In Conversation with Jonas Mekas, Brooklyn Rail, November issue
by Juliet Helmke, Noah Dillon, Margaret Graham, Taylor Ruby, Caroline Dumalin, Sara Christoph, Tom Winchester, Aldrin Valdez, Jillann Hertel, Suzanne Brancaccio, Nayun Lee, Ambereen Karamat, and Marco Greco
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/11/art/in-conversation-with-jonas-mekas
The Fall 2010 Evening Lecture Series at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture presents Phong Bui, Either/Or, Tuesday, October 12, 2010.
Artist, Writer, independent curator (P.S.1 curatorial advisor 2007-2010) and Co-Founder, Editor/Publisher of the monthly journal The Brooklyn Rail, The Brooklyn Rail/ Black Square Editions, and Host/Producer of Off the Rail on Art International Radio. Currently teaching at University of Pennsylvania MFA Program and School of Visual Arts Graduate Program in Art Criticism & Writing as a Senior Critic. Installation work has received the Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Eric Isenburger Annual Prize for Installation from the National Academy Museum (2003).
Lectures are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. SEATING MAY BE LIMITED.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts will host a booksigning on September 29, 2010, from 6-8 pm, for the monograph Hannah Wilke by Nancy Princenthal, published by Prestel.
We will conclude our Spring 2010 lecture series at the SVA Theater on 23rd Street in Chelsea on Thursday, April 22, 2010, with a screening of clips from Shirin Neshat’s new feature length film Women Without Men. Shirin will answer questions about the film and discuss the genesis of the project.
Art Criticism & Writing graduate Aimee Walleston will publish five pieces in Art in America online dealing with artists in the current Whitney Biennial. The first essay, on Lorraine O’Grady, has just appeared.
On February 11, 2010, Oxford University Press released From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual, the latest book of essays by MFA Art Criticism & Writing Department Chair, David Levi Strauss.
There was a book signing and launch party at the CUE Foundation in Chelsea on February 25, and others are planned for April 16th at Spoonbill & Sugartown Bookstore in Brooklyn, and April 24, at the Maria Walsh Sharpe Foundation studios in DUMBO, which will also feature the second edition of Strauss’s first book, Between Dog & Wolf, with new prolegomenon by Hakim Bey.
On Tuesday, April 21st at 6:30pm, independent critic, curator and educator Wystan Curnow discussed the Brooklyn-based architect, landscape architect and installation artist Vito Acconci, and how his work influenced conceptual art.
Curnow, who lives and works in New Zealand, co-edits the journal Reading Room and is the director of JAR, a project space in Kingsland, Auckland. This talk was co-sponsored by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department and the BFA Visual and Cultural Studies Department. Location: 133/141 West 21st Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues), Room 101C.
On April 7th, our fourth and last Spring 2009 Art in the First Person lecture, featuring writer and scholar Avital Ronell, took place.
Ronell spoke on the relations between art and morality, presenting the dossiers of Friedrich Nietzsche, the most ferocious defender of art as a vital necessity. Ronell is a professor at NYU and the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and frequently contributes to Artforum and ArtUS.
