FEBRUARY 17–MARCH 4
“The Ones” at New York Academy of Art: “An exhibition of work by alumni from the classes of 1991, 2001, and 2011.” Pictured above: “Reserve” (2011), by Alyssa Monks.

FEBRUARY 28
Noam Scheiber and Eliot Spitzer will discuss Obama’s economic team at 92YTribeca.

MARCH 1–APRIL 14
At Art Projects International: “Dawn, Noon and Night,” A new series of drawings by Pouran Jinchi.

MARCH 3
Steel Magnolias cry-along at 92YTribeca. “Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion….”

MARCH 6
Kristi Yamaguchi and Mayim Bialik read from their new books at Barnes & Noble.

MARCH 8
“Daily Show” writers do stand-up comedy at 92YTribeca.

MARCH 15–16
Marianne Faithfull and Marc Ribot at City Winery.

MARCH 17
At 92YTribeca: John Cassavettes double feature: I’m Almost Not Crazy and Love Streams.

MARCH 21–MAY 12
At Apexart: “Consent,” which “aims to close the gap between what we think about porn and what we say—to collapse the space between the ‘them’ of the porn industry and the ‘us’ of the consumer.”

MARCH 23
Gilbert Gottfried stops by for dinner at 92YTribeca.

MARCH 23
Rhett Miller at City Winery. He and Rachael Yamagata need to do an album of duets.

••• Brick Underground interviews an anonymous Tribeca doorman. It’s not exactly juicy.

••• The New York Times reviews Kutsher’s: “The food here’s not bad. And such big portions!”

by Ruby Washington for the New York Times

••• Soho Rep’s “The Ugly One” is reviewed in the New York Times.

••• The New York Times looks at Hudson Square and Trinity Church’s role in creating it. Isn’t this a story they’ve done many times before?

••• Director Abel Ferrara is planning a film based on the Dominique Straus-Kahn situation. It’ll star Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani. —ArtInfo

••• Aarón Sánchez of Centrico has opened a restaurant called Mestizo in Kansas City; it was reviewed by the Kansas City Star.

••• American Icon is opening another outpost on Fifth Avenue above Madison Square Park. —New York Post

FEBRUARY 14
Speaking and reading at the Pen Parentis literary salon: Austin Ratner, Amelia Kaheney, and Stephen Stark.

FEBRUARY 16
The band Betty will workshop new music at 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 17–MARCH 30
At FB Gallery: “FB gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in New York of Brazilian artist Rodrigo Martins. […]In his paintings and drawings, Rodrigo represents slightly unusual situations that evoke feelings of strangeness and brutality. The images are fragmented, layered and at the same time appear to be merging. Musical influences, rhythmic patterns appear and give a sensation of time at once passing and frozen.”

FEBRUARY 23–MARCH 31
Cecilia Vissers at Masters & Pelavin: “Inspired by the landscape of ‘the far north’ of Scotland during a trip in 2011, Cecilia decided to focus on the cliffs and extreme edges of land, this is the most north-westerly point in mainland Britain. Isolated and dramatic. This work is an abstraction of the landscape, its purity, color and clear line. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and in the US.”

FEBRUARY 24
Another show (this one acoustic) by Wyclef Jean at City Winery.

THROUGH FEBRUARY 25
Karim Ghidinelli’s “Individually Collected” at Cheryl Hazan.

FEBRUARY 25
“BMCC Tribeca PAC is proud to bring back NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston for a special concert: Randy Weston African Rhythms Orchestra Celebrate James Reese Europe & the Harlem Hellfighters.”

MARCH 6–APRIL 27
At RH Gallery: “‘Underworlds Rising’ is Yi Zhou’s first solo exhibition in the United States. The exhibition is built around Zhou’s 2010 short film The Greatness, a 3-D animated film inspired by Dante’s pilgrimage in The Divine Comedy set to a soundtrack produced in collaboration with Ennio Morricone. The film begins with a Grecian vase, modeled after Pharrell Williams’ head, shattering into pieces.”

MARCH 7–31
The Krappy Kamera Show at Soho Photo: “This unique and eagerly awaited exhibition [...] will feature images that have been produced using equipment from the low end of the technological scale. The concept underlying this show is that in the hands of an artist, any piece of equipment can be used to create engaging photographs. The Krappy camera includes well-known names such as Diana and Holga as well as obscure junk-store finds and homemade pinhole jobs.

MARCH 12
City Winery hosts a preview/rehearsal of the Rolling Stones tribute to be held at Carnegie Hall (that show will definitely feature “Art Garfunkel, Marianne Faithfull, Rickie Lee Jones, Ronnie Spector, Rosanne Cash, Steve Earle, Taj Mahal, Marc Cohn, The Mountain Goats, Peaches, Jovanotti & TV on the Radio, Glen Hansard of The Swell Season, Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jackie Greene and more to be announced”). This one goes out to my friend Shawnda—we used to scream along to this on road trips….

MARCH 22–TBD
At the Museum of Jewish Heritage: “Filming the Camps: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, and George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg.” Hollywood directors John Ford, George Stevens, and Samuel Fuller entertained audiences with American cinema classics like The Grapes of Wrath, Shane, and The Big Red One. But their most important contribution to history was their work in the U.S. Armed Forces and Secret Services, filming the realities of war and the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. [..] ‘Filming the Camps’ presents rare footage of the liberation of Dachau with detailed directors’ notes, narratives describing burials at Falkenau, and the documentary produced as evidence at the Nuremberg trials, among other historic material. Now, for the first time in the U.S., this material is being made available to a general audience.”

••• Midtown Lunch got the full list of food trucks coming to the World Financial Center, at North End and Vesey: Up to five “trucks will be there seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. through 2013. [...] There are some new and old faces represented here on the food side: Big D’s Grub Truck, Bongo Brothers, Eddie’s Pizza, Frites N Meats, Gorilla Cheese, Kimchi Taco, Mexico Blvd., Mexicue, Mike N Willie’s, Milk Truck, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Rickshaw Dumplings, Schnitzel & Things, Taim Mobile and Valducci’s Pizza. And they didn’t forget the desserts with Andy’s Italian Ice, Coolhaus, Cupcake Crew, La Bella Torte, the Treats Truck and Van Leeuwen Ice Cream represented.”

••• “On one of the most secluded streets in the heart of Tribeca, six luxury condominium units will quietly hit the market today and nine more in the same building will follow shortly. They make up all the units in a five-story condominium project at 60 Collister Street, between Hubert and Laight streets, at the former American Express Carriage House building. VE Equities, the developers behind Tribeca’s 471 Washington Street, which sold out last month, and One North Moore [and the upcoming 11 N. Moore], acquired the site in a short sale last year and received attorney general approval to market the units this Tuesday.” —The Real Deal

••• The Daytonian in Manhattan blog takes a long, fascinating look at the history of 121 Hudson, a.k.a. the Castree Building. If you like New York City history, it’s a must.

••• Super Linda will open Monday, for real this time. —Eater

••• “To coincide with the re-exhibition of [James] Rosenquist’s [86-foot-long artwork "F-111" at MoMA], often considered a cornerstone of the Pop-art movement, Vanity Fair visited the artist at his Tribeca home [...]. Arriving at the Rosenquist town house (white façade, turquoise trim), one immediately notices a sign over the six buzzers at the front door: RING ANY BELL. ‘Isn’t that fun?’ the artist will later say. ‘I own the whole building!’”

••• “Battery Park City’s Irish Hunger Memorial is badly leaking. Just 10 years after it was built, the quarter-acre plot covered in rocks, grass and bushes from Ireland will get a major overhaul.” —Tribeca Trib

••• “It’s 1952 on the N.Y Central Railroad for Gerry Weinstein and two friends who are carefully building a section of the Hudson line in a Tribeca Loft.” Keeps ‘em off drugs, presumably. —Tribeca Trib

••• “Built in 1997 against the fervent ob­jections of neighbors in the adjoining building, the penthouse at 155 Franklin St. was something of a rarity, a 2,200-square-foot “rooftop mezzanine” [...]. The structure has a new and dubious distinction: it is falling apart. An entirely rebuilt and redesigned structure is up for city approval.” —Tribeca Trib

••• Tribeca resident Robert Moore is a Big Apple Greeter. —Broadsheet

In any event! Art Projects International was founded in Soho 1993 by Jung Lee Sanders, who has lived in Tribeca since 1996. She was born in Seoul, but also spent some of formative years in Hong Kong and the U.K.; when she moved to New York, she was surprised how closed the art world here was. “We were one of the first platforms for artists from Asia,” she says. “There was no other opportunity to be shown.” Over the years, API broadened its scope, representing artists from all over—Korea, Iran, China, Thailand, America, wherever.

"Navajo Route" by Myong Hi Kim (2004); courtesy Art Projects International (as is the photo at top)

The current show, up through February 25, is “Borrowed Landscape” by Myong Hi Kim—it’s her first solo show in the U.S. She spends half the year in Soho and the other half in South Korea, living in an old schoolhouse in a very remote area. The works are all oil pastels on chalkboards; the dark areas have no pigment on them. While API is fairly small, Sanders says that it may show any type of media—works on paper by Pouran Jinchi are next, and sculptures and installations aren’t out of the question.

Art Projects International is at 434 Greenwich (at Vestry), 212-343-2599; artprojects.com.

Recent New Kid on the Block/First Impressions articles:
• Annelore
• North End Grill
• Vintry Fine Wines
• Blue Smoke
• Damon Liss Design/Liss Real Estate Group
• French Kiss Boudoir Photography
• CrossFit 212
• Polarn O. Pyret
• Ristorante Aglio
• Kutsher’s Tribeca

FEBRUARY 2–18
One Art Space presents “Big Picture” a solo exhibition by the American artist John Boone.

FEBRUARY 3
Eighties flicks Some Kind of Wonderful and Can’t Buy Me Love screen at 92YTribeca—and Wonderful star Mary Stuart Masterson will be there for a Q&A.

FEBRUARY 8
Adam Gopnik at 92YTribeca: “Gopnik will deliver highlights from his 2011 CBC Massey Lectures (available in book form as Winter), followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Canada’s CBC Massey Lectures celebrated 50 years in 2011 with five lectures from Gopnik on the subject of winter—the season, the space, the cycle. A stunning, beautiful meditation buoyed by Gopnik’s trademark gentle wit, the five Winter lectures offer an enchanting homage to an idea of a season and a captivating journey through the modern imagination.”

FEBRUARY 9
“The Daily Show” writers are back doing more stand-up comedy at 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 9–MARCH 3
“Re-Make/Re-Model,” a show of work by Charles Lutz, is at Hionas Gallery: “Lutz’s wandering eye is keen to the satirical, the sexual and the absurd, found in objects both mundane and iconic, from Warhol’s appropriated Brillo boxes, re-appropriated by Lutz for a somber result in cold black stainless steel, to Franz Kline’s fluid action brushstrokes, re-made to reveal disparate body parts lustfully intertwined.”

FEBRUARY 11 AND 12
From New Amsterdam Market: “Join us for our second annual Valentine’s Gift Shop & Soda Fountain, held this year in a spectacular warehouse space provided by the South Street Seaport Museum. The shop will feature sweets, pastries, chocolates, and coffee among other specialties, and a Soda Fountain operated by P&H Soda and The Bent Spoon.” Left: a photo of last year’s shop, courtesy New Amsterdam Market.

FEBRUARY 15
Dune screens at 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 22
David Lynch’s Wild at Heart screens at 92YTribeca. This scene is a Steven Meisel photo shoot waiting to happen.

FEBRUARY 24–25
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me screens at 92YTribeca: “In 1992, David Lynch returned to the fictional town he helped create for the initially popular, then near-entirely shunned television series ‘Twin Peaks.’ This is a prequel focusing on the troubled character—Laura Palmer (a spectacular Sheryl Lee)—who is a corpse when the show begins. Freed of boob-tube constraints, and mostly absent the series’ leavening humor, Lynch traces the final week of Laura’s life in horrifying yet empathetic detail. The film was booed after its premiere at Cannes, where Lynch had taken top prize for Wild at Heart two years earlier, and received mostly negative reviews. But Fire Walk With Me‘s standing has gradually increased (the great French filmmaker Jacques Rivette has passionately expressed his admiration) and we hope these screenings—a rare chance to see the movie in 35mm—will further bolster its rep.”

APRIL 20
Graham Parker and the Figgs play City Winery.

••• Also on sale: The Copper Barrel on Murray…? Can’t be 100% sure because I saw it on Twitter.

••• The Battery Place Market in Goldman Alley has opened.

••• I went to the James Nares show at Paul Kasmin today. It was a lot less Tribeca-y than I hoped. I did learn that the pendulum wasn’t hanging from the Staple Street bridge, but from a catwalk, higher-up, that ran across the street. (This may have been in the video or the Trib’s article, but I didn’t get all the way through either.) My favorite moment, actually, came when I peeked through the curtain on the other side of the nook where the video was playing—to get a glimpse of a huge artwork that I doubt was by Nares. If you go, check it out. Below: Much of the show ran along these lines….

••• The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation “approved $14 million for Pier 42 and development of the East River waterfront park, and $1.9 million for planning the East River Greenway, as well as starting the funding process for 15 of the 38 community and cultural grants announced last September. [...] The 15 grantees include the Battery Dance Company for renovation of their rehearsal facility (up to $125,000), City Parks Foundation for parks programming (up to $500,000), Manhattan Youth for after-school programs (up to $500,000), Southbridge Adult and Senior Citizens Activity Center for an on-site social worker (up to $100,000), the Fund for Public Schools for new equipment and materials (up to $4,480,000), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (up to $700,000), the Museum of American Finance (up to $100,000), South Street Seaport Museum (up to $2 million), Public Art Fund for City Hall Park (up to $250,000), and the Tribeca Film Institute’s ‘Drive In’ event in Battery Park City (up to $250,000).” That last one gives pause. —Broadsheet Daily

••• The New York Times has a video of James Nares’s pendulum video. Worth a look just to see a glimpse of old Tribeca.

••• “I can’t find a public record behind the lead celebrity real estate item [Watts/Schreiber] in today’s [...] New York Post on ACRIS, StreetEasy or The Shark, but according to our data-base Jennifer Gould Keil got the price wrong. The Manhattan loft in question is the full 2nd floor at 427 Washington Street (Tribeca Tower). It is clear from the listing (“opportunity to have a true Tribeca raw space as your canvas”; the pix are better, and full screen, on the Corcoran site) that they won’t be moving in for quite a while (and many dollars).” —Manhattan Loft Guy (but isn’t Tribeca Tower the Related rental building on Duane?)

••• “After 18 years in business, Moss, the Soho design mecca, is shutting down its retail space on Greene Street, on Feb. 17. A perfect storm of high overhead and lagging sales led Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell, the store’s owners, to conclude that they were running ‘a free museum.’” —The New York Times

••• “The city closed a block of John Street Thursday after a small portion of the street collapsed.” —DNAinfo

••• “Chadbourne & Parke, a 110-year-old haberdashery law firm, is close to a deal to move to [1WTC], from its headquarters at Rockefeller Center.” —New York Times

••• Speaking of nail salons: The new i-Plaza Nail & Spa in the Zinc Building (at Greenwich and Watts) opens today.

••• Ed Burns is speaking at 92YTribeca on Jan. 31—I didn’t put it in a Coming Up round-up because his new film, Newlyweds, wasn’t being screened, but now it is, so there you go.

••• Twin Café, the deli at Greenwich and Murray, is closing after tomorrow.

••• Gruyere with roasted onions is among the sandwiches returning (and being added) to Wichcraft‘s menu, starting Jan. 31

••• The new-build at 482 Greenwich (northwest corner of Greenwich and Canal) is going up fast. There’s more on it here, including a rendering of the finished building.