Student News: Amanda Wasielewski’s Book “Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers, Gentrifiers” Coming June 29

Published by Zero Books, Made in Brooklyn is a belated critique of the Maker Movement: from its origins in the nineteenth century to its impact on labor and its entanglement in the neoliberal economic model of the tech industry. Continue reading “Student News: Amanda Wasielewski’s Book “Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers, Gentrifiers” Coming June 29″

Student News: Doctoral Candidate Siwin Lo to Represent The Graduate Center at the IFA/Frick Symposium

On Friday, April 27, Siwin will give her paper “Becoming Digital, Becoming Textile: Medium and Mediation in the Lives of The Tree,” which draws on her research on abstraction and appropriation in the work of Agnes Martin, Sherrie Levine, Yayoi Kusama, and Bridget Riley. Continue reading “Student News: Doctoral Candidate Siwin Lo to Represent The Graduate Center at the IFA/Frick Symposium”

Tonight: David Joselit on Marcel Duchamp, “The Blind Man,” and New York Dada at the Graduate Center

Join Professor JoselitMary Ann Caws, Thierry de DuveSophie Seita, and Elizabeth Zuba for Marcel Duchamp, The Blind Man, and New York Dada: Institutional Critique and Editorial Practices, an evening of Dada-inspired conversation, with a special focus on New York Dada magazine “The Blind Man, ” edited by Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and Beatrice Wood in 1917, recently republished in a facsimile edition by Ugly Duckling Presse. Continue reading “Tonight: David Joselit on Marcel Duchamp, “The Blind Man,” and New York Dada at the Graduate Center”

Student News: Andrianna Campbell Co-launches apricota, a New Journal of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Criticism

Edited by Graduate Center doctoral candidate Andrianna Campbell and Reed College visiting assistant professor Joanna Fiduccia, apricota is conceived as as an “antidote to the cool remove of many forums for art historical scholarship.”  Issue 1 is dedicated to the theme of fights, “from the verbal spat to the gloves-off brawl.” Continue reading “Student News: Andrianna Campbell Co-launches apricota, a New Journal of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Criticism”

Faculty News: Katherine Manthorne Organizes “The Rockies & The Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, And The Romance Of The Mountains” at the Newark Museum

On view from March 24 through August 19, 2018, Dr. Manthorne’s exhibition places Newark’s renowned collection of 19th-century landscape painting in dialogue with European alpine painting of the same period.  Continue reading “Faculty News: Katherine Manthorne Organizes “The Rockies & The Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, And The Romance Of The Mountains” at the Newark Museum”