Deadline Approaching

Midnight Monday, December 3 is the deadline for the 2013 CCNY Darkroom Residency Program Call for Entries. The CCNY Darkroom Residency offers photographers living in New York City much-needed workspace in New York City as well as access to the CCNY community and programs. Open Call For Entries.

Tuesday, November 27

Book signing, 6-8 pm: Henry Leutwyler | Ballet (Steidl 2012). Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, between Bowery and Lafayette, NY, NY. Click to order a signed copy.

School of Visual Arts MPS Digital Photography Department presents, 7 pm: The i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series with photographer and En Foco Executive Director Miriam Romais. 136 West 21 Street, Room 418F, NY, NY. Information. Free.

Aperture Foundation and the School of Art, Media, and Technology/Parsons The New School for Design present, 6:30 pm: Taryn Simon, artist and Lisa Hostetler, curator. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY. Free. Information.

Asia Society presents, 6:30 pm: Creative Women in Contemporary China: A conversation with novelist Sheng Keyi and Senior Fellow, Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society Susan Jakes. Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70^th Street, NY, NY. Information. Tickets $10/$12/$15.

Magdalena Sole, from her book New Delta Rising. The photographer will be signing books on Thursday at Sous les Etoiles Gallery.

Wednesday, November 28

The Public Art Fund presents, 6:30 pm: Oscar Tuazon | Between Art and Architecture. The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12^th Street, NY, NY. Tickets $10/$20/Free for students with valid ID.

Lecture/Discussion, 6-8 pm: Steve Almond | How to Make the Reader See It: The Book as a Visual Artifact. School of Visual Arts MFA Design Criticism Department, 136 West 21^stStreet, Second Floor, NY, NY. Free with RSVP.

Talk and book signing, 6:30 PM: Building | A Conversation with Barney Kulok and Joel Smith. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY. Free. Information.

Artist’s reception, 6:30 pm: Ed Kashi | The Forgotten Land: Madagascar Out of Balance. VII Photo Gallery, 28 Jay Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.

In Chicago Curator’s gallery talk, 6 pm: Jan Tichy Works with the MoCP Collection. MoCP, Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL. Information.

Michal Chelbin, Sergey, sentenced for sexual violence against women. Juvenile prison for boys, Russia, 2009 (detail) from Sailboats and Swans at Andrea Meislin Gallery. The gallery is hosting a post-Sandy Re-Opening this Thursday.

Thursday, November 29

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Mike Rader | Below See Level. Christopher Henry Gallery, 127 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY.

Artist’s reception, 6:30-9 pm: Michael Kennedy | Photos From the Road. Wolverine Company Store, 242 Elizabeth Street, NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Hell featuring works Inspired by the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud and the art of Hans Bellmer and Pierre Molinier. Envoy Enterprises, 87 Rivington Street, NY, NY.

Artist’s reception, 6-8 pm: Julie Blackmon | Day Tripping. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Artist’s reception and book signing, 6-8 pm: Chris McCaw | Marking Time. Yossi Milo Gallery, 245 Tenth Avenue, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Mattia Biagi | Someone Told Me Never to Do It. Anna Kustera Gallery, 520 West 21^st Street, NY, NY, Plus: A special presentation in the Family Business Gallery.

Re-opening reception 6-8 pm: Michal Chelbin | Sailboats and Swans. Andrea Meislin Gallery, 534 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: The Latin American Photobook. Aperture Gallery, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception and award presentatio, 6-8 pm: The Masters Series | James McMullan. SVA Gallery, 209 East 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Save the date: Tuesday, December 4, 7pm:James McMullan in conversation with Milton Glaser. SVA Third Floor Amphitheatre, 209 East 23^rd Street.

Book signing, 6-8 pm: Magdalena Sole | New Delta Rising. Sous les Etoiles Gallery, 560 Broadway, NY, NY.

Book launch party, 7-9 pm: New York at Night | Photography After Dark with photo editors Yolanda Cuomo and Norma Stevens and powerHouse Books founder and CEO Daniel Power. powerhouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. RSVP.

Artist's talk and presentation, 7:30 pm: Elizabeth D. Herman | A Woman's War. United Photo Industries Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 204, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. 

In Toronto Opening reception, 5-9 pm: Miles to Go Before I Sleep | works by Anita Kunz, Ray Caesar, Gottfried Helnwein and Catherine Howe. Gallery House, 2068 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON. RSVP. 

Friday, November 30 at CUNY Graduate Center and Saturday, December 1 at The New School. 
Urban Uprising | Exploring Connections between Social Justice, Sustainability and Cities. Presented by CUNY Graduate Center’s Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Right to the City Coalition, The Brecht Forum, Growing Roots, and the Design and Urban Ecologies program at Parsons The New School for Design. Featuring speakers David Harvey(Director, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center), Frances Fox Piven (Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, CUNY), Rob Robinson(Campaign to Restore National Housing, Take Back the Land, US Human Rights Network), Peter Marcuse (Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Columbia University), Marian Kramer (Co-chair, National Welfare Rights Union, founding member, League of Revolutionary Black Workers), and Miguel Robles-Duran. Information. Information/Directions. Free and open to the public.

Friday, November 30

CCNY Conversations presents, 7 pm: Fryd Frydendahl | in person and via video. Camera Club of New York, 336 West 37^th Street, second floor, NY, NY.

Saturday, December 1

In New Orleans Artists reception and book signing, 8-10 pm: Josephine Sacabo | Nocturnes; Shelby Lee Adams | Salt and Truth; Louviere + Vanessa | Stratum Lucidum – Moonshine; and Keith Carter | Natural Histories – Imagining Paradise. A Gallery for Fine Photography, 241 Charles Street, New Orleans, LA.

In Dallas Opening reception, 5-8 pm: Michael Kenna. PDNB Gallery, 1202 Dragon Street, Suite 103, Dallas, TX.

In LA Opening reception, 5-7 pm: Two-person show | Sarajo Frieden and Barbara Kaleta. LACMA Art Rental & Sales Gallery, 5905 Wiltshire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

In Toronto Opening reception, 2-5 pm: Jeff Thomas | Resistance is Not Futile. Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen Street NW, Toronto, ON.

Sunday, December 2
Mana Contemporary presents, Noon-5 pm: Keith Haring | Large Scale Works; The Imaginary, The Symbolic and The Real | Contemporary Video Art from th Richard J. Massey Collection; David Wakstein | Candid Interviews from the Middle East; and Carole A. Feuerman | Capri with Swarovski Cap. RSVP.
Also: Mana Contemporary Open Studios, noon-3 pm, including photographer Lili Almog in Studio 408 with holiday cocktails. RSVP.
Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ. Free shuttle bus will run from Milk Studios every hour from noon to 3 pm; 450 West 15^th Street. Information/directions.

In Portland PICA and Mushroom Stories present The Mush Fair, an afternoon fair where you can view the sculpture, shop for mushroom growing kits, wild and cultivated mushrooms, make spore prints, and maybe even taste a few mushroom, mold, and yeast treats. Come down and meet some of the characters profiled by Oregon Mushroom Stories and learn all about our region’s fungi. Artist talk and Mushroom Stories, Monday, December 2. The Ace Hotel, 403 SW 10^th Avenue, Portland, OR. Information.