Tuesday, November 16, 6:00-8:00 pm: SPD presents Real or Surreal? Silent Auction:  6:00 - 8:00pm. Live Auction:  8:30pm. PREVIEW art by over 100 artists at the online gallery. The live auction takes place MILK Gallery, 450 West 15th Street, NY, NY. Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres will be served. $35 at the door.

Photographs by Marcus Gaab (l) and Martine Fougeron (r), available in this week's SPD auction.

Tuesday, November 16, 7:00 pm: Dear Dave magazine presents photographer Marco Breuer in conversation with Brett Littman, executive directotr of The Drawing Center. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Free and open to the public. Information.

Wednesday, November 17, 6:30- 8:30 pm: The Folly, Flexibility and Fun of Five New Yorker Cartoonists. Panel discussion with Liza Donnelly, staff cartoonist for the New Yorker, as she moderates a panel discussion with fellow New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast, Drew Dernavich, Zach Kanin and Barbara Smaller. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rd Street, NY, NY. Book signing for When Do They Serve the Wine Chronicle 2010) and cocktail reception follows. RSVP.

Thursday, November 18, 7:00 pm: The Camera Club of New York presents Isaac Diggs and Kunbi Oni in Conversation. SVA Amphitheater, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor, NY, NY. $5/$3/Free. Information

Thursday, November 18, 6:00-8:00 pm: The Durst Organization presents Sergio Baradat - Habana. Reception for the photographer at the Lobby Gallery, Wall Street Journal Building, 1155 Avenue of the Americas (between 44-45^th Streets), NY, NY. Information.

Thursday, November 18, 7:00 pm: The SVA MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department presents Peter Schjeldahl: Of Ourselves and of Our Origins, Subjects of Art. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Free and open to the public. Information.

Thursday, November 18, 7:00 pm: Monumental: The Reimagined World of Kevin O'Callaghan. Conversation with Steven Heller followed by book signing. SVA Theatre, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Free and open to the public. Information.

Thursday, November 18, 5:00-6:30 pm: Opening reception for Vogue'ology, an exhibition created by the Ballroom Archive & Oral History Project and the sound art collective Ultra-red, in collaboration. Among the public programs in conjunction with the show is a panel discussion following the opening and Listening Sessions on Monday, November 29, 2010, 6:00-8:30 p.m. in which gallery visitors are encouraged to interact with the exhibition and share their responses in writing, at the gallery or via email. Parsons The New School for Design, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13^th Street, NY, NY. Information

Thursday, November 18, 6:00-10:00 pm: Inaugural opening, Indicia on 11^th Gallery: Dirty Little Secrets, group show featuring work by Tobias Keene, Laura Keeble, Paul Hazelton, K-Guy and Nicholas Bowers. 150 11^th Avenue at xx, NY, NY. RSVP.

Thursday, November 18, 7:00-8:00 pm: Dan Nadel of PictureBox will moderate a discussion with Brian Chippendale, author of If 'n Oof, and C.F., author of Powr Mastrs 3. Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway, at 12^th Street (2^nd floor), NY, NY.

Thursday, November 18^th 7:00-11:00 pm: Studio Unité's silent auction/benefit for rebuilding Haiti, featuring eco-friendly products and fashion. Sponsors include: Marc Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenburg, Daryl K and designers from Parsons the New School for Design. United Nude, 25 Bond Street, NY, NY. Tickets $75/$25.

Above: Ten Times Over installation at the Consulate General of Argentina gallery.

Friday, November 19^th, 2:00 pm: Join Fernanda Cohen for a guided tour of her exhibition, Ten Times Over (The Best of Both Worlds: Commercial & Personal Work), followed by a Q&A about art, life between New York and Buenos Aires, and getting the gigs that matter while helping those who matter. Consulate General of Argentina, 12 West 56th Street, NY, NY. RSVP.

Friday, November 19, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for The Spanish National Photography Prize exhibition: Connections and Confrontations. Presented by Aperture Gallery and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th floor, NY, NY.

Friday, November 19, 6:30 pm: Presentation of Diana Balmori: A Landscape Manifesto (Yale University Press 2010), moderated by Architect Hugh Hardy, FAIA, with Balmori and artist Mami Kosemura. RSVP. The public is invited to arrive before 6:00 pm to view The Crude and the Rare, an exhibition on the same level. Rose Auditorium [Lower Level] of Cooper Union's new building, 41 Cooper Square (Third Avenue at East 7^th Street),  NY, NY.

Monday, November 22, 6:30-8:30 pm: Dan Witz In Plain View -30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise. Reception and book signing for limited edition release. Clic Bookstore & Gallery, 424 Broome Street, NY, NY. RSVP

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