Deborah Brown, this week at Burning in Water

Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond

Continuing

Teresita Fernández: Island Universe. Ford Foundation, 310 East 43rd Street, NY, NY Info

February 5-April 7

Exposure | Alberta’s Photo Festival. Exhibitions and special events throughout the month at Calgary’s historic Pioneer Building. Info

February 6-28

BRIC Biennial Vol. iii: South Brooklyn Edition, featurig 19 emerging and mid-career artists on the theme: The Impossible Possible.Gallery at BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY Info

Mickalene Thomas in conversation with Darnelle Moore, 6pm. Columbia University School of the Arts, The Forum, 605 West 125th Street, NY, NY Info

Wednesday, February 6

Harvey Stein | Mexico Between Life and Death talk and book signing, 6:30 pm.Mid-Manhattan Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Thursday, February 7

Aki Sasamoto | performative lecture: charisma vs strategy, 11:30 am. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Robin Hammond on Where Love Is Illegal, 7 pm. Bronx Documentary Center, 614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx, NY Info

After Dark | DUMBO’s Firt Thursday Gallery Walk. This month's First Thursday Gallery Walk will include an insider tour lead by Jonathan Gardenhire, visual artist and Program Coordinator at Artadia. Gardenhire will lead visitors on a guided tour of exhibitions on view at Smack Mellon and Agency by Meta Meta Meta LLC. Info

Tuesday, February 12

Cecilia Vicuna reading with Will Alexander, 7 pm. Hauser & Wirth Bookstore, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY Info

Robert Mapplethorpe, no 16 from the series ART/new york, screening, reception, 6pm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

© James Welling, from Transform, this week at David Zwirner

In Galleries / Lens-based Art

Wednesday, February 6

TASS Windows: World War II and the Art of Agitation. Nailya Alexander Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, NY, NY Info

Christopher Russell, 6-8 pm. Gitterman Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, NY, NY Info

Thursday, February 7

Harlem Perspectives II, 6-8 pm. FACTION Art Projects, 2602 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, NY, NY Info

Friday, February 8

Portraits of Distinguished African Americans. Keith de Lellis Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, NY, NY Info

Friday, February 8

Illustrators 61 | Book & Editorial, reception and awards presentation 6 pm on. Society of Illustrators, 123 East 68th Street, NY, NY Info

Saturday, February 9

Eli Reed and Alex Harsley | 4th Street Photo Gallery, in conversation, 3:30-5pmMagnum Foundation. 59 East 4th Street, NY, NY Info

Closing February 16

James Welling | Transform. David Zwirner, 34 East 69th Street, NY, NY Info

Installation, The Illusion and Reality, this week at Ning Gallery; photo: © Marco Palli, courtesy the artist

In Galleries

Continuing

Cecilia Duhau | Tropical Icebergs. The Consulate General of Argentina, 12 West 56th Street, NY, NY Info

Thursday, February 7

Speculative Cultures | A Virtual Reality Exhibition, 6-8 pm. Sheila C Johnson Design Center/Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons the New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, NY, NY Info

The Illusion and Reality |  featuring 18 artworks created by 14 U.S. based artists, explores the relationship between certainty and uncertainty, existence and nonexistence, reality and unreality in painting, video, sculpture, photography, mixed media; jurors: Xiaojuan Xie, Ruonan Yan, Marco Palli. Ning Gallery, 333 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Judy Pfaff, 6-8 pm. Miles McEnery Gallery, 520 West 21st Street, NY, NY Info

Techniques of the Observer, 6-8 pm. Greene Naftali Gallery, 508 West 26th Street, NY, NY Info

Erik Olson | Deep Field, 6-8 pm. BravinLee programs, 526 West 26th Street, NY, NY. Info

Deborah Brown | This dream and other animals, 6-8 pm. Burning in Water, 505 West 27th Street, NY, NY Info

Erik van Lieshout | BEER. Anton Kern Gallery, 16 East 55th Street, NY, NY Info

Friday, February 8

ASS: Carlo benvenuto, John Dilg, Alex Hay, Ryan Foerster, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nate Lowman, Marcia Schvartz & Sue Williams, 6-8 pm. The National Exemplar Gallery, 59 Franklin Street, NY, NY Info

Jasper Johns | Recent Paintings & Works on Paper, 6-8 pm. Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street, NY, NY Info

Light & Dark: Anjuli Rathod | What firs, a burning room, 6-9 pm. Interstate Projects, 66 Knickerbocker Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Info 

Left: Jeffrey Gibson, this week at The New Museum

In Museums

Friday, February 8

For Freedoms: Where Do We Go from Here? and Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection. International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info

Frida Kahlo | Appearances Can Be Deceiving. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Info

The Color of the Moon | Lunar Painting in American Art. Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, NY Info

Wednesday, February 13

Jeffrey Gibson | The Anthropophagic Effect; Nari Ward | We the People. The New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY Info