The New School Art & Design Public ProgramsFall 2012 |
NEW YORK, September 10, 2012— The New School, including Parsons The New School for Design, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, has announced its fall art and design public programming. EDITOR'S NOTE: A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS IS AVAILABLE HERE The Shelia C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons kicks off its new year of programming with Art, Environment, Action! (September 28 - December 15), a creative laboratory that brings together a diverse cross-section of artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs, and scientists, working at the intersections of art, pedagogy, and ecology. Featured presenters include Tattfoo Tan, Futurefarmers, Beatriz da Costa, Jill Sigman/Thinkdance, and the Beehive Design Collective, and OPENrestaurant, among others. In connection with the new MA in Theories of Urban Practice and MS in Urban Design Ecologies at Parsons, the School of Design Strategies presents the Urban Colloquium, a series of public conversations focus on the creative, radical, and subversive ways in which cities are truly shaped, featuring Vera Tangari (October 4); Paul White/Transportation Alternatives (October 11); Brenda Rosen/Common Ground (October 18). The Parsons Art, Media and Technology Visiting Lecture Series will bring to campus Mariam Ghani (September 12), Vito Acconci (October 10), David Diao (October 17), Paula Hayes (October 31), Joan Jonas (November 7), Milagros de la Torre (November 14), Robert Sember-Ultrared (November 28), and Adam Pendleton (December 5), and others to discuss their work. As part of its yearlong series of programs on “Thingness,” the Vera List Center presents Paul Ramírez Jonas (September 11), and economist Noam Yuran and Vera List Center Fellow and curator Joshua Simon (October 16). In addition, the Public Art Fund Talks at The New School, organized in partnership with the Vera List Center, focuses this year on this theme, with respect to the interplay between art and architecture, featuring lectures by artists Oscar Tuazon (September 26), Monika Sosnowska (October 24), and Carol Bove (November 14). ART WORK, a lecture series presented by Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts provides an intimate setting for artists to discuss their creative process, speak about new productions, and examine their most famous works. This year’s lineup includes Brian Rogers, artistic director and founder of The Chocolate Factory (October 17). A new series co-sponsored by The New School and the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation explores the legacy of New Wave art and music in Greenwich Village. Keith Haring and the Streets of the Village (October 3) highlights the work of one the most universally beloved artists of the 1980s, while Jean-Michel Basquiat: Graffiti and Glory (October 18) explores the breathtaking work and troubled life of this talented artist. |
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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 seven schools are Parsons The New School for Design, one of the world's most prestigious and comprehensive schools of art and design. 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. |
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