Monday December 2
– Kevin Beasley, Jonathan Binstock (The Phillips Collection), and Mary Schmidt Campbell (Spelman College) in conversation with David Breslin (the Met), “A Celebration of Sam Gilliam,” at the Met, 6:00-7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

Tuesday December 3

– Julie Schenkelberg, artist talk, at the School of Visual Arts, 3:00-6:00pm. In-person and online. Registration recommended.

– Minerva Cuevas, artist talk (part of “The Artists Roundtable” series), at the School of Visual Arts, 5:00-6:00pm. Online. Registration required.

– Bruno Pinherio (The Met), “The side effect of this system created: Art, Race and Labor in Mid-Twentieth Century Brazil” (the “Huber Colloquium”), at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.

– Pelin Tan (University of Batman, Turkey), “Pedagogies of Commons—Decoloniality, Alliances, Survival” (part of the “Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series”), at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.

– Nour Mobarak in conversation with Negar Azimi (Bidoun), at MoMA, 7:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.

– Rebecca Barten and David Sherman, “Total Mobile Home microCINEMA” (a lecture on the history of Total Mobile Home), at Light Industry, 7:30pm. In-person. (This event is pay-what-you-can.)

Wednesday December 4
– Prita Meier (IFA) in conversation with Cajetan Nwabueze Iheka (Yale), “The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast” (part of the “Close Reading: Authors at the IFA” series), at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.

– Nadine Fattelah and Josh McPhee (Interference Archive), “A Conversation on Archiving Student Movements,” at New York University, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

– Rainer Turim in conversation with Lei Takanashi, for the book launch of “When a Writer Climbs Walls” (a zine on the history of rappel and vertical graffiti), at Printed Matter Chelsea, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.

– Nicole R. Fleetwood (NYU), Catherine Gund, Marny Enoch Elizabeth Baxter, Leah Fariah in conversation with Dána-Ain Davis (The Graduate Center, CUNY), following a screening of “Paint Me a Road Out of Here” (a history of Faith Ringgold’s “For the Woman’s House”), at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 6:30pm. In-person. Registration required.

– Mary Reid Kelley, Hideo Mabuchi (Stanford), Peter N. Miller (American Academy in Rome) and John Ochsendorf (MIT) in conversation, following a screening of “Questions as Tools in Art, Sciences, and the Humanities,” at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration required.

– Hilton Als, “AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture,” at The New School, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

– Mark McKnight and Elle Pérez in conversation (part of “The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series”), at the International Center of Photography, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration recommended. (Please note that only online admission is free.) 

Thursday December 5
– Andres Lepik (Technische Universität München), “Architecture Exhibitions as Critical Practice,” at Columbia University, 12:15-1:45pm. In-person.

– Rosa Lowinger, “Art Versus the Great Outdoors: Wrestling with the Meaning of Repair” (the “Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies Lecture”), at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.

– Pouya Ahmadi, Panos Aprahamian, Stephanie Choi and Chris Lee in conversation, for the launch of “Amalgam #5 – AlienNation Book” (exploring the politics of alienation and the intersection of typography, language, and power), at Printed Matter Chelsea, 6:00-7:30pm. In-person.

– Dorota Biczel (Barnard), “A New Icon for a Transformed Metropolis: EPS Huayco, Sarita Colonia, and Emancipatory Promises of Migrant Visual Cultures in the 1980s Lima,” at Columbia University, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

– Andres Lepik (Technische Universität München), Elena Cohen (Widener University), Suneil Sanzgiri and Brad Samuels (SITU Research) in conversation, “Roundtable and Book Launch: Visual Investigations: Between Advocacy, Journalism and Law,” at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.

– Ateya Khorakiwala, “Shells and Silos: An Epistemic Accounting of Instability and Cracks,” at e-flux, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

– Akili Tommasino (The Met), Julie Mehretu, and Fred Wilson, virtual tour of “Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now,” at The Met, 7:00pm. Online. Registration recommended.

– Funto Omojola and YATTA in conversation with Riel Bellow, “Story Story Time Time” (for the launch of Omojola’s “If I Gather Here and Shout” and YATTA’s “PALME WINE”), at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances, 7:00pm. Registration required.

Friday December 6
– Conference “Palabre/s en mode marron” (organized by Bintou Dembélé, a gathering of artists, academics, activists and more with connections to Paris and the French West Indies), at Performance Space (co-presented by L’Alliance New York), 12:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

Saturday December 7
– Conference “Creative Convening—‘Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now,’” at The Met, 10:30am-5:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

– Conference “Palabre/s en mode marron” (organized by Bintou Dembélé, a gathering of artists, academics, activists and more with connections to Paris and the French West Indies), at Performance Space (co-presented by L’Alliance New York), 12:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

– Conference “Press Play 2024” (a showcase of artists, musicians, poets, and writers), at Pioneer Works, 12:00-7:00pm. In-person.

– Three talks, “Afterlives with Álvaro Urbano, Jess Wilcox, and Jeremy Johnston,” at SculptureCenter, 2:00-4:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.  

– Irene V. Small in conversation with Thomas Lax, to discuss Small’s book “The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism,” at MoMA PS1 Artbook Bookstore, 4:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

Sunday December 8
– Conference “Press Play 2024” (a showcase of artists, musicians, poets, and writers), at Pioneer Works, 12:00-7:00pm. In-person.