Art in the Institution, Art as the Institution: The New School Art Collection and its Institutional Life

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4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Through an eclectic collection of significant art works, the Vera List atrium and courtyard adjacent to the Alvin Johnson Building harbor evidence of The New School’s history, memory, patronage, and institutional identity. The works range from Chaim Gross’ Acrobats Family of Five (1951) and Gonzalo Fonseca’s ceramic tile mural (1959–1961) to Martin Puryear’s seating arrangements (1997) and the 2008 addition to Dave Muller’s Interpolations and Extrapolations, a meditation on New School graphic identity. In this conversation, Silvia Rocciolo, curator of the New School Art Collection, and John Wanzel, curatorial assistant and MFA in Fine Arts candidate, consider the role of the New School Art Collection as a living archive and how it reinforces institutional narrative and identity through its physical presence.Presented as part of the week-long exhibition and event series, By Any Name: Institutional Memory at The New School (Monday, October 19 through Saturday, October 24, 2009). For more information and a complete event schedule, visit www.veralistcenter.org 
Location:

Vera List Courtyard, 66 West 12th Street, ground floor

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Special Needs:

If a person attending your event has a special needs request, i.e. hearing assistance or wheelchair accessibility, they should contact the organizer of the event at:

Phone: (212) 229-2436
Email: vlc@newschool.edu 

Contact Information:

For more information, contact the Vera List Center at vlc@newschool.edu  or (212) 229-2436.


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