DART Picks from performance art and media installations around town:
Christian Marclay: The Clock. 24-hour weekend screenings of this groundbreaking video work, as well as weekday screenings, continue at Paula Cooper Gallery. In her New York Times review, Roberta Smith wrote, The sense of [Marclay’s] mind at work, piecing everything together — thinking endlessly of time and timing, of sight and sound — is one of the work’s constants. But so is a kind of anonymity: a diffuse, inclusive love of movies, the joy of movies, which he spreads before us in an immense, ceaselessly moving, pell-mell, two-timing feast. Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 West 21^st Street, NY, NY.

Saturday Sessions at MoMA PS 1, Saturday, February 5^th, 4:00-6:00 pm: Anne Apparu hosts an afternoon of Sweet Tea and Inner War Cookies, an original recipe meant to trigger collective meditations on violence and community, accompanied by Pete Drungle’s Bird Symphony and followed by a musical performance by collaborative Next Nikki. MoMA PS 1, 22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY.

Photographs by Karlheinz Weinberger, from the exhibition Intimate Stranger, on view at the Swiss Institute. Left to Right: Lone Star Camp, Gossau ZH 1967. Courtesy the Estate of Karlheinz Weinberger. Untitled, Private Collection. Copyright The Estate of Karlheinz Weinberger in care of Patrik Schedler, Zurich. Image courtesy of Artist Resources Management and Anna Kustera Gallery, New York. Zurich am Limmatquai, 1962. Courtesy the Estate of Karlheinz Weinberger.

DART Picks from public programs starting this month:
The Rubin Museum of Art’s fourth annual Brainwave series will examine the nature of the phenomenon of dreaming. Why do we dream? What function does this ancillary brain activity serve? Can dreams anticipate the future? Brainwave will endeavor to answer these questions in a number of on-stage conversations between mind scientists and people from multiple walks of life, the museum’s first “dream-over,” and a series of workshops linked to the U.S. theatrical premiere of the award-winning documentary The Edge of Dreaming. Participants include Henry Rollins (sold out), Meredith Monk, Amy Tan, John Patrick Shanley, and Scott Turow, among others. Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17^th Street, NY, NY. Tickets $15-$55.

Spring 2011 Public Programs at The New School. The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents Kara Walker (Feb. 16), Mark Dion (Feb 23), and Ann Hamilton (April 20), as well as a conversation with the founders of the Handspring Puppet Company, Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler (April 13) on the occasion of the Lincoln Center production of their acclaimed performance piece, Warhorse, among other prominent artists and designers. All programs are free and open to the public. Information.

Spring 2011 Popular Cultural Podcast Design Matters series begins. Hosted by design champion and chair of the MPS Branding Department Debbie Millman, Design Matters brings thought-provoking conversations with leaders in design and culture to the public at no charge. Aired exclusively on leading cultural destination Design Observer, segments include talks with Gail Anderson, Kate Betts, Dominique Browning, Kalle Lasn, Eddie Opara, Rob Walker and Alina Wheeler, among others.

Spring 2011 Public Programs at Columbia University School of Arts. Starting Thursday, February 10, 6:30 pm with Laurie Anderson, in the Refiguring the Spiritual series. In collaboration with Columbia University’s Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Series highlights include Lynda Benglis (April 7), Jill Magid (Feb. 24), and Tom McCarthy (April 14) among others. Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street) MC 1801, NY, NY. Free. Reservations. Calendar.

Openings, discussions, and other events starting this week:
Wednesday, February 9, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Greg Hopkins, Paintings and Roni Feldman, XOXO. Sloan Fine Art, 128 Rivington Street, corner of Norfolk, NY, NY.

The week of February 7^th: 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 7^th: Social Media Week begins, with several events hosted by the New York Public Library. Check out the entire program here. DART’s good friend Persia Tatar has organized the Social Media Influencers Awards Party, to be held at Tammany Hall on February 9^th from 7:00-10:00 pm. As of last night, there was still a handful of TICKETS.

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, 2011, 6:30 pm: Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design present a conversation with Laurel Nakadate. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th floor, NY, NY.

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 12^th 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. The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY.

Thursday, February 10, 6:00-8:00pm: Opening reception, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison: The Architect’s Brother. Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 10, 6:00-8:00pm: Opening reception, Laurie Fendrich, Recent Paintings. Gary Snyder Project Space, 250 West 26^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 10, 6:00-10:00 pm: Opening reception for RETNA: The Hallelujah World Tour. Presented in collaboration with VistaJet and Bombardier Aerospace, at 560 Washington Street, Bay 37E (between West Houston & Spring Street), NY, NY. RSVP.

Thursday, February 10, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Karlheinz Weinberger: Halbstarke to Bikers in Color. Anna Kustera Gallery, 520 West 21^st Street, NY, NY. Concurrently on view: Intimate Stranger: Photographs by Karlheinz Weinberger. The Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, 495 Broadway, 3^rd 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 26^th 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.

Thursday, February 10, 7:00 pm: SVA presents a screening of Viral Venture, and a panel discussion with media artist and faculty member Joseph Nechvatal and composer Rhys Chatham, moderated by video-maker Kathy Brew. SVA Theater, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 10 & 18, 11:00 am: Gallery talk, Malcolm Daniel, Curator, Department of Photographs, on Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fifth Avenue at 82^nd 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 13^th Street, NY, NY. Free.

Thursday, February 10, 6:30-8:30 pm: Society of Illustrators presents Artists Against the War, a panel discussion and book signing with Steve Brodner, Frances Jetter, Victor Juhasz, Peter Kuper and Wendy Popp. Society of Illustrators, 160 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets $15/$10/$7 or call Katie Blocher 212.838.2560.

Friday, February 11, 6:00-8:00 pm:  Opening reception for Michael Schmelling: Atlanta – Hip-Hop and the South. ClampArt Gallery, 521-531 West 25^th Street, Ground Floor, NY. NY.

Friday, February 11, 7:00pm: Interrogations: Ana Klingmann on Launching Brandscapes. Talk and book signing. In the twenty-first century, we must learn to look at cities not as skylines but as brandscapes, and at buildings not as objects but as advertisements and destinations. In the experience economy, experience itself has become the product: we're no longer consuming objects but sensations, even lifestyles. In the new environment of brandscapes, buildings are not about where we work and live but who we imagine ourselves to be. Storefront for Art & Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY. NY.

Friday, February 11, 7:00 pm: Paola Antonelli and Hadas Steiner in conversation with Mark Shepard about Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space. McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, NY, NY. Information

Tuesday, February 15, 6:00 pm: SVA’s Spring MFA Design Criticism Lecture Series begins with Tucker Viemeister: Play=Design=Learning. Free with RSVP. 136 West 21^st Street, 2^nd Floor, NY, NY. Future gests include Michael Beirut and Virginia Heffernan. Check out the calendar here.

Tuesday, February 15, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Ostracon, an exhibition of work by students in the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Department based on the short story “Ostracon” by Alex Rose. Curated by faculty member Viktor Koen. SVA Gallery, 209 East 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

February 16-28: Documentary Fortnight 2011: MoMA’s International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53^rd Street, NY, NY. Free with museum admission. View related screenings.

Thursday, February 17, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Carrie Levy: You Before All. Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 West 25th Street, #506, NY, NY. Save the date: Saturday, March 26, 4:00 pm: Carrie Levy in conversation with Allen Frame.

Thursday, February 17^th, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception, Pat Steir: Winter Paintings. Cheim & Read, 547 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 17^th, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception, Angel Otero. Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 201 Christie Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 17^th, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception, Kate Peters: Stranger than Fiction. hpgrp gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 17^th, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception, Sze Tsung Leong: Cities. Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 17, 7:00 pm. The Camera Club of New York presents: Michael Schmelling and Brian Paul Clamp in conversation. SVA 3^rd floor amphitheater, 209 East 23^rd Street, NY, NY. $5/$3/Free. Please have photo ID to enter building.

Friday, February 18, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Paul Gabrielli: Generally Invisible Exports, 14A Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Sunday, February 20, 4:00 pm-midnight:. Group “exorcise” routines with Prince Rama: UTOPIA=NO PERSON, “the underground art and psychedelic folk and noise circles who were mesmerized by [Rama’s] captivating blend of campfire surrealism and transcendental anthems of every cosmic order.” Can’t really be explained – just get there. Issue Project Room, 232 3^rd Street, Brooklyn, NY. Free. Workout clothes/shoes recommended.

Tuesday, February 22, 7:00-9:00 pm: Book launch party, discussion, and signing for Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency by Micah L. Sifry. The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP.

Thursday, February 24, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception, Henry Leutwyler: Neverland Lost. Foley Gallery, 548 West 28^th Street, 2^nd Floor, NY, NY. Save the date: March 17^th for Q&A with the artist.