READING: If topics like space exploration and underwater archeology get your pulse racing, stop into McNally Robinson tonight when Explorers Club Fellow Jason Schoonover celebrates the publication of his new book Adventurous Dreams, Adventurous Lives. Astronauts, scientists, and adventurers are among the 120 extraordinary individuals whose inspiring tales are chronicled in the volume. – Celeste Sunderland Friday // 7:00 p.m. // McNally Robinson [52 Prince St.] // Free EVENT: When The Voluptuous Horror of......

Will 2008 be the year frustrated artists stop whining about the Whitney Biennial for being too cliquey, too scattershot, too short on women, minorities, and criminally overlooked artists like the ones doing all the griping? Hardly, but this year’s themeless Biennial, which opened last night, goes a long way toward appeasing the disgruntled hipster artist crowd with a big, rowdy slate of installations and events at the Park Avenue Armory through March 26th. Curators Shamim......