Edward Sullivan Book Launch

DAH Faculty in Two Events for Grey Gallery Exhibition

 

Destroying Radical Icons: Mexican Muralism and the New York Left

Friday, February 27, 2:30–8:00 pm

Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East
2:30–3:30 pm: Gallery Conversation on The Left Front

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South
4:00–5:30 pm: Panel 1
5:30–6:00 pm: Break
6:00–7:30 pm: Panel 2 and Q&A

Moderated by Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor, Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, NYU, this symposium includes a gallery conversation by Julia Pelta Feldman, Graduate Curatorial Assistant, Grey Art Gallery, and two panel discussions. Panel 1 speakers include Finbarr Barry Flood, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art History, Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, NYU; Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Jodi Roberts, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art; and James Wechsler, Consultant, Boris Lurie Foundation, New York. Panel 2 speakers include Pedro Diego Alvarado, artist and Diego Rivera’s grandson; Anna Indych-Lopez, Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, City College of New York; and Susana Pliego, author of Man at the Crossroads: Diego Rivera’s Mural at Rockefeller Center (Trilce, 2013).

Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of Mexico in New York and NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, Department of Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, and Grey Art Gallery.

Left, left, left, right, left: The Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture

Friday, March 6, 7:00 pm 

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South

Panel discussion moderated by James D. Fernández, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portugese; with speakers Miriam Basilio,Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, and Jordana Mendelsohn, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese, all NYU.

Co-sponsored by NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center; Departments of Spanish & Portugese and Art History; Program in Museum Studies; and Grey Art Gallery.

Advance Notice of Celebrations of American Artist Jon Schueler

The Fine Arts Society: People, Places, and Events, 2014-15

Fine Arts Society members at the DUMBO Arts Festival, October 2014

 

This has been a banner academic year thus far for the Fine Arts Society, the Department of Art History’s CAS student club. The goal of the Society is the creation of a community of NYU students interested in art, art history, and visual culture. Through visits to museums and galleries both within and without New York City as well as walking tours, lectures, symposia, and film screenings, the Fine Arts Society brings art history majors and non-majors together, with lively discussions. Kudos and great thanks to all of the club’s officers and board members for their energy, leadership, commitment, and hard work. This year’s officers are co-presidents Nora Gorman (Art History ’15; a board member last year) and Valerie Itteilag (Art History ‘15), treasurer Alexandra Guglielminetti (Art History/Journalism ’16), secretary Maria Khimulya (Art History ’15), and marketing chair Daria Zlobina (Art History ’15). Board members this year are Sarah Bigler (Art History ’16), Ozana Plemenitash (Art History ’16), Oriana Mansur (Politics ’17), and Elizabeth Fazzare (Art History/Journalism ’15). Great thanks go to Professor Meredith Martin, who guided the club so ably last spring and who is the Society’s faculty adviser this year.

The Society’s Fall 2014 semester got off to a flying start on September 18^th with a Meet & Greet that attracted forty students. On September 27th, club members walked fifteen students through open artist studios and galleries at the outdoor DUMBO Arts Festival. The club returned to Brooklyn on October 4^th for Brooklyn Arts Museum Free Saturday, when about twenty-five members and students spent the day at the Brooklyn Museum, enjoying live music as they explored the galleries and participated in a variety of free activities.

The club closed October with a timely event, the How to Apply for Internships Panel & Presentation, which was held on the 28^th and attracted about twenty students. Five FAS members discussed their varied internship experiences, which included positions at museums and galleries and opportunities in arts journalism and communication, as well as offering advice on applying to different types of institutions in the art world. November 5^th brought Meet the Professors: Khera, Geronimus, and Martin. In an informal setting, these three Department of Art History professors discussed their career paths and current research with about twenty undergraduates.

The Society purchased timed tickets so that twenty lucky students could view the sensational exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs at MoMA on November 7th and 8^th. Students concluded the trip with a discussion of the exhibition over lunch. On November 19th, twenty students and faculty enjoyed a lecture by Professor Edward Sullivan, Caribbean Desire in the Era of Impressionism, which was co-sponsored with the Department of Art History’s undergraduate research journal, Ink & Image. And, although finals were just around the corner, six cinephile-art lovers took a break from papers and studying for exams to attend Movie Night on December 6^th, when the Society screened La Ville Louvre (1990), an inside look at the museum’s reserves and aspects of its workings after the completion of I.M. Pei’s Pyramide du Louvre.

The Spring 2015 semester promises to be as rich and busy as was fall. On February 12^th, the Society kicked off the new semester with Club Fest, an event held for the first time in four years. Plenty of pizza and good conversation were to be had at the Society’s spring Meet & Greet, held on February 18^th and attended by ten new members as well as five board members.

Among the events planned for spring include a visit to the recently reopened Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (March 1^st). The Young Career Symposium will follow on March 25^th. At this informative event, recent NYU alums will discuss their experiences after graduation, from applying to graduate schools to choosing a career path.

The club is also looking forward to the Judd Foundation Guided Tour, to take place on April 4^th. The Judd Foundation in Soho, once the artist’s home, displays a range of his Minimalist art as well as his personal art collection. On April 12th, participants will take in the JR at Ellis Island Exhibition, a 90-minute tour of the exhibition on the south (non-renovated) side of Ellis Island, where the “photograffeur”/artist JR is installing on several interior walls life-size historic photographs of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, as the Save Ellis Island website explains.

April 15^th will bring the popular Professional Career Symposium. A panel of professionals from diverse fields in the art world will discuss their career paths and current positions and responsibilities. As of this writing, one of the confirmed speakers is Renee Vara of Vara Art. On April 25th, the club will reprise last year’s visit to Dia:Beacon, the Dia Art Foundation’s spectacular collection of art from the 1960s to the present located in Beacon, NY, in the beautiful Hudson Valley.

Other events being considered or in the planning stages include a trip to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., probably at the end of April, to see the acclaimed exhibition Piero di Cosimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence, co-curated by Professor Dennis Geronimus. While in Washington, the students hope to visit other museums and exhibitions on the National Mall. Another event in the planning stages is a tour of a conservation lab.

Students interested in membership in the Fine Arts Society or desiring further information about the club’s activities should contact co-presidents Nora Gorman (nmg277@nyu.edu) or Valerie Itteilag (vsi204@nyu.edu) or the Society’s general address (nyufineartssociety@gmail.com). Please visit the Society’s Facebook page, too.

 

Kathryn A. Smith

MOMA Photography Curator Quentin Bajac in Conversation with Shelley Rice

Strolling and Recollecting in the 18th Century British Landscape Garden

 

 

Magda Salvesen, Department of Art History, New York University; Independent Scholar of Landscape History

Monday, March 2, 2015, 6:30 pm

New York University Department of Art History

Silver Center, Room 301

100 Washington Square East (entrance on Waverly Place)

As newly designed landscapes became places to visit in the 18^th century — whether the owner was in residence or not — their innovative style became the talk of the town (and country), and the subject of essays, poetry and engravings. This talk explores the rich variety of moods produced by the creation of lakes and the placement of sculpture, temples and other fabriques within these new environments.

Sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians, New York Metropolitan Chapter and the New York University Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies

Free and open to the public

NYU Global South Asia Conference

Senior Honors Thesis 2015-16 Student Information Session

 

Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture Studies

Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 12:30 – 1:30 pm

Silver Center 307

100 Washington Square East

Please join Professor Jon Ritter for an information session about writing a Senior Honors Thesis in our department, with details about how to apply to write one in 2015-16. Students wishing to graduate with departmental honors must write a Senior Honors Thesis. The process requires students to master a body of existing scholarship, to conduct in-depth scholarly research, and to write a long text (ca. 40 pages) presenting an original analysis of a topic. The thesis should present new information and complex ideas of interest to specialists, while being written in clear language accessible to non-specialists. It is a formidable task, serving as a capstone to students’ undergraduate studies. The thesis will introduce students to graduate-level work in art history, although it should not be viewed simply as a step on the way to graduate school.  Writing a senior thesis provides valuable training in research, organization, and self-expression, all of which will be useful to students planning careers a wide range of fields.

Admission to the Senior Honors Thesis program requires a GPA of 3.65 or higher in Art History/Urban Design courses and also an overall grade point average in CAS of at least 3.65. The required GPA is not, by itself, sufficient for admission to the Honors Thesis program, however; the faculty also considers an applicant’s proposed topic and a writing sample in making admissions decisions.

If you are abroad or cannot attend this information session, you may contact Professor Ritter directly at: jon.ritter@nyu.edu

 

Image: Nathaniel Mary Quinn When Sunday Comes: Memory (Praise and Worship), 2015. Oil pastel on cardboard, 9 x 7 inches. Courtesy the artist

 

 

Here He Come: Black Jesus

Nathaniel Mary Quinn

Opening reception: Thursday February 19, 6 – 8 pm

February 19 – March 1, 2015

Rawson Projects is very excited to announce Here He Come: Black Jesus, the gallery’s first show with Nathaniel Mary Quinn. The exhibition will include the artist’s first video works; new collages on paper; and one of the artist’s largest paintings to date, all conceived as part of a site specific installation.

Here He Come: Black Jesus is the third installment of A Process Series, four mini-exhibitions that invite each artist to transform the gallery space in order to present and explore the inspiration behind their most recent work.

To read an interview between the artist and the gallery click here.

Nathaniel Mary Quinn (b. 1977) has had recent solo exhibitions at Pace London, Bunker 259 organized by William Villalongo, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), and Rush Arts Gallery. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Artists Space, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Susan Inglett Gallery. Quinn received his MFA from New York University in 2002 and is the recipient of the Lorraine Hansberry Artistic, Performance, and Fine Arts Award and a two-time winner of the National Arts Club Prize. He lives and works in New York City.

For more information please contact the gallery at info@rawsonprojects.com

 

 

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