Art & Design Events, New York, Tuesday, 20 June 2017

River To River 2017 Night at the Museums 16 distinctive museums and cultural institutions in Lower Manhattan: African Burial Ground National Monument, China Institute, Federal Hall National Memorial, Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Lower Manhattan Tours, Museum of American Finance, Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Archives at New York City, National Museum of the American Indian—Smithsonian Institution, National September 11 Memorial Museum, 9/11 Tribute Center, NYC Municipal Archives, Poets House, The Skyscraper Museum, South Street Seaport Museum 4-8 free, reservations required

Helena Anrather 28 Elizabeth St talk: Jonathan Guyer Mad Cartoonists of Cairo 7

Pirch 200 Lafayette St design launch: Pirch & Oceanside Glass & Tile present: Summer Solctice 2017, presentation of Oceanside’s New Architecture & Design Group featuring ceramic, cement, metal, porcelain, stone 6:30-8:30 by invitation to the trade, rsvp Eventbrite

Staley-Wise 100 Crosby St exhibition: Women Seeing Women: An exhibition celebrating women photographers Eve Arnold, Olivia Arthur, Lillian Bassman, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Bieke Depoorter, Carolyn Drake, Martine Franck, Toni Frissell, Sheva Fruitman, Isabella Ginanneschi, Pamela Hanson, Ruth Harriet Louise, Diana Markosian, Susan Meiselas, Sheila Metzner, Inge Morath, Genevieve Naylor, Priscilla Rattazzi, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Marilyn Silverstone, Newsha Tavakolian, Deborah Turbeville, Ellen Von Unwerth, presented with Magnum Photos 6-8

Historic Plaque Unveiling 27 Cooper Square GVSHP and partners Two Boots: tenth historic plaque unveiling of building once home to LeRoi and Hettie Jones, their Yugen magazine and Totem Press, musician Archie Shepp, and painter Elizabeth Murray; speakers including Hetiie Jones, who still lives in the building 6

The Anthony Bar 183 Bleecker St artwork, jewelry, dance, and music: Artistic Misfits Juliette Jday, Alisa Bukhvalova, Courtney Magyar, Anastasia Zima, Shei Phan, Mackenzie Spindler, Brana Dane, Alexandra Turkmen, Karmay Ngaio, Aurora Xylia, Yulia Popova, jewerly by Aschei dance by Lindsey L. Miller, music by: DJ Bobby Blaze; curated by Eddy Bogaert 5:30

Diane von Furstenberg 440 W 14 conversation and shopping party: LastFirst; Emily Holmes Hahn with Diane Von Furstenberg 6 by invitation

SVA 335 W 16 MFA Art Practice presents Practice Lecture Series: Martha Rosler 12:30-2 free

National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South Trask Gallery exhibition: Divertissements: From Anna Pavlova to Svetlana Zakharova,- Stars of Russian ballet TASS photographs; part of the 15th Annual Russian Heritage Month®, presented by the Russian American Foundation in collaboration with the New York Post 6-8 reservation necessary

Flowers 529 W 20 New York Academy of Art Annual Summer Exhibition selected by Matthew Flowers, Andrew Russeth, and Joyce Varvatos 6-8

St-Petersburg Global Trade House 261 5th Ave book signing: L.B. O'Milla Adventures of Little Yaga and Her Friends (Goodreads) 6:30-8:30

Scandinavia House 58 Park Ave lecture: Janet Rauscher Independent Paths: Finnish Women Artists, National Romanticism, and Early Modernism 7 free

New York Public Library 476 Fifth Ave LIVE from the NYPL conversation: Passion Projects Lee Friedlander with Giancarlo T. Roma 7 $40
Gallery MC 549 W 52 exhibition: A Montage of Identities artists from Korea, United States, Macedonia, Serbia and Japan 5-8

Opera 791 Madison Ave exhibition: Fernando Botero & Antonio Seguí 6-8:30 by invitation

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave conversation: Jillian Mayer and Carrie Goldberg, moderated by Nancy Spector, on the phenomenon of online sexual harassment; part of series Summer of Know, co-organized by Nancy Spector and Brian Tate 6:30-8:30

Arts & Crafts Beer Parlor SoHa 1135 Amsterdam Ave art exhibition: Erica Corso 6

Elizabeth Dee 2033/2037 Fifth Ave exhibition: Betty Blayton curated by Souleo 6-8

Joyce Kilmer Park 161st St entrance Bronx Public Art Opening: Flying High for Equality Patricia Cazorla and Nancy Saleme press launch 10-noon

ISCP 1040 Metropolitan Ave Bushwick salon: Elli Kuruş and Gian Maria Tosatti 6:30-8 free

Stuido 10 56 Bogart St reading and discussion: Walk and Chew Gum: Artists Who Make Books Beverly Acha, Munro Galloway, Branden Koch, Pat Palermo, and Amy Sillman 6-8

Black Ball Projects 374 Bedford Ave Williamsburg exhibition: Wax by the Edge of the Sun Gregory Carideo, Karolyn Hatton, Chason Matthams, Matt Quinn, Mono Schwarz-Kogelnik, Sarah Trigg, Brian Wondergem 6-9