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Art & Design Events...

• Apartment Therapy's Smallest Coolest Contest
  • Vote on the steady stream of apartments revealed--3 are poeach day!

• Municipal Arts Society Walking Tour: Back to Bushwick
  • One of Brooklyn’s original six towns, Bushwick was mostly developed in the 19th century with streets of rowhouses, mansions, churches and breweries.
  • Meet at the intersection of Myrtle Ave. and Broadway. (Transit: J, M trains to Myrtle Ave.)

• Public Art Fund Talks with John Currin
  • New York City-based painter John Currin has had more than 20 solo shows.
  • Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street. 212.980.3942.
  • March 28, 6:30 p.m. $5. Audiocast

• The Borough Arts Bash: Celebrating Manhattan's Creative Communities
  • Music, dance, film/video, and theater honoring Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 2006 community arts grantees (almost 200 artists) and funders
  • March 30th, 7pm.
  • Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

• The Next Industrial Revolution: Film Screening and Discussion
  • Shot in Europe and the US, this film explores how businesses transform themselves to work with nature and enhance profitability.
  • March 27th, 6-7pm. Wine, cheese & discussion to follow
  • Materials for the Arts/Department of Cultural Affairs, 33-00 Northern Blvd, 3 Floor, Long Island City. To RSVP: 718-729-3001 x218.

• Crossing Newtown Creek: Contrasting Greenpoint and LIC
  • The Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment presents a walk across the Pulaski Bridge and through industrialized portions of Brooklyn and Queens.
  • March 26 at 1-3pm
  • Meet at Greenpoint Ave. Subway Station (G train) 718-788-8500, ext. 208

• Designing and Building Your Own Green/ Environmentally Healthy Home or Apartment
  • How can individual home owners, renters, and builders transform their living spaces into green homes? Each class will cover practical, technical, and theoretical information on a variety of topics ranging from energy efficiency to rooftop gardens to lighting and insulation. The course will also feature a tour of local green buildings.
  • CUNY Continuing Education, 365 Fifth Avenue (34th St,)
  • 6 Tuesdays, March 14th-April 18th 7-9pm $250. 212.817.8215, or email continuinged@gc.cuny.edu

• Mind the Gap
  • Through sculpture, photography, video, performance, and urban-scale architectural interventions, artists amplify and animate the urban void
  • March 18th through April 30th
  • Smack Mellon Gallery, 92 Plymouth Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn (718)834-8761.

• Reinventing New York
  • SVA Interior Design graduates explore the changing character of New York by looking at how existing spaces can become new ones.
  • March 23rd through March 30th
  • The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South

• Museum of Art and Design's 'Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art'
  • How are contemporary artists exploring a socially &
    environmentally conscientious way of living & working.
  • Through May 7th
  • Museum of Arts & Design, 40 W 53rd St., 212-956-3535.

• Floral Design by NY Botanical Garden in conjunction with Cooper Union
  • Learn how to create basic centerpieces and arrangements
  • Eight Wednesdays, starting April 19th, 6:30-8:30pm. $336

• Andrea Zittel: Critical Space
  • Social and domestic spaces as fine art
  • Through May 27th
  • New Museum of Contemporary Art, 556 West 22nd St., 212.219.1222

• The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974 - 1984
  • Through April 1st
  • New York University: Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square E, 212.998.6780 & Fales Library, 70 Washington Square S, 3rd Fl, 212.998.2596

• The Mythic City: Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940
  • Through Mar 30th
  • Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, 212.534.1672