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March 3 – March 9, 2025

Monday March 3
Maggie Dethloff (Cantor Arts Center, Stanford), Jessica May (Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art), Marshall N. Price (Nasher Museum of Art, Duke) in conversation with Tausif Noor, “Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene” (in conjunction with the exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.

Itohan Osayimwese (History of Architecture, Brown), “The Diaspora of African Architectural Objects” (part of the “Bettman Lecture” series), at Columbia University, 6:15pm. In-person.

Tuesday March 4
Yosuke Nakatomo (architect, ETH Zurich), “Salt and Land,” and Rebecca Yuste (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, Columbia), “The Desagüe Debates: Water and Drainage in Enlightenment Mexico” (part of the “DocTalks x MoMA” series), at MoMA, 10:00am-12:00pm. Online. Registration required.

Lisa Alvarado in conversation with Ksenia M. Soboleva, “Shape of Artifact Time” (in conjunction with Alvarado’s show at The Kitchen), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.

Miguel Callabero (Iberian Studies, Northwestern), “Creative Conservation as Anti-Fascism in the Spanish Civil War” (the “Huber Colloquium”), at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.

Mano Sundaresan (Pitchfork), Jason Nocito (photographer), Meaghan Garvey (writer) in conversation with Jeremy Larson (Pitchfork), a discussion of Bladee (artist) (in conjunction with the launch of the publication’s first in-print zine), at Printed Matter, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

Rosamary Berríos Hernández (filmmaker) in conversation with Margarita Rosa (Black and Latino Studies, Baruch) and Rojo Robles (Black and Latino Studies, Baruch), “Documentary Filmmaking and Black Spirituality in Puerto Rico,” at Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person. (This conversation will be bilingual.)

Titus Kaphar, artist talk (following a screening of Kaphar’s “Exhibiting Forgiveness”), at NYU, 6:00-9:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended. (Please note that there is currently a waitlist.)

Catherine Murphy (artist) in conversation with Karen Wilkin (curator), “A Conversation about the New Work,” at New York Studio School, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person and online. Registration is only required for online attendance.

Laurie A. Cumbo (Cultural Affairs, NYC), Lindsay Greene (The Brooklyn Navy Yard), Mickalene Thomas (artist) in conversation with Frances Bronet (Pratt), “Transforming Cities Through the Arts and Industry,” at Pratt Institute, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

Nicholas Fox Weber (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation) and Mariët Westermann (Guggenheim) in conversation, “Piet Mondrian: Artist, Man, Myth,” at the Guggenheim, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration required. (Please note that this event is only free for students.)

Olga Touloumi (History of Architecture, Bard), “Assembly by Design” (an examination of the UN’s global interiors), at e-flux, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

Duncan Youngerman (composer), Barbara Mensch (photographer), and Jonathan D. Katz (Art History, UPenn) in conversation, “Friendship, Chosen Families, and Making Art at the Slip” (in conjunction with the exhibition “The Artists of Coenties Slip”), at MoMA, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

Wednesday March 5
Kellie E. Jones (Art History, Columbia), Sampada Aranke (Art History, Ohio State University), Abbe Schriber (Art History, University of South Carolina), Coreen Simpson (photographer),Tobias Wofford (Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University), “October Files – David Hammons,” at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration required.  

Patti Smith (artist) in conversation with Kit Nicholls (The Cooper Union), “An Evening with Patti Smith” (part of the “Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum” series), at The Cooper Union, 7:00-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

Thursday March 6
Roddy Schrock (Eyebeam) in conversation with Charlotte Kent, “Common Ground: Eyebeam” (on the organization which supports artists who create with technology), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.

Lizzy Chemel, artist talk, at Greenwich House Pottery, 5:00-6:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

Mackenzie Calle in conversation with Sara Ickow (ICP), “The Gay Space Agency” (in conjunction with Calle’s installation), at International Center of Photography, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required. (Please note that only online attendance is free.)

Catherine Liu (Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine), a lecture on the shortcomings of the “trauma script” (part of the “Winter Talks” series), at MoMA PS1, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

Friday March 7
– Conference, “Aestheticizing Petroleum: An Exploratory Workshop,” at Columbia University, 9:30am-5:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

Amar Kanwar, artist talk, “The Scene of the Crime,” at the Center for Human Rights + The Arts, Bard College, 12:00pm-1:30pm. Online.  

Ara H. Merjian (Italian Studies, NYU) in conversation with Morgan Falconer (Sotheby’s Institute of Art), Carolina Mangone (Art History, Princeton), Christy Wampole (French and Italian, Princeton), to discuss Merjian’s books “Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde,” and “Futurism: A Very Short Introduction,” at The Remarque Institute, NYU, 12:30-2:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.

Nguyễn Duy Mạnh (artist), Anna Ting Möller (artist), and Jackson Polys (New Red Order), in conversation with Riley Yuen (curatorial fellow, MASS MoCA)and Christina Yang (curator), “Dirty and Disorderly: Contemporary Artists on Disgust,” at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.

– Conference, “A Vida Portuguesa: Portuguese Art and Design Symposium,” at Pratt Institute, 2:00-5:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

Josanne Francis, artist talk (part of the “Artists on Artworks” series), at The Met, 6:00-7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

Lois Elaine Griffith (artist) in conversation with Joseph Cáceres (Ph.D. Candidate, English, Graduate Center, CUNY), M.C. Kinniburgh (Granary Books), and Conley Lowrance (Granary Books), for the book launch of Griffith’s “You See What You See,” at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person. Registration required.

Sreshta Rit Premnath (artist) in conversation with Murtaza Vali (curator), “Knots, Props, and Holes” (in conjunction with the exhibition “mould the wing to match the photograph”), at Asia Art Archive in America, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.

Saturday March 8
Massiel Mafes in conversation with Nicole Calderón (Calderón Gallery), artist talk for the exhibition “The Color of Shadows,” at Dinner Gallery, 1:00pm. In-person. Registration required.