Grzeszykowska and Smaga at Mann Gallery

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.

• Apartment Therapy Holiday party!
  • Drinks, people, and the Chair Photo Exhibition
  • December 15th, 7-9 pm
  • Built. 22 Howard St.

• Why Nature Matters to New Yorkers
  • Conference in which this question is posed to prominent natural history and urban history writers
  • December 2nd, 9am-4pm
  • LeFrak Hall, Queens College, Flushing, Queens

• Green Drinks Holiday Party!
  • Tuesday, December 13, 6-11 pm
  • Sweet and Vicious, 5 Spring Street (between Elizabeth and Bowery).
  • $10 Cover Charge.

• Bensonhurst in December
  • For some serious external, seasonal, apartment therapy, head to Bensonhurst for Christmas decorating like none other
  • Every evening this time of year
  • 84th Street and 11th Ave--Brooklyn

• Municipal Art Society Walk of Lower Manhattan's Deco
  • December 4th, 2:00 p.m.
  • Meet on steps of Museum for the American Indian, at Bowling Green.

• World AIDS Day
  • December 1st
  • Next Aid is organizing a number of benefit concerts

• Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga
  • Apartment Therapy from an aerial view. Two young Polish artists take hundreds of pictures of lived-in apartments, all from above.
  • Through April 23rd
  • Mann Gallery , 210 11th Ave. 212.989.7600

• City Harvest's New York Canned Food Drive
  • Organize your office, school, community center or place of worship in collecting non-perishable food items and donate them to City Harvest. They will pick up donations of 100 pounds or more.
  • November 14, 2005 - January 6, 2006
  • If you collect less than 100 pounds or you can't organize a food drive, drop off food donations at your local firehouse.
  • contact Jill Kogan at 917.351.8765 or jkogan@cityharvest.org.

• 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.

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

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

• 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

• 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

• Gallerie Illy
  • Art, classes, coffee
  • Through December 15th
  • 382 West Broadway, Soho