This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Time to Rally

You can count on the Camera Club to showcase strong emerging photographers, and that’s evidenced by its benefit auction: you’ll find talent on the rise like Sara Cwynar and Bobby Doherty. But don’t take our word for it; trust AFC’s resident photo expert Matthew Leifheit. He’s in the benefit video.

After six years, Misaki Kawai returns to the New York gallery scene with a show culled from travels to Asia. “Hair Show” involves an enormous sculpture of a dog, whose hair you can brush, and other “combable” paintings, as well as a boob bench. Needless to say, we are on this.

“Materializing the postdigital” is one of those platitudes we can’t seem to ditch these days but unfortunately ubiquity makes it relevant. The Museum of Art and Design’s take seems to be something along the lines of “bluechip world learns 3D printing”. This means Barry Ball’s Baroque scans, Richard DuPont’s head scans, and Alissia Melka-Teichroew’s jewelry scans. Maybe there’s something to this?

Hyperallergic founder and art critic Hrag Vartanian speaks to humor and art criticism. We like their panels.

If you’re a fan of “Wild at Heart” or “Lost Highway”, meet the author of those books. Barry Gifford will be speaking at Spectacle, and presenting episodes he wrote for David Lynch’s HBO series “Hotel Room”, while signing copies of his new book “The Roy Stories”. The Q&A portion is sold out, but you can still get tickets for the screening, and for his introduction.

Indulge yourself in some big juicy Rococo landscapes and Hieronymus Bosch-style despair, courtesy of Julie Heffernan. Teeming floral tableaux are dotted with bombs, liferafts, and oil spills.

247365 makes a show of abstract painting, with one criterion: sincerity. That’s pretty consistent with what we’ve seen down there, and sounds about right for Matthew Fischer, Marley Freeman, and Travis Boyer. While you’re there, check out nextdoor neighbors KnowMoreGames and Primetime. Openings will be fun and long.

A new exhibition by renowned conceptual photographer Sophie Calle showcases a series inspired by the loss of her mother.

On Friday, MoMA will be filled with dance. Throughout the atrium and galleries, twenty dancers interpret a series of “forgotten” historic performances. Performers are: Magali Caillet-Gajan, Ashley Chen, Jim Fletcher, Brennan Gerard, Trajal Harrell, Burr Johnson, Lénio Kaklea, Catherine Legrand, Morgan Lugo, Richard Move, Mani A. Mungai, Banu Ogan, Leiomy Prodigy, Christopher Roman, Shelley Senter, Valda Setterfield, Gus Solomons, John Sorensen-Jolink, Meg Stuart, and Adam Weinert

If you’re fed up with the status quo, then add your voice to a massive group of New York City arts and labor cooperatives, in an alternative economies fair titled “What Do We Do Now?” Not only will that question be discussed, but this Arts & Labor-led event offers a slough of artist resources including time banks, health care, legal advocacy, housing, and artists’ services. There’s no schedule for Saturday available, but William Powhida, Jules de Balincourt, Shawn Gallagher, and AFC’s Paddy Johnson will present on issues of affordable studio space at 1:15 pm.

Postmasters reopens on Saturday! With a double show of Monica Cook and Steve Mumford in their palatial new Tribeca space, they’re gonna be better than ever.