Tuesday October 15
– Kris Grey, “Tension & Tethers,” at the School of Visual Arts, 3:00-5:00pm. In-person and online.
– Gregory Sholette (The Graduate Center, CUNY) in conversation with Jennifer Jones, “Art and Activism and Activism and Art,” at the James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 6:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Amy Andrieux (Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art), Nathalie Joachim, and Sade Lythcott (National Black Theatre) in conversation with Tanisha Ford (The Graduate Center, CUNY), “Afromodernism and the Arts,” at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 6:30pm. In-person and online. Registration recommended.
Wednesday October 16
– Hou Hanru in conversation with Steven Henry Madoff (SVA), “Curatorial Roundtable,” at the School of the Visual Arts, 9:00-10:00am. Online. Registration required.
– Panel discussion and presentations by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen (IFA, NYU), Lynn Gumpert (Gray Art Museum, NYU) and Jennifer Homans (Center for Ballet and the Arts, NYU), “Afternoon of a Faun: Modern Art and Ballet in Fin-de-siècle Paris,” at the Center for the Ballet and the Arts, NYU (co-hosted by the Gray Museum of Art, NYU), 6:00-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required. (This event is currently sold out.)
– Alan Michelson on Robert Smithson, at Dia Chelsea, 6:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Rafael Jaquez, Travis Price, Karen Bermann, Michael Freedberg, and Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa (Storefront for Art and Architecture) in conversation, “Alternative Communities & Energies Past, Present, and Future” (part of the ongoing “Energies” Symposium), at the Swiss Institute, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner in conversation with David Velasco following a screening of “Community Action Center,” at Light Industry, screening starts at 7:30pm. In-person. (This is event is first-come, first-served and pay-what-you-can.)
Thursday October 17
– Nile Harris, Alex Tatarsky, and Anh Vo in conversation with Ethan Philbrick, “Precarious Luxuries: improvisation, performance, and planning for the unplanned” (keynote event for the ASAP15 conference), at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 4:30-6:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Inés Katzenstein, “Rebellion, Nonsense and Despair: Latin American Artists at the End of the ’60s,” at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 5:00pm. In-person.
– Conference “Rumors, Disinformation, Conspiracy Theories – From Gutenberg to Social Media and AI,” at Columbia University, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Catherine Quan Damman, “Carceral Nonpictures,” at The Institute of Fine Arts (NYU), 6:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Kristin Ross in conversation with Andreas Petrossaints (e-flux) for the book launch of “The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life,” at e-flux, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Simon Wu, artist lecture and conversation with Merray Michael Mina (Momus) for the book launch of “Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy,” at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
Friday October 18
– Conference “Rumors, Disinformation, Conspiracy Theories – From Gutenberg to Social Media and AI,” at Columbia University, 9:15am-4:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Tacita Dean in conversation with Amanda Gluibizzi (New Foundation for Art History), “Tacita Dean: Blind Folly,” at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
Saturday October 19
– Cindy Trinh, Ed Cheng, Cal Hsiao, Sonia Tsang in conversation with Alison Kuo, “Rites of Passage” (a conversation on the legacy of Corky Lee), at the International Center of Photography, 1:00-2:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Panel “The Jason Rhoades Variety Show,” at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street, 3:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Malcolm Peacock, sonia louise davis, and Zoë Pulley in conversation with Yelena Keller (Studio Museum), “Artists in Residence 2023-2024 Roundtable,” at MoMA PS1 (co-hosted by the Studio Museum in Harlem), 5:00pm. In-person.
Sunday October 20
– April Berry in conversation with Reginald Yates, “The Legacy of Katherine Dunham,” at The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2:00-3:00pm. In-person and online. (Note that only online admission is free.)
Multi-Day Event:
– Wednesday, October 16 – Saturday October 19, 2024: Prelude Festival, at The Graduate Center, CUNY, various times. In-person. Registration required.