A quick trip through ArtCal yields some neighborhood shows I'd like to hit up before closing time.

Structuring Perception at NURTUREart
475 Keap Street, Nov. 4, 2005 - Jan. 15, 2006
A group exhibition in which the artists translate their perception of the built environment into objects that have a physical impact on the viewer.

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga at Momenta Art
72 Berry Street, Dec. 9, 2005 - Jan. 23, 2006
Drawing from public text submissions to an online repository of personal perspectives on Nicaragua, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga constructs a revisionist history portraying the ebb and flow of Latin American Marxist revolution. At a time when the U.S. government considers possible flaws in its current interventionist strategies, and as South American socialist leaders challenge U.S. policy, the installation FALLOUT: What's Left collapses the past with the present in an attempt to rattle the U.S.'s media amnesia. The installation will feature propaganda posters commissioned for the installation from four designers: Isabel Chang, Enrique Sacasa, Ed Adams, and David Ulrich; a new video game by the artist "Always Go Left;" a mini FM public radio station, and free Skype sessions during the holiday season for migrants separated from family.

Cheryl Molnar, The Life and Death of a City at McCaig-Welles
129 Roebling Street, Suite B, Jan. 6 - Jan. 26, 2006
In her recent paintings and works on paper, Cheryl Molnar captures through the use of found materials the rapidly changing Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront and surrounding neighborhood. Her found materials include paper -- related mimeographed blueprints, engineering plans, and diagrams as well as documents from her own personal history --and cardboard collected from solitary walks that explore Brooklyn's few remaining industrial neighborhoods. Collaging and often staining these materials with oil paint, she documents her vision of Brooklyn's past, present and future urban landscape.

Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan at Pierogi 2000
177 North 9th Street, Dec. 31, 2005 - Jan. 31, 2006
Leon Dewan and Brian Dewan are Dewanatron -- a collaborative team who make hand-crafted, semi-automatic, electronic musical instruments. This exhibition will feature 12 wall-mounted, analog, solid-state instruments that produce occasional electronic utterances at ever-shifting intervals of time. Also included in the show are parlor and concert instruments such as the Swarmatron and the Dual Primate Console. Visitors will be able to play the Coin-Op Melody Gin, an arcade instrument in which 25 cents buys the customer a four-minute electronic music-making-odyssey with knobs and toggle switches.

Too Art for TV! at Stay Gold
451 Grand Street, Jan. 13 - Feb. 13, 2006
Artists in the industry must be the best draftsmen and painters that art schools produce, yet their careers leave little time for individual creativity. Too Art for TV! pools together the toys, prints, drawings, paintings, and comics of a talented workforce breaking free. Featuring the artists that bring to life beloved cartoons such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Fox Network), Code Name: Kids Next Door (Cartoon Network), Stanley (Disney TV), Venture Brothers (Adult Swim), Daria (MTV Animation), Blue's Clues (Nick JR), and more.

Superlowrez at Vertexlist
138 Bayard Street, between Graham and Manhattan, Dec. 17, 2005 - Mar. 14, 2006
Superlowrez is an experiment in re-visiting a historically significant moment when pixel and bitmap were in their infancy.