Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Art & Design Events, New York, Wednesday 17 November

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

ADVISORY  Venues are requiring proof of vaccination to enter. Some require advance reservations. All require masks.  Always check with desired venues before going to any event. 


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

 

NYCxDESIGN Festival multiple events throughout the city; for complete listing of tours, receptions, and talks, both on-site and virtual, see link; The Official Guide to NYCxDESIGN link  


Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York 126 and 128 Baxter St opening: 

Zora J Murff Bold As Brass (or, Third Year Review) 5-8

Andrew Edlin Gallery 212 Bowery screening followed by conversation: Missing People documentary by David Shapiro, featuring Martina Batan and Roy Ferdinand 6:15 screening reservation link 

Morrison Hotel Gallery 116 Prince St benefit sale: Jimmy Webb Collection estate sale benefitting Road Recovery

Cooper Union Rose Auditorium 41 Cooper Square Alex Katz Chair in Painting Artist Talk: Doron Langberg 6:30-8 registration required, free link 

Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art 38 St Marks Pl lecture: Patricia E. Kim Monuments are Ephemeral 7pm free reservation link 

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort St Hess Family Theater and Gallery panel: Pratt Design Symposium 2021: Reinventing Luxury talk 5:30 -7;, cocktail reception honoring the Art of Packaging student award winners 7pm free, information and reservation link  

Rizzoli 1133 Broadway book talk and signing: Full Bleed: New York City Skateboarding Photography Alex Corporan, Andre Razo and Ivory Serra 6pm reservation link 

Museum at FIT Fashion & Textile History Gallery 227 W 27 beginning today: Head to Toe exploring more than two hundred years of women’s dress from 1800 through the early twenty-first century, focusing on the role that accessories play within the total ensembles of Western women’s fashion, as well as the messages that they communicate about social and cultural values

Penumbra Foundation 36 E 30 artist talk: Phillip Maisel 7pm free reservation required link 

Half Gallery 43 E 78 reception: Umar Rashid Ancien Regime Change: Part One --Can You Dig It? -- A Dirge For Cyrus and His Band of Warriors 6-8

Gallery at W83 150 W 83 opening: A New Day Francis Hsueh, Amy Lee, and Christa Lopez 7-9 reservation link 


VIRTUAL EVENTS

NYC Jewelry Week virtual events and conversations from 10:30 link 

Fritz Ascher Society talk: Lily Renée (1921 –currently living in NYC): From Refugee to Renown featuring Trina Robbins and Adrienne Gruben; accompanied by free film screening of ‘Lily’ noon link 

New Museum live virtual tour: 2021 Triennial, “Soft Water Hard Stone” noon-1 free link

SVA MA Curatorial Practice talk: Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Future, Not the Past with members of non-profit art collective Not An Alternative noon link 

The Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: The New Social Environment #431: Radical Poetry Reading with Cynthia Dewi Oka Cynthia Dewi Oka curates the 60th Radical Poetry Reading featuring poetry read by Cortney Lamar Charleston, Airea D. Matthews, Trapeta Mayson, and Rajiv Mohabir 1pm link 

The Municipal Art Society of New York virtual tour: Art Deco 42nd Street, East to West with Anthony W. Robins 6pm $25 link 

NYU Institute of Fine Arts lecture: Steven Weintraub Pictures at an Exhibition: The Perception of Color in the Museum Environment 6pm Zoom link 

New York Studio School Fall 2021 Virtual Evening Lecture Series: Sidney Babcock: Monumental Miniatures: Cylinder seals of Ancient Mesopotamia, ca 3300-500 B.C.  6:30 registration link  

Cooper Union Design Book Conversation: The New York Subway Map Debate Gary Hustwit and Standards Manual 6:30-8 registration required link 

New York Academy of Art Artist Roxanne Jackson in Conversation With Nina Levy 6:30 Zoom link 

The Studio Museum in Harlem panel: (Never) As I Was: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2020–21 Roundtable  Widline Cadet, Texas Isaiah, Genesis Jerez, and Jacolby Satterwhite, moderated by Legacy Russell and Yelena Keller 7-8:30 link 


IN MEMORIAM
Graphic designer Bob Gill (Robert Charles Gill,  January 17, 1931-December 9, 2021)

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