Events and Openings this week

Photo related Events and openings in NYC this week and beyond:
(This info is from the DART list - Design Arts Daily-by Peggy Roalf.)

Tuesday, January 25 & Wednesday, January 26, 2:00 pm: Women’s Studio Workshop Artists Panel and Curators Talk on Artist Books. Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, NY, NY. Free.

Wednesday, January 26, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception for Ex Libris, books by 26 artists including Ed Ruscha, Chris Ware, Maira Kalman, Chip Kidd, Charles Burns, and Ruth Marten, among others. Adam Baumgold Gallery, 60 East 66th Street, NY, NY.

Wednesday, January 26, 7:00 pm: The Architectural League presents Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP Architects, Out of Practice, Current Work. The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street. Tickets, $15 for non-members, can be purchased on January 26th.

Wednesday, January 26, 7:00-10:00 pm: Launch party for Cousin Corinne, Issue Number Two. Bookcourt, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Wednesday, January 26, 6:00: Princeton Architectural Press presents Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 70s, with Jonathan Lippincott and Robert Murray. New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwartzman Building, Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, 2nd floor, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, NY, NY. Free; doors open at 5:30.

Wednesday, January 26, 11:00 am-6:00 pm: Opening day for Mark Power: The Sound of Two Songs and The Shipping Forecast. Amador Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, 6th Floor NY, NY.

Wednesday, January 26, 11:00 am-6:00 pm: Opening day for George Condo: Mental States. New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY, NY.

Wednesday, January 26, 10:00 am-5:00 pm: Opening day for Book and Editorial Annual Exhibition at Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NY, NY. Save the date for the Awards Ceremony and reception: February 4th, 6:00 pm. Admission: $30/$35/$20. RSVP or 212.38.2560.

Thursday, January 27, 6:30 pm: Museum off the City of New York presents historian Linda Gordon, author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (W.W. Norton, 2009) discussing the role gender played in Americans’ response to the economic crisis of the 1030s. RSVP or 917-492-3395 for special half-price tickets ($6) for DART subscribers. Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, January 27: Opening day for Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan. China Institute Gallery, 125 East 68th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, January 27, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening reception and book signing for Mark Seliger: Listen. Steven Kasher Gallery, 521 West 23rd Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, January 27, 7:00-8:30: Opening reception for Gathered: A Solo Exhibition of Work by Lorna Simpson. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY.

Thursday, January 27, 6:00-8:00 pm: Prototypes: The Experimental Typography of Andrew Byrom. Type Directors Club, 347 W. 36th St, #603, NY, NY. Tickets Free/$20/$15. RSVP or 212-633-8943.

Thursday, January 27, 7:00 pm: Roundtable conversation about the photographs of 2010. Panelists include Chris Boot, Executive Director, Aperture Foundation; W.M. Hunt, curator of exhibition currently on View; Susie Linfield, author and social critic; Stephen Mayes, Director, VII Photo; Jamie Wellford, Senior Photo Editor, Newsweek. VII Gallery, 28 Jay Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY. Free with RSVP.

Friday, January 28, 6:30 pm: The Center for Book Arts presents History of Art Series: Book Arts Collaborations, with Mary Ann Caws and Raphael Rubenstein. The Center for Book Arts, 28 W. 27th St., 3rd Floor, NY, NY. Free, suggested donation $5/$10.

Friday, January 28, 11:00 am – 10:00 pm: Opening day for Body Language: The Yogis of India and Nepal, photographs by Thomas Kelly. Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, NY, NY.

Friday, January 28, 10:30 am-8:00 pm: Opening Day for Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY.

Friday, January 28, 10:00 am-6:00 pm: Opening Day for an exhibition of vintage photo booth strips, "drugstore" prints, and uniquely captioned prints by renowned poet Allen Ginsberg. Howard Greenberg Gallery, 41 East 57th Street, Suite 1406, NY, NY. Save the date: February 8, from 6:00-8:00pm for a reception and lecture.

Saturday, January 29, 3:00 pm: Artist talk with Thomas Kelly in conjunction with the photography exhibition Body Language: The Yogis of India and Nepal, Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, NY, NY. Tickets $12/Free. Note: RMAs popular Brainwave Series continues, starting in February.

Wednesday, February 2, 7:00 pm: Albert Watson launches Spring Photographers Lecture Series at the International Center of Photography School, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY. Tickets, $15 at the door.

Thursday, February 3, 6:00-8:00 pm: Opening Reception for O. Winston Link: The Last Steam Railroad in America. Robert Mann Gallery, 210 Eleventh Avenue (Between 24th-25th Streets, FL 10), NY, NY.

Thursday, February 3, 6:30-8:30 pm: Opening reception for Cartoon Polymaths, featuring multimedia work by Winsor McCay, Saul Steinberg, Richard McGuire, Paper Rad and more. Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons the New School for Design. 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, February 3, 7:00 pm: Art In the First Person presents Joe Fig: Inside the Painter’s Studio. School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23 Street, 3rd-floor amphitheater, NY, NY. Free; please have photo ID to enter the building.

Thursday, February 3, 6:00-8:00pm: Opening reception for Jim Campbell: 4 Works. Hosfelt Gallery, 531 W 36th Street. NY. NY.

Thursday, February 3, 6:30 pm: Lecture by Professor Marc Nichanian of Sabanci University, Turkey in conjunction with the exhibition Blind Dates: New Encounters from the Edges of a Former Empire. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, NY, NY.

Friday, February 4, 1:30 pm: Gallery talk with Molleen Theodore on Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. Meet at 2nd floor Atrium. Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, NY, NY. Free with museum admission.