Talks
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ON SHAPES AND ART Artists and critics Richard Kalina, Benjamin La Rocco, and Marjorie Welish are panelists in a discussion on abstract painting on shaped supports. It is presented in conjunction with “Tondi,” a group exhibit of paintings on disc-shaped supports that is open through February 25.The show’s curator, Michael Amy, moderates the discussion. A reception follows. Friday, 6:30 p.m., Wooster Arts Space, 147 Wooster St., between Prince and Houston streets, 212-777-6338, free.
THE ICEMAN COMETH The “Meet the Artist” series at the Dahesh Museum of Art features illustrator Peter de Seve, whose work includes covers for the New Yorker to character design for the films “Ice Age” and “Finding Nemo.” A screening of “Ice Age” follows the lecture. The event is the first program associated with the exhibit “Stories To Tell: Masterworks From the Kelly Collection of American Illustration.” Saturday, 2:30 p.m. talk, 4 p.m. screening, Dahesh Museum of Art, 580 Madison Ave. at 56th Street, 212-759-0606, $15 general, $12 seniors, $10 students, free for museum members and children under 12.
CARING FOR REPUTATIONS Magda Salvesen discusses issues raised in her book “Artists’ Estates: Reputations in Trust” (Rutgers University Press). It explores the art world from the perspective of heirs and professionals responsible for the artist’s legacy. Ms. Salveson, who conducted the interviews for the book, is the widow of the second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Jon Schueler. Diane Cousineau edited the book. Tuesday, 7 p.m., Art Students League, 215 W. 57th St., between Seventh Avenue and Broadway, 212-247-4510 ext. 500, free.
EXTRAORDINARY EVENING Michael Scheuer, who served as the chief of the bin Laden unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999, joins a panel discussion on the practice of “extraordinary rendition.” He is the once-anonymous author of “Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror and Through Our Enemies’ Eyes.” The talk is sponsored by the Crowley Program in International Human Rights. Other panelists include a senior editor at Newsweek, Michael Hirsh; Meg Satterthwaite of the New York University School of Law, and Elisa Massimino of Human Rights First. Tuesday, 6 p.m., Fordham University School of Law, McNally Amphitheater, 140 W. 62nd St., between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, 212-636-6862, free, reservations suggested.
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