May 1, 2013 - June 1, 2013
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School: Ugo Rondinone
Date: May 8, 2013 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
This spring, Public Art Fund brings
together a series of talks by three distinctive artists whose work transforms
the boundaries of objects and space in the public realm. Whether through the
scale of forms that shrink or expand in response to a specific context, or
through the permeability of concepts, ideas and emotions that exist in their
work, each of the artists showcased in this series explores the ways in which
art has the ability to alter our experience of public space and the natur...
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In Celebration of the Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards
Date: May 14, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
This event is open to The New School community only. This is not a public event.To commemorate the 2012–13 awardees and the artwork that inspired their winning pieces, a gathering will take place with honorary guest and artist Hans Haacke. His piece Helmsboro Country (dyptych), 1990, part of the Vera List Art Collection, is the subject of the critical response essay "Helmsboro Country and Me" by Thomas J. Ashley, New School for Public Engagement, Institute for Retired Professionals. Gathering in...
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From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics
Date: May 17, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
On its twentieth anniversary, the Vera List Center assesses the unique role art plays at the intersection of politics and civic life. This daylong conference addresses the changing cultural and political landscape shaped by new global social movements, and provokes responses and reflections from an international group of artists, activists, and scholars.While the last twenty years have been marked by a general interest in the convergence of art and politics, the current moment is being character...
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