Monday February 24
– Amy Kurzweil (artist) in conversation with Ann Cotten (writer), “Digital Echoes: AI, Memory, and the Art of Immortality” (part of the “Art and AI” series), at 1014, 12:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Deborah Kass in conversation with Maura Reilly (Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University), “The Art History Paintings 1989-1992” (in conjunction with Kass’s show at Salon 94), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Jeff Steward (Digital Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies, Harvard Art Museums), Sonja Thiel (curator), and Raul Zbengheci (NEW INC)in conversation with Mona Sloane (Data Science and Media Studies, UVA), “Co-Opting AI: Museums,” at NYU (co-hosted by UVA), 4:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Marina Abramović and Igal Nassima in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries), “Beyond the Gates” (a discussion of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s legacy for public art), at The Shed, 6:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– James H. Smith (Anthropology, UC Davis), “The Eyes of the World: How and Why Diggers Resist the Media-Facilitated Purification of the Coltan Supply Chain in the Eastern Congo” (part of the “Extractive Media” lecture series), at Columbia University, 6:10-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
Tuesday February 25
– Farah Al Qasimi, Widline Cadet,and Pao Houa Her in conversation with Chloe Stagaman, “Traces of Us: Recent Photography” (in conjunction with the show at Peter Blum Gallery), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Romi Crawford (Visual and Critical Studies, SAIC), research talk, at the School of Visual Arts, 3:00-5:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Conference, “Tumbados Symposium” (a symposium celebrating artist Guadalupe Rosales), at The Cooper Union (co-hosted by Storefront for Art and Architecture), 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Jessica Dickinson, artist talk, “the time / it takes / to get / to silence,” at New York Studio School, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Danah Abdulla (Decolonising the Arts Institute and University of the Arts London) book talk for “Transforming Design Education in the Arab Region,” at the School of Visual Arts, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Gerald Cyrus, artist talk, at the School of Visual Arts, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Jeffrey Henson Scales, artist talk (part of the “i3 Photo Lecture” series), at the School of Visual Arts, 7:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Wednesday February 26
– Lisa Long (Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin), curator talk (part of “The Curatorial Roundtable” series), at the School of Visual Arts, 9:00-10:00am. Online. Registration required.
– Ruby Justice Thelot, artist talk, “What is Truth? On AI, Epistemology and the Future of Knowledge,” at the School of Visual Arts, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Ann Temkin (MoMA) and Romy Silver-Kohn (MoMA), book talk for “Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped the Museum of Modern Art,” at The New School, 6:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Lauren Jimerson (art historian), “Painting Her Pleasure: Women Artists in Avant-Garde Paris” (in conjunction with the exhibition “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”), at the Grey Art Museum, NYU, 6:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Richard Misrach and Sarah Meister (Aperture) in conversation with Xin Wang (Pace), “Cargo” (in conjunction with Misrach’s show at Pace), at Pace Gallery, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Edra Soto in conversation with Carla Acevedo-Yates (MoCA Chicago), Marcela Guerrero (Whitney) and Melanie Kress (Public Art Fund), in conjunction with the Soto’s Public Art Fund commission “Graft” (part of the “Public Art Fund Talks” series), at The Cooper Union, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Brandt Junceau, artist talk, “Rodin’s Secret Museum,” at New York Studio School, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Juliet Bellow (American University), “Dancing an Orphist ‘Egypt’: The Delaunays and Artistic Imperialism” (the “Robert Rosenblum Lecture” held in conjunction with the exhibition “Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930”), at the Guggenheim, 6:30pm. In-person. Registration required. (Please note that this event is only free for students.)
– Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and Emory Shaw Campbell (Gullah Heritage Consulting Service) in conversation with Deborah Willis (Photography & Imaging, NYU), in conjunction with the exhibition “Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 6:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required. (Please note that only online attendance is free.)
Thursday February 27
– Hanlu Zhang (Social Practice Lab, Guangzhou, China), “Creative Economies: Transforming Constraints into Collaboration,” at Pratt Institute, 9:00-10:30am. Online. Registration required.
– Niels Datema (MASS.Made) and Casey Rogers (INZU) in conversation, “Design with Artisans: Weaving Connections in Rwanda” (in conjunction with the exhibition at the Juliana Curran Terian Gallery at the Design Center), at Pratt Institute, 5:30-7:30pm. In-person.
– Jordache A. Ellapen (Black Studies, University of Rochester), “Indenture Aesthetics: Family photo-archives and South African Blackness” (part of the “Afro Asia” lecture series), at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– David J. Getsy (Art History, UVA) and Tom Burr (artist) in conversation on artist Scott Burton (in conjunction with the exhibition “Álvaro Urbano: TABLEAU VIVANT,” in which Urbano focuses on “Atrium Furnishment,” a public artwork by the American sculptor Burton that was rescued from destruction and now faces an uncertain future), at SculptureCenter, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Hal Foster (Art History, Princeton) in conversation with Ben Lerner (English, Brooklyn College), book talk for Foster’s “Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics,” at 192 Books, 7:00pm. In-person and online. (This event has been postponed to March 27.)
– Pietro Bianchi (Film Studies and Critical Theory, University of Florida), “The Optical Unconscious in the Digital Age,” at e-flux, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Friday February 28
– Allison Janae Hamilton in conversation with Le’Andra LeSeur, “Celestine” (in conjunction with Hamilton’s show at Marianne Boesky Gallery), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Sirui Ma and Nick Sansone in conversation, “The Landscape of Labor” (a discussion of their photographic projects documenting labor in NYC), at the International Center of Photography, 1:00-2:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– J. Cabelle Ahn (art historian), Nicholas Eastaugh (scientist), Carol Mancusi-Ungaro (conservator), David G. Stork (scientist) in conversation with Lisa Conte (IFA), “The Machine Gaze: AI in Art Conservation and Analysis,” at the Institute of Fine Art, NYU, 5:30-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Panel, “Diasporic Futures: Agency and Memory” (in conjunction with the “Diasporic Futures: Agency and Memory” exhibition at the Civil Projects Lab), at The Cooper Union, 6:00-9:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
–Dylan Gauthier, sTo Len, Jen Liu (artists) in conversation with Kari Conte (curator), “In Plain View” (a roundtable featuring Freshkills Park: Field R/D artists and curators), at The New School, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Saturday March 1
– Marina Abramović, artist reading (part of the ongoing “Segue Reading Series,” musician William Parker will also be reading), at Artists Space, 5:00pm. In-person and online. (Please note that only online attendance is free.)
Sunday March 2
– Panel, “Artistic Generosity as a Resistance to Exclusivity” (in conjunction with the exhibition “City and Eyes” at Fridman Gallery), at Columbia University, 3:00-5:00pm. In-person. Registration required.