Karen Finley: Nov 25

Karen Finley
RAPID RESPONSE: I NEED MY SPACE
Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 pm
Studio-X, 180 Varick Street, Suite 1610

Visual and performance artist Karen Finley will lead this group meeting, featuring invited and volunteer testimonials sharing our emotional responses to the election and the various needs for space--physical, social, cultural and psychological--that it exposed. How do our national political relationships inform or dialogue with the workplace, family, community and friends? How do the race, gender, class and identity issues raised in the campaign continue to be discussed? Finley will also address the transformation of the memory of Chicago's Grant Park (and the 1968 Democratic Convention) from a site of pain and loss into one of celebration and unity on November 4th, as well as legacies of Vietnam War protests and the Civil Rights Movement embodied in that space.

Audience participation in the meeting is encouraged. I NEED MY SPACE will last approximately one hour, with the hope of providing a therapeutic and supportive group environment for those needing space in their own lives.

Free and open to the public. RSVP: gdb2106@columbia.edu
Refreshments provided by BAREFOOT WINES

RAPID RESPONSE is held on the last Tuesday of each month, it is an open and undetermined platform for quick response to events that have taken place over the last thirty days. Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. http://www.arch.columbia.edu/studiox/calendar.html

Howard Gardner: Nov 25, Dec 2+9

The True, the Beautiful, and the Good:
Reconsiderations in a Postmodern, Digital Era
Museum of Modern Art, Titus Theater 1

Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 p.m.
Kinds and Degrees of Truths.
Moderated by Peter Galison, Pellegrino University Professor in the History of Science and Physics, Harvard University

Tuesday, December 2, 6:30 p.m.
Beauty and Its Successors.
Moderated by Paola Antonelli, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art

Tuesday, December 9, 6:30 p.m.
The Good: Seen through the Prisms of Biology, Culture, and History.
Moderated by Antonio Damasio, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, and Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California

In this unprecedented lecture series, world-renowned psychologist Howard Gardner offers an extended reflection on the concepts of Truth, Beauty, and the Good in a postmodern, digital age. Drawing from philosophy, history, natural sciences, and cultural theory, Gardner analyzes how a sophisticated understanding of the power and limitations of these concepts can come about; and how best to understand what is essential, expendable, or deceptive about truth, beauty, goodness, and their opposites. ($10/$8/$5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=10171&ref=calendar

Shirazeh Houshiary: Nov 25

Shirazeh Houshiary
Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 p.m.
Guggenheim Museum

Guided by the mystical traditions of Sufism, Shirazeh Houshiary's practice challenges the boundaries of perception and reality with drawings and paintings characterized by layers of fine marks as well as sculptures and installations that evoke biomorphic, abstract forms based on mathematical calculation. $10 ($7 for members and students)

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

Jonas Bendiksen: Nov 24

Monday, November 24, 6:30 pm
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street,4th fl

Magnum Photographer Jonas Bendiksen will be in conversation with prominent author and editor of the Paris Review Philip Gourevitch about Bendiksen’s latest book The Places We Live (Aperture, 2008), a unique and powerful portrait of slum life today introduced by Gourevitch.
http://www.aperture.org/events/

You can also listen to the live webcast here: http://www.aperture.org/live/

John Baldessari: Nov 20

The Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture
John Baldessari
Thursday, November 20, 7 pm
Whitney Museum of American Art

In honor of the late Walter H. Annenberg, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and former ambassador, the Whitney Museum of American Art established the Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture to advance this country's understanding of its art and culture. In this fourth Annenberg Lecture, John Baldessari will speak about his work in conversation with Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney's Alice Pratt Brown Director. For more than fifty years, Baldessari has masterfully juxtaposed painting, photography, sculpture, and other media to probe how meaning is created through images, objects, and text.

http://www.whitney.org/www/educational_programs/public_programs.jsp

Matthew Higgs and Elizabeth Peyton: Nov 20

Matthew Higgs and Elizabeth Peyton: 20 Questions
Friday, Nov 21, 7:30 pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Artist, curator, and director of White Columns Matthew Higgs will interview the artist Elizabeth Peyton using a list of questions contributed by twenty artists, curators, critics, and others who are familiar with Peyton's work.

From her earliest portraits of musicians like Kurt Cobain, Liam Gallagher, and Jarvis Cocker to more recent paintings featuring friends and figures from the worlds of art, fashion, cinema, and politics, including Rirkrit Tiravanija, Matthew Barney, and Marc Jacobs, Elizabeth Peyton's body of work presents a chronicle of America at the end of the last century. A painter of modern life, Peyton's small, jewel-like portraits are also intensely empathetic, intimate, and even personal. Together, her works capture an artistic zeitgeist that reflects the cultural climate of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/266

Tercerunquinto: Nov 19

Panel Discussion: Tercerunquinto
Wednesday, November 19, 6:30 p.m.
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue

Panelists include Julio Castro, Gabriel Cázares, and Rolando Flores from Tercerunquinto, as well as Eungie Joo, Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum, and Taiyana Pimentel, Independent Curator, Mexico City.

Tercerunquinto is a collective formed by Castro, Cázares and Flores that jointly manipulate architectural elements to change the spatial dynamics of interior and exterior spaces, in order to examine their limits and to alter their functions. The artists will discuss their work with Joo and Pimentel. This event is free and open to the public. In collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute. This program is part of the 3rd Annual Latin American Culture Week in New York City. For more information visit www.pamar.org/lacwnyc/

http://as.americas-society.org/calevent.php?id=394

Catherine Sullivan: Nov 19

Wednesday, November 19, 6:30pm
The New School
John Tishman Auditorium / 66 West 12th Street

Catherine Sullivan's installations combine theater, dance, film, music and visual art; through these disciplines she scrutinzes collective audiences such as nostalgia, the sensations of history, and cultural acquiescence. The performers in her pieces often explore written texts, stylistic economies, gestural regimes, reenactments of history and conceptual orthodoxies. Her work is usually shot or performed within locations that are richly layered with social functions, and the elements of character, action and setting play off one another to produce an anxious and unresolved political sensibility. The topics touched upon in Sullivan's 2007 piece, Triangle of Need, are numerous and varied, including Neanderthal orphans, Nigerian email scams and even time travel. To create this piece, the artist collaborated with noted music, dance and film professionals, to create an ambitious and thought-provoking work that makes underlying comments on a broader set of issues. However, her true medium is the ensemble itself, and her works most often involve multiple collaborators. With The Chittendens (2005), for example, a six-channel sound and video piece produced in collaboration with composer Sean Griffin, Sullivan assigned sixteen actors different "attitudes" — each characterized by appointed movements and emotions that were performed according to a strict pattern. The name of the piece itself was derived from an insurance agency called "Chittenden Group" whose logo — a lighthouse — is a meaningful metaphor for self-possession.

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

James Hyde: Nov 18

Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm
SVA, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C

Known for his imaginative use of materials, like beach-chair webbing and illuminated Plexiglas, Brooklyn-based artist James Hyde has experimented with everything from fresco paintings on Styrofoam to furniture making. Over the past two decades, Hyde has been the subject of many solo exhibitions nationwide, and his work is included in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Brooklyn Museum and the Denver Art Museum. Presented by the BFA Fine Arts and 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=2617

Mapping Nations: Nov 17

Mapping Nations
Monday, November 17, 6:30 p.m.
MoMA Cullman Education and Research Building, Theater 3

IRWIN is an artist collective based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, best known for their ongoing projects NSK State and East Art Map. NSK State is a utopian state without a concrete territory, questioning notions of borders and nationhood. East Art Map is a work focusing on retracing the contemporary art and history of Eastern Europe. The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a research organization that explores how the United States' lands are apportioned, utilized, and perceived. Matt Coolidge of CLUI and Miran Mohar and Borut Vogelnik of IRWIN discuss how they engage in the specific and symbolic meaning of territoriality and how they use the tools of art, research, and collaboration to present their projects both in and outside of museum contexts. ($10/ $8/ $5)

http://www.moma.org/calendar/events.php?id=9861&ref=calendar