Saturday, September 25, 2021

Art & Design Events, New York, Saturday, 25 September 2021

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.


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

One Art Space 23 Warren St Artist Talk & Book Signing: COPE2  Greatness 5:30-8:30 reservation Eventbrite link 

Downs & Ross' Tribeca Apartment Reade St opening: Willa Chasmsweet Wasserman chasm sweet 6-9 for reservation and location iformation see link 

Eli Klein Gallery 398 West St opening: Ho Kan  Geometric Calligraphy 6-8

CUE Art Foundation Duarte Square intersection of Ave of Americas, Canal St, and Grand Stevent: Happening of the Investigation of the Dominican Racial Imaginary in  conjunction with the exhibition Lizania Cruz: Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City 2-5 free reservation link 

High Line various locations performance: Cecilia Vicuña Insectageddon 3-6, film screenings at 3pm and 8pm link  

Talwar Gallery 108 E 16 opening: as the wind blows, 20th Anniversary Exhibition

Matthew Marks Gallery 526 W 22 opening: Jasper Johns New Works on Paper 

Atlantic Gallery 547 W 27 artist talk: Roni Sherman Ramos Escapes 2-5

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery 16 E 71 reception: Gottfried Jäger Intersection of Color 3-6:30

John Molloy Gallery 49 E 78 opening: Parallel Play:Jacob Cartwright, Daniel G. Hill, Mary Schillro, Patricia Zarate noon-5

Bronx Museum of the Arts 1040 Grand Concourse Bronx performance: 5 Indices On A Tortured Body: The Quarantined Body performer: Zachary Tye Richardson; writer: Noah Wertheimer; photographer: Becca Guzzo 2pm free reservation link 


Local Project Art Space 11-27 44th Rd Long Island City performance and opening reception: YunRay Chung : Farewell to Myself  1-4

Figureworks 168 N 6 Williamsburg opening: Figureworks 20/20 20 Years/20 Artists

Doug Metzler, Artem Mirolevich, Arlene Morris, Susan Newmark, Rusel Parish 2-6

Selenas Mountain 63 Woodward Ave. #6321 Ridgewood opening: Dylan Rose Rheingold Way Down in the Green Woods 7-10

Transmtter 1329 Willoughby Ave 2A opening: Material Mutations, part one: The Canvas Lily de Bont, Kathleen Kucka, and Jan Maarten Voskuil 1-6

Living Gallery 1094 Broadway Bushwick View Points Photography event: Faces of Brooklyn Pablo Calderón-Santiago and James Clements description: “Anyone who wishes can attend the event and have a professional portrait taken, either by themselves, or with a partner, friends or family. Each participant will leave with their picture in their hands, as a memento designed to demonstrate the beauty and resilience of our borough” 11-3 free

FIveMyles 558 St Johns Place Crown Heights poetry: Reg Lewis, as part of the current exhibition The Way We See It.4pm 

Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Prospect Heights artist talk: Judy Chicago 2-4 $25

Fou Gallery 410 Jefferson Ave #1 Bedford Stuyvesant opening: Cathleen Clarke Whatever Hour You Woke There Was a Door Shutting curated by Lynn Hai 4-8

St Joseph’s College Council for the Arts Alumni Room Gallery 245 Clinton Ave Clinton Hill gallery talk: Faces 12:40om reservation 718-940-5351

Pratt Institute Mrytle Avenue Plaza, Myrtle Ave & Steuben St events Foundation Expanded a celebration of student-designed projects noon-3, continues Sunday

Smack Mellon 92 Plymouth St Dumbo opening: Tamara Kostianovsky Between Wounds and Folds; Simonette Quamina Canboulay 4-7 

Cathouse Proper @ 524 Projects Contemporary Art Gallery 524 Court St Carroll Gardens opening: Douglas Ross Unstill Point 1-7


Freak Bar Gallery 1208 Surf Avenue Coney Island reception: Larry Racioppo Bowery Street: An Exhibition of Photographs 3-7


NARS Foundation Governors Island Nolan Park 6B opening: Mutable Land Fernando Andrade, Richard Armendariz, Joe Harjo, Mari Hernandez, Ethel Shipton, Jose Villalobos, and Anne Wallace, curated by Marian Casey 2-4

Ross + Kramer 66 Newtown Lane,East Hampton opening: Hunter Potter Gimme Shelter 3-6

Arts Center at Duck Creek 127 Squaw Road Springs screening: Women Artist Filmmakers commemorating their series for the 1975 exhibition “Woman Artists Here and Now” which opened August 23, 1975, at Ashawagh Hall in Springs; organized by Rosalind Schneider, founder of Women Artist Filmmakers and Martha Edelheit, one of the original members, with Soft Network; artists: (Maria Lassnig, Silvianna Goldsmith, Martha Edelhei Carolee Schneemann,  (Susan Brockman, (Doris Chase Olga Spiegel, Rosalind Schneider 7pm


VIRTUAL EVENT

Greene Naftali artist talk: Stop Painting Monika Baer in dialogue with Peter Fischli and John Kelsey, moderated by Eva Fabbris 11am live on Fondazione Prada Youtube and Instagram 

Aperture Conversations talk: Behind the Lens of Joel Meyerowitz & Melissa O’Shaughnessy 11am link

New York Studio School Instagram Live Insights into Process series: artist and NYSS Instructor Sam Levy 1pm link 

Morbid Anatomy illustrated talk: Jungian Psychoanalysis, Image and Imagination: An Online Talk with Jungian Analyst Michael Vannoy Adams 2pm free reservation link

Friday, September 24, 2021

Art & Design Events, New York, Friday, 24 September 2021

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.

BMCC Shirley Fiterman Art Center 81 Barclay St talk: On Art, History, and Public Space Kamau Ware & Risë Wilson 6pm; exhibition tours prior to talk of Mildred Howard’s The House That Will Not Pass for Any Color Than Its Own at Belvedere Plaza and Ned Smyth’s The Upper Room,  at the Esplanade at Albany St  5-6

Cheryl Hazan 35 N Moore St reception: Bianca Nemlec And Then She Grew A Garden

Andrew Kreps 55 Walker St reception: Ernie Barnes; organized in collaboration with Ales Ortuzar 6-8

Bortolami 55 Walker St opening: Nicolás Guagnini 

No Gallery 105 Henry St reception: L  S X I X N X G X U X L X A X R X I X T X Y ~ An invocation by Los Angeles based alchemist and artist, L 4-8

International Center of Photography 79 Essex St exhibitions opening today: Gillian Laub Family Matters; Diana Markosian Santa Barbara; INWARD: Reflections on Interiority Djeneba Aduayom, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Quil Lemons, Brad Ogbonna, and Isaac West 

Storefront for Art and Architecture 97 Kenmare St book launch: Justin Beal Sandfuture; the author in conversation with Felicity Scott about the book on the life and work of Minoru Yamasaki 6-8 reservation link 

Tenri 43A W 13 reception: Home Away From Home XVII : Art and Haiku 6-8 reservation requested

Mazlish Gallery at Triangle Loft 675 Hudson St opening: Dear 2021: WTF !? 6-10

Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave exhibition opens to public today: Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South

NYPL 476 Fifth Ave now open to public: Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library's Treasures free, timed tickets required

Bard Graduate Center Gallery 18 W 86 opening beginning today: Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915

Calico 67 West St suite 203 Greenpoint opening: Janel Schultz: Same and the One 7-9

Tiger Strikes Asteroid1329 Willoughby Ave #2A opening: Night Scenes Richard Bosman, Ethan Greenbaum, Matt Jones, Christina Yuna Ko, Larysa Myers, Sarah Palmer, Alan Reid, Vanessa Gully Santiago, Ginevra Shay, Yuri Yuan and Monsieur Zohore 

Yi Gallery 56 Bogart St Suite 122 Bushwick opening: Lionel Cruet Rhetorics of an Uncertain Future, curated by Dianne Brás-Feliciano 6-8

Undercurrent 70 John St Dumbo artist talk & public reception: un/mute: Exhibition featuring new collaborative works by 28 artists from 10 countries presented also at Austrian CUltural Forum artist talk: moderated by Romanian Cultural Institute in New York / ICR New York Director Dorian Branea, featuring un/mute co-curator Daina Mattis and artists Sydney Shavers (NYC), Luisa Muhr (Austria), Kris Grey (NYC) and more 6-7, public reception 7-9


VIRTUAL EVENTS

Pratt Institute conference: 2021 Fall Forum: Pedagogies of Reparation and Rebuilding 9-4:40 information and registration link 

The Municipal Art Society of New York virtual tour: Flushing 1890-1920 with Bob Singleton 11am $25 link 

El Museo del Barrio symposium: Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21 2-5:30 free on Zoom and FB Live link 

The Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: The New Social Environment #393: Balcony: Elliott Hundley Elliott Hundley in conversation with Andrew Woolbright; concludes with a poetry reading by Catherine Fatima 1pm link 


Thursday, September 23, 2021

Art & Design Events, New York, Thursday, 23 September 2021

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.


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

One Art Space 23 Warren St reception: COPE2 Greatness 6-9 reservation Eventbrite link  

Bienvenu Steinberg & Partner 35 Walker St Inaugural Opening: Hand in Hand John Ahearn, Janine Antoni, Ivan Argote, Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby, Sophie Calle, Marti Cormand, Jackson Denahy, Lou Doillon, Richard Dupont, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Fernanda Fragateiro, Charles Haescot, Christina Hejtmanek, Brad Kahlhamer, Peter Kim, Ted Lawson, Glenda Leon, Marco Maggi, Stefana McClure, Ana Mendieta, Sean Mellyn, Bruce Nauman, Ebony Patterson, Jaume Plensa, Liliana Porter, David Salle, Keris Salmon, Julianne Swartz, Anita Steckel, Ana Tiscornia, Umbo, Sara VanDerBeek rescheduled for next week due to weather

Bortolami 55 Walker St opening: Nicolás Guagnini Heads and Torsos

Mother Gallery 368 Broadway opening: Caitlin MacQueen Ciao! Manhattan 6-8

NowHere 40 Wooster St opening: Sarai Mari Sept.2020 NYC 6-8 reservation link 

IFAC Arts @ The Yard LES 85 Delancey St closing reception: Chris Bors and Joe Waks Punk Waffel Remix curated by Brian Leo and Lee Wells 6-8 text 718-388-3174 for entry 

Richard Taittinger Gallery 154 Ludlow St opening: Mike Perry Impetus Meetings with Myself: Dancing with Ducklegångers 6-9

Aicon Contemporary 35 Great Jones St opening: Judith Has Arrived Aiza Ahmed, Sanie Bokhari, Maya Varadaraj 6-8 reservation link 

Chambers Fine Art 55 East 11 open house: Paper! Paper! II Asia Week Special Exhibition noon-4

High Line Art various locations collective performance: Cecilia Vicuña Insectageddon

Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18 exposition: Affordable Art Fair through Sunday ticketed link 

Pen and Brush 29 E 22 reception: Deborah Jack 20 Years 6-8

Montague Contemporary 526 W 26  4th Fl exhibition: Delano Dunn Snowfall in LA 6-8

SVA Chelsea Gallery 601 W 26 beginning today: MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Thesis Exhibition 2021

High Line Nine 507 W 27 closing reception: Lydia Baker 6-8 reservation link;  opening reception: Roya Khadjavi Projects: Revisiting Fragments and Entities 4-8 reservation link 

Fotografiska New York 281 Park Ave South talk: Looking at WarhoL: A Conversation with Vince Aletti and James R. Hedges, IV. 7:30-9 $35 

Project Art Space 99 Madison Ave 8th Fl, reception: Painting by Proxy: Elimination of the Hand-made Mark.Anoka Faruqee and David Driscoll, Ellen Hackl Fagan, Stephen Maine, curated by Joan Grubin 5:30-7:30

Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave exhibition: Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South

Forum 475 Park Ave opening: William Beckman Five Decades of Self-Portraits  2-6, film program 3 and 8 information link 

Leo Koenig Inc, 958 Madison Ave 3rd Fl opening: Radiocontrast: Works by Sherrie Levine and Wolfgang Tillmans

Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Prospect Heights Brooklyn Talks: Sensation with Arnold Lehman and Darren Walker 7-9 $16


VIRTUAL EVENTS

Cooper Union Climate Week talk: Deconstruction & Reconstruction Billy Fleming and Doris Sung, moderated by Austin Wade Smith noon link

 The Brooklyn Rail Lunchtime Conversations series live over Zoom: COMMON GROUND series: Mildred's Lane Ambassador of entanglement J. Morgan Puett and friends join for a conversation on Mildred's Lane; concludes with a poetry reading by Patrycja Humienik 1pm link 

The Municipal Art Society of New York virtual tour: East 23rd Street  with Matt Postal 6pm $25 link 

Cooper Union Visiting Lecture and Book Launch: Matthew Soules Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century 6:30-8:30 link 

Minus Space artist talk: Robert Swain Immersive Color 7-8 link


IN MEMORIAM

Indonesian curator and historian Soedarmadji Jean Henry Damais (at age 78)