Joel Sternfeld | First Pictures, currently on view at Luhring Augustine Gallery. Left: Nag's Head, North Carolina (#40), June-August, 1975 Right: Nag's Head, North Carolina (#18), June-August, 1975.

Thursday, January 19

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Tadaaki Kuwayama. Gary Snyder Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, NY, NY. 

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook | Two Planets, Village and Elsewhere. Tyler Rollins Fine Art, 529 West 20th Street, 10W, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Ridley Howard | Slows. Leo Koenig, Inc., 545 West 23rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Marianne Vitale | What I Need to Do is Lighten the Fuck Up About a Lot of Things. Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY.  

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Norman Mooney | Works on Paper. Sasha Wolf Gallery, 548 West 28th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Images Rendered Bare. Vacant. Unrecognizable. Stadium, 548 West 28th Street, Suite 636, NY, NY.

The CCNY Lecture Series presents, 7 pm: William Lamson. School of Visual Arts Amphitheater, 200 East 23rd Street, between 2n and 3rd Avenues, NY, NY. Photo ID required. $5/$3/Free. Information.

Friday, January 20

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Celestial, curated by Mark Alice Durant, featuring work by Marina Berto, Stephen DiRado, William Lamson, Jeanne Liotta, and Brea Souders. Camera Club of New York, 336 West 37th Street, 3rd Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman | Geolocations  - Tributes to the Data Stream. Photo Industries HQ, 111 Front Street, Suite 204, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. 

Saturday, January 21

Opening reception, 5-8 pm: Tamara Gayer | The Final Contraction; Stephen Sollins | Piecework; Heeseop Yoon | Still Life #11. Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.

Two from Backyard Oasis | The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography 1945-1982, opening Saturday at the Palm Springs Art Museum.Left: Bill Anderson, Edris House, ca. 1954. Right: Lloyd Ziff, Private Home, Laurel Canyon, 1976.

This Week's DART Picks:

Georges Hugnet | The Love Life of the Spumifers. Through January 28th at Ubu Gallery, 416 East 59th Street, NY, NY.

Saturday, January 21, pening reception, pm: 1955, featuring work by Larry Morris, Charles Swedlund, George S. Zimbel, Dr.Harold Edgerton; Elliot Erwitt; Dave Heath; André Kertész, O. Winston Link; Angus McBean; W. Eugene Smith; Frederick Sommer; Dennis Stock; and Gabor Szilasi. Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON.

Saturday, January 21, 2-4 pm, opening reception: Larry Towell | Close to Home. Michael Gibson Gallery, 157 Carling Street, London, ON. Information.

Saturday, January 21, opening day: Backyard Oasis | The Swimming Pool in Southern Californian Photography, 1945-1982, featuring work by 135 photographers including Slim Aarons, David Hockney, Herb Ritts, Ed Ruscha, Lloyd Ziff, and Julius Shulman. Palm Springs Art Museum, The Annenberg Wing, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs, CA. In conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, Art in L.A., 1945-1980.

Sunday, January 22, 6-9 pm, opening reception: L.A. Raw | Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980 from Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy. Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 East Union Street, Pasadena, CA. In conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, Art in L.A., 1945-1980.

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