Special Events

Tuesday, December 1

Day With(out) Art 2015 presents: Radiant Presence, featuring work by Bill Arning, Ian Alteveer, Chris Vargas, Rae Lewis-Thornton, Mark S. King, Allen Frame, Maria Mejia, Jack Mackenroth, and Kimberly Drew. Online here. Public events/Info

Tuesday, December 1-Sunday, December 6

Miami Art Week. Various locations. Info

Wednesday, December 2

Publishers Weekly and the Bologna Children's Book Fair present: Global Kids Connect | Future success models for children's book publishing. Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the State of New York, 71 West 23rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets

Thursday, December 3-Sunday, December 6

Art Basel Miami Beach. Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach FL. Info

Friday December 4-Sunday, December 6

Ghana Artist Collective Trunk Show. The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, NY, NY. Info

Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930), Untitled, 1924, from Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet, continuing through January 10, 2016 at the American Folk Art Museum.

Talk / Discussion / Screenings / and Beyond

Tuesday, December 1

Bill Jacobson, 6:30 pm. Aperture Foundation 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY.

Genetic and Cultural Transfer of Trauma | John Ashberry in conversation with Benn Lerner, Georffrey G. O'Brien, ’Brien, Mónica de la Torre, and John Yau, 7:30 pm. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY, RSVP [Red Hook]

Wednesday, December 2

Dieu Donné & UrbanGlass present: Jarrod Beck, 6:30 pm. Dieu Donné, 315 West 36th Street, NY, NY

Daniela Bleichmar | Redrawing Boundariaes, Pictorial Process and Possibility in Early Colonial Mexico, 7 pm. Hunter College, Kossak Lecture Hall, 15th Floor, North Building, 695 Park Avenue, NY, NY. RSVP

Embroideries by Artists in Art Brut in America | The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet, 6 pm. American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, NY, NY. Tickets

Caribbean Artists and The Geopolotics of Displacement/Memory, 7 pm. Tikhonova & Wintner, 40 West 120th Street, NY, NY, RSVP

Living Cities | Nature, architecture and urbanism, 6:30 pm. National Academy Museum & School, 5 East 89th Street, NY, NY. RSVP

Thursday, December 3

Roomful of Mirrors | Jen Davis and Tommy Kha Looking at Self, 7 pm. Baxter ST at CCNY, 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY. Info

John Miller, gallery talk: "Jim Shaw: The End of Here, 3:30 pm. The New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY. Free w/half-price museum admission

Films of My Life with David Remnick and Jhumpa Lahiri, 7 pm. Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. Info

(c) Jen Davis, Aldo and I in bed, 2013.

Friday, December 4

James McMullan | Leaving China: An Artist Paints his World War Ii Childhood, 6:30 pm. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets

Elena Berriolo | Feed me the Line, performance, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, NY, NY.

Saturday, December 5

Steven Holl in conversation with Robert McCarter, 3:00 pm. New York Public Library, Celeste Auditorium, South Court, Lower Level, 5th Avenue at 42nd Street, NY, NY. Info

Software for Artists Day, 10am-7 pm. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets

Museum tour and talk, featuring Portraying Artists: Photographs by Walter Weissman, 10 am. Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton, NY. Info

Monday, December 7

The Forest and the School | Antropofagia and Cosmopolitics in Brazil, 6:30 pm. The New School, Orozco Room, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY. RSVP.

Sara Soskine | New Typfaces, 6:30 pm. Type@Cooper, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY. RSVP

Magnum Foundation and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project present: Matt Black and Barbara Ehrenrieich in conversation, 7 pm Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, NY, NY. Info

Book Events

Tuesday, December 1

Hiroshi Sugimoto | Seascapes, 7 pm. Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, NY, NY. Info

Thursday, December 3

Agnes Thor | As the River Runs, reading/signing, 6 pm. Printed Matter, w231 Eleventh Avenue, NY, NY.

Thursday, December 3/Friday December 4

Ken Light | What's Going On? 1969-1974. Slide Show/book signing at Bronx Documentary Center on Thursday; Info.  Booksigning at ICP on Friday; Info

Friday, December 4-Saturday, December 5

Holiday Book Fair at Society of Illustrators, 10 am-5 pm. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NY, NY. Info

Saturday, December 5

Mark Tuschman | Faces of Courage, 7 pm. Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA. Info

(c) Jeremy Enlow, Blue Sky Wagon Boss, at PDNB Gallery.

In Galleries

Thursday, December 3

Patrick Demarchelier | Photographs 1975-2015, 6-8 pm. Staley-Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway, NY, NY.

Friday, December 4

Lior Modan | Wringing Lilies from the Pine Nut, 7-9 pm. NurtureArt Gallery, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Jeremy Enlow | Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch, reception and book signing, 4-8 pm. PDNB Gallery, 1202 Dragon Street, Dallas, TX.

Holiday Pop-Up Show, 8-11 pm La Luz de Jesus, 4633 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

Nadine Boughton | American Home, 6-9 pm. United Photo Industries Gallery, 16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY [Dumbo]

The Drawing Hand, 6-9 pm. Galerie Magda Danysz, 78 rue Amelot, Paris.