Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Elena Ab 185 Church St Third Annual Icons of Cinema and NYC  J. Carlos Pinto. Linus Coraggio, Elena Ab 6-9 rsvp http://abgallerytribeca.com/rsvp/ or 917.691.5647

e-flux 311 East Broadway conversation: What, How & for Whom Sanja Iveković, OKO, and Cecilia Vicuña 7:30

Reed Space 151 Orchard St fashion debut: Project Cobalt’s unisex clothing collection Jeff Staple, Parke & Ronen, and Liza Deyrmenjian, paired with young designers as their apprentices, the Accelerator Class.7

Con Artist Collective 119 Ludlow St Epic Epoch Group Show curated by Audrey Ryan 7-11

Monitor 195 Chrystie St #502B Danilo Correale, Tomaso De Luca, Walter Smith, Walter Sutin 6-8

Lisa Cooley 107 Norfolk St Mac McCaughan DJ set in celebration of Trudy Benson's upcoming solo exhibition with the gallery, Shapes of Things 9-midnight

Lynch Tham 175 Rivington St Carlo Ferraris I’m No Longer Obsessed with Winning 6-8
Swiss Institute 18 Wooster St panel: The Artist as Curator, Jennifer Chan, Josh Kline, and Leah Schrager, moderated by Elena Filipovic 7

Storefront for Art and Architecture 97 Kenmare St panel: Manifesto Series: .TEMP Architecture -- Buildings Without Consequences? Izaskun Chinchilla, Adam Frampton, Basar Girit, Jason Klimosky, Jing Liu, Ada Tolla, and Dong Ping Wong 7 free

Housing Works Bookstore Café 126 Crosby St PEN Awards Showcase and Party Katie Kitamura & Victor LaValle, with music by Michael Hearst of One Ring Zero 7 fee

Blu Dot 140 Wooster St book signing: Jason Grant Away at Home 6 
Strand Bookstore 828 Broadway talk and book launch: Chuck Close + Colin Westerbeck with Westerbeck’s Chuck Close: Photographer 7 $20 or purchase of book

New School Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Ave talk: Laylah Ali 7 free
Mark Lakin Photography 750 Greenwich St at W 11 Mark Lakin Icons 6-9 registration required rsvpicons@gmail.com

Canvas Home 123 W 17 NYC&G hosts Open House 6-8 nycgevents@cottagesgardens.cset

AMQ at NY Design Center 200 Lexington Ave Suite 1310 showroom open house 4-7

CUNY Graduate Center James Gallery 365 Fifth Ave Left Coast: California Political Art Andrew Schoultz, Precita Eyes Mural Collection, Futurefarmers, Judith F. Baca, Enrique Chagoya, Bruce Conner, Lari Pittman, and Martin Wong 6-8

NYPL South Auditorium Fifth Ave and 42nd St book celebration: Inquiries into Contemporary Sculpture: What about Power? (published by SculptureCenter and Black Dog Publishing, London). Co-editors Mary Ceruti and Ruba Katrib with contributors Malik Gaines, Candice Hopkins, and Margaret Lee 6-7 free

MoMA 11 W 53 discussion: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and the Legacy of Jim Crow: The Long History of the Artist’s Concerns Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Cornell Brooks 6:30 $15

Armory 643 Park Ave AIPAD Photography Show New York Press and VIP Preview: 3:30 p.m. to 5:00, Opening Night Preview Public Hours: 5:00 to 9:00 various amounts from $150

Hunter College West Rm 406 695 Park Ave book conversation: Leila Abdelrazaq on her graphic novel Baddawi 1

Acquavella 18 E 79 Jacob El Hanani Drawing; Off Canvas: Drawing from Matisse to Celmins Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andre Derain, Richard Diebenkorn, Jean Dubuffet, Lucian Freud, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, Manolo Millares, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist,, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, David Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Andy Warhol

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave discussion: Documenting Hip Hop from Three Angles Janette Beckman, Martha Cooper and Joe Conzo with curator Sean Corcoran on their exhibition Hip Hop Revolution 6:30 $15 up

Pratt Institute Myrtle Hall 200 Willoughby Ave talk: Claire Bishop The Digital Divide 12:45-1:45

Pratt Institute Auditorium 200 Willoughby Ave talk: Peter Saul 7:30-8:30

Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton St Ft Greene book launch: Ryan Chapman presents Conversation Sparks: Trivia Worth Talking About wine, writers' secrets, and the world's best small talk 7:30

Brooklyn Public Library Central Library Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza #76759 Featuring the House That Herman Built Jackie sumell and Herman Wallace 6-8