Special Events

Thursday, October 1-Saturday, October 31

Archtober | Architecture and Design Month New York City 2015. Various Locations. Information. Calendar.

Thursday, October 1-Sunday, October 4

Texas Contemporary. George R. Brown Convention Center, Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, TX. Information.

Friday, October 2-Sunday, October 4

Designers & Books Fair 2015. Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), John E. Reeves Great Hall and the Katie Murphy Amphitheater, 27^th Street and 7^thAvenue (northwest corner), NY, NY. Information.

Laurie Anderson | Habeas Corpus, opening Friday, noon-7 pm. The Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, at 67^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Friday, October 2-Friday, November 19

Artspace’s 18^th Annual City-Wide Open Studios | Dwelling, open studios and series of site-responsive commissions, workshops, avant-garde dinners, and programs. Information.

Sunday, October 4

Kick-off, L.E.S. Art Drive Art-A-Thon, noon-3 pm, benefitting The Bowery Mission. Ludlow Studios, 40 Ludlow Street, NY, NY. Information

 

Chris McCaw, Old tree split from a heavy crop, Manteca, CA, 2002, from the Baxter St/CCNY Auction preview.

Fall Auction Previews

Baxter St/CCNY 2015 Photo Benefit Auction, on Paddle 8. Online bidding will open October 7 at noon. Live auction at Affirmation Arts on October 22. Preview. Proceeds support Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York operations as well as exhibitions, residencies, and public programming.

Visionarium Auction, live through October 7. View. Proceeds go to the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Fund.

New York Academy of Art | Nude Instagram Takeover, October 3. Post.

Friends Without A Border 18^th Annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction, October 6, honoring Elliott Erwitt. Proceeds go to children’s medical care in Southeast Asia. Online auction at Paddle8. Live auction October 6. Preview.

The Center for Photography at Woodstock Vision Award & Benefit Auction 2015, honoring Vince Aletti. Preview. Tickets.

Photography Center Northwest (PCNW) | Collective Vision, October 9. Preview. Tickets.

The Ballad, Live | Aperture Foundation Benefit Party & Auction, October 26, featuring Nan Goldin, with Laurie Anderson & musical guests. Preview. Tickets.

 

Mickalene Thomas, La Leçon d'Amour, 2008; courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Talks / Presentations / Screenings / and Beyond

Tuesday, September 29

Using the Land as its Own Map | Art on the 1:1 Scale, 7 pm. The Cooper Union, The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, (Third Avenue between 6-7^th Streets), NY, NY. Information.

NY Comics & Picture-Story Symposium | Kathryn A. Smith on Crafting the Old Testament…, 7 pm. The New School, The Bark Room, 2 West 13^thStreet, NY, NY. Information.

MPS Digital Photography presents Stephen Shames, 7 pm. 136 West 21^st Street, Room 418F, NY, NY. Information.

Mickalene Thomas and Jennifer Blessing | In Conversation, 6:30 pm. Aperture Foundation/in collaboration with Parsons The New School for Design, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Stephen Brecht’s Queer Theater, 6;30 pm. The Graduate Center/Sylight Room 9100, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

Kurt Andersen on History and Fiction, 2-4 pm. Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY [Clinton Hill] Information

Thursday, October 1

Art & Science Panel: Wonder and E-Motion: The Aesthetic Use of Old and New Tech Media to “Move” Us, 7 pm. Central Booking, 21 Ludlow Street, NY, NY. Information.

Charles Stein in conversation with Terry Winters, 6:30 pm. Art Writing Quijote Talks, School of Visual Arts, 132 West 21^st Street, NY, NY. Information.

Made in the Artist Studios, 7 pm. MAD Museum, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Information.

Friday, October 2-Thursday, October 8

Taken by Storm | The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53^rd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Saturday, October 3

Sarah Sze in conversation with Russell Ferguson, 11 am. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 521 West 21^st Street, NY, NY. Information.

SkowheganPERFORMS, 1-5 pm. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, NY. Information.

Sunday, October 4

Roy Lichtenstein Panel Discussion, 3 pm. Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, NY. Information.

Monday, October 6

Photography is Magic, Charlotte Cotton in conversation with Leslie Hewitt, Kate Steciw, and Letha Wilson, 6:30 pm. Aperture at The New School, 55 West 13^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

 

 © Doug Dubois, from My Last Day at Seventeen

Book Signings

Tuesday, September 29

Linda Troeller and Marion Schneider | Orgasm—Photographs and Interviews, 7-9 pm. Museum of Sex, 233 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

Wednesday, September 30

Taratine by Daisuke Yokota, 6-8 pm Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY. Information.

Jeanette Montgomery Barron | My Years in the 1980s: The New York Art Scene, 6-8 pm. Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 20 West 55^th Street, NY, NY. Information

Thursday, October 1

Dear Dave Magazine presents Joseph Maida in conversation with Eva Presini, 8 pm. Spring Studios, 6 St. Johns Lane, NY, NY. RSVP required 

Harvey Wang | From Darkroom to Daylight, 7 pm. Screening, Q&A, signing at the Dallas Center for Photography/the Texas Photographic Society. 4756 Algiers, Dallas, TX. Information.

Friday, October 2

Doug DuBois | My Last Day At Seventeen. Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Sunday, October 4

Joan Jonas | In the Shadow of a Shadow, 3 pm. Sunday Sessions at the VW Dome, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY. Information.

 

Lynn Saville, Billboard- New York

In the Galleries 

Tuesday, September 29

Stereo Type | New Directions in Typography, 6-8 pm. The New School, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 2 West 13^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

The Jewish Museum Vienna on 52^nd Street, 6-8 pm. The Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52^nd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Thursday, October 1

Hiba Schahbaz | Hanged with Roses and Kim Westfall, 6-8 pm. Thierry Goldberg Gallery, 103 Norfolk Street, NY, NY.

Richard Pousette-Dart | 1930s and Rashid Johnson | Anxious Men and Open Sessions, 6-8 pm. The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, NY, NY. Information.

Danielle Durchlag and Ryan Frank | Assembly Required: A Wandering Sukkah, 6-8 pm. Denny Gallery, 261 Broome Street, and the Tenement Museum, NY, NY. Information.
 
Tokyo Internantional Photography Competition Winners, 6-8 pm. United Photo Industries, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY. [Dumbo] Information.

Lynn Saville | Dark Night4-6pm. Closing reception, Pratt Institute Photography Gallery, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

Friday, October 2

Donald Judd | Prints, 1-5:30 pm. Judd Foundation, 101 Spring Street, NY, NY. Information.

Archive Bound | Buzz Spector: The Book Under (De-) Construction; Elena Berriolo: Why Didn’t they?; 2015 Scholars, 6-8 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Lynn Saville | Dark Nights,  5-7:30 pm. Schneider Gallery, 770 North LaSalle Avenue, Chicago, IL. Information.

Ryan Bubnis| Simplexity, 7-10 pm. One Grand Gallery, 1000 East Burnside, Portland, OR. Information.

Saturday, October 3

Artist & curator talk/opening reception, 1:30-5 pm, SEA in the Forefront/inToAsia TBA Festival 2015. The Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY. Information.

Shaqayeq Arabi | Study of an upturned ziggurat, 6-8 pm. The Dept. of Signs and Symbols, 54 Hudson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Information. [Vinegar Hill]

Monday, October 5

Alberto Burri | Grafica, 5 pm. Luxembourg & Dayan, 64 East 77^th Street, NY, NY. Information.