This Week and Next

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembles artists' responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred on March 5, 2007, by a bomb explosion. Al-Mutanabbi Street had been the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, and the heart of the Baghdad literary community. This important and timely exhibition will be held in five New York City cultural venues. The Center for Book Arts will be presenting the exhibition, in collaboration with Alwan for the Arts, Columbia University Libraries, International Print Center New York, and Poets House.

The exhibition features approximately 250 artists' books and 50 prints by artists from around the world, and was co-organized by Beau Beausoleil, Founder of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition, and Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Fine Print Research in Bristol, UK. A comprehensive catalogue accompanies the show.  

The Center for Book Arts will host an opening reception on Wednesday, July 10, from 7 to 9 pm. 28 West 27^th Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY. Information.

Poets House will host an opening reception on Thursday, July 11, from 6-8 pm. 10 River Terrace (at Murray Street), NY, NY. Directions.

Opening receptions will be held next week at Alwan for the Arts, Butler Library, Columbia University, and International Print Center New York. Information.

Thursday, July 11-Sunday, July 14

ArtMRKT Hamptons, a contemporary and modern art fair, will feature 40 leading galleries from across the U.S. who will present painting, sculpture, drawings, photography, video and installation. The opening night preview benefits LongHouse Reserve, The Bridgehampton Historical Society grounds, 2368 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, NY. Information.

In Barcelona, Thursday, July 11-Saturday, July 13

USk Barcelona 2013, the 4^th International Urban Sketching Symposium. Sketchsrawls, workshops, demos, Drink & Draws, and more. Information courtesy Melanie Rheims, Chair, FIT MFA Illustration Program. Information. Blog.

Ryan Schneider, Sun in Your Eyes (detail), from Bathers, an exhibition opening Wednesday at Morgan Lehman Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Tuesday, July 9

Book signing, 6-8 pm: Jon Peck and Gary Hustwit | The Olympic City. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, Between Bowery and Lafayette, NY, NY. Information.

Opening day, 11 am-6 pm: Lisette Model and Diane Arbus. Hasted Kraeutler, 537 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening day, 11 am-5 pm: Wet, featuring works by Mauro Altamura, Linda Connor, Harold Edgerton, Joe Maloney, Garry Winogrand, Burk Uzzle, and others.Laurence Miller Gallery, 20 W 57th St, 3rd Floor  New York, NY.

Wednesday, July 10

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Yard Sale | John Baber, Deborah Brown, Rachel Budde, George Chinsee, Ming Fay, Jack Henry, Grace Knowlton, KeikoNarahashi, Eung Ho Park, Harry Roseman, Rachel Selekman, Mary Jo Vath, and Daniel Wiener. Lesley Heller Workspace, 54 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Head | Group show “to fill your head with thoughts and images of sex, industry, religion, soul, “reality”, fantasy and uneasiness.” BOSI Contemporary, 48 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Nikolay Bakharev | Amateurs and Lovers. Julie Saul Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Bathers | Group Show. Morgan Lehman Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Conversation and Book Signing, 7:30-10:00 pm: Steve Hindy and Michael Kamber | Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories Behind the Headlines.Brooklyn Brewery, 79 N. 11^th Street, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets $15.

In Rockland, ME Opening reception, 6-8 pm: John Goodman | Black, White + Blue. Caldbeck Gallery, 12 Elm Street, Rockland, ME. Information.

Joe Maloney, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1979; Dye transfer print. Exhibition continuing through August 16^th at Rick Wester Fine Art, 526 West 26th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, July 11

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Joachim “Yoyo” Friedrich | Sam McKinniss. Envoy Enterprises, 87 Rivington Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 7-10 pm: Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert inaugurate a new [raw space] at 33 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Folk Devil | Works by Lynn Chadwick, Marlene Dumas, Roger Hiorns, Ryan McGinley, Oscar Murillo, Eddie Peake, Jason Rhoades, Oscar Tuazon, Franz West, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others. David Zwirner, 525 West 19^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Hank Willis Thomas | Selected Works. Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Desire | Erica Baum, Gabriele Beveridge, Louise Bourgeois & Tracey Emin, Carol Bove, Sharon Core, Moyra Davey, ConstanceDejong, Dru Donovan, Vivienne Griffin, Janice Guy, Whitney Hubbs, Ana Mendieta, Marilyn Minter, Yoko Ono, Mariah Robertson, Cindy Sherman, Ruby SkyStiler, Mickalene Thomas, Hellen van Meene, and others. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Alchemical. Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: The Decline and Fall of the Art World, Part I | The One-Percenters. Freight + Volume, 530 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Roving Signs | Anni Albers, Richard Aldrich, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, John Cohen, Rachel Harrison, Tommy Jarrell, Donald Judd, Conlon Nancarrow, Bern Porter, Harry Smith and Rosie Lee Tompkins. Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Rhode Island School of Design 2013 MFA Graduate Show, Clampart, 521-531 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening Reception, 6-8 pm: Crossing the Line | Contemporary Drawing and Artistic Process. Mixed Greens, 531 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8pm: Hot Summer, Cool Jazz | The Potographs of Herman Leonard. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

In San Francisco Opening reception, 5:30-7:30: Joshua Lutz | Hesitating Beauty. Robert Koch Gallery, 49 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA.

Exhibit Ahead; Center for Land Use Interpretation, from an exhibition opening Thursday at Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC.

Friday, July 12

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Forrest Oliphant, Toby Schachman, Nortd Labs | Open Lab: Creative Platforms for the Open Web. Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, 540 West 21^st Street, NY, NY.

In East Hampton, NY

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Roe Etheridge | The Money. Harper’s Books, 87 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY.

In Boston, MA

Opening reception, xx pm: Harold Feinstein | A Coney Island Summer. Panopticon Gallery, 502c Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA.

Saturday, July 13

In East Marion, NY 

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W | Group show. Martos Gallery summer location at 12395 Main Road, East Marion, NY.

In Beacon, NY 

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Carla Goldberg and Lisa Zukowski | Layers and Lines and Charles McBill | Skinned. BAU/Beacon Artists Union, 506 Main Street, Beacon, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 5-9 pm: The Gun Show | Jesse Burke, Ty Cacek, Barbara Davidson, Drew Ludwig, Jon Lowenstein, Pete Muller, and Erin Trieb. Fovea Exhibitions, 143 Main Street, Beacon, NY. Information.

In Toronto

Opening reception, 2-4 pm: Jeffrey Milstein | Aerial Airports. Bau-Xi Photo, 324 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON.

In Santa Fe, NM

Opening day: SITElines | Unsettled Landscapes. SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, NM. Information.

In Los Angeles 

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Esther Pearl Watson | My Barbarian. Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 6006 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA.

In Sacramento, CA

Opening reception/Art Walk, 6-9 pm: Richard Downes | Black & White. Red Dot Gallery, 2231 J Street, Suite 101, Sacramento, CA.