Starting today, catch three films by Shigeko Kubota that will indulge your love of Marcel Duchamp, your wanderlust and the anthropologist in your heart. These early videos—Marcel Duchamp and John Cage (1972), Europe on 1/2 Inch a Day (1972), and Video Girls and Video Songs for Navajo Sky (1973)—are being presented by Electronic Arts Intermix at X Initiative through October 17. They run the gamut from a documentary elegy of an infamous chess match between famous artists, to a self-guided tour of the arts undergrounds of Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris, to a diarylike record of Kubota’s time living on a Navajo reservation. Each running approximately 30 minutes, the films are presented in a loop during X Initiative’s open hours: Wed–Sun 11am–6pm.—Emily Bauman

courtesy of Casey Kelbaugh

Tonight, renegade rooftop theaters will show art on the silver screen. That’s right—we’re heading out to spot guys like Marcel Duchamp and Pete Souza (Obama’s White House photojournalist) on film. The potluck dinner is just an added bonus.

Electronic Arts Intermix is hosting a free outdoor video screening on the roof of the X Initiative building on West 22nd Street. Talk Show, which will take place at 9pm, is Tony Oursler’s compilation of interviews with a hodgepodge of interesting artists. The film showcases group and individual interviews mixed with firsthand accounts to guarantee some pretty fascinating storytelling from these free spirits. Clips include Chris Burden’s “Big Wrench“—an onscreen confession about the fate of his truck—and Russell Connor’s 1964 interview with iconic Dadaist Marcel Duchamp.

Reinventing the dying art form—the slide show—Slideluck Potshow will hold its 13th New York viewing from 6:30 to 11:30pm at Canoe Studios on West 26th Street. Join hundreds of New Yorkers who come with casseroles and merlot to share their favorite recipes and watch a 90-minute slide show of art. Slideluck Potshow XIII is themed “NOW,” meaning the images of painting, sculpture, installation art, and photography relate to today’s politics, pop culture, and technology. With hundreds of submissions, the creator, Casey Kelbaugh, sought diversity—which ranges from White House photojournalist Pete Souza’s snapshots of Obama to a series of images captured on an iPhone.

There is a suggested donation, and attendees are strongly encouraged to become members of the series ($20 for one year). More importantly, unlike your aunt’s epic slide show of her trip to Dublin, Slideluck Potshow is a participatory event—everyone must bring a dish to share. And don’t forget the wine.—Helene Eisenstein

It all fit together in a bizarrely kinetic way for a screening: blacked-out windows, a film shot in Gent, Belgium, Japanese beer and a live soundtrack booming prerecorded sounds from four speakers. Presented by X-Initiative, Luke Fowler and Lee Patterson’s 16mm film, 565685981→565615566 Draw a Straight Line and Follow It, was not a passive viewing experience. This  two-day walk down a straight road in Belgium, ultimately whittled down to a 27-minute excerpt, kept us contemplating every shot of nature, trash, or streetcar along the way.

Inspired by La Monte Young’s 1960 Composition #10 draw a straight line and follow it, Patterson and Fowler stuck to a straight path in Gent through urban areas and rural lakes. This was a no-doubt poetic glance at the objects they encountered along their path, enhancing the audio by pairing the shot with a sound clip of the object in motion. The element of sound in the performance called more attention to a pinecone being crushed or streetcar moving than the artists’ linear path.

Like many other conceptual-art exhibitions and encounters in the X-building on 22nd Street, this audio-visual performance pushed the boundaries of how to use gallery space.—Helene Eisenstein

For some rooftop pleasure tonight, try Nick Paparone and Jamie Dillon’s performance at X, Regular Tripping, which is based on urban folklore about the guy who ate too much acid and thought he was a glass of orange juice. Get this: As the story goes, if he were to spill he would die. Talk about a legend in your own mind. Aren’t you curious to know what happens next?

P.S.1’s Warm Up series starts this weekend too, on Sunday, in celebration of the winners of the Young Architects Program.

So we expect to see you out there, somewhere…—Team Art

You’ve made your requisite offerings to the sun gods and it finally stopped raining. So what are you going to do this weekend? We suggest you grab a unicycle/scooter/piggyback and head to any number of excellent art events that are happening all over town.

While it’s not outdoors, start the weekend off right with AMP, a music and performance series presented by Amanda Simms Hunt and Rashaad Newsome at Rush Arts Gallery. This one-night-only performance starts at 7pm on Friday and engages all sorts of experimental noise-making techniques, from comb-playing by Kenya Robinson to a piece by Moritz Wettstein that mixes in calls he receives on his cell phone in real time into the electronic music he’ll be making on site.

X-Initiative’s No Soul for Sale extends through the 29th and is on view 1–9pm daily; check our recent post for details. Don’t forget to lounge around on the roof.

Socrates Sculpture Park is hosting a three-day open-air marketplace, Makers Market, which features fine arts and crafts. Check here for dates and times.

And last but certainly not least, let’s not forget our friends over at Creative Time, who have worked so hard to bring us “This World & Nearer Ones,” a massive outdoor exhibit on Governors Island by more than a dozen young talents.—T.J. Carlin

Would you ever expect to lounge on a bed of pool noodles, grab free drinks in a moving freight-elevator-turned-bar and dance to a strobe light inside a larger-than life garbage bag, all in the middle of Chelsea? No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents has culled these elements from all over the world—from Brooklyn to Tel Aviv to Reykjavík. Read more »

If you’ve been meaning to soak up the erudite rays of X initiative, a new project space spearheaded by gallerist Elizabeth Dee, pop around tomorrow night for a discussion with contemporary philosopher Sylvère Lotringer and a screening by artist Mika Tajima.

For a slightly more interactive experience, get thee down to the Lower East Side on Saturday night, where the online arts journal The Highlights will be hosting a party and exhibition to celebrate their second birthday and the launch of their latest issue. Peep the flyer above. Festivities start at 10pm at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center Inc.

Brooklynite Gallery will open a new show of street artists Miss Bugs and Joe Black, who have already hit the city up; see below for an image of a work near the gallery on Malcolm X Blvd by Joe Black. The opening will be Sat 4 starting at 6pm.

Finally, if you happen to be walking through Times Square this weekend, don’t forget to look up as you cross Broadway. In conjunction with Creative Time, painter Marilyn Minter will present a video trailer for her upcoming show at Salon 94 on the MTV screen hanging between 44th and 45th Sts. -T.J. Carlin