Jan Staller: Target, Missouri, included in exhibition Heavy Duty Landscapes, at ISE Cultural Foundation, through March 2^nd. 555 Broadway, NY, NY.

Tuesday, February 7

Happy Birthday, Mr. Dickens! Today, the Morgan Library & Museum offers free admission to everyone who mentions the author’s bicentennial birthday. (On other days, admission is $15.) The exhibition “Charles Dickens at 200”, which features manuscripts, photographs, original illustrations and caricatures, is on view at the Morgan only through Feb. 12. The free day allows entry to the entire museum, including the new Dutch drawings exhibition.

Panel discussion, 6-8 pm: The Vital Role of Art to the Interior Designer, with Mario Buatta, Amy Lau, Laurie Simmons, and Jeanne Greenbert Rohatyn, moderated by Stephanie Buhmann. Desiron, 151 Wooster Street, NY, NY. Tickets $30/$15/$10.

Live from the NYPL, 7 pm: Pico Iyer on Graham Greene, in conversation with Paul Holdengräber. The Celeste Bartos Forum at the Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, Fifth Avenue at 41^st Street, NY, NY. Tickets $25/$15.

Wednesday, February 8

Parsons The New School; Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents, 6:15 pm: Occupy Musuems | Imani Brown and Noah Fischer in conjunction with the exhibitWhere Do We Migrate To?. Kallen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

Editor’s note: Take advantage of the Special for DART Subscribers offer for Gay New York, at Museum of the City of New York this Saturday.Photograph by Cecil Beaton. Courtesy of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s.

Thursday, February 9

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg [The Hilton Brothers | Tyrants + Lederhosen. Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Marilla Palmer | Nature Burlesques. Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY. 

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Walter Martin & Paloma Munoz | Night Falls. P.P.O.W. Gallery, 535  West 22^nd Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Bright Future: New Designs in Glass. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14^th Street, NY, NY.

On the Verge lecture series presents, 6-8pm: Dennis Crowley and Mark Shepard on how the built environment affects the development of “situated” technologies and conversely, how technology is increasingly shaping our physical surroundings. School of Visual Arts MFA Interaction Design Department, 136 West 21^stStreet, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY. Free, RSVP.

Two images by Ofer Wolberger, left, from the Fractures and Other Injuries series; right, from the Visitor series; on view at the group show, Of the Ordinary at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

Friday, February 10

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Juergen Teller. Lehmann Maupin, 201 Christie Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Elaine Reichek | Ariadne’s Thread. Nicole Klagsbrun, 534 West 24^th Street, NY, NY. 

Book signing, 6-8 pm: Bob Recine | Alchemy of Beauty (Freeman Damiani), Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street (between Bowery and Lafayette), NY, NY.

Book Arts Lounge, 6-9 pm: Paper Plates with Rory Golden. Learn image transfer techniques and how to use paper as a printing medium. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, FL 3, NY, NY. Suggested donation $10/$5.

Friday and Saturday, February 10 and February 11

The Vera List Center for Art & Politics presents a two-day conference: Being the Media | Designing a New Radical Media. The New School, Theresa Lange Center, 55 West 13^th Street, NY, NY. Free. Information.

Saturday, February 11

Opening reception, 3-5 pm: Empathies & Revelations | Photographs by Paolo Morales and Emily Holzknecht. Curated by Yulia Tikhonova, Brooklyn House of Kulture, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Public Library Network. Kings Hightwy Library, 2115 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.

Three images by Saul Robbins from Initial Intake, currently on view in the group show, Under Cover, at M|I|C|A, through March 11^th.

This Week’s DART Picks 

Thursday, February 9, opening reception 7-9 pm: Of the Ordinary, featuring the work of Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Alyse Emdur, Ron Jude, Jason Lazarus, Christian Patterson and Ofer Wolberger. The Philadelphia Photo Ar ts Center, 1400 N. American Street, Suite 103, Philadelphia, PA. PPAC Information.

Friday, February 10, 6pm, artist talk with Nate Larson: in conjunction with Under Cover at M|I|C|A, featuring work by James Coupe, Jen Davis, Vin Grabill, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman, Kelly Loudenberg, Mary Mattingly, Patrick McDonough, Anne Percoco, and Keith Perelli. 1300 W. Mount Royal Avenue,Balitmore, MD. Directions.

Saturday, 7-10 pm: Opening reception for Shift, featuring work by Wayne Bannister, Marie du Petit Thouars, Evah Hart and Kent Tsurumaru. 1294 Sunset Gallery, 1294 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

Continuing through April 21: Bertman & Bertman, a father-and-daughter exhibition exploring movement with work by Richard, an architect, and Louisa, a modern dancer turned illustrator. Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA.

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