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Parsons School of Design is delighted to present Latency, a culminating Thesis Show of the 2026 Photography MFA program cohort.The exhibition will begin August 14th and go until September 17th in the Galleries at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. The opening reception will be held on August 20th from 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm.Through the interdisciplinary practices of the 25 individuals, Latency embodies the lag between materialisation and idea. For them, Latency means creating a space in which a brief pause or a visual lag is turned to tangible realities. The exhibition brings together a cohort that isn’t just taking photos, but actively redefining what photography can be.The show captures the tension of something on the verge of appearing, stretching the boundaries of contemporary art. From video to sculpture, silkscreen to image transfers, materials ranging from glass to metal, the work explores the moments where a message finally comes to view.The exhibition features thesis work by: Suga, Francis Chiang, Nazli Erbes, Andrew Finch, Kaitlyn Garcia, Sarah Gray, Lexi Hide, Jai Jain, Aylin Koç, Madison Lanier, Eugene Lee, He Li, Kyla Liang, Ivo Nagel, Stephen Peng, Tania Quintanilla, Valentina Rangel, Maelle Rudner-Mercier, Bai Song, Leana Spain, Jerry Tang, Sophia Valentino, Yu Wang, Hang Yu, and Miraal Zafar.

The Stone at The New School serves as an artist-centric home and community for experimental and avant-garde artists, where they can perform what they want without any interference. With concerts every Wednesday through Saturday evening, The Stone at The New School continues the tradition of the landmark non-profit performance space founded in 2005 by Artistic Director John Zorn, within a greatly improved space.September 2026 will feature residencies by Erik Friedlander, Matt Mitchell, Sana Nagano, Sugar Vendil, and Peter Evans.

Join the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility for a conversation between Mira Siegelberg and Lila Corwin Berman on Berman’s new book, Who Is American? Belonging and the Question of Jewish Citizenship (2026).This timely and wide-ranging book explores how the history of Jewish belonging in the United States illuminates contemporary battles over citizenship and rights. Why does the United States continue to fall into new, and often unsettling debates about who is American, and the relationship between rights and citizenship?

AtMaFounded by Makoto Suzuki and Ayumi Koyama, AtMa is a creative studio that moves fluidly across disciplines.Their practice unfolds through three interwoven strands: the design of spaces for clients—from retail environments to restaurants—together with installations, window displays, and products; self-initiated projects that question contemporary social issues; and the operation of COM, a space for presenting their own works and dialogues with artists, where ideas circulate and evolve.Drifting between these modes of practice, AtMa cultivates a multifaceted gaze and a material-driven approach, allowing new forms of expression to emerge. Their practice seeks not only to shape spaces but to reveal the relationships, tensions, narratives, and possibilities embedded within them.For Milan Design Week 2025, AtMa presented J39.5, a project they have been developing over time, at Villa Borsani—one of the venues of ALCOVA Milan. The work has drawn significant attention from international media and has been recognized with awards, further expanding the context in which this ongoing inquiry is received.Melanie CourbetFounded in 2013, New York-based design gallery Les Ateliers Courbet has established a distinct program dedicated to promoting and supporting the meticulous work and ethos of rarefied master craftsmen around the world.

Maia Cruz Palileo creates paintings, works on paper, installations, and sculptures that honor familial archives and imagined contemporary realities. Beginning from a space of personal inquiry around their family’s migration from the Philippines to America, Palileo quickly uncovered connective points between individual histories and broader global systems, like colonization, displacement, assimilation. The artist’s research into overlapping historical timelines, paired with effects of memory, provides a framework for their color-rich compositions. This overlapping is made physical through the layering of oil paint, which—even in instances where one layer is concealed by another—permanently maintains its material presence on the canvas, creating its own recorded history.Part of the Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series

This discussion with Jamie J. Hagen and Pascha Bueno-Hansen draws upon queer feminist research with activists and advocates in Latin America, Northern Ireland and the UN. What can we learn from queer and dissident feminist struggles to understand and counteract the current conjuncture of authoritarian intensification? What can peace mean - a term that has been instrumentalized by the organized global right as can be seen in the so-called “Board of Peace”? What – in contrast to that – could queer peace look like? How can we create meaningful conceptions of justice when so many relationships – humanly and beyond the human – seem to be destroyed beyond repair? How do we shape queer feminist futurities at the nexus of peace, justice and security?Romy Opperman (Philosophy) will introduce the discussion, which will be moderated by Esther M. Franke, PhD candidate in Politics.
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