Women In Photography: September 30

Tuesday, September 30, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

Aperture is hosting a panel discussion featuring Cara Philips and Amy Elkins, co-founders and co-curators of Women in Photography, a new online venue showcasing work by contemporary female photographers, for a lively discussion on what it means to be a woman in photography today. Moderated by Laurel Ptak, Aperture's Educational Programs Manager, the discussion also includes Women in Photography featured photographers Robin Schwartz and Elinor Carucci speaking about their work.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-single.aspx?id=428

Visuality+ Performance+ Social Critique: 9/25+ 26

Conference: VISUALITY + PERFORMANCE + SOCIAL CRITIQUE
Thursday - Friday, September 25 - 26
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU
53 Washington Square South

What can performance and visual studies learn from each other? This two-day symposium explores evocative sites of intersection between performance and the visual in dialogue with artists and scholars who work in both registers. What strategies for political/social critique does their combination enable? Participants include MacArthur-award winning photographer Susan Meiselas (NYC), art historian Estrella de Diego (Madrid), Ricardo Dominguez of Electronic Disturbance Theatre (San Diego/Tijuana), political performance artist Coco Fusco (New York), the theatre company Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani (Peru), and members of artist-activist collective, YoMango (Barcelona), among others. Click here to download the full program

Signs of Change Symposium: Sept 25

Signs of Change Event: A Two-Panel Symposium
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Ave
Thursday, September 25

6 pm: Producing and Distributing Social Movement Culture
Panelists include: Judy Ann Seidman/ Artist and Writer (South Africa); Sphinx/Indymedia Africa; illcommonz (Japan), Favianna Rodriguez/Tumis Design (Oakland, CA) and others TBA. Moderated by Gregory Sholette, Assistant Professor Queens College Department of Art, Co-Founder PAD/D & REPOhistory/New York.

8 pm: Assessing the History and Future of Social Movement Culture: A Critical Analysis
Panelists include: Stephen Duncombe/Writer & Professor, NYU; Dee Dee Halleck/Media Activist, Co-founder Deep Dish TV; Sasha Roseneil/Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, Director, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birbeck, University of London (UK), Jose Vasquez/Iraq Veterans Against the War, CUNY Graduate Center and others TBA. Moderated by Kazembe Balagun, Brecht Forum/blogger: blackmanwithalibrary.com (New York, NY).

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/signs_of_change/public_programs.html

Night School Seminar 8: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Night School Public Seminar 8: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Thursday, September 25, 2008, 7:30 PM
Friday, September 26, 2008, 7:30 PM
Saturday, September 27, 2008, 3:00 PM

Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A year-long program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. Free with Museum admission but tickets are required.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/233

Shelly Silver: Sept 24

Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 6:30 pm
MoMA, Theater 3, Cullman Education and Research Building

Shelly Silver, a New York–based artist who utilizes video, film, and photography, screens and discusses in complete world (2008), a feature-length documentary made up of street interviews done throughout New York City. Mixing political questions ("Are we responsible for the government we get?") with more broadly existential ones ("Do you feel you have control over your life?"), the film centers on the tension between individual and collective responsibility. in complete world can be seen as a user's manual for citizenship in the twenty-first century, as well as a glimpse into the opinions and self-perceptions of a diverse group of Americans. It is a testament to the people of New York City in this new millennium who freely offer thoughtful, provocative and at times tender revelations to a complete stranger, just because she asked. Silver currently teaches at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Sciences and in the MFA Department of Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts. Sally Berger, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, moderates a discussion. $10/$8/$5

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9753&ref=calendar

Democracy in America: Convergence Center

September 21- 27, 2008
noon-10pm daily*
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 21, 2-10pm
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave
*Open from 2 to 10 pm on September 21 and from 12 to 6:30 pm on September 23.

After traveling across the country to glean perspectives from artists and activists on the state of democracy, Creative Time’s year-long program Democracy in America: The National Campaign culminates in the “Convergence Center”: a major exhibition, participatory project space, and meeting hall mounted in New York City’s Park Avenue Armory just in time for election season. The Convergence Center at Park Avenue Armory will provide an activated space to both reflect on and perform democracy and will be punctuated by speeches by leading political thinkers as well as community leaders and activists throughout the run of its program. As one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York, the non-traditional setting of the Armory features interiors—such as its vast drill hall and historic period rooms—that are ideal for artists presenting multifaceted visual and performing arts productions.

More details and full schedule of events available here: http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2008/democracy/convergence_events.php

James Benning: Sept 21

Sunday, September 21, 3:30pm
Dia Beacon

James Benning in conversation with Lynne Cooke at 3:30pm
Following a screening of Benning's Casting a Glance (2007), at 2pm

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/conversations/index.html

"New York: Past, Present, and Possible Future": Sept 20

Saturday, September 20, 2008 | 3:00 PM
New York: Past, Present, and Possible Future
New Museum, 235 Bowery

This panel will engage New York’s landscape at three distinct moments in history. Eric W. Sanderson, leader of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Mannahatta Project, will discuss Manhattan island in 1609; Matthew Coolidge, of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), will speak about “Up River: Points of Interest from The Battery to Troy,” CLUI’s study of the “sculpted landscape” of today’s Hudson River; and Matthew Sharpe will read from his novel Jamestown, which is partially set in an imaginary future Manhattan. Moderated by Brian Sholis, editor of Artforum.com. http://www.newmuseum.org/events/232

Conflux Festival

Going on now through Sunday, over one hundred local and international artists are transforming New York City streets into a laboratory for exploring the urban environment at the Conflux Festival. Located in Greenwich Village at the Center for Architecture (a.k.a. Conflux HQ), the four-day event includes art installations, street art interventions, interactive performance, walking tours, bicycle and public-transit expeditions, DIY media workshops, lectures, films and music. For more info visit http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/ .

Linda Nochlin on Louise Bourgeois: Sept 16

Old-Age Style: Late Louise Bourgeois
Tuesday, September 16, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Avenue

Linda Nochlin discusses Louise Bourgeois’s “late style” within the context of the artist’s long and distinguished career. Focusing on Bourgeois’s recent stuffed fabric sculptures, Professor Nochlin contrasts this characteristic “soft” production with the more architectonic sculptures dating from the same period. $10/$7

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Breaking Conventions: Sept 16

Breaking Conventions: Video Report-Back and Discussion
Tuesday, September 16, 7:00-10:00 pm
The Change You Want To See Gallery
84 Havemeyer St, at Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

An evening of video clips and conversation with independent media activists who’ve recently returned from the national political conventions: including Jeremy Scahill, Democracy Now!, I-Witness Video, Glassbead Collective, Big Noise Tactical & Indymedia. Hear first-hand accounts from the convention floor to the protests in the streets to the insides of a Minneapolis jailhouse. Discussion topics include the state of protest, the state of independent media, the state of the state, policies of pre-emption, policies of exception, party policies, predictions, predelictions, and lessons learned...

http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org

Robert Buck on Andy Warhol: Sept 15

September 15, 2008, 6:30 pm.
Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street
Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors.

This series, established in 2001, highlights the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers, and focuses on artists in Dia’s collection and exhibition programs. Robert Buck is a New York-based artist who until recently has shown as Robert Beck. Tickets are available at the lecture only. Reservations are suggested, please call 212 293 5583

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/lectures/artists/index.html

Slow and Steady Wins the Race+ Bureau V: Sept 11

Lecture and Reception
Thursday, September 11, 4 pm
Saatchi & Saatchi
375 Hudson St. (entrance on King)

In conjunction with the Slow and Steady Wins the Race installation of their newly envisioned Department Store, the designer of the avant-garde label, together with the architects behind the installation, Bureau V, will give a talk concerning the issues they have addressed in the installation. Namely, the creation of an entirely new department store experience that speaks both to the scale, space and density of product and to the motivations behind what, how, and why we consume.

http://www.slowandsteadywinstherace.com

Night School: Seminar 7: Paul Chan: Sept 11-13

Night School: Public Seminar 7
Paul Chan: A play, some pornos, and a presidential campaign
September 11th - 13th, 2008

Thursday, September 11, 7:30 pm
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: an illustrated lecture

Friday, September 12, 7:30 pm
A poet for president: Eileen Myles and her run for the White House

Saturday, September 13, 3pm
The Sade I know: screening and lecture

Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A year-long program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. See links for more information about individual lectures. Free with Museum admission but tickets are required.

Buckminster Fuller Symposium: Sept 12-13

Buckminster Fuller Symposium
Friday, September 12 - Saturday, September 13
The Great Hall of the Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, at Astor Place

Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends to nearly every field of the arts and sciences. This symposium takes its cue from Fuller's dictum, "I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment," and explores the diverse ways in which contemporary scholars and practitioners are pushing Fuller's ideas and projects into the 21st century.

This symposium will run in conjunction with the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 26 - September 21, 2008. It is co-sponsored by The Architectural League of New York and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union. Full details available here: http://www.whitney.org/www/buckminster_fuller/events.jsp

Michael Stickrod: Sept 13

Exhibition Walk-Through with Michael Stickrod
(Altoids Award Winner )
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Saturday, Sep 13, 2008, 2:00 PM

Michael Stickrod addresses the psychology of human ties by cutting to the center of his familial circle. He uses scanned photographs and found audio to create nearly abstract sequences embedded between incising confessions and footage of his family. The videos on view take his mother and father as his subject matter, painting a landscape of Middle America that oscillates between bleak and hopeful. Stickrod was born in 1978 in Columbus, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. On September 13 he will discuss his work in the Altoids Award exhibition.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/209

Kathleen Henderson + Nina Katchadourian: 9/12

Kathleen Henderson:
What If I Could Draw a Bird that Could Change the World?
Gallery Talk and Lunch
Friday, September 12, 12:30 AM
Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street

Lunch in the Drawing Room followed by an informal tour and discussion with Selections Fall 2008 artist Kathleen Henderson and exhibition curator Nina Katchadourian. RSVP by September 9 to 212-219-2166 x214. Admission $5/members free (includes lunch)

http://www.drawingcenter.org/events_public_01.cfm

Dalí and New York: Sept 10

Dalí and New York
Wednesday, September 10, 6:30 pm
MoMA, Theater 3, Cullman Education and Research Building

Salvador Dalí first arrived in New York in 1934 and immediately became a flamboyant part of the city's life and art scene. Engaging with the artists and celebrities who helped create the spirit of the city at the time, Dalí pursued his interests in art and commerce, the urban streets, and friendships with members of polite society and those in the rebellious underground. This program brings together scholars and filmmakers who address the impact of Dalí's diverse activities on his work and on the New York artistic community. Participants include Callie Angell, Adjunct Curator, The Andy Warhol Film Project, The Whitney Museum of American Art, who discusses the relationship between Dalí and Andy Warhol; filmmaker Jack Bond, who presents clips of his own film, Dalí in New York, and reflections on his friendship with the artist; Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and Director, Anthology Film Archives, who shares the films he made of Dalí; and Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, who explores Dalí and the 1939 World's Fair. Anne Morra, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, and co-organizer of the exhibition Dalí: Painting and Film, moderates a discussion. ($10/ $5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9709&ref=calendar

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Sept 10

Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color
Exhibit Opening and Conversation with the Artist
Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

This fall Americas Society will present Carlos Cruz-Diez’s first solo show in a major U.S. cultural institution. Focusing on the relationship between color and perception, the exhibition will increase the visibility and appreciation of Carlos Cruz-Diez in the United States, one of Latin America’s Kinetic Art masters. A major publication will accompany the exhibition; it will include essays by Nuit Banai, Mariela Brazón, Estrellita Brodsky, Gabriela Rangel, Isabela Villanueva, and an interview with the artist by Alexander Alberro. The catalogue will be available in November 2008.

On September 10 Cruz-Diez will talk about his career and work with a panel including: Carlos Brillembourg (Architect), Estrellita Brodsky (Guest Curator), Tahia Rivero (Curator, Colección Mercantil), Isabela Villanueva (Assistant Curator), and Gabriela Rangel, Moderator (Director, Visual Arts Americas Society) A public reception will follow from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

http://as.americas-society.org/program.php?id=46&cid=16

Katy Siegel: Sept 9

Katy Siegel: Millions of artists, and all pretty good...
Tuesday, September 9, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public.

As contemporary art increasingly becomes a global business and producers are growing in number, artists in training compete not only with peers from other BFA and MFA programs, but with artists around the world. Siegel’s talk examines how this “crowd scene” affects the individual artist. Katy Siegel is an associate professor of art history at Hunter College, a contributing editor to Artforum and an acclaimed curator. Presented by the SVA BFA Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2529

Conceptual Figures Panel: Sept 9

Deitch Projects
76 Grand Street
Tuesday, September 9th at 7 PM.

Conceptual Figures is a twelve-person exhibition that approaches figurative painting as an intellectual construct. In order to explore the evolving conceptual frameworks that have surrounded figuration both historically and in its contemporary incarnations, Ad Hoc Vox has brought together four artists from Conceptual Figures, including Caleb Considine, Sophia Dixon, Ridley Howard, and Kurt Kauper, alongside guests Peter Brooks and Robert Storr, to discuss the use of the figure in painting. Colleen Asper will moderate the discussion, which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. Organized by Colleen Asper and Jennifer Dudley, Ad Hoc Vox is an ongoing series of discussions and lectures without a fixed location that addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary art. More at: www.adhocvox.com

Port Huron Project: Sept 7

Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project 6: Let Another World Be Born
Sunday, September 7: 5 to 7 pm
East 43rd Street at Tudor City Place (one block east of 2nd Avenue)

First up this weekend is the final performance in Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project, a series of radical speeches reenactments presented in the same locations they were first heard 40 years ago. Learn more about the project at creativetime.org/democracy

NOTE: Mark Tribe's Port Huron Project has been moved. This information reflects the new date and location.