Calendar
Upcoming Events, Deadlines, & Info Sessions
February 10, 2010
Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space
SoukJin Park: pink ribbon Open House
Feb 10–12
Korean-born visual artist SoukJin Park has spent the last two months in the LMCC Project Space developing pink ribbon, a sculptural installation and photography project exploring themes of innocence, sexuality, beauty, and absurdity. SoukJin will open her studio for visitors, and will present a durational performance during the artist's reception. No RSVP necessary.
February 11, 2010
Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space
SoukJin Park: pink ribbon Open House
Feb 10–12
Korean-born visual artist SoukJin Park has spent the last two months in the LMCC Project Space developing pink ribbon, a sculptural installation and photography project exploring themes of innocence, sexuality, beauty, and absurdity. SoukJin will open her studio for visitors, and will present a durational performance during the artist's reception. No RSVP necessary.
February 12, 2010
Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space
SoukJin Park: pink ribbon Open House
Feb 10–12
Korean-born visual artist SoukJin Park has spent the last two months in the LMCC Project Space developing pink ribbon, a sculptural installation and photography project exploring themes of innocence, sexuality, beauty, and absurdity. SoukJin will open her studio for visitors, and will present a durational performance during the artist's reception. No RSVP necessary.
Event | Artist Residencies – Swing Space
pink ribbon Reception and Performance
Feb 12
Korean-born visual artist SoukJin Park has spent the last two months in the LMCC Project Space developing pink ribbon, a sculptural installation and photography project exploring themes of innocence, sexuality, beauty, and absurdity. SoukJin will open her studio for visitors, and will present a durational performance during the artist's reception. No RSVP necessary.
February 17, 2010
February 18, 2010
Event | Arts Services – Workshop Series
Art After Law: Legal Issues and Artistic Projects
Feb 18
How does law affect the making of art, and can art change the making of law? In this workshop, artist and lawyer Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento will talk about the interrelation between art and law. By focusing on his own art project which explores art and law, Clancco.com, Sarmiento will speak about the most common legal issues that arise in the implementation of art projects, including the most recent and controversial legal cases affecting the art world. Copyright and trademarks, right of privacy, contractual agreements and legal issues related to artist websites will be covered.
February 24, 2010
Event | Cultural Programs – Access Restricted
Access Restricted: “Rethinking America’s Drug Policy”
Feb 24
Featured speaker: John Donohue III, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Professor Donohue, an economist/lawyer, will take up a vexing yet pragmatic question: are the gains reaped by decriminalizing illicit drug laws worth the cost of potentially increasing drug addiction at-large? This lecture will take place where New York City’s law making body meets, a room in which they have considered various legislations, including drug regulations.
Free RSVP required; reservations available on February 16 at 12PM.
March 2, 2010
Event | Cultural Programs – Poems & Pints
Poems & Pints: Meena Alexander & John Burnside
Mar 2
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Poetry Society of America present Poems & Pints, six evenings with premier American poets at the historic Fraunces Tavern in downtown New York City. Each evening, two poets read their own work and favorite poems by others.
Admission to all readings is free and open to the public as capacity allows.
March 5, 2010
Event | Cultural Programs – Access Restricted
Access Restricted: “The Aesthetics of the Contract and the Contract of Aesthetics”
Mar 5
Featured speaker: Daniel McClean
Daniel McClean, a curator/lawyer, will discuss legal contracts from two perspectives: how Post-Conceptual artists use the medium of the contract to create artworks, and how lawyers create contracts and the role that aesthetics might play in their construction and interpretation. The Association of the Bar of the City of New York is housed in an elegant historic landmark seated on “Clubhouse Row.”
RSVP required; reservations available on February 25 at 12PM
March 10, 2010
Event | Cultural Programs – Access Restricted
Access Restricted: “The Law of Violence in No Country for Old Men”
Mar 10
Featured speaker: Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is the Associate Director for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) in New York City, and is an Adjunct Instructor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School. Playing off a typical form of law school pedagogy, Sarimento will lead a class-room debate on the ethical implications inherent in Ethan & Joel Coen’s filmic adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men from within a mock court room theater.
Free RSVP required; reservations available on March 2 at 12PM
March 25, 2010
Deadline | Artist Residencies – Workspace
Workspace 2010–11 Applications Due
Mar 25
Workspace is a nine-month studio residency program for emerging visual artists and writers focused on the creative process. Residents receive free studio space in Lower Manhattan for nine months, a modest one-time stipend (depending on funding), access to a community of peers, meetings and studio visits with arts and literary professionals, and exposure to new audiences through open studios and other public programs.
March 31, 2010
Event | Cultural Programs – Access Restricted
Access Restricted: “A New Era in Sentencing?”
Mar 31
Featured speaker: Douglas Berman, William B. Saxbe Designated Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University
Professor Berman, co-author of a leading casebook, Sentencing Law and Policy and managing editor of the Federal Sentencing Reporter and the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, will present various alternatives to sentencing guidelines from within a landmarked centerpiece of New York’s trial courthouses.
Free RSVP required; reservations available on March 23 at 12PM
April 6, 2010
Event | Cultural Programs – Poems & Pints
Poems & Pints: Joanna Klink & Carol Muske-Dukes
Apr 6
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Poetry Society of America present Poems & Pints, six evenings with premier American poets at the historic Fraunces Tavern in downtown New York City. Each evening, two poets read their own work and favorite poems by others.
Admission to all readings is free and open to the public as capacity allows.
April 14, 2010
Event | Cultural Programs – Access Restricted
Access Restricted: “Intellectual Property in the Age of Digital Reproduction”
Apr 14
A panel featuring Sonia Katyal, Alfred Steiner, Andrew Ross, and Virginia Rutledge, moderated by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento.
A lively roundtable debate between practicing lawyers, legal theorists, and a sociologist on who owns what and what is really at stake when creative production is regulated through the structures of property rights. Overlooking Ground Zero and featuring extensive views of New York Harbor, this conference room not only affords visitors the chance to literally have a “seat at the table” but also features breathtaking vistas.
Free RSVP required; reservations available on April 6 at 12PM.
April 28, 2010
Event | Cultural Programs – Access Restricted
Access Restricted: “Re-presentations and Identities: Depicting Justice in Courts”
Apr 28
Featured speaker: Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
This discussion, based on the forthcoming book, Representing Justice: From Nascent City-States to Guantanamo Bay (by Judith Resnik and Dennis E. Curtis, Yale Press, 2010), will examine the deployment of images, across time and place, aiming to identify buildings as courts and courts as about justice. The setting will be one of the jewels of “The City Beautiful Movement,” an elaborately decorated courthouse, which is featured in Resnik’s book as one of the several sites in which early 20th-century choices of images prompted conflict, and in this case, the removal of one of the statues on the court’s rooftop.
Free RSVP required; reservations available on April 20 at 12PM
