Art & Design Events, New York, Friday, 19 May 2017

Foxy Production 2 East Broadway #200 exhibition: Michael Bell-Smith Material 6-8

e-flux 311 E Broadway lecture: Lee Mackinnon Automatic Love: Prototypes of Automation 7

Front Room 48 Hester St exhibition: Emily Roz Afterglow 7-9

Invisible-Exports 89 Eldridge St exhibition: Cheap Suitcase Ron Athey, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Coum Transmissions, Clarity Haynes, Byron Kim, June Yong Lee, Bob Mizer, Catherine Opie, Ariana Page Russell, Hannah Wilke, and Rona Yefman 6-8

TOAST (TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour) Tribeca Art Walk 6-8 for map and more information https://www.toastartwalk.com/  also Saturday and Sun 1-6

Soho Photo 15 White St 4th Annual Affordable Photography Fair 1-8, reception 6-8 also Saturday-Monday 1-6 free; talk: Eddie Soloway Memories, Moons, and Imagination: An Evening of Inspiration 6-7:30

Howard Street Block Party design stores receptions: Michele Varian, Tom Dixon, Oliver Gustav, Sleepy Jones, M. Crow, BDDW, Rick Owens, Dinosaur Design, The Smile to go, DeVera, Roll & Hill, Opening Ceremony, Sarajo, Aether, Henry Built, Maiyet, The Reformation, RetroSuperFuture 5

Boffi 38 ½ Greene design: Boffi and DePadova 6-9 reservation required

The Clemente 107 Suffolk St 4th Fl Artists Alliance Open Studios 6-9

Pop-Up 199 Lafayette St Ayr product celebrations: Kule Teee shirt; Ensign Menswear; whiskey tasting from Coopers Distillery and sound installation from Sennheiser USA 5-7

Prince Street Project Space 127-B Prince St exhibition: Adrian Buckmaster Lewd 6-8

Studio 26 179 E 3 exhibition: Brigitte Messali, curated by Marina Reiter 6-8comment

Forbidden Planet 832 Broadway signing: Jean Grae and Shawn Crystal 6

Sikkema Jenkins 530 W 22 exhibition: More Simply Put Lucas Blalock, Arturo Herrera, Sheila Hicks, Maria Nepomuceno 6-8

Terminal Stores 269 11th Ave [WantedDesign] Manhattan Press Event & Opening Celebration press 5, opening celebration 7

Duravit 105 Madison Ave ICFF Kickoff Party 6-9 reservation: nyc@us.duravit.com

Poliform 112 Madison Ave Poliform Celebrates NYCxDESIGN 6-9 poliformusa.com

Minotti 134 Madison Ave (31st St) design presentation: Unveiling of 2017 Collection with guest Massimo Castagna 6-9 by invitation, reservation required

B&B Italia 134 Madison Ave Timeless Design: Charles’s 20th Anniversary seating system celebration 6-9 rsvp bebitalia.com

Mooo1 36 E 31 furniture and carpet releases A Life Extraordinary; photography exhibition: Levon Biss 6-9 reservation requested

DDC 181 Madison Ave (34st St) New Collection Preview 6-9 by invitation rsvpdesignpost@ddcnyc.com

Thomson Reuters 3 Times Square 30th Fl NYC Design Talks: New York School of Interior Design Presents Landmark Interiors and Preserving History Judith Gura and Matthew Postal, Katr Wood, Jeff Greene 3-4; Virtual Design and Construction Tom Wilcox, Brooks Slocum, Jose Elizardo, moderated by Matt Shaw 4-5; Branding Outside the Square: The Future of Design Jeff Butler, Matt Scibelli, Cass Calder Smith, moderated by Jospehine Minutill0 5-6; Design Politics and Governance 6-7 reseravtion required for each http://design-pavilion.com/may-19-rsvp.html

MC 549 W 52 8th Fl Artists in Residence Ali Sinani and Burim Ajdini 6-8

Italian Consulate 690 Park Ave Internini design panel: Material Immaterial  discussion of the relationships & synergies between the Italian design system and the design disciplines in the United States: Daniel Sundlin, Christopher Sharples,  Carlotta de Bevilacqua,  Carlo Geddo, Mauro Porcini, ntroductory remarks by Francesco Genuardi and Gilda Bojardi, moderated by Glenn Adamson 6 reservation interni@bdeonline.biz

Frick Collection 1 E 70 two-day symposium: Sculpture Collecting and Display, 1600-2000 presented by the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library; keynote by Malcolm Baker $50 for both days

Metropolitan College of New York Bronx Campus 529 Courtlandt Ave Bronx exhibition: Capturing the Bronx: Bronx Photographers Explore Bronx Neighborhoods 6

Andrew Freedman Home 1125 Grand Concourse Bronx exhibitions: State Goods: Art in the Era of Mass Incarceration curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood and Walter Puryear, in conjunction with The Confined Arts Program; Immediate Surroundings: The 2017 En Foco Photography Fellowship Byron Smith, Cinthya Santos-Briones, Lisa DuBois, Daesha Devón Harris, Rhea Karam, Daniel Martinez, Erika Morillo, Jon Santiago, Nichole Washington and Santana Copeland, curated by Gabriel de Guzman 6-8 free

McCarren Park Play Center 776 Lorimer St Williamsburg Brooklyn Art Book Fair 2017 3 Dot Zine. Audrey Ryan. Belladonna*. Birds, LLC. Brooklyn Arts Press. Brooklyn Poets. Christina Martinelli. Common Satisfactory Standard. Cooperative Editions. Cory Siegler. Desert Island Comics. EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Elijah Wheat Showroom. Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Endless Editions. Eyelevel BQE. Inpatient Press. Leslie Lasiter. Lorelei Ramirez. Lost & Found CUNY. MFU: New York. Molly Soda. Monk Books. Nandi Loaf. Pegacorn Press. Potatoe Press. Press Press. Printed Matter. Quimby's. The Ruth Stone Foundation. Slow Youth. Small Editions. Soft City Printing. Sorry Archive. Third Man Books. Txt Books. Unity Press. UpSet Press. Wonder. Zebadiah Keneally 6-9 free continues on Saturday https://www.bkabf.org/
Glasshouse Project 246 Union Ave Williamsburg benefit art show: Last Chance neon artists James Akers, Kacie Lees, Stephanie Lifshutz, Keenan MacWilliam, and photographer Travis Emery Hackett 6-10

Bushwick Summer Fridays many spaces open late http://www.bushwickgalleries.com/spaces

Interstate Projects 66 Knickerbocker Ave Bushwick exhibition: Maren Karlson Happy Dark 6-9

Soho20 56 Bogart St Busheick exhibition: National Affiliates 2017 Exhibition: She Persisted 6-9

Anthony Philip Fine Art 56 Bogart St Bushwick exhibition: Tariku Shiferaw One Of These Black Boys 6-9

Brilliant Champions 5 Central Ave Bushwick exhibition: Keepsakers Phyllis Boudreaux, Kristin Texeira and Nikita Vishnevskiy 6-9

Shoestring Studio 640 Classon Ave Prospect Heights exhibition: Linear Thinking Robin Meyer, Judy Stone, Bethany Johnson And Corwin Levi 6-8:30

Brooklyn Historical Society Dumbo Museum 55 Water St Dumbo inaugural exhibition: Shifting Perspectives: Photographs of Brooklyn’s Waterfront Berenice Abbott, Rudy Burckhardt, Bruce Davidson, Chester Higgins,  Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, John Matturri, others from noon, opening weekend free

Picture Room 117 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn Heights ceramic and textile sculptural works featured in the performance Transparent Uploads by Hayden Dunham 6-8

Residency Unlimited (RU) 360 Court St (enter the Church through the main entrance) RU talk: Yornel Martinez and Reynier Leyva Novo in conversation with Joaquin Badajoz and Mailyn Machado 6:30 free

The Old Stone House Washington Park 336 3rd St Gowanus dialogue, storytelling, performance, crafts, curated exhibits: Freedom Cities, presented by the Museum of Impact/Upstanders Fest 6-8:30 free

Supersmith 125 Dikeman St Red Hook open studio and preview: Supersmith Summer Preview Party 7-midnight free supersmith.org

Trestle 850 3rd Ave #411 Sunset Park exhibition: Katerina Lanfranco Mystic Geometry

curated by Katherine Murdock 7-9

Industry City 238 36th St Sunset Park WantedDesign Brooklyn  

NARS Foundation 201 46th St 4th Fl Sunset Park Entrée/Encore presents one-night mixed media installation: Katya Grokhovsky The Future is Bright (in progress); conversation: Grokhovsky with Audra Lambert