Art Fairs & Special Events

Wednesday, May 14-Sunday, May 18

LIC Arts Open / 54 locations across Long Island City, NY. Over 250 artists are transforming Long Island City into a cultural adventureland of galleries, performance spaces and open studios. With 85-plus exhibitions and events, and over 160 artists opening their studio doors, LIC Arts Open will likely be the biggest event happening in the five boroughs this week. Information.

Thursday, May 15-Sunday, May 18

Art Market San Francisco | Art & Technology. The Bay Area is a center for innovative technologies and new ideas and for this year's fair, Art Market San Francisco presents a selection of programs to highlight these intersections. The ways in which the internet has influenced and transformed contemporary art practices for artist, curators and collectors alike will be addressed through talks, discussions and installations. Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA. Information.

Saturday, May 17

Fifth Annual Bay Ridge Storefront Art Walk. Fifth Avenue between 86^th Street and Bay Ridge Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

Sunday, May 18

Grand opening, 1-3 pm: Flow.14 | Art and Music at Randall’s Island, featuring sculpture and installations by Dean Monogenis, Rob Raphael, Jessica Sanders and Kant Smith. Information. Map & Directions.

Bay area artist Ward Schumacher, a long-time DART subscriber, will have work presented by Jack Fischer Gallery, booth 615 at Art Market San Francisco, opening on Thursday. Above left: Art Practice, 2013; above right: Black Liftoff, 2013.

Call for Entries Deadline: June 10, 2014

2015 Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Fashion is accepting applications from foreign-born fashion professionals age 38 and under. Eligible applicants include fashion designers, stylists, hair/makeup artists, writers, curators, photographers, filmmakers and illustrators. Three winners will be awarded a $50,000 cash prize. Categories include illustration and photography as well as fashion design. Information.

Tuesday, May 13

10am-6 pm (4 pm Monday): Rational X Intuitive Thought | Furniture and Objects by Yabu Pushelberg. 18 Wooster Street, NY, NY. Information.

Opening day: Multiple Exposures | Jewelry and Photography. Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY.

Opening day: Self-Taught Genius | Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum.American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Artist’s talk and reception, 6 pm: Kara Rooney. Brooklyn Art Space, 168 7^th Street, 3^rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY.

Wednesday, May 14

Opening reception, reading and book launch, 7 pm: Semiotext(e) | The Return of Schizo-Culture. Artists Space Books & Talks, 55 Walker Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 8pm on: Femme Fatale | Polet Guzman, Azure McBride, Sofia Reeser del Rio, Angela Viens. Con Artist Collective, 119 Ludlow Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, May 15

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Robert Heinecken | I Am Involved in Learning to Perceive and Use Light. Petzel Gallery, 456 West 18^th Street, NY,NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Kahn & Selesnick | Truppe Fledermaus & The Carnival at the End of the World. Yancey Richardson, 525 West 22^ndStreet, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Joe Fleming | Suckerpunch. Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Joan Mitchell | Trees. Cheim & Read, 547 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Sze Tsung Leong, Dahshur, 2007, from the series Horizons; opening Thursday at Yossi Milo Gallery, see below.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sze Tsung Leong | Horizons. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY. 

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Against Nature: Sabine Mirlesse, Kechun Zhang, Yichen Zhou. Gallery Ho, 547 West 27^th Street, #208, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Barbara Crane | Chicago Loop. Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Here and Now | Queer Geographies in Contemporary Photography. Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 East Carson Street, Pittsburgh, PA.

Opening reception, 6-8:30 pm: Hans-Christian Schink | 1h. Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, 425 Peachtree Hills Avenue, Suite 25, Atlanta, GA.

Barbara Brändli, Untitled, from the series Nervous System (Sin título, de la serie Sistema nervioso), Caracas, 1973–75. Collection Leticia and StanislasPoniatowski. © Barbara Brändli. From Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1941-2012, opening Friday at International Center of Photography (see below)

Friday, May 16

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Frank Webster | Margins. The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Suzanne Opton | Soldier. Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening day: Urbes Mutantes: Latin American Photography 1941-2012 and Caio Reisewitz. International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of Americas, NY, NY.

Opening reception 7-10 pm: Steel Stillman | Incidents: 1969-2014. Show Room Gowanus, 460 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen | Space Fiction & the Archives. Momenta Art, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Opening reception, 6:30-9 pm: Mobile Photo Juried Exhibition and Karen Devine | A Small Amount of Courage. Minneapolis Photo Center, 2400 North Second Street, Minneapolis, MN.

Saturday, May 17

Opening reception, 5-8 pm: Summertime: And The Living Is Easy. PDNB Gallery, 1202 Dragon Street, Dallas, TX.

Sunday, May 18

Opening reception, 5-8 pm: Jonathan Calm | Chambers. LMAKprojects, 139 Eldridge Street, NY, NY.