Friday, December 04 
Topographie de l’art presents new work by Bruno Bressolin, Paleosprays, in a group show titled Aérosolthérapie. Inspired by cave paintings at Lascaux, Bruno created these works in spray paint on oversize Kraft paper during a long walking tour of Haute Savoie, Charente and Bretagne, France, this summer. 
Topographie de l’art, 15, ru de Thorigny, Paris Info

Wednesday, December 02, 6:00 pm

Sculptors Alliance live online reception for FLUX : Vita Mutata, curated by sculptor Natsuki Takauji. RSVP. Natsuki Takauji proposed that we explore “How is the global pandemic changing our lives.” FLUX : Vita Mutata reveals the ways in which artists work and question old approaches as they develop new ones. If you can’t get to the opening, see SA President Marco Palli’s interview with Natsuki here; and my DART interview with the curator here.

Monday, December 7, 12:30 pm EST: The last in the Herb Lubalin Lecture Series of 2020

On the origin of bold and fat faces: Dusting Latin type history with Sébastien Morlighem. RSVP for this free event. A link to join the webinar will be sent one day before the event from Eventbrite. This webinar intends to reassess the role of English founders in the development of bold and fat types during the early decades of the nineteenth century. Many little-known documents and examples will be shown and a few worn-out ideas and narratives may become obsolete.

The Herb Lubalin Lectures are recorded and made available on the Type@Cooper website on each individual listing of past events and on Vimeo with the generous support of Hoefler&Co

This just in from New York Foundation for the Arts [NYFA]

“We must end the cycle of compromising our identities to participate in wealth production.” — Amani OluAmani Olu, Founder and CEO of marketing agency Olu & Company is also the co-founder of Detroit Art Week, founder of IMG SRVR, as well as a curator, writer, and artist. With all this experience in the art world, the serial entrepreneur is very much aware of the challenges that Black artists and professionals face when their work is represented by primarily white-lead institutions. Misrepresentation, silencing, and the oversimplification of nuanced narratives are often a result of these encounters. And artists, eager to get a seat at the table, find themselves unable to break this circuit of trauma… “We must end the cycle of compromising our identities to participate in wealth production,” reminds Olu. During his talk at “Defining Value(s) in the Art World,” an online event presented by Art World Conference (Fiscally Sponsored by NYFA), he provided a 10-step approach that will help Black artists safeguard their narrative. More

December 11, 2020; 7:00-8:00 pm
Artist and Publisher Kris Graves will discuss his recent project photographing scenes that reference the history of racism and police brutality. His camera has captured confederate monuments, sites of police murders, social movement activity, and more. He will discuss how he has approached this work and what the camera might help to say about American reality today. This Art & Politics Lecture is presented by BFA Visual & Critical Studies, SVA Honors Program and MPS Digital Photography. Register here to get a Zoom link
Kris Graves creates artwork that deals with what he views wrong with American society and aims to use art as a means to inform people about social issues. He also works to elevate the representation of people of color in the fine art canon and to create opportunities for conversation about race, representation and urban life. Photo above by Kris Graves (@themaniwasnt).

This just in from ArtNet News
The Developer Who Painted Over the 5Pointz Graffiti Mecca Must Pay an Additional $2 Million to Cover the Artists’ Legal FeesThe stipulation brings the fines associated with the case to $8.75 million. 
The hits just keep coming for G&M Realty, the Queens real estate company that lost a landmark case against a group of graffiti and aerosol artists for whitewashing their work on a sprawling set of buildings it owned in Long Island City, Queens, reports ArtNet News. The developer must now pay more than $2 million in attorney fees on top of the $6.75 million initially awarded to the artists who sued the company for violating the Visual Artist Rights Act (VARA) in 2018. More

Continuing through January 3, 2021

Daiga Grantina | What Eats Around Itself, in the Lobby Gallery of the New Museum. Daiga Grantina creates large-scale sculptural assemblages that emulate the natural world, often resembling terrariums and vegetation. The title of the exhibition, What Eats Around Itself, refers to the dynamic properties of lichen, a composite organism that results from the symbiosis between fungi and algae. Grantina draws inspiration from lichen’s many adaptive qualities, like coexistence and self-replication, to devise her material processes. For her New Museum presentation, the artist premieres a new site-specific sculptural installation that interweaves cast silicone with paint, latex, fabric, and felt. The work’s amorphous structure appears to undergo construction and decomposition at once, much as lichen reproduces and consumes its own biological matter.
New Museum, 225 Bowery, NY, NY. Lobby Gallery is free to the public. Info