Apartment Therapy New York | Weekly Events Calendar: 11.16.05

Art & Design Events...

It's Best Of The Guide month at ApartmentTherapy. Join us in figuring out what qualifies as the greatest in the AT world.

Municipal Art Society Walks: ART DECO MIDTOWN
- November 18th, 11:00 a.m.
- Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave. at 51st Street.

Safe: Design Takes on Risk at the MOMA
- 300 contemporary products and prototypes designed to protect
- Through January 2nd
- MOMA, 11 West 53 Street, 212.708.9400.

Cut & Paste Design Competition
- Live, battle-like event in which 8 contestants have 15 minutes to produce a design with tools provided.
- November 19th, 10pm
- M1-5. 52 Walker St, 212.965.1701

Great Houses of New York: An Illustrated Talk
- Reception to follow
- November 18th, 6:30pm
- The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, 20 West 44th Street, Suite 301, 212.730.9646 x 109 (RSVP req'd)
Space Downtown is planning 2nd Annual Shop Happy Holiday Bazaar
- Invitation to designers of home and fashion accessories, or beauty and spa products to sell their overstock
- Submit merchandise by Thanksgiving week and whatever is not sold will be
  returned by the end of the year.
- 276 W. 25 Street, Red Door, 212.352.9968

Designing the Taxi: Rethinking NYC's Moveable Public Space
- November 2nd through January 15th
- Parsons The New School for Design. 2 West 13th St.

tART FALL 2005 Salon Show and Benefit
- Collective of emerging artists who are committed to strengthening
  the presence of women artists in the public sphere.
- Auction on November 19th, 6-9pm (proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders)
- Free cocktails!
- 147 Bowery @ Broome Street

Duncan Hannah: Imaginary Friends
- Oil Paintings on display
- Through December 17th
- JG Contemporary, 1014 Madison Ave. 212.535.5767

The Plain of Heaven: The High Line's Transformation Explored
- Through November 20th
- Creative Time sponsors Artist conversations on Saturdays at 2 P.M.
- 820 Washington St

Broadway Panhandler: Gingerbread Houses - NYC Style
- An assortment of New York City's top pastry chefs have created NYC Gingerbread Houses - gingerbread brownstones, 1 bedroom apartments, lofts and more
- Gingerbread house building demo on November 19th at 3pm
- Raffle to take home a yummy structure on November 28th (100% of the proceeds from the raffle will be donated to City Harvest)
- On display through November 23rd
- Broadway Panhandler 477 Broome Street

Housing Works Thrifts 10th Street Grand Opening
- 100% of the profits from this store go towards fighting HIV/AIDS and Homelessness
- Every Sunday through winter--partake in free baked goods from local bakeries
- 245 W. 10th St. (hudson/bleecker) 212.352.1618

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

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