The Architect's Newspaper

DIARY

MAY
THURSDAY 1
LECTURES
Julie Nicoletta
Shaker Dwelling Houses:
The Architecture of
Order and Disorder
6:00 p.m.
Bard Graduate Center
38 West 86th St.
www.bgc.bard.edu

Vito Acconci
Recent Architecture and Directions in the Field
6:30 p.m.
New York City College
of Technology
Voorhees Building
186 Jay Street, Brooklyn
www.citytech.cuny.edu

EXHIBITION OPENINGS
AIA New York Chapter Design Awards and Building Type Awards
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Pl.
www.aiany.org

Rory Donaldson
Winkleman Gallery
637 West 27th St.
www.winkleman.com

Milton Resnick
Cheim & Read
547 West 25th St.
www.cheimread.com

FRIDAY 2
EXHIBITION OPENINGS
Philip Guston
Works on Paper
The Morgan Library
and Museum
225 Madison Ave.
www.themorgan.org

Adolph Gottlieb
PaceWildenstein
32 East 57th St.
www.pacewildenstein.com

SATURDAY 3
EXHIBITION OPENING
Katharina Fritsch
Roy McMakin
For
Matthew Marks Gallery
523 West 24th St.
www.matthewmarks.com

Robert Mapplethorpe
Polaroids
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave.
www.whitney.org

Rudolf Stingel
Paula Cooper Gallery
465 West 23rd St.
www.paulacoopergallery.com

SUNDAY 4
EXHIBITION OPENING
Alice Adams, Alice Aycock, et al.
Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers:
Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s
Michael Portnoy
Casino Ilinx
SculptureCenter
44-19 Purves St., Queens
www.sculpture-center.org

Waste Not, Want Not
Socrates Sculpture Park
Broadway at Vernon Blvd., Queens
www.socratessculpturepark.org

WEDNESDAY 7
LECTURE
Christopher Gray
The Most Beautiful Block in the World
11:00 a.m.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave.
www.metmuseum.org

EXHIBITION OPENING
Superheroes:
Fashion and Fantasy
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave.
www.metmuseum.org

SYMPOSIUM
Design Awards Winners’ Symposium:
Architecture Winners
Will Bruder et al.
6:00 p.m.
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Pl.
www.aiany.org

THURSDAY 8
LECTURES
Shigeru Ban,
Karen Van Lengen
Paper Houses and the Architecture of Disaster Relief
12:00 p.m.
National Building Museum
401 F St. NW,
Washington, D.C.
www.nbm.org

Lee Dae-hoon Francis
Museum as Hub
3:00 p.m.
New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery
www.newmuseum.org

Michael Webb
Two Journeys
6:30 p.m.
New York City College
of Technology
Voorhees Building
186 Jay Street, Brooklyn
www.citytech.cuny.edu

EXHIBITION OPENINGS
Walton Ford
Paul Kasmin Gallery
293 10th Ave.
www.paulkasmingallery.com

Ann Pibal
Steingrimur Eyfjord
Max Protetch Gallery
511 West 22nd St.
www.maxprotetch.com

FRIDAY 9
EXHIBITION OPENINGS
Alona Harpaz
Fields
Mika Rottenberg
Drawings
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
526 W. 26th St.
www.nicoleklagsbrun.com

Mark Di Suvero
Paula Cooper Gallery
534 West 21st St.
www.paulacoopergallery.com

SATURDAY 10
EXHIBITION OPENING
Nobuyoshi Araki
Araki Flowers
1018 ART
1018 Madison Ave.
www.1018art.net

EVENT
Community Grand Opening
11:30 a.m.
Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment
168 7th St., Brooklyn
www.bcue.org

MONDAY 12
EXHIBITION OPENING
Neo Rauch
David Zwirner Gallery
525 West 19th St.
www.davidzwirner.com

TUESDAY 13
EXHIBITION OPENINGS
Didier Fiuza Faustino
(G)host in the (S)hell
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare St.
www.storefrontnews.org

Sue de Beer, Matthew Higgs,
Matthew Ronay
Artists Using YouTube
The Kitchen
512 West 19th St.
www.thekitchen.org

THURSDAY 15
EXHIBITION OPENING
Anita Dube
Bose Pacia
508 West 26th St.
www.bosepacia.com

CONVENTION
AIA 2008 National Convention and Design Exposition
Through May 17
Boston
www.aiaconvention.com

SATURDAY 17
TRADE SHOW
International
Contemporary Furniture Fair
Through May 20
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
655 West 34th St.
www.icff.com

EVENTS
Home Design in New York
10:00 a.m.
Museum of the City of New York
1220 5th Ave.
www.mcny.org

Beaux Arts Ball 2008: Playtime
9:00 p.m.
275 Hudson St.
www.archleague.org

MONDAY 19
SYMPOSIUM
Design Awards Winners’ Symposium:
Interiors Winners
Paul Zajfen et al.
6:00 p.m.
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Pl.
www.aiany.org

TUESDAY 20
EVENTS
Seven to Save Endangered
Properties Program
6:00 p.m.
Eldridge Street Project
12 Eldridge St.
www.preservenys.org

Jazz is Life Community Dialogue:
Innovation & the Art of
Future Building
6:30 p.m.
Japan Society
333 East 47th St.
www.japansociety.org

HIGHLIGHTS

FREDERICK KIESLER:
CO-REALITIES
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
April 18 to July 24

kiesler

Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation

The first New York exhibition of Frederick Kiesler’s work in almost 20 years, Co-Realities presents over 30 drawings by the Austro-American architect, artist, designer, and theoretician that explore notions about the totality of experience and perception, as well as Kiesler’s radical ideas on the relationship between man, nature, and technology. His work as an exhibition designer provides a window into his distinctive philosophy. Study for exhibition design, Bloodflames 1947, depicts the broken outline of a man’s figure fading into an abstract gallery space with art covering the floor, ceiling, and walls, collapsing the boundaries between perceiving subject, architecture, and artwork. Kiesler is best known for his Endless House, and a small five-by-eight-inch pen drawing (above) portrays the curved biomorphic walls of this iconic work.

MOMENTUM 10:
RANJANI SHETTAR
The Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Avenue, Boston
Through July 13

shettar

Courtesy Talwar Gallery

Delicately floating above the gallery floor, Ranjani Shettar’s suspended sculpture appears to transcend the law of gravity. Organic in form, the sculpture is reminiscent of mushroom caps, soap bubbles, or multiplying cells, and is part of the museum’s Momentum series that examines new developments in contemporary art through emerging artists from the United States and around the world. Shettar, born and based in Bangalore, India, is the tenth artist to be exhibited in the series. Using both organic and manmade materials, Shettar constructed the sculpture on stainless steel armatures that have been wrapped in muslin and dipped in tamarind kernel powder. According to exhibition curator Emily Moore Brouillet, the artist fell in love with the beautiful natural light that poured into the 1,000-square-foot gallery space from the skylights, and conceived the idea for her piece Sun-sneezers blow light bubbles. The title references the phenomenon whereby people sneeze when exposed to bright light or the sun.

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