Art & Design Events, New York Area, Wednesday, 27 March 2019

R & Company 82 Franklin St closing reception: The Artisans, a furniture collaboration between Chapas Textiles and Jouffre 6-8 rsvp events@r-and-company.com  

Hunter MFA 205 Hudson St Flex Space MFASO Lecture: Anthony Hawley 7 free

Con Artist Collective 119 Ludlow St reception: March Residney Showcase 7

Anita Shapolsky 99 Spring St reception: Concept: Abstraction Seymour Boardman, Ilya Bolotowsky, Peter Bonner, Ernest Briggs, Denise Carvalho, Perez Celis, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Walter Gaudnek, Carl Hecker, Michiko Itatani, Richards Ruben, Nancy Steinson, Wilfred Zogbaum 6-8

Artifact 84 Orchard St reception: Alejandra Stier Paintings; Forencia Zampieri Paintings 6-8

LMAK 298 Grand St reception: The Green Life Simone Bodmer Turner, Simone Frazier, Kora Monigle, Yuko Nishikawa, Maryam Turkey and Lydia Xynogala 6-8

Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects 208 Forsyth St reception: Paul Resika Through the Trees 6-8

International Center of Photography 250 Bowery In Conversation: For Freedoms Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman 6:30-8 free, reservation suggested

Dashwood Books 33 Bond St book launch: Marie Tomanova Young American (Paradigm Publishing) 6-8

AIA New York Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Place panel: Women-Built NYC | Three Decades of Public Design Keri Butler (Deputy Director, NYC Public Design Commission); Rebecca Macklis (Design & Special Projects Manager, NYC Public Design Commission)  Cynthia Kracauer (AIA, Executive Director, Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation), Jacqueline Ebanks (Executive Director, New York City Commission on Gender Equity) 6-8 $10 sold out

NYU Steinhardt 34 Stuyvesant St reception: BFA Thesis Exhibitions (Part I) Sasha Ballard, Candace La, Chae Won Lee, Taryn Deleon Mendiola, Brianne Nagle, Abigail Phipps, Erica Rawald, Bryce Sawyer and Nora Wang 5-7

Lobby 55 5th Ave Art in Buildings reception: Armita Raafat Untitled 6-8

New School Lang Community and Student Center Arnhold Hall 55 W 13 Room I-202 Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Patricia Cronin 7-9 free

New School Auditorium Room A106 Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall 66 W 12 AIGA conversation between graphic and type designers: NY | Type x Graphic Design: Relationships & Collaboration Elizabeth Carey Smith, June Shin, Lisa Smith, Nina Stössinger, and YuJune Park 6:30-8:30 $30

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St exhibition: Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s organized by David Breslin with Margaret Kross members preview noon-6; lecture-performance by Taeyoon Choi Distributed Web of Care with Chancey Fleet, Jonathan Dahan, and stewards and students from the School for Poetic Computation 6-7:30 at capacity

Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18 exposition: Affordable Art Fair preview 6-9, ticketed; fair continues through Sunday

ChaShaMa 320 W 23 talk: Alex Strada Artist Contract 2017 in conversation with Lauren van Haaften-Schick , as part of Double Negative 7

CUE Art Foundation 137 W 25 perfromance: Camilo Godoy En Vivo y En Directo 7
Odetta 269 11th Ave Meet the Artist: Gelah Penn; in conjunction with exhibition  Femmes Fatales noon-2

Center for Book Arts 28 W 27 roundtable: Politics of Place curator Alexander Campos with artists Jason Lujan, Juana Valdes, and Tammy Nguyen 6:30

CUNY James Gallery 365 5th Ave exhibition reception and gallery talk: ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant; speakers: artist Ellen Rothenberg and curator Katherine Carl 6-8

Lower East Side Printshop 306 W 37 6th Fl reception: Awaken  jc lenochan, Felix Plaza, Sarah Faux, Judith Rubenstein, Nina Feigin, Naomi Nakazato, Yesuk Seo, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch 6-8

EFA Project Space 323 W 39 reception: In the Presence of Absence Inbal Abergil, Emily Carris, Leigh Davis, Valery Jung Estabrook, Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Nene Humphrey, Melinda Hunt, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, M. Carmen Lane, Todd Shalom, curated by Jillian Steinhauer; performance by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko 5-8, curatorial walk-through 5,  

Nailya Alexander 41 E 57 exhibition: Masters Of 20th Century Soviet Photography

Bergdorf Goodamn 754 5th Ave 4th Fl book celebration: John A. Tiffany Dawn: The Career of the Legendary Fashion Retailer Dawn Mello (Pointed Leaf Press), presented by Bergdorf Goodman and Linda Fargo 6-7:30 rsvp@pointedleafpress.com

Bard Graduate Center 18 W 86 discusssion: Artist Perspectives: Contemporary Jewelry and Ancient Technique Nicole Jacquard, Anya Kivarkis, Emiko Oyea, and Sasha Nixon 6:30-8 $8

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum 2 E 91 book panel: Stephen Talasnik Unearthed; Stephen Talasnik in conversation with Annie Kwon (senior associate, SHoP Architects), Joanne Stryker (Dean of Experimental+ Foundation Studies, Rhode Island School of Design), moderated by Julie Burstein 6:30-8:30 $15

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave talk: Working for Bill: Close-Up on a Fashion Legend production artist John Kurdewan in conversation with designer and author Steven Stolman on photographer Bill Cunningham 6:30-8:30 $20 sold out

Columbia University Faculty House 64 Morningside Drive South Asia Institute panel: Art in Contested Political and Cultural Terrains, Asia MC Kash, hip-hop singer from Kashmir; Tenzing Rigdol, painter, poet, visual artist from Tibet; Maria Madeira, painter, visual artist from Timor-Leste; organized by the Committee on Global Thought 6:30-8 free, registration required

Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse reception: Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing organized by Gerardo Mosquera 6-8 free, rsvp Eventbrite

St Joseph’s College 245 Clinton Ave Clinton Hill gallery talk: Transformers curated by Meridith McNeal 12:40

Pratt Myrtle Hall Room 4E-3 200 Willoughby Ave Clinton Hill Digital Arts Lecture Series: Luciano Piazza 12:45-1:45 free

Pratt Higgins Hall Auditorium 61 St James Place Clinton Hill Pratt Photography Lecture: Zoe Leonard and Shannon Ebner in conversation 7-8:30 free

Stand4 Gallery and Community Arts Center 414-78th St Bay Ridge collaborative writing workshop and poetry reading: Nicole Fennimore; everyone welcome and no writing expertise needed; in conjunction with Jeannine Bardo’s Long Time Passing/ A Campfire Story 7

Project for Empty Space 2 Gateway Center Gallery Newark reception: Narrative Threads Aimee Gilmore, Katrina Majkut, Julie Marie Seibert, fayemi shakur, Sara Jimenez, and Sophia Wallace  6-9