Friday, January 2, 5 - 9 pm at 3rd Street Gallery: Opening reception for Rhea Dennis solo exhibition. Through February 1. 58 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 2, 5 - 8 pm at Artjaz Gallery: Opening reception for Visual Pathways, group show. Through February 21. 53 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 2, 5:30 - 8:30ish pm at Bambi: Happy hour for Cherishables, work by Amy Stevens, Kim Alsbrook, and Miha. Through January 25. 1817 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 2, 6 - 9 pm at The Clay Studio: Opening reception for Jeremy Brooks: RE: Work (malaprops, homophones, tangents and turquoise); NonFiction Design Collective: Shakespeare Wooden Minnow; and John Casey: No One We Know. Through January 25. 139 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 2, 5 - 9 pm at F.A.N. Gallery: Lesa Chittenden Lim, recent paintings. Through January 31. 221 Arch Street, Philadelphia

Friday, January 2, 5 - 9 pm at Highwire Gallery: Opening reception for Side by Side: Highwire Artists and Invited Guests. Through February 1. 2040 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 2, 5 - 9 pm at Old City Jewish Art Center: Laurence Salzmann, Every land is full of Thee and every sea. Through January 29. 119 N. Third Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 2, 5 - 9 pm at Vivant Art Collection: Jim Blum, THEM, presented with Coalition Ingenu. Through January 31. 60 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 2, 5 - 8 pm at Wexler Gallery: Opening reception for new works by Vivian Beer & Marilyn Kirsch. Through February 28. 201 N. Third Street, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 4, 1 - 4 pm at Orchard Artworks: Opening for "Winter New Artist Show" featuring hand-woven wearable art designs by Leslie Friedman-Rifkin, paper collage art & cards by Gloria Klaiman and hand-woven baskets by June Statmore. Through January 31. 520 Tomlinson Road. Bryn Athyn, PA 19009.

Thursday, January 8, 5:30 - 7:30 pm at Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA): Reception for Tales of the Beginning, work by Julia Blaukopf and Elizabeth Crisman. Through January 15. The Barclay, 237 S. 18th Street, suite 3A, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 8, 6 - 9 pm at The Hall, Crane Arts Building: InLiquid presents an installation by Susan White, read. Through February 28. Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American Street, first floor, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 9, 5 - 8:30 pm at Artists' House: Opening reception for group exhibition. 57 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 9, 5:30 - 7:30 pm at Locks Gallery: Artist reception for Jane Irish's Cochin Chinoiserie. Through February 21. 600 Washington Square South, Philadelphia.

Friday, February 9, 6 - 9 pm at Projects Gallery: Opening reception for Urban Organic, work by eight artists who are affiliated with both the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists. Through January 31. 629 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 9, 5 - 8:30 pm at Muse Gallery: Opening reception for Open Call Small Works Exhibit. Through February 28. 52 N. Second Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 9, 6 - 8 pm at Sande Webster Gallery: Opening reception for John McDaniel, Leaping Boundaries and Anyta Thomas, When Mesh Imitates Life. Through February 2. 2006 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 9, 6 - 8 pm at TwentyTwo Gallery: Opening reception for Multimedia Group Exhibition. Through February 11. 236 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 9, 6 - 11 pm at Vox Populi: Opening reception for solo exhibitions by Julianna Foster, James Johnson, and Eva Wylie; David Tinapple in the Video Lounge; and an alumni group show featuring . a group show featuring Merrilee Chatliss, Anne Schaefer, and John Lange. Through February 1. 319 N. 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 319 A

Friday, January 9, 6 - 8 pm at the The William Way GLBT Community Center: Opening reception for Eli J. VandenBerg: Prints and Drawings. 1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 10, 2 - 5 pm at Project Basho: Opening reception for Onward 09, juried group exhibition featuring emerging photographers. Through February 22. 1305 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 11, 2 - 4 pm at The Sketch Club: Opening reception for Paper '08, a juried works on paper exhibition. Through January 25. 235 S. Camac Street, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 15, 6:30 - 8:30 pm at the Institute of Contemporary Art: Opening reception for Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay; Anthony Campuzano: Touch Sensitive; and Joshua Mosely: dread. 118 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 16, 7 - 9 pm at Basekamp: Opening reception for An Atlas of Radical Cartography, including a talk by curators Alexis Bhagat and Lize Mogel. Through March 16. 723 Chestnut Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 16, 5:30 - 7:30 pm at Fleisher Art Memorial: Opening reception for Challenge II, featuring Kara Crombie, Mark Khaisman, and Hope Rovelto. Through March 17. 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 17, 5 - 7 pm at Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education: Opening reception and artist talks for Ephemerality. Through April 12. 8480 Hagy's Mill Road, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 18, 2 - 5 pm at Twenty Two Gallery: Artists "Meet and Greet" reception for Multimedia Group Exhibition. Through February 11. 236 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia.

Wednesday, January 21, 6 - 8 pm at International House Video Lounge: Opening reception for InLiquid's presentation of VIrgil Wong's Millions of Robots Heal the Human Heart. Through March 6. 3701 Chestnut Street, 1st floor, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 22, 5:30 - 8 pm at The Design Center: Opening reception for Candy Depew's Housing Project. Through April 3. Philadelphia University, 4200 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 23, 5 - 8 pm at AxD Gallery: Closing reception for Annette Cords solo exhibition. 265 S. Tenth Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 23, 7 pm at Pageant : Soloveev: Opening reception for Paper Crystals. 607 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 24, 7 pm at The Fortress of the Arts: Opening reception for group exhibition, What the Water Gave Me.
221 Glenwood Avenue, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 29, 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA): Opening reception for Darla Jackson vs. Anne Canfield. Through February 16. The Barclay, 237 S. 18th Street, suite 3A, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 29 at Moore College of Art Design: Opening reception for the exhibitions Women through the Lens of Time: Students Select from 180 Years of Photojournalism in The Philadelphia Inquirer in the Levy Gallery; Yumi Kori: utatane in the Goldie Paley Gallery; Devon Dikeou's Marilyn Monroe Wanted to be Buried in Pucci in Window on Race; and Footsteps - Annual Alumnae Exhibition in the Wilson Gallery. Through March 14. 20th and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 30, 5 - 8 pm at AxD Gallery: Opening reception for a/chroma/scape/s, paintings by Greg Minah and John Cartwright. Through February 28. 265 S. Tenth Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 30, 6 - 9 pm at Henry Bermudez Studio: Opening reception for Art4Barter, a group exhibition co-curated by Antonio Puri and Henry Bermudez of works by artists who will present their work for barter. Through February 6. 628-B Hancock Street, Philadelphia; 215-923-2069.

Saturday, January 31, 6:30 pm at Slought Foundation: Opening reception for Peter Weibel, Rewriter: Early (conceptual) photographs, (expanded) films, (body) videos and (contextual) works, 1964-1975. Through March 11. 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

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Wednesday, January 7, 11 am at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: "Counter-Muse or Ideal: Cézanne's Portraits of Hortense," a lecture by Susan Sidlauskas, Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Art History, Rutgers University. Free tickets required after Museum admission. Van Pelt Auditorium, main building, 26th Street and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 9, 6 - 7 pm at Allen's Lane Art Center: Photographer David Graham will give a talk on his work in conjunction with his exhibition opening at the Center. Talk followed by public opening reception. Tickets for talk are $20, proceeds benefit Allen's Lane Art Center programming. RSVP to info@allenslane.org or call 215-248-0546. 601 W. Allens Lane, Philadelphia.

Tuesday, January 20, 1 - 2 pm at the James Michener A. Museum: "Charting New Territory: Contemporary Landscape Art," an exhibition lecture by Kristy Krivitsky, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, James A. Michener Art Museum. Admission $15 general; $8 for museum members. Ann and Herman Silverman Pavilion, 138 S. Pine Street, Doylestown, PA.

Thursday, January 22, 5:30 pm at University of Pennsylvania: The Print Center and Penn Design's MFA program co-present a lecture by Amy Stein, who will discuss her Domesticated series, currently on view at The Print Center. Free and open to the public. Meyerson Hall, 210 S. 34th Street, Room B-3, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 23, 6:30 pm at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Curator talk by Kathy Hiesinger on Frank Gehry. Free tickets required after Museum admission. Van Pelt Auditorium, main building, 26th Street and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 25, 3 pm at Vox Populi: Gallery talk with Gabriel Martinez, Senior Lecturer, Penn Design. 319 N. 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 319 A, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 25, 2 pm at the Woodmere Art Museum: "Refractive Cinema: Movies about Art, Literature, and Other Movies," a lecture by Timothy Corrigan, Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art, University of Pennsylvania. Admission $10; free for students. 9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia.

Wednesday, January 28, 6 pm at Rosenbach Museum and Library: "The Other's Story and the Other Story: Sendak as an Illustrator of Other Authors," a gallery talk by Elizabeth E. Fuller, Librarian. 2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 29 at Moore College of Art Design: Opening reception for the exhibitions Women through the Lens of Time: Students Select from 180 Years of Photojournalism in The Philadelphia Inquirer in the Levy Gallery; Yumi Kori: utatane in the Goldie Paley Gallery; Yumi Kori: utatane in Window on Race; and Footsteps - Annual Alumnae Exhibition in the Wilson Gallery. Through March 14. 20th and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 29, 2 pm at the Woodmere Art Museum: Lewis Tanner Moore will lead a tour of his collection, In Search of Missing Master. Free and open to the public. 9201 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia.

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Sunday, January 4, 2 pm at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Screening of the documentary James Castle: Portrait of the Artist, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Jeffrey Wolf. Free tickets required after Museum admission. Van Pelt Auditorium, main building, 26th Street and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 9, 7 pm at Scribe Video Center: Jeremiah Zagar’s In A Dream (2008), a documentary on his father Isaiah Zagar and recipient of the Best Documentary at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival. Admission $5; free for Scribe members. 4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd floor, Philadelphia.

Sunday, January 18, 2 - 3 pm at the James A. Michener Museum: Screening of Standing On My Sisters' Shoulders, a documentary about women leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi. Followed by an interactive discussion with film producer Joan Sadoff. Free with museum admission; registration required by calling 215-340-9800. 138 S. Pine Street, Doylestown, PA.

Wednesday, January 21, 7 pm at International House: The "Inside the Frame: Films About Artists and Their Work" series presents a screening of the documentary Beautiful Losers (Aaron Rose, 2008) with introduction and Q & A with cinematographer Tobin Yelland; preceded by the short Space 1026 (Ted Passon, 2007). Members of Space 1026 will be on hand selling merch and artwork. Admission $7 general; $5 students. 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Thursday, January 22 - Saturday, January 24 at International House: Secret Cinema co-presents "The Literary World of Frank and Eleanor Perry," a series featuring films by the acclaimed husband and wife filmmaking duo. Films include David and Lisa (1962), Ladybug Ladybug (1963), and The Swimmer (1968). Click here for full schedule and details. 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 24, 2 pm at Philadelphia Cathedral: A free screening of the documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Katrina Browne and members of the Antiracism Commission and History Task Force Committee. 3723 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia; 215-386-0234 x 104.

Sunday, January 25, 2 pm at Philadelphia Museum of Art: Battleship Potempkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, Russia). Free with museum admission. Van Pelt Auditorium, 26th Street and the Parkway, Philadelphia.

Wednesday, January 28, 7 pm at International House: My Grandmother’s House (La Casa De Mi Abuela) (Adan Aliaga, Spain, 2005), curated by Marta Sanchez and presented as part of the "DocuSpain: New Spanish Documentaries" series. Admission $7 general; $5 students. 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Wednesday, January 28, 8 - 10 pm at Project Basho: As part of a bi-monthly photography related film series, a screening of Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens. Free and open to the public. 1305 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia.

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Saturday, January 17, 2 - 4 pm at Basekamp: "Mapping the Global Economic Crisis" with Lize Mogel, artist and co-curator of current exhibition An Atlas, mapping workshop on visualizing the causes and effects of the global economic crisis. Drawing skills not required. Free; limited to15 participants. To reserve a space, e-mail yuka@basekamp.com. 723 Chestnut Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia.

Saturday, January 24, 1 pm at Vox Populi: Photographer Aaron Igler conducts a workshop, "Documenting Like a Pro," advice on best practices in documentation of artwork. Free and open to the public. 319 N. 11th Street, third floor, Philadelphia.

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Tuesday, January 6, 6 - 8 pm at the Main Line Art Center: An informational open house with the Violette de Mazia Foundation, showcasing the Foundation's spring 2009 course lineup, offering an opportunity to meet their teachers and learn about the Foundation's programs, and sign up for classes. 746 Panmure Road, Haverford, PA.

Friday, January 16, 8 - 11 pm at Fleisher Art Memorial: "Dr. Sketchy's Philadelphia" is back for an art-school-meets-burlesque drawing sesson with the 70s Punk Rock theme " Leather and Spikes" featuring Annie A-Bomb and Heather Henderson from Revival Burlesque. Must be 18 years old to enter, 21 with ID to drink. Doors open at 7:30; drawing begins at 8. Tickets $12 advance/$15 at door for art monkeys; $17 advance/$20 at door for voyeurs. Click here to purchase tickets online. 719 Catharine Street, Philadelphia.

Friday, January 30, 9 pm at The Curiosity Shoppe: Fourth Friday at the Curiosity Shoppe as a night of music, beer, and artsy fun, featuring local art, jewelry, clothing, and more. 529 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia.

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Thursday, January 8, 6 - 8 pm at Claire Oliver: Opening reception for Janet Biggs: Vanishing Point. Through February 7. 513 W. 26th Street, NYC.

Friday, January 9 at the Whitney Museum of American Art: A newly commissioned video installation by Alex Bag opens to the public. 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, NYC.

Saturday, January 10, 6 - 9 pm at Jonathan LeVine Gallery: Opening reception for James Jean, Kindling and Kenichi Hoshine, The Night Before. Through February 7. 529 W. 20th Street, 9E, NYC.

Friday, January 16 at International Center of Photography Museum : The exhibitions Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, The Condé Nast Years, 1923–1937; Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now; This is Not a Fashion Photograph; and Munkacsi's Lost Archive open to the public. Through May 3. 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street, NYC.

Saturday, January 17, 2 - 3:30 pm at P.S.1: NeoHooDoo Poetry Reading and Performance, featuring a performance by Philadelphia artist Terry Adkins. 22-25 Jackson Avenue at the intersection of 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY.

Wednesday, January 28 , 6:30 pm at Americas Society: Opening reception and curator lecture for the exhibition Moon Tears: Mapuche Art and Cosmology. 680 Park Avenue, NYC.

Friday, January 30 at Pratt Manhattan: "Image Wars: Conflict, Media, Globalization," a symposium in conjunction with
the exhibition Zones of Conflict. Free admission. Lecture Hall 213, next to Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 W. 14th Street, 2nd floor, NYC.

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Wednesday, January 21, at Colgate University Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts: Opening reception for Reading Space: the Art of Xu Bing. Through March 5. Clifford Gallery, Little Hall, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY.

Friday, January 30, 5 - 8 pm at REDCAT, Los Angeles: Opening reception for Atelier Bow-Wow: Small Case Study House. Artists talk at 6:30 pm. Through March 29. Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, 631 W. Second Street, Los Angeles.

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