Hua Hsu and Greg Tate: March 31

A Conversation with Hua Hsu and Greg Tate
Wednesday, March 31, 7pm
Exit Art Exit, 475 10th Ave

Writer and professor of English Hua Hsu and cultural critic and musician Greg Tate will talk about their views on art, commerce, race and globalization. Using the work in Global / National -- The Order of Chaos as jumping off points, the speakers will engage in a free-wheeling discussion about the state of American culture at a time when the “local” is being threatened by globalization. $5 suggested donation. Cash bar.

http://www.exitart.org/site/pub/exhibition_programs/global_national/index.html#events

Andrea Zittel: March 31

Artists at the Institute: Andrea Zittel
Wednesday, March 31, 6:30 pm
NYU IFA
Open to the public; reservation required.
RSVP to IFA.events@nyu.edu with “Zittel” in subject line.
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/artists.htm

Andrea Geyer: March 31

Wednesday, March 31, 6:30 pm
MoMA
Theater 3 (The Celeste Bartos Theater), mezzanine
Cullman Education and Research Building

Artist Andrea Geyer talks about the way artists use networks and systems to turn knowledge into works of art. MoMA director Glenn D. Lowry moderates the discussion.

Tickets ($10; members, corporate members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) are available online, or at the Museum at the lobby information desk or the Film desk.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/8567

John Miller: March 31

AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: John Miller
March 31, 3:15pm
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

John Miller is an artist, writer, and teacher based in New York and Berlin. In the January 2010 issue of Artforum he is described as “an artist and critic whose work continually unpacks the claims of the day’s prevailing artistic approaches—to say nothing of the seemingly inexhaustible detritus of culture at large.” A survey of his work will be featured at the Kunsthalle Zurich in August 2009. A collection of his criticism, The Price Club: Selected Writings, 1977–1996, was co-published by JRP Editions and the Consortium in 2000. Miller is currently an associate professor in Barnard College’s Art History department and is represented by Metro Pictures in New York.

Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=47275

Spinning Straw into Gold: March 27

“Spinning Straw into Gold—Art, Value, and the Alchemical Collector,” 

A panel discussion featuring Mark Dion, Sal Randolph, McKenzie Wark, and Robert Williams

Saturday, March 27, 6–7 pm

Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street

This panel discussion will be followed by an opening reception for "An Ordinall of Alchimy," a Mildred’s Lane project organized by Mark Dion & Robert Williams, with Matt Bettine, Joey Cruz, Kathryn Cornelius, Gabriella D’Italia, Scott Jarrett, Aislinn Pentecost-Farren, John Wanzel, Laura E. Wertheim, and Bryan Wilson. 

"An Ordinall of Alchimy" inaugurates "999," an occasional series of exhibitions presented by Cabinet in which artists are invited to assemble work under a single constraint: everything installed in the gallery must have been acquired on Ebay for a total of less than $999. When the exhibition comes down, its contents are offered for sale as a single item, once again on Ebay.

In 2009, Mark Dion, Robert Williams, and their students at the Pennsylvania artists’ colony Mildred’s Lane used Cabinet’s invitation as an opportunity to explore the theme of alchemical transformation. “An Ordinall of Alchimy” comprises the objects they assembled, a collection keyed to the seven basic processes of practical alchemy: Calcination, Fixation, Solution, Distillation, Sublimation, Separation, and Projection.

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

A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: March 26+27

A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: 13 unrelated ideas

New Museum, 235 Bowery

Friday: 7pm lecture by Rodney McMillian

Saturday: 3pm Performance by Rodney McMillian, Tracie D. Morris, and Chicava HoneyChild

How does performance function in each of the vignettes presented (Bobby Womack, Jada Fire, Samuel R. Delaney, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, Aliens, Funkadelic...)? How do we understand subjectivity or personae in terms of abstraction? How do we understand subjectivity from within the performances? Are these really the questions? Or is it about physicality, images, sound, historical perspectives and the insistence of a need to utter that's being presented or represented? Alternatives to other forms of political, cultural or domestic powers? A freedom? A possibility that film, photography, material, and performance are a form of time travel? A possibility, like in Samuel R. Delaney’s science fiction novel Dhalgren, whereby potential and repetition are actions?

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/407

The Review Panel: March 26

The Review Panel with David Cohen

Friday, March 26, 6:45pm 

National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts

1083 Fifth Ave

Art critics Michelle Kuo, David Levi-Strauss, and Mark Stevens join moderator David Cohen to discuss contemporary art currently on view at some of New York’s finest art galleries.

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

Bunk Bed Conversation:"The Poetics of Sleep": March 25

Bunk Bed Conversation: "The Poetics of Sleep," with Jeff Dolven & Wayne Koestenbaum

March 25, 7–9 pm

Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn

FREE. No RSVP necessary.

From the top and bottom bunks, respectively, Jeff Dolven and Wayne Koestenbaum will consider the ancient friendship between sleep and poetry, touching on such topics as embowerment, somnambulism, styles of sleeping, crepuscular consciousness, no-doz, and drowsy syrups.

The first in a series of bunk bed conversations at Cabinet, exploring the public potential of this most private, archaic, and companionable of American scenes. For a long time, we used to go to bed early. On March 25, won't you stay up and talk with us? 

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

Alfredo Jaar: March 25

Alfredo Jaar: The Ashes of Pasolini
Thursday, March 25, 7pm
SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street
Free and open to the public

Alfredo Jaar is an architect, artist and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. He has created more than 50 “public interventions” around the world, and more than 40 monographs have been published about his work. Following a screening of Jaar’s new short film The Ashes of Pasolini, he will discuss the film--and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s importance as poet and critic--with MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department Chair David Levi Strauss. Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department in partnership with Aperture.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3244

Lin and Lam: March 24

AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Lin and Lam
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue

Wednesday, March 24, 3:15pm

The Spring 2010 Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design .Inspired by a particular site, historical incident, or political issue, Lin + Lam’s work emerges from the interrelation between current events and residues of the past. Recent project have addressed the construction of national identities through propaganda and democratization, and the haunting of daily life by the specter of war, militarism, and socio-political inequities. Attentive to materiality, site, and the specificities of different medium, their collaboration integrates individual strengths and backgrounds. Trained in architecture, H. Lan Thao Lam uses photography, sculpture, and installation to address social memories of time and place. Lana Lin’s interests extend from a tradition of critical cinema, raising questions about the inadequacies of translation and the politics of producing strangers. Their work has been exhibited at international venues including the New Museum, the Kitchen, the Queens Museum, and the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China. Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served.

http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=47273

Barbara Probst: March 23

Barbara Probst
Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27 Street, 4th floor

Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design are pleased to present an artist lecture with internationally recognized visual artist Barbara Probst. In Probst’s photographs, the subject of the work becomes the photographic moment of exposure itself. Using a radio-controlled release system, she simultaneously triggers the shutters of several cameras pointed at the same scene from various viewpoints. The resulting sequences of images suspend time and stretch out the split second. The prismatic effect is heightened by the backdrops, which are often enlarged stills from well-known movies. The apparent narrative is confounded by the multiple locations, which further enhance the sense of artifice. Both illusion and device are always manifest—cameras, studio lights, and tripods are all visible. These, as well as the photographer(s) themselves, are both the object and viewpoint of a revelatory, photographic exposure.

http://www.aperture.org/events/detail.php?id=649

Robert Lazzarini: March 23

Tuesday, March 23, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/144 West 21 Street, room 101C

With emphatically lowercased titles like guns, knives and brass knuckles, the wall-mounted sculptures by artist and alumnus Robert Lazzarini (BFA 1990 Fine Arts) describe violence and anxiety. Currently a fellow at the Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, Lazzarini is represented by Deitch Projects, New York. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies Departments. Free and open to the public

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3243

Javier Téllez and Doris Salcedo: March 22

Vis-à-vis Series: Javier Téllez and Doris Salcedo
Monday, March 22, 6:30 pm
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=743

Matthew Monahan: March 17

Public Art Fund Talks: Matthew Monahan
Wednesday, March 17, 6:30pm
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

This spring's Public Art Fund Talks series features three artists whose works reinvent and extend the language of figurative sculpture for a new era.

March 17: Matthew Monahan
April 14: Huma Bhabha
May 12: Thomas Houseago

$10 Single talk, $20 Full series, FREE to all students with valid ID. Tickets may be purchased on the day of each talk but purchasing in advance is recommended. See http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_current.htm

Through Other Lenses: March 9

Through Other Lenses
Tuesday, March 9, 6:30 pm
NYU Fales Library

Photographers Moyra Davey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and A. L. Steiner will discuss how their works have been influenced by Downtown photography. Moderated by curator Dean Daderko.Co-sponsored by NYU’s Fales Library, Department of Photography and Imaging (TSOA), and Grey Art Gallery. Information: 212/998-2596.

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