Along with New York's regularly scheduled gallery and museum openings, there's always a slew of art-related events happening in the city just below the radar. ArtWeLove's weekly events digest helps you navigate the art scene's offerings, on and off the beaten track.

Monday: HEAR AN ARCHITECT DISCUSS A MORALLY COMPLEX PROJECT

For years architect Steven Holl has worked just out of the limelight, taking on projects most starchitects would spurn and turning out poetic, resonant buildings--among them the ethereal Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and the Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki. Begin the week at Scandinavia House to hear Holl discuss his latest project, the Knut Hamsun Centre in Hamarøy, Norway. Built to memorialize one of the 20th century's most controversial novelists--winner of the Nobel Prize for stark, realist books like Hunger, Hamsun was such a fervent Nazi supporter that he gave his medal to Joseph Goebbels--the fortress-like building is meant to embody both the author's sensibility and the intractable problem his legacy presents to his home country. At 58 Park Avenue. Hours: 6:30 p.m. Admission: $10.

TUESDAY: CAPTURE A FLEETING ART FORM AT THE KITCHEN

A longstanding quandary in performance art has been how--and, in some cases, whether--to preserve records of live, time-based pieces. To explore different strategies for attacking this question, come to the Kitchen for "One Minute More," a group exhibition of performance-based video, sculpture, and photography that attempts to capture aspects of the transitory medium, from issues of stamina to the risk involved. Artists in the show include Kate Gilmore, Jamie Isenstein, Oliver Lutz, Clifford Owens, Georgia Sagri, Josh Tonsfeldt, and Aki Sasamoto. Hours: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., with a performance by Sasamoto at 7 p.m. Admission: Free, but limited capacity so get there early.

WEDNESDAY: TAKE A DREAMLIKE LOOK AT A LONG-AGO CRIME

Elusive, contemplative, and effortlessly otherworldly, Eija-Liisa Ahtila is the kind of artist that Finland seems to produce as naturally as birch trees. Discover her influential video work this Wednesday when MoMA screens "Where is Where?" (2009), the artist's first feature-length piece. A meditation on the real-life murder of a French boy by two young Arabs during the French-Algerian war, the movie is filmed in split-screen format, with a reenactment of the crime juxtaposed with footage of Ahtila discussing it with a Bergmanesque Grim Reaper at her Finnish summer home. Hours: 4 p.m. Admission: $10, or free with $20 museum ticket.

THURSDAY: DISCOVER THE RARE FILMS OF ROBERT MORRIS

Artist and art theorist Robert Morris is best known for the arch-Minimalist felt sculptures that today are a staple of serious art collections, but the experimental films he has been making since the early 1960s have received much less consideration. To redress the oversight, Hunter College Art Galleries are presenting a survey of 12 films in which Morris--an art professor at the school--probes the same conceptual issues that have driven his sculptural work, with the added dynamism of performance and dance. Come to the opening this Thursday and learn about a largely unexamined side of the celebrated artist. At 450 W 41 street. Hours: 6 p.m. Admission: Free, but RSVP to spevents@hunter.cuny.edu.

FRIDAY: MAP THE TRANSITION OF THE BRONX'S ART SCENE

How much impact does the character of a neighborhood have on its artists? Once notorious as a disaffected landscape of seemingly blitzed buildings, the Bronx has changed dramatically over the last three decades--a period of transition in which the borough's art scene has evolved in significant ways. This Friday, come to the School of Visual Arts for "Past Dreams and Future Visions: The South Bronx Art Scene in the 21st Century," a discussion about how urban reclamation and the influx of new businesses and developers have affected art made in the Bronx. Panelists will include artists John Ahearn, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and Tim Robbins, as well as Bronx Museum director Holly Block, and Alfred University School of Art and Design dean Joe Lewis. At 209 East 23 Street. Hours: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. Admission: $7.

SATURDAY: PUT THE HORROR IN HORTICULTURE

Following up Mary Reid Kelley's captivatingly macabre video show "Sadie the Saddest Sadist," Fredericks & Freiser is presenting a new series of work by artist and musician John Lurie with the similarly dark title "The Skeleton In My Closet Has Moved Back Out To The Garden." A painter of childlike canvases imbued with an atmospheric psychological edge, Lurie may not disturb as strikingly as the "Sadie" show, but expect the aftereffects to linger. At 536 West 24th Street. Hours: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Admission: Free.

SUNDAY: SIT BACK AND GET COMFORTABLE

Not yet sated by the plethora of art events this fall? Test your cultural endurance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this Sunday with Robert Lepage's "Lipsynch," an eight-and-a-half-hour theatrical epic that combines avant-garde staging with lavish, elaborate sets and lyric delivery along the entire spectrum of vocal intonation. Telling the story of nine interconnected lives that travels from WWII-era Vienna to Nicaragua and London, the boundary-blurring work will be something you can brag about seeing to your most lead-bottomed friends. The all-day event will feature a gourmet dinner. At the BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Hours: 1 p.m. Admission: $45.