Installation view of Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, The Museum of Modern Art, October 4, 2014–January 18, 2015. © 2014 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Thomas Griesel. All works by Robert Gober © 2014 Robert Gober.

Talks & Discussions

Tuesday, December 16

The Artist Dialogue Series presents, 6 pm: The Heart Is Not A Metaphor: Robert Gober in conversation with Ann Temkin. South Court Auditorium, The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, 5^th Avenue at 42^nd Street, NY, NY. Doors: 5:30. Free. Information.

Live from NYPL presents, 7-9 pm: Thomas Struth in conversation with Paul Holdengräber. In conjunction with the exhibition,Public Eye: 175 Years of Sharing Photography.  The New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, 5^th Avenue at 42^nd Street, NY, NY. Information. Tickets/$25/$15/$10.

Panel discussion, 7-9 pm: No Greater Fiction. With Mitra Abbaspour, Associate Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art and Hrag Vartanian, Editor-in-chief and Co-founder of Hyperallergic. Moderated by Ágnes Berecz, curator of the exhibition. BosiContemporary, 48 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, December 18

Discussion and book signing, 6-7 pm: Classic American Arcade and Target Forms, with authors Richard and Valerie Tucker.American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets, NY, NY.

Thursday, December 18

Exhibition artists walk-through and gallery talk, 6:30-8 pm: Caleb Cole | Blue Boys and Judy Habert | Flight. Gallery Kayafas, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA.

Book Events

Tuesday, December 15 Book signing 6-8 pm: Ken Schles | Night Walk and Invisible City (both: Steidl 2014). Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY.  Information.

Friday, December 19 Book signing, 6-8 pm: Andy Spade | Parking Garage Christmas Decorations  (A.S. Books). Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY. Information.

Sunday, December 21 Book signing, 6 pm: Linda Troeller | Orgasm. The LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13^th Street, /room 210, NY, NY. Information.

Laali Lyberth: Nuunu – The One to Be Born. © 2012 Stella Polaris* Ulloriarsuaq | Sven Nieder & Nomi Baumgartl. Currently at Leica Gallery, LA.

Exhibitions / Photography

Continuing Public Eye | 175 Years of Sharing Photography. The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, 5^thAvenue at 42^nd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Free public tours of the exhibition are available at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. You can interact with photography at the exhibition, as well as online.

Continuing Nomi Baumgartl, Sven Nieder (photographer), Yatri N. Niehaus, and Laali Lyberth | Stella Polaris* Ulloriarsuaq. Leica Gallery/Los Angeles. 8783 Beverly Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA. Information.

Exhibitions / All Other Media

Thursday, December 18 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Bruce Conkle | The Wooden Carrot. Frosch & Portman, 53 Stanton Street, NY, NY.

© Ave Pildas, from the series “Automat, Hollywood Blvd.” 1974. New York Public Library, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.