The Dwell Guide to Events in Your City

Thursday, March 13

Now that the Whitney Biennial hysteria has started to wane, head to the show, where Dwell’s Emerging Designer Fritz Haeg is prominently featured. 945 Madison Avenue at 75th St.; (800) WHITNEY; www.whitney.org

From today through Tuesday, March 18, the MoMA shows screenings of Poor Boy’s Game, Clement Virgo’s boxing film set in the racially divided Halifax neighborhood of Nova Scotia. 11 W. 53rd St.; (212) 708-9400; www.moma.org


Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss Architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is the mastermind behind the Beijing National Stadium for this year’s Olympics. Tonight, Jacques Herzog speaks at Columbia. 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, 1172 Amsterdam Ave.; (212) 854-9543; www.arch.columbia.edu

Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, and Aziz Ansari of comedy group The Human Giant are some of the funniest guys around. Catch them tonight at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. 66 N 6th St.; (212) 260-4700; www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com/calendar/show/1239/

Friday, March 14

Hit up the launch part for Architecture, a documentary of five architecture students in the throes of their final projects. 5-8 p.m.; Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place; www.archiculturefilm.com

Saturday, March 15

The day-long Splat! Graphic Novel Symposium draws in strip-makers Gabriele Bell (Lucky), Scott McCloud (Zot!), and K. Thor Jensen (Red Eye, Black Eye), as well as buyers, publishers and illustrators. 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; NYCIP, 20 W 44th St.; www.nycip.org/graphicnovelsymposium

Sunday, March 16

Tom Otterness, whose bronze sculptures are on view at the MoMA and Smithsonian, among other institutions, gives a tour of his Brooklyn studio. 1 p.m-4 p.m.; Tom Otterness Studio, 96 4th Street between Bond and Hoyt St.; http://tomotterness.net


Tuesday, March 18

In the days before security-enabled laptops, designers carefully guarded their sample books, whose pages they filled with the motifs and patterns used their work.  To compliment current exhibition Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product, the Cooper-Hewitt hosts a discussion between intellectual property lawyer Harley Lewin and Zac Posen CEO Susan Posen. Eric Wilson of The New York Times moderates. 6:30 p.m.; 2 East 91st St.; (212) 849-8400; www.cooperhewitt.org

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