Karen Finley: Nov 25

Karen Finley
RAPID RESPONSE: I NEED MY SPACE
Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Visual and performance artist Karen Finley will lead this group meeting, featuring invited and volunteer testimonials sharing our emotional responses to the election and the various needs for space--physical, social, cultural and psychological--that it exposed. How do our national political relationships inform or dialogue with the workplace, family, community and friends? How do the race, gender, class and identity issues raised in the campaign continue to be discussed? Finley will also address the transformation of the memory of Chicago's Grant Park (and the 1968 Democratic Convention) from a site of pain and loss into one of celebration and unity on November 4th, as well as legacies of Vietnam War protests and the Civil Rights Movement embodied in that space.

Audience participation in the meeting is encouraged. I NEED MY SPACE will last approximately one hour, with the hope of providing a therapeutic and supportive group environment for those needing space in their own lives.

Free and open to the public. RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu
Refreshments provided by BAREFOOT WINES

RAPID RESPONSE is held on the last Tuesday of each month, it is an open and undetermined platform for quick response to events that have taken place over the last thirty days. Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. http://www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/calendar.html

Howard Gardner: Nov 25, Dec 2+9

The True, the Beautiful, and the Good:
Reconsiderations in a Postmodern, Digital Era
Museum of Modern Art, Titus Theater 1

Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 p.m.
Kinds and Degrees of Truths.
Moderated by Peter Galison, Pellegrino University Professor in the History of Science and Physics, Harvard University

Tuesday, December 2, 6:30 p.m.
Beauty and Its Successors.
Moderated by Paola Antonelli, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art

Tuesday, December 9, 6:30 p.m.
The Good: Seen through the Prisms of Biology, Culture, and History.
Moderated by Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, and Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California

In this unprecedented lecture series, world-renowned psychologist Howard Gardner offers an extended reflection on the concepts of Truth, Beauty, and the Good in a postmodern, digital age. Drawing from philosophy, history, natural sciences, and cultural theory, Gardner analyzes how a sophisticated understanding of the power and limitations of these concepts can come about; and how best to understand what is essential, expendable, or deceptive about truth, beauty, goodness, and their opposites. ($10/$8/$5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=10171&ref=calendar

Shirazeh Houshiary: Nov 25

Shirazeh Houshiary
Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum

Guided by the mystical traditions of Sufism, Shirazeh Houshiary's practice challenges the boundaries of perception and reality with drawings and paintings characterized by layers of fine marks as well as sculptures and installations that evoke biomorphic, abstract forms based on mathematical calculation. $10 ($7 for members and students)

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

Jonas Bendiksen: Nov 24

Monday, November 24, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street,4th fl

Magnum Photographer Jonas Bendiksen will be in conversation with prominent author and editor of the Paris Review Philip Gourevitch about Bendiksen’s latest book The Places We Live (Aperture, 2008), a unique and powerful portrait of slum life today introduced by Gourevitch.
http://www.aperture.org/events/

You can also listen to the live webcast here: http://www.aperture.org/live/

John Baldessari: Nov 20

The Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture
John Baldessari
Thursday, November 20, 7 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art

In honor of the late Walter H. Annenberg, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and former ambassador, the Whitney Museum of American Art established the Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture to advance this country's understanding of its art and culture. In this fourth Annenberg Lecture, John Baldessari will speak about his work in conversation with Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney's Alice Pratt Brown Director. For more than fifty years, Baldessari has masterfully juxtaposed painting, photography, sculpture, and other media to probe how meaning is created through images, objects, and text.

http://www.whitney.org/www/educational_programs/public_programs.jsp

Matthew Higgs and Elizabeth Peyton: Nov 20

Matthew Higgs and Elizabeth Peyton: 20 Questions
Friday, Nov 21, 7:30 pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Artist, curator, and director of White Columns Matthew Higgs will interview the artist Elizabeth Peyton using a list of questions contributed by twenty artists, curators, critics, and others who are familiar with Peyton's work.

From her earliest portraits of musicians like Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, and Jarvis Cocker to more recent paintings featuring friends and figures from the worlds of art, fashion, cinema, and politics, including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Matthew Barney, and Marc Jacobs, Elizabeth Peyton's body of work presents a chronicle of America at the end of the last century. A painter of modern life, Peyton's small, jewel-like portraits are also intensely empathetic, intimate, and even personal. Together, her works capture an artistic zeitgeist that reflects the cultural climate of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/266

Tercerunquinto: Nov 19

Panel Discussion: Tercerunquinto
Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue

Panelists include Julio Castro, Gabriel Cázares, and Rolando Flores from Tercerunquinto, as well as Eungie Joo, Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, and Taiyana Pimentel, Independent Curator, Mexico City.

Tercerunquinto is a collective formed by Castro, Cázares and Flores that jointly manipulate architectural elements to change the spatial dynamics of interior and exterior spaces, in order to examine their limits and to alter their functions. The artists will discuss their work with Joo and Pimentel. This event is free and open to the public. In collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute. This program is part of the 3rd Annual Latin American Culture Week in New York City. For more information visit www.pamar.org/lacwnyc/

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=394

Catherine Sullivan: Nov 19

Wednesday, November 19, 6:30pm
The New School
John Tishman Auditorium / 66 West 12th Street

Catherine Sullivan's installations combine theater, dance, film, music and visual art; through these disciplines she scrutinzes collective audiences such as nostalgia, the sensations of history, and cultural acquiescence. The performers in her pieces often explore written texts, stylistic economies, gestural regimes, reenactments of history and conceptual orthodoxies. Her work is usually shot or performed within locations that are richly layered with social functions, and the elements of character, action and setting play off one another to produce an anxious and unresolved political sensibility. The topics touched upon in Sullivan's 2007 piece, Triangle of Need, are numerous and varied, including Neanderthal orphans, Nigerian email scams and even time travel. To create this piece, the artist collaborated with noted music, dance and film professionals, to create an ambitious and thought-provoking work that makes underlying comments on a broader set of issues. However, her true medium is the ensemble itself, and her works most often involve multiple collaborators. With The Chittendens (2005), for example, a six-channel sound and video piece produced in collaboration with composer Sean Griffin, Sullivan assigned sixteen actors different "attitudes" — each characterized by appointed movements and emotions that were performed according to a strict pattern. The name of the piece itself was derived from an insurance agency called "Chittenden Group" whose logo — a lighthouse — is a meaningful metaphor for self-possession.

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_current.htm

James Hyde: Nov 18

Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C

Known for his imaginative use of materials, like beach-chair webbing and illuminated Plexiglas, Brooklyn-based artist James Hyde has experimented with everything from fresco paintings on Styrofoam to furniture making. Over the past two decades, Hyde has been the subject of many solo exhibitions nationwide, and his work is included in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the Denver Art Museum. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies Departments. Free and open to the public

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2617

Mapping Nations: Nov 17

Mapping Nations
Monday, November 17, 6:30 p.m.
MoMA Cullman Education and Research Building, Theater 3

IRWIN is an artist collective based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, best known for their ongoing projects NSK State and East Art Map. NSK State is a utopian state without a concrete territory, questioning notions of borders and nationhood. East Art Map is a work focusing on retracing the contemporary art and history of Eastern Europe. The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a research organization that explores how the United States' lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived. Matt Coolidge of CLUI and Miran Mohar and Borut Vogelnik of IRWIN discuss how they engage in the specific and symbolic meaning of territoriality and how they use the tools of art, research, and collaboration to present their projects both in and outside of museum contexts. ($10/ $8/ $5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9861&ref=calendar

Cory Arcangel: Nov 14

Continual Partial Awareness:
Premiere of a New Performance by Cory Arcangel
Friday, November 14, 2008, 8:30 PM
New Museum, 235 Bowery

According to the artist: “This performance is going to be about ‘Continuous Partial Awareness’—a phrase that was first described to me as meaning ‘you know, like, when you have three IM windows open, two e-mail in boxes dinging away, are texting five different people, and also have five tabs open on your browser, each with updated content.’ It is about paying attention to everything all the time, but not really concentrating on anything. It is different from multitasking, because with multitasking, one actually is expected to concentrate on tasks at some point, even if in small doses. ‘Continuous Partial Awareness’ is the eroded degenerate modern version of multitasking. I still don’t know how this performance will take shape, it might be a lecture, a music show, a broadcast, a chess game, etc., but what I do know is that the feeling of ‘non-concentration’ that has seeped into today’s life through our flat-screen displays and Wi-Fi will be its starting point." http://www.newmuseum.org/events/264

Eugen Radescu and Bosko Blagojevic: Nov 13

How innocent is that?
Thursday, November 13, 6:30 pm
apexart, 291 Church Street

Eugen Radescu and Bosko Blagojevic in conversation about the state of innocence in Eastern Europe. Eugen Radescu is an independent curator, co-founder, and co-publisher at Pavilion magazine, president of artphoto asc., and co-director of Bucharest Biennale. Eugen Radescu is in residence with apexart as the recipient of a CEC ArtsLink Fellowship.

Bosko Blagojevic is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn. His writing on art and culture has appeared in a variety of media both online and off, including recently the journals Afterimage, USELESS and Art Asia Pacific, as well as several artist's publications. He, along with Xenia Pachikov, is co-founder and director of Platform for Pedagogy, a New York-based organization working to advance a culture of cross-disciplinary public lecture attendance and develop the lecture as form. http://apexart.org/events/radescu_talk.htm

From Sketching to Experience: Nov 13

From Sketching to Experience
Thursday, November 13, 6 - 8pm
White Rabbit, 145 Houston Street

In anticipation of its fall 2009 opening, the MFA Interaction Design Department at SVA presents “Dot Dot Dot,” a monthly public lecture series exploring interaction design, business and aesthetic inspiration. Designed to satisfy both social and scholarly pursuits, each program features three talks by three practitioners in thirty minutes, followed by drinks. First up, Tom Bodkin, design director, New York Times; Jake Barton, founder and principal, Local Projects; Andrew Sloat, graphic designer and videomaker; and Christopher Fahey, SVA faculty member for Interaction Design Fundamentals, will present their individual design processes, from sketching to production. Free and open to the public. Please RSVP to http://tinyurl.com/58e9jm

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2677

Full Moon POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi: Nov 13

Full Moon POWERSTITCH with Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Thursday, November 13, 12pm- 7pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Museum as Hub, 5th floor (directions)

Ginger Brooks Takahashi’s quilting forum or “POWERSTITCH” employs traditional craft to de-formalize the exhibition space as productive community space. An ongoing project since 2004, an army of lovers cannot fail, has been shown and worked on all over North America. With its “harmless” motif of rabbits engaged in acts of physical play and sex, the quilt as an object of both work and display documents the participation of many while offering itself to new hands. As invited guests, friends, and visitors stitch the all-white quilt alongside participatory readings on privilege, sex, or society, the work affirms self-organized community formation with regards to ideas of camaraderie, intimacy, or solidarity.

As this POWERSTITCH is taking place on the full moon, please bring a text, story or poem to honor this lunar event. Quilting direction and supplies will be provided.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/258

Framing the Presidency: Nov 12

Framing the Presidency Panel Discussion
Wednesday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

This panel explores the collision of photography, mass media, and politics in examining the role of images in the 2008 presidential campaign and beyond. Artists and media experts share their experiences and explore the power of photography in constructing our image of the presidency. Panelists will include New York Times campaign picture editor David Scull; Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Todd Heisler who has been following both Democratic and Republican candidates; photographer Tim Davis whose body of work My Life in Politics, irreverently examines American politics; and Robert Hariman, Chair of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.

This event is part of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context in collaboration with Vera List Center for Art and Politics and Parsons the New School for Design. Admission is free.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=450

Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis: Nov 11

Tuesday, November 11, 6:30 p.m.
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor

An intimate conversation between mother and son about their work, influences, and collaborations. Hank Willis Thomas' first monograph, Pitch Blackness (Aperture), raises complex questions about identity, race, violence, and commodification in contemporary life. Deborah Willis is a photographer, educator, author, and curator. She is currently chair and professor of photography and imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-single.aspx?id=449

Cultural Power: Nov 10

Monday, November 10, 7:00 pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY, Proshansky Auditorium
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street

How does art affect consciousness, bridge political, ideological, religious, and geographic distances, and contribute to physical and political change? Tom Stoppard and Derek Walcott, two international literary luminaries, examine the power of culture and art in a globalizing world. David Nasaw, Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center, will moderate.

http://www.greatissuesforum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=78

An-My Lê on Michael Heizer: Nov 10

Dia Art Foundation, 535 West 22nd Street
Monday, November 10, 6:30 pm

Born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1960, New York-based artist An-My Lê gained a Master of Science from Stanford University, California, in 1985, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale School of Art, New Haven, in 1993. Recent solo shows include presentations at Murray Guy, New York (2008); Marion Center, Santa Fe (2006, and traveling through 2008). Trap Rock, Lê’s 2006-2007 series was on view at Dia:Beacon through September 2008. Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors. Tickets are available at the lecture only. Reservations are suggested, please call 212 293 5583

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