Monday February 10
– Mark Leckey in conversation with Charlotte Kent (Visual and Critical Studies,Montclair State University), “3 Songs from the Liver” (in conjunction with Leckey’s show at Gladstone Gallery), at The Brooklyn Rail, 12:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Malynne Sternstein (Russian and East European Studies, University of Chicago), “Love without Hope: Walter Benjamin’s Trials with Surrealism,” at the School of Visual Arts, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Tuesday February 11
– Kenneth Tam in conversation with Christina Yang, “The Medallion” (in conjunction with Tam’s show at Bridget Donahue), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Safoura Zahedi (architect) in conversation with Minty Sainsbury (artist), part of the “The Architecture of Place” lecture series, at The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Mary Mattingly, artist talk, at the School of Visual Arts, 3:00-5:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– R. Luke Dubois (Department of Technology, Culture, & Society, NYU), “Running Out of Time” (a talk exploring themes on creative and technical projects investigating time, memory, and cultural identity), at NYU Abu Dhabi Institute in New York, 4:30-6:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Nyugen E. Smith, artist talk, at Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard (hosted by Pratt Institute), 6:00-7:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Gennifer Weisenfeld (Art History, Duke), the “Bettman Lecture,” at Columbia University, 6:15-7:45pm. In-person.
– Loretta Farhenholz in conversation with Michel Abeles and Emily Sundblad, “next stop…Cannes” (following a screening of Farhenholz’s film, “A Decade that Exploded”), at Amant, 6:30pm. Registration recommended.
Wednesday February 12
– Magali Arriola, curator talk (part of “The Curatorial Roundtable Series”), at the School of Visual Arts, 10:00-11:00am. Online. Registration required.
– Rachel Vera-Steinberg (Smack Mellon), curator talk (part of the “DDA Guest Lecture Series”), at Pratt Institute, 12:00-1:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Saya Woolfalk in conversation with Eleanor Heartney, “The Woods Woman Method” (in conjunction with Woolfalk’s show at Susan Inglett Gallery), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Katie Anania (Art History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Amanda Cachia (Arts Leadership, University of Houston),and Paloma Checa-Gismero (Art History, Swarthmore College) in conversation, “Disruptions in the Present: Art Historians on Biennials, Ecology, and Ableism,” at Printed Matter Chelsea, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.
– Karen Lemmey (SAAM), Tobias Wofford (Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University), and Grace Yasumura (SAAM) in conversation, “A chat with the curators of ‘The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,’ current exhibition at Smithsonian American Art Museum,” at New York Studio School, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Marvin Heiferman (curator), Sarah E. Lewis (Art History, Harvard), Deborah Willis (Department of Photography and Imaging, NYU) and Leigh Raiford (African American Studies, UC Berkeley), in conversation, “Aperture Conversations The Power of Images: A Conversation About ‘Race Stories’” (in conjunction with the publication of Maurice Berger’s book), at The New School, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Thursday February 13
– Larry Clark in conversation with Raymond Foye, “92-95” (in conjunction with Clark’s show at Ruttkowski;68), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Nicholas Mirzeoff (Department of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU) in conversation with Laura Raicovich, book launch for “To See in the Dark: Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7,” at The Francis Kite Club, 6:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Lindsay Caplan (History of Art, Brown University), Colby Chamberlain (Cleveland Institute of Art), and Nadja Millner-Larsen (Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, NYU) in conversation, “Writing Art History After Occupy,” at Printed Matter Chelsea, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.
– Verne Dawson and Jennifer Krasinski in conversation for the book launch of “Verne Dawson: To hear a story to its end,” at Karma, 6:00-7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Legacy Russell (The Kitchen) in conversation with C. Riley Snorton (Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender), “BLACK MEME: A History of the Images that Make Us” (including a screening of Russell’s video essay), at Columbia University School of the Arts, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Julian Chehirian (History of Science, Princeton), Suzanne Hudson (Art History, USC), and Tanya Sheehan (Art, Colby College) in conversation, book talk for “Modernism, Art, Therapy,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 6:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Panel, “Roundtable Discussion: Versions, Visions, and Folios: The Sixth Somewhat Annual Meeting” (a gathering of architects and educators exploring questions of architectural drawing and representation), at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Suzanne Jackson and Ann Leda Shapiro in conversation with Lanka Tattersall (in conjunction with the exhibition “Vital Signs: Artists and the Body”), at MoMA, 6:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Sean Raspet, artist talk, “Recent Molecules” (part of the “New Public Forum” series), at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, 7:00-9:00pm. In-person and online.
– Lindsey White in conversation with Sara Greenberger Rafferty (Art, Hunter College), for the book launch of White’s “What? Is? Art?,” at 205 Hudson Street, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Peter N. Miller (History, American Academy in Rome) in conversation with D. Graham Burnett, book talk for Miller’s “The Weather on 9/9/01: Newspaper Weather Mas and History,” at 192 Books, 7:00pm. In-person.
Friday February 14
– Julie Beaufils in conversation with Jessica Holmes, “Slow Definition” (in conjunction with Beaufils’s show at Matthew Brown), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
The College Art Association Conference is taking place in New York from February 12 – February 15. There is an option for “no-cost registration” that includes access to Convocation, Annual Artist Interviews, Distinguished Scholar Session, CAA Committee and Affiliated Society Business Meetings, Workshops, Services to Artists Committee (SAC) programming and Student and Emerging Professionals Committee (SEPC) programming. See the CAA website to register.