Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Art & Design Events, 18 August 2020

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


VIRTUAL EVENTS 

AIA New York Center for Architecture The Future of Museums Dialogue Series: Damion L. Thomas (Sports Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture),David van der Leer (Principal, DVDL DD

 Damion L. Thomas, NMAAHC) noon-1 $10 registration link 

Columbia University Italian Academy Summer Online Festival  today: New Yorker writer and Italian Academy Fellow Rich Benjamin talks with Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini about the director’s films, all set in the U.S. South, and issues they raise about race and class in 21st-century America free on Academy website link 

The Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: The New Social Environment #110: Art School Confidential Dewey Crumpler, Carol Becker, John Priola, and Gordon Knox on the future of art school as institutions like SFAI face possible closures, conversation led by Dore Bowen; concludes with a poetry reading from Marie Buck 1-2 Eventbrite registration link 

National Arts Club lecture: Julie Anderson Excavating Dangeil: Royal Statues and Sacred Rams 1-2 Eventbrite link 

Museum of Arts and Design Behind Closed Doors virtual series live collection tour: Abhishek Poddar, founder of Bangalore, India’s Museum of Art and Photography, presents some of the pieces in his significant South Asian art collection 1pm Zoom link 

R & Company Zoom talk: Failed Seriousness A Conversation Between Serban Ionescu, Sam Stewart, & Christina De León 2pm registration link 

New York Design Center Instagram Live cocktails and conversation: Sara Bengur and John Robshaw 4:30 link 

Syracuse University Art Museum with Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts Art @ Home virtual conversation: Richard Pasquarelli 4-5 free, registration link 

International Studio & Curatorial Program Artists at Work talk: New Red Order speakers: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil and Jackson Polys; hosted by Culture Pass, a collaborative program coordinated by Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Public Library and The New York Public Library 4-4:45 registration required link 

Metropolis Magazine Metropolis Forum panel: The Future of Transit, Post-Pandemic speakers: James McGrath, Vice President, Perkins and Will, and Principal, Nelson\Nygaard; Nolan Lienhart, Principal and Director of Planning & Urban Design, ZGF; Darin Piippo, Market Specialist, Studio 431, Landscape Forms; Allison Arieff, Senior Editor, CityMetric; hosted by Avinash Rajagopal, Editor in Chief, Metropolis;  presented in partnership with Landscape Forms 4-5 registration link 

Whitney Museum of American Art Art History from Home talk: Janine DeFeo  on how artists in the Whitney's collection, including Jay DeFeo, Senga Nengudi, and Christina Quarles, have used a range of strategies like abstraction, metonymy, and metaphor to refer to the human body 6pm free, Zoom link

New Museum livestreamed, participatory performance: Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story event incorporating  ritual, plant knowledge, movement, listening, and response-ability; part of the digital residency Ensayos: Passages  C.F. Black, Amaara Raheem, and Caitlin Franzmann 8pm free, Zoom registration link 


ON-SITE EXHIBITIONS

Miguel Abreu Gallery 36 Orchard St exhibition: Sequence 7: one work, one week; this week:Raha Raissnia Confound 

New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West rear courtyard (entrance on West 76 St) outdoor exhibition: Hope Wanted: New York City Under Quarantine   photographs by Kay Hickman and 12 audio interviews with the photographs’ subjects by Kevin Powell timed-entry ticket by reservation  

Malin Gallery East at Hangman 14 Railroad Ave,East Hampton exhibition: Oliver Lee Jackson 


ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and VIEWING ROOMS

Petzel online: Community Board Walead Beshty, Ross Bleckner, Cosima von Bonin, Fiona Connor, Wade Guyton, Allan McCollum, Sarah Morris, Seth Price, Pieter Schoolwerth, and Rirkrit Tiravanija link  

Bookstein Projects viewing room: Suzanne and Maurice Vanderwoude A Life in Art link 

M. David & Co. virtual exhibition: Social Similitude Louise Noël and Anna Wagner-Ott Artsy link 

NES Creative online exhibition: Mary Little’s Reflections link  

AHL Foundation online exhibitions: Coherence & Context, Vitamin K, and Homecoming link  

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