Special Events

Continuing through May 20

Parsons Festival 2016. Various Locations. Info, including the international salon of illustration, comics, and animation info

Friday, May 20-Sunday, May 22

6^th Annual LIC Arts Open Studios 2016, various locations, Long Island City, NY. Info Opening party Thursday, May 19, 6-9 pm. W3 Gallery, 45-43 21st Street, 2nd Floor, LIC, Queens, NY. 

Friday, May 20

LIC Open Studios 2016 Reception, 6-9 pm ICP-Bard MFA Studios, 24-20 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY. Info

Open Studios | the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY. Info [Dumbo]

Saturday, May 21-Sunday, May 22

SONYA Artwalk | South of the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Open Studios, noon- 6 pm. Info

Work by Amy Geller (left) can be seen at walkUP, at W3 Gallery, during the LIC Open Studios this weekend. Info

Talk / Discussion / Screenings / and Beyond

Wednesday, May 18

Cheryl Donegan and Melanie Kress in conversation, 7 pm. On the High Line, 14^th Street Passage, NY, NY. Info

Insider/Outsider: Voyeur or Agent of Change, panel moderated by David Gonzales/NY Times, 7 pm. ICP School, Shooting Studio, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. RSVP required

Thursday, May 19

MPS Directing presents: SVA Short Film Fest, 6 pm. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Info

Painters NYC Panel Discussion, 6:30 pm. ICI Curatorial Hub, 401 Broadway, Suite 1620,NY, NY. Info

Friday, May 20-Saturday, May 21

What Now? 2016: On Future Identities, organized by Art in General, with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. New School University Center 63 Fifth Avenue at 13^thStreet, Room UL105, NY, NY. Info

The Broadside Reading Series presents: SueyeunJuliette Lee & Douglas Kearney, 6:30 pm. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info Guests receive a free letterpress broadside produced by artists at the Center.

How to Be an Artist and Not Lose Your Mind \ with William Lee, 6:30 pm. The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. Info

Saturday, May 21

Segue Reading Series presents: Emmy Catedral and Constance Dejong, 4:30 pm. Zinc Bar, 82 West 3^rd Street, NY, NY. Info

Book Events

Wednesday, May 18

Robert Cumming | The Difficulties of Nonsense (Aperture 2016), 6-8 pm. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY. Info

Hirsh Sawhney (South Haven) and Karan Mahajan (The Association of Small Bombs), in conversation with  Sadia Shepard, 7 pm. Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17^thStreet, NY, NY. Info

Thursday, May 19

Jokes for the Campfire, 6:30-9:30 pm. Shandaken Project, 641 Classon Avenue, NY, NY. Info

Friday, May 20

The Paris Review welcomes The Norwegian-American Literary Festival to NYC, 7 pm. Discussion and readings with: Cressida Leyshon, Maja Lunde, Helga Flatland, Johan Harstad, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Katie Kitamura, Christian Kracht, and Cathrine Knudsen. 192 Books, 192 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY. Info

Sunday, May 22

Bob Holman | Pin the Tail on the Tiger (Norte Maar), 4 pm. Outlet Fine Art, 253 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Info [Bushwick]

 

© Karine Laval, from Artificial By Nature, this week at Benrubi Gallery. 

In Galleries / Lens-based art

Wednesday, May 18

Jefferson Hayman | Limerence, 5:30-8:30 pm. Robin Rice Gallery, 325 West 11^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Thursday, May 19

Richard Avedon | Photographs: Fashion 1948-1995, 6-8 pm. Staley Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway, NY, NY. Info

Robert Cumming | Aluminum Cube and Other Photographs, 5-7 pm. Janet Borden, Inc. 560 Broadway, NY, NY. Info

Nina Yuen | Narcissus, 6-8 pm. Jane Lombard Gallery, 518 West 19^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Karine Laval | Artificial By Nature, 6-8 pm. Benrubi Gallery, 521 West 26^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Saturday, May 21

Henry Horenstein | Histories: Tales from the ‘70s, Book launch and closing party, 6-8 pm. ClampArt, 531 West 25^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Aperture on Sight | Teaching Visual Literacy through Photography, 11am-3pm. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Sunday, May 22

Richard Mosse, Pierre Dorion, Hayv Kahraman, Garnett Puett | A Change of Place, 2-6 pm. The School/Jack Shainman Gallery, 25 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY. Info

 

© Richard Mosse, this week at The School/Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook.

In Galleries

Tuesday, May 17

Kayoko | JCAT Showcase 16, 7-10. Ouchi Gallery, 170 Tillary Street, Brooklyn, NY. Info [Dumbo]

Wednesday, May 18

Anton van Dalen | Inside Out, Home and Place, 6-8 pm. Sargent’s Daughters, 179 East Broadway, NY, NY. Info

Thursday, May 19

Nicole Eiseman. Anton Kern Gallery, 532 West 20^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Bahar Behbahani | Garden Coup, 6-8 pm. Thomas Erben Gallery, 526 West 26^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Friday, May 20

Joanne Greenbaum | New Paintings and Sculptures, 6-8 pm. Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street, NY, NY. Info

Sophia Wallace | Over and Over and Over, 6-8 pm. Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, 250 Broome Street, NY, NY. Info

Greenwich House Pottery Exhibition, 6-8 pm. Jane Hartsook Gallery/GHP, 16 Jones Street, NY, NY. Info

ReVisions of the American West | Lou Beach, Rick Haynes, 6-8 pm. John Molloy Gallery, 49 East 78^th Street, NY, NY. Info

Sean Scully | Circa 70, 6-9 pm. Cheim & Read, 16-13 Stephen Street, Brooklyn, NY. Info [Bushwick]

Saturday, May 21

Terence Koh | Bee Chapel. Andrew Edlin Gallery, 212 Bowery, NY, NY. Info

Sunday, May 22

Scott Reeder. Lisa Cooley, 107 Norfolk Street, NY, NY. Info