DART Picks from shows opening this week. Ali Banisadr: It Happened and It Never Did. Left: Telluric Current, 2010; Right: Nowhere, 2010. On view March 3-April 23, 2011 at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY. The gallery is represented at ADAA: The Art Show, at the Park Avenue Armory, March 2-6.

The New York Art Fairs, in outline form. For more information about special events and screenings, visit Photograph magazine’s art fair supplement.

Wednesday-Sunday, March 2-6
ADAA: The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67^th Street. Tickets $20.
Thursday-Sunday, March 3-6: Armory Arts Week: For an overview, visit the website
The Armory Show: Pier 92 & 94, Twelfth Avenue at 55^th Street. Tickets. Directions.
Volta NY, 4 West 34^th Street. Tickets $10/$40.
Fountain New York, Pier 66 Maritime at 26^th Street & 12^th Avenue, in Hudson River Park, aka The Frying Pan.
Independent, 548 West 22^nd Street. Free.
Moving Image, The Waterfront Tunnel, 269 11^th Avenue, between 27-28 Streets. Free.
Pulse, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18^th Street. Tickets.

Red Dot, Pool, and Korean Art Show. 82 Mercer Street. Tickets $10/$20.
Scope, NY, 320 West Street, opposite Pier 40, West Side Highway. Tickets $10/$20.

Wednesday, March 2, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception and book signing for Phyllis Galembo: Masks. Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street, NY, NY.

Wednesday, March 2, 5-6:45 pm: Opening reception and book signing for Yael Ben-Zion: 5683 Miles Away. Milton J. Weill Art Gallery/92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, NY, NY. 

Wednesday, March 2, 7:00-9:00 pm: Book launch party for Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton. The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY.

Wednesday-Thursday, March 2-3: Parsons the New School for Design, The Aperture Foundation, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and The Shpilman Institute for Photography present The Photographic Universe: A Conference. March 2: Art & Philosophy speakers: Chris Boot, Charlotte Cotton, Andrea Geyer, Anne Collins Goodyear, Susie Linfield, Susan Meiselas, Walter Benn Michaels, David Reinfurt, Penelope Umbrico, James Welling. March 3:  Science & Technology speakers: Anthony Aziz, Richard Benson, Wafaa Bilal, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Frank Cost, Simone Douglas, Michael T. Jones, Douglas Lanman, Trevor Paglen, Virginia Rutledge. Theresa Lang Center, New School located at 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor, NY, NY. Free and open to the public. Information.

Thursday-Sunday, March 3-6: First international Verge Art Brooklyn Fair. Thursday, 10:00 pm-2:00 am: Opening night reception. DUMBO, Brooklyn. Free.

Thursday, March 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Sandi Haber Fifield Between Planting and Picking. Rick Wester Fine Art, 511 West 25th Street Suite 205, NY, NY.

Thursday, March 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Artist’s reception for Mark Flood: Murk Fluid, Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, March 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Takesi Shikama. Alan Klotz Gallery, 511 West 25^th Street, Suite 701, NY, NY.

Thursday, March 3: Opening day for Bruce Wrighton: At Home. Lawrence Miller Gallery, 20 West 57th Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY.

Thursday, March 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Geoff Winningham: Texas, 1970 and Suzanne Opton: Vermont. Robert Anderson Gallery, 24 West 57^th Street #503, NY, NY.

Friday, March 4, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Inka Essenhigh: New Editions and Monoprints. Pace Prints Chelsea, 521 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Friday, March 4, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Meghan Boody: Psyche & Smit Lives. Salomon Contemporary, 526 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Friday, March 4, 8:00 pm: Book launch event for The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography, Vol. 2. Music by Derrick Adams.Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY. Tickets: $15/$20.

Friday, March 4^th, 6:00 pm: Awards presentation and gala, Illustrators 53: Advertising and Institutional Art. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets $35/$30/$20.

Friday, March 4^th: Opening day for Kim Beck: Space Available, three rooftop sculptures located on rooftops adjacent to the High Line between West 13^th Street and Gansevoort Street. Maps.

Friday, March 4, 8:00 pm: Performance by Aki Onda, plus collaboration with “sonic spectacle-maker” MV Carbon featuring visuals by Lary Seven and antique movie projectors. The artists “combine all analog forces, cassettes, cellos, synths, mics, amps, magnets, wires, echoes and film projectors in unique experimental audio-visual collaboration.” Abrons Art Center, 466 Grand Street (at Pitt), NY, NY. Tickets $10.

Friday, March 4, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for The Art of the Picture Book, with John Rocco, Sophie Blackall, John Bemelmans Marciano, Brian Floca, Brett Helquist and the rest of The Bookmaker’s Dozen artists. The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP. In conjunction with Verge Art Brooklyn.

Saturday, March 5, 10:00am-1:00pm: Armory Brunch at Aperture Foundation. Meet artists from the exhibition regeneration: tomorrow’s photography today, mingle with friends and colleagues in the gallery and bookstore. Refreshments will be served. Aperture, 547 West 27^th Street, 4th floor, NY, NY. Free.

Saturday, March 5, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Mark Morrisroe: From This Moment On. Artists Space, 38 Greene Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY.

Saturday, March 5, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening Reception for Spirituality: Works by David Wojnarowicz from 1979 -1990. P·P·O·W. New address: 535 W. 22^nd Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY.

Saturday, March 5, 11:00am-1:00 pm: Opening reception for Aldert Mantje at Witzenhausen Gallery, 547 West 2th Street, suite 508, NY, NY.

Saturday, March 5, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Gary Baseman: Walking through Walls and Andy Kehoe: Strange Wanderings. Jonathan Levine Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, NY, NY.

Saturday, March 5^th, 4:00-7:00 pm: Opening reception for Wally Gilbert: Geometric Series, Squares, Triangles, and Lines. Viridian Artists Gallery, 530 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Sunday, March 6, noon-6:00 pm: LMCC Workspace Works-In-Progress by Workspece residency artists, including Olek. LMCC Workspace Studios, 125 Maiden Lane, 14th Floor, NY, NY. Free, RSVP required.

The Rubin Museum of Art’s fourth annual Brainwave series on the phenomenon of dreaming continues. 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, and a series of workshops linked to the U.S. theatrical premiere of the award-winning documentary The Edge of Dreaming. Participants include Amy Tan (on March 4), John Patrick Shanley, and Scott Turow, among others. Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17^th Street, NY, NY. Tickets $15-$55.

Sunday, March 6^th, 11am-2pm: Opening reception, book launch and silent auction for Wolfgang Ellenrieder: Time Is Out of Joint.  RH Gallery, 137 Duane Street, NY, NY.The silent auction of works will benefit the Rema Hort Mann Foundation.

Wednesday, March 9, 5:50-8:30 pm: Opening reception for Jefferson Hayman: Objects, Cityscapes, and Figures. Robin Rice Gallery, 325 West 11th Street.

Wednesday, March 9^th, 6:30-8:30 pm: Fernanda Cohen presents Illustration as Fine Arts, an evening with gallery owners Heidi Leigh and Nick Leone from Animazing Gallery in Soho, and Alix Sloan from Sloan Fine Arts. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. $15/$10/$7. Tickets or call Katie Blocher 212.838.2560.

Thursday, March 10: Opening day for Glenn Ligon/America.  Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, NY, NY.

Thursday, March 10, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Hrvoje Slovenc: Home Theater. Michael Mazzeo Gallery, 508 W.26 St. Suite 318, NY, NY.

Thursday, March 10, 6:00-8:00 pm: Scott-Martin Kosofsky. Tales from the Borderline of Typographic Experience.Type Directors Club at 347 W. 36th St, #603, NY, NY. Tickets Free/#20/$15.

DEADLINE: March 11, until 5:00 pm: Not Dead Yet, The Book Cover in Flux. Submit your best work, alive or rejected, and join colleagues to feast on delectable snacks and beverages, gasp in admiration at the big-screen show and gain some insight into where we're headed, from a panel of our finest. Type Directors Club at 347 W. 36th St, #603, NY, NY. This is not a competition. Information or 212-633-8943.

Friday, March 11, 5:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception and book signing for Susan Paulson: Sarah Rhymes with Clara. Deborah Bell Photographs, 511 West 25^th Street, #7-3, NY, NY.

Monday, March 14, 6:00-8:00 pm: Career development workshop - Sticky Websites with Matthew Deleget. Lower East Side Printshop, 306 West 37^th Street, 6^th Floor. Tickets Free/$12/$15. Space is limited.

Stay tuned for events and openings coming up later this month:
Thursday-Sunday, March 17-20: AIPAD The Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory.
Friday, March 18: Opening day, Philip Jones-Griffiths: Maelstrom, at Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Friday, March 18: Opening day, Bye Bye Kitty!! Between Haven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, at Japan Society.
Tuesday, March 22: Fly Irish: US and Dutch Influences on Aer Lingus Advertising, presented by SVA/Design Criticism Department.