Everything You Need To Know This Week On New York's Art Scene

14. Spencer Sweeney: The Pharaoh's Lounge- Party Paintings and Sauna In Spencer Sweeney's upcoming show at GBE Sweeney presents paintings in a most utilitarian form: The painting as an advertisement with a time and a price and a location. The event? A party. A reason to live. A reason to live in New York City. Hand made to be seen by millions, they are thrown out on the wires and the wireless to alert the party people of a reason to gather. These are paintings in drag, dressed to the nines as commerce. Ads for the weekend, disguised as Fine Art. Oil transfigured into ones and zeros. A party contained in a painting. Less oil, more dancing. Details: Gavin Brown’s enterprise 620 Greenwich Street, New York November 19 – December 22, 2011 Opening reception: November 19, 6-8 PM [More info]