Right: First performance of Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Roof Piece, 1971, in and around Wooster and Lafayette Streets; courtesy Friends of the High Line. Right: Peter Turnley, Latin Quarter, 1978; courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery.

Wednesday, June 8

Where is Ai Weiwei? Benefit performances, panel discussion and art sale, in collaboration with Human Rights Watch, 6-11pm. White Box, 329 Broome Street, NY, NY. Suggested donation: $50. RSVP.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for group show featuring Alex Brown, Chuck Close, Fabian Marcaccio, Thomas Nozkowski. BravinLee Programs, 526 West 26^th Street, #211, NY, NY.

An evening with filmmaker Monte Hellman, 6 pm, with book signing for Cockfighter (PictureBox 2011) by Charles Willeford. Walter Read Theater, 165 West 65^th Street, NY, NY. Tickets $12. Information.

Thursday, June 9

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Driven to Abstraction featuring work by Andrea Belag, Lisa Corinne Davis, Danielle Tegeder, and Canan Tolon among others. Von Lintel Gallery, 520 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6:30-8 pm, for George Tooker: Reality Returns as a Dream. DC Moore Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, 2^nd Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography. Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Save the date: June 23, 6-8 pm. Panel Discussion with former Visuals Editor of The New Yorker and Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Bryan Graf: Field Recordings. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Alejandro Chaskielberg: The High Tide. Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Jen P. Harris: American Kiss. Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Mark Cohen: Lost/Found and Randy West: Tethered Bruce Silverstein Gallery, 535 West 24th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 7-9:30 pm, for Happy Hollow by Edwin Bethea. Mallick Willims & Co., 150 11^th Avenue, NY, NY. RSVP.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm, for Form & Fashion: Hoyningen-Heune and Kurt Markus. Staley-Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway, NY, NY.

An Evening with Tomi Ungerer and Jules Pfeiffer, 6:30-8:30 pm. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY.  Tickets $15/$10.

Friday & Saturday, June 10-11
Artists Rescue Team for Japan, two-day art benefit event for earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan, featuring exhibition, fashion show, dance & music performances and more. 100% of proceeds will go to the Japan Society’s Japan Earthquake Relief Fund. Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 135 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.

Friday, June 10

Book signing, 6-7:30 pm, for Jardines de Mexico (Radius 2011) by Janelle Lynch. International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY.

Saturday, June 11, 11 am-6 pm: Fourth Annual LIC Bike Parade, with Bike Decorating Workshops and Parade. Presented by Socrates Sculpture Park in collaboration with Bike New York , Free Style Arts Association, Friends of Queensbridge Park, Green Shores NYC,  Materials for the Arts, Partnerships For Parks, Recycle-A-Bicycle, Transportation Alternatives, NYC Dept. of Transportation - Traffic Safety Division and Velo-City.

Contemporary Slavery Symposium, 10am-6pm, in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, on view through August 5th. Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue at 37^th Street, NY, NY. Tickets $5 - $20.

This Week’s DART picks:

Tim Hetherington: Sleeping Soldiers and Diary. Video installation at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore. 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.

Meet the Authors: Brooklyn Young Writers to Watch; Tabloid City by Pete Hamill; The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat; The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media – all at powerHouse Arena in the coming week. 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

Landscape with Path: Joel Sternfeld, Part I, on view at High Line Park at 18^th Street through June 30^th. Information.

June 9-11: The Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Roof Piece will be performed on rooftops adjacent to the southern end of the High Line Park. Information.