Teddy Cruz: October 24

Wednesday, October 24, 7pm
Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street

Exploring the bicultural territory of border zones and the habitable possibilities between two countries, California-based architect Teddy Cruz has been building public housing on the border straddling southern California and Tijuana, Mexico, for years. His practice is rooted in a commitment to the architectural promise of local materials and the creative potential inherent in hybrid global communities.

Architecture Dialogues
Exploring innovative practices across contemporary art and architecture, this season's series of talks looks ahead to our exhibition of R. Buckminster Fuller and turns to networked communities, links between the local and the global, and architectural ecosystems.

http://www.whitney.org/www/programs/eventcalendar.jsp?cat=1

Scott Lyall Presents: Where Could a Sculptor Be?: October 24

Wednesday, October 24
7pm
Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves St, Long Island City

Scott Lyall Presents: Where Could a Sculptor Be?
Accompanying a silent screening of the feature film Sunday Bloody Sunday by John Schlesinger, 1971; (from a screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt), the talk will include comments on SerraÕs Hand Catching Lead, 1969, Laura Mulvey and Peter WollenÕs Riddles of the Sphinx, 1977, and the function of kissing in HitchcockÕs Vertigo, 1958.

http://www.sculpture-center.org/pe_ca_oct.html

Graffiti Panel: October 20

Graffiti Panel
Con Artists: Criminalization, Censorship, and the Marketplace
Saturday, October 20, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street
Admission is free

Artists Case 2 and Kez 5 will discuss their recent exhibition of drawings at the Groninger Museum, The Netherlands, and their thoughts on the criminalization and censorship of graffiti with art critic and curator Antonio Zaya and moderator Hugo Martinez, Director of Martinez Gallery.


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

Roni Horn: October 19

Friday, October 19
6:30 p.m.



Museum of Modern Art
The Celeste Bartos Theater
Cullman Education Building

Roni Horn produces sculpture, photography, drawings, essays, and books. She engages the senses of the viewer, while also investigating issues of identity and difference and the relationship between humans and nature. By using different mediums and setting her work in specific environments, Horn explores the dichotomy between the moment of visual perception and the power of memory. Horn received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University.

Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk, the Film desk, the Cullman Building lobby, or online at www.ticketweb.com.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=5697&ref=calendar

Carter Ratcliff: October 9

"The Point of Art"
Tuesday, October 9th
7pm
The School of Visual Arts
209 East 23rd Street
3rd Floor Amphitheater





Award-winning author and Art in America contributing editor, Carter Ratcliff, considers art as a means for preserving and improving civil society. He asks, does art today sustain our various ideas of ourselves as individuals and as participants in history?

This event if free and open to the public. Doors generally open at 6:30pm and seating is first come first served. If you'd like further information, please contact Melissa Ragsly 212.592.2408.

Seeing and Being Seen: October 17

Seeing and Being Seen:
A Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 17
7:00 p.m.

Free Admission
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York, New York
(212) 229-5353




This panel highlights artists who collaborate with teens to explore adolescent identity, how young photographers approach their own representation, and the ways in which these dovetail and differ. Panelists include Dawoud Bey, who will reference work from his recent book Class Pictures (Aperture, October 2007), photographer Wendy Ewald, who develops work from images young people make of themselves, and teens involved in the Expanding the Walls program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, who will provide insight into the use of photography to address their own identity, culture, and environment. The panel will be moderated by Phyllis Thompson, a former editor at Aperture Foundation and a scholar specializing in representations of the family and intimacy who now teaches at Harvard. Other artists will join in the discussion.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-month.aspx?Month=10

Ron Gilad: October 12

Museum of Modern Art
The Celeste Bartos Theater
Cullman Education Building
6:30 p.m.

Ron Gilad co-founded Designfenzider in 2001. Selected by Forbes as one of 2007's ten tastemakers in industrial design, Gilad creates hybrid objects that straddle the line between abstraction and function. His work—from candlesticks made with wine glasses to chandeliers constructed from task lamps—is simultaneously elegant and witty. Gilad attended the Industrial Design Department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Tickets ($10; members $8; students, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk, the Film desk, the Cullman Building lobby, or online at www.ticketweb.com.

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=5695&ref=calendar

Helen Mirra on Imi Knoebel: October 8

Dia Art Foundation
548 West 22nd Street
6:30pm

Admission $6/$3 for members, students, and seniors.

Currently based in Boston, Helen Mirra was born in 1970 in Rochester, NY. Her solo exhibitions include presentations at Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe (2007); Daad Galerie, Berlin (2006); Donald Young Gallery, Chicago (2005); Dallas Museum of Art (2004); University of California, Berkeley Art Museum (2003); and the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2001).

Imi Knoebel’s Raum 19 (1968) is on view at Dia:Beacon.

http://www.diabeacon.org/prg/lectures/artists/index.html

Shirin Neshat: October 10

Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Wood Auditorium in Avery Hall

6:30- 8:30pm

(Columbia sometimes limits attendance at its events to those with university id, so schlep up there at your own risk)

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/gsap/1/12/5/

Michael Joo: October 3

October 3, 2007
6:30pm at The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street

Michael Joo's provocative sculptures and videos explore how science, religion, history and media inform the ways we interpret our surroundings. More interested in how we perceive than what we are looking at, Joo tests the limits of viewers' beliefs and plays on preconceived notions with artworks like Yellow, Yellower, Yellowest (1991), a sculpture consisting of three beakers filled with yellow liquid, accompanied by labels mischievously identifying their contents as the urine, respectively, of Genghis Khan, Benedict Arnold and the artist himself. Deeply interested in the cyclical nature of energy, Joo has also presented Salt Transfer Cycle (1993-95), a video in three segments. In one, the artist swims through a vast mound of MSG, the stereotypical flavor enhancer in Asian cuisine; another finds Joo walking, crawling and running on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, a stark bit of mineral-rich terrain in the country the artist was born and raised. In the third, Joo sits on a mountainside in his parents' native South Korea with his body encrusted in salt, allowing an elk to lick him. With great awareness of the connection between the physiological and the psychological, Joo has also presented perhaps his most widely known sculpture, Visible (1999-2000). A transparent plastic Buddha with visible human innards, it perhaps reminds viewers not only of essential hidden organs but also their cloaked potential as enlightened beings. Joo is presently at work on a project in Alaska, where he recently walked 400 miles along the route of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and placed a taxidermied caribou in the wild, recording its interaction with nature. He now plans to enlist native craftsmen and artists to create artworks fashioned from whale skeletons.

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks_current.htm