COMING UP
••• An exhibition of pottery by Kyle Lee, a studio potter at Chambers Pottery, opens today at Kiva Cafe. There will be a reception on Thursday, Feb. 11, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
••• Beginning tomorrow (Wednesday), R 20th Century presents a retrospective of Swedish designer and architect Greta Magnusson Grossman (that’s her desk and chair, below right; photo by Sherry Griffin). The opening is at 7 p.m., but at 5:30 p.m. Andrea Codrington will give a talk about Grossman’s life and work.
••• February 14–19, the Battery Park City Ice Rink will be open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
••• Additions to 92YTribeca‘s February schedule: “Dream Role! The Faces Behind the Scenes” puts casting agents on stage (Feb. 17); Made in India, a work-in-progress screening of a documentary about an American couple and an Indian surrogate (Feb. 18); Chocolate Shabbat, a special Shabbat meal sampling “four different kinds of chocolate” and tales of “love affairs and dangerous liaisons in the Torah” (Feb. 19).

IN THE NEWS
••• The New York Times highlights a cute short film about emergency brakes on subways made by Casey Neistat, a 28-year-old filmmaker who works in Tribeca.

REAL ESTATE
••• The strangest ground-floor façade—semi-varnished wood and royal-blue panels— in the neighborhood, at 8 Warren Street, appears to be getting redone.
••• Curbed reports on progress at the 9/11 Memorial.