MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL

Celebrate Mother’s Day with some of the most colorful and influential women of the 19th and early 20th century who are buried at the  Green-Wood Cemetery Fifth Avenue and 25th Street . (718) 768-7300

FILM

Please Give, Babies, and Exit Through the Gift Shop at BAM.

Screening of 59 videos, all 59 seconds each at the SPECTRE Gallery • 287 Third Ave. between President and Carroll streets. Wednesdays – Sundays, Noon–6 pm through Saturday, May 15.

ART

BWAC In Red Hook presents Nailed: More than 1200 paintings, drawings, photographs, mixed media and sculptures by 250 artists are on exhibit and up for sale. 1–6 pm.

The Muriel Guepin Gallery at 47 Bergen Street in Cobble Hill has q show or paintings that will be open through May 31st.  “Looking In,” features paintings and mixed media works by Pauline Galiana, Hovey Brock, and Robert Szot. Hovey Brock’s paintings (one is pictured above) are composed of many layers of transparent washes of intense colors. His goal is for viewers to release the habits that govern the way they look, and to get “lost” in his paintings.

EVENTS

BKLYN Designs, an annual exposition of the finest Brooklyn-based furnishing designers. 10 am–5 pm, in Dumbo

MUSIC

Sunday, March 9th at 7PM, Barbès and the Concert Artist Guild present a classical music concert featuring some of the best new talent in the classical world. This month: THE AFIARA STRING QUARTET. The all-Canadian Quartet (Valerie Li and Yuri Cho, violins; David Samuel, viola; and Adrian Fung, cello) is the graduate resident string quartet at The Juilliard School in New York, where they serve as teaching assistants to the celebrated Juilliard String Quartet.