Art & Design Events, New York, Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Chinatown Soup 16B Orchard St performance: Performance Anxiety Kira deCoudres, Lena Deutsch, Alexandra Lake, Shella Malaprop, and Claribel Jolie Pichardo 7 $10 doantion

An Choi Restaurant 85 Orchard St opening: Cindy Trinh Streets of Vietnam: Pop-up Exhibition 6

Peter Freeman 140 Grand St reception: Eric Hattan, Silvia Bachli between windows 6-8

Bluestockings Books 172 Allen St graphic novel launch: Michael DeForge launches Leaving Richard's Valley 7

Cooper Union Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square Intra-Disciplinary Seminar lecture: Chad Elias Atmosphere as Cultural System 7-8:30 free

Salmagundi 47 Fifth Ave talk: Alex Katlan  History of the Salmagundi Club/Palette Collection 7-8, free, ticket required Eventbrite

New School Hoerle Lecture Hall Room UL105 University Center 63 Fifth Ave New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium: Michael Gerber The American Bystander 7 free

National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South The Rheda S. Brandt Memorial Lecture visual presentation and discussion: Robert B. Koehl Fit for Gods and Kings: Animal-shaped Vases in the Ancient World 6:30

Rizzoli 1133 Broadway book celebration: Kit Kemp Design Thread 6-8

Field Projects 526 W 26 video screenings: A Late Time To Be Living: A Screening for Living on aWarming Planet Vanessa Albury, Caitlin Berrigan, Rachel Garber Cole, Dakota Gearhart, Jeremy Olson, Sarada Rauch, and Kimberlee Venable, curated by Rachel Garber Cole 6:30

Planthouse 55 W 28 reception: Double Life Anders Bergstrom and Ruth Lingen 6-8

Penumbra Foundation 36 E 30 Artist Series talk: Mary Ellen Bartley 7 $12

NYPL 53rd Street Branch 18 W 53 exhibition: Álvaro Alejandro López de la Peña De Natura Libris

Art Students League Mason Gallery 215 W 57 The Student Concours reception: Yarmosky (Drawing); O’Neil, Finkelstein (Painting); Garcia (Sculpture) 6-8

John Rosselli Antiques 306 E 61 book signings: Editors of New York Social Diary (Author), Sian Ballen (Author), Lesley Hauge (Author), Jeff Hirsch (Photographer), David Patrick Columbia (Foreword) Making Rooms Your Own: Lessons From Interior Designers (Rizzoli); Bunny Williams Love Affairs with Houses (Abrams, 2019)) 6-8 by invitation, rsvp events@nivenbreen.com

Americas Society 680 Park Ave book launch: Ruby Rumié Tejiendo Calle/Weaving Streets; Ruby Rumié and Kathleen Sutcliffe in conversation 6:30-8:30 free, registration requested

Freedman 25 E 73 reception: Kit White Walls and Occupied Spaces 6-8

Gagosian Shop 976 Madison Ave conversation and book signing: Glenn Fuhrman, founder of the FLAG Art Foundation, and artist Lawrence Weiner, moderated by Sarah Douglas, editor in chief of ARTnews; book: The FLAG Art Foundation: 2008–2018 6-7 flagshoprsvp@gagosian.com

Consulate General of Greece in New York 69 E 79 reception: Yiorgos Theodorou The Caravan of Innocence 6-8

New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West lecture: Barry Lewis Nature and New York: Victorians "Greening" Their Homes and Cities 6:30 $48

Book Culture 536 W 112 book celebration: New York Rising ( published in association with The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University) with Kate Ascher and Thomas Mellins 7 free

Columbia University Maison Française East Gallery Buell Hall 515 W 116 talk: George Chauncey Rethinking The Closet: New York Queer Life Before Stonewall 4 free, reservation Eventbrite; screening: The Paris Opera (dir. Jean-Stéphane Bron, 2017, 111 min) 6:30-8:30 free, registration Eventbrite

CUNY Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture 141 Convent Ave screening and panel: Unknown New York: The City That Women Built directed by Beverly Willis; presented with  CCNY's Women in Design and the CCNY chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students 6-8 free, reservation Eventbrite

Harlem School of the Arts  645 St Nicholas Ave Cinque Artist Series at HSA talk: James L. Allen, Artist-Photographer of the Harlem Renaissance, with Camara Holloway 6-8

Pratt Higgins Hall South Room 111 61 St. James Place reception: Critical and Visual Studies Senior Thesis Presentation and Reception 5-8

Bjarke Ingels Group NYC 45 Main St  9th Fl Dumbo AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee Beyond the Boards presentation: BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group); speakers: Kai-Uwe Bergmann (Partner, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group) with Daniel Aronberg and Kathryn Thiele 6:30-8:30 $10