Hugo Brehme, Popocatepelt, Mexico, ca. 1920s, from Eternal Mexico, continuing through June 9^th at Throckmorton Fine Art, 145 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Wednesday, May 2

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Prabir Purkayastha | Photographs of India’s Ladakh Region. Tally Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Bruno Cals | Horizons. 1500  Gallery, 511 West 25^th Street, #607, NY, NY.

Thursday, May 3

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Verge Art Fair NY. 159 Bleecker Street, NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Lucid Fence, featuring work by Yasamin Keshtkar, Pierre Obando, and Adrian Tone, and sculptures by Jehoshua Rozenman. Dean Project, 511 West 25^th Street, 2^nd Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Thesis Projects. Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26^th Street, 15^th Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: MFA Designer as Author/Entrepreneur Thesis Projects. Visual Arts Gallery, 601 West 26^th Street, 15^th Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: A Camera Darkly | Philip Stearns and Christian de Vietri. Camera Club of New York, 336 West 37^th Street, Second Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 5-8 pm: Martin Puryear | New Sculpture. McKee Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: SEVEN | featuring BravinLee programs, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Hales Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, P.P.O.W, and Winkleman Gallery. The Boiler, 191 North 19^th Street, Brookyn, NY. Information.

Opening day, 10 am-6 pm: Joesf Hoflehner | Into the Calm. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Open late: Dumbo First Thursday Gallery Walk, from Green|Red, an AV installation by Peter Burr and Friends in The Archway under the Manhattan Bridge, to gallery shows at 111 Front Street, to Real vs. Role at Rabbithole Studios and much more. Information.

Thursday-Sunday, May 3-May 6

Pulse NY Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18^th Street, NY, NTY. Information.

Red Dot NY Art Fair, 82 Mercer Street, between Spring and Broome,  NY, NY. Information.

Friday, May 4

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Helmut Lang | Sculptures. 24 Washington Square North, NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Nick Lamia | Coppice. Jason McCoy Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Firelei Báez, Andrés García-Peña, Jean-Daniel Rohrer and Heidi Taillefer. Gitana Rosa Gallery, 19 Hope Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Panel discussion, 6:30-8”30 pm: Show Me a Story | Why Picture Books Matter with Leonard Marcus, featured illustrators Chris Raschka, Jerry Pinkney, and Yumi Heo, and other special guests. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets $20/$15/$10.

Opening day, 11 am-4 pm: Edouard Vuillard | A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940. The Jewish Museum, 119 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Information/Programs.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sculpture Garden featuring work by Sarah Bednarek, Reade Bryan, Joy Curtis, Adam Distenfeld, Ryan Michael Ford, Wendy Klemperer, JolynnKrystosek, MaryKate Maher, Jim Osman, Brent Owens, Kirk Stoller, Kai Vierstra, and Natalia Zubko. Onderdonk House, 1820 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

Friday-Monday, May 4-May 7

NADA NY Art Fair (New Art Dealers Alliance), Center 548, 548 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Frieze Art Fair NY, Randall’s Island, NY, NY. Information.

Lightbox art by David Sandlin at Desert Island Books, 540 Lorimer Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. The display is up through May.

Saturday, May 5

Opening reception, 12-6 pm: Shepard Fairey | Harmony & Discord. Pace Prints, 521 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Panel discussion, 1:00 pm, followed by opening party: Foreclosed | Documents from the American Housing Crisis featuring work by Bruce Gilden, Lauren Greenfield, ToddHido, Imara Moore, John Moore, John Francis Peters, T/J. Proschel, Brian Shumway, Brian Ulrich and Guillaumi Zuli. Alice Austen House Museum, 2 Hylan Blvd, Staten Island, NY.

Performance, 3-5 pm: Hunter Reynolds | Butur Mummification. P.P.O.W Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Brandon Ballengee | Collapse: The Cry of Silent Forms. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer Street, NY, NY.

Monday, May 7

Artist’s talk, 7 pm: An Evening with Tracy Moffett, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53^rd Street, NY, NY. Information/tickets.

From A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII by Taryn Simon, opening today at MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY.

This Week’s DART Picks:

Thursday, May 3, opening reception xxx pm: Berenice Abbott | Photography & Science: An Essential Unity. The Kurtz Gallery for Photography, MIT Museums, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.

Friday, May 4, opening reception, 8-11 pm: Rogue Taxidermy Show. La Luz de Jesus, 4633 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

Saturday, May 5, noon-6pm: Third Annual Book Fair | Books, Prints, Ephemera. Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 1400 N. American Street, Philadelphia, PA. Information.

Saturday, May 5, opening reception, 5-7pm: Surface Tension featuring work by Marisa Baumgartner, Matthew Brandt, Christopher Colville, Megan Flaherty, JosephHeidecker, Mark Lyon, Aspen Mays, Klea McKenna, Alison Rossiter, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Brea Souders. Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY.

Saturday, May 5, opening reception, 7pm: Pierrot Men | A Torn Continent Revisited. Dakota Ridge Gallery, 9 West Broadway, Jim Thorpe, PA.

Saturday, May 5, opening reception, 7-10 pm: Millard Sheets | The Art of Home Savings & Loan Murals. Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center Project Room Gallery, 125 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA. Panel discussion: Sunday, May 6, 2 pm. Information.

Saturday, May 5, artist’s talk, 1-2 pm; opening reception2-5 pm: Sanaz Mazinani | Frames of the Visible. Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON. Please RSVP for artist’s talk.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Last year we urged subscribers to help save Saint Marks Bookshop by petitioning its landlord, The Cooper Union, to lower the rent. The deal was done, but as of January 2013, there will be another increase. The owners wrote today to ask everyone who loves books and the bookstore’s LES neighborhood to shop there regularly to help keep the store going. It’s open every day until midnight and has been a showcase for the life of the mind for 35 years. Information. Saint Marks Bookshop, 31 Third Avenue, at 9^th Street, NY, NY.

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