Art & Design Events, New York, Monday, 20 April 2015

Housing Works Bookstore 126 Crosby St competition and readings: Electric Literature and Vol. 1 Brooklyn present The Game of Totes Camille Perri, Saeed Jones, Bev Rivero, and Dan Wilbur judge the best canvas totes 7
Galeria De La Familia The Supermarket 393 Broadway Jose Cuervo Launch Event: Turning Tequila Into Art 7-8:30 rsvp  danielle.katz@exposure.net

Bowery Arts & Sciences 308 Bowery Satellite Collective Telephone: An International Arts Experiment 6:30

Grey Art Gallery 100 Washington Square East Tseng Kwong Chi Performing for the Camera 6-8

NYU Leslie ELab 16 Washington Pl presentation and discussion: Ekene Ijeoma Drawing with Numbers 5:30
Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia St book launch: Barbara Rosenthal’s Wish for Amnesia: A Talk About A Family and Time and Art and Science, Religion, Philosophy, and Current Events 6 $8 includes a drink
Cooper Union School of Art Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square lecture: Paul Beatriz Preciado The Somatopolitical Revolution To Come 6:30 free
Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St Inaugural Dinner 7 strictly by invitation

Babycastles 137 W 14 launch party and Twine authors in conversation: Videogames for Humans curated and introduced by games theorist merritt kopas and curator of games review Forest Ambassador 7

MoMA 11 W 53 talk and screening: An Evening with Shezad Dawood 7

Madison Avenue Watch Week 5th Annual event various sites throughout the week http://www.madisonavenuewatchweek.com/

NYU Institute of Fine Arts 1 E 78 talks: Conservation Center presents Spotlight on New Talent: Amy Brost Digital Media in Art: Meaning, Materiality, Digital Forensics Workflows, and Conservation; Amy Hughes The James McNeill Whistler and Watercolor Project: Imaging the Artist's Materials and Techniques at the Freer and Sackler Galleries; Anna Serotta The Documentation, Analysis and Replication of Tool Marks on Ancient Stone Sculpture 5:30-7

New York Academy of Medicine 1216 Fifth Ave Museum of the City of New York presents symposium: Redefining Preservation for the 21st Century Vishaan Chakrabarti, Roberta Brandes Gratz, Michael Kimmelman, Steven Spinola, Robert A. M. Stern, moderated by Adele Chatfield-Taylor 5:30 $20 up

Cacao Market by Mariebelle 67 Guernsey St Greenpoint chocolate store preview 6 by invitation

Pratt Institute 200 Willoughby Ave Clinton Hill East Hall Gallery Reconstructed: Thesis Exhibition Melissa Alt,
Caroline Meixia Ding,
Alex Wake Rabjohns 5-8; Schafler Gallery Sculpture Section 1; Arc Bldg Take Something Leave Something David Yanosky, Angel L. Morales, Kathrine Katherine, Suzanne Phipps and Juliet Mckay 5-8
Pratt Institute DDA Gallery 536 Myrtle Ave Digital Arts M.F.A. Exhibition: Mindy Mosher, Kate Seheetantikul 5-8

Residency Unlimited 360 Court St Carroll Gardens curatorial project discussion: Claudio Zecchi Practices as an intersection in a Fragile Environment with panelists Todd Shalom, Alice Schÿler Mallet, Ayelet Danielle Aldouby and Alessandro Facente 6-8