Tuesday February 18
– Na Kim in conversation with Will Chancellor, “Memory Palace” (in conjunction with Kim’s show at Nicola Vassell), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Letha Wilson, artist talk, at the School of Visual Arts, 3:00-5:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Elena Martinez (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Baruch College) and Rojo Robles (Black and Latino Studies, Baruch College) in conversation, “Black Cinemas in the Caribbean Basin: Expanding the Black Gaze,” at Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.
– Robert L. Bowen (Photography, SVA) and Natasha Chuk (Media Theory, SVA) in conversation, for the book launch of Bowen’s The Human Shutter, at the School of Visual Arts, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Terry Smith (Art History, University of Pittsburgh), a talk on the “visual arts exhibitionary complex” (for the launch of the “The Curatorial” International Journal), at the School of Visual Arts, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Simon Shim-Sutcliffe, artist talk (“Open Session #16”), at Storefront for Art & Architecture, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Julian Rose in conversation with Paola Antonelli (MoMA), for launch of Rose’s book “Building Culture: The Museum Beyond Art,” at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Jim Condron in conversation with Karen Wilkin, “Collected Things,” at New York Studio School, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Michael Kliën in conversation with Caroline Lillian Schopp (Art History, Johns Hopkins) and Volkmar Klein, following a screening of Kliën’s “The Utopians,” at the Austrian Cultural Forum, 6:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, “Material Acts Launch” (curator talk for the upcoming exhibition at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles), at e-flux, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Wednesday February 19
– Henk Slager (MaHKU Utrecht), curator talk (part of “The Curatorial Roundtable” series), at the School of Visual Arts, 9:00-10:00am. Online. Registration required.
– Vincent Valdez in conversation with Max Tolleson, “Just a Dream” (in conjunction with Valdez’s show at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Warren Sack (Film + Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz), “The Software Arts,” at The New School, 5:00-7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Rebecca Houze (Art and Design History, Northern Illinois University), “From World’s Fair to National Park: Heritage and Fantasy in the Design of the American West,” at Pratt Institute, 5:30-6:30pm. Registration required.
– Işın Önol (SVA), András Szántó, and Ruba Katrib (MoMA PS1) in conversation, “The Future of the Museum, Part Two,” at the School of Visual Arts, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Thomas Piper (director) in conversation with Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (LOT-EK), following a screening of “WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND,” at City Tech, 6:00-9:30pm. In-person. Registration required. (Please note this event is currently sold out.)
– Shelley Rice (Art History, NYU) in conversation with Kenneth E. Silver, for the book launch of Rice’s “Image Making: Essays on Visual Culture (1978-2018),” at New York University, 6:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Ezekiel Dixon-Romàn (Critical Race, Media & Educational Studies, Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education), presentation on proposed frameworks of “recursive colonialism” and “cosmo-computation,” and Bogosi Sekhukhuni, “Surfaceology” performance-lecture, part of the ongoing “Black Earth Study Club” series, at the Swiss Institute, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
Thursday February 20
– Ayesha Williams (The Laundromat Project) in conversation with Salome Asega (NEW INC), “Common Ground: The Laundromat Project,” at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Jan Baracz in conversation with Carlo McCormick, Izabela Gola (Polish Cultural Institute), and Eric Fallen (Peninsula), in conjunction with Baracz’s show “twilight mechanics” (conversation will follow a performance of “Music for Alligators”), at Peninsula, 6:00pm. In-person.
– Véronique Chagnon-Burke (Women Art Dealers Digital Archives)and Rebecca Shaykin (The Jewish Museum) in conversation, “Women Art Dealers and the Market” (in conjunction with “Make Way for Berthe Weill” exhibition), at the Grey Art Museum, New York University, 6:00pm. In-person.
– Kasra Farahani(production designer), Paul Goldberger (architecture critic), and Abraham Thomas (The Met) in conversation, “Architectural Imagination: A Conversation on Materialized Space,” at The Met, 6:00-7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– La Vaughn Belle (artist) and Germane Barnes (architect) in conversation with Kayla Montes de Oca, “On Afro-Diasporic Caribbean Architectures” (part of the “Making Home with History” series), at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Panel, “Notes for a Séance: Curating the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale,” at e-flux, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Alison Hokanson (The Met) and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein(the Met), “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature Premiere,” at The Met, 7:00pm. Online. Registration required.
Friday February 21
– Conference, “Pirouette Abecedarium” (in conjunction with the exhibition “Pirouette”), at MoMA, 9:30am. In-person. Registration required.
– Jilaine Jones in conversation with Andrew Woolbright, “A Walk with D. Ann” (in conjunction with Jones’s show at 15 Orient), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Zishi Han and Wei Yangin conversation, artist talk in conjunction with their upcoming performances at SculptureCenter, at Asia Art Archive in America, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Anna Ehrenstein, Sunny Pfalzer, Lucy Tomasino, and Alexa Evangelista, “Art une Weise: A Manifesto for Moist Futures” (an evening of artist talk/performances), at Goethe-Institute, 6:30-9:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Saturday February 22
– Brandon Foushée and Marley Trigg Stewart in conversation, “Black Frequencies” (part of the “ICP Photobook Club” series), at the International Center of Photography, 11:00am-1:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Juliana Huxtable, artist reading (part of the ongoing “Segue Reading Series,” Eszter Balint (musician and actor) and Rezarta Seferi (actor) will also be reading), at Artists Space, 5:00pm. In-person and online. (Please note that only online attendance is free.)