If you've $80 to spare for a good cause then tomorrow 8pm-midnight is the Mabou Mines 40th Anniversary Gala Benefit at Paula Cooper Gallery in the space where they were born. The experimental Wooster Group are far better known these days in theater circles but Mabou Mines have consistently delivered ground-breaking performances.
Or there's An Evening with Laurence Gavron (as part of MoMA's Modern Mondays April 25, 7:00 p.m.) - Senegalese writer/filmmaker.

MoMA in tandem with the Austrian Film Museum has a 6-week Dziga Vertov retrospective - he's most famous for his Man With a Movie Camera (1929) but little of his other oevre ever gets shown.
And if you thought the Russians and the Americans had the space lead listen to the extraordinary tale of BBC Radio 3 Picard in Space-Out of This Stratosphere an opera by Goldfrapp's Will Gregory. The music may not always be as distinguished as its subject, but what a great idea.

And the last week of MoMA's comprehensive Charles Burnett: The Power to Endure (April 6-25)

In collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image, the Fashion in Film Festival: Birds of Paradise is in full swing. The artist, photographer, and filmmaker Steven Arnold has an evening (Fri Ap 22) introduced by Stuart Comer from the Tate Modern, London with other rarely seen delights next weekend.
On Wed 20 Dirty Looks, a monthly platform for queer experimental film and video presents Michael Robinson / Jack Smith
This news story from liberal London's central West London Soho is rather disturbing
Gay rights protest at Soho pub that ejected two men kissing

Sean Landers' A Midnight Modern Conversation sounds just right for Marianne Boesky's uptown space from Ap 21 (coinciding with his show at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Alone Around the World, May 7th). His point of departure was Hogath's 1732 painting hanging in The Yale Center for British Art.

And Tribeca Film Fest is upon us again from Thursday- Fire in Babylon is the hitherto untold story of West Indian cricketeers. I haven't the foggiest notion about cricket but it's not only a fascinating doco but also funny. Loads of free events as well as those ticketed in the Festival. The Tribeca Drive-In outdoor screening series opens Thurs 21 (doors open 6pm for dusk start) with 1980 classic Fame. But if that's just too passe, Haiti’s most celebrated big band Septentrional performs live jazz fusion Friday night! The free Pen to Paper panels at Barnes & Nobel, Union Square and SVA Theater afternoon panels. Tribeca (Online) Film Festival features five free areas: Festival Streaming Room (6 features 18 short films) , Live From..., Tribeca Q&A, Filmmaker Feed, and the Future of Film blog. Six films will be released nationwide via pay for video-on-demand with subsequent theater roll out.

Now, as you might have gathered, for some reason Viva has become somewhat of a bat (a very clean lovable one, though. Don't smirk). But as luck may have it, she just happened to meet a fish who likes to be out of water. So: drum roll please- drrrrdrrrrdrrrrrrrdrrrr...............................
Cosmic Viva wishes to introduce the cosmos to the one, the only FISH JONES - the only pixel popping, digital diving, aquatic acqua-tinting snapper in the known H2O. I wanted to credit him as Vodka Fin but he just wouldn't have it. No way.

An he insisted on his own Flickr site (well he is only a fish, give 'im time to get fancy finned with the web). So for your delectation the Fish Jones openings over the weekend. He is very particular so can't go to everything but will do his best not to do too much smooching and mooching, consummate pro that he is.

Picasso and Marie-Thérèse
Melissa Murray and
Steven Dobbin at Causey Contemporary
Sarah Frost's Arsenal (P.P.O.W.)

Given his, umm, fishosity Mr. FISH does need a carer to accompany him. But Judy does try to keep a low profile - as does Mr. Fish as modesty is a must in the bowl called FISH.
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