Talks / Screenings / Performance / and Beyond

Above: Vija Celmins, Drypoint—Ocean Surface (Between First and Second State); this week at The Met Breuer

Wednesday, September 24

Xaviar Solomon on The Painter and The Libertine | Titian and Pietro Arentino, 6:30 pm. New York Studio School, 8 West 8^thStreet, NY, NY Info NYSS Lectures, Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings, schedule

Thursday, September 26

On Visibility and Agency | Hasan Elahi and Aliza Shvarts in Conversation, 6 pm. The Rubin Foundation/The 8^thFloor, 17 West 17^thStreet, NY, NY Info

New Monuments for New Cities | Twenty-five Artists from Across North America address public commemorations of history as part of larger conversations about social impact of infrastructure reuse projects. The High Line at 14^th Street, NY, NY  info Symposium: October 16-18 

Look Both Ways: The Illicit Liaison Between Image and Information | Debbie Millman in conversation with artists Edel Rodriguez, Cey Adams, and more. Type Directors Club, 347 West 36^thStreet, NY, NY Info.

Nic Kay | Exodus Commission, performance, 6:30 pm. Triangle Arts, 20 Jay Street, NY, NY Info

Left, Peggy Roalf, Abundance and Variety, mural detail

Saturday, September 28

Fall for Arts Festival Roosevelt island | Live Mural Painting, Art Workshops, Live Music! Please join ours truly, Peggy Roalf, as she paints a mural at South Point Park celebrating the Abundance and Variety of Roosevelt Island [left], with her amazing team of artists: Anthony Longo and Amy Geller. Peggy and her team are sponsored by the Roosevelt Island Garden Club; organized by RIGC Outreach and Publicity Director Julia Ferguson. InfoMap

Kite Flight for Peae & Human Rights, 11am-4 pm. Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island, NY Info

Saturday, September 28-Sunday, September 29

RISO Workshop | with Wren McDonald, 10am-4 pm. RISOLAB, School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21^stStreet, NY, NY Info

Tuesday, October 1

An Evening with Brazilian Comics artist Vitor Cafaggi, 6:30-8 pm. Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63^rdStreet, NY, NY Info

Wednesday, October 27 pm. 

The New Green Deal and Environmental Justice, symposium presented by the Tishman Environment and Design Center, 2-7 pm. Tishman Environment and Design Center, 79 5^thAvenue, NY, NY Info

Openings / Galleries

Above: Thornton Dial, Tigers Like To Play, circa 1990s; this week at Sargent’s Daughters

One-Two-Three Jubilee | Frosch & Portman 10^thAnniversary Celebration | featuring Seth Michael Forman; Magnolia Laurie; Hooper Turner, 6-8 pm. Frosch & Portman, 53 Stanton Street, NY, NY Info

Right: Jill Mulleady | Fight-or-Flight, this week at Swiss Institute

Wednesday, September 25

Garden | featuring Donald Baechler, Thornton Dial, Hein Koh, Sufjan Stevens, and more, 6-8 pm. Sargent’s Daughter and Shrine Galleries, 179 East Broadway, NY, NY Info

Constructed Sites | Unfamiliar Selves, 6-8 pm. Lower East Side Print Shop, 306 West 37^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Thursday, September 26

Anderson & Low | Rituals: Spiritual/Physical, 6-8 pm. Throckmorton Fine Art, 145 East 57^thStreet, NY, NY Info

BOMB Oral History Live | Janet Olivia Henry and Sansa Musasama in conversation, 6:30 pm. Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY Info

Ron Gorchov | At the Cusp of the 80s. Cheim & Read, 23 East 67^thStreet, NY, NY Info

Saturday, September 28

Thomas Liu Le Lann | Best Western, 6-9 pm. Lubov, 5 East Broadway, NY, NY Info

Lynn Davis | Landmark. Edwynn Houk, 745 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY Info

Tuesday, October 1

Immigrants | Peter Turnley, Jon Lowenstein, F. Emmanuel Bastien, Diana Bejarano, Sarah Corgin, Marc Hors, Ellen Jacob, Francesco Uceda, Alain Licari, and more, 6-8 pm. Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, NY, NY Info

In Museums

Jill Mulleady | Fight-or-Flight/Life and Limbs.Swiss Institute, 38 St Marks Place, NY, NY Info

Taking Shape | Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s. Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, NY, NY Info

Vija Celmins Retrospective. The Met Breuer, 945 Madison Avenue, NY, NY Info