Art Fairs & Special Events

Thursday October 17-Saturday, October 19: Gowanus Open Studios.
Directory of artists, and special events, here. Various locations, Gowanus/Park Slope.

Thursday October 17-Saturday, October 19: Foley Gallery Moving Sale and Pop-Up Exhibition
The gallery is relocating to larger accommodations just a few blocks from where we are now, beginning on November 1 (exact location to be announced later this month). In order to prepare, Michael Foley is hosting a sale of empty museum quality frames, along with artist books being offered at a very reasonable price. In addition the gallery is presenting photographs by Wyatt Gallery, with a reception on Saturday from noon to 5 pm. Foley Gallery, 97 Allen Street, just south ofDelancey, NY, NY. Information.

Saturday, October 18: Festival of Medical History and the Arts, “Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500″
More than 20 speakers, performers, cartoonists, and artists explore the intertwined histories of art and anatomy and illustration and medicine; contemporary visual and performance art and the body; questions of identity and intersexuality, disability, and representation; 3D anatomical printing demonstrations and more. Information. Register $35/$20.  Blog. The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, NY, NY.

Polit-Sheer-Form-Office (Song Dong, Hong Hao, Liu Jianhua, Leng Lin, and Xiao Yu), in Do the Same Good Deed.

Looking ahead, sign up today: Hundreds Needed to Mop Up Times Square with Polit-Sheer-Form-Office on November 3rd!
This just in from MABSOCIETY: Play your part in Do the Same Good Deed, a 500-person performance conceived by Chinese art collective Polit-Sheer-Form-Office (Song Dong, Hong Hao, Liu Jianhua, Leng Lin, and Xiao Yu.) Participate in a new socialism for the 21st century…right in the heart of the Capital of Capital. Video of the performance will be included in Polit-Sheer’s exhibition at the Queens Museum, which runs through January 2015. Register. The event takes place on November 3, 2014, in conjunction with an exhibition of Polit-Sheer-Form-Office at the Queens Museum [Information], in partnership with Times Square Arts.

Tuesday, October 14

The W. Eugene Smith Fund Talks presents, 7 pm: John G. Morris | The W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the photographer. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 527 West 27^th Street, NY, NY. Donation/$5. Information.

Wednesday, October 15

Opening reception, 8 pm: Ephemera | Group Show. Con Artist Collective, 119 Ludlow Street, NY, NY.

Discussion, 7 pm: On Marc Riboud | Mary Ellen Mark and Shelly Rice in conversation. Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17^th Street, NY, NY. Tickets/$30/$27. In conjunction with the exhibition, Marc Riboud in Asia | Witness at the Crossroads. Tickets $30/$27.

35^th Annual W. Eugene Smith Grant Awards presentation, 7 pm: Keynote Presentation by Clarissa Ward, CBS News Foreign Correspondent;Announcement and presentation ofThe 2014 jurors' discretionary grant of $5,000;The 2014 HowardChapnick grant of $5,000; andThe 2014 W. Eugene Smith Grant of $30,000. SVA Theater, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. RSVP/Free.

Artist talk, 6:30 pm: LaToya Ruby Frazier in Conversation with Dawould Bey. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 527 West 27^th Street, NY, NY. Donation/$5. Information. 

Jason Nocito, Pud, 2014. Courtesy Vice. Book Signing Thursday at Dashwood Books.

Artist’s reception, 4:30-6 pm: Lydia Panas | After Sargent. Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. Information. In asociation with InVISION Photo Festival of the Lehigh Valley.

Thursday, Ocrober 16

Book signing, 6-8 pm: Jason Nocito | PUD II. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, between Lafayette and Bowery, NY, NY. Information.

Discussion,  7 pm: Exposé: Japanese Photography - Past, Present, and Future, with Mark Pearson, moderated by Russet Lederman. Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, 547 Wet 27^thStreet, NY, NY. RSVP/free.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Robert Voit | New Trees. The Alphabet of New Plants. ClampArt, 521 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sharon Horvath | Cosmicomics. Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm:Kate Steciw. Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception and book launch, 6-8:30 pm: Majid Saeedi, winner of the 2014 PhotoEvidence Book Award. Bronx Documentary Center, 614 Courtlandt Avenue and 151st street, Bronx, NY. Information.

Friday,October 17

Screening, discussion, and reception, 7 pm: Cipher | Refraction, curated by Giselle Zatonyl. CultureHub, 47 Great JonesStreet, NY, NY. Information. Tickets/$10/$5

Opening reception, book launch, with performances, drag divas, GoGo dancers, DJs and more, 7 pm on. All About Love | Photographs Jean Christian Boucart, text Nan Goldin. Bizarre Black Box Gallery, 12 Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, NY. [Bushwick]

Installation by El Anatsui on the Highline, November 2013; photo courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, where an exhibition opens on Saturday.

Saturday, October 18

Opening day, 10am-6pm pm: El Anatsui. Jack Shainman Gallery, 524 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Sunday, October 19

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Ghost Outfit | Dan Flavin, Robert Janitz and Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Team Gallery, 83 Grand Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Forces at Play | Sheila Crider, Benjamin Gardner, Marthe Keller,Joan Mellon, Leo Rabkin.Gallery Molly Krom, 53c Stanton Street, NY, NY.

Monday, October 20

The Cooper Union School of Art presents, 6:30-8:30: Moses! Pencils! Excelsior! | 19^th-20^th Century Wood Type and Typographic Norms. David Shields, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Graphic Design, Virginia Commonwealth University. Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY. Free/Register.