Tuesday, December 7, 6:30 pm: The New York City Subway Map-Form v. Function in the Public Realm. Join the creators of several subway maps, including John Tauranac and Massimo Vignelli, for a discussion about designing for the riding public. Panelists include Eddie Jabbour, creator of the Kick Map and the NYC subway app, and Paul Shaw, author of Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story (110 Editions, 2009). Special half-price tickets are available for DART subscribers: $6. Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103^rd Street, NY, NY. RSVP or 917.492.3395.

Tuesday, December 7, 7-9 pm: Opening reception for Graphic Radicals - World War 3 Illustrated, a 30^th anniversary retrospective, and release of Issue #41: The Food Chain. See calendar of public events with co-founders Peter Kuper and Seth Tobocman, and many others. Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Seen at the installation of Graphic Radicals: World War 3 Illustrated, a 30th Anniversary Retrospective at Exit Art. Photos courtesy Peter Kuper (right).

Tuesday, December 7, 6-8 pm: Opening reception for Renée French: Drawings. Adam Baumgold Gallery, 60 East 66th ST., NY, NY. 212.861.7337.

Tuesday, December 7, 7 pm: Zachari Logan reads from A Eulogy for the Buoyant and other writings at Daniel Cooney Fine Art, 511 West 25^th Street, #506, NY, NY. Doors open at 6:30. Information.

Wednesday, December 8, 6:00 pm: Curator's walkthrough for Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists' Books from Women's Studio Workshop, featuring artists’ books by thirty-six artists published over thirty years by Women's Studio Workshop. Grolier Club, 47 East 60^th Street, NY, NY.

Wednesday, December 8, 6-8 pm: Book signing for Contraband, by Taryn Simon. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street between Lafayette and Bowery, NY, NY. Reserve a signed copy.

Wednesday, December 8, 7-9 pm: The Aperture Foundation, the photography department in the School of Art, Media and Technology, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics present Images, Surveillance, and Power. Moderator: Tom Vanderbilt. Participants: Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen, Marko Peljhan. The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NY, NY. Free.

Wednesday, December 8: David Wojnarowicz, A Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress (1986-87), Super 8mm film transferred to DVD. Courtesy of the Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University, the Estate of David Wojnarowicz, and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York. Running through January 23, 2011, at The New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY.

Thursday, December 9, 6-8 pm: Opening reception for Wijnanda Deroo: Inside New York Eateries. Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue, NY, NY.

Friday, December 10, 6-8 pm: Aperture Gallery and Bookstore presents a book launch and signing for William Christianberry: Kodachromes. Aperture Foundation, 547 West 27th, 4th floor, NY, NY. Free.

Friday, December 10, 10:30 am-9 pm: Month-long exhibition of Great European Libraries, large format photograps by Massimo Listri. The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, NY, NY.

Saturday, December 11, 2-6 pm: p.s. - What is Public Space Today? The School of Art at The Cooper Union will host a panel discussion organized by Pash Buzari reflecting on the relation between Art, Architecture, New Technologies and the Public Sphere. Participants: Dennis Adams, Artist; Saskia Bos, Art Historian, Dean of The School of Art at The Cooper Union; Pash Buzari, Artist; Eva Franch, Director, Storefront for Art and Architecture; Pierre Huyghe, Artist; Chrissie Iles, Curator at the Whitney Museum for American Art; Steven Lam, Curator and Artist, Associate Dean of The School of Art at The Cooper Union; Thomas Y. Levin, Professor of Media Theory, Princeton University; Margaret Morton, artist; Rirkrit Tiravanija, Artist; Sara Reisman, Director, Percent for Art; Glenn Weiss, Curator, Manager for Public Art and Design (Times Square Alliance.) The Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square [lower level], NY, NY. Free.

Saturday, December 11, 6-8 pm: Total Enthusiasm 01 - Click/Stamp/Fold, The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X. Launch party for 672 dynamic pages edited by Beatriz Colomina and Craig Buckley. Participants will include Peter Eisenman, Anthony Vidler, Bernard Tschumi, Steven Holl, Cynthia Davidson, Alison Sky, Suzanne Stephens, William Menking, Albert Ferré, Craig Buckley, Urtzi Grau, Beatriz Colomina, and more. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY. NY. Free.

Tuesday, December 14, 7 pm: The CCNY Lecture Series in conjunction with SVA's BFA Photography Department, presents Help Me, the Panel Discussion, with Luc Sante, W.M. Hunt, and Leslie Grant; moderated by Megan Cump. The School of Visual Arts Amphiteater, 209 East 23^rd Street (between 2^nd and 3^rd Avenues), 3^rd floor, NY, NY, Admission: Free/$3/$5. Photo ID required.

Thursday, December 14, 6-8 pm: The Lower East Side Printshop presents Strategic Planning for Artists, with Jackie Battenfield (Author, The Artist's Guide: How to Make A Living Doing What You Love). Tickets: Free/$12/$15. 306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor, NY, NY.

Monday, December 13, 5-7 pm: Book Launch and signing for Splendid Settings: The Art + Craft of Entertaining by Jane Korman. Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY.

Tuesday, December 14, 6-8 pm: The School of Visual Arts Design Criticism Department presents Victoria Milne: We Built This City - How Art, Graphics and Design Policy Take Shape for New Yorkers. Victoria Milne, director of creative services at NYC's Department of Design and Construction (DDC), will discuss the process of developing art and design projects for the City of New York. 136 West 21 Street, 2nd floor. Free and open to the public. RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu