Special Events 

Wednesday, November 5 & Thursday, November 6 The BIG TALK & The Party. Come celebrate, with AI-AP/DART. Information. [Online registration is closed; tickets for The Party are available at the door.]

November 5-9 IFPDA Print Fair 2014. Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, at 67^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

November 6-9 EAB Editions/Artists’ Books Fair. 306 West 37^th Street.6^th Floor, NY, NY. Information.

Week of November 3 Illustration Week, Various locations. Information.

Wednesday, November 5 Young Photograpers Alliance 2014 Gala, Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. Tickets.

Saturday, November 7 Passport 2014 | LES Art Crawl to benefit Creative Time, various locations. Passport pickup at White Box Art Center, 329 Broome Street, NY, NY. Information.

© Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd, To Be Titled (detail), from an exhibition opening next Monday at Gagosian Gallery.

Tuesday, November 4

Opening day: We Tell Stories | Artists of SVA's Illustration as Visual Essay MFA Program. SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor, NY, NY. The artists reception, honoring Marshall Arisman, the program's flunder, will be next Tuesday, November 11, from 6-8 pm. See the Q&A with graduate Nathan Fox, founding chair of the MFA Narrative Art program.

Artist talk and book signing, 6:30 pm: An-My Lê | Events Ashore. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.

Opening day: New Territories | Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America. Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: 5^th Annual Artists in Residence Exhibition | Textile Arts Center.  Showroom Gowanus, 460 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY. Information. RSVP. [South Brooklyn]

Wednesday, November 5 

Book signing, 6-8 pm: New Titles from SUN | by Aaron McElroy, Charles Johnson and Bill Sullivan. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY. 

Opening reception, 5:30-8:30 pm: Victoria Goldman | Mythicos Divinare. Robin Rice Gallery, 325 West 11^th Street, NY, NY.

©Duane Michals, Balthus and Setsuko, from ABCDuane (Monacelli Press 2014).

The Art Book Series presents, 6 pm: Duane Michals in conversation with Linda Benedict-Jones, Jonas Cuénin, Allen Ellenzweig, Martin Filler, Marvin Heiferman, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz. Moderated by Christopher Lyon. South Court Auditoriium, The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, 5^th Avenue at 42^nd Street, NY, NY. Information

Dialogue, 7 pm: Polit-Sheer-Form Office | Polit Sheer Form! Asian Aart Archives, 43 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY. Information. RSVP [Free/limited seating]

Artist talk, 5:30 pm: Candice Breitz, in conjunction with She. List Art Building Auditorium, Brown University, Providence, R.I. Information.

©Arlene Gottfried, from Sometimes Overwhelming, opening this week at Daniel Cooney Fine Art.

Thursday, November 6

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Fryd Frydendahl | Mon’s Future. Baxter St/Camera Club of New York, new location at 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Pierre St-Jacques | The Exploration of Dead Ends. Station Independent Projects, 164 Suffolk Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Ulrike Theusner, Paul Brainard | Les Fleurs du Mal. The Lodge Gallery, 131 Chrystie Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Arthur Elgort | The Big Picture. Staley-Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway, #305, NY, NY.

Discussion, 6:30-8 pm: Bas van den Hurk and Tom Owen on contemporary prints. Moderated by Carol Kino. RH  Contemporary Art, 437 West 16^th Street, NY, NY, RSVP

Opening day: Thornton Dial | Independent Projects. Andrew Edlin Gallery, 134 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Franz West. David Zwirner, 537 West 20^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception/book signing, 6-8 pm: Steven Shames | Bronx Boys. Steven Kasher Gallery, 515 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

©Jessica Todd Harper, Marshall, with Family and the World, 2013, from The Home Stage, opening this week at Rick Wester Fine Arts.

Opening reception, 5-8 pm: Lorenzo Vitturi | Dalston Anatomy. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm” Arlene Gottfried | Sometimes Overwhelming. Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 508 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Jessica Todd Harper | The Home Stage and Allison L. Wade | It’s Not You. Rick Wester Fine Arts, 526 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sigmar Polk and Birgit Jürgenssen. Fergus McCaffrey, 514 West 26^th Street, NY,NY.

Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 pm: Eugene Atget | A Quiet Calling. Pace/MacGill Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Alice Proujansky | Birth Culture. United Photo Industries, 111 Front Street, #204, Brooklyn, NY. {Dumbo]

©Stephen Shames, George Jackson's Coffin Is Brought Into St. Augustine's Church. Oakland, 1971. From Bronx Boys, opening this week at Steven Kasher Gallery.

Friday, November 7

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Marcel Eichner | New Paintings. McKee Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.

Book signing, 6 pm: Duan Michals | ABCDuane. ICP Store, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Miyoko Ito | Paintings. Adam Baumbold Gallery, 60 East 66^th Street, NY, NY.

Book launch and signing, 5-8 pm: Steven Shames | Bronx Boys. BronxArtSpace, 305 East 140thStreet, Bronx, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9pm: Bosco Sodi | The Last Day; Mark Hogancamp | The Women of Marwencol and Send Blank Tape | Radical Software magazine. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn [Red Hook]

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: ISCP Artists in Residence | Fall Open Studios. International Studio & Curatorial Programs, 1040 Metropolitan Avenue, Long Island City, NY. Information.

© David Sandlin, Pages 1 to 3, 76 Manifestations of American Destiny, Vol. 1, at Editions Artists Books this week.

Saturday, November 8

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Urs Fischer. Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 620 Greenwich Street, NY, NY.

Opening day: Martin Puryear. Matthew Marks, 522 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Second Sundays, 5-10 pm: Intercourse magazine #3 Launch Party. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn [Red Hook].

Opening reception, 3-7 pm: Barbara Parmet | Unbound. Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.

Monday, November 10

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Takashi Murakami | Land of the Dead. Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.