Art & Deisgn Events, New York, New Year's Eve, Sunday, 31 December 2017

Minerva’s Drawing Studio 293 Broome St  The Annual OPEN MIKE New Year's Eve PARTY 8-1am ‘Please bring something to eat or drink and something to sing, read, or recite.’ donations gratefully accepted

Denny 261 Broome St exhibition closing/birthday party: Michael Mandiberg New Work 9pm-1am reservation requested

Con Artist Collective 119 Ludlow St NYE Party 8-2am free

Chashama 266 W 37 exhibition closing: Melissa Diaz Growth Spurts 12:30-4

Riverside Memorial Chapel 180 W 76 memorial service: Dan Talbot of New Yorker Films 9:30am

Art & Design Events, New York, Saturday, 30 December 2017

Forbidden Planet 832 Broadway comics anthology signing: Mine! A Celebration of Liberty and Freedom for All benefiting Planned Parenthood; cover artist Soo Lee, contributors Vita Ayala, Robby Barrett, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Mary Fan, Kelsey Hercs, Joe Illidge, Liana Kangas, Dave Kelly, Fabian Lelay, Diana Leto, Adam McGovern, Matt Miner, Stuart Moore, Mindy Newell, Denny O'Neil, Andrea Shockling, Sheilah Villari, Magdalene Visaggio, and Mark Wheatley, editors Joe Corallo and Molly Jackson, and more 2-4

Atlantic 548 W 28  Tarot Card Reading live with Marcy Currier What’s your question? 3-6

Viridian 548 W 28 closing reception: 47th Annual Holiday Invitational Renee Borkow, Ellen Burnett, Henry Coupe, May DeViney, Bernice Faegenburg, Tazuko Fuji, Alan Gaynor, Wally Gilbert, Kat King, Namiyo Kubo, Matthias Merdan, John Nieman, Stacey Clarfield Newman, Mary Tooley Parker, Filippo Prandi, Srividya Kannan Ramachandran, Oi Sawa, Susan Sills, Ron Moore, Virginia Evans Smit· Angela Smith, Robert Smith, Sarah Riley, Deborah Sudran, Toto Takamori, Bob Tomlinson, Michael Reck, Arlene Finger, Joshua Greenberg, Marie-Ange Hoda Ackad, Kiffi Diamond, Barbara Gerard, Rosemary Lyons, Halona Hilbertz, Flora Hogman, Flash Light, Angela M. LaMonte, Nancy Nicol, Carol Quint, Petronia Paley, Marcia Lloyd, Vernita N’Cognita, Jenny Belin, Katrin Heyer, Ursula Clark, Hawk Alfredson, Maki Hajikano, William Frucht, Harini De, Bryan Smith, Jane Talcott, John Lloyd, Sheila Smith, Vidho Lorville, Susan Hoeltzel, Ayako Bando, Kayo Albert, Meghan McKee, Nancy Kolbert, Naoaki Funayama, William Patrick Armstrong, Cynthia Mailman, Jade Lowder, Ed Herman, Jimmy Salmon, Elizabeth Ginsberg, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Silvia Aviles and others 4-6

Odetta 229 Cook St Bushwick exhibition closing: Excessive Frugality 6-9

Art & Design Events, New York, Friday, 29 December 2017

hpgrp 434 Greenwich St exhibition closing: Takahiro Yamamoto Aging Painting 5-8 information 646-838-8979
Warehouse Wines & Spirits 735 Broadway tasting: Sparklers for New Years Eve - Laurent Perrier Brut and Brut Rosé Champagne 5 free

Art & Design Events, New York, Thursday, 28 December 2017

Art on A Gallery 24 Avenue A exhibition closing: The Wendigo Fifth Annual Holiday Show 6-8 complementary food & drink, all artwork priced for gifting

Atlantic 548 W 28 short stories and photography: Domonick Zanarini Across America by Foot, Bicycle & Canoe 2 and 6 

Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Con Artist Collective 119 Ludlow St exhibition: That's sooo 2017 7-11

Tower 49 Gallery 12 E 49 exhibition tour: Jill Conner on Cordy Ryman's Free Fall 1-2 free, reservation Eventbrite

Art & Design Events, New York, Boxing Day, 26 December 2017

No announcements of special art and design events have been received for today. Most commercial galleries are closed through the week. Museums generally are operating with regular hours. Some design showrooms are open.

Art & Design Events, New York, Christmas, 25 December 2017

Most major encyclopedic museums are closed for the Christmas Holiday. However, the Jewish Museum, the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, and The Museum at Eldridge Street are open. All  galleries and design showrooms are also closed.

Art & Design Events, Christmas Eve, 24 December 2017

No special art and design events have been announced for today. Museums are open, though many will have reduced viewing times. Virtually all commercial art galleries are closed until 2 January. A few non-profits and co-operatives remain open. For any desired venue, check for opening hours before going.

Art & Design Events, New York, Saturday, 23 December 2017

Living Gallery Outpost 246 E 4 exhibition: The Artists Behind The Lens - Show and Sell Puma Perl, Alice Espinosa-Cincotta, Greg Holt, Rosita Roldan, Tony O'Melio, Luigi Scorcia, hosted by Gina Healy 2-9
Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St open discussion about the politics and ethics of representation: Ethics of Looking Whitney Museum Teaching Fellows 4:30 free with museum admission
Gallery MC 549 W 52 music: Oboe and Piano Christmas Concert: Gordana Josifova Nedelkovska on oboe and Nina Kostova on piano 7
WSAC Broadway Mall 96th St & Broadway photography exhibition: Insight Memories 2:30-5:30

Art & Design Events, New York, Friday, 22 December 2017

Vintry Wine & Whiskey 57 Stone St AHA Holiday Pop Up exhibition: Time Being 6-9 cash bar

Stevie Boi 446 Broadway Holiday Pop-Up Store: Holiday Style Boutique open/public Meet & Greet 5-7

CUNY Thomas Hunter Project Space 930 Lexington Ave basement exhibition: Monica Carrier Medium curated by Rachael Gorchov 6-8 guest pass required, available at the desk of the Hunter College main building at 68th & Lexington

Bizarre Bushwick Bar 12 Jefferson St Bushwick exhibition: Marion Le Pennec 8
Space 776  229 Central Ave Bushwick exhibition: Jenna Sunjoo Kang Traces 6-9

Art & Design Events, New York, Thursday, 21 December 2017

Lichtundfire 175 Rivington St mixer and artists reception: Past as Prologue  or the Effects of Modernism on Contemporary Art Greg Brown, Koki Doktori, Augustus Goertz, Don Keene, Mark Kurdziel, D Dominick Lombardi, Alan Steele, Scott Wixon, Gerald Wolfe, and Adja Yunkers 6-8:30

New Museum 235 Bowery performance behind the glass of the Museum’s Lobby window: Justin Vivian Bond My Model | My Self: I’ll Stand By You “public meditation ‘modeling’ under a spotlight, staring blankly into the middle distance, as an homage to Karen Graham”; part of  Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon 3

frosch & portmann 53 Stanton St Glühwein Cheer in conjunction with exhibition KRAAAM Dennis Dawson, Tyler Hildebrand, Eva Lake, Paul Loughney, Fritz Sauter, and Robert Yoder 6-8

June Kelly 166 Mercer St exhibition: 30th Anniversary: Drawings and Photographs  6-8

Downtown Art 70 E 4 party: Light Up the Dark! - A Winter Solstice Celebration food, drink, and good cheer from Downtown Art and FABnyc 6:30-9:30 free, reservation Eventbrite

NYU Abu Dhabi 19 Washington Square North 1st Fl exhibition: Auden Alblooshi Please Don't Put Me Back Together 5:30

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St performance: Sibyl Kempson 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens: Winter Solstice 10:30-6 museum admission

EAI 535 W 22 5th Fl screening: House in the Fields (Tala Hadid, dir.); in conjuction with Adam Putnam's exhibition Portholes 7 reservation tmaxin@eai.org

NoHo-M55 530 W 25 Textile Study Group of New York exhibition: Red 4-7

Nancy Hoffman 520 W 27 Winter Solstice guided meditation; in conjunction with Katerina Lanfranco’s Mystic Geometry 5

Ceres 547 W 27 exhibition: exposure 2017: Week 4 Susan Carnahan, Kevin Garcia, Suzi Jellinek, Kenol Lamour, Yelena Lezhen, Vernon McAuley, Barbara Starishevsky, Stelios Stylianou, Damon Tommolino, Elizabeth Velazquez 6-8

Atlantic 548 W 28 Atlantic Gallery Member Artists Present Tense Sally Brody, Phyllis Chillingworth, Alison Horvitz, Jeff Miller, Roni Sherman Ramos, Melissa Rubin, Carol Taylor-Kearney, Max Tzinman, Joan Walton 5:30-8:30

Chashama 485 Madison Ave exhibition: Madeleine Schachter Glittering Horizons 6-8

Instituto Cervantes 211 E 49 exhibition: Maria Lago A Retrospective 7 free, bec2cultny@cervantes.org 

Outpost 1655 Norman Ave Ridgewood screening, performance, and panel: Distributed Presence crated by Samantha CC; participants: Jerome Austin Bwire, Alima Jennings, Miko Revereza, Ololade Adeniyi, and Alison Nguyen screenings 7-8:30, panel 8:30-10

Bailey Fountain Grand Army Plaza Prospect Heights interactive ceremony: Donna Henes 43rd Annual Winter Solstice Celebration, a ceremony in two parts Part II: Event Begins 11am; Solstice Moment: Lighting the Fire at the Solstice Hour Bringing back the light. Re-igniting the fire in our hearts. Owning it. Pledging it. Manifesting it. Being it. 11:28am

nu hotel 85 Smith St Boerum Hill Welancora Gallery presents exhibition opening reception and book signing: Audrey Anastasi Brooklyn Birches 6-9

Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Con Artist 119 Ludlow St exhibition: The Thing Speaks: Street Art Residency Showcase 2017 Mario Gonzalez, Q40 Liu, In MM, Nicholas Yue 7-11

LMAKprojects 298 Grand St fragrance event: A night with Olivia Bransbourg (Attache-Moi) 7-8 rsvp@lmakgallery.com

Equity 245 Broome St exhibition: Annual Members Invitational Audree Anid, Esperanza Cortes, Jaynie Crimmins, Monica Delgado, Katya Grokhovsky, Zac Hacmon, Ariel Mitchell, Judith Mullen, Janice Sloane and Ilene Sunshine, selected by Eileen Jeng, Benjamin Sutton, and Dexter Wimberly 6-8

Anon Atelier 167 Mott St design shopping: Holiday Party 6-10

Burton 69 Greene St shopping Dollar Pizza Slice NYC Holiday Shopping Night 6-9 rsvp https://dollarpizzaslicenightnyc17.splashthat.com/#rsvp

Alexandre Gertsman 652 Broadway Demo Day & Christmas Party: Starta Accelerator's Batch #4 Demo Day & Celebration, hosted by Starta Accelerator & V Startup Agency; sponsored by Arcona, a blockchain-based augmented reality platform 6-10; events; Demo Day (Cohort #4) 6:30-7:30, wine tasting and  music from pianist  Nargiz Aliyarova and baritone Nigel Smith 7:30-9 free, registration Eventbrite

La Mama Galleria 47 Great Jones St exhibition: La MaMa Family Show 7-9

Cooper Union 7 E 7 Rm 430 Shop Party Potluck & BYOB 8-midnight

Mid-Manhattan Library at 42nd Street 476 Fifth Avenue (42nd St Entrance) book talk: Secret Brooklyn: An Unusual Guide Michelle Young and Augustin Pasquet 6:30 free reservation recommended

Growroom // Showroom 700 Lorimer St 2nd Fl Williamsburg closing reception: The Likes of Us Tunde Adebimpe, Hisham Bharoocha, Morgan Blair, Tom Bubul, Amy Gartrell, Michael Hambouz, Maya Hayuk, John Orth, Benjy Russell, Wolfy Part II, curated by Maya Hayuk and Alethia Weingarten 5-8

The Commons Brooklyn 388 Atlantic Ave Boerum Hill ThinkOlio talk: Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario Voices in the Pavement: Street Art and Gender Equity 7:30 $12

Bailey Fountain Grand Army Plaza Prospect Heights interactive ceremony: Donna Henes 43rd Annual Winter Solstice Celebration, a ceremony in two parts Part I: Moment of Truth: Standing in the Shadows on the Longest Darkest Night of the Year. Calling out the dark. Looking at it face to face. Naming it. Claiming it. Feeling it. Understanding it. 11:28pm bring drums, percussion instruments, and lots and lots of spirit. Event begins 11pm 

Art & Design Events, New York, Tuesday, 19 December 2017

Artists Space 55 Walker St readings; Land Mass Natalie Diaz, Demian DinéYazhi', Sonia Guiñansaca 7 $5

The Faces 224 Mulberry St exhibition meet and greet: Franz Klainsek TNP 6-8; followed by performance by Tamtam until 9

Jivamukti Yoga 841 Broadway Ave 2nd Fl Holiday book launch: Victoria Moran and JL Fields The Main Street Vegan Academy Cookbook 7-9 free, reservation required Eventbrite

Ivy Brown 675 Hudson St 4N exhibition: Kenjiro Kitade So do I 6-8

National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South ATOA's Critical Dialogues in the Visual Arts panel: Breaking Through the Glass Box Coco Dolle, Holly Shen, Ambre Kelly,  organized, moderated by Catinca Tabacaru 6:30 $8

West NYC Home 135 Fifth Ave (20th St) Holiday Givaway Party 6-9 rsvp@westnyc-home.com

Dia:Chelsea 535 W 22 Artists on Artists Lecture Series: Matt Keegan on Anne Truitt 6:30 $10

Printed Matter 231 11th Ave book conversation and screening: Spencer Tunick Reaction Zone; conversation betweenTunick and Carlo McCormick 5-7

Highline Loft 508 W 26 exhibition: Sara DiOrazio (SDiO) 6-10

Saint Peter's Church Narthex Gallery 619 Lexington Ave exhibition: Susan Woldman Elfer Current Work 7-9

Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Ave Contemporary Confrontations in Art and Architecture converation: Rachel Rose with Preston Scott Cohen, Gerald M. Mccue, And Florian Idenburg 6:30-8 $12

International Studio & Curatorial Program 1040 Metropolitan Ave Bushwick Salon: Søren Thilo Funder and Christian Falsnaes 6:30-8 free

Jane’s Carousel Brooklyn Bridge Park Dumbo Celebrate the last night of Chanukah 4:30-6 free rsvp jewishdumbo@gmail.com 718-858-1232

BAM Fisher Wendy's Subway Reading Room 321 Ashland Pl Center for Experimental Lectures new commissions: Danielle Dean and Naama Tsabar 7

Art & Design Events, New York, Monday, 18 December 2017

Westfield World Trade Center Community Stage 185 Greenwich St book celebration: Author/Illustrator Nathan Pyle NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette; Pyle in conversation with HarperCollins executive editor Cassie Jones 3:30

Roman and Williams Guild 53 Howard St flower shop, restaurant, and mercantile space opening 7 by invitation 212-852-9099

NYPL Mulberry Street Branch 10 Jersey St SoHo Broadway Initiative discussion: A Conversation on the Future 6-8 free

Living Gallery Outpost 246 E 4 exhibition of free art: Free The Art!  6-8

Caelum 526 W 26th St #315 Americans for the Arts benefit event: Culture Links: Exploring Identity Through Cuban Sound and Russian Art sounds by David Oquendo and art by Viktoriya Basina 6:30 $70

CUNY Graduate Center Martin E. Segal Theatre Center 365 5th Ave films and panel: Celebrating the Life and Work of Trisha Brown screening from the Trisha Brown Archive, curated by Cori Olinghouse 2-5, panel with dance experts and members of Trisha Brown Dance Company, including Susan Rosenberg, Diane Madden, and Gwen Welliver, moderated by Frank Hentschke 6:30 free

Museum of Modern Art 11 W 53 T1, Theater 1 and Film Exhibitions Galleries slideshow and conversation: Urban Women: 1980 Marcus Leatherdale and Claudia Summers 4 free, limited seating

Art & Design Events, New York, Sunday, 17 December 2017

Minerva’s Drawing Studio 293 Broome St: exhibition: Michelle Warcho 5-7 reservation 917-375-6086 or springstudio@earthlink.net

Tibor de Nagy 11 Rivington St Afternoon with Artist: Jim Butler; in conjunction with his exhibition Synaptic Reverb 3-6

Eric Firestone Loft 4 Great Jones St #4 Re-Design: Holiday exhibition by writers, staff and panelists to benefit 'artcritical'

Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Ave readings, performances, conversations, and other artistic responses too violence: The Shape of Things organized by Carrie Mae Weems noon-10 $45 for complete list of events see website

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave Long Island City book signing: Tria Giovan The Cuba Archive: Photography from 1990s Cuba (Damiani) 3-5

Plexus Projects 198 Greenpoint Ave #1 Greenpoint video exhibition: Dylan Neuwirth New Folklore 6-10

Soloway 348 S 4 Williamsburg exhibition: Collect Tomer Aluf, Keren Benbenisty, Cliff Borress, Paul Branca, James Brittingham, Nicholas Buffon, Saul Chernick, Keren Cytter, Nancy Shaver, Maryam Hoseini, Taylor Davis, Jessica Dickinson, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Kimia Ferdowsi, Noah Fisher, Raque Ford,Tom Forkin, Marley Freeman, Vanessa Gully Santiago, Marc Handelman, Dmitri Hertz, Eric Hibbit, Erika Hickle, Maryam Hoseini, John Jackson, Branden koch, Fawn Krieger, Sadie Laska, Dani Levine, Pam Lins, Israel Lund, Caitlin Macbride, Annabeth Marks, Lizzy Marshall, Cameron Martin, Charles Mayton, James MIller, Ulrike Müller, Alison Owen, Pat Palermo, Oren Pinhassi, Nikholis Planck, Nick Pilato, Mariana Garibay Raeke, Halsey Rodman, Alyse Ronayne, Rory Rosenberg, Matthew Schrader, Louise Sheldon, Edwin Smalling, Alina Tenser, Terttu Uibopuu, Annette Wehrhahn Emily Wiener, more 6-8

Odetta 229 Cook St Bushwick artist talk: roundtable on studio practice and talismans that kick up in the process, in conjunction with exhibition Excessive Frugality 3 free

ArtHelix 289 Meserole St Bushwick SHIM Studio Residency artist talk: Onel David Naar 3

Transfer 1030 Metropolitan Ave Bushwick Sunday Series  performance: Fei Liu Build the Love You Deserve 5-8, reading 5:30

Studio 10 56 Bogart St Brooklyn exhibition closing: Robert Marshall Passing Through 4-6

Transmiter 1329 Willoughby Ave 2A Bushwick exhibition closing: Giy Nelson Run For Your Life 3-6

Tiger Strikes Asteroid 1329 Willoughby Ave # 2A Bushwick closing reception: The Flat Files: Year Five Exhibition 4-6

Richard Beavers 408 Marcus Garvey Boulevard Bedford Stuyvesant artist talk: Frank Morrison in conjunction with his exhibition Urban Restoration 2

FiveMyles 558 Saint Johns Place Crown Heights artist talk in conjunction with the exhibition Bête Noire curated by Mario Naves 4 free

Gridspace 112 Rogers Ave exhibition: Kirk Stoller Straight to Bent 5-7

490 Gallery 490 Atlantic Ave Boerum Hill show closing: Val and Veronica Don Doe and Rachel Phillips 3-5

Pioneer Works 159 Pioneer St Red Hook performance: Kenya (Robinson) Cenotaphic, in conjunction with the closing of White Man On A Pedestal 4-6 free with reservation

440 Gallery 440 6th Ave Park Slope Show panel: Angel Bellaran, Miguel Otero Fuentes, Allan Bealy, Mary Younkin, in conjunction with exhibition Small Works 4:40 NOTE: The carefully selected pieces in various media in this exhibition are designed for Christmas giving; they would make delightful gifts.