At UC Riverside Friday, March 22

Artist talk, 7:30 pm: Trevor Paglen | The Last Pictures. Artist Trevor Paglen will discuss his most recent project, The Last Pictures. Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us. His most recent project is The Last Pictures, a project presented by Creative Time, which is a collection of 100 images to be placed on permanent media and launched into space on EchoStar XVI, as a repository available for future civilizations (alien or human) to find. (One of the images selected is by Ansel Adams from UCR ARTSblock's California Museum of Photography's permanent collection.)

The exhibition, Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, will be open prior to Trevor Paglen's lecture. UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, 3834 Main Street, Riverside, CA. Directions. Below: Cover photo from The Last Pictures (University of California Press/Creative Time Books, 2012).

In Central Harlem, NYC Saturday March 23

Panel discussion, 3-5 pm: Five Reasons Why Art Creates a Lasting Legacy. Panelists Tally Beck (Tally Beck Gallery), Hrag Vartanian(Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of HyperAllergic.com), Helaine Fendelman (PBS television host, book author, syndicated columnist and founder of a leading independent and accredited appraisal and sales firm), and Misha McGlown (Program Director of the LeRoy Neiman Art Center, visual artist and curator) discuss the lasting value of contemporary art as part of the AARP New York art exhi­bition Lasting Legacy: The Journey of YOU, curated by Souleo. Information. LeRoy Nieman Center, 2785 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, at 148^th Street, NY, NY. Directions .

On the Lower East Side NYC, Sunday, March 24
Opening reception, 5 pm: Thomas Bangsted and Jeff Wall. Marc Straus, 299 Grand Street, NY, NY. Above: Thomas Bangsted, Untitled (Court), 2010.

Opening reception, 6 pm: Alan Reid | Poems, San Souci. Lisa Cooley, 107 Norfolk Street, NY, NY.