Weekly Art Rx

This week is filled with openings and events that will get you thinking — about the Citi Bike as readymade, the role of the curator in artwashing, the way you eat and play, parenting in the art world, and more.

This week, a film series teaches you about Native American cinema, a postmodern choreographer mixes his archives live, the Outsider Art Fair opens its doors, and a pioneering cat photographer comes to town to sign books (at a cat cafe).

This week there’s even more good stuff to do in NYC than usual, if that’s possible. Learn about some histories of “the future,” think about taking buildings down, explore the relationship between the occult and art, visit the Black Comic Book Festival, and more.

Start off 2016 by enjoying one or some of the many performance festivals happening this month, or visit the Reanimation Library in its new home, or catch a historical survey of art brut in America before it’s gone.

You want to know how to finish off 2015 right? Our suggestions include a concert for peace, an experimental sound quilt, a warehouse extravaganza, fireworks in Grand Army Plaza, and maybe chill out in the new year with a silent Chaplin film program.

Whether you’re looking for fun things to do with your family this week or trying to escape them, we’ve got you covered. Check out a sound installation about gender, a claymation workshop for kids, Hayao Miyazaki’s films on the big screen, and more.

This week, celebrate the launch of everyone’s favorite (and the only?) sexy art handlers calendar, exchange your personal items for others’ at the New Museum, gaze at photographs of queer desire, and more.

This week is a big one for poetry, with events celebrating John Ashbery, Claudia Rankine, and Ugly Duckling Presse. If that’s not enough, try some openings.

This week, learn about the Quechan cultures of South America or the creative underground spaces of Brooklyn, consider the images of surveillance or the connections between urbanism and global warming … or start your holiday shopping with art.

This week, go see solo shows by Sheila Hicks and Regina Bogat before they close, listen to firsthand news reports from the Vietnam War in four languages … or watch The Shining on repeat on Thanksgiving. Whatever gets you through the holidays.

This week, you can protest a real estate summit outside the Brooklyn Museum, learn about the history of Chinatown restaurants, catch performance art at Performa, and much more.

This week, check out a radical Twilight Zone remix, experience a “House of Flying Boobs,” listen to all of Moby-Dick read out loud, and more.