Art & Design Events, New York, Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Opening Receptions

The Artist’s Institute 163 Eldridge Pierre Huyghe 6-8 part of Art2 ART² : An International Festival of Contemporary Art

Soho Photo 15 White various group shows including WWII Veterans photographs 6-8

Fridman 287 Spring Jungjin Lee 6-8

Cooper Union Senior Theses shows 7 E 7 and 41 Cooper Square 6-8

Waterhoue & Dodd 958 Madison Kim Keever 6-8

Ouchi 170 Tillary St Brooklyn Taichi Nezu 7-10

Talks and Celebrations

Bluestockings 172 Allen book launch: Cara Hoffman’s Be Safe I Love You 7

New Museum at Cipriani 55 Wall Street Annual Spring Gala honoring Lynda Benglis and Annabelle Selldorf, with portrait commissions by Alex Katz and Takashi Murakami 6 $$

Leslie + Lohman Museum 26 Wooster St discussion: artists from Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Walls 6-9

New York Studio School 8 W 8 Talk: David Cohen: What to Wear For a Martyrdom: Fashion Tips for Executioners (From Late Quattrocento/Early Cinquecento Masters) 6:30 free

The New School Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Ave talk by Maria Hlavajova: In the Times of Interregnum 7-8:30

Co-Worker Projects at Entwine 765 Washington St video and animation by Jeremiah Teipen followed by discussion 7-10

SVA 136 W 21 2^nd Floor talk by Peter Biľak: Works That Work: Making Magazines Today 6:30 free

Aperture 547 W 27 Kira Pollack and Jonathan D. Woods in conversation: At the Top of the World: Photography Today 6:30 $5

Casa Lever 390 Park Ave NY Observer Redesign Party 7-9 by invitation

American Folk Art Museum 2 Lincoln Square talk: Gary Graham 6 free

NYU Institute of Fine Arts 1 E 78 Silberberg Lectures: Julia Bryan-Wilson: Zoo Mantras: Simone Forti in Rome 6 free, rsvp required

ISCP 1040 Metropolitan Ave Bushwick artists’ talk: Maria Rapicavoli, Soyoung Yoon A Cielo Aperto 6:30

BRIC 647 Fulton St The Stoop Series: Katabasis screening followed by discussion with videomaker Cooper Holoweski and architect David Gersten 7 free