Art & Design Events, New York, Tuesday, 10 October 2017

China Institute 40 Rector St talk: Keziah Chan From Han Emperors to Jewelry Connoisseurs: Unveiling the Mysteries of Jade 6-8 $10

Hercules Art Studio Program 25 Park Place exhibitions: Ofra Lapid Crosswords 6-9 rsvp info@herculesart

Helena Anrather 28 Elizabeth St book launch and conversation about scent: What Is Known Miriam Simun, Andreas Keller, John Brahms, and Sam Hart 6:30 rsvp info@helenaanrather.com.

International Center of Photography 250 Bowery artist talk: Lauren Greenfield 6:30-8 free

AIA Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Pl Oculus Book Talk: Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political edited by Mohsen Mostafavi; speakers: Michael Arad, Keller Easterling, Mohsen Mostafavi 6-8 $10

NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute 285 Mercer St Decolonizing Vision Speaker Series: Sama Alshaibi Unchain My Feet; presented with the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 6-8

Cooper Union Frederick P. Rose Auditorium at 41 Cooper Square Intra-Disciplinary Seminar (IDS) Public Lecture: Jordan Scott Lanterns at Guantánamo 7 free
Cornelia Street Café 29 Cornelia St exhibition: David Lavine Cut It Out! 5:30-7

New York Studio School 8 W 8 talk: Peter Saul On His Work 6:30 free

Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Ave Louis Comfort Tiffany Centennial Lecture: Debbie Wells 6 $15

Aperture Foundation 547 W 27 talk: Artist Talk: Daniel Gordon; presented in collaboration with the Photography Program at Parsons School of Design 6:30 $5

Museum at FIT 7th Ave at 27th St Haft Theater synposium: Fashion, Science, and Exploration free

 morning session 10-1

  welcome: Joyce F. Brown: introduction: Valerie Steele;  papers: Patricia Mears Fashion from the Extreme: The Poles, Highest Peaks, and Beyond; Melissa Marra Force of Nature; Lacey Flint The Explorer’s Club: A Brief History;  Christopher Breward Survival of the Fittest: Thinking Through Fashion in the Nineteenth Century; Edwina Ehrman Fashioned from Nature

 afternoon session 2-5

  Norma Kamali in conversation with Patricia Mears; Lucy Norris Fashion and the Wild Woman; Elizabeth Way Space Age Fashion: Looking Back at the Future; Ariele Elia Ocean Exploration: Fashions from the Deep; Sarah Pickman Polar Exploration and Clothing: Thinking Through Many Layers; Jonathan Faiers Fur: The Final Frontier

Roger Smith Hotel 501 Lexington Ave Professionals in the Arts Mentorship Session workshop: It’s All About the Pitch presented by Young Professionals in the Arts (YPA) and Emerging Leaders in New York Arts (ELNYA) 6:30-8:30 $10

Austrian Cultural Forum 11 E 52 exhibition reception: falkeis.architects  active energy building 6:30-8

Asia Society and Museum 725 Park Ave screening: The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg (Dir. Michael Schindhelm, 2017, 93 min) 6:30-8:30 $12

Bard Graduate Center 38 W 86 Leon Levy Foundation Lecture lecture: Andrea M. Berlin Beyond the Temple: Jewish Households from the Maccabees to the Great Revolt against Rome Lecture 1: Mediterranean Cosmopolitans and the Maccabees response by Alex P. Jassen 6:30-7:30 free

92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Ave talk: Arlen Schumer The Centennial of the King of Comics, Jack Kirby 7 $29

Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater 250 W 95 talk: Art as Activism: An Evening with Ai Weiwei conversation between Ai Weiwei and Andrew Solomon presented in collaboration with PEN America's Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) 6 $30

Columbia University Lenfest Center for the Art 615 W 129 talk: Tomás Saraceno 6:30-8

Spoonbill Studio 99 Montrose Ave Williamsburg exhibition: Kathryn Lynch Painting Everyday II curated by Madeleine Mermall 6-9

The Living Gallery 1094 Broadway Bushwick exhibition: Colombian Art in New York 68 artists 8-11 free

Jay Street Bar 68 Jay St Dumbo TCC Presents Conversations: Mihret Kebede and David Goodman 7:30

FiveMyles 558 St John’s Place Crown Heights screening: making sense of it documentary about Robert Yasuda's installation for MOMA PS1's 40th anniversary 7 free

Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Prospect Heights Arts of Korea Exhibition viewing and curator tour with Joan Cummins 6-7;  conversation: Doryun Chong and Byron Kim 7-8:30 $16

Brooklyn Public Library Dweck Center 10 Grand Army Plaza Prospet Heights The Review Panel: discussing exhibitions by JoAnne Carson, Chris Ofili, Peter Saul, Kara Walker; panelists: Dennis Kardon, Lee Ann Norman, and Roberta Smith, moderated by David Cohen 7-9

BRIC 647 Fulton St Fort Greene Stoop Series panel: Black Masculinity and the Style of Resistance Ryann Holmes, Bayete Ross Smith, and Masud “Mikeflo” Asante,   moderated by Monica L. Miller 7 free with reservation

BRIC House Café 647 Fulton St Fort Greene mural: Magali Duzant What Is It, Then, Between Us

TF Cornerstone 33 Bond St Boerum Hill exhibition opening reception with live music: Mia Pearlman Alluvio; music by Latin jazz artist Albert Marques 7-9 postponed without advance notice

Trestle 850 3rd Ave Sunset Park art talk: Daniel G. Hill & Mary Schiliro with Jim Osman and Patricia Zarate; in conjunction with Objectify co-curated by  Hill & Schiliro 7 $5 suggested rsvp trestle@brooklynartspace.org