November 19, 2019

From October 23 – 25, 2019, Chimurenga will install its Pan African Space Station (PASS) at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York City.  After PASS’ three-day broadcast, the gallery transforms into a reading and listening space of Chimurenga’s radio archives and publications as well as recording and performance space by WNSR New School Radio students and as well daily jazz recitals by duos, trios, and quartets of students from The New School’s College of Performing Arts students (see below for details). The PASS broadcast will explore the participation of African American artists, activists, and intellectuals in the 2nd World Black…

November 15, 2019

Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference examines the political work at the intersections of costume, fashion and performance produced by three artists: Machine Dazzle, Narcissister and Rammellzee. These New York-based artists work and have worked at the convergence of disciplines, giving birth to new personas through the act of extreme self-fashioning, masking and renaming themselves. The alternative worlds they have created collapse the division between performance and performativity, art and life, real and make-believe. Their work plays off the notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), in which disciplinary borders between fashion, art, performance, theater, dance and music merge to…

October 30, 2019

The Museum of Capitalism comes to New York City with an exhibition at The New School featuring traveling artifacts and exhibits from the museum’s inaugural exhibition in Oakland, as well as commissions and loans from NY artists and institutions. This exhibition traces a loose theme around borders, both physical and conceptual, between nations, between what was known as “the economy” and related domains of political, social, and environmental concern, and between institutions like the Museum of Capitalism and The New School. Exhibits and artifacts on display include American flags made by prison laborers, photographs of secretive international tax-havens, and an…

September 8, 2019

Being Bare features photographs, video installations, photographic installations, and printed works. Parsons School of Design at The New School University presents Being Bare, an exhibition of thesis work from its MFA Photography department at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries. Works include photographs, video installations, photographic installation, and printed works. This exhibition features thesis work by Zhuoning Bi Dawnja Burris Madeline Eckert Peilin Gao Miguel Gonzalez June Kim Hsin-Yeh Lee Joshua Lee Peng Lyu Spandita Malik Chloe Ama Mukayiranga Mbundu Dorian Purse Leixin Qian Adrian White

July 27, 2019

Eyes on the Board invites the viewer to experience board games popular in different corners of the world, or from a distant past, while making connections across time and space. The exhibition reenacts first contact with an unknown game by exposing a New York City audience to a set of diverse boards, videos, poetry, and photography documenting the games’ social space. Board Games serve as social lubricants, facilitating interaction between different groups of people, as their abstract nature requires little to no cultural appropriation. Unlike other forms of play, they travel largely unchanged across geographic, cultural, linguistic, or even enemy borders. For…

July 27, 2019

Curated by Anna Harsanyi and Macushla Robinson The spur of this exhibition is a marker of time: a century of The New School’s existence. As such it looks back to take stock of this institution’s legacy, attending to the dynamic yet often hidden and dormant possibilities inherent in the school’s many pasts. The exhibition envisions the archive as a site of latent moments that might become scripts and scores for possible futures. Through commissioned artworks, works from the New School’s art collection and archives, and artist-led engagements and performances, the show invites viewers to conceive of the institution itself as…

June 21, 2019

The Architectural League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects and designers. The Prize, established in 1981, recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners and provides a public forum for the exchange of their ideas. Each year The Architectural League and the Young Architects + Designers Committee organize a portfolio competition. Six winners are then invited to present their work in a variety of public fora, including lectures, an exhibition, and on the League’s website. The idea that an architectural work might be just—whether formally, materially, contextually, culturally, or otherwise—invokes the diverse and interdependent…

May 31, 2019

The Art.Write.Now.2019 National Exhibition features the most creative visual and literary works by teens from across the country. These young artists received top honors in the prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, which were adjudicated this year by dozens of notable artists and writers including Anne Gaines, Winston Chmielinski, Mario Rossero, Margaret El, Lucianne Walkowicz, Antwaun Sargent, Jason Kass, Chrissie Iles and Adrienne Jones. The exhibition spans two locations in New York City— Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design at The New School and  Pratt Institute’s Pratt Manhattan Gallery—and showcases more than 1,000 of the freshest and most engaging visual…

May 2, 2019

The Parsons Festival is an annual series of art and design events in which cutting-edge student work is presented to the Parsons community and the public. The festival takes place at the end of each academic year and includes thesis exhibitions and critiques, thought-provoking public programs, interactive installations, gallery openings, workshops, and special events leading up to Commencement. On campus, the School of Design Strategies’ undergraduate programs’ (Integrated Design and Strategic Design and Management) exhibitions will open on Thursday, May 2 in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries.  The School of Art, Media, and Technology’s exhibition will open May 4 in the…

April 6, 2019

Opening reception Tuesday, April 9, 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the gallery followed by a panel discussion 6:30-8:00 p.m. Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, ground floor There are about 23 million people in the United States who have successfully resolved a problem with drugs or alcohol, but we rarely see or hear their stories compared to depictions of addiction in media, art, music, and film. Although not everyone identifies as being “in recovery” and many people can’t publicly acknowledge their past because of stigma or the consequences of admitting illegal drug use, a growing movement is working to offer…