Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 8 February 2017

180 Maiden Lane Gallery 180 Maiden Lane screenings: Animation Nights New York: ANNY Feb Films curated by Yvonne Grzenkowicz 8-10

Vintry Wine & Whiskey/The Cellar 57 Stone St AHA Arcilesi | Homberg presents exhibition: Aphrodisiac 6-9 complimentary cocktails 6-7
Salomon Arts 83 Leonard St 4th Fl exhibitions: Mitchel Gray Bodies in Action; Evan Sebastian Lagache Abstract Expressionist Paintings 4-8 reservation absolutely required edentpr@gmail.com

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St conversation: Navigating Social Media Sharon Louden with Kimberly Drew 6:30 free

Con Artist Collective 119 Ludlow St exhibition: What's BLACK and WHITE and READ all over? Collage group show 7-11

Artifact 84 Orchard St exhibitions: Chantel Le Brun Photographs; Dan Obana New Work; Roman Opalinsky Paintings; Kuzma Vostrikov Mixed Media 6-8

International Center of Photography 250 Bowery talk: curators of Perpetual Revolution: The Image And Social Change Cynthia Young, Carol Squiers, Susan Carlson, Claartje van Dij, Joanna Lehan, Kalia Brooks, Quito Ziegler, Erin Barnett, moderated by Jillian Steinhauer 6:30-8:30 free, advanced registration required

Calligaris Soho 55 Thompson St store preview with owners Niki and Shaokao Cheng 6-8 by invitation, reservation rsvp.calligarisnyc.com

NYU Center for the Humanities 20 Cooper Square lecture: Hasia R. Diner Perspectives on the Holocaust in the Postwar Era 6:30

New York Studio School 8 W 8 Art Book Review Panel readings from and discussion of The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century by Timothy Hyman (Thames & Hudson, 2016): participants: David Cohen with David Carbone and Julie Heffernan 6:30 free

New School 66 W 12 Public Art Fund Commercial Break artists conversation: Meriem Bennani, Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley, and Hannah Whitaker,  moderated by Emma Enderby and Daniel S. Palmer 6:30 $10

Tanja Grunert 524 W 19 poetry reading: Brenda Iijima, Tyrone Williams, and John Yau, in conjunction with Emergency Eyewash 7

National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South book celebration: Eleanor Heartney Renée Radell: Web of Circumstance (Predmore Press) 6-8 free

Dia Art Foundation 535 W 22  Dia and Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) members' screening and reception: Lawrence Weiner Blue Moon Over (2001) and Altered to Suit (1979) 6:30 membership required

Littlejohn Contemporary 547 W 27 exhibition: Sarah Hinckley Looking For Some Grace

New York Design Center 200 Lexington Ave NY NOW Extended Showroom Hours 5-8 http://www.nydc.com/event/ny-now-at-200-lex/

CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave Futures Initiative conversation: Accessibility, Mobility, and Design April Coughlin, Jessica Murray, and Sara Hendren; in person and live stream event 2-3, reception & twitter chat 3-4

CUNY James Gallery 365 Fifth Ave exhibition: NSK State Art: New York, The Impossible Return Marina Abramović / Ulay, Yael Bartana, Danica Dakić, Pablo Helguera, Ištvan Išt Huzjan, Alban Muja, Nebojša Šerić-Shoba, Mladen Stilinović, curated by Katherine Carl and Tevž Logar 6-8

MoMA 11 W 53 panel: The Russian Avant-Garde: Scholars Respond Masha Chlenova, Devin Fore, Maria Gough, Christina Kiaer, Kristin Romberg, ,moderated by Roxana Marcoci 6-8 free, reservation required

Marlborough 40 W 57 exhibition: L.C. Armstrong Signals at Sunset; Bill Jacklin Paintings from 1986 to 2016 6-8

The Artist's Institute 132 E 65 exhibition: Sharon Lockhart, Harold Edgerton, and Alex Katz, as part of the Sharon Lockhart season 6-8

Gagosian  821 Park Ave exhibition: Mark Tansey Reverb 6-8

Edward Ressle 53 E 75 exhibition: Provocateur: From Picabia to Prince

NYU Institute of Fine Arts 1 E 78 talks: Summer Projects Series, La Dolce Villa! Student Conservation Projects at La Pietra 6:30 free, registration required

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave Rogers Auditorium lecture: Jerrilynn D. Dodds Christians, Jews, and Muslims: Art and Identity in Medieval Spain 6:30 $30

National Academy Museum & School 1083 Fifth Ave exhibition: Studio Art Intensive Final Exhibitions Michele Rave Grassani, Beverly Bachtle Pinzon 6-9

El Taller Latino Americano (Grady Alexis Gallery) 215 E 99 exhibition: Gulnara Samoilova Finding Family curated by Corina L. Apostol 6-9

Italian Academy Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Ave symposium: Looted Art, Nazism, and Fascism speakers: Monica Dugot, Jasmin Hartman, Ilaria Pavan, moderated by Lynn Rother, welcome by Barbara Faedda 5:30 free

Gavin Brown's enterprise 439 W 127 A Festival of Visionary Ideas, Activism & Arts opening event: Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours: An Exhibiiton to Benefit the ACLU, presented by GBE & The Tate Group; panel: What Will Be Different? Black Activism in a Changing America Monifa Bandele, Rev. Kaji Dousa, Kassandra Frederique, Dr. Marta Moreno Vega, moderated by Greg Tate; performance: Storyboard P 6:30-8:30

Art in FLUX 163 Malcolm X Blvd exhibition: FEEGZ Selects: Lineas, Formas, Colores y Cuadriculas Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Glendalys Medina, Pepe Coronado, curated by Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Manuel Acevedo, Reijin Leys, COCO 144 (Roberto Gualtieri) 6-9

RIVAA Gallery 527 Main St Roosevelt Island exhibition: Humbaba Fine Art presents: Robert Kippur A New York Outsider 6:30-9:30

Fisher Landau Center For Art 38-27 30th St Long Island City exhibition: Lorna Simpson Hypothetical?

Art in General 145 Plymouth St Dumbo culinary workshop: Juanli Carrión Zea curated by Kristen Chappa 6-8:30 free, reservation required social@artingeneral.org

Residency Unlimited 360 Court St Carroll Gardens performance talk: Brandstifte Antipodes 6:30-8:30