Left to right: Karen with Matadors, pour Palma de Majorque, 1958; Barbara and Marie Helene, pour Elle, Cap d’Antibes, Eden Roc, 1957; Barbara Mullen on the Boardwalk, Saint Tropez, 1957. Photographs by Georges Dambier, courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery.

Wednesday, April 20, 7 pm: Talking Books, Aerotropolis: Greg Lindsay in conversation with Andrew Blum. McNally Jackson Bookstore, 52 Prince Street, between Lafayette and Mulberry Streets, NY, NY.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Opening reception, 7-9 pm. Following the recent success of Hueless, a group show of monochromatic art and photography, Mallick Williams & Co. will present its opposite, Spectrum, with work in brilliant color by Kiji McCafferty, Chor Boogie, Erik Otto, Kate Pane, Word to Mother and Lu Gold. Mallick Williams & Co. 150 11^th Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm. Radcliffe Baily: Outer Spaceways. Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th Street, New York, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm. Fieldwork: Photographs by Sanna Kannisto. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Fl, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm. Al Souza [sic]. Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 533 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm. Kara Walker: Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi’s Blue Tale. Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 201 Chrystie Street, NY, NY.
Kara Walker: Dust Jackets for the Niggerati, and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker. Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm. Baltz Becker Rucha. In the Project Gallery, Jeff Brouws: Typologies. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 pm. Henry Wessell: Vintage Work. Pace/MacGill Gallery, 32 East 57^th Street, 9^th Floor, NY, NY.

Artist talk and booksigning with Colleen Plum for her new book, Animals Are Outside Today (Radius, 2011). Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street, between Elizabeth and Bowery, New York, NY.

Friday, April 22: Earth Day Celebrations in Times Square to “reGreen the World,” feature motion graphics of trees and forests vividly displayed on screens operated by Toshiba, NASDAQ, Reuters, MTV, CBS and CNN, accompanied by a texting campaign to fund tree planting in environmentally damaged areas of the world. Please see the website for locations, hours, and information.

Saturday, April 23, 4 pm. Shen Wei in conversation with Lesley Martin. Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Monday, April 25, 7pm. New Perspectives on Community Photography, in conjunction with the exhibition Jasper Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordon. Panel discussion with guest curator Alan Govenar, Thomas Allen Harris, and Clarissa Sligh, moderated by Brian Wallis, Chief Curator, ICP. International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43^rd Street, NY, NY. Free but you must register: 212.857.0001.

Tuesday, April 26, 5:30-7:30 pm. Opening reception, 6-8 pm, Unconventional Love: paintings, photographs, sculpture, video, and site-specific installations by 15 artists. Wallach Art Gallery, located on the 8^th floor of Schermerhorn Hall on Columbia University's Morningside Campus. Directions to Schermerhorn Hall are available on the Department of Art History and Archaeology website.

DART picks from The List of ongoing exhibitions

Picasso and Marie-Therese: L’amour fou, through June 25 at Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21^st Street, NY, NY.

Food for Thought: A Group Exhibition, through May 14^th at Robert Mann Gallery, surveys a range of photographs that celebrate our insatiable appetite for feasting and photography by modern and contemporary artists. 210 Eleventh Avenue between 24^th-35^th Streets, 10^th Floor, NY, NY.560 Broadway, NY, NY.

Asya Reznikov: Up-Routed, video and photographs, through May 29 at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 520 West 27^th Street, NY, NY.

Jo Ractliffe: As Terras do Fim do Mundo (The Lands of the End of the World), through July 15^th at the Walther Collection Project Space-NY in the Chelsea Arts Building, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 718, New York, NY.

Ray Mortenson: Full Scale, Meadowland Still Lifes, through May 27 at Janet Borden, Inc., 560 Broadway, NY, NY.

Arthur Elgort: 1970-2010, through May 14 at Staley-Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway, NY, NY.

With Food in Mind, through June 25th at The Center for Book Arts, 28 W. 27th St, 3rd Floor, NY, NY. Save the date: May 4^th, 6:30 pm: Artists in the show share their thoughts on the subject.

Japan Today: Photographs by Taiji Matsue, Osamu Kanemura and Mikiko Hara, through June 30th at Amador Gallery, The Fuller Building, 41 East 57^th Street, 6^th Floor, NY, NY.

Who’s That Girl? Georges Dambier: Fashioning the Fifties, through May 14 at Bonni Benrubi Gallery. The Fuller Building, 41 East 57^th Street, 13^th Floor, NY, NY.

70 Years of Abstract Painting: Excerpts, featuring work by Josef Albers, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Peggy Bates, Norman Bluhm, Giorgio Cavallon, Cora Cohen, Gene Davis, Friedel Dzubas, Joe Fyfe, James Gahagan, Al Held, Maxwell Hendler, Hans Hofmann, Sharon Horvath, Terrell James, Paul Kelpe, Martin Kline, Nick Lamia, Jim Lee, Sarah Mattes, Martin Mullin, John McLaughlin, Rob Nadeau, George Negroponte, Thomas Nozkowski, Paul Pagk, Charles Pollock, Jackson Pollock, Man Ray, Willy Bo Richardson, Jennifer Riley, Russell Roberts, Charles Seliger, Leon Polk Smith, Hedda Sterne, Robert Thiele, Gwenn Thomas, Marc Van Cauwenbergh, Vaclav Vytlacil, Leslie Wayne, Helen Miranda Wilson, John Zinsser. Through May 20^th at Jason McCoy Gallery, The Fuller Building, 41 East 57^th Street, 11^th Floor, NY, NY.

Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective through August 28^th at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art. 100 Fifth Avenue at 82^nd Street, NY, NY. The exhibition also includes four films made by Serra in 1968: Hand Catching Lead, Hand Lead Fulcrum, Hands Scraping (seen in MoMA’s 2008 show, Color Chart)and Hands Tied.