Art & Design events, Monday 31 August 2020

 A daily compilation of suggestions for the continuing appreciation of art and design in dire times

VIRTUAL EVENTS

IFDA NY webinar: Current Mood: Lighting Transforms Space Avram Rusu Studio (Andreea Avram Rusu) in conversation with David Santiago 10am link 

Turnstile Tours Free Virtual Program: Lighting the Way: Staten Island's National Lighthouse Museum 12:30-1:30 free link 

The Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: The New Social Environment #119: Rico Gatson with Tom McGlynn; concludes with a poetry reading from Don Yorty 1-2 registration Eventbrite link 

Microscope online screening: Meredith Drum Search for Delicious 7:30, artist Q&A 8:45 $8 ticket link 

NEW YORK ON-SITE EXHIBITIONS

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St exhibition: 2020 Chubb Fellows Exhibition Trey Abdella, Chloe Chiasson, and Zachary Sitrin by appointment link 

New York Studio School 8 W 8 exhibition: William Bailey: Drawings by appointment link

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and VIEWING ROOMS 

New York Social Diary photography presentation: Jill Krementz Photo Journal:  Looking Back at the Good Old Days of Political Conventions link  

Hesse Flatow online exhibition: All by Myself Aglaé Bassens, Jaqueline Cedar, Devra Fox, Eliot Greenwald, Barry Hazard, Peter  Labier, Sophie Larrimore, Elizabeth Schweizer link 

CATALOGUES

IKEA Museum IKEA catalogues form 1950-2020 by year link 

STREAMING

French Institute Alliance Française free short films: ‘Late-Night Chills: Spooky, imaginative, gripping, and out-of-this-world shorts that expand the science fiction and suspense genres in animation’; in French with English subtitles: A l’intérieur (Dir. Amélie Poirier, 2018); Fin de Loup (Dir. Stéphanie Cadoret, 2010); Peripheria  (Dir. David Coquard-Dassault, 2015); The Bolt Connection (Dir. Claire Cartier, Mathilde Dourdy, Maurine Lecerf, Shih-hui Pan, Nicolas Lebas, Thibault Grunenberger, 2018); Xian (Dir. Roxane Campoy, Pauline Ledu, Myriam Belkheyar, Gwenaëlle Bavoux, 2017)

Art & Design Events, Sunday, 30 August 2020

A daily compilation of suggestions for the continuing appreciation of art and design in dire times

VIRTUAL EVENTS

Municipal Art Society of New York virtual tour: Old Astoria Village: A Virtual Stroll Through Queens History with Bob Singleton 11am 420 registration link 

Columbia University Italian Academy Summer Online Festival today: the festival closes with a synchronous performance, by the festival musicians, from their isolated outposts around the world, of American composer Julius Eastman’s  ‘Gay Guerrilla’ from 3pm link

The Shed video: Tony Cokes presents new sketches of video work centered on quotes from a recent article in The Atlantic "This is Trump's Fault" by David Frum and others set to a musical background mixed by the artist; presented with Culture Pass 6-6:45 registration link 

LIVE EVENTS 

The Plaxall Gallery 5-25 46th Ave Long Island City Culture Lab Live Performance Series 6-8:30 free Eventbrite link

Synesthesia 47 Thames St Bushwick rooftop live improvisation performance and experimental film: This sound is your cocoon in conjunction with Sinejan Kılıç Buchina’s exhibition From Place to Non-Place 8-10:30 $10 donation required via Eventbrite link exact location provided at ticketing according to nightclub site

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and VIEWING ROOMS

Enter Art Fair virtual exposition link 

M+B Gallery viewing room: Dapper Bruce Lafitte Duck Sauce link 

The Italian Academy digital exhibition: Amatrice in Focus: Earthquakes and Photography—Recording the Past, Planning the Future link 

Bronx River Art Center video presentation: The Virtual Summer Student Exhibition 2020 YouTube link 

parrasch heijnen gallery virtual exhibition: Mildred Howard: A Survey, 1978 - 2020 link 

Sculptors Guild virtual exhibition: Metalworks: Matter & Space link 

IN MEMORIAM
Photographer Joseph Bartscherer (1954–2020)

Art & Design Events, Saturday, 29 August 2020

A daily compilation of suggestions for the continuing appreciation of art and design in dire times 

MUSEUMS REOPENING

Metropolitan Museum of Art opens to the public today

LIVE EVENTS

Stand4 414-78th St Bay Ridge exhibition closing today: Anna Lise Jensen Trying, curated by Valeria Federici noon-3 

Open Source Gallery 306 17th St Park Slope Quarantine Jam 8/29 performance: Accord Treble Choir 7pm
FiveMyles 558 St John’s Place Crown Heights performance: Concerts on the sidewalk #DNGRSLYFREE: Music & Spoken Word Outdoors with Madi Dangerously, SoSoon, Trezure Empire, Path P and more 6-8

Underccurrent 70 John St Dumbo opening reception: Daniel Jodocy Soundboxgarden 1-8 

Proto Gomez 13  Monroe St pop-up sale: Uniforms for the End of Time Round 2 hand-made shirts presented by artist and curator Nicholas Cueva, participants: Jon Lutz, Debbie Manville, Elias Melad, Leah Dixon, Kris Rac, Mark Sengbusch, Olivia Swider, Phil Hardy, Gil Riley, Emily Strauss, Lily Rosen, Angela Simone, Ambre Kelly, Diego Chavez, Adam Brazil, Katie Hector, Fabio Esteban Amador, Alex Sewell, Colin Tom, Lia O'Brien, Nicholas Cueva, Willard Morgan, and Jillian Van Volkenburgh 11-6 continues on Sunday

BronxArtSpace 305 E 140 exhibition: How to Dance Lindsay Benedict,  Julia Brown, Mark Bradford,  Klara Liden, Glendalys Medina, curated by Phyllis Rosenzweig noon-5

Upstate Art Weekend various events, exhibitions, and receptions, organized by Stoneleaf Retreat to celebrate creative spaces in the Hudson Valley; for complete program and times today and Sunday see link

VIRTUAL EVENTS

Municipal Art Society of New York virtual tour: 400 Years of Flatbush In the Heart of Brooklyn with Zack Rhodes 11am $20 link 

NYPL third episode of four-part Zoom course conducted by Rena Tobey: The Modern City: Art of New York, 1900-1945 today:  Social Realists who unveiled the challenges of the Depression each episode Saturday 2-3:30 registration link 

Indo-American Arts Council NextGen Artists panel: Exploring Identity: Art and the Artist Shreya Mehta, Sarasvathy TK, in conversation with Raj Shahani 8:30 pm live on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, 

Coney Island Mermaid Parade virtual parade with performances: TAIL-A-THON for information see Coney Island USA website link 

STREAMING

Columbia University Italian Academy Summer Online Festival today:  Italian pianist and expert on American music Emanuele Arciuli will discusses and previews programs he will  perform at the Italian Academy under the auspices of Carnegie Hall’s 2021 festival called “Voices of Hope: Artists in Times of Oppression”: Black American Composers and “The People United Will Never Be Defeated” Variations by Fredric Rzewski; from noon link  

IN MEMORIAM

Artist Siah Armajani (July 10, 1939--August 28, 2020)

Art & Design Events, Friday, 28 August 2020

A daily compilation of suggestions for the continuing appreciation of art and design in dire times

VIRTUAL EVENTS

The Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: The New Social Environment #118: Kent Monkman with Amber Jamilla Musser; concludes with a poetry reading from LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs 1-2 registration Eventbrite link 

The Frick Collection YouTube Cocktails with a Curator: Aimee Ng on Ingres’s 'Comtesse d'Haussonville' 5pm free, YouTube link 

Salon 21 talk: Anne Higonnet Collecting In The Age of Corona 7-8 free, registration Eventbrite 7-8

MUSEUMS REOPENING

American Folk Art Museum 2 Lincoln Square 

NEW YORK GALLERIES REOPENING

Fotografiska New York 281 Park Ave South various exhibitions, timed entry, ticketed

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and VIEWING ROOMS 

Carpenters Workshop Gallery Artist Spotlight: Roger Herman link 

STREAMING

Columbia University Italian Academy Summer Online Festival today: percussionist Matthew Gold of Talea Ensemble demonstrates and speaks with Youssef Amin about percussive feelings, emotional surfaces, and the wilder sides of 21st-century European and American music, noise, and drumming; from noon link 

Art & Design Events, Thursday, 27 August 2020

A daily compilation of suggestions for the continuing appreciation of art and design in dire times 

MUSEUMS REOPENING

Museum of Modern Art 7 E 53 timed tickets

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave timed tickets

VIRTUAL EVENTS 

New School Telepresence: Cyber Expo hosted by rising thesis students from the MFA Design & Technology program at Parsons School of Design, from 11am, for complete schedule see link 

The Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: The New Social Environment #117: Aarti Shahani with Rev. Dr. Donna Schaper; concludes with a poetry reading from Ed Foster 1-2 registration Eventbrite link 

New York Design Center Instagram Live Takeover: Cocktails & Conversations with House Beautiful Magazine  House Beautiful's Video Producer Laura Marin speaks with Mikel Welch about the realities of filming from home and how to create engaging video content 4:30 Instagram link 

Manhattan Graphics Center Black Women of Print Speaker Series talk: Leslie Diuguid of Du-Good Press 5-6 registration link 

Pelham Art Center Zoom virtual studio visit with Maria de Los Angeles, exhibiting artist in Domestic Brutes 5-6 $10 link 

New York Studio School Instagram Live Series Insights Into Process presentation:  NYSS Alum Carlo D'Anselmi in his studio as he works on a new painting 5pm link 

New York Adventure Club talk: Rena Tobey Finding Her Way: The Rise of Women Artists in America 5:30-7 $10 Eventbrite link 

Alice Austen House panel: Powerful and Dangerous: The Work and Legacy of Audre Lorde with the Alice Austen House Victoria Munro in collaboration with Clare Coss and Blanche Wiesen Cook 6-7:30 registration link 

El Museo del Barrio performance: Somxs Podemx, a video performance by artists Poncilí Creación 6-7 free, Zoom reservation link 

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council video presentation: Yuko Otomo & Matt Mottel The Steve Circuit: Downtown New York’s Subterranean Spirit today: Downtown Music Gallery with Loren Connors & Suzanne Langille 8pm link  

AIA New York Center for Architecture webinar: Thom Mayne, FAIA Combinatory Urbanism / Architecture as a Social Art 9-10:30pm $20 registration link 

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and VIEWING ROOMS 

N'Namdi Contemporary Miami exhibition tour: Gregory Coates Right Back Atcha! link  

Ortuzar Projects exhibition: William Scott It's a Beautiful Day Outside link; also available at the gallery by appointment 

Lehmann Maupin online viewing room: On the Road with Catherine Opie link 

Sundaram Tagore Gallery virtual studio tour: Miya Ando link 

El Museo del Barrio online exhibition: Popular Painters & Other Visionaries, curated by Rodrigo Moura link 

STREAMING

Columbia University Italian Academy Summer Online Festival today: Being Ariodante Juilliard composer Jonathan Dawe's opera Being Ariodante will have its premiere with Ensemble Échappé in April 2021 in the Italian Academy’s Teatro: here an inside look at the opera’s striking production with presentation of some of its equally striking sounds; from noon link 

Loretta Howard Gallery exhibition video: Cleve Gray: A Painter of All Possible Worlds link 

TransBorder Art Conversations with Artists Episode 32: Humor and Art. Curator Audra Lambert in conversation with Residency Unlimited  alumni Ivan Gaete (New York, 2019), Ziyang Wu (China/New York 2020), and Tana Oshima link

Art & Design Events, Wednesday, 26 August 2020

VIRTUAL EVENTS

92nd Street Y talk: Claudia Nahson, Senior Curator at the Jewish Museum Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk 11am $20 link 

IFDA NY talk: An American Cocktail of Design with the history of three brands: True Residential, Stylex,  Room & Board IFDA NY Co-President David Santiagowith Novità PR 11am registration link 

International Studio & Curatorial Program Zoom virtual event: ISCP Summer Open Studios noon-2 Zoom link 

Richard Taittinger Zoom exhibition virtual tour and Q&A: Mike Perry noon link  

The Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: The New Social Environment #116: Radical Poetry Reading with Andrei Codrescu featuring political poetry read by Alicia Ostriker, John Godfrey, Sharon Mesmer, Elinor Nauen, Vincent Katz, and Anne Waldman 1-2 registration Eventbrite link 

New York Public Library talk: David Vaughan’s ‘The Dance Historian Is In: Joanna Dee Das on Katherine Dunham 1-2 free Eventbrite link 

New York Adventure Club talk: Sylvia Laudien-Meo Uncovering the Great Street Art & Artists of NYC 1-2:30 $10 Eventbrite link 

Soho Photo Zoom talk: Flo Fox Ironic Reality 4pm free, registration link  

New York Design Center Instagram Live Takeover: Cocktails & Conversations with House Beautiful Magazine  House Beautiful's Editor In Chief Jo Saltz and Senior Editor Hadley Keller discuss the ins and outs of building a digital brand 4:30 Instagram link 

Hunter MFA Hudson online artist talk: Pope.L The Role of the Artist 6-8 link 

International Center of Photography Zoom talk: Rebecca Senf on the Early Works of Ansel Adams 7-8 $5 link  

NEW YORK GALLERY ON-SITE EXHIBITIONS

Theodore:Art exhibition opening: Michelle Vaughan A Movement of Women special viewing hours hours today 1-6

Odetta 64 W 127 exhibition: Radical Women: Seeing Red Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Patricia Fabricant, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Katherine Jackson, Patricia Miranda, Josette Urso, Jo Yarrington, curated by Ellen Hackl Fagan

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and VIEWING ROOMS

David Kordansky Gallery viewing room: David Altmejd link 

STREAMING

New York Shorts International Film Festival 78 short films from 16 film programs through 27 August, free, film programs link 

Columbia University Italian Academy Summer Online Festival today: PinkNoise A New York-based chamber ensemble dedicated to improvisation and compositions in acoustic and electronic media, PinkNoise has, during quarantine, been creating an interactive website—with the composer Jessie Cox—for his piece ‘Black as a Hack for Cyborgification’ (newly commissioned by PinkNoise);  from noon link 

IN MEMORIAM

Austrian artist Heinz Frank (1939-2020)