spencer Brownstone, 3 Wooster Street, 6-8pm
Andy Warhol "Liz" @ Gagosian Gallery, 522 W 21 Street, 6-8pm
Ceal Floyer @ 303 Gallery, 547 W 21 Street, 6-8pm
"Science & Exploration" @ Horton Gallery, 504 W 22 Street, 6-9pm
Charles Mayton "The difficult crossing" @ Balice Hertling & Lewis, 630 Ninth avenue, 6-9pm
Grégoire Müller "Grégoire Müller" @ Jason McCoy Inc., 41 E 57 Street, floor 11, 6-9pm
Jesse Chapman "Johnny Milton" @ McCaffrey Fine Art, 23 E 67 Street, 6-8pm
Nicole Awai "Almost Undone" @ Vilcek Foundation Gallery, 167 E 73 Street, RSVP, 6-9pm


 Vernissages, NYC, September 15

"More than Everything" @ Lehmann Maupin
Chinatown/LES: 201 Chrystie Street, @ Stanton Street, 6-8
Iain McKell "The New Gypsies" @ Clic Bookstore & Gallery, 424 Broome Street, 6-8
Hiroyuki Hamada "Hiroyuki Hamada: Two Sculptures" @ Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 Tenth avenue, 6-8
Su Zhiguang "When Dust Settles" @ Chambers Fine Art, 522 W 19 Street, 6-8
Richard Aldrich "Once I was..." @ Bortolami, 520 W 20 Street, 6-8
Bernard Cohen "Work of Six Decades" @ Flowers Gallery, 529 W 20 Street, 6-8
Lothar Hempel @ Anton Kern, 532 W 20 Street, 6-8
Meredyth Sparks "Striped Bare, Even And Again" @ Elizabeth Dee Gallery, 545 W 20 Street, 6-8
Georgia Wall "And so I left" curated by Liz Kabler, Zoe Lukov @ Skylight Projects, 551 W 21 Street,6-9
John Chamberlain "Pictures" @ Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 W 23 Street, 6-8
"Salvajes" curated by Guillermo Creus @ Asya Geisberg Gallery, 537 W 23 Street, 6-9
Bill Saylor "Audio Tuna Sunshine" @ Leo Koenig Inc., 545 W 23 Street, 6-8
Group Exhibition @ Art Station (Lukoil), 239 Tenth avenue, 6-8
Brigitte Kowanz, Ingo Gunther, Shirley Shor "Live Theory" @ Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 505 W 24 Street, 6-8
Tris Vonna-Michell @ Metro Pictures, 519 W 24 Street, 6-8
Andrew Guenther "Talking to a Fish and Paraphernalia" @ Freight + Volume, 530 W 24 Street, 6-8
"Social Media" @ The Pace Gallery, 510 W 25 Street, 6-8
Melissa Meyer "New Paintings and Watercolors" @ Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., 514 W 25 Street, 6-8
Aaron Johnson "Freedom from Want" @ Stefan Stux Gallery, 530 W 25 Street, 6-8
 Agnes Martin "The ‘80s: Grey Paintings" @ The Pace Gallery, 534 W 25 Street, 6-8
"Delicate Matters"  @ Praxis International Art, 541 West 25th St, 6-8
 Ida Ekblad @ Greene Naftali Gallery, 508 W 26 Street, 6-8
Karl Haendel @ Harris Lieberman, 508 W 26 Street, 6-8
Herve Wahlen, Ingrid Donat, Juan and Paloma Garrido "Heavy Metal" @ Barry Friedman Ltd, 515 W 26 Street, 6-8
Koen van den Broek "Insomnia and the Greenhouse" @ Friedman Benda Gallery, 515 W 26 Street, 6-8
Miler Lagos "Home" @ Magnan Metz Gallery, 521 W 26 Street, 6-8
Tabaimo "Dandan" @ James Cohan Gallery, 533 W 26 Street, 6-8
Paul Winstanley @ Mitchell - Innes & Nash, 534 W 26 Street, 6-8
Ray Oglesby "Recent Work" inaugural exhibition @ Accola Griefen Gallery, 547 W 27 Street, suite 634, 6-9
Jane Zweibel, Kesha Bruce "Talking To Myself" @ Baang and Burne Contemporary, 547 W 27 Street, 6-8
Alice Attie "Class Notes" @ Foley Gallery, 548 W 28 Street, 6-8pm

Rosy Keyser "Promethan Dub" @ Peter Blum, 526 W 29 Street, 6-8pm
Serban Savu "Close to Nature" @ David Nolan Gallery, 527 W 29 Street, 6-8pm
Eve Sussman, Rufus Corporation, Simon Lee "whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir" @ Cristin Tierney Gallery, 546 W 29 Street, 6-8pm
Fred Gutzeit "Dancing with Benoit" curated by Lanny Powers @ Conde Nast Building Lobby, 4 Times Square, 6-8pm
Jonathan Prince @ The Sculpture Garden @ 590 Madison Avenue, 590 Madison avenue, 6-8pm
Beatrice Wood @ Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 24 W 57 Street, Suite 305, 6-8pm
Zhang Enli @ Hauser & Wirth New York, 32 E 69 Street, 6-8pm
Jenny Saville "Continuum" @ Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison avenue, 6-8pm


 Vernissages, NYC, September 14

Richard Serra "Junction/Cycle @ Gagosian Gallery West, 555 W 24 Street, 6-8pm 
Gabriel Orozco @ Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 W 57 Street, 6-8pm
"Night Scented Stock" @ Marianne Boesky Gallery, 118 E 64 Street, 6-8pm
David Matterhorn "Dash" @ John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 50 E 64 Street, 6-9pm


 Vernissages, NYC, September 13

"Sacred Spaces In Profane Buildings" @ Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, 7-9pm
Lars Tunbjork @ Amador Gallery, 41 E 57 Street, 6-8pm
Niki de Saint Phalle "A Retrospective Exhibition 1960-2002" @ Nohra Haime Gallery, 730 Fifth avenue, 6-8pm
Lori Grinker "Distant Relations" @ Nailya Alexander Gallery, 41 W 57 Street, 6-8pm
Hideaki Kawishima, Makiko Kudo, Toru Kuwakubo "Reflections" @ fordProject, 57 W 57 Street, 6-8pm

 Vernissages, NYC, September 9

Eko Nugroho "Snobs Behind Ketchup" @ Lombard-Freid Projects, 518 West 19th Street, 6:30-8:30pm `
Manfred Mohr "1964 - 2011, R" @ bitforms gallery, 529 W 20 Street, 6-8:30pm
Vik Muniz @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co, 530 W 22 Street, 6-8pm
Martha Wilson "I have become my own worst fear" @ P.P.O.W., 535 W. 22nd Street, 3, 6-8pm
Anna Craycroft "Drawn to Repeating Patterns" @ Tracy Williams Ltd, 521 W 23 Street, 6-8pm
Lucio Fontana, Sterling Ruby @ Andrea Rosen, 525 W 24 Street, 6-8pm
Matt Kenny @ Derek Eller Gallery, 615 W 27 Street, 6-8pm
Adam Marnie "Locus Rubric" @ Derek Eller Gallery, 615 W 27 Street, 6-8pm
Kate Costello "Kiki & Me" @ Wallspace Gallery, 619 W 27 Street, 6-8pm
Jennifer Dalton "Cool Guys Like You" @ Winkleman Gallery, 621 W 27 Street, 6-8pm
Kris Chatterson @ Jeff Bailey Gallery, 625 W 27 Street, 6-8pm

Leandro Erlich "Two Different Tomorrows" @ Sean Kelly Gallery,  528 West 29th Street, 6-8pm
Michael Schall, Tony Fitzpatrick @ Pierogi, 177 N 9 Street, Brooklyn, Williamsburg, 7-9pm
John Stoney "Stay close to me, it will be dark soon" @ Pierogi (The Boiler),191 North 14th Street, Brooklyn, Williamsburg 7-9pm

Vernissages, NYC, September 8

Kiseok Kim "Plastics" @ Hionas Gallery, 89 Franklin street, 6-8pm
Daniel Belardinelli "Vital Signs" curated by Elizabeth Villar @ One Art Space, 23 Warren street, 6-9pm
Performance by Adam Tyson, Eric Leiser, Jeffrey Leiser "Zero-Point Energy.. Drawing from the Ionosphere" @ 33 Canal, 33 Canal street, 10pm
Kyle Nouse "Honest Anguish" curated by Dino Eli @ Orchard Windows Gallery, 37 Orchard street, 6-9pm
"Salon94 presents, Dzine's Pinky Nail edition and mini-mobile nail salon" @ New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery, 7-9pm
Don Oehl @ Clic Bookstore & Gallery, 255 Centre street, 6-8pm
Alyssa Dennis "Amalgamation" @ Christina Ray, 30 Grand street, 7-9pm 
"Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" @ Grey Art Gallery (NYU), 100 Washington square east, 6-8pm
Jennie C. Jones, Joe Winter @ The Kitchen, 512 W 19 street, 6-8pm
Nick Cave "Ever-After" @ Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 W 20 street, 6-8pm
Antonio Petracca @ Kim Foster Gallery, 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm
Sofia Silva "Spreading Out" @ Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm
Kendall Shaw "Back Seat @ the Drive-in, Surabstract paintings" @ Skoto Gallery, 529 W 20 street,  6-8pm
Ronald Ventura "Thousand Islands" @ Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 529 W 20 street, 6-8:30pm
Lee Bae "The Conceptual Formalist" curated by Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath @ Nicholas Robinson Gallery, 535 W 20 street, 6-8pm
Haim Steinbach "Creature" @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 W 21 street, 6-8pm
Brian Jungen, Casey Kaplan,  525 West 21st Street
Shai Kremer, Fallen Empires, Julie Saul Gallery 535 West 22nd Street
Siah Armajani "1957 - 1964" @ Meulensteen, 511 W 22 street, 6-8pm
Demetrius Oliver "Orrery" @ D'Amelio Terras, 525 W 22 street, 6-8pm
Shai Kremer "Fallen Empires" @ Julie Saul Gallery, 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm
Photography, Charlotte Dumas "Retrieved" @ Julie Saul Gallery, 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm
Nicola Tyson @ Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 537 W 22 street, 6-8pm
Carmen McLeod "Open Structure" @ CRG Gallery, 548 W 22 street, 6-8pm
Roland Fischer @ Von Lintel Gallery, 520 W 23 street, 6-8pm
David Poppie "Ebb & Flow" @ Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 533 W 23 street, 6-8pm
"MAKE Skateboards" curated by Jonathan Lavoie, Scott Ogden @ I-20 Gallery, 557 W 23 street, 6-9pm
"Double Crescent"  @ C24 Gallery, 514 W 24 street, 6-8pm
Stefanie Gutheil "Dreckige Katze" @ Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 W 24 street, 6-8pm
Ross Chisholm "The Garden of Forking Paths" @ Marc Jancou Contemporary, 524 W 24 street, 6-8pm
Anders Krisár "New Man" @ Galeria Ramis Barquet, 532 W 24 street, 6-8pm
Paolo Ventura "The Automation of Venice" @ Hasted Kraeutler, 537 W 24 street, 6-8pm
Maysey Craddock "Other Spaces" @ Nancy Margolis Gallery, 523 W 25 street, 6-8pm
Pieter Hugo "Permanent Error" @ Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 W 25 street, 6-8pm 

Stephen Wilkes "Day to Night" @ Clamp Art, 531 W 25 street, 6-8pm
"The Pleasure of Slowness" @ Bertrand Delacroix Gallery - BDG, 535 W 25 street, 6-8pm
"The New Season Show" @ Gallery Henoch, 555 W 25 street, 10:30am-7pm
Bogdan Vladuta "Urban Archeology" @ Ana Cristea Gallery, 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm
Willem Oorebeek "american proof AP" @ Robert Miller Gallery, 524 W 26 street, 6-8pm
Tal Shochat "In Praise of a Dream" @ Andrea Meislin Gallery, 526 W 26 street, 6-8pm
Katie Armstrong "Once More" @ BravinLee programs, 526 W 26 street, 6-8pm
Gary Schneider "HandPrint Portraits, Johannesburg" @ David Krut Projects, 526 W 26 street,6-8pm
"New Work / New Space" @ First Street Gallery, 526 W 26 street, 5-8pm
N. Dash, William Anastasi @ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, 526 W 26 street, #213, 6-8pm
Performance, Ann Liv Young "The Hostess Never Lies" curated by Anne Apparu @ Vogt Gallery, 526 W 26 street,  6pm
Jane Hammond "Light Now, Dazzle Paintings and Photographs" @ Galerie Lelong, 528 W 26 street, 6-8pm
Alessandra Exposito "Once-Blooming and Button-Eyed" @ Mixed Greens, 531 W 26 street, 6-8pm
Do Ho Suh "Home Within Home" @ Lehmann Maupin, 540 W 26 street, 6-8pm
"Ein lebendiger Gartenzwerg in Bad Ems" @ AC, 547 W 27 street, 6-8pm
Fredric Roberts, Humanitas: Images of India,Sundaram Tagore, 547 West 27 Street
Pawel Wojtasik "Nine Gates" @ Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, 547 W 27 street, 6-9pm
"The Exploding View" @ Martos Gallery, 540 W 29 street, 6-8pm

Vernissages, NYC, September 7
Kim Keever "Early Man & Missing Landscapes" @ Charles Bank Gallery, 196 Bowery, 6-9pm
Michelle Lopez "Vertical Neck" @ Simon Preston Gallery, 301 Broome street, 6-8pm
David Kramer "The Hangover...Too" curated by Katharine Mulherin @ Mulherin + Pollard, 187 Chrystie street, 6-9pm
Christian Curiel "No Hay Olvido/There is No Forgetting" curated by Adriana Farietta @ Hendershot Gallery, 195 Chrystie street, 6-8pm
Screening: Jimmie Durham "Collected Stones: 13 Short Videos (2002)" @ Hunter College (The Artist's Institute), 163 Eldridge, 6-8pm
Jeff Grant "Thin light" @ LMAKprojects, 139 Eldridge street, 6-9pm
Ian Pedigo "Dawn Goes by Round the Neck" @ Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 54 Ludlow street, 6-8pm
Laurens Tan @ Tally Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington street, 6-10pm
"Norfolk" inaugural exhibition for new location @ Thierry Goldberg Projects, 103 Norfok street, 6-9pm
Oleg Tcherny "The General Line" @ Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard street, 6-8pm
Zipora Fried "Salon Noir" @ On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard street, 6-8pm
Lisa Kirk "If You See Something..." @ Invisible-Exports, 14 Orchard street, 6-8pm
"You Can Never Go Home Anymore" inaugural exhibition @ Louis B. James, 143 Orchard street, 6-8pm
Sarah Crowner "Acrobat" @ Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, 21 Orchard street, 6-8pm
Sara Greenberger Rafferty "Remote" @ Rachel Uffner Gallery, 47 Orchard street, 6-8pm
Seher Shah "Object Anxiety" @ Scaramouche, 52 Orchard street, 6-8pm
Loren Munk @ Lesley Heller, 54 Orchard street, 6-8pm
"Don’t Fence Me In ... Or Out" curated by Lisa Corinne Davis @ Lesley Heller, 54 Orchard street, 6-8pm
Kristopher Benedict "Remake" @ Sue Scott Gallery, 1 Rivington street, 6-8pm
"A Moveable Feast" @ Sloan Fine Art,  128 Rivington street, 6-8pm
Elizabeth McGrath "With Tomorrow's Scream" @ Sloan Fine Art, 128 Rivington street, 6-8pm
Leah Yerpe "Illumination" @ Dacia Gallery, 53 Stanton street, 6-10pm
Hooper Turner @ Frosch&Portmann, 53 Stanton street, 6-8pm
"Find and Combine" curated by Linda Griggs @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center Inc., 107 Suffolk street, 6-8pm
Tom Holmes "Painted Bones - some reliquaries" at Bureau, 127 Henry street, 6-8pm
"Norway Now in NYC" curated by Koan Jeff Baysa, Omar Lopez-Chahoud @ .NO, 251 East Houston Street, 6-10pm
Dev Harlan "Astral Flight Hangar" @ Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth street, 6-9pm

JULY

Art, culture, thoughts, and not only... 

 Events, NYC, July 31

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Eiko & Koma: Water, Lincoln Center Out of  Doors,Paul Milstein Pool, Hearst Plaza, 9:30pm, for information >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

 Events, NYC, July 30

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Eiko & Koma: Water, Lincoln Center Out of  Doors, Paul Milstein Pool, Hearst Plaza, 9:30pm, for information >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >
 
 Events, NYC, July 29

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Eiko & Koma: Water, Lincoln Center Out of  Doors, Paul Milstein Pool, Hearst Plaza, 9:30pm, for information >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

 Events, NYC, July 28

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Eiko & Koma: Water, Lincoln Center Out of  Doors, Paul Milstein Pool, Hearst Plaza, 9:30pm, for information >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >
 

 Events, NYC, July 28

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Eiko & Koma: Water, Lincoln Center Out of  Doors,Paul Millenstein Fountain, 9:30pm, for information >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

 Events, NYC, July 27

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.), Yoga, 6:30pm for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Eiko & Koma: Water, Lincoln Center Out of  Doors, Paul Milstein Pool, Hearst Plaza, 9:30pm, for information >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

 Events, NYC, July 26

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.), Yoga, 6:30pm for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

Events, NYC, July 25

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information > 

Events, NYC, July 24

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

Events, NYC, July 23

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.), for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

Events, NYC, July 22

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

Events, NYC, July 21

"Daniel Davidson: Fat Fingers and Mundus Incognita (Group Show)" @ Mulherin + Pollard, 187 Chrystie street, 6-9pm

Kelsey Bennett "Black Velvet: The Godfather of Soul" @ Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth street, 7-10pm

Performance: Chelsea Knight "Frame" curated by Miguel Amado @ Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand street, 6-8pm

Preview: Hiniki Kobayashi, Miho Takai, Yuko Ueno "JAPANESE ARTISTS IN NEW YORK" @ Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 W 13 street, 6-9pm

Laura Levine "Musicians" @ Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 W 23 street, 6-8pm


"MAKE Skateboards" curated by Jonathan Lavoie, Scott Ogden @ I-20 Gallery, 557 W 23 street, 6-9pm

"Under the Radar" @ Lyons Wier Gallery, 542 West 24th st, 6-8pm

Performance: Genevieve Belleveau "Like - A Performance Series" curated by Gene McHugh @ Vogt Gallery, 526 W 26street, 7-9pm 


"The Nature" @ ArtBridge (ArtBridge Drawing Room), 526 West 26th st, 502a, 6-8pm

Book launch: Janelle Lynch "Los Jardines de Mexico" @ Aperture Foundation, 547 W 27 street, 7-9pm

Screening: "Kon-Tiki (1950)" @ EFA Gallery, 323 W 39 street, 6:30-8:30pm

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.),  for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

Events, NYC, July 20

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.), Yoga, 6:30pm for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >

Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >
 

Events, NYC, July 19

Summer on the Hudson 2011, throughout Riverside Park South (59th - 70th St.), Pilates Mat, 6:30pm for information >

Summerstage, various locations, for information  >
Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, Central Park, 8pm, for information >

Events, NYC, July 14


Performance:  STREB: Human Fountain,  Extreme Action Company, Winter Financial Garden, 6 pm

Performance: Patti Smith, River to River, Clinton Castle, 7pm

Events, NYC, July 13


Jung Hur "The Tactile and the Pictorial" curated by Gerard McCarthy @ White Box, 329 Broome street,7-9pm

Alex Markwith "New Black" @ Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, 21 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Book launch: Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky) "The Book of Ice" @ Eyebeam, 540 W 21 street, 6-9pm RSVP

"25 Years: 25 Artists" @ Julie Saul Gallery, 535 W 22 street, 5-7pm

Performance:  "Soft Machines" @ The Pace Gallery, 545 W 22 street, 6-9pm

Screening: "MoMA Premiere: Miranda July's The Future" @ MoMA, 11 W 53 street, 7:30pm

Events, NYC, July 11


Metropolitan Opera at Central Park Summerstage, 8pm

Vernissages, NYC, July 8

Andreco "Contemporary Alchemy" @ NO, 251 East Houston Street, 7-10pm

"Hidden in Plain Sight" @ SVA (Westside Gallery), 141 W 21 street, 4-6pm
Performance: ASCENSION, STREB Extreme Action Company, Whitney On Site, Gansevoort Plaza,3pm and 5pm


Vernissages, NYC, July 7

"Footnote 6 as model" curated by Barbara Piwowarska @ Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard street, 7-9pm

"Places" @ Stephan Stoyanov (Luxe Gallery), Orchard street, 6-9pm

Brian Leo, Don Porcella @ Christina Ray, 30 Grand street, 7-9pm

"Position of Conflict" curated by Drew McKenzie @ NYU (Wagner Gallery), 295 Lafayette street, 6-8pm

"Take-Out" curated by Scott Hug @ Andrew Edlin Gallery, 134 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

"Summer Paper" @ Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

"The House Without the Door" @ David Zwirner, 525 W 19 street, 6-8pm

Mia Pearlman and Laura Ball @ Morgan Lehman Gallery, 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Diana Al-Hadid, Juliao Sarmento, Mathias Kessler "Lost Paradise" @ Marianne Boesky Gallery, 509 W 24 street, 6-8pm

"Don't Quit Your Day Job" photographs by gallery owners @ Hasted Kraeutler, 537 W 24 street, 5-8pm

Christopher Wilmarth @ Betty Cuningham Gallery, 541 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"Like - a performance series" curated by Gene McHugh @ Vogt Gallery, 526 W 26 street, suite 911, 7-9pm

"SPACE", "Things Fall Apart", "Closer to Be Far Away" @ SVA, 601 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Jian Xia Liu "Buddhist on My Mind" @ DIB Gallery, 547 W 27 street, 6-8pm

"Perspective: Nine Women Nine Views" @ Sundaram Tagore, 547 W 27 street, 6-8pm
 
"It's Hot Inside" @ Jeff Bailey Gallery, 625 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Ciprian Muresan @ David Nolan Gallery, 527 W 29 street, 6-8pm

"Descant" @ New Art Center, 580 Eighth avenue, 6-8pm

"Summer Selects" @ Susan Eley Fine Art, 46 W 90 street, 6-8pm


July 6:  
Stay passionate about creating!
Shapeways

JUNE

Vernissages, NYC, June 30

Lecture: Brian Holmes "Creative Time presents: Post-Fordisms and Culture" part of the "Living as Form" curated by Creative Time @ The Cooper Union (Frederick P. Rose Auditorium), 41 Cooper Square, Rose Auditorium, 6:30-8pm

"A Desert in the Ocean - the View from Cill Rialaig" @ Lesley Heller, 54 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Craig Taylor "Paintings and Drawings" @ Sue Scott Gallery, 1 Rivington street, 6-8pm

Danni Rash, Jason Douglas Griffin @ Christina Ray, 30 Grand street, 7-9pm

"A Difference of Opinion: Zhang Dun + Mi Mai" @ Chambers Fine Art, 522 W 19 street, 6-8pm

Eva Struble "Landsmen" @ Lombard-Freid Projects, 518 West 19th , 6-8pm

"microwave, eight" @ Josee Bienvenu Gallery, 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

John Bock "Im Schatten der Made (In the Shadow of the Maggot)" @ Anton Kern, 532 W 20 street, 6-8pm

"Painting Expanded" curated by Emily Ruotolo, Phyllis Lally, Renee Coppola, Scot Surdez @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 W 21 street, 6-8pm

John Morris @ D'Amelio Terras, 525 W 22 street, 6-8pm

"Affinities: Painting in Abstraction" curated by Kate McNamara @ D'Amelio Terras, 525 W 22 street, 6-8pm

"Channel to the New Image" @ Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Willem de Rooij @ Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 537 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Mark Wagner "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" @ Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 533 W 23 street, 6-8pm

"The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition" @ Cheim & Read
25 street: 547 W 25 street, (time not confirmed, check with gallery),

Alfred Jensen, Andrew Masullo, Chris Johanson, Chris Martin, Judith Scott, Katherine Bernhardt @ Mitchell - Innes - Nash (Chelsea), 534 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Sebastian Mahaluf "Gravity, inversion of the matter" @ AC [Institute Direct Chapel], 547 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Colin Snapp, Daniel Turner @ Martos Gallery, 540 W 29 street, 6-8pm

"Damnatio Memoriae (or) Creating Memory" @ Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 730 Fifth avenue, @ w 57 street, 5:30-7:30pm

"New Work" @ Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 24 W 57 street, 6-8pm

Vernissages, NYC, June 29

Book launch: Vahap Avsar "Noneisafe" @ Charles Bank Gallery, 196 Bowery, 6-8pm

"Incongruent Sum" @ Mathematics Studio, 111 Leroy street, 7-9pm

"Draw The Line" @ Allegra LaViola Gallery, 179 East Broadway, 6-9pm

Peter Nadin "First Mark" @ Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 620 Greenwich street, @ leroy street, 6-8pm

"The View from a Volcano: the Kitchen's Soho Years, 1971 - 85"  @ The Kitchen512 W 19 street, 6-8pm

"Perceptible by Comparison" @ Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 W 22 street, 6-8pm

 "The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep" @ Asya Geisberg Gallery, 537B W 23 street, 6-8pm

"One Another" and  "Double Mobius" @ Flag Art Foundation, 545 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"Pneuma" @ Hauser & Wirth New York, 32 East 69th street, 6-8pm


Vernissages, NYC, June 28

Dara Birnbaum "Arabesque" @ Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 W 57 street, 6-8pm

"Summer Affair" @ FordProject, 57 W 57 street, 6-8pm


Vernissages, NYC, June 23

"I am Not Monogamous, I Heart Poetry" a group exhibition @ Feature Inc., 131 Allen street, 6-8pm

"Paul Clay" @ Salon 94, 243 Bowery, 6-8pm

Kenseth Armstead "Spook" @ LMAKprojects, 139 Eldridge street, 6-9pm

"Still Life & Motion"  @ DCKT Contemporary, 237 Eldridge street, 6-8pm

"antinormanybody: Experimental Video and Portraiture" @ Kleio Projects, 153 1/2 Stanton street, 7-9pm

C.J. Pyle, Scott Ogden "Twisted" @ Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Christine Nguyen, Letha Wilson, Matthew Brandt "Every Photo Graph Is In Visible" @ Churner and Churner, 205 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Amy-Jean Porter, Jessica Roher @ P.P.O.W., 535 W. 22nd street, 3, 6-8pm 

"The Unfinished Film" curated by Thomas Beard @ Gladstone Gallery, 6-8pm

Kim Dorland "For Lori" @ Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Eunah Kim, Genevieve White, Meridith Pingree, Min Hyung "Migration" @ Freight + Volume, 530 W 24 street, 6-8pm
 

"The Ghost in the Machine" curated by Stephen Westfall @ Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., 514 W 25 street, 6-8pm
 

"Intersection: Photography / Painting / Document" @ Marlborough Gallery (Chelsea), 545 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Performance: "contagious sounds series: BUILD" @ Gershwin Hotel, 7 E 27 street, 8:30pm

 "Pretty on the Inside" organized by Erik Parker and KAWS @ Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth avenue,  6-8pm

"Altered States" @ Foley Gallery, 548 W 28 street,  6-8pm

"Bolt Out of the Blue" @ Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 W 29 street, 6-8pm

"Cornucopia" @ Hosfelt Gallery, 531 W 36 street, 6-8pm


 June 21 | Summer Solstice


Vernissages, NYC, June 16

"Grasping for Relics" @ ZieherSmith, 516 W 20 street, 6-8pm

"24/7" @ Lyons Wier Gallery, 542 West 24th st, 6-8pm

"Small" @ Luise Ross Gallery, 511 W 25 street, 5-7pm

Hisao Hanafusa "Uchuiden" @ Gary Snyder Project Space, 250 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"Eraser" @ Magnan Metz Gallery, 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"Rhode Island School of Design MFA Painting 2011: Small Crowd" @ Mixed Greens, 531 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"MFA Photography, Video and Related Media 2011 Thesis Exhibition" @ SVA (Visual Arts Gallery), 601 W 26 street,  6-8pm

"The Chadwicks: Furling the Spanker: Masterworks from the Chadwicks’ Nautical Collection" @ Winkleman Gallery, 621 W 27 street, 6-8pm


Vernissages, NYC, June 10

Performance: Trisha Brown Dance Company "Roof Piece" @ High Line Art (Gansevoort street),  7pm

"Difference Engine: Manifestation III" at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center Inc., 107 Suffolk street, 7-11pm

"Sea Worthy" an exhibition, workshops & excursions curated by Benjamin Cohen, Dylan Gauthier, Georgia Muenster, Jean Barberis, Kendra Sullivan, Michelle Levy, Sally Szwed at EFA Gallery, 323 W 39 street, 6-8pm


June 10:  
....
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars; 
....
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann

Vernissages, NYC, June 09

Performance: Trisha Brown Dance Company "Roof Piece" @ High Line Art (Gansevoort street), 7pm

Thilo Heinzmann "Would You Take the Ball from a Little Baby" @ Bortolami,520 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Lecture: Manuel DeLanda "Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason" @ Eyebeam, 540 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Brian Graf "Field Recordings" @ Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 W 22 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Amy Ellingson, Andrea Belag, Canan Tolon, Carrie Yamaoka, Catherine Howe, Dannielle Tegeder, Lisa Corinne Davis, Rebecca Smith "Driven to Abstraction" @ Von Lintel Gallery, 520 W 23 street, 6-8pm

"New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography" @ Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 W 23 street, 6-9pm

Randy West, Mark Cohen  @ Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Jen P. Harris "American Kiss" @ Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Eva Hild, Jackie Meier "New Directions" @ Nancy Margolis Gallery, 523 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Alejandro Chaskielberg "The High Tide" @ Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Frank Brunner, Michael de Kok @ Bertrand Delacroix Gallery - BDG, 35 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"New Prints 2011/Summer Selected by Trenton Doyle Hancock" @ International Print Center New York (IPCNY), 508 W 26 street,  6-8pm

Tetsuro Sato "Hengao" @ Onishi Gallery, 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"Spirit of the Signal" @ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, 526 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"Belief and Understanding" @ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, 526 W 26 street, #213, 6-8pm

"Nadia Khawaja: Drawings - Videos - Photographs" @ Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 W 26 street, 6-8:30pm

"A Portrait Apart" @ Porter Contemporary, 548 W. 28th st, 3, 7-9pm

Adam Handler "Love Junkies" curated by Serge Gregorian @ New Art Center, 580 Eighth avenue, floor 5, 6-8pm


June 9:  
Continuing the organic bikini challenge


June 8:  
"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights!" 
Bob Marley

June 7:  
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?


MAY

Art, culture and not only...

Vernissages, Rome, May 27

"Made in Italy" @  Gagosian Gallery, via Francesco Crispi 16, 6-8pm

Francesco Clement "Winter Women, Summer Self" @ Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, 1 Via Orti d'Alibert, 6:30pm

Vernissages, Rome, May 26

Piero Pizzi Cannella "Ballo d'Oriente", diagonale/libreria - Roma, in collaborazione con l'Associazione Culturale L'Attico, via dei Chiavari 75, 6:30pm

Events, NYC, May 26

Julio Galan @ Galeria Ramis Barquet, 532 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Paul Kolker "Over & Over" @ Studio 601, 511 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"Maine as Muse" @ Lohin Geduld Gallery, 531 W 25 street, 5-7pm


James Davis "Indian Summer" @ Rare, 547 W 27 street, 6-8pm


"Acting the World is Enacting the World" @ EFA Gallery, 323 W 39 street, 6-8pm

Arturo Herrera, Blane de St. Croix, Chris Martin, David Opdyke, Marie Jager, Saul Chernick "Editions '11 Catalogue Launch and Exhibition" @ Lower East Side Printshop, 306 W 37 street, 6-8pm


Nancy Grossman "Combustion Scapes" @ Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 24 W57 Street, 5-7pm


Events, NYC, May 25

Liz Luisada, Shaun Krupa @ Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 54 Ludlow st, 6-8pm

Grace Knowlton @ Lesley Heller, 54 Orchard street, 6-8pm

Lecture: Hillary Lloyd @ Artists Space, 38 Greene street, 6-8pm

"American Abstract Artists" 75th anniversary @ O.K. Harris Works of Art, 383 W Broadway, 5:30-7:30pm

Stephen Antonakos "Spaces" @ Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm


A.H.M. Launch Party, Soho 5-7:30pm  RSVP

Events, NYC, May 24

Pankaj Ghemawat | World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How To Achieve It, IPK, Kaufman Management Center, 44 West 4th Street, Room 5-50, 6-730pm


Gego "Prints & Drawings 1963 - 1991" @ Latin Collector, 37 W 57 street, 6-8pm

Events, NYC, May 20

"Foreclosed: Between Crisis and Possibility" @ The Kitchen, 512 W 19 street, 5-8pm

"Play Time" @ Yvon Lambert, 550 W 21 street, 6-9pm

"Last Samurai: Hiroaki Tatei - painter from Fukushima" @ Onishi Gallery, 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Book signing, "Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best" @ International Center of Photography (ICP), 133 Sixth avenue, @ 43 street, 6-7:30pm

Book launch, Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonné @ Gagosian shop, 988 Madison Avenue, 6-8pm


Vernissages, NYC, May 19

Isabella Kirkland "Nova Paintings" @ Feature Inc., 131 Allen street, 6-8pm

Michael Marshall, Noah Scalin "Science and Nature" curated by Benjamin Krause @ Krause Gallery, 149 Orchard street, 6-10pm

"Lights Up! W/ Confettisystem"  @ W/------, 141 Division street, 7-9pm

Ana Christina Lorenzen, Ellen Bang, Jannicke Laker, Vanna Bowles "Black - Bold, Beautiful & Badass" curated by Sol Kjok @ NO, 251 East Houston Street, 6-9pm

Arnold Newman, Eliot Elisofon, Robert Damora, Rudy Burckhardt, Soichi Sunami "Displayed: Stages for Sculpture" curated by Zak Vreeland @ The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, 526 LaGuardia Place, 6-8pm

Steve Pyke, Tim Lewis @ Flowers Gallery, 529 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Justin Canha @ Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 529 W 20 street, floor 3, 6-8pm

Doron Langberg, Ion Birch, Jacques Louis Vidal, Summer Wheat "Romantic Agony" @ Horton Gallery, 504 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Helen Beckman "Tell it Slant" @ Newman Popiashvili, 504 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Elana Herzog @ Morgan Lehman Gallery, 535 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Lydia Venieri "The Last Conflict"Stefan Stux Gallery, 530 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"We Regret To Inform You There Is Currently No Space Or Place For Abstract Painting" @ Martos Gallery, 540 W 29 street, 6-8pm

'Undressing the World'" curated by Christina Labey @ 25CPW, 25 Central Park West, 6-9pm


David Levinthal @ John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 50 1/2 E 64 street, 6-8pm

Events, NYC, May 10

Lecture: "100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken/100 Notes - 100 Thoughts" A dOCUMENTA (13) series @ Artists Space
Soho: 38 Greene street, floor 3, 7-9pm

"DreamWeapon" the art and life of Angus MacLise (1938-1979) @ Boo-Hooray Gallery, 521 W 23 street, 6-9pm

Lecture: "Second-Wave Situationism: Art Activism and the Artists' Participation in Social Movements, 1964-1977" @ CUNY Graduate Center for the Humanities, 365 Fifth avenue, The James Gallery, 6:30pm

Vernissages, NYC, May 6

Richard Long, "Flow and Ebb" @ Sperone Westwater, 257 Bowery, 6-8pm

"Art Star Print Launch Party & Talk w/ Artist Micah Ganske" @ RH Gallery, 137 Duane street, 7-9pm

Screening: Marinella Senatore "About Face presents Variations" curated by No Longer Empty @ No Longer Empty, 66 East 4th, 7-8pm

Screening: Josh Slater "Heavy Rays" curated by Chantal Chadwick, Lara Hodulick, Marshall Korshack @ End of Century, 175 Rivington street, 7-9pm

Emrie Brooke Foster "Open Doors" @ LZ Project Space, Suffolk street, 7pm-midnight

Performance: Chiara Quartet, Joshua Frankel, Matmos, NOW Ensemble "Plan of the City" animation with live music by a chamber ensemble @ Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker street, 6:30pm

Van Hanos @ West Street Gallery, 395 West street, 7-9pm

Carter Mull "The Day's Specific Dreams" @ Taxter & Spengemann Gallery, 459 W 18 street, 6-8pm

Jasper Johns "New Sculpture and Works on Paper" @ Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Sean Landers "Around the World Alone" @ Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 537 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Frank Benson, Ken Price @ Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 W 22 street, 6-8pm

Judy Ledgerwood "April Showers" @ Tracy Williams Ltd, 521 W 23 street, 6-8pm

Jack Smith "Thanks for Explaining Me" @ Gladstone Gallery, 515 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Louise Lawler "Fitting @ Metro Pictures" @ Metro Pictures, 519 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Yigal Ozeri "Garden of the Gods" @ Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Jasper Johns @ Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 W 24 street

Richard Tuttle "What's the Wind" @ The Pace Gallery, 510 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"I.D.E.A. Squad: Innovative Design in Emerging Advertising" @ Rogue Space, 526 W 26 street, suite 9E, 5:30-9pm

Jaume Plensa "Anonymous" @ Galerie Lelong, 528 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Ivan Witenstein @ Derek Eller Gallery, 615 W 27 street, 6-8pm

Bruce Wilhelm, Nina Bovasso "What's Your Bubble?" @ Mulherin Pollard Projects, 317 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Robert Mapplethorpe "50 Americans" @ Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 W 29 street, 6-8pm

Alexander Ross @ David Nolan Gallery, 527 W 29 street, 6-8pm

William Kentridge "Other Faces" @ Marian Goodman, 24 E 57 street, 6-8pm

Arshile Gorky "1947" @ Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, 6-8pm


Vernissages, NYC, May 5

Daniel Peddle "Undertow" @ NP Contemporary Art Center, 131 Chrystie street, 6-8pm

"About Face" @ No Longer Empty, 215 East Houston st, 8-10pm

"Monstros" @ Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, 107 Suffolk street, 7-11pm

Jakob Kolding "Blocks" @ Team, 83 Grand street, 6-8pm

Wang Tiande "3720: Recent Works by Wang Tiande" @ Chambers Fine Art, 522 W 19 street, 6-8pm

Mark Grotjahn @ Anton Kern, 532 W 20 street, 6-8pm

Gillian Wearing "People" @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 W 21 street, 6-8pm

Leah Durner "Naked Color" @ 571 Projects, 551 W 21 street, suite 204A, 6-9pm

Anthony Campuzano "Waters' March" @ Churner and Churner, 205 Tenth avenue, 6-8pm

Tobias Putrih "When Language Goes on Holiday" @ Meulensteen, 511 W 22 street, 5-8pm

Jacob Lawrence "Builders" @ DC Moore, 535 West 22nd st 6-8pm

John Chamberlain "New Sculpture" @ Gagosian Gallery, 555 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Songsik Min "Two Faces" @ Doosan Gallery, 533 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Li Songsong @ The Pace Gallery, 534 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Ron Agam @ Bertrand Delacroix Gallery - BDG, 535 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Michael Glancy "Infinite Obsessions" @ Barry Friedman Ltd,  515 W 26 street, 6-8pm

pick "T_XT_RT" @ Jenkins Johnson Gallery, 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"Among the serious sand playful things"  @ Onishi Gallery, 521 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Robert Greene @ Robert Miller Gallery, 524 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Sonya Blesofsky "Tenement" @ Mixed Greens, 531 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Leon Kossoff @ Mitchell - Innes & Nash, 534 W 26 street, 6-8pm

Gideon Rubin "Shallow Waters" @ Hosfelt Gallery, 531 W 36 street, 6-8pm

Subodh Gupta "A glass of water" @ Hauser & Wirth New York, 32 E 69 street, 6-8pm http://www.japandaynyc.org/