Note: Arts organizations and galleries affected by Hurricane Sandy are still juggling their schedules. Please check websites before heading out this week.

Deadline extended to midnight Saturday, November 10
Call for submissions: NurtureArt Videorover | Season 5. Information.

All week long: 2012 New York Illustration Week. Information.

Tuesday, November 6: Election Night Events

Live Election Coverage, 7-9:30 pm: Fifth Annual Political Satire Cabaret and Election Night Watch Party | Dancing to Democracy produced by LarryLitt. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14^th Street, NY, NY. Free and open to the public.

Live Election Coverage, 7-10 pm: Performance Art | Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney | Performance Art vs. Television | Brooklyn 2012. Grace Exhibition Space, 840 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY.

Live Election Night Coverage, starting 6 pm:  Watch at Galapagos Art Space with your Dumbo neighbors on the 12-by-14-foot big screen, and sip special Election themed cocktails. RSVP by calling 718.222.8500. No cover charge. Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. [All subways to Dumbo are operating.] Information.

Live Election Coverage, 6-11:45  pm: Beacon4Obama. Beahive, 291 Main Street, at South Brett, Beacon, NY. BYO. Information.

New York, St. Louis, Raleigh, Houston, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Savannah: Jonathan Horowitz | Your Land/My Land: Election ’12. The exhibition is being staged simultaneously at seven museums across the United States and provides a space for people to gather, watch coverage of, and talk about the presidential election. In NYC: New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY, ending at the museum 10/11/2012. Information. Participate.

Wednesday, November 7

Opening reception and benefit sale, 6-9 pm: Foolsgold Arts presents | FR**K OFF, an exhibition and auction featuring over fifty contemporary artists which will benefit the nonprofit organization FrackAction. RH Gallery, 137 Duane Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: F.A.T. GOLD. Celebrating five years of thug life, pop culture, and R&D, the renegade art organization known as the Free Art & Technology Lab, or F.A.T. Lab, is going GOLD. F.A.T. GOLD, that is. Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, 540 West 21^st Street, NY, NY.

Master Class, 7:00-8:30 pm: The Documentary Experiment | VII Potographers Ed Kashi and Donald Weber. Department of Photography and Imaging, 721 Broadway, 8^th Floor, NY, NY. RSVP. Students only. Information. RSVP required.

Film still from Gregory Crewdson's Brief Encounters. Screening Thursday at Film Forum.

Thursday, November 8

Screening, 8:00 pm: Gregory Crewdson | Brief Encounters. Q&A with Gregory Crewdson and film director Ben Shapiro to follow screening. Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, NY, NY. Information. Tickets.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Al Loving | Torn Canvas. Gary Snyder Gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception and book signing, 6-8 pm: Marc Asnin | Uncle Charlie. Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Neil Folberg | Topography/Time/Israel. Flomenhaft Gallery, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Young, Gifted and Black | Transforming Visual Media. Curated by Shante Cozier and Dionne Lee. Camera Club of New York, 336 West 37^th Street, 2^nd Floor, NY, NY.

Book launch party and hurricane relief benefit, 6-8 pm: Ken Carbone and Leslie Smolan | Dialog: What Makes a Great Design Partnership. AIGA National Design Center, 164 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Information. RSVP or 212.807.0011.

Friday, November 9

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Matta, Rammellzee, Futura and Phase | Deep Space. Joseph Nahamd Contemporary, 450 West 14^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm:  Robin Tewes | Remote Control. Adam Baumgold Gallery, 60 East 66^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 5-7 pm: Michael McMillan | ZZZZZ Series. Tomato House, 301 Saratoga Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Discussion, 7-9 pm: The Documentary Experiment | VII Potographers Ed Kashi and Donald Weber, moderated by Whitney Johnson. NYU Commons, 20 Cooper Square, 7^th Floor, NY, NY. Information. RSVP required.

Slide presentation and book signing, 7 pm: Brian Rose | Time and Space on the Lower East Side. Van Alen Books, 20 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Book Signing, 5:30-7:00 pm: Christopher Makos & Paul Solberg | Tattoos Hornets Fire. Rizzoli Bookstore, 31 West 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Lecture, 6:00 pm: Photography | Beginnings. Jeff Rosenheim, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, discusses how Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Helen Levitt, got their start in photography, part one of a two-part series continuing November 16 with a talk on Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and William Eggleston. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rodgers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Tickets $40/$25.

In Daytona Beach Opening reception, 5-7 pm: Selections from the Permanent Collection | featuring works by Barbara Norfleet, Leah King-Smith, and Nancy Goldring. Southeast Museum of Photography in conjunction with the Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1200 West International Speedway Boulevard, Daytona Beach, Florida.

In Cincinnati: 2012 Photofocus and the Cincinnati Art Museum present Gravity of Light, a pivotal and immersive installation by acclaimed contemporary artists Doug and Mike Starn on view in the abandoned deconsecrated 19th century Holy Cross Church through December 30. Information.

Saturday, November 10

Opening reception, 4:30-6:30 pm: Lithic Habitats \ featuring works by Rose Nestler & Robin Stein. Chuchifritos Gallery/Project Space, 120 Essex Street (inside Essex Market), NY, NY.

The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival. Featured artists: Nine Antico, Blexbolex, Charles Burns, Lilli Carré, Roz Chast, Tim Hensley, Richard McGuire, Jonny Negron, Anouk Ricard, Florent Ruppert, Olivier Schrauwen, Adrian Tomine, and Chris Ware. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 275 North 8th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Information. Free and open to the public.

In Tucson Opening reception, 7-10 pm: Seeing in Silver | John Loengard, Ralph Gibson, Harry Callahan. Etherton Gallery, 135 S. 6^th Avenue, Tucson, AZ.

In La Jolla Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Steve Kahn | The Hollywood Suites. Joseph Bellows Gallery, 7661 Girard Avenue, La Jolla, CA.

In West Hollywood Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Jim Drain | Drain Expressions. Prism LA, 8746 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA. RSVP required.

In Paris Opening day, 11 am – 7:30 pm:  Daido Moriyama | Paris and Daido Moriyamaa | Silk Screens. Polka Gallery, 12 rue Saint Gilles, 75003 Paris.

Installation of works by Daido Moriyama at Polka Galerie in Pais, one in a series of exhibitions continuing through January 12.

Sunday, November 11

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Jeffrey Kessel. Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 103 Norfolk Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Leah Wolff | It’s Been Hours. Scaramouche, 52 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sarada Rauch | It’s a Bag Full of Snakes and Chocolate. Novella Gallery, 164 Orchard Street, NY, NY.