THe New School Art & Design Public ProgramsSpring 2011 |
February 3, 2011, NEW YORK —The New School, including Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, announces its spring season of art and design public programming. Highlights include Radical Shifts (March 23-April 8), an exhibition at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center that explores Parsons' role in the critical reevaluation of Interior Design in the 1960s, reflecting the cultural and social upheaval of the times; and AFTERTASTE 5 (April 1-2), Parsons annual symposium that reevaluates the practice of Interior Design today. This year, the symposium investigates the intangible yet perceivable dimensions that influence the experience of the interior, featuring a keynote address by American installation artist Robert Irwin. EDITOR'S NOTE: CLICK FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS. All public programs are subject to change. In addition to Radical Shifts, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons explores notions of personal and national identity through My America Is (March 5-16), a participatory exhibition using common objects and words to trace our individual notions of self and country. In timing with its major spring exhibition Cartoon Polymaths (Feb. 4-April 15), which explores the deep influence of cartooning across many types of art and design, the center also presents panel discussions and screenings with featured artists, including Richard McGuire (Feb. 18), R. Sikoryak (March 21), and Jacob Ciocci of Paper Rad (March 7). Among the other prominent artists and designers on campus this spring, The Vera List Center presents a conversation with the founders of the Handspring Puppet Company, Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, on the occasion of the Lincoln Center production of their acclaimed performance piece, Warhorse. The School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons visiting artist lecture series presents Kara Walker (Feb. 16), Tehching Hsieh (Feb. 9), Mark Dion (Feb. 23), Matthew Weinstein (March 2), Simone Leigh (March 9), Laylah Ali (March 23), Aki Sasamoto (March 30), Cristobal Lehyt (April 6), Deborah Kass (April 13), Ann Hamilton (April 20), and Anton Vidokle (April 27). EDITOR'S NOTE: CLICK FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS. All public programs are subject to change. |
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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 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 liberal arts 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. ### |
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