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Thursday, December 6

Tree Lighting Ceremony and Celebration,  3:30-5:30 pm. There will be ornament decorating, pupchinos and hot chocolate, coloring activities, samples and much more from our sponsors. Mad. Sq. Park will also hold its annual Candy Count! This year both children and adults will be able to participate. Madison Square Park, between Fifth & Madison Avenues between 23^rd & 26^th Street, NY, NY Info Photo above © Peggy Roalf

Stefan Sagmeister | The Power of Beauty, 6 pm. The One Club For Creativity Gallery, 450 West 31st Street, NY, NY Info

Commorancy | 7 artists, curator’s talk, 7-7:30 pm. Klompching Gallery, 89- Water Street, Brooklyn, NY Info

DUMBO First Thursday, 6-8 pm. Various venues, get listings here 

Pushing the Body, curator Jilaine Jones in conversation with artists Jan Abt, Maud Bryt, Darrell Hostvedt, Avner Levinson, Emily Nam, Lisa Sanders, 6-8:30 pm. New York Studio School Dumbo Sculpture Studio and Gallery, 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY Info [Dumbo]

Rachel Cobb | Mistral: The Legendary Wind of Provence, 6 pm. The Gallery at Leica/SF. Leica Gallery, 463 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Saturday, December 8

Gerald Slota | After, gallery talk with curator, W.M. Hunt, 4 pm. Ricco/Maresca, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY Info Left: Untitled (Paint Cans Stains), 2018

Holiday Party and Sale, 1-4 pm. Art Space NYC, 104 West 14th Street, NY, NY Participating artists and designers: Carin Berger, Dasha Ziborova, Scott Menchin, Yvetta Fedorova, Juliette Borda, Ellen Weinstein, Justine and Eric Lavazzon, Vladimir Kanevsky, Yevgenia Nayberg, Catherine Lazure, Marianna Trofimova, Irina Blau, Polina Nisenbaum, Yuriy Gavrilenko

Family Affair |Winter Wonderland, 1-4 pm. Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1140 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY Info “Celebrate the holiday season at The Bronx Museum of the Arts! Join us for an afternoon filled with festive art activities for the entire family. Recommended for children ages 4 to 12 with parent/caregiver. Register”

Sunday, December 9

8-Ball Zine Fair #14, 12-8 pm. El Coqui Billiards & Lounge, 54-19 Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, NY Info

In Galleries / Lens-based Art

Thursday, December 6

Gerald Slota | After, curated by W.M. Hunt, 6-8 pm. Ricco/Maresca, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY Info

The California Sunday Magazine and Aperture present: At Home | In the American West, 6-8:30. Aperture Foundation, 547 West 28^th Street, NY, NY Info

Friday, December 7

Jonathan Silver | Drawings and Heads 6-8 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8^th Street, NY, NY Info 

Below: Early music performance at the Neapolitan Creche, The Met

In Other News

Last week, long-time contributors to DART—and it must be said, professional colleagues of the editor—announced major changes in their careers. This from Photograph Magazine:

Steven Kasher has announced that he is closing his eponymous gallery at the end of the year to become director of David Zwirner. Cassandra Johnson, sales director at Steven Kasher Gallery, will be moving to the Zwirner gallery as well.

Stephen Frailey, former chair of the photography department at SVA and the founder and editor of Dear Dave, magazine, is the director of a new initiative in education, Labs School, at Red Hook Labs in Brooklyn. Opening in January of 2019, the Labs School will offer workshops in critique, large-format photography, and virtual reality, among other subjects, as well as a variety of master workshops by artists including Taryn Simon, Laurie Simmons, Ryan McGinley, and Penelope Umbrico, among others.

Additionally, Michael Carabatta, who has been the creative motor at Chronicle Books for 27 years, helping to grow the company from a staff of 50 to 175, announced that he will be retiring at year’s end. Michael will continue teaching at the University of California, and “remain in the saddle of one of my six bikes,” he added. He also mentioned that the next book with his name under the title, Seasons of the Moon, will be out next fall. All best wishes, and God bless you Michael.