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Thursday, February 5

Dumbo First Thursday Art Walk, 7:30-9 pm. Information.

February 4-15

P.O.L.E. \ People, Objects, Language, Exchange, featuring performances by Subway Pole Dancers. New Museum Lobby, 235 Bowery NY, NY. Information.

Steve Davis, Untitled, Remann Hall, Tacoma, WA, from Prison Obscura, at the Sheila C. Johnson Center, Parsons School of Design.

Wednesday, February 4

Birthday Bash & Benefit Auction 6:30-9 pm. NOoSphere Arts, 4^th Anniversary. 251 East Houston Street, between Norfolk and Suffolk Streets, NY, NY. Information.

Lectures / Discussions / Workshops

Wednesday, February 4

Prison Obscura, noon, with curator Pete Brook and Tim Raphael, Director, The Center for Migration and the Global City, Rutgers University-Newark.  Co-hosted with the Humanities Action Lab. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design. 66 Fifth Avenue/13^th Street, NY, NY. Information. 

Thursday, February 5

Lili Almog and Tamar Ettun | A Muted Pace, with with curators Sarah Lehat and Julianne Steindler. Stein Rose Fine Art, 721 Fifth Avenue, #34c, NY, NY. RSVP/limited seating.

Insider Art: Recent Curatorial Approaches to Self-Taught Art, 7 pm, with Maatthew Higgs, co-curator of Judith Scott-Bound and Unbound, Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator, Special Projects in Modern Art, National Gallery of Art; Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director, New Museum; and Lawrence Rinder, Director, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

Saturday, February 7 Public discussion, 3 pm: Non/Violence | The Dictionary of the Possible, with Avi Alpert, Molly Dilworth andSreshta Rit Premnath will lead a discussion on the history, meaning and purpose of nonviolent activism in the face of state oppression. Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY. [Dumbo] Information.

Sunday, February 8

 The Architectural League presents, The Five Thousand Pound Life: Water | A Symposium on issues of water supply in the context of climate change, 1-7 pm. Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY. Tickets/ emailrsvp@archleague.org.

Eliot Elisofon, Model and Crane, 1937, opening Tuesday at Gitterman Gallery.

Openings / Photography

Tuesday, February 3

David Burnett | Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley. 7-9 pm. Anastasia Gallery, 166 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Margaret Morton | Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan, 6:30 pm.  The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, in The Cooper Union Foundation Building. 7 East 7th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Information.

Wednesday, February 4

Eliot Elisofon, 6-8pm. Gitterman Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 5

Melissa Cacciola | Skywalkers: The Legacy of the Mohawk Ironworkers at te World Trace Center. 4 World Trade Center, 67^thFloor, 150 Greenwich Street, NY. NY. RSVP required.

Jasper de Beijer | Mr. Knight’s World Band Receiver, 6-8 pm. Asya Geisberg Gallery, 537b West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Simon Norfolk, from Stratographs, opening this week at the new Benrubi Gallery, Chelsea.

Paulette Tavormina | Bodegón, 6-8 pm. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Robert Barry | All the things I know. Hunter College Art Galleries, 205 Hudson Street, NY, NY. Information.

Simon Norfolk | Stratographs, 6-8 pm. Inaugural reception in the new space: Benrubi Gallery, 521 West 26^th Street, 2^nd Floor, NY,NY.

Prison Obscura, 5:30-8:30 pm. Co-hosted with the Humanities Action Lab. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design. 66 Fifth Avenue/13^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Sunil Gupta | Queer Migrations: Family, Identity, and Place. Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT. Information.

Artist’s walkthrough and opening reception, 5:30-7 pm: Eiko Otake | A Body in Fukushima. Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Information.

Alec Soth | Songbook, 5:30-7:30 pm. Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary Street, 4^th FL, San Francisco, CA.

Chris Fraser | Revolving Doors, 6-8 pm. SF Camerawork, 1011 Market Street, San Francisco, CA.

The Visual Voice | New Photo Book Narratives, 6-8 pm. RayKo Photo Center, 428 Third Street, San Francisco, CA.

Doug Keyes | Portrait Show, 6-8 pm. G. Gibson Gallery, 300S. Washington Street, Seattle, WA.

Friday, February 6

It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, 6-8 pm. Gallery 339, 339 South21st Street, Philadelphia, PA.

Jessica Eaton | Wild Permutations, 7-11:30 pm. Museum of Contemporary Art, 11400 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH.

Mario Algaze | A Respect for Light, 5-7 pm. Sheldon Art Galleries, 3648 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis, MO.

The Haight: Love, Rock, and Revolution | Photographs by Jim Marshall, 6 pm on. Reception; Psychedelic Light Show by Harold Adler; Book signing with Joel Selvin and Amelia Davis. UC Berkeley School of Journalism, North Gate Hall, Berkeley, CA. Map.

Japan Foundation LA presents, After Mikiko Hara | Floating In the Moment, 7-9 pm. JFLA Auditorium, 5700 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA. Information.

Saturday, Feburary 7

Igael Shemtov | The Photo Album, 1979-80,  6-8 pm. Baxter Street at Camera Club of New York, 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY.

Claire Rosen | Birds of a Feather and Hunters, Gatherers, and Clickers, 5-7 pm. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY.

Alison Rossiter, Jessica Eaton, Mariah Robertson | Process and Abstraction, 7-9 pm. Transformer Station, 1460 W 29^th Street,,Cleveland, OH.

Daniel Arsham and James Law, 6-8 pm. Leica Gallery/LA, 8783 Beverly Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA.

Jessica Eaton, left to right: cfaal 140, 2011; cfaal 340, 2013; cfaal 306, 2013.

Openings / All Other

Tuesday, February 3

Once Upon A Time and Now, 6:30-8:30 pm: Featuring work by Leon Golub, Keith Haring, David LaChapelle, Kay Rosen, Thomas Lanigan Schmidt, Kenny Scharf, Nancy Spero, Robert Storr, Martin Wong and more. Exhibition opening and relaunchof the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center. The Center, 208 West 13^th Street, between 7^th & Greenwich Avenues, NY, NY.

Wednesday February 4

Barbara Kasten | Stages, 6-8 pm. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 118 S. 36thStreet, Philadelphia, PA.

Friday, February 6

Illustrators 57 | Book And Editorial Categories, 6 pm on. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets.

Saturday, February 7

Videofreex | The Art of Guerilla Television, 5-7 pm. Samuel Dorskey Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Information.