Photo from The 2007 Armory Show, credit: David Willems

Stuck in New York, bombarded by drunk text messages from Miami–what’s a party goer to do? Well, not to fear, WMC may have sucked a good number of the city’s DJs, promoters and speaker huggers down to South Beach this week–but there’s still plenty going on.

In fact, maybe you should give your ears a rest and check out the art fairs happening all over the city. You’ll likely catch me at the Carl Berg booth of the LA Art Fair to check out a couple pieces by my pal, the talented Francis Ireifej (he makes his pieces using lasers n sh*t–I’m serious).

If you still need a bit of music on the itinerary, check out some modern dance infused with traditional Japanese performance art by the Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company

As previously mentioned here on Trash Menagerie, Todos Santos is playing tonight at Savalas. They’ll do their live set in the earlier part of the evening, followed by DJ sets all night long.

Saturday night’s alright for scoring free wine at the Williamsburg Armory After Hours Celebration–where the streets of Williamsburg become flooded with art goers and alcohol as both flow in and out of the galleries in the neighborhood until 11pm.

After that, theDanger and friends will be throwing an afterparty at Supreme Trading. They’ll have some art-party elements you might come to expect–e.g., trapeze artists and stilt-walkers. But they’re throwing in an extra something for you music nerds with Vintage DJ (pictured above). The guy uses old record players as turntables, and plays a swell mix of classic funk, soul and rock n roll to boot!

If you can’t make it out to Williamsburg on Saturday, Passerby in Chelsea is worth checking out. Like all great, unpretentious bars in the city, it’s closing down to make room for some real estate development. According to NYHappenings, they’re opening up the back room and Rub n Tug will be DJing.