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Gallery Openings in New York City (NYC, NY, Manhattan)

It is almost impossible to list all the exhibition openings that take place in New York City galleries. There are so many galleries, and so little time! Here is a good sampling to start with.

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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Tue, Sep 7 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Photography: William George Wadman's Drabble New York City, NY; NYC
Tue, Sep 7 6:30PM	Opening Reception free	Public Art: Demetrius Oliver's Jupiter New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 9 5:30PM to 7:30PM	Opening Reception free	Photography: Jessica Backhaus' I Wanted to See the World New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 9 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Collage & Video: Works by Hollis Hildebrand-Mills New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 9 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Landscapes of the Light, 2 Norwegian Painters New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 9 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Traditional Japanese Art: Masako Inkyo's ShinRaBanSho New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 5:00PM to 7:00PM	Opening Reception free	Installation: Bernard Klevickas' Baroque Bike Rack New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Paintings: Mark Mulroney's Really Creative Pictures New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Video Sculpture: Pipilotti Rist's Heroes of Birth New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Premature: New Works by Jennifer Steinkamp New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Installation: Sandow Birk's American Qur'an New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Sculpture: Sean Raspet's As If Written In New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Video & Painting: Alex Hubbard's Death Never Sleeps New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Sculpture and Works on Paper by Eric Fertman New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	2 Exhibitions: Gerhard Richter's Lines which do not exist / Claudia Wieser's Poems of the Right Angle New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	You Can't Get There from Here, a Show of 4 Contemporary Photographers New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Photography: Derek Henderson's Mercy Mercer New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Painting & Mixed Media: Gary Brent Hilsen's Feminine Wiles New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 10 6:00PM to 9:00PM	Opening Reception free	2 Exhibitions: Hebru Brantley's Wait a Cotton Picking Minute / Christophe Roberts' Journey of a Thousand Eyes New York City, NY; NYC
Sat, Sep 11 4:00PM to 6:00PM	Opening Reception free	David Kapp's Recent Paintings / Tom Burckhardt 's 157 Elements of a Painting New York City, NY; NYC
Sat, Sep 11 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Photographs: Danh Vo's Autoerotic Asphyxiation New York City, NY; NYC
Sun, Sep 12 2:00PM to 6:00PM	Opening Reception free	2010 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition New York City, NY; NYC
Mon, Sep 13 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Valetudo: Art and Healing in Provence, Works by Psychiatric Patients New York City, NY; NYC
Tue, Sep 14 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Exhibition: Appetite: A Reciprocal Relationship between Food & Design New York City, NY; NYC
Tue, Sep 14 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Seascape Paintings: Adam Straus' Air or Water or: Everything's Fine Until It's Not New York City, NY; NYC
Wed, Sep 15 5:00PM to 7:00PM	Opening Reception Free; reservations required	America's First IPO, an Exhibition on the Bank of North America New York City, NY; NYC
Wed, Sep 15 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Group Show: Max's Kansas City New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 16 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Where Is My Vote?: Posters for the Green Movement in Iran New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 16 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Photography: Paul Strand in Mexico New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 16 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Prints by An-My Lê New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 16 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Photography: Adam Fuss' Home and the World New York City, NY; NYC
Fri, Sep 17 5:00PM to 7:00PM	Opening Reception free	Work by German Artist Marden Smith New York City, NY; NYC
Tue, Sep 21 6:00PM to 9:00PM	Opening Reception free	Show of Brooklyn Artists: 2010 Next Wave Art New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Sep 23 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Group Exhibiition: Short-Term Deviation New York City, NY; NYC
Tue, Sep 28 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception Free; RSVP requested	Student Exhibition: The Book Show New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Oct 14 6:00PM to 8:00PM	Opening Reception free	Bo Bartlett's Paintings of Home New York City, NY; NYC