This Weekend in Brooklyn!

Tonight is DUMBO's First Thursday Event and the opening of Verge Art Fair, featuring "Brooklyn Art Now: 2011", curated by Loren Munk/James Kalm, (111 Front Street, 2nd Floor, suites 200, 204 and 222.) Verge Art Brooklyn is open Thursday-Saturday from noon to 10pm and Sunday from noon to 6pm, and is free to attend. The opening reception is tonight starting at 8:30pm, with performances from 10pm to 4am at Galapagos Art Space.

Bushwick's Site Festival is Saturday and Sunday and is a 2 day interdisciplinary event highlighting the diversity of performance in Bushwick, visit one of the hubs to get started on Saturday: Grace Exhibition Space, Chez Bushwick, 3rd Ward, Goodbye Blue Monday, The Bushwick Starr.

Saturday Evening is Williamsburg's Afterhours Event with participating galleries presenting evening art events. Inspired by Armory Show Focus: Latin America, The Williamsburg Gallery Association will present “Border Crossing” Saturday, March 5, 2011 from 6 pm - 10 pm at its member galleries for Brooklyn Armory Night. Buses provided by the Brooklyn Board of Tourism will shuttle visitors from Armory and Pulse Art Fairs to 4 locations in Williamsburg from 5 pm - 8 pm. From 8 pm - 9 pm, the buses will only make stops in Williamsburg.


OPENINGS THIS WEEKEND:

Thursday March 3
Dumbo/Downtown
BROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY, 6-8
KLOMPCHING GALLERY, 6-8
BOSE PACIA, 6-8
--FIRST THURSDAY DUMBO GALLERY WALK--, 6-9
AIR GALLERY , 6-9
GIACOBETTI PAUL GALLERY , 3pm


Friday March 4
Boerum Hill
MURIEL GUEPIN GALLERY, 6:30-8
Park Slope/Gowanus
OPEN SOURCE , 7pm
Williamsburg
C.C.C.P. Gallery, 6-8pm
VENTANA244, 6-9
LIVE WITH ANIMALS, 7-10


Saturday March 5
Williamsburg
ART101, 5-10
FIGUREWORKS, 8pm
GITANA ROSA GALLERY, 6-9
PARKERS BOX, 6-10
CAUSEY CONTEMPORARY, 7-10
FRONT ROOM GALLERY, 7-10
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 6-11
CAPRICIOUS SPACE, 8-10
--WILLIAMSBURG GALLERIES OPEN LATE--, 7-9
Red Hook
WORK , 7-10
Boerum Hill
THE INVISIBLE DOG, 6-10
Bushwick
NURTURE ART
Dumbo/Downtown
SMACK MELLON , 5-8
Park Slope/Gowanus
BROOKLYN MUSEUM , 5-11pm


Sunday March 6
Williamsburg
MOMENTA ART, 3pm
Fort Greene/Clinton Hill
HADAS GALLERY, 2-5pm