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THE NEW SCHOOL PRESENTS ART & DESIGN
PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Fall 2009

image from Control | Print exhibition. By Mark Wilson.
Image from Control|Print. Mark Wilson, 2006.
September 15, 2009— This fall, The New School, including Parsons The New School for Design, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, presents a wide range of programs in the fields of art and design. Highlights include Control|Print (Nov 6-Dec.20), a collaborative exhibition with the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, exploring the intersection of art, craft, and technology. Intended as a cross-cultural dialogue between the two institutions, the exhibition will include new works by Parsons faculty members, created in response to those commissioned by RCA.

Bruce Nussbaum, Visiting Professor of Innovation and Design at The New School and contributing editor at BusinessWeek, will lead two discussions on design as social practice, including a panel on social entrepreneurship (Sept. 21) featuring Paul Polak and Billy Parish, and a conversation with with IDEO President Tim Brown (Sept. 30).

A number of notable artists, designers, and critics will discuss their craft, including New York Times senior art critic Roberta Smith (Nov. 5), and large-scale public installation artist Eve Mosher (Sept. 22), who is Lang’s Fall Visiting Artist. As part of the School of Art, Media and Technology’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Parsons will present lectures by visual artist Shirin Neshat (Sept. 23), painter Kurt Kauper (Oct. 7), Amorphic Robot Works founder Chico MacMurtrie (Oct. 28), media artist Walid Raad (Nov. 4), conceptual artist Fred Wilson (Nov. 18), and composer Marina Rosenfeld (Dec. 2).

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics presents a full season of events around the theme “Speculating on Change,” including By Any Name (Oct 19-24), a mobile exhibition produced in conjunction with the Parts and Labor Gallery which examines the New School’s founding principles through a reimagining of its archives. The programming series also includes Birth and Rebirth of a Nation (Sept. 26), a symposium on race and representation in the media with DJ Spooky, and Where We Are Now Launch, a reception celebrating the second issue of the online journal Where We Are Now.

EDITOR’S NOTE: CLICK FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS. All public programs are subject to change.

ABOUT THE NEW SCHOOL
Located in the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village, The New School is a center of academic excellence where intellectual and artistic freedoms thrive. Among its eight schools are Parsons The New School for Design, one of the world’s most prestigious and comprehensive schools of art and design, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, an undergraduate, seminar-style college with a comprehensive arts curriculum. Among its many centers is the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, which serves as a catalyst for discourse on the role of the arts in society and their relationship with the socio-political climate in which they are created. For more information, please visit www.newschool.edu.