(May. 15 12:30 AM) - Artist Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City, a large constellation of 16 interconnected modules composed specifically for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opens to the public today, May 15, 2012.

(May. 14 7:35 PM) - The Yale School of Art presents an exhibition of new work by Brazilian conceptualist and sculptor Jac Leirner, one of the leading figures in the generation of Latin American artists that emerged in the 1990s. Titled Hardware Seda - Hardware Silk, the exhibition comprises an ensemble of hanging, freestanding, and wall-mounted sculptures, as well as a group of polychrome wooden floor-pieces and a series of watercolors related to them.

(May. 14 5:04 PM) - The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer free admission on Friday, May 18, 2012 as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) Art Museum Day coinciding with International Museum Day, also on May 18. Additionally, the Frist Center will offer free admission to active duty military and veterans and their families on Saturday, May 19 in honor of Armed Forces Day.

(May. 14 1:04 PM) - Peak Performances has been rapidly making Montclair State University a major cultural destination, even for New Yorkers. Nine premieres including stunning, often startling, new music, dance and theater works by composers David T. Little, Laurie Anderson, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Toshi Reagon; choreographers Benjamin Millepied, Richard Alston, Vusi Mdoyi, Jasmin Vardimon; directors Robert Wilson and Romeo Castellucci are among the highlights of the 2012/13 Peak Performances season. Peak is where exceptions rule.

(May. 14 11:10 AM) - School of Visual Arts (SVA) announced the winners of its 23rd Annual Dusty Film & Animation Festival in an awards ceremony last night held at New York City’s SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street).

(May. 14 10:50 AM) - To coincide with the 20th anniversary celebrations for the Halifax-based Northern Broadsides Theatre Company, the renowned Dean Clough Galleries has devoted its premiere exhibition space to a large-scale photography show by the highly acclaimed photographer Nobby Clark. 'Northern Broadsides - 20 years- photography by Nobby Clark' will run in Dean Clough's Crossley gallery from 26 May-16 September.

(May. 14 8:20 AM) - Art Gallery Tours New York have announced a Lower East Side art gallery walking tour for Saturday, May 26 at 1:00 PM – rain or shine. The tour will meet at 196 Bowery near Spring St. and cost $20.

(May. 12 12:30 AM) - An "Extra Large" exhibition in Monaco, The Grimaldi Forum Monaco's summer exhibition runs from July 13 to September 9, 2012. Featuring large-scale works from the Pompidou Center's Collection, the exhibition showcases a cross-section from the collections of France's National Museum of Modern Art in a new light.

(May. 12 12:30 AM) - New exhibitions are popping up all over Long Island City at the LIC Arts Open. During the largest art festival in Queens, you’ll find spaces ranging from traditional studios to unconventional found locations as artists make the neighborhood their gallery from today May 12 through May 20.

(May. 11 7:30 PM) - Galerie Lelong Paris and New York will exhibit key works by masters of European modernism and international contemporary artists for ART HK 12. The booth will emphasize Lelong artists who have had a significant presence in the Asia-Pacific region such as Andy Goldsworthy, Rosemary Laing, Yoko Ono, Jaume Plensa, Sean Scully, and Antoni Tàpies. This is the third consecutive year Lelong will participate in ART HK.

(May. 11 7:26 PM) - Lehmann Maupin Gallery has announced its participation in ART HK 2012, 17-20 May 2012, Booth 1E04, where the gallery will exhibit work by Hernan Bas, Ashley Bickerton, Lee Bul, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernández, Shirazeh Houshiary, MR., Tony Oursler, Rei Sato, Do Ho Suh, Mickalene Thomas, Suling Wang, and Erwin Wurm.

(May. 11 6:33 PM) - Artist Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City, a large constellation of 16 interconnected modules composed specifically for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, will open to the public on May 15, 2012.

(May. 11 3:55 PM) - David Zwirne will participate in this year’s ART HK (booth 3A07), the gallery’s second consecutive year at the fair.

(May. 11 1:21 PM) - Park Avenue Armory will present Trisha Brown Dance Company’s reconstruction of ASTRAL CONVERTED, a groundbreaking work by choreographer Trisha Brown in collaboration with Robert Rauschenberg (visual and costume design) and John Cage (original music) July 10th – 14th, 2012. The piece will be presented in its entirety for the first time in 18 years in Park Avenue Armory’s soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall. The culminating work in Brown’s Valiant Series, ASTRAL CONVERTED premiered at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1991.

(May. 11 11:02 AM) - School of Visual Arts (SVA) announced the winners of its 23rd Annual Dusty Film & Animation Festival in an awards ceremony last night held at New York City’s SVA Theatre (333 West 23rd Street).

(May. 11 7:06 AM) - Invisible Dog presents Prune Nourry's HOLY RIVER from today, Saturday, May 12, with an opening reception from 6-10 pm. Prune has been an artist-in-residence at the Invisible Dog for the last year, and this exhibition is part of larger body of work first exhibited in India and Paris and bound for Switzerland next year.

(May. 11 12:30 AM) - In its 41st year, Learning Through Art (LTA), a pioneering arts education program of the Guggenheim Museum, presents A Year with Children 2012, an exhibition organized by the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim Museum and on view at the museum from today, May 11 to June 13, 2012. This annual exhibition showcases select artworks by students in grades two through six from eleven public schools who participated in LTA during the 2011–12 school year, representing New York City’s five boroughs. Approximately one hundred creative and imaginative works, including drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, paintings, assemblage, and outdoor site-specific art, will be on display during this five-week installation.

(May. 11 12:30 AM) - MFI Art Company Inc., Michael Ingbar Gallery, and Soho Picture Framing announce a collaborative show, "Corporate Bankruptcy-Abandoned Art," a timely exhibit about how the failure of major corporate clients due to the worldwide economic "Great Recession" has directly affected these three small businesses and the art world in general.