January 19, 2011
Woolworth, Governors Island on free lecture series list
Some of downtown’s most exclusive’s spaces will be opened up for free, brief public access starting tonight as the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council begins a new season of its Wednesday lecture series.
The “Access Restricted: Lower Manhattan Revealed” series begins tonight on the 45th Floor of World Trade Center 7, with later excursions scheduled for the Woolworth Building and off-season access to Governors Island.
Tonight’s WTC 7 event — a conversation between Clifford Chanin and Steven Davis on “Cultural Memory” — has maxed out on its reservations, but all remaining events open for reservations about a week in advance. The schedule for 2011:
Feb. 2 at 6:30 p.m.
195 Broadway, former AT&T Building, between Fulton and Dey Streets
Topic: “Actions: What You Can Do With the City”
A curatorial talk by Giovanna Borasi, Curator of Contemporary Architecture and Mirko Zardini, Director, both from The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal
RSVP goes live Tuesday, Jan. 25 at noon
Feb. 9 at 6:30 p.m.
The Woolworth Building
Topic: “Unbuilding New York”
Journalist and author Jeff Byles (Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition) interviews Michael Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program, City College of New York, and Principal, Michael Sorkin Studio
RSVP goes live Tuesday, Feb, 1 at noon
March 9 at 6:30 p.m.
Seaport Museum New York
Topic: “Make History Now”
A conversation between Greg Sholette, artist, author, activist, co-founder, REPOhistory and Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Queens College, New York, and John Kuo Wei Tchen, public historian, dumpster diver, co-founder of the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas and Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Gallatin School, NYU, moderated by Frederick Kaufman, Professor at City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism
RSVP goes live Tuesday, March 1 at noon
March 23 at 6:30 p.m.
Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education, CUNY, 25 Broadway, 7th Floor Auditorium
Topic: “Screening: Mixed Use, Manhattan”
Douglas Crimp, author, art historian, and Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester introduces an evening of films by artists Joan Jonas, Gordon Matta-Clark, James Nares, and Charles Simonds
RSVP goes live Tuesday, March 15 at noon
April 13 at noon
Pershing Hall, Governors Island; Free luncheon and ferry access are provided.
Topic: “The Lenape: Lower New York’s First Inhabitants”
Lecture by Dr. David M. Oestreicher, curator (In Search of the Lenape: The Delaware Indians, Past and Present), lecturer, consultant, and independent scholar
RSVP goes live Tuesday, April 5 at noon
Picture credit: The Woolworth Building as seen during an openhousenewyork tour. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology.
Earlier: Behind-the-scenes legal views with Access Restricted
Out on the balcony at 14 Wall St. for Access Restricted
From atop Chase-Manhattan, debating the NYC brand
In Bank of New York’s Red Room for Access Restricted
The views from atop the rebuilt 7 World Trade Center
Inside the Woolworth Building with OpenHouse NY
January 19, 2011 4:53 PM in Architecture, Cheap Stuff, Downtown, History, Sightsology
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