2/12/2009-If Art Openings is your thing....here you go

• Thomas Hirschhorn Universal Gym Known for sprawling works that transform traditional white cube spaces into absorbing environments tackling issues of critical theory, global politics, and consumerism, Hirschhorn engages the viewer through superabundance. Combining found imagery and texts, bound up in low-tech constructions of cardboard, foil, and packing tape, he props imagistic assaults in a DIY-fashion that correlates to the intellectual scavenging and sensory overload designed to simulate our own process of grappling with the excess of information in daily life at Gladstone Gallery, 530 West 21 Street, 5:30-7:30pm
• Carolee Schneemann "Performance Photographs from the 1970s" at Caroline Nitsch Project Room, 534 West 22nd Street, no opening
• Gary Sherman, Deer Park at The Phatory, 618 East 9th Street, between B and C,
• A Mind Filled with Crows at CHC Gallery, 511 West 20th Street ,
• Hank Willis Thomas & John Bankston at Jack Shainman, 513 West 20th Street,
• Lecture: John Yau Anonymous and Particular at SVA (Visual Arts Theater), 333 West 23 Street, 7pm
• Melissa Meyer New Works at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., 514 West 25th Street, 
  
• The Garden at 4 AM curated by Paul Laster, Renee Ricardo at Gana Art, West 25 Street, 568
• Sam Gibbons Bone Meal at Claire Oliver Fine Art, 513 West 26th Street, 2W,
• Amy Pleasant at Amy Pleasant, Tight Shot at Jeff Bailey Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, Suite 207,
• Julie Heffernan, The Garden at 4 AM at Gana Art NY, 568 West 25th Street,
• Benedicte Peyr at at Morgan Lehman Gallery, 317 Tenth Avenue,
• Paul Morrison at Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th Street, 6-8
• Rachel Perry Welty, You May Already be a Winner at Yancey Richardson Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, 3rd Floor,
• Rachel Papo, Desperately Perfect, Serial No. 3817131 at ClampArt, 521-531 West 25th Street, grd fl.,
• The multi panel Photographic masterpieces of Alpine splendor of the Italian artist Walter Niedermayr at Robert Miller, 524 West 26th Street,
• Solar at Elga Wimmer, 526 West 26th Street, 3rd fl., 6-8
• Outline at Serrano Contemporary, 547 West 27th Street,
• Kori Newkirk at The Project, 37 East 57th Street, 3rd fl.
• Leah Tinari new paintings which invite the viewer to Sneak a peek inside her outragious personal life and witness the sometimes scandalously naughtie revelry enjoyed by her friends & family at Mixed Greens Gallery, 531 West 26th Street
• Yana Dimitrova, Please, Remain Seated at M.Y. Art Prospects Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 2nd fl. 6-8
• Ralf Ziervogel Mawhistla curated by Dmitry Komis at Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation, 111 Front Street, 2nd fl., Dumbo, Brooklyn
• Noble Tombs at Mawangdui: Ancient Treasures at China Institute Gallery, 125 East 65 Street,
• Mira Lehr, Recent Works at Flomenhaft Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 308,
• Screening: New Documentaries Shot on Super 8mm at MoMA, West 53 Street, 11, theater 1, 8pm
• Megan Olson Spray Paintings at Davidson Contemporary, 724 Fifth Avenue, 5:30-7:30p
• Melissa Meyer, New works at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. 514 West 25th Street,
• Nancy Haynes dissolution at Elizabeth Harris, 529 West 20th Street, 6-8
• Jon Burgerman & Jim Avignon, Anxiety Room at Factory Fresh, 1053 Flushing Avenue, 7 10
  
• Ori G. Carino at Dean Project, 45-43 21st Street, Long Island City

-DKS