The DART Board: 12.07.2011
Left: Dave and Pam in Their Caddy, from Montauk: The End. Right: Gisele and Rachel, from Havana Libra. Copyright Michael Dweck. Opening 12.08 at Staley-Wise Gallery.
Wednesday, December 7
Day Two, 10 am-6 pm: The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, the foundational document that established Manhattan’s famous street grid. Featuring rare historic maps, photographs and prints of the evolution of the city's streets, and original manuscripts and publications that document the city’s physical growth, interactive touch-screen maps and a compelling video of New Yorkers locating themselves in the city, the exhibition examines the grid’s initial design, implementation, and evolution. Continues through April 15, 2012 at Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, NY, NY. Editor's Note: Don't Miss It!
Swann Galleries presents, 6-8 pm: The Collector’s Eye | Bill Hunt in conversation with Daile Kaplan about The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious. Swann Galleries, 104 East 25th Street, NY, NY. RSVP.
Thursday, December 8-Saturday, December 10
Issue Project Room presents: Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” presents its fourth annual Essential Repertoire festival at ISSUE Project Room. Described as “a conscious provocation on multiple levels” by the New York Times, and “one of the most significant presentations of the season” by Time Out New York, this “open-minded and inclusive” festival encompasses everything from Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music figurehead Karlheinz Stockhausen to godfather of the New York School, Morton Feldman to proto-minimalism pioneer Terry Riley. ISSUE Project Room, 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY. Information/Tickets.
Thursday, December 8
Opening reception and book signing for Michael Dweck | Works from Hagana Libre, Cuba and The End: Montauk, NY. Staley-Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway, NY, NY. Mojitos will be offered.
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: David Zimmerman: Last Refuge. Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, 560 Broadway Suite 205, NY, NY. 104 East 25th Street, NY, NY. RSVP or 212 254 4710, ext. 305.
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Cities and Things That Matter, featuring sculpture, installation, video, photography and drawing by Haig Aivazian, Emre Huner, Wilfredo Prieto, Michael Rakowitz, Raqs Media Collective, Nasan Tur and Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi. Lombard Freid Projects, 518 West 19th Street, NY, NY.
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Pierre Gonnord | Relatos. Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, NY, NY.
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Kianja Strobert | Going on Foot. Zach Feuer Gallery, 548 West 22nd Street, NY, NY.
Opening reception and book signing, 6-8 pm: Alex Webb | The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY.
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Massimo Vitali: Arcadian Remains. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, 13th Floor, NY, NY.
Opening day for 50 Books/50 Covers exhibition. AIGA National Design Center, 164 Fifth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets), NY, NY. Preview.
Opening reception, 5:30-7:30 pm: Judith Joy Ross | The Devil Today and Reading to Dogs. Pace MacGill Gallery, 37 East 57th Street, 9th Floor, NY, NY.
The ICP Education Department presents, 7pm: A Conversation with Glenda Bailey, editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar and ICP Guest Curator Vince Aletti. International Center of Photograph, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY. NY. Tickets.
Friday, December 9
Book Signing, 6-7:30 pm: Annie Leibovitz’s Pilgirmage. ICP Store, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY.
Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Trishia Brown | Drawings. Sikkema Jenkins & Co., 530 West 22nd Street, NY, NY.
The powerHouse Arena Fire Sale: Through January 9th, 40% off all powerHouse titles and more, with a supply of pH bulking dummies as well, all at 37 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn. Information or contact Lena Valencia at 212.604.9074, X109.
Saturday, December 10
Aperture presents, 11 am=6 pm: The first Holiday Book Bazaar, featuring books from select publishers and artists, plus raffles, refreshments, and more. In addition to Aperture, the following publishers will host booths during this daylong event: ARTBOOK | D.A.P, Capricious, Conveyor Arts, The Ice Plant, Je Suis une Bande de Jeunes, Magnum, Pau Wau Publications, TV Books / OH WOW. At 4:00 pm, Kathy Ryan, photo editor of the New York Times Magazine, photographer Alex Webb, plus other artists will be on site signing books. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, NY, NY.
Holiday Gift Fair and Silent Auction, noon-6 pm: The Center for Book Arts, 28 W. 27th St., 3rd Fl, NY, NY. Information.
Panel discussion, 4 pm: The Unfinished Grid: Speculations for Manhattan. Architects, landscape architects and urban designers discuss Manhattan's street grid as a catalyst for thinking about the present and future of New York City. Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, NY, NY. Tickets $12/$8/$6.
Leni Riefenstahal: Olympic German Girls, 1936. Paul Wolff: Olympics Diving Gestring USA, 1936. Aaron Siskind: Pleasures & Terrors of Levitation #99, 1961. Courtesy Alan Klotz Gallery.
This Week’s DART Picks:
Continuing at Alan Klotz Gallery through December 23rd: Annual Holiday Sale. For 33 years this show has been a magnet for photography fans, from novices buying their rst photograph, to some of America's top museum curators looking for something really unusual. There are over 400 photographs for sale by such masters as Ansel Adams, Eugene Atget, Harry Callahan, Edward Curtis, Robert Frank, Lewis Hine, E.O. Hoppe, Edwin Hale Lincoln, Eadweard Muybridge, Tony Ray-Jones, George Rodger, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Josef Sudek, Yvon and others. Alan Klotz Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, Suite 701, NY, NY.
December 8-11: PhotoNOLA, the annual festival of photography in New Orleans, coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide. Information.
December 9-January 12: Jeff Wall. Marian Goodman Gallery 24 W 57th St, 4th floor, NY, NY.
Continuing through December 23: Dash Snow | The Complete Zines. Andrew Roth Gallery, 160A Est 70th Street, NY, NY.
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