May 1-4

The New Museum presents Ideas City | Workshops, Innovative StreetFest, and Hundreds of projects in Downtown Manhattan. Information.

May 1-2
The New Museum Presents Ideas City Conference at the Great Hall at Cooper Union. Information.

Tuesday, April 30

Aperture presents, 6:30-9:30 pm: Compilation Tokyo: Remix, a launch party for the Self Publish, Be Happy mash-up and the PhotoBook Review 004, edited by Charlotte Cotton. Aperture Bookstore and Gallery, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY. Information.

Film screening and discussion, 6:30-8:30 pm: A Night With the Filmmakers | Harvey Kurtzman: A Furshlugginer Genius. Society of Illustrators, 128 Esat 63^rd Street, NY, NY.Information.Tickets $15/$10/$7.

In Philadelphia Artist talk and discussion, 6-7:30 pm: John Gossage. Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, 1400 N. American Street, Suite 103, Philadelphia, PA. Free and open to the public. Followed by annual PPAC Patron Party at a separate location. Tickets $50/$75.

In Washington, DC Panel discussion, 1:00 pm: The National Gallery of Art presents Inside Photography | The Role of Art in Diplomacy. Panelists: Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale School of Art, artists Tina Barney and Clifford Ross, and Sarah Lewis, art historian, author and curator. Moderator: SarahGreenough, Senior Curator & Head of the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Information.

 
Okawa Village, Kochi Prefecture, 2007 (detail), from Toshio Sibata, Constructed Landscapes, continuing at the Peabody Essex Museum through December 31, 2013 (information) and at Laurence Miller Gallery through May 25 (information).

Wednesday, May 1

Book signing, 5-7 pm: Tracey Emin | I Followed You To The Sun. Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, May 2

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Tracey Emin | I Followed You To The Sun. Lehmann Maupin, 540 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Janis Kounellis. Cheim & Read, 547 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Sandy Haber Fifield | After the Threshold. Rick Wester Fine Art, 526 West 26^th Street, Suite 417, NY, NY.

Ideas City presents, 7:30 pm: The City and Untapped Capital | Mayoral Panel with with five big-city mayors; moderated by Kurt Anderson. The Great Hall at Cooper Union, Astor Place at 7^th Street, NY, NY. Information. Tickets/$15.

Writers and Artists Respond, 6:30 pm: Stephan Sagmeister, in conjunction with the exhibition Six Things: Sagmeister and Walsh. The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, NY, NY. Free with Pay As You Wish admission. Information.

Dumbo First Thursday Events Information.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Conveyor Arts presents, 2013 Conveyor Exhibition Grant recipient, Paul Thulin | Pine Tree Ballads. United Photo Industries, 11 Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. Grant information.

Above: Max MacKenzie, Near Waterloo, Montana, 1999, from the series American Ruins; currently on view at dnj Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Suite J1, Santa Monica, CA.

Friday, May 3

Type Directors presents, 8:30 am-4:30 pm: A Crash Course in New Typography on the Web| With John Hester. TDC Conference Center, 347 West 36^th Street, Suite 603, NY, NY. Register $275/$350. Information or 212.633.8943.

Artist talk, 6:30 pm: From Bande Dessinée to Artist’s Book: Testing the Limits of Franco-Belgian Comics. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, 3^rd Floor, NY, NY. Suggested donation $10/$5.

In Los Angeles Opening reception and book signing, 5-8 pm: Marie Thibeault | Funtown. George Lawson Gallery, 8564 W. Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA.

Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4

Issue Project Room, in collaboration with Eyebeam Art and Technology Center/Electronic Music Foundation:Darmstead Essential Repertoire | John Cage & Lejaren Hiller, HPSCHD, “a mass media orgy, considered by many as the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century.” Eyebeam, 540 West 21^st Street, NY, NY. Information. Tickets $10/$15.

Saturday, May 4

Spring Exhibitions and Open Studios, 1-7 pm: Mana Fest, featuring Nobuyoshi Araki (including more than 100 works from a distinguished private collection). Mana Contemporary, 888 Newark Avenue, Jersey City, NJ. Directions.

Sunday, May 4
The Drawing Center presents, all day: Terry Smith | Capital Revisited. Wall and window drawings, site specific installations as part of Ideas City 2013. Information. The Drawing Center booth for Ideas City StreetFest will be open Saturday, 11am-6pm; Terry Smith will work with the public to make new drawings. Sign up starting 11am.

This just in from Silver Eye Center for Photography
The submission deadline for the 8x8 Photo Party exhibition and sale is Saturday, May 4, 11:59:59 pm. Information.

This just in from the Young Photographers Alliance
The application deadline for 2013 Summer Mentoring Program (for photographers age 18-29) is May 10. Information.

This just in from Conveyor Arts
The submission deadline for the Spectre//Spectrum, the next issue of Conveyor magazine is May 19, Midnight PST. Information.