Planning Ahead

NYFA Learning presents, Thursday July 29, 6-9 pm: Doctor’s Hours for Visual Artists. One-on-one consultations with art professionals. Have a new body of work no one has seen? Have a new website? Ready for some feedback on images for an upcoming deadline? Come to NYFA's Doctor's Hours!
This event offers individual, 20-minute one-on-one consultations with local curators, critics and gallerists. Get practical and professional advice in person from one or more arts professionals. Each appointment will be $25, and there is a three-appointment limit per registrant. 
Registration opens 3 pm Thursday, July 16^th. Information. New York Foundation for the Arts [NYFA], 20 Jay Street, Suite 740, Brooklyn, NY. Directions.

Tuesday, July 16

Lecture and reception, 6:30-8:30 pm: East Village Art in the 1980s with Sur Rodney Sur. Presented by Lower East Side Preservation Initiative and Smart Clothes Gallery. Smart Clothes Gallery, 154 Stanton Street, at Suffolk Street, NY, NY. RSVP required.

Opening reception and awards, Type Directors Club Annual, 6-9 pm: 59^th Annual Typography Show | Selections from the annual typeface design competition. The Cooper Union Gallery, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY. Tickets $20/$15/$10$5. Information.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedman Benda, 515 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Florian Sussmayr [German, b.1963], Munchen, New York, Los Angeles, 2006/2012. Oil on canvas.

Wednesday, July 17

Art in America presents, 6-7:30 pm: The Active Voice | A Poetry Reading with Charles Bernstein, Mary Jo Bang, Monica de la Torre, Marjorie Welish, and David Reed. Cheim & Read, 547 West 25^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Don’t Look Back | Annual Staff Show. The Camera Club of New York, 336 West 37th Street, Second Floor [between 8^th-9^thAvenue], NY, NY.

Lecture and gallery tour, 6:30 pm: Join Dr. E.C. Krupp, Director, Griffith Observatory, as he explores parallels between ancient engagements with celestial light and James Turrell's monumental explorations of perception in his installations. An exhibition viewing of James Turrell follows the lecture. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89^th Street, NY, NY. Tickets/$12/$8.

Ron Church, Comradery, Windansea, Summer, 1961, from an exhibition continuing through August at Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco.

Thursday, July 18

Opening reception, 6-9:30 pm: Hyman Bloom | Paintings 1940-2005. White Box Art Center, 329 Broome Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 5 pm: 2013 MFA National Competition, juried by Phong Bui. First Street Gallery, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 209, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Shannon | New Work by the 2013 Graduates of the Yale University School of Art Photography Program. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Susannah Ray | What are the Wild Waves Saying, featuring audio by Jen Poyant. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, 41 East 57^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Fresh | Annual Summer Show, curated by W.M. Hunt and Darren Chin. Klompching Gallery, 111 Front Street, Suite 206, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.

Artist talk and discussion, 6:30-8 pm: Dying on Stage: New Paintings, New York | Tatiana Berg, Ariel Dill, Sarah Faux, Clare Grill, and Kristina Lee. Garis & Hahn, 263 Bowery, New York, NY.

Artist talk, 6 pm: In conjunction with Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here | Barbara Henry, Barbara Hosein, and Beth Grossman. International Print Center, 508 West 26^th Street, 5^th Floor, NY, NY. Information.

Artists reception, 7-9 pm: Better Homes | Works by Jonathas de Andrade, Neïl Beloufa, Keith Edmier, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Robert Gober, TamarGuimarães, Anthea Hamilton, E’wao Kagoshima, Yuki Kimura, KwieKulik, Paulina Olowska, Kirsten Pieroth, Josephine Pryde, Carissa Rodriguez, Martha Rosler, and Güne Terkol.  Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, NY. RSVP required by July 17.

In Winchester, MA

Opening reception, 7-8:30 pm: Griffin Museum | 19^th Juried Exhibition. Juror: Kathy Ryan, New York Times Magazine. Griffin Museum of Photography, 67 Shore Road, Winchester, MA. Directions.

Left: Dedron, Mona Lisa, 2012, included in Contemporary Tibetan Art, opening Saturday at The Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY.

Friday, July 21

The French Embassy and Films on the Green present, 8:30 pm: French Can Can (Dir. Jean Renoir, 1954). Washington Square Arch, NY, NY. Free.Summer schedule and rain dates.

Saturday, July 20

Annual Block Party, Noon-5 pm: Join the New Museum for the annual Block Party in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Afterwards, head over to the New Museum to participate in family-friendly tours of current exhibitions: “LLYN FOULKES,” “Ellen Gallagher: Don’t Axe Me,” “Erika Vogt: Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll,” and “XFR STN.” Free. Information. Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Chrystie Street between Delancey and Broome Street, NY, NY. Directions.

Opening reception, 2-6 pm: The New Street Types of New York | works by Alice Austen, Chris Arnade, Alice Attie, Dmitry Gudkov, Peter Funch, Andy Jones, Wayne Lawrence, Erica McDonald, Greg Miller, Christina Paige, Susanne Ray, Richard Renaldi, Ruddy Roye, Geordie Wood, and AnRong Xu. The Alice Austen House Museum, 2 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island, NY.

In New Paltz, NY

Opening reception, 5-7 pm: Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art. The Samual Dorsky Museum of Art the State University of New York, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY. Information.

In Atlantic Highlands, NJ

Inaugural opening reception, 6 pm: Anthony Freda | Order out of Chaos. A. J. Dillon Gallery, 50 First Avenue, Atlantic Highlands, NJ. Directions.

In Washington, DC

Opening reception and book signing, 6-8 pm: Carlo Van de Roer | The Portrait Machine. Randall Scott Projects, 1326 H Street NE, 2^nd Floor, Washington, DC.

In Los Angeles

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Kerry Skarbakka | Ten Years of Falling and Desaturated Rainbow | Group Show. Kopeikin Gallery, 2766 S. La CienegaBoulevard, at Washington, Los Angeles, CA.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Darren Bader | Heaven and Earth. Blum & Poe, 2727 S. La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA.