Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 19 September 2018

New York Academy of Art 111 Franklin St lecture: Damian Loeb 6:30-8 free

Hunter MFA 205 Hudson St MFASO Lecture: Reverend Jen Miller 7-9 free

Storefront Project 70 Orchard St reception: John Raymond Mireles Surreptitious 6-9

Con Artist 119 Ludlow St reception: Fall Residency Showcase 7-11

Parasol Projects 208 Bowery reception: Pia Sawhney The American Dream, Room 2018 6-10 free with rsvp

NYU Law School D’Agostino Hall 108 W 3 NYU Institute of African American Affairs reception and screening: Celebration of Manthia Diawara film: An Opera of the World (70min); reception / welcome / remarks including Danny Glover, Henry Louis Gates Jr, and a performance by The Illustrious Blacks 6-7; sccreening 7; reception 8:15-9 rsvp nyuiaaa-cbvc-events@nyu.edu wit event name or (212) 998-IAAA(4222)

NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South #201panel in conjunction with Miradas Paralelas (“Parallel Looks”). Iran-Spain: Photographers in the Mirror: curator Zara Fernández, photographers Soledad Córdoba (Spain) and Gohar Dashti (Iran), and Carmen Fernández-Távora, deputy director of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation (in English and Spanish, with simultaneous interpretation in both languages) 6:30-8:30
MFA Project Space 80 Washington Square East reception: Thomas Tomczak 5-7 

Grey Art Gallery 100 Washington Square East gallery conversation: Noel W. Anderson, on neorealist photography, film posters, and fascism 6:30

Swiss Institute 38 St Marks Place exhibitions: Franz Gertsch Polyfocal Allover; Julien Nguyen Evil in the Defense of the Good; SI Reading Room: Julia Tcharfas and Tim Ivison Science of Rehearsal

The Yard Bryant Park 510 5th Ave reception: Tony Dougherty, Gabriel Cosma; presened by Site:Brooklyn 6-8

MoMA 11 W 53 Forum on Contemporary Photography panel A. D. Coleman: Photography Criticism and the Theory of Images Bill Kouwenhoven, Sarah Meister, Alison Nordström, Omar Willey, and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa organized by Roxana Marcoci 6 by invitation only, streamed

The General by Vans Studio 102 N 6 launch party: Subliminal Projects Customade 6-8 reservation required https://vansstudio.queueapp.com/events/40581

Pratt Institute Higgins Hall Auditorium 61 St James Place Clinton Hill artist talk: Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson In the Dark Matter of the Image 5:30-7:30

Pratt Institute Memorial Hall 200 Willoughby Hall The Image as Communication Lecture Series: Shawna X 6-7:30

In Memoriam: film and art theorist and critic Annette Michelson (7  November 1922-17 September 2018)