Art Fairs / Special Events

Friday, May 8-Tuesday, May 19

NYCxDESIGN. Hundreds of events, talks and hangs at venues throughout NYC. Events. Talks.

Saturday, May 9-Sunday, May 10

Hacking Feminism, 10:30 am-10 pm. The New School, Johnson/Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Saturday, May 9-Tuesday, May 12

BFA Film and Video and BFA Animation present the Dusty Film & Animation Festival, an annual, year-end event featuring students’ narrative, short, documentary and animated films. SVA Theater, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Information. Free/Tickets recommended.

Lectures / Discussions / Screenings / Performance

Tuesday, May 5

Live: Inside Cordy Ryman’s Chimera 45: Jonathan Melville Pratt with Robot Church and Andy Haas and David Moreno | Improvisations, 8 pm. Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY.

The Sound of Boylesque, 7:30 pm. Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52^nd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Wednesday, May 6

The Art and Literature Program presents, 6 pm: The Legacy of David Wojnarowicz. Cynthia Carr in conversation with Gary Schneider and Adam Putnam. Celeste Auditorium, South Court, Lower Level, New York Public Library, 5^th Avenue at 42^nd Street, NY, NY. Information. Doors 5:30 pm. Read Lynne Tillman on Brush Fires in the Social Landscape, here.

 

Michael Zelehoski, from New Order, opening this week at Mike Weiss Gallery.

Tomas van Houtryve | The Rise of the Drones: Privacy, Power, and Storytelling, moderated by Stephen Mayes. Wednesday, May 6, 7pm. ICP School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Free/Ticketsrequired.

Thursday, May 7

Rest of Brooklyn presents: Artists Roundtable | Chitra Ganesh: Fragmented Narratives, 7 pm. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

Friday, May 8

Salon Series presents, 7 pm: The Performative Museu, with Hal Foster, Sarah Oppenheimer and Julian Rose. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY, NY.

Saturday, May 9

Wanderings and Wonderings | Jonathan VanDyke with Bethany Ides, 2 pm. Storm King Art Center, Old Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville, NY. Information.

Amy Elkins | Black Is the Day / Black Is the Night / Parting Words, 1-2 pm. Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX. Information. 

Book Events

Tuesday, May 5

Jillian Tamaki | SuperMutant Magic Academy, in conversation with Estelle Tang, 7 pm. Housing Works, 126 Crosby Street. Next week: Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Information.

Wednesday, May 6

Tomas van Houtryve | Behind the Curtains of 21^st Century Communism, 5-6 pm. ICP School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Information.

 

Edward Burtynsky, Cerro Prieto Geothermal Station, Sonora, Mexico, 2012; opening Thursday at Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis.

Openings / Photography

Tuesday, May 5

Abelardo Morell | A Mind of Winters, 4:30-7 pm. Shaw Ruddock Gallery, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 245 Main Street, Brunswick, ME.

Wednesday, May 6

Cut Shapes | Enco Perez and Inge Morath, 6:30-8 pm. Danziger Gallery, 521 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, May 7

Candida Höfer From Düsseldorf, 6-8 pm. Sean Kelly Gallery, 475 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Matthew Jensen | Feels Like Real, 6-8 pm. Yancey Richardson Gallery, 525 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

David Leventi | Opera, 6-8 pm. Rick Wester Fine Art, 526 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Frederic Brenner | An Archeology of Fear and Desire, 6-8 pm. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Carlos Estrada-Vegas, Paquime, 2013, from the Suite Color series opening this week at Margaret Thatcher Projects. The piece above is available on amazon.com

Friday, May 8

Space Oddity, 5:30-7:30 pm. Wall Space Gallery, 116 E Yanonali Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Artist talk, May 9, 2-3:30 pm

ICP-Bard MAFA 2015 Showcase Slidefest: [In]Flux, 7 pm. ICP School 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Information.

Roger Ricco | Paintings & Photography, 6-9 pm. Savery Gallery, 319 N. 11^th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Charles Swedlund | Nude Theory, Game Theory, 5-8 pm. Stephen Daiter Gallery, 230 W. Superior Street, Chicago, IL.

Edward Burtynsky | Water, 6-8 pm. Weinstein Gallery, 908 W 46^th Street, Minneapolis, MN.

Amy Elkins | Black Is the Day / Black Is the Night, 5:30-8pm. Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX. Information. 

Saturday, May 9

All About Warhol | photographs by William John Kennedy, Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg, 5-7 pm. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 North Mills Avenue, Orlando, FL. Information.

Neil Winokur | 31 Essential Items, 3-6 pm. Janet Borden, Inc., 560 Broadway, NY, NY.

Sunday, May 10

Chuck Close | Photographs, 11 am. Parrish Art Museum, 25 Job Lane, Southampton, NY.

 

Willy Bo Richardson, Wet Snow Falls from a Pine Branch, from Seduced, opening this week at DM Contemporary.

Openings / All Other 

Wednesday, May 6

Martha Clippinger | Xigie, 6-8 pm. Hionas Gallery, 124 Forsythe Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, May 7

Ida Applebroog | The Ethics of Desire, 6-8 pm. Hauser & Wirth, 511 West 18^th Street, NY, NY.

Carlos Estrada-Vega | Suite Color, 6-8 pm. Margaret Thatcher Projects, 539 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY.

Michael Zelehoski | New Order, 6-8 pm. Mike Weiss Gallery, 520 West 24^th Street NY, NY.

Friday, May 8

Eerik van der Weijde | We Could Start a War, 6-8 pm. Printed Matter, windows, 

195 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Tara Donovan, 6-8 pm. Pace Prints, 32 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening day: How Posters Work. Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, 2 East 91^st Street, NY, NY.

Saturday, May 9

The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley, 6-7:30 pm. AIA New York / Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NY, NY. Information.

Michael Heizer | Size is real. Scale is imagined size, Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Seduced / featuring works by Sun K Kwak, Martin Mullin, Katsumi Susuki, and Willy Bo Richardson. DM Contemporary, 39 East 29^th Street, NY, NY.

Saturday, May 9

Gowanus Market Place, 6-9 pm. Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Sunday, May 10

Shirana Shahbazi, 6-8 pm. On Stellar Rays, 1 Rivington Street, NY, NY.