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Events Calendar: March 30, 2005

• GreenHome NYC FUNdraiser
  • We Help New York City's Buildings Go Green: a night of live music, comedy, and spirits at our Spring FUNdraiser Event! The musical line-up includes Motico, New York The Band, Dutch Kills, and Kara Suzanne.
  • March 31st, 2005, from 6-10pm
  • Galapagos [ 70 N Sixth St , Brooklyn , b/w Wythe & Kent Avenues] Price: $10 at the door

• Designing a Sustainable Business Model: Ray Anderson & David Oakey
  • Ray Anderson (Interface: Flor, too) and David Oakey discuss the use of innovative methods such as biomimicry in the development of sustainable and financially successful products. Event is co-sponsored by Metropolis
  • April 6, 2005
  • The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave., New York. (212) 817-8215; http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp

• IDSA's Northeast District Conference 2005
  • The Beyond... Conference promises to address, head on, the crossroads the Industrial Design profession is at today.
  • April 8-9, 2005
  • Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn

• Sustainable Cities: Jaime Lerner
  • Jaime Lerner, President of the International Union of Architects and former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil and Governor of Parana, Brazil, gives this year's Annual Michael Kalil Lecture on Natural/Technological Systems. Event is co-sponsored by Metropolis .
  • April 6, 2005
  • The New School, 66 West 12th St., New York. (212) 817-8215; http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
    

 

Art

• Rex Ray
  • Meet lauded visual artist and graphic designer Rex Ray (www.rexray.com) and view his newest collage and resin works
  • Wednesday, March 30, from 7:30 to 9:30pm.
  • DWR Upper East Side Studio, 27 East 62nd Street (rsvp to e62nd@dwr.com)

• Eliot Shepard
  • Slower: New Photographs of NYC's visual landscape
  • Through 4/30
  • Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring Street (212.219.0166)

• Bill Schwab
  • New Photographs: Urban Landscapes - Beautiful black & whites
  • Ongoing
  • Meter Gallery Online

• Basquiat
  • We hear this is a damn good show and that Basquiat's art is still hot - proof that he wasn't just a flash in the pan. NY Mag says: "it catches the messy energy of the artist in his moment"
  • Through June 5, 2005
  • Brooklyn Museum

• Patricia McDonough
  • New Photographs: Air
  • Through April 30, 2005
  • Robin Rice Gallery, 325 West 11th Street (212.366.6660)

• Tim Hawkinson at The Whitney
  • "One of America's most singular and inventive sculptors," Tim Hawkinson is remarkable. This is "the first major museum survey of this West Coast artist known for his kinetic and sound-producing sculptures"
  • February 11 – May 29
  • 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street (800.WHITNEY)