The new school:
Art and Design public programs
WINter/Spring 2014

Common Flowers, Kunstverein Dortmund, BCL, 2010, part of Intimate Science at The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons.

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NEW YORK, January 14, 2014 — The New School, including Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, has announced details of its art and design public programming for this winter and spring.

The Shelia C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons opens its new exhibition Intimate Science on February 6. Curated collaboratively with the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Intimate Science explores artists moving back and forth across the newly porous border between art and science. Independent biological research, bespoke production (via methods like 3D printing), and materials research are all easily available to working artists, who have exploded our understanding of art and impacted the direction of more formal scientific research. This process is both an entirely modern outgrowth of cutting-edge network technologies and a revival of older models of scientific inquiry which include 19th century hobbyists and Renaissance polymaths like Leonardo DaVinci.

On Monday, January 27, The New School welcomes Millard "Mickey" Drexler to a lecture at the newly opened University Center, located at 63 Fifth Avenue. Drexler is widely credited with revolutionizing fast fashion during his tenure at the Gap in the 1990s. Since 2002, Drexler has been CEO of J. Crew. Along with Parsons alum Jenna Lyons (J. Crew’s President and Creative Director), Drexler has reinvigorated that brand, turning it into a fashion-forward upscale favorite of everyday consumers and celebrities including First Lady Michelle Obama.

The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, in collaboration with SculptureCenter, brings a series of renowned sculptors to the university as part of the series Subjective Histories of Sculpture. Speakers include B. Wurtz (February 3), Rosella Biscotti (March 3), and Araya Rasdjarmrearook (April 7). The Vera List Center also sponsors a series of artist lectures, along with the Public Art Fund. This semester, they bring Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (February 13) and Sam Durant (April 23) to The New School to discuss their life and work.

The Illustration program in Parsons’ School of Art, Media, and Technology continues its series of talks focusing on the lives and works of a diverse array of graphic artists, the New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium. This semester, speakers include Jonathan Barli (January 28); Keren Katz (February 4); Conor Stechschulte and Chris Adams (February 11); Mark Stamaty (February 18); Jennifer George and Charles Kochman (February 25); Matthew Thurber (March 4); Huguette Martel and Emilo Varra (March 11); Patricia Mainardi (March 18); Ernie Gehr (April 1); Sam Alden and Sophie Yanow (April 8); Jeffrey Greene (April 15); Tom Kaczynski (April 22); Zoe Beloff (April 29); Ariela Freedman discussing the work of Charlotte Salomon (May 6); Gabrielle Bell and Jonathan Gray (May 13)

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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 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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