— ARTSPACE PICK —
Beat Nite 8 at Various Spaces, Brooklyn, 6–10 p.m.
This Friday marks the return of Norte Maar's bi-annual Bushwick gallery night and it's not to be missed. Curator Julian Jimarez-Howard has selected 10 art spaces around the neighborhood to participate, five of which have just opened in the past year (including his own Outlet Fine Art). If that isn't enough to get you out to Bushwick, the art walk will be followed by an after party at Bizarre, featuring a performance by PassKontrol. Find more details here .
— WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH —
Opening reception for "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star" at the New Museum , 231 Bowery, 8 p.m. (through May 26th)
Though the opening is reserved for Deluxe Members only, do be sure to see this Museum-wide dedication to an extensive and engaging exploration of art made and shown during one critically transformative year in the early 90s.
Opening reception for Andra Ursuta, "Solitary Fitness" at Venus Over Manhattan , 980 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, 8–11 p.m. (through March 30th)
Drawing on her educational training in both Post-Impressionism and critical theory, Ursuta creates slightly ironic sculptural installations of images and stories she pulls from the Internet.
Opening reception for Richard Artschwager, "Portraits!" at Sprüth Magers , 7A Grafton Street, London, 6–8 p.m. (through March 9th)
This exhibition of the recently deceased, category-busting artist focuses on a series of recent portraits as well as a punctuation mark sculpture reminiscent of his famous "blps."
— THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH —
Opening reception for Tam Van Tran, "Leaves of Ore" at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe at 525 West 22nd Street, 6–8 p.m. (through March 16th)
In a luscious mix of porcelain chips, this Vietnamese artist creates remarkable large-scale works that suggest tumultuous landscapes or molten rock.
Cynthia Carr and Lynne Tillman on "Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz" at SVA Theater , 333 West 23rd Street, 7 p.m.
Two lovely writers sit down to discuss Carr's recent memoir of activist artist David Wojnarowicz, which also serves as a fascinating history of a subculture during the AIDS crisis in New York City.
— FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 —
Opening reception for Dan Flavin and Donald Judd at David Zwirner , 537 West 20th Street, 6–8 p.m. (through March 16th)
Installations by two of Minimalism's most significant artists have been gathered in this inaugural show at the gallery's new five-storied space.
Opening reception for Hope Gangloff at Susan Inglett Gallery , 522 West 24th Street, 6–8 p.m. (through March 23rd)
With her combination of elegantly eerie figures and casually relatable scenes—not to mention a killer knack for flat patterns—it's hard not to enjoy the work of this recent Artspace artist to watch .
— SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 —
Opening reception for Sherrie Levine and August Sander at Paula Cooper Gallery , 521 West 21st Street, 6–8 p.m. (through March 16th)
This pairing of parts of Sander's monumental documentary series, People of the 20th Century , with Levine's photographs of the same project, serves to activate the themes intrinsic in the work of both artists.
Opening reception for Matthew Weinstein, "The Celestial Sea" at Sonnabend Gallery , 536 West 22nd, 5–7 p.m.
Inspired by a 13th-century fable, the artist has created a series of videos, paintings, and sculptures that accentuate the disappearance of the divide between the physical and the virtual.
— SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 —
Opening reception for "Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show" at Abrons Arts Center , 466 Grand Street, 4–6 p.m. (through April 7, 2013)
Works by 27 contemporary artists including Cory Arcangel, Amy Feldman, Butt Johnson, Liz Magic Laser, and Gabriel Orozco, have been assembled in this exhibition celebrating the Armory's landmark show. The reception is preceded by two panels featuring some of the show's artists and curators as they discuss the legacy of the exhibition exactly 100 years to the day of its public inauguration.
— TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 —
Opening reception for Alan Uglow at David Zwirner , 519 West 19th Street, 6–8 p.m. (through March 23rd)
Organized by writer and curator Bob Nickas, this solo exhibition—the artist's first in the United States in over 10 years—feature a number of Uglow's paired down, yet perceptually playful geometric abstractions.
Artist talk with Elizabeth Price at Columbia University , 632 West 125th Street, Prentis Hall, 8 p.m.
The 2012 Turner Prize winning video artist (and former indie pop singer) Elizabeth Price will stop by to discuss her work, which has recently taken a Laurie Anderson-like turn, as Price became the first artist-in-residence at the Rutherford Appleton Space Laboratory in the UK.
