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EXHIBITIONS:

Crisis & Opportunity: Documenting the Global Recession
February 15–March 14
In the spirit of the Works Progress Administration’s photographic response to the Great Depression, SocialDocumentary.net presents the winners of their Global Recession photo essay competition.




John Bartelstone: The Brooklyn Navy Yard
March 18–May 2
Opening Reception and Book Signing Wednesday, March 24, 7–9 PM
The Brooklyn Navy Yard offers a quiet and striking look at the Yard as a time capsule of industrial New York. The Yard today is a fusion of the sublime and the practical, with eerie abandoned elements existing side-by-side with vibrant businesses. Bartelstone and Thomas Roma, head of the Photo Department of Columbia University, will discuss the project.

EVENTS:

6th Annual powerHouse Portfolio Review
Sunday, February 28, 7–9 PM
The powerHouse Portfolio Review event is a platform for all levels of aspiring and professional photographers to present their body of work to be reviewed and critiqued by leading experts in the fields of photgraphy, art, media, and advertising and to recieve guidance and mentoring for future artistic and commercial career development. for more information go to: www.powerhouseportfolioreview.com


A taste from Daily Candy

READINGS AND TALKS:

Colum McCann: Let the Great World Spin
Friday, February 26, 7–9PM
Colum McCann, the winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction will read, sign, and discuss his winning novel Let the Great World Spin. Don’t miss his only free reading in NYC.

Siri Hustvedt: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves Book Launch Party
Wednesday, March 10, 7–9 pm
Novelist Hustvedt has drawn from her own life as a device to talk about the history of psychology, neurology, and science in her new, autobiographical, nonfiction book. Hustvedt will be joined in discussion by Rita Charon of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia.

Mary Gaitskill: Don’t Cry Paperback Launch Party
Wednesday, March 17, 7–9 pm
Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories–her first in more than ten years. Don’t Cry reflects the profound enrichment of life experience with Gaitskill’s characteristic intensity. The launch will include a reading and discussion with her editor at Pantheon, Deb Garrison.

The Rush Foundation’s Full Spectrum Series Presents:
“The Griots”
Thursday, March 25, 7–9 pm
Photographers Tyrone Brown-Osborne and Jamel Shabazz, along with other panelists T.B.A., will discuss the ideas and experiences behind their work, and the call to present the complex story of a people. Moderated by photographer Alzo Slade.

Shawn Martinbrough: Luke Cage Noir
Premier Hardcover Launch and Signing
Thursday, April 1, 7–9 pm
Marvel Comics illustrator Shawn Martinbrough presents and signs Luke Cage Noir, a hardcover collection of issues 1–4 of his acclaimed miniseries starring Luke Cage as an ex-con on the mean streets of Prohibition-era Harlem.

Moby and Miyun Park: Gristle: From Factory Farms to
Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat)
Book Launch Party
Tuesday, April 6, 7–9 pm
In Gristle, vegan and multiplatinum recording artist Moby, has compiled writings from ten of the country’s leading food-minded folks, laying out a hard-hitting and eye-opening guide to the meat you eat. Both Moby and Park will be present to discuss and sign the book.

Norris Church Mailer: A Ticket to the Circus: A Memoir
Book Launch Party
Wednesday, April 7, 7–9 pm
Norris Church Mailer has gone from one wild adventure to the next, and she shares it all in her frank, deeply personal memoir. Pulitzer Prize winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will join Mailer in conversation.

Benjamin Black (a.k.a. John Banville): Elegy for April
Book Launch Party
Tuesday, April 20, 7–9 pm
Benjamin Black (the pen name of Man Booker Prize-winning John Banville), is the author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan and will be here to read from his absorbing new crime novel Elegy For April.

Adam Gallari: We Are Never As Beautiful As We Are Now
Book Launch Party
Saturday, April 24, 5–6 pm
Gallari’s debut collection, from Ampersand Books, offers a series of nine emotionally rich and incisive stories that follow characters grappling with the unanswerable question “What next?” He will be joined by fellow Ampersand author Joseph Riippi.

Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
NYC Paperback Release Party
Wednesday, April 28, 7–9 pm
Chart the adventures of genius adolescent cartographer T. S. Spivet (including a mythic wormhole, an underground hobo information network, and parts of life that are difficult to map) in this remarkable debut novel that defies comparison.