Slow and Steady Wins the Race+ Bureau V: Sept 11

Lecture and Reception
Thursday, September 11, 4 pm
Saatchi & Saatchi
375 Hudson St. (entrance on King)

In conjunction with the Slow and Steady Wins the Race installation of their newly envisioned Department Store, the designer of the avant-garde label, together with the architects behind the installation, Bureau V, will give a talk concerning the issues they have addressed in the installation. Namely, the creation of an entirely new department store experience that speaks both to the scale, space and density of product and to the motivations behind what, how, and why we consume.

http://www.slowandsteadywinstherace.com

Night School: Seminar 7: Paul Chan: Sept 11-13

Night School: Public Seminar 7
Paul Chan: A play, some pornos, and a presidential campaign
September 11th - 13th, 2008

Thursday, September 11, 7:30 pm
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: an illustrated lecture

Friday, September 12, 7:30 pm
A poet for president: Eileen Myles and her run for the White House

Saturday, September 13, 3pm
The Sade I know: screening and lecture

Night School is an artist's project by Anton Vidokle in the form of a temporary school. A year-long program of monthly seminars and workshops, Night School draws upon a group of local and international artists, writers, and theorists to conceptualize and conduct the program. See links for more information about individual lectures. Free with Museum admission but tickets are required.

Buckminster Fuller Symposium: Sept 12-13

Buckminster Fuller Symposium
Friday, September 12 - Saturday, September 13
The Great Hall of the Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street, at Astor Place

Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer, and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends to nearly every field of the arts and sciences. This symposium takes its cue from Fuller's dictum, "I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment," and explores the diverse ways in which contemporary scholars and practitioners are pushing Fuller's ideas and projects into the 21st century.

This symposium will run in conjunction with the exhibition Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, June 26 - September 21, 2008. It is co-sponsored by The Architectural League of New York and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union. Full details available here: http://www.whitney.org/www/buckminster_fuller/events.jsp

Michael Stickrod: Sept 13

Exhibition Walk-Through with Michael Stickrod
(Altoids Award Winner )
New Museum, 235 Bowery
Saturday, Sep 13, 2008, 2:00 PM

Michael Stickrod addresses the psychology of human ties by cutting to the center of his familial circle. He uses scanned photographs and found audio to create nearly abstract sequences embedded between incising confessions and footage of his family. The videos on view take his mother and father as his subject matter, painting a landscape of Middle America that oscillates between bleak and hopeful. Stickrod was born in 1978 in Columbus, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. On September 13 he will discuss his work in the Altoids Award exhibition.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/209

Kathleen Henderson + Nina Katchadourian: 9/12

Kathleen Henderson:
What If I Could Draw a Bird that Could Change the World?
Gallery Talk and Lunch
Friday, September 12, 12:30 AM
Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street

Lunch in the Drawing Room followed by an informal tour and discussion with Selections Fall 2008 artist Kathleen Henderson and exhibition curator Nina Katchadourian. RSVP by September 9 to 212-219-2166 x214. Admission $5/members free (includes lunch)

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

Dalí and New York: Sept 10

Dalí and New York
Wednesday, September 10, 6:30 pm
MoMA, Theater 3, Cullman Education and Research Building

Salvador Dalí first arrived in New York in 1934 and immediately became a flamboyant part of the city's life and art scene. Engaging with the artists and celebrities who helped create the spirit of the city at the time, Dalí pursued his interests in art and commerce, the urban streets, and friendships with members of polite society and those in the rebellious underground. This program brings together scholars and filmmakers who address the impact of Dalí's diverse activities on his work and on the New York artistic community. Participants include Callie Angell, Adjunct Curator, The Andy Warhol Film Project, The Whitney Museum of American Art, who discusses the relationship between Dalí and Andy Warhol; filmmaker Jack Bond, who presents clips of his own film, Dalí in New York, and reflections on his friendship with the artist; Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and Director, Anthology Film Archives, who shares the films he made of Dalí; and Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, who explores Dalí and the 1939 World's Fair. Anne Morra, Assistant Curator, Department of Film, and co-organizer of the exhibition Dalí: Painting and Film, moderates a discussion. ($10/ $5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9709&ref=calendar

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Sept 10

Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)formed by Color
Exhibit Opening and Conversation with the Artist
Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society, 680 Park Avenue

This fall Americas Society will present Carlos Cruz-Diez’s first solo show in a major U.S. cultural institution. Focusing on the relationship between color and perception, the exhibition will increase the visibility and appreciation of Carlos Cruz-Diez in the United States, one of Latin America’s Kinetic Art masters. A major publication will accompany the exhibition; it will include essays by Nuit Banai, Mariela Brazón, Estrellita Brodsky, Gabriela Rangel, Isabela Villanueva, and an interview with the artist by Alexander Alberro. The catalogue will be available in November 2008.

On September 10 Cruz-Diez will talk about his career and work with a panel including: Carlos Brillembourg (Architect), Estrellita Brodsky (Guest Curator), Tahia Rivero (Curator, Colección Mercantil), Isabela Villanueva (Assistant Curator), and Gabriela Rangel, Moderator (Director, Visual Arts Americas Society) A public reception will follow from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

http://as.americas-society.org/program.php?id=46&cid=16

Katy Siegel: Sept 9

Katy Siegel: Millions of artists, and all pretty good...
Tuesday, September 9, 6:30pm
133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C
Free and open to the public.

As contemporary art increasingly becomes a global business and producers are growing in number, artists in training compete not only with peers from other BFA and MFA programs, but with artists around the world. Siegel’s talk examines how this “crowd scene” affects the individual artist. Katy Siegel is an associate professor of art history at Hunter College, a contributing editor to Artforum and an acclaimed curator. Presented by the SVA BFA Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies Departments.

http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=2529

Conceptual Figures Panel: Sept 9

Deitch Projects
76 Grand Street
Tuesday, September 9th at 7 PM.

Conceptual Figures is a twelve-person exhibition that approaches figurative painting as an intellectual construct. In order to explore the evolving conceptual frameworks that have surrounded figuration both historically and in its contemporary incarnations, Ad Hoc Vox has brought together four artists from Conceptual Figures, including Caleb Considine, Sophia Dixon, Ridley Howard, and Kurt Kauper, alongside guests Peter Brooks and Robert Storr, to discuss the use of the figure in painting. Colleen Asper will moderate the discussion, which will be followed by a Q&A with the audience. Organized by Colleen Asper and Jennifer Dudley, Ad Hoc Vox is an ongoing series of discussions and lectures without a fixed location that addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary art. More at: www.adhocvox.com

Port Huron Project: Sept 7

Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project 6: Let Another World Be Born
Sunday, September 7: 5 to 7 pm
East 43rd Street at Tudor City Place (one block east of 2nd Avenue)

First up this weekend is the final performance in Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project, a series of radical speeches reenactments presented in the same locations they were first heard 40 years ago. Learn more about the project at creativetime.org/democracy

NOTE: Mark Tribe's Port Huron Project has been moved. This information reflects the new date and location.