Tuesday, February 11

Panel discussion, 6:30 pm: Hall of Femmes | Women in Fashion Photography and Magazine Culture. Moderator Johanna Lenander will lead a conversation with Swedish photographers Denise Grünstein and Sophie Mörner. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 527 West 27^th Street, 5^th Floor, NY, NY

Book signing, 5-6 pm: Avedon | Women, with Joan Juliet Buck & China Machado.The Gagosian Shop, 976 Madison Avenue, NY, NY. RSVP.

Wednesday, February 12

The SVA MFA Fine Arts Department Art in the First Person series presents, 7 pm: Marilyn Minter. 136 West 21^st Street, NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Douglas Florian | The Beestes and the Briddes Alle. Bravin Lee Programs, 526 West 26th Street #211, NY, NY.

Curator’s perspective, 7 pm: Remco de Blaaij, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland; Maria del Carmen Carrion, Independent Curators International; in conjunction with Sexing Sound | Aural Archives and Feminist Scores. The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.

Left to right: Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868–1952), The Primitive Artist—Paviotso (Paiute), 1924. Photogravure in Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian, Portfolio 15, pl. 536, Printed Books; Acme Photography Bureau, Carving Lincoln on Rushmore Granite, 1937, Gelatin silver print with mimeograph attachment, Collection of Alan Lloyd Paris. Anonymous, Montgomery Clift in Freud: The Secret Passion, 1963, Gelatin silver print, Collection of Thomas Harris. From the exhibition A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play at The Morgan Library and Museum.

Wednesday, February 12, Cont’d

The ICP Lecture Series presents, curator talk, 7 pm: Capa in Color | with curator Cynthia Young. The School at ICP, Shooting Studio, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets $15.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Charles Harlan | Ishtar. Venus Over Manhattan, 980 Madison Avenue, NY, NY.

Artist talk, 6 pm: Christian Patterson. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus, Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61 St James Place, Brooklyn, NY. Free. Information.

BAM Art presents, Feb 12-16: River of Fundament | A Film by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler. Bam Harvey Theater, 30 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets $16-$20. 

Opening reception, 6 pm: Brooklyn Rescued Bestiary |by Virginia Cahill, with engraved illustrations by David Klein.Brooklyn Public Library, main branch, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

Wijnanda Deroo, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Works from this series goes on view Thursday at the Robert Mann Gallery.

Thursday, February 13

An evening of Polish Poster Art. Film screening, The Other Side of the Poster (dir. Marcin Latallo), 6:30 pm at Tribeca Film Center, 375 Greenwich Street, NY, NY. Tickets. Opening reception, 8:30: Jan Bajtlik |The New Generation of Polish Poster. Christina Dos Santos Gallery, 39 North Moore Street, between Varick and Hudson, NY, NY.

Opening reception and catalogue signing, 6-9 pm: Richard Caldicott | Recent work: Photogram and Paper Negative. Sous les Etoiles, 560 Broadway, Suite 603, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Robin F. Williams | Sons of the Pioneers. P.P.O.W., 535 West 22nd St. 3rd Floor, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Wijnnanda Deroo | Rijksmuseum. Robert Mann Gallery, 525 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: School of Visual Arts BFA Fine Arts department presents, Prints & Small Books. SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th floor, NY, NY. Information.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Three solo exhibitions Stephen Sollins | Correspondence. Imi Hwangbo | Portals. Marietta Tapanainen | Turangalila. Pavel Zoubok Gallery, 531 West 26^th Street, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6 pm: Brooklyn Rescued Bestiary |by Virginia Cahill, with engraved illustrations by David Klein. Brooklyn Public Library, main branch, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

In Philadelphia Artist’s talk and reception, 2:30-4 pm: The Art of Josh Cochran. University of the Arts, Anderson Hall, 333 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA. Talk begins at 2:30 sharp at the CBS Auditorium; reception begins at 3pm, Richard C. von Hess Gallery. See Josh’s DART Artist Q&A here.

In San Francisco Chronicle Books presents, 5 pm: Niko Courtelis | A New Look at Stamp Design. 680 2^nd Street, San Francisco, CA. RSVP required.

Friday, February 14—Sunday, February 16 
Ex Postal Facto Conference, a three day celebration of correspondence art, letter writing and faux philatelix, in venues around San Francisco. Information.

Josh Cochran, installation view of exhibition opening Thursday at the Richard C. von Hess Gallery.

Friday, February 14

Opening day: A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play. The Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36^th Street, NY, NY. Gallery talk with curator Joel Smith: 6:30 pm. Save the date Gallery talk with curator Joel Smith, Saturday, March 1, 11 am. Both events are free with museum admission.

Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Justin Amrhein, Jonathan Herder, Mark Lombardi, Ward Shelley | Idiom II. Pierogi, 177 North 9^th Street, Brooklyn, NY.

In Rome Opening day: Anita Kunz | The Bestiary. Dorothy Circus Gallery. Information.

In Warsaw Opening reception, 6 pm: Martha Rosler | Guide for the Perplexed: How To Succeed in the New Poland. Exhibition and town-hall-style interactions, through May 18. Ujazdowski Castle, Jazdow 2, Warsaw, Poland. Information.

Richard Caldicott, Untitled 14, 2013 (detail), from an exhibition opening Thursday at Sous les Etoiles.

Saturday, February 15

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: Elana Herzog | Plumb Pulp. LMAK Projects, 139 Eldridge Street, NY, NY.

In Hudson, NY Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Van Hanos | Saturday Evening Post. Retrospective Gallery, 727 Warren Street, Hudson, NY. Visit ArtInHudson.com

Sunday, February 16

Artist talk, 4 pm: David Antonio Cruz in conversation with Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, curatr at El Museo del Barrio, in conjunction with the exhibiton,alwasagoodtime, currently on view at Momenta Art. 56 Bogart Street, NY, NY.

Field Notes
Making tintypes. Making 3D videos. MAX MSP interactive sound and video. Looks good? Classes in these and other science-based art enterprises start this week at Pioneer Works, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Information.