Sean Landers' [sic]: Feb 27

An Unmissable One Time Only Performance/ Reading
Saturday February 27, 6pm-2am*
hosted by Saatchi+Saatchi, 375 Hudson St (enter on King St)
Presented by White Columns and Art Production Fund
(*Guests are welcome to come and go or stay for the full eight hours)

Sean Landers' legendary 1993 novel "[sic]" will be read by:

Sean Landers 6:10 - 22 min
Michelle Reyes 6:31 - 26 min
John Currin 6:57 - 26 min
Rachel Feinstein 7:23 - 32 min
Lisa Yuskavage 7:55 - 18 min
Cecily Brown 8:13 - 20 min
Clarissa Dalrymple 8:33 - 19 min
Tod Lippy 8:52 - 15 min
Linda Yablonsky 9:07 - 19 min
Matvey Levenstein 9:26 - 15 min
Andrea Rosen 9:41 - 19 min
Richard Phillips 10:00 - 21 min
Liam Gillick 10:21 - 19 min
Matthew Higgs 10:40 - 17 min
Gavin Brown 10:57 - 19 min
Adam McEwen 11:16 - 18 min
Jessica Craig-Martin 11:34 – 16 min
Paul Ha 11:50 - 16 min
Andrea Scott 12:06 - 18 min
Friedrich Petzel 12:24 - 28 min
Rob Pruitt 12:52 - 28 min
David Rimanelli 1:20 - 28 min
Kevin Landers 1:48 - 19 min
Sean Landers 2:07 - 16 min

Please note: Guests must be 21+ to attend.
http://whitecolumns.org/text.html?type=news

Foodprint NYC: Feb 27

Foodprint NYC
Saturday, February 27, 1-5:30pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Foodprint NYC is the first in a series of international conversations about food and the city. From a cluster analysis of bodega inventories to the cultural impact of the ice-box, and from food deserts to peak phosphorus, panelists will examine the hidden corsetry that gives shape to urban foodscapes, and collaboratively speculate on how to feed New York in the future. The free afternoon program will include designers, policy-makers, flavor scientists, culinary historians, food retailers, and others, for a wide-ranging discussion of New York’s food systems, past and present, as well as opportunities to transform our edible landscape through technology, architecture, legislation, and education. Organized by Sarah Rich and Nicola Twilley. See www.foodprintproject.com for more information.

1-1:55pm: Zoning Diet:
Sean Basinski, Joel Berg, Nevin Cohen, Stanley Fleishman
2-2:55pm: Culinary Cartography:
Jonathan Bogarin, Makale Faber Cullen, David Haskell, Naa Oyo A. Kwate
3-3:55pm: Edible Archaeology:
Rebecca Federman, William Grimes, Annie Huack-Lawson, David Sax
4-4:55pm: Feast, Famine & Other Scenarios:
Amale Androus, Marcelo Coelho, Natalie Jeremijenko, Beverly Tepper

Moderated by Sarah Rich, Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG) & Nicola Twilley (Edible Geography)

Ute Meta Bauer: Feb 26+27

A Proposition by Ute Meta Bauer: Light Years and Multiverses
Friday, February 26, 7pm and Saturday, February 27, 12pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery
$6 Students/Seniors, $8 General Public

Ute Meta Bauer will screen and comment on collective projects by artist Otto Piene and collaborators, including one of the first broadcasted television programs created by experimental visual artists, “Black Gate Cologne” ( 1968). Piene produced “Black Gate Cologne” along with intermedia artist and filmmaker Aldo Tambellini.

Propositions is a public forum that explores ideas in development. Inspired by the scientific method of hypothesis, research, and synthesis, each two-day seminar explores a topic of current investigation in an invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. Over the course of a seminar session, these developing ideas are presented to the public, responded to, “researched,” and discussed to propel the ideas forward in unique ways.

The structure of Propositions is as follows:

Friday, 7pm – Ute Meta Bauer: Initial proposition and lecture

Saturday, 12pm – Ute Meta Bauer and Otto Piene response, followed by a lunch break

Saturday, 3pm – Discussion

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/405

The Review Panel: Feb 26

Friday, February 26, 6:45pm
National Academy, 1083 Fifth Ave

Art critics Carly Berwick, Michele Cone, and Joachim Pissarro join moderator David Cohen to discuss the current exhibitions of El Anatsui, Damian Hirst, Yvonne Jacquette and Tino Sehgal.

http://artcritical.com/REVIEWPANEL/index.htm

Renato Gonzalez Melo and Robert Storr: Feb 23

Renato Gonzalez Melo and Robert Storr on Mexican Muralism
Tuesday, February 23, 6:30 pm
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

Speakers: Renato González Mello (Professor and Researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and Robert Storr (Dean of the School of Art at Yale University). Moderated by Anna Indych-López (Associate Professor at The City College of New York and The Graduate Center, CUNY)

By considering the visual construction of the Mexican Revolution, 1930s exhibition culture, and portable frescoes, Muralism without Walls investigates how U.S. perceptions of Mexican cultural identity shaped the muralists’ creative processes and politics. The exhibition will also explore the aesthetic and social histories of the murals themselves.

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=642

The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression: Feb 23

Tuesday, February 23, 7pm
apexart, 291 Church St

Lecture and presentation of the exhibition-symposium project "The Law of Capital: Histories of Oppression" by Marina Grzinic and Sebastjan Leban (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

http://apexart.org/specialevents.htm

Monika Szewczyk and Allan Sekula: Feb 22

Monday, February 22, 6:30pm
Monika Szewczyk and Allan Sekula: This Ain't China
The Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square

http://e-flux.com/shows/view/7739

The Medium Was Tedium: Feb 19

The Medium Was Tedium
Panel discussion featuring Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff
Friday, February 19, 7 pm
The New Museum, 235 Bowery
$6 New Museum members, $8 general public

Triple Canopy is an online magazine that explores how the Web informs the experience of reading literature and viewing artworks. The publication’s development has been inspired in part by a critical engagement with the legacy of Aspen magazine (1965-71). Artists and writers contributed projects to Aspen in the form of easily distributable media such as flip books, flexi-disc records, and paper sculpture. These projects coincided with a broader contemporaneous phenomenon: artworks intended to appear exclusively in magazines. The New Silent event, The Medium Was Tedium, examines how this move from the exhibition space to the printed page has been subsequently repeated by artists in relation to other media, such as television programming and the Internet. Triple Canopy’s editors will discuss practices that traverse mediums and the media with artists Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff.

http://canopycanopycanopy.com

Amy Stein, Lyle Rexer, and Film Screening: Feb 19

Amy Stein, Lyle Rexer, and Film Screening
Friday, February 19, 7:30pm
Caption Gallery, 55 Washington Street, No. 802, Brooklyn

Photographer Amy Stein will discuss her new series Stranded and speak with renowned art critic Lyle Rexer about the themes that run between her images and Kelly Reichardt’s award winning film Wendy and Lucy. The conversation will be followed by a special screening of the film. This screening is part of Caption’s current exhibit "Instruments of Empire: Photographs by Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich."

http://www.caption.is/currentEvent.html

Penelope Umbrico: Feb 18

Penelope Umbrico
Thursday, February 18, 7pm
The School of Visual Arts Amphitheatre
209 East 23rd Street (between 2nd/ 3rd Ave), Third Floor
Free to CCNY members, SVA students, faculty, and staff
General admission $5, $3 for other students with valid student ID

A New York based artist and educator, Penelope Umbrico has, in her work, examined typologies found in sales catalogs, search engines, photo sharing sites and online classified communities. She attended Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada, and received her MFA at the School of Visual Arts. Umbrico has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, International Center of Photography, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. She also has received numerous grants and fellowships, including Anonymous Was A Woman, Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship, NYFA Artists Fellowship, NYFA Catalogue Project Grant, and the Harvestworks Scholar Fellowship. Umbrico is currently core faculty at the School of Visual Arts, both its BFA Photography program and MFA Photography and Related Media program and is the Chair of MFA Photography at Bard College, NY.

www.cameraclubny.org

Lawrence Weiner: Feb 18

MFASO Visiting Artist
Thursday, February 18, 7:30pm
Hunter College MFA Building
450 West 41st Street, 2nd Floor Lounge
http://huntermfaso.org/calender/

Art or Archive?: Feb 16

Art or Archive? What Matters To Artists’ Estates
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30 pm
The Fales Library, Bobst Library
NYU, 70 Washington Square South, Third Floor

Ann Butler, Director of the Library and Archives, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Joy Episalla, Gesso Foundation and Frank Moore Estate; Penny Pilkington, Co-owner, PPOW Gallery; and Michael Ward Stout, LLD., Partner, Stout, Thomas, and Johnson, and President, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, will examine issues surrounding artists’ estates, their placement in archival repositories, copyright issues, and other concerns about the disposition of artists’ papers. They will explore how an artistic legacy is maintained and offer practical advice on securing an artist’s oeuvre.

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/programs/programs.html

IABR: Reports from Rotterdam: Feb 16

Tuesday, February 16, 6:30pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, STE 1610

TOBIAS ARMBORST, DANIEL D'OCA and GEORGEEN THEODORE, sub-curators of the 2009 International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, will discuss their selections from the US on the theme of the "Open City: Designing Coexistence." MATHAN RATINAM and ANDREA ZALEWSKI will screen and discuss their film "Cities of Preference" which was produced (with Toni Schade) last summer at Studio-X for its premiere at the IABR. Free and open to the public. RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu

Megan Craig: Feb 16

Megan Craig
Tuesday, February 16, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C

Megan Craig is a painter and an assistant professor of philosophy and art at SUNY Stony Brook. Her most recent solo exhibition, “Lines of Flight,” was presented at New York’s Sundaram Tagore Gallery in December 2008. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA 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=3238

Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX: Feb 13

World Premiere: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX screening and discussion with Eungie Joo, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs
Saturday, February 13, 2pm
New Museum

From November 4-8, 2009, Nikhil Chopra occupied the New Museum lobby gallery in the character of Yog Raj Chitrakar, a turn of the century mapmaker, draughtsman, and chronicler of the world. Inspired by the 1920s and New York City’s role in that defining moment in the history of the world—a time of deep physical, imagined, and sociological changes—Memory Drawing IX explores the expectation of America, a dream of progress still traceable in the city’s architecture and imagination. For this performance, Chopra traveled for three consecutive days to Ellis Island in character to document New York from this unique vantage point in charcoal on canvas. Each evening, he returned to the New Museum to install his large-scale charcoal drawings, eat, groom, and subtly or abruptly develop as a character. The video premiering this evening documents Yog Raj Chitrakar’s activities and transformation over the entire five-day performance as he encounters New York.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/427

The Third Wave of Feminism and Beyond: Feb 11

“The Third Wave of Feminism and Beyond”
February 11th, 6:30-8:30pm
Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street
Please RSVP for this event to kirsten@stevenkasher.com

Organized and moderated by Liz Abzug, President of the Bella Abzug Leadership Institute, feminist activist and President of Liz Abzug Consultant Services, the panel discussion will examine the roots of the Feminist movement and its evolution into the 21st century.

Panel members include Anne Waldman, Lee Grant, Jerin Alam, and Mia Herndon. The panel discussion will be preceded by: a dance performance by a member of the Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre and a poetry reading by Anne Waldman. This panel discussion will be held in conjunction with two exhibitions: Cynthia MacAdams: Feminist Portraits, 1974-1977 and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Supermodels of the 70s and 80s.

http://www.stevenkasher.com/html/home.asp

Ann Lauterbach: The Given and the Chosen: Feb 11

Ann Lauterbach: The Given and the Chosen
Thursday, February 11, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Ann Lauterbach is a poet and critic, who serves as co-chair of writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a visiting critic at the Yale University School of Art. Her talk will focus on how the work of art mediates the given and the chosen, taking its place between fixities of received orders and possible forms that simultaneously confirm and escape those fixities. Lauterbach’s most recent book, Or to Begin Again (Penguin, 2009), was nominated for the National Book Award. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3237

Omer Fast: Feb 10

Omer Fast
Wednesday, February 10, 7:30pm
Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Avenue
North Building, Room 1527
http://huntermfaso.org/calender/

"Taking to Our Beds: On Hypochondria": Feb 10

"Taking to Our Beds: On Hypochondria,"
with Simon Critchley, Brian Dillon, and Peter Dunn
Wednesday, February 10, 7pm
Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
FREE. No RSVP necessary

In his new book "The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives" (Faber & Faber), Brian Dillon, Cabinet’s UK editor, explores the lives of nine eminent malingerers — including Darwin, Proust, and Warhol — and the fear of illness that drove them to withdraw from the world. This talk/performance will feature Dillon in conversation about culture and hypochondria while sharing a sickbed and hot-water bottle with philosopher Simon Critchley, author of "The Book of Dead Philosophers." The invalids will be attended by psychoanalyst Peter Dunn.

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

The Art of Hypochondria: Feb 9

An Evening with Cabinet: "The Art of Hypochondria,"
with D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, and Marina van Zuylen
Tuesday, February 9, 7pm
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street
FREE

Hypochondria is an ancient name for a malady that is always fretfully new: the fear of disease and the experience of one's body as alien and unpredictable. In his new book "The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives" (Faber & Faber), Brian Dillon, Cabinet’s UK editor, explores the lives of nine eminent malingerers — including Darwin, Proust, and Warhol — and the fear of illness that drove them to withdraw from the world. Science historian D. Graham Burnett (Princeton University) and literary historian Marina van Zuylen (Bard College) will join Dillon in a discussion of this most elusive of conditions. The evening will end with a Q&A with the audience.

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

Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman: Feb 4

Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
Iconic Shows: A Talk with Exit Art's Founders
Thursday, February 4, 7pm
SVA, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater

Starting in 1982 with “Illegal America,” which used mimeographs, Xeroxes and other radical means to present multimedia artwork, Exit Art founders and creative directors Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman have mounted more than 100 groundbreaking presentations of art, theater, film and video. They will discuss some of the most iconic shows of this historic, independent New York City cultural space.Presented by the BFA Fine Arts Department as part of the Art in the First Person lecture series.
Free and open to the public

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3235

David Joselit: States of Form: Against Meaning: Feb 4

David Joselit, States of Form: Against Meaning
NYU IFA, 1 East 78th Street
Open to the public; reservation required.
RSVP to IFA.events@nyu.edu with “Varnedoe” in subject line.

As the 2010 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, David Joselt will present three lectures considering how contemporary art responds to the geographical and informational networks of globalization on the one hand and the World Wide Web on the other. States of Form refers to a kind of artwork whose nature is dynamic—whose form literally changes state either through material transformation, temporal reenactment, or spatial dislocation.

Thursday, February 4th, 6PM: Against Meaning
Tuesday, February 16th, 6PM: Governing Images
Wednesday, March 3rd, 6PM: Plug-ins

http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/academics/varnedoe.htm

Public Art and Sustainability: Feb 4

Panel Discussion: Public Art and Sustainability
Organized and Moderated by Sara Reisman
Thursday, February 4, 7pm
Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue

Panelists: Jennifer McGregor, Director of Arts and Senior Curator for Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in Bronx, New York; Mary Miss, artist working primarily with issues of sustainability, collaboration, and public art; and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, a “maintenance artist” known for her feminist and service-oriented artworks.

This panel discussion will focus on how public art and art in general can be sustainable, with an emphasis on how the terms “temporary” and “permanent” impact the possibilities for sustainability when it comes to artmaking.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/calendar.html

Architecture as Total Art Work: Feb 1

Architecture as Total Art Work: Iannis Xenakis and Le Corbusier
Columbia University, GSAPP
Monday February 1, 6:30 PM

Panel Discussion at Columbia University's Wood Auditorium (Avery Hall) with exhibition co-curator Sharon Kanach, along with Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, GSAPP, and David Lieberman, University of Toronto. Moderated by Raphael Mostel, composer / Barnard College.

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/events