Interesting. Unusual. Uniquely NYC. Highlights of this week’s top events include Jia Aili: Combustion, Affordable Art Fair NYC, Recent Alien Abductions, and more. Get the NYC-ARTS Top Five in your inbox every Friday and follow @NYCARTS on Twitter to stay abreast of events as they happen.

Affordable Art Fair NYC
Metropolitan Pavilion
Manhattan
Thu, Mar 28, 2019 - Sun, Mar 31, 2019
“Affordable Art Fair NYC” returns to the Metropolitan Pavilion from March 28 – 31 for its Spring edition. It welcomes local, national and international exhibitors, showcasing original work from hundreds of contemporary artists. The diverse and carefully curated artworks on view range in price between $100 to $10,000. “Affordable Art Fair NYC” takes place twice a year: in March and September. Visitors can enjoy hands-on-workshops, kids activities and shopping.

Joyce Weinstein: Focus Show
Berry Campbell Gallery
Manhattan
Thu, Mar 21, 2019 - Sat, Apr 20, 2019
A prominent New York artist who has exhibited widely, Joyce Weinstein brings an abstract sensibility to landscape imagery. In depictions of rolling hills, mountains and distant views, the ever changing qualities of the sky, fields, woods and streams, old barns, haystacks, weeds and wild flowers, she conveys the essence of what she has seen and felt, making tangible and unique what is seemingly ambiguous. “Joyce Weinstein: Focus Show” is on view at Berry Campbell Gallery until April ...

Jia Aili: Combustion
Gagosian Gallery—West 21st Street
Manhattan
Thu, Mar 07, 2019 - Sat, Apr 13, 2019
A central figure in contemporary art in China, Jia Aili creates dynamic compositions that both emerge from and challenge art historical assumptions in the context of a rapidly changing world. “Jia Aili: Combustion” includes twenty-nine paintings from the past ten years, grouped into four sections that trace the evolution of Jia’s oeuvre. In his epic tableaux, which move between genre painting, portraiture, fantasy, and abstraction, he reflects on the dramatic modernization of society while probing the vulnerabilities ...

Joe Kye: Migrants
Flushing Town Hall
Queens
Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Award-winning musician Joe Kye will bring his unique blend of violin looping, electronics, singing, and storytelling in “Migrants”, which he will perform together with Chinese-American hip-hop artist Jason Chu, as a special guest, at Flushing Town Hall on March 29. The show tells the story of Joe’s life as an immigrant Asian-American, weaving together original music, humorous stories, and cutting-edge technology. A pre-show workshop on expressing cultural identity through sound will ask questions such as: what ...

Recent Alien Abductions
Play Company
Manhattan
Sun, Feb 24, 2019 - Sun, Mar 24, 2019
“Recent Alien Abductions” , written and directed by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, enters its last weekend run at The Play Company. The main character Álvaro is certain that an episode of “The X-Files,” which he had seen while growing up in Puerto Rico, has been mysteriously altered since its broadcast. But no one believes him. It is a darkly compelling tale about the dread of having no one to trust, also about how families and nations keep circling places that haunt them. “Recent ...
Affordable Art Fair NYC
125 West 18th Street
new york N.Y. 10011
“Affordable Art Fair NYC” returns to the Metropolitan Pavilion from March 28 – 31 for its Spring edition. It welcomes local, national and international exhibitors, showcasing original work from hundreds of contemporary artists. The diverse and carefully curated artworks on view range in price between $100 to $10,000. “Affordable Art Fair NYC” takes ...
Joyce Weinstein: Focus Show
530 W. 24th St.
new york NY 10011
2129242178
A prominent New York artist who has exhibited widely, Joyce Weinstein brings an abstract sensibility to landscape imagery. In depictions of rolling hills, mountains and distant views, the ever changing qualities of the sky, fields, woods and streams, old barns, haystacks, weeds and wild flowers, she conveys the essence of ...
Jia Aili: Combustion
522 West 21st Street
new york N.Y. 10011
212.741.1717
A central figure in contemporary art in China, Jia Aili creates dynamic compositions that both emerge from and challenge art historical assumptions in the context of a rapidly changing world. “Jia Aili: Combustion” includes twenty-nine paintings from the past ten years, grouped into four sections that trace the evolution of Jia’s oeuvre. ...
Joe Kye: Migrants
137-35 Northern Boulevard
queens N.Y. 11354
7184637700
Award-winning musician Joe Kye will bring his unique blend of violin looping, electronics, singing, and storytelling in “Migrants”, which he will perform together with Chinese-American hip-hop artist Jason Chu, as a special guest, at Flushing Town Hall on March 29. The show tells the story of Joe’s life as an immigrant ...