Art & Design Evetnts, New York, Wednesday, 11 November 2015

Seaport Studio 19 Fulton St Art Start presents: Family Portrait Project 6-9

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St talk: Laura Murphy Doyle Managing and Protecting Fine Art Collections 6 free

Performa 47 Walker St Chimurenga: Library multi-tiered programming platform curated by Adrienne Edwards 3-8

e-flux 311 East Broadway Corruption: Everybody Knows…discussion:  Pio Abad, Peggy Ahwesh, Julieta Aranda, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, and Natasha Ginwala 7:30

47 Canal 291 Grand St performances: Xavier Cha Feedback on the hour from 1 to 5

Marc Jancou 24 Orchard St Albrecht Schnider Instant Phenomenon 6-9

Con Artist Collective 119 Ludlow S  Zine Release Party:  The Green Carpet; show closing party: Celebrity 7-11

Warby Parker 121 Greene St book release: Should I Get Bangs? (Warby Parker Press) 6-8

Think Coffee 123 4th Ave AM at the JM breakfast salon: Camille Henrot in conversation with Jens Hoffmann 8-9:30am free

New York Studio School 8 W 8 lecture: Marcelle Polednik West to East: Retracing the Path of Abstract Expressionism 1946-1958 6-8

NYU Steinhardt 34 Stuyvesant St Not By Any Stretch Undergraduate Student Art Organization (USAO) 5-7

Art in Buildings 55 5th Ave Lobby Frances Goodman Let Down Your Hair 6-8

Robin Rice 325 W 11 Tina West You Are Still a Work in Progress 5:30-8:30

Fort Gansevoort 5 Ninth Ave gallery: Jason Harvey Fantasy Composites co-organized by Adam Shopkorn and Josh Safdie 7-10; residency:  S,M,L. Julia Zangrilli, Maayan Zilberman Cara Marie Piazza

The New School  63 Fifth Ave Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Glenn Ligon and Carl Hancock Rux 7 free, reception afterwards in Event Cafe

SVA 136 W 21 book launch: John Thackara How To Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today (Thames & Hudson), conversation between Thackara and Allan Chochinov 7-9 free

SVA Theatre 333 W 23 discussion: Jules Feiffer Paul Levitz on the legacy of Will Eisner in celebration of the 75th anniversary of The Spirit 7-9:30 $20

Greene Naftali 508 W 26 John Knight 6-8

Loretta Howard 525 W 26 Thomas Downing Paintings 1961-1975

chashama 266 W 37 opening performance: Marie Christine Katz Let's Take a Walk...I Need You 6-8

Rare / Glenn Horowitz Bookseller 17 W 54 talk: Rick Meyeorwitz and Sean Kelly on Rick Meyerowitz's ‘National Lampoon’

John Jay College President’s Gallery 524 W 59 Haaren Hall 6th Fl  Cautionary Tales: Old Visions Through New Eyes Cecile Chong, Yuliya Lanina, Meridith McNeal, Edward Monovich, Susan Newmark, Mary Ting, curated by Randall Harris and Anne Hoppe 5:30-7:30

Hunter College Kaye Playhouse 68th St & Lexington Ave  Zabar Visiting Artist Series Lecture: Yvonne Rainer 6:30 free
Waterhouse & Dodd 960  Madison Ave Kim Keever Random Events 6-8 rsvp newyork@waterhousedodd.com

NYU Institute of Fine Arts 1 E 78 Walead Beshty 6

Studio Museum in Harlem 144 W 125 A Constellation 26 artists; Black: Color, Material, Concept; Marc Andre Robinson Twice Told; Danielle Dean Focus; Harlem Postcards Ava Hassinger, Kia Labeija, Zanele Muholi and Jessica Vaughn press 6-7 reception 7-9 by invitation

The Journal 106 N 1 Williamsburg Agathe Snow Continuum 6-9

black ball projects 374 Bedford Ave Williamsburg Whizzer Taylor Absher, S.E. Nash, Robbie McDonald, Alisa Ochoa, and Alfred Steiner, curated by Jason Tomme, Ana Wolovick and Harriet Salmon 6-9

Christopher Stout 299 Meserole St Bushwick book release: Meryl Meisler Purgatory & Paradise: Sassy 70's Suburbia & The City 7-9

Happy Lucky No. 1 734 Nostrand Ave Crown Heights gallery inaugural: Matthew Arnold Topography Is Fate 7-9
powerHouse Arena 37 Main St DUMBO book launch and reading: Truman Capote Brooklyn: A Personal Memoir with the lost photographs of David Attie; reading from the book by Mary Louise Parker 7-9

BRIC 647 Fulton St Fort Greene conversation: Juan Sanchez and Eve-Laure Moros Ortega 7 free