Contemporary jewelry design will be the focus tomorrow at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) for a series of demonstrations, lectures and panels.

Jewelry curator Ursula Ilse-Neuman will lead a tour of the GlassWear exhibit, along with artists Thomas Gentille, Linda MacNeil and Jiri Sibor from 2 pm to 3 pm.

Ilse-Neuman moderates a panel discussion from 3 pm to 4 pm with Robert Ebendorf, Daniella Kerner, Susan Kingsley of Ethical Metalsmiths and Robert Lee Morris.

The warm weather gods shined on last night’s Lower East Side gallery crawl, climaxing with Carter’s paintings at Salon 94’s Freemans Alley locale.

“And Within Area Although,” up until Oct. 24, showcases Carter’s sweeping wall-sized paintings which begin with digital photography. He then paints, draws and pastes, creating multi-layered images evoking art history, time passage and beauty.

Collage is also effectively used by Jacob Robichaux’s “Tacto” show at Museum 52 where he applies coarse and delicate materials to canvas and paper. Using potent color combinations and slashed Fontana-like canvases, he makes painted objects which verge on sculpture.

Job seekers interested in the assistant position recently advertised by the Chelsea FLAG Art Foundation–it’s probably too late.

The foundation received over 250 resumes two days after the job was advertised on the New York Foundation for the Arts website. (The ad here.)

The flood of responses indicates the depths to which job cuts at galleries and other arts related businesses have swelled the ranks of the unemployed.

The FLAG Art Foundation posted a job opening for a temporary assistant position. The job begins Oct. 1 and runs through January 2010, “with a possibility to extend.”

The FLAG, which had formerly been open mostly by appointment, will be open to the public for their upcoming show, “Floating a Boulder.” The show opens Oct. 1 and features Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Jim Hodges, organized by  Hodges.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Ackland Art Museum features a retrospective of the dazzling reclusive 73-year old collage artist Aldwyth. The artist lives near a South Carolina salt marsh where she assembles her large wall collages and intricate Joseph Cornell-esque cigar box vignettes.

Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art mounts “Picasso: The Allure of Language” which explores the artist’s relationships and power struggles with writers, including Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob and others. The show includes loans from Yale University’s Art Gallery and the Dallas, Texas Nasher Collection.

Last night arty youthful crowds caroused on Wooster and Grand Streets, piling into Deitch Projects’ season openers for Tauba Auerbach and Kehinde Wiley.

Wiley’s flower laden, art historically inspired portrait photographs, in editions of six, were tagged $5,000.

A stroll along the gallery-stocked West 22nd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues includes an encounter with a rhythmic row of trees planted beside rough-hewn stone plinths.

The twenty-three trees and basalt stone columns were erected as part of a Joseph Beuys art installation, backed by the Dia Art Foundation. The project was begun in 1988 when West Chelsea was a deserted industrial zone. Dia was located on the block.

The installation continued what Beuys had begun at the 1982 Documenta in Kassel, Germany. Titled 7000 Oaks, the installation involved planting 7000 trees alongside four-foot-high basalt stones throughout Kassel.

Beuys described his vision as one “to raise ecological consciousness” and as a “symbolic beginning.” He noted that as the trees grew, the stones’ size would remain static, creating ever-changing proportions.

In 1988 Dia planted five trees and columns at 548 West 22nd Street. In 1996 Dia planted an additional 18 trees and columns.

Since the opening of the wildly popular High Line park last month, Phillips‘ exhibition galleries now face one of the most appealing sections of the park creating an instant art billboard.

Phillips wasted no time commissioning sculptor Nils Folke Anderson who created an installation catering to the estimated 40,000 visitors who traverse the walkway on weekends.

Anderson’s geometric interlocking square frames, “After Before and After,” are on view from August 10 to Sept. 6.

Dasha Zhukova, the girlfriend of art collecting billionaire Roman Abramovich, enlisted Damien Hirst to design two covers for a British fashion magazine, Pop, according to an article in WWD.

The website features Hirst-like Pop logos wafting around the home page.

Zhukova, who owns a Moscow art gallery and a clothing line, is Pop’s editor-in-chief.

Hirst’s butterfly infused covers feature a spry 13-year-old fashion blogger. Ed Ruscha has also designed a limited edition hardback cover.

The New York Post’s Page Six recently reported that Zhukova is pregnant with Abramovich’s sixth offspring. He has five children with a former wife.

Art dealer Edward Nahem, who produced a inspirational documentary about a soulful African singer hosts an outdoor screening of the film, “Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love,” in Sagaponack on August 30th at 8 pm.

“Bring a blanket, a sweater, a chair, a friend,” says the invitation.

For more info contact: Kevin@etnahem.com

With the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Boston Globe is reporting that the famed Hyannis summer compound “will probably be turned over to a national nonprofit group, possibly to be opened up as a museum or retreat center.”

The property, purchased by Joseph Kennedy in the late 1920s, has been strongly identified with the family for generations.