Art Fairs / Special Events

Tuesday, May 11– Sunday, May 17

Salon Zürcher. Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY. Information.

Wednesday, May 13-Friday, May 15

Anti-Fair | Harper’s Books Pop-Up at The Carlysle. 35 East 76^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Wednesday, May 13– Sunday, May 17

Select Art Fair NYC. Center 548, 548 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY. Information.

LIC Arts Open. Open studios and events at various venues. Information. Map/Guide. Blog.

Thursday, May 14 – Sunday, May 17

Frieze Art Fair New York. Randall’s Island Park, NY, NY. Information. Frieze Projects | Talks | Education.

FLUX Art Fair, Corn Exchange Building, Park Avenue at 125^th Street, NY. Information.

Art Miami New York. Pier 94, 55^th Street/West Side Highway, NY, NY. Information.

NADA New York 2015.Pier 36/Basketball City, 299 South Street, NY, NY. Information. Programs.

Friday, March 15 – Sunday, March 17

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

 

Installation by Yoko Ono at Galerie Lelong/Frieze Art Fair 2014, Photo Marco Scozzaro/Frieze

Lectures / Discussions / Screenings

Tuesday, May 12

MyMoon is Your Moon!, with Robert Fitterman, Alice Gray Stites, DJ Spooky, Spyros Papetros, Serkan Ozkaya; moderated by Lynne Tillman, 6:30 pm. Postmasters Gallery, 54 Franklin Street, NY, NY. 

Sarah Bush | To Sell or Not to Sell: What Every Artist Needs to Succeed,  6:30 pm. Trestle Gallery, 168 7^th Street, Brooklyn, NY. 

Wednesday, May 13

Gary Hume | The Spring 2015 Alex Katz Chair in Painting Lecture, 6:30 pm. The Cooper Union, The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Suare, NY, NY. Information.

How Is Instagram Changiong the World, with Austin Merrill, Elodie Mailliet Storm, Youmna ChamCham; moderated by Fred Ritchin, 7 pm. ICP School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Information.

Thursday, May 14

NYCxDESIGN Talks at The Cooper Union, 11 am – 8:30 pm. The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY. Information.

Bang on a Can | Revolution of the Eye, 7:30 pm. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

Friday, May 15

Leon Golub Riot, 6 pm. With Hans Ulrich Obrist, Martha Rosler, and Samm Kunce. Hauser & Wirth, 23 East 69^th Street, NY, NY. RSVP required.

99 Objects presents, 4 pm: Gallery talk: LaToya Ruby Frazier on Pittsburgh, 1927 by Elsie Driggs. Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, NY, NY. Information.

The Birth of Hip Hop in New York \ with Joe Conzo, Jr, MC Grandmaster Caz and Dr. Joseph Schloss, 6:30 pm. Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue, at 103^rdStreet, NY, NY. Information.

The Norma Marshall Memorial Lecture presents, 7 pm: Janine Antoni. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Estern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY.

Saturday, May 16

Gallery talk, 2:30-3:30 pm: America’s Playground | Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT. Information.

 

Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, still from The Maids (detail), currently on view at Callicoon Fine Arts.

Book Events

Tuesday, May 12

An Art Book Series presents: Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008, 6-8 pm. New York Public Library, Celeste Auditorium, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building | Astor Hall. Fifth Avenue at 42^nd Street, NY, NY. Information. Doors: 5:30 pm.

William Meyers | Outer Boroughs: New York Beyond Manhattan, 6-7:30 pm. ICP School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Information.

Wednesday, May 13

Books at noon presents: Sally Mann | Hold Still: A Memoir With Photographs, noon. New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building | Astor Hall. Fifth Avenue at 42^ndStreet, NY, NY. Information. Future events.

Thalia Book Club presents: Sally Mann | Hold Still, 7:30 pm. Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, NY, NY. Information.

Friday, May 15

Jessica Dickinson | Jessica Dickinson, 10 am-noon. James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, May 14

Tod Papageorge | Studio 54, 6-8 pm. Mast Books, 66 Avenue A, New York, NY Information.

Saturday, May 16

Alex Majoli | in conversation with Chris Boot, 12:15-1 pm. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, NY, NY. Tickets.

Sunday, May 17

Leif Parsons | Only Fish Fall from the Sky, 3:30-5:30 pm. powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Igael Shemtov, from The Photo Album, 1979-1980, opening this week at Andrea Meislin Gallery

Openings / Photography and Lens-Based Art

Thursday, May 14

Igael Shemtov | The Photo Album 1979-1980, 6-8 pm. Andrea Meislin Gallery, 534 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Nevet Yitzhak | WarCraft, 5 – 8 pm. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe, Nan Goldin | Boston to New York, 6-8 pm. ClampArt, 521-531 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Clifford Ross | The Abstract Edge: Photographs: 1996-2001. Ryan Lee Gallery, 515 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

LaToya Ruby Frazier | Selected Works, 6-8 pm. Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27^th Street, NY, NY.

Matt Saunders, 6-8 pm. Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 West 57^th Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY.

Yariv Milchan | Francois Fontaine | Steffen Keil, 5-8 pm. Leica Gallery Los Angeles, 8783 Beverly Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA. 

Friday, May 15

Melanie Bonajo | Nocturnal Gardening, 2-8 pm. Capricious 88, 88 Eldridge Street, NY, NY.

Tim Barber | Blues, 6-8 pm. agnès b. Galerie Boutique, 50 Howard Street, NY, NY 

 

Rashid Johnson, Blocks, on view on the High Line through March 2016. Photo: art.thehighline.org

Openings / All Other 

Tuesday, May 12, 15

Anneliese Schrenk | The Space Between, 5-8 pm. Circle Culture Gallery Pop-Up, 2 Rivington Street, NY, NY.

Jane Dickson | Seen, 6-8 pm. Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, 208 Forsythe Street, NY, NY.

Ellsworth Kelly | New Works, 6-8 pm. Matthew Marks Gallery, 502 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Thesis Exhibition | Curated by David Sandlin, 6-8 pm. SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Pierre Huyghe | The Roof Garden Commission, 10 am- 5:30 pm. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

Artists of the Invisible Dog | Oblique Strategies, 5-10 pm. The Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street. Brooklyn, NY. Barbeque.

Wednesday, May 

Huma Bhabha, 6-8 pm. Salon 94 Bowery, 243 Bowery, NY, NY.

Thursday, May 14

Performance, 8 pm: Anna-Sophie Berger with Dena Yago | In a Future April. MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies, 38 Ludlow Street, NY, NY.

Angelika Schori | Light Touch, 6-8 pm. Pablo’s Birthday, 57 Orchard Street, NY, NY.

KLONE | Topography of a Daydream, 6-8 pm. Garis & Hahn, 263 Bowery, NY, NY.

Lee Lozano | Drawings & Paintings, 6-8 pm. Hauser & Wirth, 511 West 18^th Street, NY, NY.

Ricci Albenda | Supercallefragelistic-expialledocious (Universal Color Part 1), 6-7 pm. Andrew Kreps Gallery, 537 West 22^nd Street, NY, NY.

Lee Ufan, 6-8 pm. Pace Gallery, 534 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Chantal Joff | Night Self-Portraits, 6-8 pm. Chiem & Read, 547 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Ida Applebroog | The Ethics of Desire, 6-8 pm. Hauser & Wirth, 32 East 69^th Street, NY, NY.

Josephine Meckseper | Silver Shadow, 6-8 pm. Half Gallery, 43 East 78^th Street, NY, NY.

Sunday, May 17
Opening day, Folly 2015L Torqueing Spheres by Mariana Ibanez and Simon Kim of IK Studio, 3:00-6:00 pm. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, NY. Information.