Special Events

Wednesday, February 18-Sunday, February 22

Smack Mellon presents: Respond Workshops, Performances, Screening and Discussions:

Workshop: Wednesday, February 18 at 7pm
Theatre of the Oppressed: Rehearsal for Revolution
Screening and Discussion: Thursday, February 19 at 7pm
A conversation with Noche Diaz and Jamel Mims about the dialogue between Cornell West and Bob Avakian on 'Revolution and Religion.

Panel Discussion: Friday, February 20 at 7pm
Black Lives Matter 101
Dance Performance: Saturday, February 21 at 3pm
Moving Spirits to Enlightenment
Panel Discussion: Friday, February 20 at 7pm
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
Closing Reception: February 22 at 4pm
I Can't Breathe, a self defense workshop/performance by Shaun Leonardo
Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY [Dumbo]. Information.

Tom Cocotos studio, Sticky Notes Mural taking shape.

Tuesday, February 17 & Thursday, February 19

Sketch nights, 6:30-9:30 pm: Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY.

Tuesday, February 17 | Wednesday, February 18 | Friday, February 20

Citibank presents: Tom Cocotos | Live installation: Sticky Note Murals in Miami, New York City and Los Angeles, benefitting the Network for Teaching Entepreneurship. Information. MIAMI:  Tuesday, February 17th, 10am - 5pm, 1685 Washington Ave, Miami Beach. NEW YORK CITY:  Wednesday, February 18th, 9am - 4pm, 79 Fifth Ave (at Union Square). LOS ANGELES:  Friday, February 20th, 10am - 5pm, 8900 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood. Information.

From James Benning | Natural History, on view at Miguel Abreu Gallery

Lectures / Discussions / Workshops / Screenings

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

James Benning | Natural History (2014, 77 min), 7 pm. Miguel Abreu Gallery, 36 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Wednesday, February 18

Cities Lost and Found, 6 pm, panel discussion with authors Katherine A. Bussard, Alison Fisher, Greg Foster-Rice and Max Page. Information. The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, South Court Auditorium, Fifth Avenue at 42^ndStreet, NY, NY. Cities Lost and Found (Princeton University Art Museum, 2015). 

Thursday, February 19

Julie Burros, Chief of Arts and Culture, Boston, in conversation with Robert Moeller, 6-8 pm., followed by an audience Q&A. Gallery Kayafas, 450 Harrison Avenue, #37, Boston, MA.

Friday, February 20

The Architectural League and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and School of Art of The Cooper Union present, 6:30 pm:Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of KyrgyzstanLectures by Margaret Morton and Nasser Rabbat. Rose Auditorium, The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square [Third Avenue at 7^th Street], NY, NY. Information. The exhibition, Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan, continues through February 28 at the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, 7 East 7th Street, 2nd Floor, between Third and Fourth Avenues. The Gallery is open until 7 pm. Information.

Saturday, February 21

Screening and discussion, 7 pm: Jasmine Velez and Alejandro Rosario, Triggering Wounds: A Story of Guns and Violence in Harlem. Bronx Documentary Center, in collaboration with Save Our Youth and the Maysles Documentary Center, 614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx, NY.

Book Events

Wednesday, February 18

Book launch and reception, 6:30-8 pm: Speculation, Now, with an introduction by Arjun Appadurai and brief aperçus will be offered by some of the contributors to the book, among them editor Vyjayanthi Venuturupalli Rao, as well Prem Krishnamurthy, CarinKuoni, Christina Moon, Josiah McElheny, Lize Mogel and many others, and with live music by the The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Readings, 7 pm, hosted by Andrew Durbin: Diana Hamilton | Universe (Ugly Duckling Presse), among others; and Macgregor Card | Magenta Burana (Trafficker Press), among others. Capricious 88, 88 Eldridge Street, NY, NY.

Duane Michals, Johnny Cash, c. 1960s/2015, courtesy David Zwirner.

Openings / Photography

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

In The Studio: Photographs | Curated by Peter Galassi, 6-8 pm. Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, NY, NY.

Matthew Day Jackson | There Will Come Soft Rains, 6-8 pm. SCAD Galleries, 1600 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA.

Thursday, February 19

Juianne Swartz | Co-Portraits Portfolio, 6-8 pm. Mixed Greens, 531 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Duane Michals | The Portraitist, 6-8 pm. D.C. Moore Gallery, 535 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Adam Hurwitz | Clipper, 6-8 pm. AC Institute, 547 W. 27th Street, #210, NY, NY.

Jill Greenberg | “Paintings,” 6-8 pm. ClampArt, 521-531 West 25^th Street, NY, NY. Above, detail.

Michael Eastman | Structure and Color, 6-8 pm. Edwynn Houk Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.

Friday, February 20

Benjamin Donaldson, Todd Forsgren, Michael Vahrenwald | Photogenic Nature. 6:30-8 pm. Light Factory, 345 N College Street, Charlotte, NC.

Alec Soth | Songbook, 6-8:30 pm. Weinstein Gallery, 908 W 46th Street, Minneapolis, MN.

Saturday, February 21

The City Lost and Found | Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980, 6-7:30 pm. Princeton University Art Museum, McCormick Hall, Princeton, NJ.

Sabrina Gschwandtner | Film Quilts, 5-7 pm. Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite B1, Santa Monica, CA.

Saturday, February 22

Tamar Halpern | My Voice at the Pace of Drifting Clouds, 6-8 pm. On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

From How and Nosm | Another Language, opening this week at Jacob Lewis Gallery

Openings / All Other Media

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

In The Studio: Paintings | Curated by John Elderfield, 608 pm. Gagosian Gallery, 522 West 21^st Street, NY, NY.

Wednesday, February 18

Tao Kulczycki, Ian Swanson |Vital Shift in Central Observer, 6-8 pm. BOSI Contemporary, 48 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

Quisqueya Henriquez | Double Double, Framed & Framed, 6-8 pm. Lynch Tham, 175 Rivington Street, NY, NY.

Reception and Happy Hour, 5-10 pm: Little Nemo | Dream Another Dream: Artists Respond, works by Paul Pope, Gregory Benton, Dean Haspiel, Yuko Shimizu, Jim Rugg, Ronald Winberly, Andrea Tsurumi, Raul Gonzalez III, and more. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. $10 at the door.

Thursday, February 19

Alice Neel | Drawings and Watercolors 1927-1978, 6-8 pm. David Zwirner, 537 W 20th Street, NY, NY.

How and Nosm | A Different Language, 6-8 pm. Jacob Lewis Gallery, 521 West 26^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.

Ellen Wallenstein | Woven Women, 6-8 pm. Carter Burden Gallery, 548 West 28^th Street, NY, NY.

Friday, February 20

Kehinda Wiley | A New Republic.\, 11 am-6 pm. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY.

Sunday, February 22

Suzanne McClelland | Call With Information. Team Gallery, 47 Wooster Street, NY, NY.

Robert Williams:  SLANG Aesthetics! and 20 Years Under the Influence of Juxtapoz, opening day, noon-5 pm. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. Information.