Just as New York's gallerists take a deep breath and mark their calendars for a summer slowdown, Brooklyn's arts organizations take charge. This weekend alone, artists in Red Hook/Carrol Gardens, Flatbush and Bushwick open their studio doors to the public. But if you must remain in Manhattan, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's annual festival brings artists from all over who will be signing advance copies of their new fall books. On the other coast, American Illustration's 25^th Anniversary Timeline exhibit opens next week at Art Center's Williamson Gallery, featuring all of the original art on display for the first time. Please check websites for details.

Two by Dawn Mellor from the exhibiton, A Curse on Your Walls. Copyright the atist, courtesy Team Gallery.

NEW YORK, NY
Zhao Nengzhi: Confessional Figuration
ChinaSquare
Opening reception: June 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Evah Fan & Brendan Monroe: Bed and Breakfast
Little Cakes Gallery
From June 6, 2008

MoCCA Art Festival 2008: Meet comics and cartoon artists, comics publishers, and enjoy entertaining and educational panel discussions.
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
June 7 - 8 at the Puck Building. Please check website for tickets and information.

Remarks on Color: German Tendencies Part II, featuring work by Eckehart Fuchs, Andreas Hildebrandt, Stefan Kuhler, Stefan Lenke and Martina Wolf
Priska Juschka Fine Art
June 12 - July 26, 2008
Opening reception: June 12, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

The Affordable Art Fair
The Altman Building + The Metropolitan Pavilion. Please check website for public programs.
June 12 - 15, 2008

Live painting/performance/party, featuring 20 artists turning the gallery into a work of art
MF Gallery
Opening reception/performance: June 7, 7:00 - 10:00 pm

Ted Zourntos: Outward is Inward
Sloan Fine Art
June 12 to July 12, 2008
Opening reception: June 11th, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Gert & Uwe Tobias: Der osten im norden des westens
Team Gallery
Through June 14, 2008
Dawn Mellor: A Curse on Your Walls
June 19 - August 8, 2008
Opening reception: June 19, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Giant Robot NY
June 21 - July 16, 2008,
Opening reception: June 21, 6:30 - 10:00 pm

Rei Sato
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
June 26 - August 8, 2008
Opening reception: June 26, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

I Won't Grow Up, featuring work by Donald Baechler, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brian Belott, Louise Bourgeois, Jared Buckheister, Brendan Cass, E.V. Day, Phillip Estlund, Mark Fox, Beka Goedde, Gary Hume, Chantal Joffe, Chapman Brothers, Jonathan Hammer, Djordje Ozbolt, Mike Kelley, Misaki Kawai, Jeff Koons, Tim Liddy, McDermott & McGough, Ryan McGinley, Paul Morrison, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Kembra Pfahler, George Stoll, Angela Strassheim, Andy Warhol and Rob Wynne. Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald Baechler.
Cheim & Reid
June 26 - August 29, 2008
Opening reception: June 26, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Young Emerging Artists, featuring work by Fumiko Toda, Alex Callender, Pansum Chang, Kara Daving, Jun Eun Park, Justin Wood and Sona Yeghiazaryan among others
Lana Santorelli Gallery
Through June 21, 2008
Summer Nudes
June 26 - August 30, 2008
Opening reception: June 26, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Ray Caesar and Adam Wallacavage
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
June 28 - July 26, 2008
Opening reception: June 28, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Antistrot | What We Do is Secret
Sara Tecchia Roma New York
Through June 21, 2008

Marcus Oakley: Pictoral Aural
Gallery Hanahou
Through June 25, 2008

Fanny Bostrom: Picnic
31 Grand
Through June 28, 2008

Roy Lichtenstein: Girls
Gagosian Gallery
Through June 28, 2008

ICON5 poster art by Edel Rodgriguez. Copyright the artist.

The Big Picture - ICON5: The Illustration Conference
ICON5 at The Roosevelt Hotel. Please visit website for details and to register.
July 2 - 5, 2008

J.C. Leyendecker and the European Academy Influence on American Illustration
Society of Illustrators
Through July 12, 2008

Mossy and Glossy, featuring new work by Justin "Scrappers" Morrison, Candi "Snaggs" Hibert, and Mike "Le Merde" Kelly
Giant Robot NY
June 21 - July 16, 2008
Opening reception: June 21, 6:30 - 10:00 pm

Mason Rader: Beautiful Intensity
Christopher Henry Gallery
Through July 6, 2008

Drawing on Film
The Drawing Center
Though July 24, 2008

Ardeshir Mohassess: Art and Satire in Iran
Asia Society
Through August 3, 2008

Philip Guston: Works on Paper
The Morgan Library & Museum
Through August 31, 2008

BROOKLYN and THE BRONX, NY
Amy Hill: Monster Mash
McCaig Welles Gallery
Opening reception: June 6, 7:00 - 10:00 pm

Bushwick Open Studios & Arts Festival
Arts In Bushwick. Please check website for locations and hours.
June 6 - 8, 2008

First Flatbush Artists Studio Tour
Studio Tours: June 7 - 8, 2008, noon to 5:00 pm. Please check website for locations and hours
Opening Party: June 5, 7:00 - 10:00 pm at Vox Pop, 1022 Cortelyou Rd.

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
Red Hook/Carrol Gardens Open Studio Tours. Please check website for self-guided tour map.
June 7 - 8, 2008, Noon - 6:00 pm

The Summer Show: Gallery Artists
Art 101
June 8 - July 13, 2008

Poets of the Paste: Work by Elbow-Tow, Armsrock, Gaia and Imminent Disaster
Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn
June 13 - July 13, 2008
Opening reception: June 13, 7:00 pm

Crooked Smiles, Steady Voices, and A Trunk Full of Cash: An installation set in a used car lot that explores American car culture, rising gas prices, consumerism, and the role of the salesman.
Cinders Gallery
June 13 - July 13, 2008
Opening reception June 13^th13, 6:00 - 10:00 pm

Left and right: Two from the Manhattan Avenue Botanical series, copyright Mary Pinto. Center: Grassed Up, copyright Hugh Kearney. Courtesy Safe-T-Gallery.

Brooklyn Au Natural, featuring work by Tim Connor, Juliette Conroy, Asya Dodina & Slava Polishchuk, Ana Delgado, Hugh Kearney, Pary Pinto, Fumiko Toda and April Vollmer
Safe-T-Gallery
June 19 - July 20, 2008
Opening reception: June 19, 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Daily Schemes: A Selection of Contemporary Artist Sketchbooks
A.M. Richards Fine Art
June 27 - July 27, 2008
Opening reception: June 27, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Darina Karpov: Infinitely Small Disasters
Pierogi Gallery
Through June 23, 2008

Wore: Heather Morgan & Ben E. Ward
Jack the Pelican Presents
Through June 29, 2008

Relative Environment: BWAC 26^th Outdoor Sculpture Show
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
July 13 - August 30, 2008

Good Wood: Skateboard art featuring work by Mike Perry, Fernanda Cohen, Nathan Fox, Jeremy Traum, John Breiner and more, curated by Andrew Davis
Third Ward Gallery
July 26 - August 9, 2008
Opening night party: July 26, 9:00 pm - 2:00 am

How Soon Is Now? Featuring work from the Artists In The Marketplace 2008 program
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Through August 18, 2008

RIDGFIELD, CT
Gary Panter: Daydream Trap
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Through August 31, 2008

STOCKBRIDGE, MA
Raw Nerve! The Political Art of Steve Brodner
The Norman Rockwell Museum
June 7 - October 26, 2008
Artist's talk: July 17, 5:30 pm. Please check the website for related public programs.

LOS ANGELES, CA
Carlos Ramos: Natural History Museum Part I
Corey Helford Gallery
June 28 - July 16, 2008
Opening Reception: June 28, 7:00 - 10:00 pm

Three from Take a Deep Breath by (left to right): Asbestos, Know Hope, and Cherri Wood. Copyright the artists, courtesy Carmichael Gallery.

An Absolute Shower: The Art of Will Barras
Carmichael Gallery
June 7 - July 6, 2008
Opening reception: June 7, 2008, 8:00 pm - midnight
Take A Deep Breath, featuring work by Asbestos, Cherri Wood, The Dark Kngee and Know Hope
June 21 - July 20, 2008
Opening reception: June 21, 8:00 pm - midnight

Cameron Tiede: Analog Punch
La Luz de Jesus
June 6 - June 29, 2008
Opening reception: June 6, 8:00 - 11:00 pm

Jack Long: Convolvere
Giant Robot 2
June 21 - July 16, 2008
Opening reception: June 21, 6:30 - 10:00 pm

CULVER CITY, CA
Glenn Barr
Billy Shire Fine Arts
June 14 - July 12, 2008
Opening reception: June 14, 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Shawn Barber
July 19 - August 23, 2008
Opening Reception: July 19, 7:00 - 10:00 pm

PASADENA, CA
American Illustration 25^th Anniversary Timeline Exhibit
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery/Art Center College of Design
June 13 - August 17, 2008
Opening reception: June 12, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Book launch party for The Heartbreak Diet by Thorina Rose
Books Inc., in the Marina
June 5, 7:30 pm

Frida Kahlo
SF MOMA
June 14 - September 28, 2008