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