Jason Tomme: July 1

Jason Tomme: NYU Visiting Artist Talk
Wednesday, July 1, 6pm
NYU Einstein Auditorium - 34 Stuyvesant Street

Jason Tomme works in painting, sculpture, and installation. His work addresses the overlapping concepts of location, displacement, and abstraction. Tomme's most recent exhibitions include a two-person show with artist Jonathan Callan at Nicole Klagsbrun gallery in NYC, and an artist-in-residency at the Chinati foundation in Marfa Texas. Tomme is a New York based artist.

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Modular Culture: Architecture and the Art World's Great Franchise Experiment: July 1

Wednesday, July 1, 6:30 pm
apexart
291 Church St.

Modular Culture: Architecture and the Art World's Great Franchise Experiment

As part of apexart's Franchise Project Joseph Grima will discuss the role of architecture and how it relates to the success story of franchising in the U.S., examining the standardized architectural prototypes of franchising alongside the typography of the "white cube" gallery space. He will also discuss the expansive growth of large-size modern and contemporary art museums, the architectural language generated by the franchising phenomenon, and its repercussions on the nature of the artwork collected and exhibited.

http://apexart.org/specialevents.htm

"The Idea of Order on the Gowanus Canal: Wallace Stevens and Geography": June 30

Tuesday, June 30, 7pm
Cabinet, 300 Nevins St, Brooklyn
FREE. No RSVP necessary
Organized by D. Graham Burnett & Jeff Dolven

This month, Poetry Lab takes up the hermetic sage of Hartford, Wallace Stevens, whose peculiar tincture of icy Platonism and earth-smudged world-worship looms over American Modernism. Our line of approach on this metaphysical opus? Cartography. Join us for an evening of map exercises, epistolary parlor games, and quasi-allegorical transits as we investigate the geographical imagination of one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Will there be readings? Sure. Bring your walking shoes? A good idea. After all, “In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; / But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud…” Drinks will be served.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/eventspace.php

Tauba Auerbach: June 30

Tauba Auerbach
Tuesday, June 30, 6:30pm
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St

In conjunction with the FAX exhibition, Tauba Auerbach will discuss the possibilities of semiotics, dissecting language as a code of symbols and conduit for ideas. Auerbach’s work has recently been on view in group exhibitions at SFMoMA and The New Museum and in exhibitions at the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco and the San Francisco Art Commission.

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

Too many dangers, too many pleasures: June 24

Too many dangers, too many pleasures
Wednesday, June 24, 6:30 pm
apexart, 291 Church Street

Stanislaw Ruksza (curator, art historian) and Martha Kirszenbaum (curator) consider stereotyped myths of Poland and communism, peripheries as stimulating places, and European politics and the conservative shift. They will also discuss the power of utopia, Polish critical art, history, and curatorial strategies.

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