Last Chances: Tuesday December 17-Saturday, December 21

Special hours: SCARYOKE!!! | Organized by Dan Koi. The end of a 6-week party: a chance for New Yorkers to sing on a Saturday night, on their lunch hour, or after a morning jog. It is an experiment, encouraging visitors to explore the outer boundaries of their own performativeinstincts and capacity for risk-taking.

You might be wondering, what makes this scary? We don‘t take requests and you can’t choose your song. You just get the mic, the music starts and if you know the song - you sing it. If you don't - you wing it!

Apex Art, 291 Church Street, NY, NY. Information.

Closing Saturday December 21

Solo show, 2 locations: Martin Creed. The exhibition highlights Creed’s strategies for making a large impact through small interventions in the world around him. His use of the commonplace – colored masking tape, metronomes, potted plants and balloons are among the many at-hand materials he employs – a practice for expressing the limitations of art and the limitless magic of the universe beyond its reach. 
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 620 Greenwich Street, NY, NY. Hauser & Wirth, 32 East 69^th Street, NY,NY.

Extended Until December 22 Saved By The Book! St. Mark's Bookshop's
Online Benefit Auction of Signed and Annotated First Editions has been EXTENDED until December 22nd at 10pm! It's not too late to get the bibliophile in your life the perfect Holiday gift! And help to keep the doors of this beloved bookstore open in the future. Information.

Closing Sunday December 22

Group show: Mass Mediations | Featuring Josh Bricker, Tatiana Istomina, Anna Elise Johnson, Thomas O’Grady. Curated by Chris Mansour. Despite the various social and cultural environments these artists come from, what universally binds the logic of their artwork and personal experiences together is contemporary life’s saturation in mass media. Whether from Chicago to Moscow or Los Angeles to Manchester, mass media has opened the possibility for collective simultaneous experiences and a shared (but dissonant) global culture, consequently flattening cultural differences to a homogenous field. 
Chuchifritos, 120 Essex Street, inside Essex Street Market, NY, NY. Below: Anna Elise Johnson, Diplomacy, acrylic, archival digital prints, resin.″

Continuing through February 23

Artist Space Books & Talks | Artists Space Exhibitions: Macho Man, Tell it To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, an exhibition of works selected and extended from the collection of Julie Ault. As a founding member of the artists’ collaborative Group Material (1979 –1996), and as artist, curator, writer and editor, Ault’s dense practice and its roots in long-standing engagements with artists are reflected in the unique nature of her collection. Its multiplicity is indicative of an organic process of accumulation, foregrounding the ways in which the gifting and exchange of artworks cements both intellectual and emotional affinities. Artist Space Books & Talks, 55 Walker Street | Artists Space Exhibitions, 38 Greene Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY.Information.

Wednesday, December 18

Performance, 8 pm sharp: New Humans + C. Spencer Yeh. Bureau, 178 Norfolk Street, NY, NY. In conjunction with exhibition New Humans | Charles Atlas, José León Cerrillo, PhilippeDecrauzat, Kenneth Goldsmith, Renée Green, James Hoff, Olivier Mosset, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, John Smith, Mika Tajima, C. Spencer Yeh, closing December 22.

Artist’s gallery talk, 6:30-8 pm: An Evening with Philip Smith. Jason McCoy Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NHY. RSVP required.

Thursday, December 19

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Martin Thompson | Positive/Negative. Ricco Maresca Gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Group Exhibition | What Say You. Lower East Side Printshop, 306 West 37^th Street, NY, NY.

Curator talk, 6:30 pm: Leonardo the Artist-Scientist and His Notebooks, with Carmen C.Bambach, Curator, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. Tickets $15/$10/Free.

Continuing through December 28

Installation view, above: Shirazeh Houshiary | The Eye Fell in Love With The Ear. Lehmann Maupin, 301 Christie Street, NY, NY.