PITCH SHEET — 5/10
Friends of the Review,
Happy Mother’s Day. We hope you’re enjoying Issue No. 11, which was sent out via e-mail on Saturday. In the meantime, your Issue No. 12 guest editors, Phillip Denny and Carolyn Bailey, continue to receive your untimely reviews and reports on current events. Keep them coming. Have an idea? Get in touch: Phillip Denny (pdenny@g.harvard.edu) and Carolyn Bailey (cabailey@g.harvard.edu).
Here’s what’s happening this week —
On Sunday…
5/10
1:30 PM Foil: Architecture Chats hosts Alison von Glinow and Lap Chi Kwong, of Kwong von Glinow Design Office, for an informal discussion via Instagram Live. Foil: Architecture Chats is a project of Mark Acciari and Waqas Jawaid. The program can be accessed by logging on to Instagram and visiting one of the following profiles: @kwongvonglinow or @waqas__jawaid
On Monday...
5/11
7:00 PM The Glass House presents an online lecture by Fritz Horstman on the Bauhaus textile designer and artist Anni Albers.
On Tuesday…
5/12
2:00 PM Cooper Hewitt hosts “Creating a Bright Tomorrow: Design Education for a New Sustainable World,” a conversation with Harriet Harriss, Gita Nandan, Maria Vollas, and Claire Weisz; moderated by Susan Szenasy.
7:00 PM The penultimate talk in Cooper Union’s Spring 2020 IDS Lecture Series, “Hello Darknuss: The Radical Black Futurist Imagination vs. Slavery, Inc.,” will be delivered by writer and cultural theorist Greg Tate.
On Wednesday…
5/13
12:30 PM Hop on Zoom to join the Central Park Conservancy for a brief walk through the Ramble.
4:00 PM Join Open House New York for Sarah Henry: On History, as part of their (virtual) Conversations on the City series. Henry was the curator of Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis, a 2018 exhibition dealing with the “complex history of infectious disease and epidemic outbreaks in New York City”.
6:30 PM Museum of the City of New York hosts “The City We Became: A Conversation with N.K. Jemisin”, where the Nebula and Hugo-Award winning sci-fi author will discuss her latest novel with Brooklyn-based activist and organizer Whitney Hu.
On Thursday…
5/14
Time TBA. MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, introduces the online exhibition Virtual Views: Neri Oxman, with a live Q&A and conversation between senior curator Paola Antonelli and Neri Oxman, professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab.
7:00 PM Mark Foster Gage will deliver a lecture titled “Architecture and the Aesthetics of Reality” on Zoom, followed by a live Q&A.
On Friday…
5/15
11:00 AM Friedman Benda hosts a virtual conversation between Darrin Alfred (Denver Art Museum), Monica Obniski (High Museum of Art), and Bobbye Tigerman (LACMA) as part of their Design in Dialogue series. (Friedman Benda will host architecture critic Alexandra Lange on May 20th.)
6:30 PM The Center for Architecture hosts Cocktails & Conversation: Architecture Research Office and Mark Lamster. Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. This special program will have the leadership of Architecture Research Office share their favorite, home-crafted cocktails with Mark Lamster of the Dallas Morning News.
Ongoing…
Cooper Union is hosting the online exhibitions: An Ideal View: City Plans Without Cities (until June 21); and Postcards from Under New York: Hudson & Manhattan Railroad.
Have a great week,
Phillip & Carolyn