The Dwell Guide to Events in Your City

Wednesday, January 16

The New Museum’s exhibit Unmonumental expands today with the addition of Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, collages made by eleven artists that will surround the sculptures already on display. Through March 30. New Museum of Contemporary Art, 235 Bowery; (212) 219-1222; www.newmuseum.org

Head to the MoMA for Take a Seat, a gallery talk that surveys the museum's extensive collection of chairs. 11:30 a.m.; 11 W. 53rd St.; (212) 708-9400; www.moma.org

Jakob Trollbäck, Swedish designer and President of Trollbäck + Company, a motion graphic design and branding firm, speaks at AIGA and Apple's “Pro Sessions: Design Remixed” lecture series tonight. 6:30-8 p.m.; Apple Store, 103 Prince St.; (212) 807-1990; www.aiga.org

Friday, January 18

Now in its 54th year, The Winter Antiques Show returns to New York with goodies from the antiquities through Art Deco. Proceeds benefit the East Side House Settlement. Through January 27. Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th St.; (718) 292-7392; www.winterantiquesshow.com

AIA hosts another Berlin-New York Dialogues Film Screening, with Brutalität in Stein (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge’s twelve minute examination of the Nazi regime via its architecture, and Berlin Babylon as tonight's feature flicks. The latter documents the architectural re-construction of Berlin after the wall's destruction in 1989, using Interviews with Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, Josef P. Kleihues, I.M. Pei, Hans Stimman, and other involved designers, architects and planners. 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place; 212-683-0023; www.aiany.org

Sunday, January 20

Last Chance: The Cooper-Hewitt closes its exhibit of Piranesi’s work as a designer of interiors, furnishing, and architecture. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 2 E 91st Str.; (212) 849-8400; cooperhewitt.org

Monday, January 21

Fingers will fly at The Grand Piano Marathon, a showcase of the instrument’s versatility and a celebration of its 300 year history. Expect performances by John Medeski, Michael Reisman, Ursula Oppens, and others. 2-8 p.m.; Kaufman Center (129 W 67th St.; (212) 501-3330; www.kaufman-center.org/tc/mch0708/gpm.php

Seven actors read monologues by seven celebrated playwrights – Catherine Filloux, Paula Cizmar, Carol K. Mack, Gail Kriegel, Anna Deavere Smith, Ruth Margraff, and Susan Yankowitz – inspired by the stories of seven women from Northern Ireland, Russia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Guatemala and Cambodia. 8 p.m.; 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St.; www.92y.org

Tuesday, January 22

Ramak Fazel spent the summer of 2006 on a road trip to every Capital Building in the U.S. His photographs of these buildings and the people living around them are on view at The Storefront for Art and Architecture starting today. Through March 8. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street; 212-431-5795; www.storefrontnews.org

The met exhibits Lee Friedlander’s photographs of the private estates and public parks designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903). (New Yorkers take note: Its Olmsted who gave us Central Park.) Through May 11. 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd St.; (212) 535-7710; www.metmuseum.org

The Architecture League of New York hosts Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, whose designs for the The Metal Shutter Houses, the Pompidou Center – Metz, the Seikei Library, and the Papertainer Museum in Seoul have earned him international acclaim. 7 p.m.; The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 East 7th St.; (212) 753-1722; www.archleague.org

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