Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Metropolitan College of New York 60 West St proposal presentations for  Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza ‘Little Syria’ Public Art Selection Mounir Fatmi, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, eL Seed, Huda AbiFares, and Sara Ouhaddou; presented with Washington Street Historical Society and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs 6 reception to follow

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St panel: Peter Drake and George Adams with artists from exhibition Piss & Vinegar 6:30 free

M E N  / Molly Krom 13 Monroe St exhibition: Sofia Quirno After Noon 6-9

Con Artist Collective 119 Ludlow St exhibition: Supernatural 7

Equity 245 Broome St exhibition: Push/Strike/Resist Keren Benbenisty, Liliya Lifanova, Brett Swenson, curated by Melinda Wang; in collaboration with Residency Unlimited 6-8

White Box 329 Broome St exhibition: Corporation and Fister Corp Cru 7

The Lodge 131 Chrystie St John Wellington Temple Tomb Fortress Ruin 7-9

JTT 170a Suffolk St exhibition: Bonnie Lucas Young Lady curated by Marie Catalano 6-8

Fridman 287 Spring St exhibition: Helene Nymann INSCRIBED Oh Locus Locus 6-8

NYU Steinhardt 34 Stuyvesant St BFA exhibition: Vestige(s) Sarah Allwine, Emma Benschop, Bianca Kann, Cooper Lovano, Clara Lu, Jackie Monoson, Christine Sersea, Beverly Terry, Joshua Toor, and Ben Wolf, curated by Desiree Mitton & Lisa Orcutt 5-7

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St exhibition: Fast Forward: Painting From The 1980s Carlos Alfonzo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ross Bleckner, Peter Cain, Louisa Chase, Robert Colescott, Moira Dryer, Eric Fischl, Leon Golub, Keith Haring, Sherrie Levine, Joyce Pensato, Susan Rothenberg, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, Julia Wachtel, Terry Winters, Martin Wong, among others press 10-noon reservation required
FXFOWLE 22 W 19 11th Fl Storefront for Art and Architecture presents participatory event: Drawing Series: A Line 7-9 free

SVA Amphitheater 209 E 23 MFA Design for Social Innovation presents Global Guest Lecture: IBM Designer Doug Powell 7-9 free

Nepenthes 307 W 38 Special Pop-Up by Dr Martens presents exhibition: Susan Metrican Shimmy Life 7-9

NYPL Main Library Mid-Manhattan Library 455 Fifth Ave illustrated lecture: Joanne Witty Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed 6:30 free

NYPL 476 Fifth Ave Celeste Auditorium panel: Four Generations: The Joyner Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art Christopher Bedford, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Thomas Lax, Fred Wilson, moderated by Sheena Wagstaff 6-8 free, advance registration recommended; Room 216, Second Floor lecture: Miklos Pinther The History of Cartography at the American Geographical Society 6 free

ICP School 1114 Avenue of the Americas conversation: Aldo Sessa 6:30-8 free

Pace 32 E 57 exhibition: Kenneth Noland Into the Cool 6-8

Gladstone 64 130 E 64 exhibition: Andro Wekua A Dog’s Fidelity 6-8

Richard L. Feigen 34 E 69 The Human Image: From Velázquez to Viola Diego Velázquez, Hendrick Goltzius, Hyachinthe Rigaud, Louis Gauffier, Thomas Lawrence, George Romney, Jonathan Budington and Thomas Eakins, alongside Ary Scheffer, Adolph Menzel, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Joseph Cornell, and Jean Dubuffet, leading up to Chuck Close, Ray Johnson, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Benny Andrews, George Condo, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Peter Saul, Elizabeth Peyton, and Bill Viola 5-8

Frick Collection 1 E 70 lecture: Benedetta Craveri Madame Du Barry’s Enduring Legacy 6-7 free

NYU Institute of Fine Arts 1 E 78 Paul Lott Lecture: Charles T. Little The Art of Ivory in the Carolingian World: Assessing and Reassessing the Canon 6 free, reservation required
Bard Graduate Center 18 W 86 talk: Mark Dion The Conservator’s Cupboard 7-9 $10
92nd St Y 1395 Lexington Ave conversation: Marina Abramovic with Carl Swanson 7 from $36

Hunter East Harlem Gallery 2180 Third Ave talk: Glendalys Medina & Kenny Rivero, in conjunction with Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: an exhibition about dominoes 7-9 free

The Studio Museum in Harlem 144 W 125 Excerpt Sadie Barnette, Xaviera Simmons, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, Kara Walker, and more; organized by Adeze Wilford

Aloft Harlem 2296 Frederick Douglass Blvd Art In FLUX exhibition: Drum Circle Susan Stair, Jenevieve Reid, and Dominant Dansby 6-9

NYPL Bronx Library Center 310 East Kingsbridge Rd comic book talk & signing: Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez La Borinqueña 5

Victori + Mo 56 Bogart St panel: Being LGBTQ in Today's Political Landscape Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, William J Simmons and Jessica Stern; in conjunction with  Lindsey-Hall’s exhibition Never Stop Dancing 7-9