Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 16 January 2019

Soho Photo 15 White St Contemporary Photographers Speaker Series: Meryl Meisler Finding Gems in The Streets 6-7:30 free

Con Artist Collective 119 Ludlow St reception: The Oval Show 7-11

Museum at Eldridge Street 12 Eldridge St Evening Open House: Cut Paper Art of Deborah Ugoretz; in conjunction with exhibition Releasing Words 6-8

James Fuentes 55 Delancey St reception: Jane Dickson All That Is Solid Melts Into Air 6-8

ABXY 9 Clinton St reception: Melvin "Grave" Guzman Détourned 6-8 reservation requested Splashthat

Fridman 169 Bowery reception: John Driscoll Slight Perturbations; Dana Levy The Weight Of Things 6-8

International Center of Photography 250 Bowery conversation: Reimagining the Image: Alinka Echeverria Echeverría speaking with Maya Benton 6:30

NYU 8WSE 80 Washington Square East exhibition: Dora Budor with Andromache Chalfant Benedick, or Else conceived as theater, the work follows a five-act structure as scripted remodeling; Project Space: Gray Area: Stories of Authenticity, Value, and Subversion in Fashion co-curated by MA Costume Studies students under the guidance of Mellissa Huber 5-7

NYU Grey Art Gallery 100 Washington Square East gallery conversation: Rachel Stern on Fritz Ascher: Expressionist 6:30-7:30 free
Swiss Institute 38 St Marks Pl book launch and reading: Carman, with Readings by Ser Serpas and Hannah Black 7

St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery 131 E 10 panel, poetry, celebration: Happy 50th Anniversary, St. Mark’s Historic District! co-sponsored by Saint Mark’s Church, the Historic District’s Council, the Neighborhood Preservation Center, the Poetry Project, and Veselka 6:30 free

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St conversation, book signing, and reception: Judy Glickman Lauder Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception; Glickman Lauder in conversation with  Chris Boot 6:30-8:30 free reservation required

SVA MA Curatorial Practice 132 W 21 conversation: Yvonne Rainer speaking with Ana Janevski and Thomas Lax 7-9 free, reservation requested

Baruch College Sidney Mishkin Gallery 135 E 22 reception: The Aesthetics of Learning Joseph Beuys & Henning Christiansen, Juan Downey, and Catherine Wagner

5-7

Rizzoli 1133 Broadway book signing and discussion: Anthony Feinstein  Shooting War: 18 Profiles of Conflict Photographers; conversation: Anthony Feinstein and Sir Harold Evans 6-8

Hollis Taggart 507 W 27 exhibition: Selections from Our Contemporary Collection Pablo Atchugarry, William Buchina, Audrey Flack, Alex Kanevsky, Li Lihong, Esther Ruiz, and Alan Wolfson, among others

Blu Dot 79 Madison Ave book signing and reception: Less is More (Difficult): 20 Years of Design at Blu Dot (Rizzoli) ; panel: What Makes Good Design Good John Christakos and Maurice Blanks (Co-Founders of Blu Dot) with Andrea Lipps and Glenn Adamson, in conversation with Surface’s Courtney Kenefick 6, cocktails 6:45reservation Kelsey.London@camronpr.com

Ace Hotel 20 W 29 Outsider Art Fair events: Boardroom: Inside Outside Finland virtual reality exhibition of Outsider Art from Finland 5-9 rsvp heini@pertinvalinta.fi; Liberty Hall screening: Voices and Visions: A Night of Short Films curated by Art21 and Raw Vision Magazine doors 6, film program 6:30, reception 8 free,  advance registration required rsvp info@outsiderartfair.com; lobby: Trolling a Hotel: A Site-Specific Troll Museum Pop-Up free

EFA Project Space 323 W 39 reception: Curriculum: Spaces of Learning and Unlearning OlaRonke Akinmowo for Free Black Women’s Library, Becca Albee, Amelia Bande, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Christen Clifford, January Hunt, Carolyn Lazard, Candice Lin & Patrick Staff, Julie Tolentino, Quay Quinn Wolf, Sarah Zapata, curated by Stamatina Gregory & Jeanne Vaccaro 6-8 with performance by Julie Tolentino and Pigpen (aka Stosh Fila); curatorial walkthrough 5-6

NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library 476 Fifth Ave book celebration:  Mary McAuliffe Paris on the Brink; McAuliffe in conversation with Laura Hughes 6:30 standby only

FI:AF 22 E 60 exhibition reception: Taming Nature: Animated Perspectives Vergine Keaton’s The Tasmanian Tiger (2018), Françoise Pétrovitch’s Panorama (2016), and Christine Rebet’s In the Soldier’s Head (2015); ccurated by Courtney Geraghty 6:30-8:30 free with reservation

Arsenal Central Park 830 Fifth Ave reception: Power to the People Kathleen Celestin-Parks, Mira Gandy, Suprina, Burroughs Lamar, Myrna Marrero, Kirk Maynard, Marilyn Nance, Malcolm Pinckney, Victor Polanco, Mario Tavarez, and Steed Taylor, as well as historical images from the NYC Parks Photo Archive; curated by NYC Parks’ Ebony Society 6-8

Simon Lee 26 E 64 exhibition: Clare Woods Password Revolt 6-8?
Lumineers 22 E 73 7th Fl reception: Holy Hoaxes: a Beautiful Deception. Celebrating William Voelkle's Collecting 6-8  

Gagosian 980 Madison Ave reception: Richard Artschwager Primary Sources 6-8

Almine Rech 39 E 78 reception: Michael Hilsman Pictures of M. and Other Pictures 6-8

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave conversation: Intimate Subjects: Thomas Holton and the Lams Holton with the Lam family of Ludlow St, moderated by Nancy Yao Maasbach; in conjunction with exhibition Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers  6:30-8:30 from $12

A/D/O  29 Norman Ave Greenpoint reception: Studio Swine Wave. Particle. Duplex 6:30-9:30 attendance by rsvp  only Eventbrite

Deanna Evans Projects 399 Putnam Ave #1A Bedford Stuyvesant exhibition: Amplification Langdon Graves, Karen Schifano, Crys Yin

Dieu Donné Brooklyn Navy Yard 63 Flushing Ave Unit 112 Building 3 Suite 602 reception: Paper: Pull, Push, Press Noel W Anderson,, Susan Hamburger, Carl E. Hazlewood and Nate Lewis 6-8