Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond

Tuesday, April 17

New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium presents: Cento Lodigiani, 7 pm. The New School, 66 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Mike Cloud, painting today, 7 pm. The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, NY, NY Info

Marticia Sawin | Playing with Fire: Direct Metal Sculpture in the 1950s, 7:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Hauser & Wirth Publishers presents Conversations in Contemporary Poetics: Jim Dine and Andrew Durbin, reading and Q&A, 7 pm. Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22^ndStreet, NY, NY Info

Wednesday, April 18

Carceral Aesthetics | Vision and Imprisonment, 6:30 pm. International Center of Photography, 250 Bowery, NY, NY Info

Immigrant Justice Night | resources for immigrant and undocumented communities, 4-6 pm. Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, NY, NY InfoFree/drop-in

The State(s) We’re In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations—Threats to Democracy, 6 pm Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, NY, NY Info

Richard "Crazy Legs" Colón | Puerto Rico Relief, screening/discussion, 6 pm The Cooper Union, 41 Cooper Square, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, NY, NY Info

Social Media in Theory & Practice | What’s at Stake Now? 6:30 pm. The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Expanded Portraiture, panel, 6 pm. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53^rdStreet, NY, NY Info

Ruddy Roye and Jamel Shabazz in conversation with Sarah Lewis, 7 pm Pratt Institute, 61 St. James Place, Brooklyn, NY Info

 

Portraits by Kehinde Wiley (left) and Amy Sherald (right); discussion on portraiture  this week at MoMA

Thursday, April 19

Broad Band | The Untold History of the Women Who Made the Internet, panel with Claire L. Evans, 7 pm. New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY Info

Rewriting Painting, panel with Lois Dodd, Thomas Nozowski, Philip Taaffe, 6:30 pm. The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Omar Berrada | Ways of Witnessing, 6:30 pm. MFA Art Writing at SVA, 132 West 21^stStreet, NY, NY Info

Darren Waterston in conversation with Susan Cross, 6:30 pm. DC Moore Gallery, 535 West 22^ndStreet, NY, NY Info

Images and Democracy | Photography and Shaping Contemporary South African Culture, conversation with Lekgetho Makola, head of Market Photo Workshop, and contemporary artist Lebohang Kganye, 6 pm. Open Society Foundation, 224 West 57thStreet, NY, NY Info

Geofuturism, or learning to let go and love other worlds, 7pm Interference Archive, 131 8^thStreet, Brooklyn, NY Info [Gowanus]

Friday, April 20

PEN World Voices | Literary Mews: Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like, 6 pm. Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, NY, NY Info

Saturday, April 21

An Index to Art & Politics | 25 Years of Vera List Center Fellowships, featuring Wendy Ewald, Casey Gollan, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Bouchra Khalili, Lorraine O'Grady, Alexander Provan, Robert Sember, Victoria Sobel, and Jonathan Weinberg, 3-5 pm. The New School, 55 West 13^thStreet, 2^ndFloor, NY, NY Info

David Goren | Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map, demonstration/Q&A, 3 pm. Interference Archive, 131 8^thStreet, Brooklyn, NY Info [Gowanus]

Sunday, April 22

Earth Day Reflections and Artist Talk: Lina Puerta, Summer Wheat, 11:30 am. Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY Info [Dumbo]

Pioneer Works Village Fête,5 pm on. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, NY, NY Info

Left: © Sanlé Sory, Les Jeunes Mélomanes, 1974, this week at Yossi Milo Gallery

In Galleries / Lens-based Art

Tuesday, April 17

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media 2018 Alumni, Faculty and Student Book Fair, 6:30-9 pm. School of Visual Arts, 214 East 21^stStreet, Room 120, NY, NY Info

Thursday, April 19

Amanda Gutiérrez | Walking in Lightness, 6-8 pm. Baxter St at The Camera Club of New York, 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY Info

Wendy Ewald | Works, Projects, Collaborations; Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its Diaspora, 6-8 pm. Steven Kasher Gallery, 515 West 

26^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Sanlé Sory | Volta Photo.Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Friday, April 20

Jade Doskow | Lost Utopias, 7-9 pm. Front Room Gallery, 48 Hester Street, NY, NY Info

Going Green | Margeaux Walter, Alexis Duque, Jolie Martin, Kevin Bourgeois, Paul Cvikevich, Basia Goszczynska, The Primate, Noah Tavlin, Jeanne Verdoux, Cibele Vieira, 6-9 pm. Contra Gallery, 122 West 26^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Sunday, April 22-July 8

Onassis Cultural Center presents: Birds, a citywide festival inspired by Aristophanes: bird walks, artist talks, staging of The Birds by Aristophanes, various locations citywide. InfoFamily programs and a philosophical bird walk at American Museum of Natural History on Earth Day Info

 

Carla Klein, Untitled,2009, this week at Grey Art Gallery NYU

In Galleries

Wednesday, April 18

To Find the Properties of Properties | Pace Art Dept. Faculty Show, 5-8 pm. One Art Space, 23 Warren Street, NY, NY Info

Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, 6-8 pm. Grey Art Gallery at NYU, 100 Washington Square East, NY, NY Info

Thursday, April 19

Lucy Skaer | Sentiment, 6-8 pm. Peter Freeman, Inc., 40 Grand Street, NY, NY Info

2018 Certificate Exhibition | Silas Borsos, Mallary Marks, Thomas Stavovy, 6-9 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Eddie Arning (1898-1993): Under the Influence, 6-8 pm. Ricco/Maresca Gallery, 529 West 20^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Ben Estes, Alan Shields, 6-8 pm. Paula Cooper Gallery, 529 West 21^stStreet, NY, NY Info

Carroll Dunham | Wrestlers, 6-8 pm. Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Lourdes Sanchez | Gaze, 6-8 pm. Sears-Peyton Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue (24-25^thStreets) NY, NY Info

Christiane Löhr| diffuse, 6-8 pm. Jason McCoy Gallery, 41 East 57^thStreet, NY, NY Info

MA Curatorial Practice 2018 Year-End Exhibitions, 6-9 pm. School of Visual Arts, 630 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info

Friday, April 20

Casey Cook, Matthew F Fisher | Night Waves, 6-8 pm. Shrine, 191 Henry Street, NY, NY Info

James Hyde | West, 7-10 pm. Freight + Volume, 97 Allen Street, NY, NY Info

Emma Kohlmann, 6-8 pm. Jack Hanley Gallery, 327 Broome Street, NY, NY Info

2018 MFA Open Studios, 6-9 pm. New York Academy of Art, 111 Franklin Street, NY, NY Info

Tyler Coburn | Remote Viewer, 6-9 pm. Koenig & Clinton, 1329 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info [Bushwick]

Greenpoint Gallery Night | Black Rock Negative Energy Absorbers, performance, 6-9:30 pm. Arete Venue and Gallery, 67 West Street #103, Brooklyn, NY Info

Saturday, April 21

Robert Beck/Buck | Second Hand: Modified thrift store paintings, 6-8 pm. Ulterior Gallery, 172 Attorney Street, NY, NY Info

Ala Younis | Plan [fem.] for Greater Baghdad, 6-9 pm. 17 Essex, 17 Essex Street, NY, NY Info

Chloë Bass: The Book of Everyday Instruction, 6-9 pm. Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Avenue, Queens, NY Info

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Commission by Huma Bhabha; photo: © Hyla Skopitz, courtesy the museum

In Museums

Tuesday, April 17

Huma Bhabha:  We Come in Peace | The Roof Garden Commission. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Thursday, April 19

Agora | works by Maria Thereza Alves, Andrea Bowers, Mariechen Danz, Pope.L, Duane Linklater, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Marinella Senatore, Timur Si-Qin, Sable Elyse Smith. Various locations along the High Line. Info

CORRECTION

Outliers and American Vanguard Art, which features works by Howardena Pindell, is currently on view at The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Info The exhibition was incorrectly cited in the April 8 post, Howardena Pindell at Large