Above: Joni Sternbach, Hawaiian Ed #6 (08.08.04) Ditch Plains, Montauk, NY, 2008 From Surfland, Revisited, 2006-2011, extended through August 10. Rick Wester Fine Art, 511 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Closing Friday, July 6: Richard Avedon | Murals and Portraits. Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21^st Street, NY, NY.

Continuing through October 1: Alighiero Boetti | Game Plan. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53^rd Street, NY, NY. Public programs, starting July 12.

Extended through July 20: Heinrich Kuehn and the Photo-Secession | Selected Works. Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs, 962 Park Avenue, NY, NY.

Continuing through July 22: James Welling | Wyeth and Andrew Wyeth | Looking Beyond. Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT. Read an interview with Welling conducted by Patricia Hickson, the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the WadsworthAtheneum.

Thursday, July 5

Opening reception and book launch, 6-8 pm: Jim Marshall: The Rolling Stones and Beyond. Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Book launch for Jim Marshall: The Rolling Stones | 1972 (Chronicle Books).

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Panni Malekzadeh | Love Me Till It Hurts and Kelly McCafferty: Good Luck. Freight + Volume, 530 West 24^thStreet, NY, NY.. 

Above: Richard Avedon: Allen Ginsberg's family: Hannah (Honey) Litzky, aunt; Leo Litzky, uncle; Abe Ginsberg, uncle; Anna Ginsberg, aunt; Louis Ginsberg, father; Eugene Brooks, brother; Allen Ginsberg, poet; Anne Brooks, niece; Peter Brooks, nephew; Connie Brooks, sister-in-law; Lyle Brooks, nephew; Eugene Brooks; Neal Brooks, nephew; Edith Ginsberg, stepmother; Louis Ginsberg, Paterson, New Jersey, May 3, 1970, 1993. Closing Friday, July 6, at Gagosian Gallery. 

Friday, July 6

Opening reception, 6-10 pm: Memes NYC presents Ricky Powell | Oh No He Didn’t. Klughaus Gallery, 47 Monroe Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Is This Free? The first of three exhibitions featuring artworks, ephemera and publications that have been conceived and produced to be freely distributed. Is This Free? responds to a highly visible trend in the development of artistic practices that use free or alternative forms of exchange as forms of distribution, bypassing the art markets and their rules. Subsequent installments open on August 3 and August 31. Curated by Marco Antonini. NurtureArt, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Above: Ricky Powell: Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Opening Friday at Klughaus Gallery

Saturday, July 7

MoMA PS 1 launches Warm Up 2012, with experimental live music, sound, performance, and DJs. The annual series is held in MoMA PS1's courtyard, which this year features a temporary urban landscape by HWKN called Wendy, the winning design of MoMA PS1's 13th annual Young Architects Program. MoMA members receive one free ticket. For the first time, a limited number of tickets ($15) are available online. MoMA PS 1,22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens, NY. 

This just in: On Thursday, July 17, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts is offering Legal & Business Issues for Photographers, a class that will focus on three important topics: How do you protect your work? How do you exploit your work? How do you avoid legal issues and trouble? It is being held at Docracy (Dumbo), 20 Jay Street, Suite 312, Brooklyn, NY. Register.