Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday, 13 January 2021

A daily compilation of suggestions for the continuing appreciation of art and design in dire times

VIRTUAL EVENTS

Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: The New Social Environment #211: Radical Poetry Reading with Sharon Olds Poet Sharon Olds curates the 20th Radical Poetry Reading, featuring Toi Derricotte, Yusef Komunyakaa, Danez Smith, and Leila Chatti 1pm link 

Scandinavia House first of two online panels: Jonas Mekas: Filming Independence Lithuania and the Collapse of The USSR, dedicated to Jonas Mekas and his last book, Transcript 04 44’ 14” Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR edited by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi (Humboldt Book); speakers: Francesco Urbano Ragazzi Giovanna Silva, Pascal Le Segretain, and Oona Mekas, with special guest Vytautas Landsbergis, Head of State of the Republic of Lithuania 1pm Zoom link 

Utah Museum of Fine Arts Virtual Town Hall: Elevating Black Lives presented by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in celebration of the opening of Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem; speakers:  Connie Choi, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Meligha Garfield, Director of the Black Cultural Center at the University of Utah, Erika George, Director of the University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center, and Samuel D. Thurman Professor of Law at the S. J. Quinney College of Law; moderated by Nubia Peña, Director, Utah Division of Multicultural Affairs, and Q&A to follow with Jorge Rojas 6pm Facebook Live link; Zoom link 

Village Preservation book talk: Elizabeth Thomson Joan Baez: The Last Leaf (Palazzo Editions); the author speaking with music historian Arthur Levy and singer-songwriter David Massengill 6pm Zoom link 

Municipal Art Society virtual tour: Apollo Theater with Billy Mitchell 6pm $25 link 

Hunter College MFA film screening and panel discussion: Countering Erasure Tourmaline, Howardena Pindell, and Ayesha Williams of The Laundromat Project, moderated by Siona Wilson ; part of the Symposium A Sense of Place; screening  of films by Tourmaline and Pindell 7-7:45,  conversation 7:45-8:45 free, Zoom link  

Museum of the City of New York talk: American Utopia: David Byrne and Maira Kalman in Conversation Byrne and Kalman speaking with WNYC's Alison Stewart 7pm registration required; donation suggested link  


NEW YORK EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS ON-SITE TODAY no reception unless noted 

Essex Street Maxwell Graham 55 Hester St exhibition: Bad Driver Jay Chung and Q Takeki Maeda 

Magenta Plains 94 Allen St exhibition: Martha Diamond 1980—1989

Harper’s Chelsea at 534 W 22 exhibition: Spencer Lewis Six Jutes (2) open 10-6

Winston Wächter exhibition: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Part One Tom Baril, Rena Bass Forman, John Bowman, Nicole Charbonnet, Susan Dory, Betsy Eby, Ann Gardner, Heather Hutchison, Andreas Kocks, Ethan Murrow, Angelina Nasso, Erin Parish, Tony Scherman, Michael Schultheis, Julie Speidel, Peter Waite, Hiro Yokose

Blue Mountain Gallery 547 W 27 #200 exhibition: New Year / New Space: Blue Mountain Gallery Artists Inaugural Exhibition on 27th Street noon-6

Society of Illustrators 128 E 63 exhibitions: Illustrators 63: Uncommissioned, Advertising, Institutional, Surface/Product Design; Works from the Permanent Collection; David Grove A Retrospective 


ONLINE EXHIBITIONS, PRESENTATIONS, and VIEWING ROOMS 

Performa online video exhibition: Lean Justin Allen, Jen Everett, Devin Kenny, Kalup Linzy, Rene Matić, Sadé Mica, and Leilah Weinraub, curated by Legacy Russell link 

Marian Goodman Gallery online viewing room: Multiples, Inc. 1965-1992 link 


IN MEMORIAM

Photography editor and poet Alice Rose George (October 23, 1944--December 22, 2020)

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