openingReception

The Object Library Launch Event

Tue, Oct 16, 2018

6:00 PM–8:00 PM

The James Gallery and The Object Library, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Join us to celebrate the opening of The Object Library across both the library and the James Gallery ground floor spaces.

6:45 PM Opening remarks by Joy Connolly and Keith Wilson and a performance of a Katrina Palmer work by Stephon Lawrence in the Object Library.

ADDRESS: Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York

On display:

365 Things

365 Things is the participatory launch project of The Object Library, inviting all-comers to contribute one thing no bigger than your head. Beginning empty, we ask the Graduate Center community and friends to make this first exhibit together in our inaugural Bring-a-Thing-a-Thon event through October 16-17. Our launch takes place in the middle of this two-day event.

Logo 161 by Richard Woods Studio

This commissioned block-printed installation takes as its starting point the wood pattern of the original B. Altman & Co. department store floor, a section of which can be found in the common room running immediately behind the library reception area. Logo 161 is a work of renovation that also asks what we are looking for when we resurface our environment. What kind of library might be most conducive to public study?