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From a conversation with actor George Takei (Star Trek’s Captain Sulu) and his husband, to a discussion about love with a pair of sword swallowers, Kick My Hearts Ass: Short Films About Love, investigates the trials of love and heartbreak. Curated by Davy Rothbart, this exhibition opens February 11th at Apex Art.

(Kick My Heart’s Ass: Short Films About Love exhibition announcement. Courtesy of Apex Art.)

“Miss Taxi”, a three-channel video and photography installation by artist Cecilia Jurado, is currently featured as part of QUEENS INTERNATIONAL 4, the Queens Museum Biennale. This latest project from Jurado shows images and footage from a beauty pageant held each year in Queens for relatives of taxi workers. This exhibition will be on view until April 26th.

(Cecilia Jurado, Film still from “Miss Taxi”. Courtesy of Y Gallery.)

Our City Dreams, a new documentary by Chiara Clemente, documents the lives of five feminist artists- Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, and Nancy Spero- and is now playing at the Film Forum in Manhattan. Check it out, the last day to see it is February 17th!

(Promotional image for Our City Dreams. Courtesy of the Film Forum.)

IMMATERIAL is in its last week at Black and White Gallery in Chelsea. This show includes artists Kaoru Hirano, Tamara Kostianovsky, Kristian Kozul, Derick Melander, Jason Clay Lewis, Adam Niklewicz, Shimon Okshteyn, and Jean Shin, as well as artist Orly Cogan, whose site specific thread wall drawing, Quantum Entanglement, explores the trappings of womanhood. This show closes February 14th.

(Installation view of Quantum Entanglement, photo by Alessandra Okshteyn. Courtesy of Black and White Gallery.)

The Mood Back Home: An exhibition inspired by Womanhouse opens at Momenta Art in Williamsburg this Friday February 13. Womanhouse was a women-only art installation and performance at a 17 room mansion in 1970s Hollywood, California. Organized by feminist artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, Womanhouse used the various rooms of the building to explore household activities and spaces that had been viewed as exclusive to women. The work of Alyson Aliano, Pam Butler, Leslie Brack, Nicole Eisenman, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Karen Leo, Karyn Olivier, Tara Mateik, Bea Romeo, Suzy Spence, Kirsten Stoltmann, Jeanne Tremel, and Pinar Yolacan, as well as Johanna Demetrakas’s film Womanhouse, 1972, will be featured in this show.

(Leslie Brack, Presenting Three New Lively Ones, oil on canvas, 6″ x 8″, 2008. Courtesy of the Artist.)

Nayland Blake: Behavior, curated by our very own Maura Reilly, is in its last week at Location One in Manhattan. Head over to this great show before it closes February 14th!

(Nayland Blake, Magic, 1991. Courtesy of Location One.)

In honor of International Woman’s Day (March 8th), The Clark Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts, will be opening Special Installation: Women’s Work on February 21st. The exhibition will feature works on paper from the collection by such trailblazers as Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Berenice Abbott.

(Julia Margaret Cameron, The Red and White Roses, 1865. Albumen print. Courtesy of Scottish National Photography Centre.)

Life Has Not Even Begun, a new exhibition featuring the work of artist María Magdelena Campos-Pons, opened recently at Columbia College’s Glass Curtain Gallery in Chicago. In this new body of work, Campos-Pons uses a wide variety of media to investigate how history and memory inform identity. This show will be up until March 6th, so if you are in the area, check it out!

(Postcard Image: María Magdelena Campos-Pons, Prayer for Obama I (detail), 2008, Polaroid prints. Photo by Clements/Howcroft. Courtesy of Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery.)

Tonight, February 10th, CUNY’s Graduate Center is holding a LGBTQ studies panel on queer South Asian art. Tell Me a Story…, presented by SAWCC (South Asian Women’s Creative Collective) and CLAGS (The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies), will feature filmmaker/photographer Sonali Gulati, visual artist Chitra Ganesh, performance artist D’Lo, as well as DJ/promoter, Desilicious.

(Sonali Gulati, Film still from Out and About, to be released in 2010. Courtesy of the artist.)

Carolee Schneemann: Painting, What it Became opens Saturday, February 21st at P.P.O.W. in Chelsea. Curated by our very own Maura Reilly, this exhibition explores how Schneeman’s work in a variety of mediums (including performance) remain true to her pictorial, painterly approach to art. This show will be up until March 28th - don’t miss the opening reception this Saturday from 6-8pm!

(Carolee Schneeman, Meat Joy, 1964, gelatin silver print, 23 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches. Courtesy P.P.O.W.)