Lawrence Weiner: November 29

Lawrence Weiner and Donna De Salvo
Thursday, November 29, 7pm

Exhibition curator Donna De Salvo and Lawrence Weiner lead a special walk through Weiner's retrospective. This is a standing event in the gallery.

Admission: $8; senior citizens and students with valid ID $6.


http://whitney.org/www/programs/eventInformation.jsp?EventTypeID=1#ad-calendar

Readings on "Home": November 29

SVA MFA in Design Criticism Reading Night
Thursday, November 29, 7- 9pm
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, www.kgbbar.com
(Entrance is free)

On November 29 the SVA MFA Design Criticism department hosts its first reading night at KGB Bar in the East Village. Addressing the concept of home from different angles are: Metropolis magazine columnist Karrie Jacobs, design, technology and culture writer David Womack, and conceptual artist Elizabeth Demaray.

Jacobs reads an excerpt from her 2006 book, The Perfect $100,000 House, which chronicles the author's nationwide search for a place to call home; Womack recounts the virtues of lightweight living, a revelation received while backpacking in the Sierra Nevadas; and Demaray speaks about a project in which she created alternative plastic housing for homeless hermit crabs.

This event inaugurates a bi-monthly series of reading nights, organized in anticipation of the Design Criticism program’s launch at the School of Visual Arts in Fall 2008.

All are warmly invited to attend.

For more information, please contact the department at 212.592.2561.

Re-Take: A Panel on Art and Appropriation: Nov 27

featuring Michael Newman,
Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, and others

Tuesday, November 27, 7pm
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St
Organized by Afterall
Tickets: $7

This panel discussion examines the use of appropriation in contemporary art, considering the various approaches to appropriation adopted by three different generations of artists spanning the 1970s to today. The panel will be moderated by art historian and writer Michael Newman, the author of Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) recently published by Afterall Books, and he will be accompanied by artists Judith Barry, Sarah Charlesworth, and others.

Afterall is a non-profit research and publishing organization, supported by Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London and California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, that publishes a contemporary art journal and a series of books. For more information, please visit www.afterall.org

John Kelsey, Reena Spaulings Fine Art & Bernadette Corporation: Nov 27

Tuesday, November 27,
6:30 PM
Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
Peter B. Lewis Theater
Sackler Center.
$10/ $7


John Kelsey is a member of the artist collective Bernadette Corporation and co-founder (with Emily Sunblad) of Reena Spaulings, a fictional artist/dealer who began operating on New York's Lower East Side in 2004. Bernadette Corporation embraces diverse modes of production while interrogating notions of identity and artistic agency. Spaulings collaborates with the artists she represents, undermining professional divisions of labor while addressing issues of authorship and the mechanisms of the art market.

http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

PAWNSHOP: Ladies Night: November 26

a discussion with Julieta Aranda and Liz Linden on ethical consumerism and strategies of reverse-gentrification, with surprise special guests.

e-flux, 53 Ludlow street
Monday, November 26, 7pm

PAWNSHOP continues to accept new pawned works and to keep its regular business hours Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6 pm. It will remain in operation buying and selling artworks through early 2008.

PAWNSHOP's current inventory is comprised of the work of over 70 artists, including: Lucas Ajemian, James Angus, Julieta Aranda, Julie Ault, Fia Backström, Steven Baldi, Julien J. Bismuth, Bengala, Mike Bouchet, Ethan Breckenridge, Kadar Brock, AA Bronson, François Bucher, Paul Chan, Jan Christensen, Heman Chong, Keren Cytter, Marcelline Delbecq, Wilson Diaz, Nico Dockx, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jakup Ferri, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Claire Fontaine, Rene Gabri, Nikolas Gambaroff, Mario Garcia Torres, Andrea Geyer, Simryn Gill, Liam Gillick, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Diango Hernández, Ralf Homann, Karl Holmqvist, Sejla Kameric, Matt Keegan, Christoph Keller, Brandon Kennedy, Gabriel Kuri, Adriana Lara, Annika Larsson, Francine LeClercq, Gabriel Lester, Liz Linden, Esther Lu, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Aleksandra Mir, Naeem Mohaiemen, Lucas Moran, Carlos Motta, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere), Olaf Nicolai, Ernesto Neto, Ylva Ogland, Yoshua Okon, Joe Pflieger, Lisi Raskin, Fay Ray, Martha Rosler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Anri Sala, Eduardo Sarabia, Aaron Simonton, Matt Sheridan Smith, Michael Smith, Nedko Solakov, Kimsooja, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Costa Vece, Anton Vidokle, Lawrence Weiner, Florian Wüst, and Andrea Zittel.

PAWNSHOP is a project by Julieta Aranda, Liz Linden and Anton Vidokle.

At the end of the project, all profits generated by PAWNSHOP will be donated to charity. For further information please write to pawnshop@e-flux.com or call 212 619 3356.

http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/4808

Gillian Laub: November 26

Monday, November 26, 6:30 p.m.
NYPL, Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue
Free Admission

Gillian Laub has worked in Israel and Palestine, producing portraits of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Nablus, and other locations in the region. Her first book, Testimony (Aperture, June 2007), contains fifty of her portraits of Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs, displaced Lebanese families, and Palestinians. This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War.

http://www.aperture.org/store/events-month.aspx?Month=11

From the Specific to the General: The Publication: Nov 26

Seth Siegelaub, Alexander Alberro, Robert Barry, Christophe Cheri, and Lawrence Weiner
Monday, November 26 6:30 - 8:15 PM

Beginning in the mid-1960s, former gallerist and publisher Seth Siegelaub supported the work of many artists, including Robert Barry and Lawrence Weiner. Exhibitions explored conceptual art, and books provided a new forum for artistic innovation outside of the museum or gallery. Alexander Alberro, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Florida, and Christophe Cherix, Curator, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art, join Siegelaub, Barry, and Weiner in a roundtable discussion about their collaborations.

Afterwards, join us in the Museum Archives for a reception and viewing of Siegelaub's books in MoMA's collection.

$5.00 - $10.00

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=6477&ref=calendar

Reconsidering Feminism: Nov 20

Reconsidering Feminism: A Year in Review
Tuesday, November 20, 6 pm
MoMA, The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2, T2

Over the last year, a series of exhibitions and cultural initiatives in New York and elsewhere have sought to reconsider the feminist legacy in contemporary art and the new directions it has inspired in the work of emerging artists and collectives. This roundtable discussion with artists, critics, and historians will include a critical review and analysis of such events. It will also include an attempt to envision the steps to follow in the collective efforts to write recent feminist art history and implement the lessons learned from these initiatives. Participants include Janine Antoni, artist; Carol Armstrong, Professor, History of Art, Yale University; Aruna D’Souza, Assistant Professor of Art History and Women's Studies, Binghamton University; Sharon Hayes, artist; and Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History, Vassar College, contributing editor, Artforum, and (with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija) organizer of the ongoing project Utopia Stations.

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

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=6475&ref=calendar

Seth Price and Nate Lowman: Nov 20

Tuesday, November 20,
6:30 PM
Guggenheim Museum,
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
Peter B. Lewis Theater, Sackler Center.
$10 /$7

Drawing from the vast reservoir of mass-media visual culture- from advertisements to bumper stickers to pirated images of old master paintings and Internet video downloads—artists Nate Lowman (b. 1979) and Seth Price (b. 1973) interrogate various systems of information dispersion while pointing to the social, economic, or political forces that drive them.
http://www.guggenheim.org/education/tours_lectures.shtml#category_10

Ulla von Brandenburg: Nov 19

November 19th, 6:30 pm
FREE
To RSVP call Goethe Institute @ 212-439-8700

As part of PERFORMA 07, the Goethe-Institut New York presents Show/Tell 01, an artist talk between performance artist Ulla von Brandenburg and curator Anna-Catharina Gebbers.

PERFORMA 07 presents Ulla von Brandenburg's installation La Maison, a multi-room labyrinth delineated by large textile panels, from November 12-16. Using colors based on Bauhaus chromatics on the one hand, and the Luescher-Colour-Diagnostics spectrum on the other, a new color universe is established in each room. At the center of the labyrinth, a new 16mm film will be screened, which picks up where the viewer leaves off, driving slowly through the rooms of a baroque castle, populated by people in petrified poses.

Ulla von Brandenburg (b. Karlsruhe, Germany,1974) works in a variety of forms, including drawing, painting, film, video, installation, and performance, examining the ways in which meaning and significance can be articulated between the borders of media. She has had solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006), Kunsthalle, Zurich (2006), and Produzentengalerie, Hamburg (2007), among other venues, and her work has been included in numerous group shows and biennials including at Prague Biennial 3, Prague (2007), Arnolfini, London (2007), and the Tate Modern, London (2007).

http://07.performa-arts.org/calendar.php?id=83
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/kue/en2729985.htm