Paintings/Photographs/Problems/Possibilities: Dec 15

Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde and Barney Kulok:
Paintings/Photographs/Problems/Possibilities
Tuesday, December 15, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Svetlana Alpers, James Hyde and Barney Kulok discuss their own work and a collective project entitled Painting Then For Now, a series of photographic prints. Alpers is an art historian, critic and artist whose books include The Vexations of Art: Velazquez and Others (Yale, 2005) and The Art of Describing (Chicago, 1983). Hyde is a multimedia artist whose work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Denver Art Museum. Kulok is a photographer whose recent solo exhibitions include Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC (2009) and Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris (2008). Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3189

Collier Schorr: Dec 11

Collier Schorr
Friday, December 11, 6:30 pm
A reception for Ms. Schorr will follow
Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street
Space is Limited. RSVP via email: ifa.events@nyu.edu
Please include “Schorr” in email subject

Collier Schorr combines aspects of documentary realism and staged fiction in order to explore the ambiguities of identity, whether sexual, national, or other. She is perhaps best known for her eighteen-year-long project, Forests & Fields, which offers an uncanny portrait of a small German town. Mainly, though not exclusively, acted out by adolescents, Schorr’s series rely on long lasting collaborations with her subjects in order to incorporate her own impressions of their history. More recently, Schorr has also turned her camera to objects and the landscape to explore notions of place and history, as well as more art historical concepts of arrangement and tableau. Although primarily associated with photography, Schorr has expanded into other mediums, including video, drawing, and installation.

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/index.htm

Bridge the Gap? 6: Dec 11

Bridge the Gap? 6
Friday, December 11 2009
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street

Participants
Ruben Coen Cagli / Neuroscience
Trisha Donnelly / Visual Art
Didier Fiuza Faustino / Architecture
Joan Jonas / Visual Art
Lisa Kaltenegger/ Astrophysics
Kazuo Okanoya / Cognitive Science
Damon Rich / Urban Design
Anri Sala / Visual Art
Kevin Slavin / Information Science

BRIDGE THE GAP? aims to create an ongoing forum between artists, scientists, designers and thinkers of the humanities in which ideas are exchanged and reciprocal stimulation and influence can occur. The first BTG?, held in 2001 in Kitakyushu (Japan) brought together 30 specialists from the arts, sciences and humanities (www.btgjapan.org); the second in took place in Milan, the third in Chiang Mai, the fourth in Kitakyushu/Shanghai and the fifth in Venice. Each event involved a profound change in scale and context of the BTG? format.

By making the coffee break a central forum and by enhancing the exchange between participants, BTG? poses the question concerning the necessity of actual and virtual salons now. BTG? proposes a non-linear, non-hierarchical approach to knowledge production – to go beyond the boundaries of disciplines and to overcome the fears of pooling knowledge. Classical conferences emphasized order and stability. In contrast, we now see fluctuations instability: the unpredictable. In non-equilibrium physics, you find various notions of unstable systems and the dynamics of unstable environments. Instead of certitudes, BTG? expresses connective possibilities. The field of reflection and discussion coming from the different perspective will begin to broaden, deepen and create the ground to work in collaboration.

http://www.storefrontnews.org/event_dete.php?eventID=109

The Projected Image: Dec 10

The Projected Image: Panel Discussion
Thursday, December 10, 7:00 pm
The New School Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
FREE

Aperture Foundation at The New School presents this panel discussion as part of the tenth season of the series Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context. The Projected Image will explore the multiple ways in which contemporary artists have utilized projection and installation strategies to display still photographic images, creating immersive and cinema-like experiences in museum and gallery environments. Departing from the large-scale, tableau treatments of the photographic image printed and framed as wall-based objects, exemplified in works by Jeff Wall, Andreas Gursky, and Gregory Crewdson, in recent years contemporary artists have increasingly employed projection devices—ranging from analogue to digital high-definition—to display photographic images as immaterial light projections, often incorporating temporal and audiovisual elements that recall cinematic contexts yet retain distinctly photographic qualities.

Moderated by George Baker, associate professor of art history, UCLA; panelists include photographers Andrea Geyer, Paul Pfeiffer, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=613

Northern Light/Southern Light: Dec 11

Northern Light/Southern Light
Friday, December 11, 2009 7 PM
Whitney Museum

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s and Roni Horn’s explorations of natural light, Spencer Finch has organized this evening of demonstration and discussion, featuring architectural lighting designer Richard Renfro, artist Walead Beshty, and writer and critic Lytle Shaw, for a look at how artists and scientists play and experiment with light.

This event is free with Museum admission, which is pay-what-you-wish on Fridays, 6–9 pm. Advance reservations are recommended, as space is limited.

http://www2.whitney.org/Events/NorthernLightsSouthernLights

The Work of Stuart Sherman: Dec 8

Screening + Discussion
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 6:30 pm
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor

Please join EAI for a special evening devoted to the work of Stuart Sherman, featuring a conversation between playwright and director Richard Foreman and artist Paul Chan, moderated by Jay Sanders.The discussion will be preceded by a short screening program surveying Sherman's work in film, video, audio, and performance, introduced by Andrew Lampert of Anthology Film Archives.

http://www.eai.org/eai/publicProgramArtists.htm?id=133

Thinking in Type: Hoefler & Frere-Jones: Dec 8

Thinking in Type with Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Tuesday, December 8, 6:30pm
Cooper Hewitt

Since 1989, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones have helped some of the world’s foremost publications, corporations, and institutions develop their unique voice through typography. Their body of work includes some of the world’s most famous designs, typefaces marked by both high performance and high style. Hoefler and Frere-Jones will speak about their work and share some insight on the development of new fonts. Hoefler and Frere-Jones are 2009 National Design Award Finalists.

http://events.cooperhewitt.org/?date=2009-12

The Automobile in Silent Slapstick: Dec 9

Car Wreckers and Home Lovers: The Automobile in Silent Slapstick
A lecture by Karen Beckman
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 7:30pm
Light Industry
Tickets - $7, available at door.

This talk explores the function of the automobile gag through a close analysis of Harold Lloyd's Hot Water and Laurel and Hardy's Two Tars. As Beckman traces critical responses to these three very different comedians, she focuses in particular on Lloyd's (a.k.a. "Speedy"'s) association with the tempo of modernity in contrast to Laurel and Hardy's association with regression, slowness and retardation, qualities which in turn become associated by critics with misogyny and the specter of homosexuality. Revisiting these films and their reception, she explores the normative impulse of early film scholarship, and examines the queer potential of slow, stalled, crashing, and exploding cars.

http://lightindustry.org/wreckers

Charline von Heyl on Bruce Nauman

Charline von Heyl on Bruce Nauman
Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Dia:Chelsea
December 7,6:30pm

http://www.diaart.org/events/main/277