Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 19 February 2020

BMCC Shirley Fiterman Art Center 81 Barclay St opening: Group Dynamic: BMCC Art Faculty Show 5-7

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St talk: Conversation with the Critics: Melissa Smith, Laura van Straaten, and Nico Wheadon 6:30 free

Hunter MFA 205 Hudson St Flexspace MFASO lecture: Aura Rosenberg 7-9

The Drawing Center 35 Wooster St opening: Curtis Talwst Santiago Can't I Alter; Guo Fengyi To See from a Distance 6-8

Nathalie Karg 291 Grand St opeining: Heidi Hahn Folded Venus / Pomaded Sweater 6-8

McNally Jackson Books 52 Prince St book discussion: Joseph Jarman’s Volume I & II: Return From Exile (Blank Forms Editions and After: Still); discussion of republication with Brent Hayes Edwards and Adam Shatz 7

New Museum 235 Bowery exhibition: Jordan Casteel Within Reach Note: A fine introduction to this young artist (born 1989) who teaches at Rutgers University Newark

Lichtundfire 175 Rivington St opening: Suspended Universe Doliah Francis, Augustus Goertz, Matthew Langley, Miguel Otero Fuentes and Gerald Wolfe 5:30-8:30

AIA New York Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place popdcast recording: Gene Kohn: Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen 6-8 $20

NYU Steinhardt 34 Stuyvesant St opening: Carry On curated by ‘other content’ 5-7

New York Studio School 8 W 8 lecture: Sarah Peters On Her Work 6:30 free

NYU Steinhardt 34 Stuyvesant St Commons Gallery opening: Carry On curated by ‘other content’, the VAA MA program curatorial collective 5-7

TNC Gallery 155 1st Ave exhibition event: Decadence, a Decade of Art Fairs curated by Marcus Glitteris 5:30-8:30

New School Starr Foundation Hall Rm UL102 65 5th Ave Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Jon Rubin 7-9

La Nacional 239 W 14 book celebration: Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding die cut prints by Lita Cabellut, essays by Antoni Vila Casas, Robert C.  Morgan, Francisco Carpio (Artika) 

AHL Foundation 420 W 23 AHL Foundation 2020 Public Lecture #1: Lee Ihnbum and Rhee Jieun Searching for Korean Contemporary Art within the Global Art Scene reservation info@ahlfoundation.org 

SL Gallery 335 W 38 Artist Talk: Cate Woodruff, in conjunction with her exhibition  Light Minded  6-8

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave exhibition: Countryside, The Future AMO/Rem Koolhaas press 10-1, members receptions

Elisa Contemporary Art 5622 Mosholu Ave Riverdale exhibition: Female Abstractionists Rose Umerlik, Kimber Berry, and  Stephanie Cate 

Flux Factory 39-31 29th St Long Island City video and installation works opening: After You Carlos David TC + Cameron A Granger 7
New York Foundation for the Arts 20 Jay St #704 Dumbo opening: The Other 80 Hours: 8 A NYFA Staff Show curated by Zahra Banyamerian & Gabriella Calandro 6=9 reservation curatorial@nyfa.org 

A.I.R. 155 Plymouth St Dumbo discussion: Curatorial Meet-up Assembly Room curators Natasha Becker, Paola Gallio, and Yulia Topchiy on the exhibition Forever Is Composed of Nows 6:30-8:30 free

Pratt Institute 200 Willoughby Ave Myrtle Hall  Room 4E-3 Digital Arts Lecture Series: Ben Vickers 12:45-1:45 free; Main Building 2nd Fl Nancy Ross Project Space show: Three Generations of Printmaking: Printmakers and Their Students John Bartlet,  Drue Schwartz, and  Schwartz’ kindergarten students from East Elmhurst Community School 4-6

Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Ave Fort Greene panel: Visually Represented: Redefining “Hero” in 21st Century Comics comic book creators, Vita Ayala (Livewire), Robin Ha (Almost American Girl), and Khary Randolph (Excellence, Black), moderated by Joseph Illidge 7 $10 

BRIC 647 Fulton St Fort Greene opening: Death Becomes Her Mimi Bai, Kim Brandt, Nona Faustine, Rachel Grobstein, Gyun Hur, McKendree Key, Heidi Lau, Catalina Ouyang, Freya Powell, and Keisha Scarville, co-curated and in partnership with The Green-Wood Cemetery; Christie Neptune Constructs and Context Relativity; Padma Rajendran Move Me With You 7-9

Residency Unlimited 360 Court Street unit #4 Carroll Gardens Meet Over Lunch talk: Isabella Indolfi on her project Seminaria 1