And the winners of the June Art Book Prize Contest are: Kevin Cooley from Brooklyn was first in, and with the most precise location (Governor’s Island Ferry, halfway across the harbor); Paul Banks, also of Brooklyn, second in on the clock with the correct location, also with the and/or of me “walking on water.” Books will soon be in your mailboxes. Thanks to everyone, from the Golden State to the rocky coast of Maine, for participating--Peggy

Tuesday, June 19

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Year 1 | featuring gallery artists Joe Brittain, Blue Curry, Leah Dixon, Kate Steciw and Mia Taylor. Toomer Labzda, 100a Forsyth Street, NY, NY.

Panel discussion, 6:30 pm: Four Centuries of Citizen Struggle | How Grassroots Movements Have Grown in New York, with Johanna Fernandez, Baruch College of the City University of New York, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Harvard University, and Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review. Historian Clarence Taylor, of Baruch College, moderates the discussion. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue at 103^rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets $12/$8/$6.

Wednesday, June 20

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Design for the Real World Redux, The Austrian Cultural Forum NY, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and White Box present winners of the 2011 Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award. White Box, 329 Broome Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Brian Kenny | The Hole Truth. Envoy Enterprises, 131 Christie Street, NY, NY.

Solstice Celebration, 5 pm-Sunset: Art Projects and Silent Disco at Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, at Broadway, Long Island City, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Context Message | featuring work by John Fahey, Nic Guagnini, Jutta Koether, Sam Pulitzer, Elaine Reichek, Stuart Uoo, Antek Walczak and many more. Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Writing workshop, 1:30: Tastebreakers | with artist Karen Finley in conjunction with Art of Another Kind. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89^th Street, NY, NY. Tickets $10/$6.

Artist talk, 6:30: 2011 Artists in Residence | with Liz Linden and Colin McMullen. Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, third floor, NY, NY.

Quick Draw contests and figure drawing, 6-9:30 pm: Dare to Draw | with Larry Hama and Paul Levitz. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. $10 cover, cash bar.

Book launch party, 7-10 pm: Vice Magazine’s Do’s & Don’ts, Book II. powerHouse Arena, 11 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP.

Caribbean: Crossroads of the World Ebony G. Patterson’s Untitled, Species I (2010-11), foreground, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, is part of this exhibition, also on view at El Museo del Barrio and the Queens Museum of Art. Reviewed by Holland Cotter in the New York Times.

Thursday, June 21

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Someone Has Stolen Our Tent | featuring work by Stephen Baldi, Frank Heath, Zak Kitnick, and Damien Roach. Simon Preston Gallery, 301 Broome Street, NY, NY.

Preview and performance, 6-8 pm: Jaša | Apnea’s Rhapsody. On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: More and Different Flags | featuring work by Ben Berlow, Amy Brener, Tony Cox, Gabriel Dawe, Michelle Grabner, Mark Hagen, Terry Haggerty, Zach Harris, Andrew Kuo, Jamisen Ogg, Yoshiaki Mochizuki and Joe Deutch. Marlborough Chelsea, 545 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Book signing and presentation, 6-8 pm: Alex MacLean | Up on the Roof: New York's Hidden Skyline Spaces. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Artist’s reception, 6-8 pm: Jan Staller | More Than a Passing Glance: Part II. Conde Nast Building Lobby, 4 Times Square, 42^nd Street between Broadway and 6^th Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

Friday, June 22

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Bait and Switch | featuring work by Brooks Cashbaugh, Molly Di Grazia, Queena Ko, Laura Meyer, and Olivia Swisher. Chashama 461 Gallery, 461 West 125^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening day, 10am-6pm: Martine Franck | Peregrinations. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Man at Work, by Jeanne Verdoux, preview of animation created for Lumen 2012 International Video and Performance Festival, Saturday on Staten Island. Information.

Friday, June 22-Sunday, June 25: Photoville launches its first weekend at Pier 3 Uplands in Dumbo. A large-scale photo village built out of shipping containers, with exhibitions, talks, workshops, a beer garden, André Feliciano’s greenhouse, a dog run, plus The Fence, a 1000-foot-long juried outdoor photo exhibition. Photoville continues next weekend, Friday, June 28-Sunday, July 1. Information. Photo from 2011 Dumbo Arts Festival container installation.

Saturday, June 23

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Nelson Loskamp | Horror Girls. Launch F-18, 373 Broadway, NY, NY.

Lumen 2012 International Video and Performance Festival, 6pm-Midnight: What happens when 50 +artists get to play with the 150,000 tons of salt not used to melt snow in NYC last winter? Atlantic Salt Company, 561 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY. Information.

This Week’s DART Picks:

Thursday, opening reception, 6-8 pm: Joseph F. Rock | China: Vintage Photographs from the National Geographic Collection. Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON.

Friday, film screening, 7:30 pm: Obscene | by Neil Ortenberg and Daniel O'Connor. Obscene is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. From the Films about Books series. YBCA, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA. Free with admission, $8.