Art & Design Events, New York, Thursday, 21 December 2017

Lichtundfire 175 Rivington St mixer and artists reception: Past as Prologue  or the Effects of Modernism on Contemporary Art Greg Brown, Koki Doktori, Augustus Goertz, Don Keene, Mark Kurdziel, D Dominick Lombardi, Alan Steele, Scott Wixon, Gerald Wolfe, and Adja Yunkers 6-8:30

New Museum 235 Bowery performance behind the glass of the Museum’s Lobby window: Justin Vivian Bond My Model | My Self: I’ll Stand By You “public meditation ‘modeling’ under a spotlight, staring blankly into the middle distance, as an homage to Karen Graham”; part of  Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon 3

frosch & portmann 53 Stanton St Glühwein Cheer in conjunction with exhibition KRAAAM Dennis Dawson, Tyler Hildebrand, Eva Lake, Paul Loughney, Fritz Sauter, and Robert Yoder 6-8

June Kelly 166 Mercer St exhibition: 30th Anniversary: Drawings and Photographs  6-8

Downtown Art 70 E 4 party: Light Up the Dark! - A Winter Solstice Celebration food, drink, and good cheer from Downtown Art and FABnyc 6:30-9:30 free, reservation Eventbrite

NYU Abu Dhabi 19 Washington Square North 1st Fl exhibition: Auden Alblooshi Please Don't Put Me Back Together 5:30

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St performance: Sibyl Kempson 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens: Winter Solstice 10:30-6 museum admission

EAI 535 W 22 5th Fl screening: House in the Fields (Tala Hadid, dir.); in conjuction with Adam Putnam's exhibition Portholes 7 reservation tmaxin@eai.org

NoHo-M55 530 W 25 Textile Study Group of New York exhibition: Red 4-7

Nancy Hoffman 520 W 27 Winter Solstice guided meditation; in conjunction with Katerina Lanfranco’s Mystic Geometry 5

Ceres 547 W 27 exhibition: exposure 2017: Week 4 Susan Carnahan, Kevin Garcia, Suzi Jellinek, Kenol Lamour, Yelena Lezhen, Vernon McAuley, Barbara Starishevsky, Stelios Stylianou, Damon Tommolino, Elizabeth Velazquez 6-8

Atlantic 548 W 28 Atlantic Gallery Member Artists Present Tense Sally Brody, Phyllis Chillingworth, Alison Horvitz, Jeff Miller, Roni Sherman Ramos, Melissa Rubin, Carol Taylor-Kearney, Max Tzinman, Joan Walton 5:30-8:30

Chashama 485 Madison Ave exhibition: Madeleine Schachter Glittering Horizons 6-8

Instituto Cervantes 211 E 49 exhibition: Maria Lago A Retrospective 7 free, bec2cultny@cervantes.org 

Outpost 1655 Norman Ave Ridgewood screening, performance, and panel: Distributed Presence crated by Samantha CC; participants: Jerome Austin Bwire, Alima Jennings, Miko Revereza, Ololade Adeniyi, and Alison Nguyen screenings 7-8:30, panel 8:30-10

Bailey Fountain Grand Army Plaza Prospect Heights interactive ceremony: Donna Henes 43rd Annual Winter Solstice Celebration, a ceremony in two parts Part II: Event Begins 11am; Solstice Moment: Lighting the Fire at the Solstice Hour Bringing back the light. Re-igniting the fire in our hearts. Owning it. Pledging it. Manifesting it. Being it. 11:28am

nu hotel 85 Smith St Boerum Hill Welancora Gallery presents exhibition opening reception and book signing: Audrey Anastasi Brooklyn Birches 6-9