Monday, March 31
– Keisha Scarville in conversation with Makeda Best (Oakland Museum of California), in conjunction with Scarville’s show “Passports 2012-2025” at Higher Pictures, 1:00pm. The Brooklyn Rail. Online. Registration required.
– Lydia Kallipoliti (Architectural History, Columbia), “Open House Lecture,” at Columbia GSAPP, 6:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– David France (filmmaker), “Surviving A Plague: Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS” (in conjunction with the exhibitions “WITNESS” and “TO LOVE-TO DIE; TO FIGHT. TO LIVE. Art and Activism in the Time of AIDS”), at the School of Visual Arts, 6:30-8:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Tuesday, April 1
– Zheming (Taro) Cai (Ph.D. Candidate, History of Architecture, University of Toronto), “Mediating Knowledge and Practice: The Architectural Production of the Astor Chinese Garden Court,” and Joy Zhu (Ph.D. Candidate, Architecture, UCLA), “On the Photographic Circulation of “Dragon Fossils” (part of the “DocTalks” series), at MoMA, 10:00am-12:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– David Altemejd in conversation with Jason Rosenfeld, “The Serpent” (in conjunction with Altemejd’s show at White Cube), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Beatrice Glow, artist talk, at the School of Visual Arts, 3:00-5:00pm. In-person.
– Yana van Dyke (conservator, The Met), “Met Expert Talks—Ink and Ivory: Indian Drawings and Photographs Selected with James Ivory,” at The Met, 3:00-3:45pm. In-person. Registration recommended. (Please note this event is free with museum admission.)
– Adam McEwen (artist), Sarah K. Rich (Art History, Penn State), and Stanley Whitney (artist) in conversation, for the book launch of “Donald Judd 1957-1963,” at Judd Foundation (co-hosted by Gagosian), 6:00-7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Candida Alvarez (artist) and Allison Glenn (curator) in conversation, “Sunny,” at New York Studio School, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person and online. Registration required for online attendance.
– Svitlana Biedarieva (art historian)and Ksenia Nouril (MoMA) in conversation, “Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance” (a book talk on the development of art practices in Ukraine), at The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 6:30-8:00pm.In-person.
Wednesday, April 2
– Conference, “Listenings: A Convening” (an event considering the question, “How can a score be a call and a tool for decolonization?”), at The Graduate Center, CUNY (co-hosted by Independent Curators International), 10:30am-6:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Sara Cwynar, “Henry Wolf Chair in Photography Artist Talk,” at The Cooper Union, 6:00-7:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Maen Hammad (photographer) in conversation with Roï Saade (publisher), “Landing” (a book on Palestinian skateboarders in the West Bank), at Printed Matter Chelsea, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.
– Martine Syms (artist), “On Walter De Maria” (part of the “Artists on Artists Lecture Series), at Dia Chelsea, 6:30-7:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Rosa-Johan Uddoh (artist), “Pantomime, Performance Art, and Black Feminism,” at Amant, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Thursday, April 3
– Evan Neely (Art History, Pratt), “The Logic of Diagrams and the Illogic of Vision: Russell and Fry, Peirce and Obscurity,” at Pratt Institute, 12:00-1:00pm. Registration required.
– Lindsay C. Harris (Recess) in conversation with Theodore Kerr, “Common Ground” (on the abolitionist arts organization Recess), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Conference, “The Institute of Fine Arts and The Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art,” at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1:00-6:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Zeynep Gürsel (Anthropology, Rutgers), “Met Expert Talks—Jesse Krimes: Corrections,” at The Met, 3:00-3:35pm. In-person. Registration recommended. (Please note this event is free with museum admission.)
– Despina Stratigakos (Architectural History, University of Buffalo), “A Collaborative (Re)turn: Feminist Architectural Historians Join Forces and Get Things Done (Again)” (part of the “Sciame Lecture Series”) at The City College of New York, 5:30-7:00pm. In-person.
– Michala Palermo (art book publisher), “In the Cracks at the Margins: A Presentation of Palermo Publishing,” at Printed Matter Chelsea, 6:00-8:00pm. In-person.
– Tobias Frere-Jones (type designer), artist talk, “Of Subways & Offsides” (part of the “Herb Lubalin Lecture Series”), at The Cooper Union, 6:30-8:00pm. In-person Registration recommended
– Jack Halberstam (Humanities, Columbia), “Anarchitecture After Everything,” at e-flux, 7:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
Friday, April 4
_ Veronica Ryan in conversation with María Elena Ortiz (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth), “Unruly Objects” (in conjunction with Ryan’s show at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis), at The Brooklyn Rail, 1:00pm. Online. Registration required.
– Conference, “The Institute of Fine Arts and The Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art,” at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 2:30-6:00pm. In-person and online. Registration required.
– Steve McQueen (artist) and Paul Gilroy (Emeritus, Humanities, UCL) in conversation, in conjunction with McQueen’s exhibitions at Dia Chelsea and Dia Beacon, at The Graduate Center, CUNY (presented with the Dia Foundation), 7:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Lonnie Holley (artist), performance dialogue and book signing, at Artists Space, 7:00pm. In-person.
– Jennifer Franklin (poet), “On Caspar David Friedrich” (part of the “Artists on Artworks” series), at The Met, 7:00-7:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended. (Please note this event is free with museum admission.)
Saturday, April 5
– Conference, “The 31st Annual Parsons / Cooper Hewitt Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote & Graduate Student Symposium,” at The New School, 11:00am-4:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended.
– Olivia Ann Breibart (MODA Curates Fellow, Wallach Art Gallery) and Rachel Adams (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia) in conversation, in conjunction with the exhibition “Traces of Care” and Adams’s upcoming book “Love, Money, Duty,” at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University (in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center Presentation Room), 1:00-2:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
Sunday, April 6
– Steffani Jemison (artist)and Zoë Hopkins (MODA Curates Fellow, Wallach Art Gallery) in conversation, in conjunction with the exhibition Wayward Signs, at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University (in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center Presentation Room), 1:00-2:00pm. In-person. Registration required.
– Gail Rothschild (artist), “On the Heroes Tapestries” (part of the “Artists on Artworks” series), at The Met Cloisters, 2:00-3:00pm. In-person. Registration recommended. (Please note this event is free with museum admission.)
– francisco godoy vega and Camilo Godoy in conversation, artist talk, “Corpografías Anticoloniales” (in conjunction with the exhibition “ficciones patógenas”), at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, 2:00-3:30pm. In-person. Registration recommended.