Art Fairs

November 8-16 Foto DC. Various locations. Information.

Thursday, November 13 - Sunday, November 16 Paris Photo. Grand Palais, Paris. Information. L'Oeil reportage.

Friday, November 14 - Sunday, November 16 Fotofever. Corousel du Louvre, Paris. Information.

Special Events

Thursday, November 13 2014 Benefit Reverse Auction | Buy What You Love | Rema Hort Mann Foundation. Bosi Contemporary, 48 Orchard Street, NY, NY. RSVP.

Friday, November 14, 6:30 pm Reading/performance: Richard Minsky | Notes. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^th Street, 3^rdFloor, NY, NY.

Online 2014 Slideluck Benefit Auction. Honoring Hank Willis Thomas. Works by more than 30 contemporary artists. Catalogue.

Friday, November 14-Saturday, November 15 Creative Time Summit X Digital Lab. In collaboration with Public Art Agency Sweden. The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, 66 West 12^th Street, Various locations, NY, NY. Information. More events at Vera List.

© James Welling, Two Trees, 2010, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery. There is a book signing for Mind on Fire next Monday at Dashwood Books.

Talks/Discussions/Workshops

Monday, November 10-Friday, November 14 Steve Brodner, illustrator, artist, journalist, teacher, and all-around graphic provocateur, is this week’s SPD Grids Guest Editor. Read on.

Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 pm The Public Art Fund Talks presents, 6:30-8 pm: Sam Falls. The New School, 12^th Street Auditorium, 66 West 12^th Street, NY, NY. Information. More events at Parsons The New School for Design, The New School, and The Public Art Fund.

Wednesday, November 12, 6-7 pm Dan Jay | Archemy: At the Interface Between Art and Science. The Cooper Union, The Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, NY, NY. More events at The Cooper Union.

Wednesday, November 12, 7 pm Jean-Pierre Laffont. The School at ICP, Shooting Studio, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, NY, NY.Tickets More events at ICP.

Thursday, November 13, 7 pm Anthony Fuller and Katie Murray | in conversation with Joseph Maida. Baxter St/Camera Club of New York, 126 Baxter Street, NY, NY. More events at Baxter St/Camera Club.

Thursday, November 13, 7 pm Panel discussion: What Was and Is | Indexicality, Pop and Anti-Pop, and More. David Lewis Gallery, 88 Eldridge Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, November 13, 7 pm David Levi Strauss | Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow. California College of the Arts, Timken Lecture Hall, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA.

Saturday, November 15 4-5 pm: Artist talk/reception/arm wrestling, Matthew Miller. Hansel & Gretel/Pocket Utopia, 511 West 21^stStreet, NY, NY.

Saturday, November 15 Panel discussion: The Power of Natural History | Lukas Rieppel, Richard Barnes, Hugh Hayden and Lori Nix. Information. Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY. Directions.

Saturday, November 15 NOLA presents: Mary Virginia Swanson | Your Exhibition, The Venue, and It’s Audience. Cathedral Creative Studios, 527 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA. More events at the New Orleans Photo Alliance, NOLA.

Sunday, November 16, 10am-7 pm S4AD | Software for Artists Day. Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, NY. [Red Hook].Tickets. More events at Pioneer Works

© Margaret Morton, title, from Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyszstan

Book Events

Wednesday, November 12, Slide lecture, book signing, 7-8:30 pm Margaret Morton | Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyszstan, new location: St. Mark’s Bookstore, 136 East 3^rd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Wednesday, November 12 Lionel Delevigne | To the Village Square: From Montague to Fukushima 1975-2014. The Salamagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.

Saturday, November 15, 6-8 pm Reception and book signing, Hiroshi Watanabi | The Day the Dam Collapses. Kopeikin Gallery, 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.o

Monday, November 17, 6-8 pm James Welling | The Mind on Fire. Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, NY, NY. Information.

Exhibitions, Book Arts

Behind the Personal Library: Collectors Creating the Canon; Richard Minsky | Notes. The Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27^thStreet, 3rd floor, NY, NY. Through December 20, 2014.

Odd Volumes| Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection. Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Church Street, New Haven, CT. Through February 2, 2015. Information.

Doug Beube | Emendation. Beube Studio, 69 Fort Green Place, Brooklyn, NY. By appointment through November. Information.

© Chris Hadfield, San Francisco, taken from the International Space Station. Available at the Slideluck benefit auction.

Exhibitions, Photography

Tuesday, November 11 Josef Koudelka | Naitonality Doubtful. The J. Paul Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA.

Wednesday, November 12 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Social Photography IV | Jeffrey Eugenides, B. Wurtz, Julia Wachtel, Julien Bismuth, Joshua Decte. Carriage Trade @ Emily Harvey Foundation, 537 Broadway, NY, NY.

Wednesday, November 12 Opening reception, 7-9 pm: Steven Hirsch | Gowanus: Off the Water’s Surface. Lilac Gallery, 144 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY.

Thursday, November 13, 6-8 pm Opening reception: Martin Schoeller | Portraits. Hastead Kraeutler, 537 West 24^th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, November 13 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Arthur Elgort | The Big Picture. Staley-Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway, NY, NY.

Thursday, November 13, 6-9 Opening reception: Well Read | Visual Explorations of the Book. Photo Center NW, 900 12^th Avenue, Seattle, WA.

Saturday, November 15, 6-9 pm Opening reception: Midras | Contemporary Mexican Photographers. Bronx Documentary Center , 614 CourtlandtAvenue, at 151^st Street, Bronx, NY.

Saturday, November 15, 5-7 pm Opening reception: Home Grown | Fellowship recipients. The Center for Photography at Woodstock, 59 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY.

Saturday, November 15, 6-9 pm Opening reception Chris Anthony | Seas Without a Shore - wet plate collodian prints. Spot Photo Works, 6679 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.

Sunil Gupta | Out and About: New York and New Delhi. SepiaEye, 547 West 27 Street, #608, NY, NY. Through December 20.

Becoming Disfarmer. Neuberger Museum at Purchase College, SUNY. 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchse, NY. Through March 22, 2015. Information.

Blue Sky | The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40. Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR. Through January 11, 2015.

© Lorna Simpson, Untitled (Ebony and Jet 3), 2012-2013 (detail); work from this series is included in an exhibition opening this week at The Studio Museum in Harlem.

Exhibitions, All Other Media

Tuesday, November 11 Artists’ reception, 6-8 pm: We Tell Stories | 30^th Anniversary of the MFA in Illustration as Visual Essay Exhibition. SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26^th Street, NY, NY. More exhibitions/events at SVA.

Thursday, November 13, 6-8 pm Opening reception: Sean Landers | North American Mammals. Petzel Gallery, 458 West 18^th Street, NY, NY.
Thursday, November 13, 6-8 pm Opening reception: Keith Haring. Pace Prints, 521 West 26th Street, NY, NY.

Thursday, November 13 Opening day: Speaking of People | Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art. The Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125^th Street, NY, NY.

Saturday, November 15 Opening day: Unwavering Truth | Archive of Our Own. Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows, NY.

Sunday, November 16 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Noam Rappaport. James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, NY, NY.

Sunday, November 16 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Michelle Lopez | Banner Year. Simon Preston, 301 Broome Street, NY, NY.

Canstruction | City Harvest Benefit. Brookfield Place Winter Garden & 250 Vesey Street Lobby, World Financial Center, NY, NY.Through November 20. Free/donate one can of food/visitor. Information.

Zurtopia | Curated by Austin Thomas. Galerie Zürcher, 33 Bleecker Street, NY, NY. Through November 20.

Keith Haring, Retrospect, 1989. ©  The Keith Haring Foundation.