THE NEW SCHOOL PUBLIC PROGRAMS: ART AND DESIGN
APRIL – MAY 2008

James Casebere, "La Alberca," 2005

NEW YORK, March 4, 2008 – This spring, The New School, including Parsons The New School for Design and The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, presents a range of events in the fields of art and design. In conjunction with the opening of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, a new campus center that includes state-of-the-art galleries and program spaces, Parsons will present Soft Parade: Selections from the New School Art Collection through June 20. In July, the Center will feature the I.D. Magazine 54th Annual Design Review (July 9-September 28), a rare and timely look at the state of contemporary design.

Among the spring highlights are Aftertaste 2 (Apr. 4-5), a symposium that explores critical issues in the field of contemporary interior design, featuring James Casbere, the Quay Brothers , Penny Sparke, and Allan Wexler. Art and Money (Apr. 14), a roundtable discussion on the current art market, featuring Jeffrey Deitch, Amy Cappellazzo, Kathy Halbreich and others. The MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design, jointly offered by Parsons and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will present a symposium on the decorative arts and design with a keynote address by design historian Victor Margolin (Apr. 3).

Parsons will also present lectures by noted designers, critics, writers and artists including painter and filmmaker David Ellis (Apr. 9), writer and architect Michelle Addington (Apr. 17), architect and entrepreneur Danny Forster (Apr. 28), and sculptor Kiki Smith (Apr. 30). In collaboration with SculptureCenter, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School will present a lecture by artist Robert Morris (Apr. 7). In addition, the Vera List Center will present Looking Back Now: Performance over Three Decades: 1960s-1980s, a panel discussion with art historians Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Johanna Burton, and Barbara Clausen (Apr. 24).

Parsons The New School for Design is one of the largest and most prestigious degree-granting colleges of art and design in the nation. Parsons has been a leader in the field of art and design since its founding. Its rigorous programs and distinguished faculty embrace curricular innovation, pioneer new uses of technology, and instill in students a global perspective on design. For more information, visit www.parsons.newschool.edu.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is dedicated to serving as a catalyst for discourse on the role of the arts in society and their relationship to the socio-political climate in which they are created. It seeks to achieve this through public programs, fellowships and forums that respond to the pressing social and political issues of our time as visual and performing artists are articulating them. For more information, visit www.vlc.newschool.edu.

EDITOR’S NOTE: FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS, PLEASE VISIT http://newschool.edu/pressroom/emails/ppad_may08.pdf. All public programs are subject to change.

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