Apartment Therapy New York | Weekly Events Calendar: 10.19.05

Art & Design Events...

It's Fall Colors Month at AT with an I've Got Color Contest (contest page is up!)--Show us your most colorful room, provide tips and resources for readers to follow, and you could win a hefty prize courtesy of CB2!

Housing Works Thrifts 10th Street Grand Opening Event
- 100% of the profits from this store go towards fighting HIV/AIDS and Homelessness
- October 25th, 6-9pm
- October 31st--Come in costume...get 10% off! Bring a dog in costume... get 20% off and they get free dog treats...all day!!
- Every Sunday through winter--partake in free baked goods from local bakeries
- 245 W. 10th St. (hudson/bleecker) 212.352.1618

Introduction to Sustainability
- All-day intensive seminar
- October 22nd, 9am-5pm
- $100, to register, 212.817.8215
- The Graduate Center, CUNY. 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets

Pointed Leaf Press book signing and launch party
- book launch for Class Act William Haines: Legendary Hollywood Decorator
- October 20th, 6-8pm
- Bergdorf Goodman, 7th floor 212.535.1086

Sunset Park: The Old Neighborhood
- Joe Svehlak, an urban historian who grew up in Sunset Park in the 1940s and 1950s, leads a Municipal Arts Society walking tour
- Saturday, October 22, 10:30 a.m.
- Meet at the N.E. corner of 43rd St. and 4th Ave. (Transit: R train to 45th St. station.)

Literary New York: Edith Wharton's New York
- Architectural Historian, Francis Morrone leads a Municipal Arts Society walking tour
- Sunday, October 23, Walk 2, 11:00 a.m.
- Meet at the point of the Flatiron Building, 23rd St. where Fifth Ave. and Broadway intersect
- Reservations requested: 212.935.3960

Sotheby’s sale of English furniture and decorations
- October 21st, 10:15am
- York Ave. at 72nd St. 212.606.7000

First Annual Dog Day Masquerade
- Participants don costumes in three categories: historical hounds, canine characters and Broadway bow-wows.
- October 23rd, 1-3pm
- Times Square
Designing and Building Your Own Green/ Environmentally Healthy Home or Apartment
- Course on how dwellers can turn their apartments into green homes--covering topics ranging from energy efficiency to rooftop gardens to lighting and insulation.
- October 18th through November 22nd, 7 - 9 pm
- The Graduate Center of CUNY, and GreenHomeNYC
  The Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue @ 34th St., 212.817.8215

Buckminster Fuller: Philosopher of Shelter
- Learn about Bucky's early experiments and design philosophy including his work on geodesic domes, and his views on the role of mobile shelter in transforming behavior.
- October 19th, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
- Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia, 212.387.3425

Field Experiments in art-architecture-landscape: Hombroich spaceplacelab
- View 14 projects integrating art, architecture and landscape by renowned architects and artists from around the world. Hombroich spaceplacelab is a laboratory for alternative modes of living.
- Through December 31st
- Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, 212.358.6111

Art Billboards
- Alex Katz's "Give Me Tomorrow" at 40 East 4th St
- Gary Hume's "Cheerleader" at 55 Houston St
- Lisa Sanditz's "Tie-Dye in the Wilderness" 343 Canal St

Extreme Textiles
- Exhibit of over 150 highly-engineered, technical textiles and products
- Through October 23rd
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2 E. 91st St., 212.849.8400