Running, running, running . . .

 

Ed Ruscha, Sands of Time, 1987, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24”. Courtesy of Robert Miller Gallery.

 

FRIDAY

Don’t delay and catch one of the last two days of Gego’s Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space, an exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of the artist Gertrud Goldschmidt at the Americas Society.

Swing by a screening of Alphabet City by New York cinema punkster Amos Poe at the New Museum at 7:00PM.

Let your vision buds catch fire at the opening reception of New America: Vanishing Landscape at the Brooklyn Fire Proof East, 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

Poets House is hosting a reading by poets Mark Strand, Eduardo C. Corral, Camille Rankine, and Malachi Black.

SATURDAY

The New School is hosting New Work: An Evening with John Ashbery. John Ashbery is joined by poets Tom Healy and David Lehman to present his forthcoming book, Quick Question.

Get lost in the multimedia drawings of Guillermo Kuitca in a body of work called Diarios featured at the Drawing Center.

Need to escape the city bustle? Head to Albany’s University Gallery for the last days of Rachel Foullon’s sculpture exhibit, Braided Sun.

Are you a poetry lover and like to party? Then The Carol Novack Christmas-Hannukah-Kwanzaa-Solstice-and-Atheists-Who-Love-to-Party Tribute Party is for a place for you to be with Cornelius Eady, CA Conrad, Andrei Codrescu, and many more.

Get your tickets and perk your ears for Royal Trux Performing ‘Twin Infinitives’ at the Saint Vitus in Brooklyn at 8:00 PM.

SUNDAY

Julia Lektov’s soul- tickling thriller The Loneliest Planet, starring Gael Garcia Bernal, set in the Georgian mountains screens at the IFC Center at 10:50 AM.

The Brooklyn Museum is hosting an Exhibition Conversation with co-curators Vincent Bonin, Catherine Morris, and catalog contributor Julia Bryan-Wilson on Materializing ‘Six Years‘.