Calendar. 11.20.13.
New Year’s Party Balloon, in Brisbane, Australia, 2011, by Anthony Lister. From The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, by Rafael Schacter. A book launch will be held this evening at PowerHouse Arena in Brooklyn at 7pm. (Image courtesy the author and Yale University Press.)
- NYC: Christian Marclay, New Paintings and Works on Paper, at Paula Cooper Gallery. Opens Friday, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Dotty Attie, The Lone Ranger, at P.P.O.W. Opens Thursday, in Chelsea.
- NYC: Boris Mikhailov: Four Decades, at Dominque Lévy. Opens Saturday, on the Upper East Side.
- NYC: Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Through March 9.
- NYC: Devotion: Excavating Bob Mizer, at 80WSE Gallery. Opens Saturday at 6pm, at NYU.
- NYC: Matthew Newton, Two Friends Talking Duets, at Airplane. This Saturday at 7pm.
- S.F.: Dissident Futures Art and Ideas Festival, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. This Saturday from noon to 9pm.
- L.A.: Yutaka Stone and Benjamin Weissman: What Every Snowflake Knows In Its Heart, at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Opens Thursday, at 8pm, in Santa Monica.
- L.A.: Andrew Piedilato, at Patrick Painter Gallery. Through December 21, in Santa Monica.
- L.A.: Gods and Heroes: European Drawings of Classical Mythology, at the Getty Center. Through February 9, in West L.A.
- L.A.: The Un-Private Collection: Robert Rauschenberg, a discussion with Mark Bradford and Katy Siegel, at the High School of the Visual and Performing Arts. Saturday at 2pm, in downtown.
- L.A.: The NSA Domestic Spying Program, a screening and discussion of a film by Laura Poitras, at 356 S. Mission Road. This Saturday at 7pm, in Boyle Heights.
- Plus: Get your tickets for the premiere of Ryan Trecartin’s latest at BAMcinématek on December 11. They’re on-sale now.