FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3
“Nazi Knife” Exhibit Opening
Location: Secret Project Robot | 210 Kent Ave, Brooklyn
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 pm
A collection of images curated by the French collective Nazi Knife, whose eponymous anthology has become a post-millennial clearing house for the psyche-grotesque and other non-narrative drawing in the transgressive post-punk French tradition. Exhibitions artists include Hendrik Hegray, Jonas Delaborde, Stéphane Prigent, Mat Brinkman, C.F., Roope Eronen, Heath Moerland, Romain Perrot, Andres Ramirez, Cyrille LeVely, Andy Bolus, Jamie McNeil, Leon Sadler, Antoine Marquis, David Douard, Spencer Clark, Pat Maherr, Mehdi Hercberg, Frederic Fleury, Gary Beauvais, Ryan Riehle.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival presents:
Cartoonists and Comics On Camera, 1916-1962
Location: The Knitting Factory | 361 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 pm
A once-in-a-lifetime presentation of rare footage featuring 20th century comics greats and some unusual animated adaptations of their work, curated by Mark Newgarden. See Rube Goldberg, Otto Soglow, Chester Gould, Frank King, Harold Grey, Hal Foster (and many more) at the drawing board! See Jefferson “Gags And Gals” Machamer act! See a drawing lesson from Fred C. Cooper! Plus Krazy Kat, Al Capp, Jacky’s Diary and many more surprises! And join us afterwards for drinks at the Knitting Factory’s front-room bar.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7
“Renée French: Drawings” Exhibit Opening
Location: Adam Baumgold Gallery | 60 East 66th Street, NY, NY
Time: 7:00 pm
Adam Baumgold Gallery presents a selection of Renée French’s exquisite graphite-on-paper drawings from 2007 to the present. Included here are sequences from her acclaimed new graphic novel, H Day, as well as a series of metaphorical “portraits” — uncanny visages made up of microscopic details.