Monday January 27
– Keltie Ferris and Arturo Herrera in conversation with Martha Joseph (MoMA), “THE (grand) GESTURE” (in conjunction with the artists’ exhibition at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– James Bridle, Michael Vieira Marder (University of the Basque Country), Laura Tripaldi (NYU Shanghai), Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (UC Santa Cruz), “Actioning Summit 5: How to Think Through / As More-Than-Human Intelligence,” at Columbia GSAPP, 6:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
Tuesday January 28
– Tacita Dean, Edmund de Waal, Alice Ensabella (University of Grenoble Alpes), Joel Meyerowitz, and Luc Tuymans in conversation with Amanda Gluibizzi, “Giorgio Morandi: Masterpieces from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation” (in conjunction with the exhibition at David Zwirner, New York), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Rachel Martin, artist talk, at the School of Visual Arts, 3:00-5:00pm. In-person and online. Registration recommended.
– Panel, “The Things We Keep: Cooper’s Open Archives” (talks on the Cooper Union archives), at The Cooper Union, 6:00pm. Online. Registration required
– Duane Michaels, “Explorations Making Video,” at the School of Visual Arts, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Columbia University), “Open Session #15” (reading about future ancestral swamps, drawing on her theories on climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe), at Storefront for Architecture, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Wednesday January 29
– Lucia Pietroiusti, curator talk, at the School of Visual Arts, 9:00-10:00am. Online. Registration required.
– Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum of American Art), “AI Art Histories: From Concepts to Conservation” (part of the “Topics in Time-based Media Art Conversation” series), at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 6:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Christine Sun Kim in conversation with Joseph del Pesco, for the launch of the vinyl project “Terp Interrupted,” at Printed Matter Chelsea, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.
– Wafa Ghnaim (Museum of the Palestinian People, Washington D.C.), “Tatreez Resistance: The Traditional Art of Palestinian Embroidery in the Diaspora,” at the School of Visual Arts, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Felix Bernstein and Cassandra Seltman in conversation, “Fear of Breakdown” (following a screening of Loretta Fahrenholz’s “Trash the Musical” (2023)), at Amant, 6:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
Thursday January 30
– Madeleine Grynsztejn (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) in conversation with Joachim Pissarro (Hunter College) and Jennifer Stockman (part of the “Director’s Series” talks), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Sam Nester, “Resonating Worlds: Art, Science, and the Soundscapes of Discovery,” at NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in New York, 4:30-6:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Rubén Ortiz-Torres and Gabriela Ortiz in conversation (in conjunction with Ortiz-Torres’s exhibition), at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 5:00-6:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Fred Moten, william cordova, and Yasser Tejeda in conversation with Eilin Pérez, “Archival Encounters,” at The Cooper Union, 5:00-6:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Min Kyung Lee (Bryn Mawr), “Wigs and Spaces of Intimacy: Korean Migration and the American Street” (part of the “Afro-Asia” lecture series), at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 6:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Peter Sigal, Noelle Deleon, and Rebecca Teich in conversation, “Coded Language: QueerWordPlay,” at Creative Time HQ (co-sponsored by the Pratt Institute), 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.
– Mabel O. Wilson (Columbia University), “Unknown, Unknown: Provisional Architectures of Memory,” at the Pratt Institute, 6:15-8:00pm. In-person.
– Soňa Kúdeľová and Sabina Bočková in conversation, “GPS Chats: Solo and collective dancemaking practices in Czech Republic and Slovakia,” at movement research, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Utsa Hazarika, “Liminal Architectures and Diasporic Movements” (part of “The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series”), at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Panel, “An Encyclopedia of Radical Helping” (readings in conjunction with book launch), at Center for Art, Research and Alliances, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Manthia Diawara (NYU), “Édouard Glissant: On Geomorphism and the Poetics of Trembling,” at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 7:00-9:00pm. In-person and online.
Friday January 31
– Guerrilla Girls in conversation with Jenée-Daria Strand, “Discrimi-NATION: Guerrilla Girls on Bias, Money and Art,” at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Conference, “Passing Ceremonies” (closing event of “Edges of Ailey” exhibition), at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 4:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Oana Stănescu, “Cover Me Softly” (a lecture on the cover song as a model for investigating contemporary creative production), at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, 6:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
Saturday February 1
– Panel, “Perspectives on Trans Liberation Today” (in conjunction with the exhibition “Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas”), at The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, 2:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Catherine Goodman in conversation with Lynne Tillman (in conjunction with Goodman’s exhibition “Silent Music” at Hauser & Wirth and the launch of the monograph “Catherine Goodman”), at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street, 2:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Shelley Hirsch and Maggie Lee, readings (part of the “Segue Reading Series”), at Artists Space, 5:00pm. In-person and online. (Please note that only admission is free.)
– Panel, “Kith Black History Month Creative Series Roundtable,” at The Brooklyn Museum, 6:15-7:00pm. In-person.
Sunday February 2
– Ari Melenciano in conversation (following the screening of her film “Cosmeage (Toizso)”), at MoMA, 1:00-2:30pm. In-person. Registration required.