Talks / Screenings / Book Events / and Beyond

Tuesday, August 15

SVA Alums present: PleinAir Drawing, 6-8 pm. Madison Square Park, Fifth Avenue at 23^rd Street, NY, NY Info

Wednesday, August 16

Bowery Poetry [hearts] John Giorno | Poetry Jam, 7 pm. Artists Space, 55 Walker Street, NY, NY Info

Jill Mulleady | Figments, talk/screening, 7 pm. Swiss Institute, 102 Franklin Street, NY, NY Info

Nonprofit Incorporation and Tax Exemption Workshop, for artists, attorneys, arts professionals and whoever would like to start a nonprofit arts organization

 2-5 pm. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 1 East 53^rd Street, NY, NY Info Upcoming workshops, Info

© Mark Bradford, Scorched Eart (detail); Bradford appears this week at The Broad; image courtesy The Broad

Un-Private Collection series presents Mark Bradford and Sharon Lockhart in conversation with Katy Siegel, 7:30 pm. The Broad, Orpheum Theatre, 842 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA Info

Thursday, August 17

Manufacturing Truth | Machine Learning and Bias, panel, 7 pm. New Museum 235 Bowery, NY, NY Info

When Yes Means No | A Roundtable on Consent in Carnival Culture, 7 pm. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY Info

Friday,August 18-Sunday, August 20

Taiwan: A World of Orchids | Watercolor demonstration with Che Min Hsiao, 1-3 pm daily. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY Info Orchid Sale, Tuesday-Sunday, 9am-5pm. Exhibition, Sitting With the Garden continues, Info

Saturday, August 19

Rants & Retorts | How bigots got a monopoly on commenting about news online, with Anita M. Samuels, 6 pm. Bronx Documentary Center, 614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx, NY Info

Sunday, August 20

Topographies exhibition closing and Haiku party, 4-6 pm. Victori + Mo, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY Info [Bushwick]

Analog image © Caroline Cuse, this week at Foley Gallery

In Galleries, Lens-based Art

Wednesday, August 16

Analog v. Digital | 50 Photographers, 50 Photographs, 6-8 pm. Foley Gallery, 59 Orchard Street, NY, NY Info

Thursday, August 17

Annual Juried Exhibition | Andrianna Campbell, Juror. Baxter St at CCNY, 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY Info

© The Estate of Julian Allen; works on view this week at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock; image courtesy Julian Allen/Tumbler

In Galleries

Pledges of Allegiance continues | new flag by Nari Ward, starting today at Creative Time.  59 East 4^th Street at Bowery, NY, NY. Participating artists nationwide include:  Tania Bruguera, Alex Da Corte, Jeremy Deller, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ann Hamilton, Robert Longo, Josephine Meckseper, Marilyn Minter, Vik Muniz, Jayson Musson, Ahmet Ögüt, Yoko Ono, Trevor Paglen, Pedro Reyes, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Nari Ward. Info

Wednesday, August 16

Urs Fischer | Faules Fundament (Rotten Foundation), 6-8 pm. KARMA, 188 East 2^nd Street, NY, NY Info

Byungwang Cho | Geometric Knife Drawing 2017, 6-7 pm. EFA Project Space, 323 West 39^th Street, NY, NY Info

Hilary McCarthy | The Weight of Oceans, 6-9 pm. Chashama at 485 Madison Avenue (51^st-52^nd Streets), NY, NY Info

Left: © Urs Fischer, from Faules Fundament, this week at KARMA

Thursday, August 17

Elizabeth Tisdale | My Metro Life, 6:30-9 pm. Chashama at 266 West 37^th street, NY, NY Info

Friday,August 18-Sunday, August 20

The OJ Simpson Museum, 11am-6 pm, ticketed tours also available. Coagula Curatorial, 974 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA Info

Saturday, August 19

Women in Color | Amanda Means, Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, Elinor Carucci, Ellen Carey and nine more artists, 6-9 pm. Rubber Factory, 29 Ludlow Street, NY, NY Info

Sunday, August 20

Julian Allen, 5-8 pm. Fletcher Gallery, 40Mill Hill Road, Woodstock, NY Info

Save the date: Tuesday, August 22

Marshall Arisman | An Artist’s Journey from Dark to Light, 1972-2017, 6-8 pm. SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26^th Street, NY, NY Info

In Museums

Friday,August 18

An Incomplete History of Protest | Selections form the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017. Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, NY, NY Info

The Duchess of Carnegie Hall | Photographs by Editta Sherman. The New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, NY, NY Info