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The DART List: A Week in New York

By Peggy Roalf   Tuesday November 17, 2009

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Left to right: Roni Horn, You are the Weather, 1994-95 (detail); copyright the artist, courtesy The Whitney Museum of American Art. Tim Burton, Untitled (Blue Girl with Skull), Polaroid, copyright the artist, courtesy The Museum of Modern Art. Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2000 by Mike Sinclair; copyright the artist, courtesy Jen Bekman Gallery.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 7:00 pm: Talk with Luc Sante
Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor. New York, NY. (212) 505-5555
Luc Sante's books include Low Life, Evidence, and most recently Kill All Your Darlings (Yeti/Verse Chorus, 2007). He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College. This event is part of the 2009 Parsons Lecture Series.

Wednesday November 18, 7:00 pm: Roni Horn in Conversation with Donna De Salvo
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York. For information: (212) 570-3600. $8 for general admission; $6 for students and senior citizens,
FREE for Whitney Museum members. Please email for Whitney member reservations.
For more than thirty years, Roni Horn has been developing work of concentrated visual power and intellectual rigor, often exploring issues of gender, identity, and androgyny. This evening, she speaks about her work and her mid-career survey with Donna De Salvo, Whitney chief curator and exhibition co-curator, in conjunction with the exhibition, Roni Horn A.K.A. Roni Horn.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 2:30-4:00 pm: Tim Burton Book Signing
Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York, New York, NY, (212) 708-9400.
Director, producer, writer, and artist Tim Burton makes a personal appearance in conjunction with his major career retrospective at MoMA, signing copies of the Tim Burton exhibition catalogue, as well as the newly published The Art of Tim Burton, a comprehensive, 434-page compilation of forty years of Burton's artistry. The signing takes place in MoMA Books, on the second floor of the Museum. This event is free with museum admission on a first-come, first-served basis.

Thursday, November 19, 7:00 pm: Talk and Book Signing with Deborah Turbeville
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheatre, 209 East 23rd Street (2nd-3rd Avenues), Third Floor. This event is part of the 2009 Camera Club of New York Lecture Series.
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff; general admission $10, $5 for other students with valid student ID.
Deborah Turbeville has been one of the world's most important and recognized fashion photographers since the mid-1970's. Her influential, cinematic work appears regularly in American, British, French, Italian and Russian Vogues, and L'Uomo Vogue and W magazines, among others, and her work has been exhibited internationally. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lucie, the ICP Infinity Award, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, and the Fashion Group Lifetime Award for Fashion Photography.
CCNY is celebrating its 125th Anniversary Year through this and upcoming exhibitions, lectures, and special events. For more information, email John Stanley at CCNH or by phone: 212-260-9927.

Thursday November 19, 6:00-8:00 pm: Going DUTCH: Opening receptions for Five Dutch Contemporary Art exhibitions
547 West 27th Street (between10th & 11th Avenues), New York, New York, NY.
Participating galleries: Gallery Art Affairs (Amsterdam) presents Jan van Munster (5th floor): Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten (Amsterdam) presents Benoit Hermans (5th floor);  Gallery Steendrukkerij Amsterdam (Amsterdam) presents Carel Visser (3rd floor); Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam) presents Dutch One Minutes (5th floor); Witzenhausen Gallery (Amsterdam & New York) presents Madeleine Berkhemer (3rd floor). For additional information, please visit the Going Dutch website or email Going Dutch.

Thursday, November 19, 7:00 pm: Opening reception for At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape: Photographs and Video by Marina Ballo Charmet
Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY
The work of photographer and artist Marina Ballo Charmet, whose formal training is as a psychoanalyst is centered on what she describes as "inattentive, unintentional observation, irrational and without direction." This retrospective exhibition presents a selection of photographic and video works produced since 1995 that investigate a variety of subjects ranging from the ordinary and the mundane in the urban landscape to the human figure.

Friday, Novmber 20, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Mixtape
Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street, between Elizabeth St. and Bowery, New York, New York, NY. 212-219-0166.
Mixape brings together original works and 20×200 Exhibiting artists include: Michelle Arcila, Ian Baguskas, Kate Bingaman Burt, Christine Callahan, Christian Chaize, Jorge Colombo, William Crump, Jessica Eaton, Scott Eiden, Clare Grill, Chad Hagen, Nick Hardeman, Joseph O. Holmes , Jason Jagel, Roel Knappstein, Gregory Krum, Liz Kuball, Jeff Lewis, Yijun Liao, Scott Listfield, Paul Madonna, Sarah McKenzie, Mike Monteiro, Jane Mount, Tommy Perman, Gary Petersen, Colleen Plumb, Jason Polan, Tyson Anthony Roberts, Mike Sinclair, Jessica Snow, Trey Speegle, William Swanson, Amy Talluto, Ann Toebbe and Matthew Tischler.

Friday, November 20, 7:00-9:00 pm: Book launch for Sandhogs by Gina LeVay
The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, New York, NY. For information, please call (718) 666.3049. RSVP required.
Sandhogs is an original portal to the unseen characters and systems of underground New York-revealing the essential "art form" of mining in the modernized city. In 2003 Gina LeVay was granted rare access to photograph the "hogs," in the tunnel and at off-site locations. With the Sandhogs book and accompanying exhibition, LeVay introduces the public to this vibrant and intricate subculture, bringing its rich, extraordinary, subterranean imagery to the surface for the first time ever.


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