Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 8 August 2018

Untitled Space 45 Lispenard St closing reception: Defining Form: A Group Show of Sculpture curated by Indira Cesarine 6-8 rsvp events@untitled-space.com

Essex Flowers 19 Monroe St New York Flower Festival performances: Cortney Andrews Outlines 6:30; Y2K Presents: Forever 7:30

Con Artist 119 Ludlow St reception: The Art of Stippling 7-11

Foley 59 Orchard St exhibition: Midsummer Survey

Artifact 84 Orchard St reception: Barbara Pittera Works on paper; Jung-Chan Liao Mixed Media; Gabriela Brioschi Roots; Mauro Martin Photographs 6-8

Van der Plas 156 Orchard St reception: Debra Drexler Water Play 6-8

Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects 208 Forsyth St reception: Jason Stopa The Gate;

Group show: Meghan Brady, Claire Grill, Alison Hall, Jan Muller 6-8

Lichtundfire 175 Rivington St reception: Luxurious Growth Jane Fire, Deborah Freedman, Sandra Gottlieb, Don Keene, Frank Lind, Claire McConaughy, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Jannell Turner, Martin Weinstein, and Frances Vye Wilson, curate dby Robert Curcio and Priska Juschka 5:30-8:30

Root Studio 443 W 18 exhibit and reception: PDN The Curator Awards Pablo Lerma, James Reeder, Paul Adams, Kaitlyn Danielson, Tod Kapke and Wentao Wei 6-8 rsvp Eventbrite

SVA Gramercy Gallery 209 E 23 reception: Summer Residency Program: Illustration and Photography and Video Final Exhibition 6-8

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Blackburn 20/20 323 W 39 reception: SIP Fellows Exhibition Part II Summer Immersion Project Fellowship artists 6-8

NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library Program Room 476 5th Ave book talk: Kurt C. Schlichting Waterfront Manhattan; Schlichting in conversation with Ian Fowler 6:30 free

Chashama 485 Madison Ave reception: Sharon Florin Reflections on the City 6-8

Museum of the City of New York and El Museo Del Barrio 104th St and Fifth Ave Summer block party: Fifth Annual Uptown Bounce: I Love the 90’s 6-9
Gavin Brown’s enterprise 439 W 127 performance: Where's My Basquiat presented by Khemistry & the Harlem Orchestra 7 

McCarren Hotel & Pool 160 N 12 party: Afterwork by Heineken Pool Edition 6-8 rsvp Eventbrite

Victori + Mo 56 Bogart St Bushwick performance: Meg Stein Dirty White Matter with Jessica Harris and Lily Gold 7:30-9

Pioneer Works 159 Pioneer St Red Hook conversation: Complicit Freedom  Claudia Rankine, Jonathan Gray, Jennifer Uleman, and Julia Elena on the ways blondness (as a marker of whiteness) has developed mobility across racial and class lines; in conjunction with exhibition Stamped 7-9 free with reservation

Open Source 306 17th St South Slope artist talk: Xyza Cruz Bacani on We Are Like Air 7