"I increasingly believe that the person you become and the artist you become are inseparable," noted the photographer Elizaveta Porodina recently. Known best for her luminous magazine-cover portraits of celebrities and her work with fashion houses, Porodina creates vivid, intricately layered images in camera that probe the territory between dreams and reality--work inspired by female surrealist artists such as Meret Oppenheim, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar and Remedios Varo. Her new book "Found Dreams" (Prestel) brings together her most beauty dreamscapes.

  Wednesday, October 28, 6:00–8:00pm: In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive and You Were Filled With Joy Celebrate the spirit of activism and remembrance as the New York City AIDS Memorial marks a monumental ten-year milestone with this pop-up exhibition. Co-organized by Keith Fox and Stephen Truax in collaboration with David Kordansky Gallery, the show takes its title from Jenny Holzer’s striking text etched into the granite of the Greenwich Village memorial as i...