Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Museum of American Finance 40 Wall St Worth Its Weight: Gold from the Ground Up conversation:  Sidney Mobell and David Cowen 12-1:30; press and members reception strictly by invitation 6-8

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St conversation: Scott Avett with Eric Fischl 6:30 free

Performa Hub 47 Walker St talk: Fabiana Lopes 1 free

Swiss Institute 18 Wooster St conversation:Andrea Crespo on virocrypsis with Hannah Black 7 rsvp@swissinstitute.net
Leslie-Lohman Museum 26 Wooster St talk: Allen Ellenzweig George Platt Lynes: A Life in Portraits 6 free

Center for Italian Modern Art 421 Broome St 4th fl talk: Joel Meyerowitz on his project Morandi's Objects 6-8 reservation required

Taschen  107 Greene St book celebration: Mick Rock David Bowie 7-9 reservation required store-ny@taschen.com

Mathew NYC 47 Canal St Richard Phillips Conversations 6-9

Sargent's Daughters 179 East Broadway Donald Baechler 6-8

William Holman 65 Ludlow St Tom Judd The Myth of the Frontier 6-8

Con Artist 119 Ludlow St Slap 2 7-11

Y 319 Grand St Miguel Aguirre New York School 6-9

Exhibit C 88 Eldridge St  book launch and exhibition: David Heath Burma: An Enchanted Spirit; panel with David Heath, Joyce Englander Levy and Kerri Kelly6:30 reservation required

Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects 208 Forsyth St Eleanor Ray Paintings 6-8

Site/109 109 Norfolk St Cynthia Corbett Gallery presents: The Association of Women Art Dealers 2015 Fall Reception 6:30-9

Gallery Onetwentyeight 128 Rivington St East and East Ayako Bando, Benjamin Keller, Christopher Craig, David Fenn, Eric Ginsburg, Fumiko Kashiwagi, Haruko Mo, Helmut Krackie, Hugh Burckhardt, Jefre Harwoods, Kaitlin Martin, Kazuko Miyamoto, Kristy Castellano, Lesly Holliday, Mieko Mitachi, Romana Hazuki, Tomoko Iwata, Yuko K, curated by David Fenn, Kazuko Miyamoto 6-8

Crate and Barrel 611 Broadway Shop, Sip & Swing 5:30-7:30

Bookmarc 400 Bleecker St book celebration: Grace Coddington Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue 6-8

The New School 66 W 12 6:30 Public Art Fund Talk: Fiona Banner 6:30 $10

New School 63 Fifth Ave Lower Level talk and book launch: Vince Frost Design Your Life 6:30 $22

Whitney Museum 99 Gansevoort St Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner 7-11 by invitation only

Rubin Museum of Art 150 W 17 Steve McCurry India

David Zwirner 519 W 19 James Welling Choreograph 6-8
Flatiron Plaza 23rd St  & Broadway installation unveiling: Nova by SOFTlab 6

CUE Art Foundation 137 W 25 book launch: Angie Wojak and Stacy Miller Starting Your Career as an Artist: A Guide to Launching a Creative Life (Allworth Press/SVA), talk with Wojak, Miller, Faith Holland, Anna Ogier-Bloomer and Larry Ossei-Mensah 6:30-8:30

Sundaram Tagore 547 W 27 Hiroji Kubota Photographer 6-8:30

Aperture Foundation 547 W 27 Hiroji Kubota Photographer 7-8:30

Fashion Institute of Technology Feldman Center Lobby 227 W 27  Third Year BFA Photo Students 6-8

LESP 306 W 37  book signing and talk: Sebastiaan Bremer To Joy 6-8

JHU Comic Books 32 E 32  signing: Walter Simonson Ragnarok: Last God Standing 6 purchase required

Octavio Paz Gallery 27 E 39 2nd Fl Indomitable: Contemporary Photography from Chiapas; also presentation:  Jaime Sabines Apuntes para una biografía, reading by Pilar Jiménez and Mark Shcaffer; Chiapas Cuisine: food tasting 6

NYPL 42nd St and Fifth Ave Artist Dialogue Series Event: Archie Rand in conversation with Camille Paglia on Rand’s The 613 6

International Center of Photography 1114 Avenue of the Americas discussion: Telling Stories Through Technology: 3d, VR, and Photography In Today's Image Making Matthieu Lorrain, Caitlin Burns, Tatjana Dzambazova, Subrata De, moderated by Julia Sourikoff 7 registration required

AC Institute 16 E 48  video and film work: Lily Jue Sheng, curated by Linnea West 6-9
Christie's 20 Rockefeller Plaza  auction preview: Latin American Art 6-9 RSVP9@christies.com

MoMA 11 W 53 symposium: Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA and the Eikones Institute (Basel) presents: Going Global? The Art-Education-Speculation Complex Kadambari Baxi, Sarah Herda, Jacques Herzog, Glenn D. Lowry, Martino Stierli, Mechtild Widrich 6 free, reservation required

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller 20 W 55 panel:The Artists and Writers of National Lampoon Rick Meyerowitz, Tony Hendra, Peter Kleinman, moderated by Steven Heller 6-9 free

Gitterman 41 E 57 Roger Mayne 6-8
Interior Design Building 306 E 61 3rd Fl Newel Flagship Showroom celebration 6-8 rsvp Eventbrite

Just Off Madison 9-noon http://justoffmadison.com/
Leonard Tourné 46 E 65 Exhibition and Book Signing: Strong-Cuevas 6-8 reservation requested

National Academy Museum & School 1083 Fifth Avenue Mid-Year Exhibition National Academy students 6-8

El Barrio´s Artspace PS 109 215 E 99 The Beginning: a group exhibition curated by Maura Falfan, Antonia Guerrero, Gulnara, Giannina Gutierrez, Marie Laux, René Máynez 6-9

Jane Motorcycles 396 Wythe Ave Marcus Haney Gentlemen Of The Road with additional work by Ty Johnson: photography exhibition devised by and documenting Mumford & Sons 6

321 Gallery 321 Washington Ave Clinton Hill show closing:  Paul McMahon 44; Lia Lowenthal Gethens by LL, LLC 6-8

Pratt Institute Higgins Hall 61 Saint James Pl Clinton Hill Pratt Fashion Talks: Adam Selman with Kim Jenkins 6 free, reception to follow

Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Prospect Heights Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008; Stephen Powers Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull); Forever Coney: Photographs from the Brooklyn Museum Collection members press 11-2, private preview

Residency Unlimited 360 Court St Carroll Gardens Fluid Phosphorescence Fiona James, Lea Porsager, and Jenna Bliss in collaboration with Elise Duryee-Browner and Ashley Coffey 6:30-9 free, reservation is essential

UrbanGlass 647 Fulton St Ft Greene Sarah Briland Problematica 6-8