1. There's a lot of art going on right now you need to checkout. First up, Brandon Herman has a show on -- My Vacation With A Kidnapper -- now through 04.19.08 at Envoy Gallery (131 Chrystie Street). "Brandon Herman's first solo show with envoy, concerns a childhood abduction fantasy that has haunted Herman and around which he has built a dark and playful body of work. The exhibition consists of large-scale photographs and a sculpture that are employed in an installation that examines the complex relationship between memory, fantasy and mainstream media." Don't miss it.

2. I love Dave Eggers, which isn't surprising. Everybody loves Dave Eggers. (He's the guy who started McSweeney's. If that looks like a foreign word, click here now.) What rocks about DE is that he's teamed up with Apex Art to curate a show called Lots Of Things Like This, which opens 04.02.08 and runs through 05.10.08. "This show will explore a very small and specific type of artmaking exemplified by contemporary people like David Shrigley, Raymond Pettibon, Nedko Solakov, and Tucker Nichols. This kind of art, which we refuse to name, is somewhat crude, usually irreverent, and always funny. It exists somewhere between one-panel cartoons and text-based art." Don't forget to checkout Wholphin (a quarterly DVD magazine), the online magazine The Believer and 826 Valencia, his writing program for underpriveleged kids. I suddenly feel like a slacker AND a loser. Thanks, Dave.

3. GenArt's annual Film Festival begins next Wednesday 04.02.08 with the premiere of Matthew Broderick's Diminished Capacity, starring Broderick, Alan Alda, and Virginia Madsen. "How much is a good memory worth? That's the question that newspaper editor Cooper must ask after a debilitating concussion takes him from the political pages to comic strip detail. Looking for answers, he travels home to Missouri where his now senile Uncle Rollie is on the verge of losing his home." Get tickets here for individual screenings or a pass for the full festival, which provides access to all seven premieres and parties, and access to the reserved seating section for all premieres. See the full roster of films and parties here. See you at the movies.

4. Self-Portraits 1966 - 2008 opens tonight from 6-8pm at James Fuentes gallery in Chinatown. The show features a killer mix of artists, including: Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Rita Ackermann, and one of my all time favorite David Wojnarowicz.