The DART List: February 1, 2011

Left: Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe. USA. 2008. Directed by Harry Kim. Pictured: David Choe. Courtesy of Filmmaker. Right: Bloodbath. USA. 2011. Directed by Cecil B. Feeder. Pictured: Elizabeth McGrath. Courtesy of Filmmaker. From All the Wrong Art: Juxtapose Magazine on Film, running February 7-14 at the Museum of Modern Art.
Tuesday, February 1, 6:00-8:00 pm. Opening reception and book signing for Daniel Egneus: Red Riding Hood. Traffic Art Space, 136 East 74th Street, NY, NY.
Tuesday, February 1, 7:30 pm: Opening reception, film screening, and book signing for Gina LeVay: Sandhogs (powerHouse 2009). Half King, 505 West 23rd Sttreet, NY, NY.
Wednesday, February 2, 6:00 pm: The Center for Book Arts Professional Development Workshops presents Jackie Battenfield author of The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love (Da Capo Press, 2009). The Center for Book Arts, 28 W. 27th St., 3rd Floor, NY, NY.
Wednesday, February 2, 7:00 pm: Albert Watson launches Spring Photographers Lecture Series at the International Center of Photography School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets, $15 at the door.
Thursday, February 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening Reception for O. Winston Link: The Last Steam Railroad in America. Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue (Between 24th-25th Streets, FL 10), NY, NY.
Thursday, February 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening Reception for David Nadel: Burns. Sasha Wolf Gallery, in association with Kris Graves Projects. 548 West 28th Street, NY, NY.
Thursday, February 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Robin Williams: Rescue Party. P·P·O·W Gallery NEW ADDRESS 535 W. 22nd Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY
Thursday, February 3rd, 6:00-8:30: First Thursday Gallery Walk, DUMBO, Brooklyn, with open studios and drinks specials at many local bars. Check out the linup at Dumbo Culture 411.
Thursday, February 3, 6:30-8:30 pm: Opening reception for Cartoon Polymaths, featuring multimedia work by Winsor McCay, Saul Steinberg, Richard McGuire, Paper Rad and more. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons the New School for Design. 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, NY, NY.
Thursday, February 3, 7:00 pm: Art In the First Person presents Joe Fig: Inside the Painter’s Studio. School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater, NY, NY. Free; please have photo ID to enter the building.
Thursday, February 3, 6:00-8:00pm: Opening reception for Jim Campbell: 4 Works. Hosfelt Gallery, 531 W 36th Street. NY. NY.
Thursday, February 3, 6:30 pm: Lecture by Professor Marc Nichanian of Sabanci University, Turkey in conjunction with the exhibition Blind Dates: New Encounters from the Edges of a Former Empire. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, NY, NY.
Friday, February 4, 1:30 pm: Gallery talk with Molleen Theodore on Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. Meet at 2nd floor Atrium. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY. Free with museum admission.
Friday, February 4, 6:00-8:00 pm: Hey, Hot Shot! 2010 Showcase. Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street, NY, NY.
Friday, February 4, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening Reception Soody Sharifi: Of Miniature Serenades and Maxiature Moments, LTMH Gallery, 39 East 78th Street, NY, NY.
Friday, February 4th, 7:00-9:00 pm: Closing party for Graphic Radicals: World War 3 Illustrated, a 30th anniversary retrospective, closing February 5th. Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY. Read Holland Cotter’s review in the New York Times.
Saturday, February 5, 6:30 pm: In conversation with curators Elyanna Blaser-Gould & Lindsey Castillo Notes from the Underground: The Films of Marie Losier. CCNY Studio, 336 West 37th Street, Suite 206, NY, NY. Free, but seating is limited.
The week of February 7th: All the Wrong Art: Juxtapose Magazine on Film. Featuring film and video on the work of Chris Mars, Ron English, Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, Don Ed Hardy, David Choe and Elizabeth McGrath among others. Information.
The week of February 7th: Social Media Week begins, with several events hosted by the New York Public Library. Check out the entire program here.
Wednesday, February 9, 7:00 pm: Book signing and conversation with Adrian Tomine and Leanne Shapton, about Scenes from an Impending Marriage (Drawn & Quarterly 2011) by Adrain Tomine. The Strand Bookstore, Broasway and 12th Street, NY, NY.
Wednesday, February 9, 11:00 am-6:00 pm: Opening day for Lynda Benglis, a retrospective, at The New Museum, Lobby and Second Floor Galleries. 235 Bowery, opposite Prince Street, NY, NY.
Wednesday, February 9, 7:00 pm: The ICP Photographers Lecture Series presents Stephanie Sinclair. The International Center of Photography School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets, $15 at the door.
Wednesday, February 9, 7:00-8:30: Book signing for Taboo: Fallin’ Up, with Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas. powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY.
Thursday, February 10, 11:00 am: Gallery talk, Malcolm Daniel, Curator, Department of Photographs, on Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand. Metropolita n Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, NY, NY. Free with museum admission.
Thursday, February 10, 6:00-8:00 pm: The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents Gregory Sholette, author of Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture; Cat Mazza, founder of MicroRevolt, and Jim Costanzo of the Aaron Burr Society. The Sheila C. Johnson Center for Design at Parsons the New School for Design, Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, NY, NY. Free.
Thursday, February 10, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Karlheinz Weinberger: Halbstarke to Bikers in Color. Anna Kustera Gallery, 520 West 21st Street, NY, NY. Concurrently on view: Intimate Stranger: Photographs by Karlheinz Weinberger. The Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, 495 Broadway, 3rd Floor, NY, NY.
Thursday, February 10, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for The Parallax View featuring works by Teresita Fernández, Dan Flavin, Gego, Mary Heilmann, Eva Hesse, Robert Irwin, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Smithson. Lehman Maupin, 540 West 26th Street, NY, NY.
Thursday, February 10, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Measure for Measure: exploring the art of mathematics and the mathematics of art. Central Booking, 111 Front Street, Gallery 210, DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Stay tuned: SVA’s Spring MFA Design Criticism Lecture Series begins on February 15th with Tucker Viemeister: Play=Design=Learning. Check out the calendar here.

