Wednesday, September 5

Book signing, 6:30 pm: Water Politics in the Time of Drought | A Ditch in Time (Fulcrum 2012) by Patricia Nelson Limerick and Jason L. Hanson. Center for the American West, Boulder, CO. Information.

Opening reception, 6-10 pm: Jennifer Mills | Low Middle High. Recession Art at CultureFix, 9 Clinton Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Nobuhito Nishigawara | Persona. Talley Beck Contemporary, 42 Rivington Street (between Forsythe and Eldridge), NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Props for Memory | featuring work by Joseph Bueys, Paul P., and Jennifer Ross-Ho. Invisible Exports, 14a Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Line and Plane. McKenzie Fine Art, 55 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Riitta Ikonen | Post. Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY. RSVP required.

Opening receptions: Frank Moore | Toxic Beauty. 5-7 at The Fales Library/Tracey Barry Gallery, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South. 6-8 pm at Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: The Decisive Moment | Fine Art Photography from the American Society of Cinematographers. SVA Gallery, 209 East 23^rd Street, NY, NY .Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Louise Fishman | Five Decades. Tilton Gallery, 8 East 76^th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, September 6

Opening reception, 6- 9pm: Futura | Futura Shock curated by Nimo Librizzi. Presented by Andy Valmorbida at 560 Washington Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Michael Rakowitz | The Breakup. Lombard-Freid Projects, 518 West 19^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Tim Roda | Family Construction. Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, 524 West 19^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Three Solo Exhibitions | Audrey Kawasaki, Jeff Soto, Judith Supine. Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Lise Sarfati, Brianna, Sunset & Vista, 2009. From the series On Hollywood, opening Thursday at Yossi Milo Gallery.

Thursday, September 6, cont'd.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Maria Martinez-Canas | Photo Paintings. Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Laura Letinsky | III Form & Void Full. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Mark Flood | Artstar. Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY. Save the date: Saturday, September 8, 4 pm: An Afternoon withMescalito | Panel  with the artist present.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Yayoi Kusama | Drawings from the Mid-50s. D’Amelio Gallery, 525 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sarah Oppenheimer | D-33. P.P.O.W. Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Brian Finke | Construction and Henry Horenstein | Honky Tonk; Portraits of Country Music.  Clampart, 521-525 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Stephen Ellis | Paintings. Von Lintel Gallery, 520 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. D

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: A Prayer is a Prayers is a Prayer | inaugural exhibition at new gallery space: Andrea Meislin Gallery, 534 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception and book signing, 6-8 pm: Lise Sarfati | On Hollywood. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Kwang Young Chun. Hasted Kraeutler, 537 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Myths and Realities | curated by Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode. Visual Arts Gallery,  601 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Searching | featuring works by Bas Jan Ader, Arianna Carossa and Mie Olise. Mixed Greens, 531 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Philip Akkerman | Miners. BravinLee Programs, 526 West 26^th Street, NY, NY. 

Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 pm: Fazal Sheikh | Ether. Pace MacGill Gallery, 32 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Cleverson Oliviera | Galaxias. Miyako Yoshinaga, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening day: Charles Burchfield | Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA.

Petrochemical America: Project Room, a collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, continues at Aperture Gallery through October 6^th. 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY.

Friday, September 7

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Laura Newman | Recent Paintings. Jen Bekman Projects, 6 Spring Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: James Welling | Overflow. David Zwirner, 533 West 19^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Toba Kheedori. Al Taylor | Pass the Peas and Can Studies. David Zwirner, 519 West 19^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception and Book Signing, 6-8 pm: The Sartorialist | Closer.  Danziger Gallery, 527 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Matthew Cusick | The Mind Is Its Own Place. Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 533 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: This Is How My Brain Works | featuring works by Donovan Barrow, Brian Belott, Natasha Bowdoin, Maximus, Floto+Warner, Sara Klar, ToddKnopke, Michael Lee, Elisa Lendvay, Abraham McNally, Andrew Mount, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Francesca Pastine, Javier Pinon, and Leslie Siegel. Radiator Gallery, 10-61 Jackson Avenue, 3^rd Floor, Long Island City, NY.

Opening reception and book signing, 6-8 pm: Chris Ware: Building Stories. Carl Hammer Gallery, 740 N. Wells, Chicago, IL.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: From the National Geographic Society Collection | Photographs of Social Life in Washington DC, 1900-1960. Carroll Square Gallery,975 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.

Saul Robbins, Berlin (New Year’s Eve). Featured in Odd Works 2, a collection of work that is atypical in subject matter, process, presentation or just exudes peculiarity. Curated by Russell Lord, director of the New Orleans Museum of Art. On view at the New Orleans Photo Alliance through October 7, 2012.

Saturday-Sunday, September 7-8
Special Events: Roaming Urban Soundcscapes, celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the New York Mycological Society and its founder, John Cage. The theatrical event, to be held in the Great Hall on Saturday, September 8, will be a grand multi-media Cagean simultaneity featuring live performances by Jonas Mekas, Jim Kerr, Gary Lincoff and Chris Mann. There will be a special realization of Cage’s 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs and a lively visual backdrop of mushroom stills and movies collected and produced over the last fifty years. The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7^th Street, NY, NY. Information. 

 

Chris Ware: ACME 18 - Rich 2, 2004 (detail) from Building Stories (Pantheon 2012). Exhibitions opening Friday in Chicago and Saturday in New York.

Saturday, September 8

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Adam Cvijanovic | Natural History. Postmasters Gallery, 459 West 19^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Douglas Gordon | The End of Civilization. Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21st Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception and book signing, 5-8 pm: Chris Ware: Building Stories. Adam Baumgold Gallery, 60 East 66th Street, NY, NY.

Performance, 6-11 pm: Alien(s) in New York | featuring Jordan Wayne Long, Poppy Jackson and Benjamin Sebastian. Grace Exhibition Space, 840 Broadway, 2^ndFloor, Brooklyn, NY.

Opening reception, 5-7 pm: Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott | Clouds. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: William Christenberry | Assembled Memory. Hemphill Gallery, 1515 14^th Street NW, Washington, DC.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Macduff Everton, Patagonia | Chile. PYO Gallery, 1100 South Hope Street, Suite 105, Los Angeles, CA.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Andy Freeberg | Art Fare. Kopeikin Gallery, 2766 LaCienega Blvd. (just north of Washington), Los Angeles, CA.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Daniel Joseph Martinez | I Am A Verb. Roberts + Tilton, 5801 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA.

Leora Laor, Pilgr-image #10000, 2010-12, in A Prayer Is A Prayer Is A Prayer, opening Thursday at Andrea Meislin Gallery, in it’s new location on West 24^th Street.

Sunday, September 9

Brunch reception noon-2 pm: Thomas Allen | Beautiful Evidence. Inaugural exhibition at Foley Gallery, new location at 97 Allen Street, just south of Delancey, NY, NY.

Opening reception 6-8 pm: Cindy Hinant | Aesthetic Relations. Joe Sheftel Gallery, 24A Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception 6-8 pm: Emily Noelle Lambert | Heart Heat. Lu Magnus, 55 Hester Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception 6-8 pm: Alix Pearlstein | The Drawing Lesson. On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception 6-8 pm: Anya Kielar | Women. Rachel Uffner Gallery, 47 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception 2-6 pm: Catherine Opie | Untitled (Stump Fire #4) and EAF12 | Emerging Artists Fellowship Exhibition featuring works by Jarrod Beck, Melissa Calderon, Fei Cui, Brent Everett Dickinson, Sarah Dornner, Tamar Ettun, Jessica Feldman, Ben Hall, Charles Harlan, Hugh Hayden, Chang-Jin Lee, FernandoMastrangelo, Bundith Phunsombatlert, Jeff Williams, Yuan. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, NY.

Thomas Allen, Bearings, 2012. Opening at Foley Gallery, in its new location on Allen Street, this Sunday.

Editor's note: You can follow Steve Brodner's coverage of Day One: Democratic National Convention, in his blog at The Nation.