Galleries closed the weekend of February 13-15 for Presidents Day weekend.
General Information:
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design, 66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street, New York
Gallery hours: Open daily 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 pm; closed all major holidays and holiday eves.
Admission: Free
Info: Please contact 212.229.8919
-ARNOLD AND SHEILA ARONSON GALLERIES
-ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN GALLERY
ARNOLD AND SHEILA ARONSON GALLERIES:
Current exhibition:
WORKWEAR
Monday, February 08, 2010 - Friday, March 05, 2010
In celebration of its new MFA in Fashion Design and Society, Parsons presents
Workwear, an exhibition and programming series exploring the legacy of workwear in American fashion and its influence on contemporary constructions of New York as a fashion capital. Illustrating the themes of
Workwear, this exhibition includes a film installation of Donna Karan's
Seven Easy Pieces;
Boilersuit by Savile Row tailors Norton & Sons in collaboration with Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller; a newly commissioned film by the fashion label Boudicca; Paul Fejos' silent-film classic
Lonesome (1928), and installations by Shelley Fox, director of the MFA Fashion Design and Society program.
For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/workwear.
ANNA-MARIA AND STEPHEN KELLEN GALLERY:
Current exhibition:
THE STORYTELLER
Friday, January 29, 2010 - Friday, April 9, 2010
Parsons The New School for Design will present The Storyteller, an exhibition exploring how artists use the narrative form to process and explain important social and political events. The exhibition features work by an international group of artists, including Cao Fei, Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller with filmmaker Mike Figgis, Omer Fast, Mounir Fatmi, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Joachim Koester, Emanuel Licha, Missing Books (Maria Barnas, Maxine Kopsa and Germaine Kruip), Steve Mumford, Adrian Paci, Michael Rakowitz, Liisa Roberts, and Hito Steyerl.
Curated by Claire Gilman and Margaret Sundell and organized by iCI (Independent Curators International), The Storyteller features video, still photography, drawing, mixed media and installation works that engage the documentary capacity of art to bear witness to world events.
The works in The Storyteller engage a range of narrative strategies. In some cases, the story is a drama based on real events, as in Deller and Figgis’ The Battle of Orgreave, a reenactment of the violent clashes between police and local plant workers in 1984 England, as well as the works of Gander and the collective called Missing Books. In other cases, the stories function less as reconstructions of the past than investigations into the relationship between past and present, as in the Roberts’ What’s the Time in Vyborg and Fast’s Spielberg’s List, a video exploring the experiences of extras in Stephen Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List. A third group, which includes Fei, Koester, Paci, and Fatmi, invokes the literary genres of fairy tales, photo essays, and folklore. Finally, other projects such as those by Joreige, Mumford, and Rakowitz involve active participants in contemporary political situations.
Multimedia works by Deller, Figgis, Fast, and Roberts will be presented in special screenings throughout the course of the exhibition. Parsons and iCI also will present a series of related programs during the exhibition run. In addition, many New School courses will use the exhibition as a learning laboratory, hosting class meetings, discussions, and design charettes. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu/events.
The Storyteller is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International), New York. The exhibition, tour, and catalogue are made possible, in part, by a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; iCI Benefactors Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, and Barbara and John Robinson; the iCI Partners and iCI Advocates.
For related programming to our exhibitions please visit our public programs page.