Talks / Book Events / Screenings / and Beyond

Tuesday, August 7

Diana Al-Hadad | Delirious Nights | Paper Plate Art-making Party, 6-8 pm. Madison Square Park, opposite 11 Madison Avenue, 23-25^thStreets, NY, NY Info

Learn the Legal Issues in Photography, 5 pm; register now. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 1 East 53^rdStreet, Auditorium, NY, NY Info

Spirit of the City, panel, 7 pm/doors, 6:30. Dezeen's US editor Dan Howarth and designers Fernando Mastrangelo, Leilani Zahn and Dylan Davis of Ladies & Gentlemen Studio. A/D/O, 29 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, NY RSVP

Thursday, August 9

David Wojnarowicz | Screening and Conversation/Cynthia Carr and Ben Neill, 7 pm. Electronic Arts Intermix, 535 West 22^ndStreet, NY, NY Info

Friday, August 10

Sewing Room | Hands On Black Freedom, Song, Music, Poetry Revival, 7-9 pm. NurtureArt, 56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY Info

 

Jenny Kendler Birds Watching, 2018, Saturday at Storm King Art Center; photo courtesy the artist

 

Saturday, August 11

Screwball Readings from the private library of Inner Course, 4-7 pm, in conjunction with Laugh Off. Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY Info [Dumbo]

Saturday, August 11-Sunday, August 12

Editor’s Pick: Totally Tomatoes Weekend at New York Botanical Garden, 10 am-6 pm. NYBG’s first ever Edible Academy summer program invites visitors to celebrate a favorite summer food with tastings, cooking demos, gardening activities, music, and more at the new year-round facility for garden-based education. Edible Academy, New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY Info

Tomato Fest this weekend, photo courtesy New York Botanical Garden

Sunday, August 12

Day of The Bird, with “indicators” artist Jenny Kendler, activities: 8am-4pm;talk, starting noon. Storm King Art Center, Old Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville, NY Info

Sunday, August 12-Friday, August 17

37^thAnnual Battery Dance Festival, performances from 7-9 pm daily. Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park City, 20 Battery Place, NY, NY Info

Monday, August 13

Fun and Fancy Free: Bernstein and Robbins's Archival Treasures | Tanglewood in the 1940s, 6 pm. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 111 Amsterdam Avenue, NY Info

Tuesday, August 14

Sylvie Covey and Michael Pellettieri | Art Students League Printmakers Portfolio, artist/instructor talk, 3:30 pm. Old Print Shop, 150Lexington Avenue, NY, NY Info

 

 

In Galleries / Lens-based Art

Continuing

Staff Picks VII | 79 images. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 59^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Closing Thursday, August 16

Eadweard Muybridge | Stopping Time, new selection of original collotypes now on view. Laurence Miller Gallery, 521 West 26^thStreet, NY, NY Info

 

Katherine Bradford, Summer Fun for F&V (Courtesy CANADA), 2018, continuing at Freight+Volume and Arts+Leisure

In Galleries

Tuesday, August 7

George Kroenart | 25: Nocturnal Flora, Light Installation, 7-9 pm. LILAC Preservation Project, Pier 25, Hudson River Park, opposite N. Moore Street [map] NY, NY Info

Artists & Allies | Summer program of time-based art, 6-8 pm. Signs & Symbols, 102 Forsythe Street, NY, NY Info

Wednesday, August 8

Luxurious Growth | Jane Fire, Deborah Freedman, Sandra Gottlieb, Don Keene, Frank Lind, Claire McConaughy, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Jannell Turner, Martin Weinstein, and Frances Vye Wilson,5:30-8:30 pm. Lichtundfire, 175 Rivington Street, NY, NY Info

Summer Residency Show: Illustration and Visual Storytelling; Photography and Video, 6-8 pm. SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23^rdStreet, NY, NY Info

Thursday, August 9

Rostarr | Pareidolic Behaviour, 6-8 pm. agnès b. Galerie Boutique | 50 Howard Street, NY, NY Info

Gertrude Abercrombie | curated by Dan Nadel, 6-8 pm. Karma, 188 East 2^ndStreet, NY, NY Info

Summer Residency Show: Fine Arts | Contemporary Practices and Painting/Mixed Media, 6-9 pm. SVA, 133/141 West 21^stStreet, 8^th/9th FL, NY, NY Info

Milkmade | Jaclyn Brown, Anne Buckwalter, Hilary Doyle, Dominique Fung, Sarah Fox, Lynnea Holland-Weiss, 6-8 pm. Field Projects Gallery, 526 West 26^thStreet, NY, NY Info

JCAT/Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York Summer Exhibition | 100 artists, 300 artworks, 5-8 pm. Pleiades Gallery, 530 West 25^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Friday, August 10

Closing: Damien HIrst | Colour Space Paintings. Gagosian, 555 West 24^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Tom Sachs | Building #3 [above], 4-7 pm. The Bridge, 1180 Millstone Road, Bridgehampton, NY rsvp@vitoschnabel.com

Saturday, August 11

Frankenstein’s Birthday Party | Janine Antoni, Rina Banerjee, Louise Bourgeois, Julian Charrière, Edmund Clark, Bruce Conner, Russell Crotty, Tim Hawkinson, Isabella Kirkland, Barbara Kruger, Michael Light, John O’Reilly, Patricia Piccinini, Alan Rath, Kiki Smith, Surabhi Saraf and Cornelius Vö. Hosfelt Gallery, 260 Utah Street, San Francisco, CA Info

Sunday, August 12

Richanda Rhoden, noon-5 pm. Soloway, 348 South 4^thStreet, Brooklyn, NY Info[Williamsburg]

Continuing

Summer of Love | 111 Artists. Freight+ Volume, 97 Allen Street; Arts+Leisure, 1571 Lexington Avenue, NY, NY Info Closing reception and book launch, September 5, 7-10 pm.

Closing August 17

Painting: Now and Forever, Part III. Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 and 525 West 22^ndStreet; 523 West 24^thStreet, NY, NY Info and Greene Naftali Gallery, 508 West 26^thStreet, NY, NY Info

 

Edweard Muybridge, from Stopping Time at Laurence Miller Gallery

In Museums

Saturdays in August

Four More Weeks to Celebrate Warm Up and Experience the Dream. MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY Info