The DART List: A Week In New York
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, 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 23rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), 3rd floor, NY, NY, Admission: Free/$3/$5. Photo ID required.
Left to right: Mitino, Moscow, 2009; Northern Port, Moscow, 2009; copyright Alexander Gronsky. Two images from the Aperture Portfolio Prize exhibition currently on view at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore.
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
Tuesday, December 14, 7:00 pm: Opening reception for Total Housing 01-Apartments. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY, NY.
Tuesday, December 14, 6-8 pm: Fantom magazine presents What's On Our Shelves, a live discussion based on the magazine feature of the same title. Fantom, 18 Wooster Street, NY, NY.
Wednesday, December 15, 6pm: Opening reception for Facing the Impossible, featuring portrait-based work by Adam Goldberg, Adarsha Benjamin, Chloe Aftel, Irène Nam, Jen Altman, Lou O'Bedlam, Mikael Kennedy, Patrick Winfield, Rommel Pecson, The Gentlemen Amateur, Thibault Tourmente and Tim Mantoani. The Impossible Project Space, 425 Broadway, 5th Floor, NY, NY.
Wednesday, December 15, 7:00 pm: The Photographers Lecture Series presents Vincent Laforet. School at ICP, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets $16/$15.
Thursday, Deceber 16, 7:00 pm: The Photographers Lecture Series presents David Wojnarowicz, A Fire in My Belly 1986-87: Video Screening and Conversation. School at ICP, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets $16/$15.
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.
Thursday, December 16, 6-8pm: Opening reception for Marion Peck's What You Are, So Once Were We, and Brad Woodfin's The Strangers. Sloan Fine Art, 128 Rivington Street (corner of Norfolk), NY, NY.
Thursday, December 16-Sunday, December 19, times vary. Works and Process* presents Peter & The Wolf, narrated by Isaac Mizrahi, accompanied by the Julliard Ensemble conducted by the New York City Opera's George Manahan, with set designs by Rai Sato of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. (the art production company of Takashi Murakami), and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue at 88th Street, NY, NY. Tickets $35/$30. *Presented in conjunction with Carnegie Hall's Japan Festival, Japan/NYC.
Friday, December 17, 7-9 pm: Opening reception and book launch for Humankind, a juried invitational photo exhibition. The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY. RSVP or 718.666.3049.
Friday, December 17, 7-9 pm: Book signing for Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing. The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO Brooklyn, NY. RSVP or 718.666.3049.
Friday, December 17, 6:30-9:30 pm: Opening reception for Go Figure, featuring work by Jose Lerma, Jocelyn Hobbie, Sebastian Bremmer, Noah Becker, Ellen Siebers, Andrew Guenther, Dave Choi, and Paul Birbil. Hogar Collection, 362 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY.
Wednesday, December 22, 6-8 pm: Book signing for Michael Kenna: Huangshan. Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue, NY, NY.