Left: Ken Lum, Untitled (Sauq!), 1987, from Spelling the Image, opening Thursday at Marc Jancou Contemporary. Right: Thomas Ovlisen | Tomato, opening Friday at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery.

Wednesday, January 25

Book signing, 6-8 pm: Motoyuki Daifu | Lovesdy (Little Big Man 2012). Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street (Between Bowery and Lafayette), NY, NY.

Talk and book signing, 6-8 pm, with Seattle-based architect Tom Kundig and Town & Country editor Mark Rosso, on Tom Kundig Houses 2 (Princeton Architectural Press 2011). New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, 42^nd Street at 5^th Avenue, 2^nd Floor, NY, NY. Information.

Opening day, 11 am-6 pm: Underground Russian Photography, 1970-1989. Nailya Alexander Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Figured and The Bricoleurs | The Fourth Annual Artists from the Registry Exhibition. BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 33 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Thursday, January 26

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Motoyuki Daifu | Lovesdy. Lombard Freid Projects, 518 West 19^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: New Publications by Maurizio Cattelan (Three Star Books). Printed Matter, 195 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Holly Andres | The Fall of Spring Hill. Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue, between 23^rd and 24^th Streets, NY, NH.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Méré Humd(r)um, a group exhibition of contemporary art from Pakistan featuring work by Roohi Ahmed, Cyra Ali, Sara Khan, Rehana Mangi, Shoaib Mehmood, Hassan Mujtaba, Seher Naveed, Aisha Rahim, Abdullah M. I. Syed, Amjad Ali Talpur, Iqra Tanveer and Ehsan ul Haq. Aicon Gallery, 35 Great Jones Street, NY, NY.

Opening, 10 am-6pm: Spelling the Image, featuring work by John Baldessari, Erica Baum, Sam Durant, Roe Ethridge, Jenny Holzer, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, Sean Landers, Louise Lawler, Christian Marclay, Alan Michael, Richard Prince, Kay Rosen, Frances Stark, and Stephanie Taylor. Marc Jancou Contemporary, 524 West 24th Street, NY, NY.

Friday, January 27

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Ken Tong | In Case It Rains in Heaven. Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Thomas Ovlisen | Tomato. Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 54 Ludlow Street, between Grand and Hester, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: A Feminist Tea Party | Illegitimate and Herstorical. A.I.R. Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 228, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.

Saturday, January 28

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: The Berlin Tunnel Project. Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union, #1C, Brooklyn, NY.

Two from East L.A. Diary by Gusamano Cesaretti, currently on view at Roberts + Tilton Gallery, 5801 Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

This Week’s DART Picks:

Thursday, January 26, 5-8:30 pm: Opening reception, Kevin Cooley | Skyward. Young Projects/Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave #B230/B210, Los Angeles, CA.

Saturday, January 28, 2 pm: Gallery Talk, On Collecting with Michelle Dunn Marsh, in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Forward | Looking Back: 20^th Century Photographs. G. Gibson Gallery, 300 South Washington Street, Seattle, WA.

Saturday, January 28, opening reception, 6-9 pm: Manifest Destiny, featuring work by Nicholas Alan Cope, Todd Weaver, Randy Berez, Claudio Cambon, Larry S. Clark, Amanda Friedman, Michael Kelly, Lisa Romerin. The Analog Salon, 3535 Hayden Avenue, Culver City, CA.

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