Art & Design Events, New York, New Year's Eve, Monday, 31 January 2018

Minerva Durham’s Drawing Studio 293 Broome St party: New Year's Eve get-together 7-1, open mic intermittently from 7:30; please bring poems, dances, songs, friends, water, juice, wine, treats; all welcome

The Invisible Dog 51 Bergen St Cobble Hill immersive sound installation closing reception: Dataatadata: Everything and Nothing Chris Klapper & Patrick Gallagher 6 free

Art & Design Events, New York, Sunday, 20 December 2018

No receptions or special art and design events have been announced for today. Museums and other exhibition spaces are keeping regular hours.  

Art & Design Events, New York, Saturday, 29 December 2018

C.J. Yao 66 Greene St reception: Community V.S. Everything Saturday Exhibition photos by Nick Mcmanus, Irving Paredes, Kayla Rosado, Jorge Bello, Eddie Dibono, CJ Yao, Daniel Rosenthal, David De Hannay, George M. Velazquez, John Despierta, Laritza Corona, more; paintings by Gerry Vewer, Belowkey, Turtlecaps, CJ Yao, Severo Art, Myse The Creator, Lola Lovenotes, Storm Ritter, Mike Hoysak, Soaf, 2ESAE, more; presented by C.J. Yao Gallery + TMJ Arts 3-5 free, reservation Eventbrite; also announced 6-9 free with reservation; drinks $5-10 donation NOTE: check with venue for more information

Viridian 548 W 28 exhibition closing reception: Who's Naughty/Who's Nice: Annual Holiday Show 4-6 champagne and ginger cookies

Gallery MC 545 W 52 reception: Artists of Today: Pop-Up Exhibit (Holiday Edition) Diaja, Samantha Hunt, Andra Maria, Terrell Crockett, and India 2-5 $20 donation

Plexus 198 Greenpoint Ave Greenpoint video presentation: Apparatus: screen-based video and new media art Tyler Calkin, Caleb Foss, Endam Nihan, Ozge Samanci, Jordan Shaw, Billy Sims, Clinton Sleeper, Cecilia Suhr, Carrie Sijia Wang and others noon-5, also Sunday
Transfer 1030 Metropolitan Ave Bushwick moving party and final celebration in the gallery: Trunk Show  LaTurbo Avedon, Daniel Temkin, Alma Alloro, Malcolm Levy, Marisa Olson, Faith Holland, Rick Silva, Lorna Mills, Carla Gannis, Rosa Menkman, more 4-9

Fou 410 Jefferson Ave #1 Stuyvesant Heights reception: Artificial Boundary Jing Lin, Yuan Fang, and Dodo Xinyu Zhang, curated by  5-8, artist talk 5-6 
Spaces Objects Art People (SOAP) 412 Throop Ave Bedford Stuyvesant reception: 4 Artists That Make the World a Better Place Wei Xiaoguang, Wong Ping, Seldon Yuan, Justin Allen 6   

Art & Design Events, New York, Friday, 28 December 2018

No art or design receptions have been announced for today. Most galleries are closed, as are some design showrooms. Museums are operating with regular hours.

Art & Design Events, New York, Thursday, 27 December 2018

Waterside Plaza 25 Waterside Plaza (26th St on the East River) reception: Painter Ladies Michele Bonelli, Clare Stokolosa 6-8

Gallery MC 549 W 52 reception and music: Visual Artists in Residence with Musical Performance Lаvdrim Memedi, Xhezair Rexhepi, Arjan Rufati, music by Laura Krliu 6-8

Gitler &_____ 3629 Broadway Karaoke event hosted by Team Macho; in conjunction with venue closing exhibition Your New York 6-10

Note: Most  commercial art galleries and many non-profit alternative spaces are closed for the Holidays, with re-openings scheduled for early January. Among those open are Mitchell Algus, 132 Delancey St, which is always worth a visit; the current exhibition: Magalie Comeau New & Recent Paintings.  

Art & Design Events, New York, Boxing Day, 26 December 2018

Blue Mountain 530 W 25 reception: Holiday Pop-up Exhibition benefit for the New Sanctuary Coalition 5-8 free

Art and Design Events, New York, Christmas, Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Virtually all commercial galleries, design showrooms, and non-profit alternative spaces are closed today. Almost all museums are also closed for the holiday. Among the few that will be open:

 Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 36 Battery Pl 10-6

 Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge St noon-5

 Jewish Museum 1109 5th Ave open 11-5

Art & Design Events, New York, Monday, 24 December 2018

There are no gallery or showroom receptions scheduled for today, nor are there any panels, lectures, or talks on the calendar. Museums are open, but some have shortened hours; check with the venue before going.

Art & Design Events, New York, Sunday, 23 December 2018

Salmagundi Club 47 5th Ave presentation about ‘Those Who Keep Us Free’: A Veterans Exhibition; speakers: VA NYHHS Creative Arts Therapist Beryl Brenner and Veterans 2

Gordon Robichaux 22 E 17 Holiday sale: Jack Pierson Remnants: a print sale; David Yarritu Oh! You Pretty Things installation -- tag sale event noon-7

Connie Rose Studio 64-07 Forest Ave Ridgewood Connie Rose Festive Open Studio, drinks and smiles provided 1-8

Kosti's Last Sunday Bookstore 10-51 Wyckoff Ave at Norman St (NE corner) Ridgewood works by Richard Kostelanetz, including the forthcoming 3rd edition of A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes (2019) noon-5

Ground Floor 343 5th St Gowanus 6th Annual Holiday Show final day: Gifts by Artists 1-6

440 Gallery 440 6th Ave reception: 🎄 🎁 Holiday Party!! 🎁🎄: ’toast the holidays in style and enjoy home made treats by gallery artists’ 5-7 NOTE: The current exhibition 14 Annual Small Works Show is well worth the visit.

Art & Design Events, New York Area, Saturday, 22 December 2018

High Noon 106 Eldridge St catalogue launch and holiday cocktails: Fatemeh Burnes Capriccio, essay by Rachel Youens 6-8

+81 Gallery 167 Elizabeth St gallery closing reception: Holiday & Farewell Party 6-8

Josée Bienvenu 529 W 20 reception: microwave, x Jonathan Callan, Romany Everleigh, Celeste Fitcher, Adam Henry, Anne Lindberg, Marco Maggi, Alicia Mihai Gazcue, Liliana Porter, Jonathan Rider, Sam Roeck, Ana Tiscornia, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Luis Urculo, Beto de Volder 11-2

Doosan 533 W 25 exhibition walkthrough: Detaching (Parenthesis) Bang Geul Han, EunJung Park 3-4:30

WSAC Broadway Mall Community Center 96th St and Broadway reception: Open 2019: A Photography Exhibit, curated by Carolyn Reus 2:30-5:30

Amos Eno 56 Bogart St Bushwick artist talk: José-Ricardo Presman 4

Downstairs Projects 1713 8th Ave South Slope dinner event in conjunction with exhibition: Libby Rothfeld Confidence in Motion; food by Giovanni's Family Style 7-10 $25 reservation Eventbrite

Index Art Center 2nd fl 237 Washington St Newark closing reception: Newark Artists Photo Documentary Project We Are the Ghosts of Our Future 6-10  

Art & Design Events, New York, Friday, 21 December 2018

agnès b. Galerie Boutique 50 Howard St book signing: Anthony Jamari Thomas Lamb; part of the Just Paper Book Store, curated by Classic Paris and Red Lebanese for agnès b. 5-7
Orange Art Projects 40 Wooster St closing performances: Anthony Haden-Guest and Lorraine Leckie, in conjunction with exhibition Our New Real is the Surreal curated by Anthony Haden-Guest 7:30

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St performance: Sibyl Kempson 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens: Winter Solstice Healing Ceremony 5 free; screening: Super Shout Maria Baranova-Suzuki’s video portraits of each past ‘Shout’ 7-10 free, registration required

Elizabeth Harris  529 W 20 exhibition closing reception: Thornton Willis Improvisational Structures 3-6

Madison Square Park participatory event: Winter Solstice Procession conceived by Will Epstein and performed in collaboration with Kenny Wollesen and his group 5-5:23

Bryant Hotel Celon Lounge issue launch / Holiday Party: Talent in Motion, hosted by Pierre Michel Salon 7-11 cash bar

Chashama 485 Madison Ave reception: NY Artists Circle members Contemporary Approaches to a Traditional Technique Beth Barry, Fran Beallor, Yvette Cohen, Jane Dell, Karen Fitzgerald, Pauline Galiana, Elanor Goldstein, Peggy Klineman, Barbara Lubliner, Elizabeth Mead, Gammy Miller, Janie Milstein, Linda Lee Nicholas, Anne Raymond, Phyliss Rosser, Andra Samelson, Linda Schmidt, Linda Stillman, Audrey Stone, Robin Tedesco, curated by Christina Massey 6-8

Amos Eno 56 Bogart St Bushwick Performance Salon Dirty Churches, Heather Layton, Sharilyn Neidhardt, Neill Prewitt, others, as part of Long Night 6

Grand Army Plaza Prospect Heights ritual: Mama Donna Henes, New York's  Urban Shaman 44 Annual Winter Solstice Celebration 5pm; exact solstice moment: 5:23pm

Art & Design Events, New York, Thursday, 20 December 2018

On Canal Wallplay Network events: 326 Canal St opening: lull by avcnyc; Vincent Houzé 6-9; 320B Canal St sound performance: Sophia Sobers Synthetic Sound Bath, as part of installation Power Tools 7-9   

frosch&portmann 53 Stanton St music: The Loisaida Trio: Ivan Lacina (guitar and vocals), Ron Raymond (pedal steel guitar and percussion), and Pablo Tobo (percussion and vocals); current exhibition: Tabula Rasa 6-8

Art on A Gallery 24 Avenue A reception: 6th Annual Wendigo Holiday Group Art Show Carrie Beene, Bob Bunny, Robert Butcher, Cavier Coleman, Rafael Colon, Linus Coraggio, Mike Diana, Dom Dirtee, Emma-Louise Dollhaus, Steve Ellis, Fly-O, Ron Goblyn, J. Gonzalez-Blitz, Mario Grillo, Fred Harper, Sean Harris, Ville Juurikkala, Ariella Kadosh, Sue Karnet, Wayne Kral, Elizabeth Kresch, Reiko Lauper, Lucky Lawler,Eli Livingston, Marina Marchand, Anjanette McGrath, Steven Pennella, Gea* Philes, Alan Rand, Frank Reynoso, Rik Rocket, Angela Rogers, Pamala Rogers, Melanie Scholtz, David Schwartz, Cathy Traynor, Li Trincere, Johnny Velardi, Gina Volpe, Jon Zeh 7-9

Gallery at the Sheen Center 18 Bleecker St reception: Oksana Prokopenko The Eternal Divine: The Art of Oksana Prokopenko 5

Gordon Robichaux 22 E 17 sales: Jack Pierson Remnants: a print sale; David Yarritu Oh! You Pretty Things installation -- tag sale  event noon-7 through Sunday

Denise Bibro 529 W 20 reception: Art From the Boros VI Cecilia André, Hector

Andujar, Margery Appelbaum, Claudia Doring Baez, Beth Bailis, Fran Beallor, Kenneth

Burris, Ai Campbell, Elizabeth Myers Castonguay, Carol Chave, Elaine Clayman, Bob

Clyatt, Janet Cook, Stephen Cox, Jennifer Croson, Sarah Dineen, Vita Eruhimovitz,

Laura Fantini, Michael Filan, Sharon Florin, Eileen Hoffman, Iliyan Ivanov, Sandrine

Kern, Barbara Korman, Kendrick Mar, Stephanie Marcus, Kathleen Migliore-Newton,

Harvey Milman, Maria Morabito, Cynthia O'Connor, Vittorio Ottaviani, Alfred Nadel,

Zahra Nazari, Douglas Newton, Denise Penizzotto, Michael Poast, Ben Ponte,

Aleksandar Popovic, Gail Postal, Chelsea Ramirez, Toni Ann Serratelli, Sasha

Silverstein, Sheila Smith, Geoffrey Stein, Jeff Sundheim, Paul Antonio Szabo, Carlos

Torres-Machado, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Lucy Wilner, and Steve Zolin 5:30-8:30

Crossing Art 559 W 23 reception: Woolga Choi The Play 6-8

Noho-M55 530 W 25 reception: Members’ Exhibition 5-7:30

Printed Matter 231 11th Ave book launch and conversation: Shirin Neshat Dreamers (Ivorypress); Neshat speaking with Phong Bui 6-8

Ceres 547 W 27 reception: Exposure 2018 6-8

Maude 63 N 3 No. 6 Williamsburg design shopping: Winter Studio with Aberlour Scotch 6-8 reservation Eventbrite

Cluster 200 6th St #3E Gowanus Meet the Artist conversation: Leila Plouffe with curator Jill Benson; in conjunction with Arriving Outside in a Blush Van curated by Jill Benson 6-7:30

Art & Design Events, New York Area, Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Downtown by Philippe Starck 15 Broad St Space WS 7th Fl reception: Gallery des Artistes Art Group Exhibition 6-9

Hunter College MFA 205 Hudson St Alumni Lecture: Katherine Behar 7-9 free

Canal Street Market 265 Canal St reception: Photo & Print Show presented by American Design Club 6-9

Emmanuel Barbault 325 Broome St reception: Jérôme Stünzi Basically Submersible 6-8

HMÉTÉ 251 Elizabeth St sip, shop, and drawing event: Holiday Card Illustrations by Alec Dadisman 6-8 reservation Eventbrite

AIA New York Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place panel: Paul Rudolph: Influences and Opportunities introduction by Kelvin Dickinson (President, Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation), speakers: Kate Wagner (Founder, McMansionHell), y Eric Wolff (Owner, the Fullam Residence), John Wolstenholme (AIA, LEED AP, Principal, Wolstenholme Associates LLC), Andrew Bernheimer (FAIA, Principal, Bernheimer Architecture), Robert Miklos (FAIA, Founding Principal, designLAB architects), Ben Youtz (AIA, Partner designLAB architects), Kelly Haigh (AIA IIDA, Partner, designLAB architects) 6-8 $10

Fort Gansevoort 5 Ninth Ave panel: My Silences Had Not Protected Me Jasmine Wahi, Natalie Frank, Ogemdi Ude, Amy Wilson, Anastasia Warren 6 rsvp lucy@fortgansevoort.com

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St performance: Sibyl Kempson 12 Shouts to the Ten Forgotten Heavens, twelfth and culminating Shout in three-year cycle of performances 10:30-6 free with museum admission, continues through Winter Solstice on Friday

Paula Cooper 524 W 26 annual music presentation: S.E.M. Ensemble Performance Looking Back & Onward — S.E.M. in 1986 & 2018 doors 7:30, performance 8 $20

NYPL Mid-Manhattan Branch 476 Fifth Ave Meet the Artist talk: Alison Rossiter 12:30

AC Institute 16 E 48 4th Fl panel: Responding to the Poetic Image Peter Dudek, Alyssa Fanning, Emma Tapley, Jo Ann Walters, and Rebecca Norris Webb; moderated by Monika Sosnowski; in conjunction with Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams 6-8

Frick Collection 1 E  70 Alex Gordon Lecture in the History of Art: Susie Nash Seeing God and the Duke: The Charterhouse of Champmol 6-7

New York School of Interior Design 170 E 70 panel: Black Interior Designers Network: Breaking the Mold Keia McSwain with Alicia Bailey, Kesha Franklin, Beth Diana Smith, Saudah Saleem, Keita Turner 6-8 $15

A/D/O 29 Norman Ave Greenpoint Good Mirrors Aren't Cheap talk: Ming Smith and Delphine Diallo on how individuals understand their identity through portraiture and the role photography plays in shaping one’s personal sense of self and possibility,  facilitated by Dani Kwateng-Clark 7-9 free, reservation Eventbrite

Shore Hill Community Room 9000 Shore Road Bay Ridge presentation and book signing: Marianna Randazzo Italians of Brooklyn 7:30 free

J. Cacciola • Gallery W 35 Mill St Bernardsville NJ celebration: Whiskey & Wishlists meet guest artist and wood worker Mickey McCaan and enjoy a food sampling by Andrea Lekberg from The Artist Baker 6-8

Art & Design Events, New York, Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Jerome Dreyfuss 475 Broome St Holiday Shopping Party presented with Blogger and the Brand Shop 6-8:30 https://bloggerandthebrandshopdreyfuss.splashthat.com/

Karma 188 E 2 conversation: Helen Molesworth with Dike Blair 6:30

AIA New York Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place Samuel Ratensky Memorial Lecture: Maurice Cox, introductions by Anita Laremont and Marc Norman 6:30-8:30 $10

Cooper Union 41 Cooper Gallery 41 Cooper Square 30min performance: Northeast Corridor or: Windows organized by Jackson McGrath SOA'19 6:15

New York Studio School 8 W 8 panel in conjunction with Jonathan Silver, Drawings and Heads Phong Bui, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Bruce Gagnier, and Tom Otterness, moderated by Michael Brenson 6:30

Salmagundi Club 47 5th Ave  Those Who Keep Us Free’: A Veterans Exhibition curated by Beryl Brenner

192 Books 192 Tenth Ave book launch and discussion: Jane Benson A Place for Infinite Tuning (Skira); Benson in conversation with Sara Reisman, Steven Matijcio and Nico Israel 7

Hauser & Wirth Publishers 548 W 22 reading: Parallax: Poetic Visions, Reader as Voyeur Cristine Brache and Aurelia Guo, presented in association with Zoe Brezsny 7-9 free, reservation required

Field Projects 526 W 26 one night only screening reception: Hierophant Hysteria Katy McCarthy, Joiri Minaya, Rose Nestler, Mavi Philips, Jennifer May Reiland, curated by Kris Racaniello  6-8

Penumbra Foundation 36 E 30 book launch: ASMR4, Vol. 5 -- Alfred Cook: Archival Photographs from The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library 6-8

Bally 689 Madison Ave benefit shopping: Bally & Georgie Badiel Foundation Let’s Celebrate: Christmas Shopping Evening; conversation: Georgie Badiel-Liberty and Myrdith Leon-McCormack, presented by WBM; champagne and hors d’œuvres 5-8 free, reservation Eventbrite

Gitler &_____ 3629 Broadway final show at space: Your New York 6-10

Flux Factory 39-31 29th St Long Island City artist talk and audiovisual performance: Anton Lapov lap0fvw 7-10

NU Hotel 85 Smith St Cobble Hill art and music reception: Tom Bennett Monotypes and Paintings; hosted by Tabla Rasa and Welancora 6-9; performance by Rough Cuts (duo Ira Bolterman and Joseph Anastasi) 7:30

NARS Foundation 201 46th St 4th Fl Sunset Park end of the year party: NARS After Hours 6 reservation required events@narsfoundation.org