Alison Rossiter, Fuji Gaslight, exact expireation date unknown, ca. 1920s, processed in 2010. Save the date: November 30, 7 pm, Photographers Lecture Series at ICP. Information.

Tuesday, November 22

Opening reception, 6 pm: Pharmacophore: Architectural Placebo, an installation and dance performance collaboration with HAt and dancer/choreographer Silas Reiner (who will be joined by his Merce Cunningham colleagues Rashaun Mitchell, Jamie Scott, and Melissa Toogood). Tickets for performances on 11/25-30. Storefront for Art & Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Jean-Frederic Schnyder. Swiss Institute, 15 Wooster Street, NY, NY.

Friday, November 25- Wednesday, November 30

Daily (except Tuesday) screenings of How to Make a Book With Steidl. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53^rd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Sunday, November 27

Gallery tour, 2 pm: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

Monday, November 28

Book Launch party, 6:30-8:30 pm: Culture by Stephan Sagmeister. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY. RSVP.

Book Launch party and Etsy Craft Night for Stencil 201 by Ed Roth. powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brookyn, NY. RSVP.

This week’s DART picks:

Saturday, November 26- Sunday, November 27:
Craft fair, 10 am- 6 pm: Handmade in the Hudson Valley. Cottekill Church, 167 Cottekill Road, Cottekill, NY. Information.

Through February 12, 2012: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY.  Explore the National Portrait Gallery’s website. Save the date: Thursday, December 1, 7:00 pm | Playwright Larry Kramer and co-curator Jonathan Katz in conversation. Information.

Closing Sunday, November 27: Ten Years After, works by selected ICP Alumni from the Class of 2002. On September 11, 2001, the School at ICP welcomed a fresh group of students to its new facility on 43rd Street to embark on a year of intense and rewarding study in the General Studies in Photography Program and the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program. Ten Years After celebrates their work and also marks the ten-year anniversary of ICP's state of the art facility for photographic education. International Center of Photography School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Information.

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