Art & Design Events, New York, Friday, 7 December 2018

Able Fine Art 143 Orchard St reception: 20th NOKMEE Group Exhibition 6-8

Hales Project Room 64 Delancey St closing reception: Notes on a Permeable Husk Phoebe Bachman, Natalie Kuenzi, Judith Leemann, Kat Richards, in collaboration with Juan Hurtado Salazar 6-8

The Clemente Abrazo Interno Gallery 107 Suffolk St reception: Trill Matrix Nancy Baker, Jaynie Crimmins, Christina Massey, Elizabeth Riley, Christine Romanell, Linda Kamille Schmidt, Etty Yaniv, curated by Elizabeth Riley 6-8
Dashwood Books 33 Bond St book signing: Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa One Wall a Web; Wolukau-Wanambwa speaking with Kristine Potter 6-8

New York Studio School Gallery 8 W 8 reception: Jonathan Silver Drawings and Heads, curated by Marion Smit 6-8
Salmagundi 47 Fifth Ave reception: Annual Thumbox Exhibition 6-9

New School Starr Foundation Hall Room UL102 63 Fifth Ave symposium: The Pedagogy of Design in the Age of Computation Atıf Akın, Associate Professor in Design at Rutgers University; Taeyoon Choi, Co-founder, School for Poetic Computation; Rik Lomas, Founder and CEO, SuperHi; Mindy Seu, Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society. Moderated by Juliette Cezzar, Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons. Student Presenters: Rijk van Zanten, MPS Communication Design; Jack Rieger, BFA Communication Design; organized by E Roon Kang, Director, BFA Communication Design; Brendan Griffiths, Director, MPS Communication Design 1-5 free, rsvp requested

SVA 133/141 W 21 Rm 101C MPS Art Therapy Community Lecture Series: Sandra Ramos-Watt Therapy of the Oppressed: Clinical Care in the Age of Injustice 6:30-8 free

SVA Theatre 333 W 23 MPS Branding Alumni Network presentation: Brandstand 2018: Techlash speakers from diverse backgrounds discuss and examine the pervasive nature of technology and its implication for our society 7-9 free

Center for Book Arts 28 W 27 artist talk and reception: 2018 Master Faculty Fellow Sally Alatalo 6:30  

EFA Project Space 323 W 39 reception: Endless Editions Biennial: Optimism  Marcela Pardo Ariza, Shelly Bahl, Sarula Bao, Mitsuko Brooks, Angela Conant, Sage Dawson, Ricki Dwyer, Sarah Farahat, Divya Gadangi, Sair Goetz, Nicki Green, Iris Grimm, Maya Gulassa, Katie Hargrave, Andrew Kodama, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Cara Levine, Andy Li, Joseph Liatela, Mark McCloughan, Be Oakley, Aparna Sarkar, Rachel Cardenas Stallings, Jia Sung, Kaitlin Trataris, Lindsay Tunkl, Raphael Villet, and Lili White, and more, curated by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo; opening featuring a piece by Gabriel Garza 6-9

AC Institute 16 E 48 readings and presentations: Encountering the Poetic Image: A Conversation on Visual and Written Interpretations Kathline Carr and Kristin Prevallet, moderated by Monika Sosnowski; in conjunction with exhibition Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams 6-8

Gallery MC 549 W 52 8th Fl reception: Transformation Dong Kyu Kim, Ashley Garner, Dieneke Tiekstra, Hisayasu Takashio, Antanas Adomaitis, Yang Mai, Yong Chen, Cheryl Maeder, Sena Kwon, Parisa Ghaderi, Francis Milloy, Maki Fujita, Anna Park, Kristen Palana, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Norbert Garcia, Jingmei Han, Layla Love, Leslie Fry, Jenny E. Balisle, Michele Antenorcruz, Diana Biscaioli, Fiwart, Loren Abbate, Maryamsadat Amirvaghefi, Nicolas Vionnet, Elody Gyekis, Mark McDermott, HakChul Kim, Catherine Adams, Hildegunn Solbø, Mark Harrington, Samantha Passaniti, Allen Terrell, Guli Silberstein, Elham Ataeiazar, Izumi Yokoyama, Despina Zografos, Kiley Ames, Miguel del Rey Vergara, Alain Licari, Ben Pell, Roshan Houshmand, juried by T. Lawrence Wheatman; presented by re:artiste 6:30-9

Focal Point 321 City Island Ave City Island Bronx reception: Holiday Exhibition 7-10

Calico 67 West St #203 Greenpoint reception: Calicornucopia 7 7-10

McNally Jackson Books 76 N 4 Williamsburg book celebration:  Tim Miller Horse Meets Dog hosted by Yvonne Brooks 4

Friday Studio 56 Bogart St Bushwick reception: Winter Solstice Jennie Booth, Mary M Gagler, Katrina Slavik, Tom Thomson, curatec by J. A. Holt  6-8

Amos Eno 56 Bogart St Bushwick reception: Long Night Eric Banks, Candace Jensen, Sam Jones, Charleen Kavleski, Chris Kienke, Stephen March, Robert McCann, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Hatidza Mulic, Heidi Neff, Jose Presman, Ulrike Stadler, and Philip Swan 7-9

Quinlan 106 Van Buren St Stuyvesant Heights reception: Talking Pictures 2nd Invitational | Drawing: Interpretations Jeffrey Bishop, Bianca Boragi,  Ford Crull, Don Doe, Robert Franca, Lisa Hein, Andrew Keating, Kerry Law, Zaun Lee, John Mendelsohn, Katherine Powers, Denise Sfraga, Richard Sigmund, Adam Simon, Natalie Simon, Rachel Youens, curated by Paul D’Agostino, Jeffrey Bishop, and Cathy Nan Quinlan 6-8

Mink 614 North Cayuga St Ithaca reception: holiday popup am Fairbanks, Susan Littin, Ronna Mink, Sheryl Sinkow, and Barbara Mink 5-8

FILM OPENING: Aretha Franklin in Amazing Grace. A transcendent documentary, Amazing Grace presents two live concerts, filmed over two nights by Sydney Pollack and his crew, as Aretha Franklin recorded her album of the same name, the best selling gospel album in history. Already an enormous star when she appeared at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, she triumphs in the film which she blocked from being shown in her lifetime. Now that it is available, in a digitally mastered print in which reported problems of synchronization between film and sound have been solved, it proves yet again that she was the greatest female singer in American history. Among others appearing with her onscreen are the Rev. James Cleveland and the composer/conductor Alexander Hamilton. In the audience at one or the other nights were Aretha’s father Rev. C. L. Franklin, Clara Ward, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and hundreds of people transfixed by the spirit. There is no other film that has opened in years that is so truly moving.