Calendar: Past Events
Events, Deadlines, & Info Sessions
March 2010
2010–11 Workspace Info Session
Mar 10
This information session is at capacity. If you have questions about Workspace or the Application Process, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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.
Workspace Works-in-Progress: Open Studios
Mar 7
Get a behind-the-scenes look at artists’ studios. Workspace, LMCC’s studio residency program is opening its doors for the first time this year. Meet the 20 emerging visual artists and 9 writers in their studio spaces and see the work they have been making since September. Residents are working in all media and genres in unique spaces generously donated by downtown real estate owners. Come see how LMCC is changing what it means to work Downtown.
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.”
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.
February 2010
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.
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.
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2010–11 Workspace Info Session
Feb 17
This information session is at capacity. If you have questions about Workspace or the Application Process, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
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.
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.
