Two by Lisa M. Robinson, from Oceana. Left: Howl, 2010. Right: Shift, 2010. Copyright the artist, courtesy Klompching Gallery.

Monday, May 23, 7 pm and Tuesday, May 24, 8 pm: Sarah Small's Tableau Vivant of the Delerium Constructions. A performance, party, experiment and wedding. Skylight One Hanson, One Hanson Place, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets $25-$125.

Wednesday, May 25

Book Signing, 6-8 pm, for Eleven by Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street (between Bowery and Lafayette), NY, NY.

Panel Discussion, 6:30 pm: What Makes a Good Picture Book? with authors and illustrators Judy Sierra, Anna Dewdney, Matthew Van Fleet, Alan Katz, and Judy Schachner. Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium. New York Public Library. Fifth Avenue at 42^nd Street, NY, NY.

Broadside readings, 6:30 pm, with Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Jessica Elsaesser, and Jen Bervin. Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY. $5/$10.

Launch event, 5-7:30 pm, for Alexander Melamid’s Art Healing Ministry. 98 Thompson Street (at Spring Street) NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Matthew Cusick: Three Horses. Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 533 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, May 26

SVA’s MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department lecture, 7 pm: To Be Published, Or Self Publish? An Overview of Options for Artists. Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson, authors of Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press 2011) at School of Visual Arts 3^rd floor amphitheater, 209 East 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Read Darius Himes’ blog on the subject of self publishing and photography books as objects.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Jean Pierre Gauthier: Recent Work. Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Artist Talk, 6:30 pm, about Dead Eagle Trail by Jane Hilton. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY.

Magazine launch, 7-9 pm, for The Milan Review of Ghosts, with readings by contributors Deb Olin Unferth and Nelly Reifer. powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP.

Friday, May 27

Book signing, 6-7:30 pm, for Publish Your Photograpy Book (Princeton Architectural Press 2011) by Darius Himes and Mary Virginia Swanson. International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43^rd Street, NY, NY.

Tuesday, May 31

Book launch party,7-9 pm, for Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP.

Wednesday, June 1

Artist talk and book signing, 7-8 pm, for Life with Mr. Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeir. Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, NY, NY.

This week’s DART picks:

Lisa M. Robinson: Oceana on view through June 10 at Klompching Gallery, 111 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY. Exploring ideas of transition and evolution and the representation of what she calls “rhythms of natural time,” photographer Lisa M. Robinson has created a new body of work that extends the studies she made of ice, snow, fog and water in the critically acclaimed Snowbound (Kehrer Verlag 2007). In the new series, Robinson evokes the constant motion of ice, wind and water at sea.

Takahiro Kaneyama Japan Earthquake Fundraising update. As of May 1, 2011, Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects has raised the sum of $5,300 by offering Takahiro Kaneyama's benefit photo prints of Northern Japan to over 40 donors. The proceeds went to Japan Earthquake Relief Fund set up by New York's Japan Society, Inc. to help victims. According to its website, the Fund has raised more than $7.6 million from 18,227 donors as of May 19.