March 13, 2017

Kailash Cartographies is an exhibition of artists from India, China, Nepal, and the US exploring conceptions of sacred geography, particularly in the Himalayas.  Devotees encounter the sacred through ritual, art, and acts of pilgrimage and circumambulation of mountains and temples.  The artists in the exhibition pose questions about the nature of both the sacred and the secular by drawing on the points of connection with landscapes and lived worlds. The photographs, videos, works on paper, and installations, deploy cartographic modes that are both personal and political. The title of the exhibition refers to Mount Kailash, the symbolic center of the…

February 16, 2017

In an old anecdote about two emigrants in Europe, one tells the other that he plans to migrate to Uruguay. He receives the surprised reaction of, “Oh, that’s far away!” The man responds: “Far away from where?” This question gains new meaning now, as our cultural, political, and physical geographies proliferate with wounded places: sites of conflict; places marked by layers of turmoil; impromptu refuge locations that become permanent. Thus the show explores implications of a shifting and volatile experience in an era of physical displacement and digital connectivity. The artists in this multi-media exhibition—from Armenia/Syria, Bulgaria, Lebanon, New York,…

February 3, 2017

State of Exception/Estado de Excepción presents traces of the human experience—objects left behind in the desert by undocumented migrants on their journey into the U.S. and other forms of data, all collected as part of the research of University of Michigan anthropologist Jason De León’s Undocumented Migration project.  De León’ sees the materials as fragments of a history, revealing death, trauma, and suffering on both sides of the border while bringing to light complexities of the migrant experience. This exhibition, created by artist/photographer Richard Barnes and artist/curator Amanda Krugliak in collaboration with anthropologist De León, includes an installation of hundreds…

January 20, 2017

An event to commemorate the opening of the exhibition featuring a conversation with Luis Herrera, photographer and activist, and Ana Rodriguez, curator and researcher, both of whom are based in Quito. 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Conversation (in the Critique Space, corner of 2 West 13th St. and Fifth Ave.; seating is limited and first-come, first-served) 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Galleries on view with food and drinks ****************************************** Located in the heart of Quito, Mercado San Roque is the largest traditional food market in Ecuador’s capital, and feeds approximately one third of the city. Even though the market is a significant social,…

November 11, 2016

One of The New School Art Collection’s rarely seen and most significant works, Roxy Paine’s Dinner of the Dictators, 1993-1995, returns to campus after a yearlong loan to the Natura Naturans exhibition in Villa Panza, Varese, Italy. Dinner of the Dictators is a foundational work by the artist, and has informed other bodies of work, particularly his Specimen Cases and more recent Dioramas.  Paine has often translated his fascination with systems of knowledge into hyper-real tableaux where fact and fiction/space and time converge and collapse. Acting as visual metaphors for greater social and cultural investigations, Paine’s works propose open-ended inquiries…

November 4, 2016

Live Performance/Opening Night: November 4, 2016, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Entry to the performance is ticketed and on a first come, first served basis.  Tickets will be available at the door. Exhibition: November 8-13, 2016 Embodied Architecture: PROXIMITIES is a performance and installation exploring the relationships between spatial proximity, density, and affect.  It opens with a choreographed exploration by 57 performers within the gallery who engage with compositional opposites—near/far, proximal/distant, connected/disconnected—and the states in between creating a shifting, evolving, and immersive environment for visitors.  Performers become walls, corridors, and rooms, reframing our interactions with and perceptions of shared space.  The performance is accompanied by a…

October 15, 2016

Loop, Parsons’ sixth alumni exhibition, is an immersive, interactive experience highlighting cross-disciplinary, collaborative work across media. On view in the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries and Parsons’ new Making Center at 66 Fifth Avenue from October 15-31, the show features work by more than 120 alumni from every program at the school. The work, displayed in a series of projected loops and in physical form, was selected by Parsons deans and program directors who were given exclusive access to the creative output of Parsons’ visionary graduates. In the process of making their selections, they developed a composite portrait of a…

September 30, 2016

“No vital periods ever began from a theory. What’s first is a game, a struggle, a journey.” – Guy Debord Seeking the initial moment described by Debord, Push Play explores the work of artists who borrow from play and games to expose social, cultural, and philosophical issues. From playground antics to mathematical strategy, the artists in Push Play mine the significance of games, reinventing them to create experiences that involve the viewer and reflect on the nature of participation in art and art exhibitions. Strategies tied to game playing have historically attracted the avant-garde, most famously the chess master Marcel Duchamp. His…

September 15, 2016

Marwa Arsanios Mirene Arsanios Chaghig Arzoumanian Roy Dib Chafa Ghaddar Sirine Fattouh Rachel Higgins David Johnson Helene Kazan Dages Juvelier Keates Jessika Khazrik Lara Tabet Elizabeth Tubergen Jody Wood Curated by Natasha Marie Llorens “City and City” takes as its point of origin the idea that perception is central to the organization of the city. This derives from an insight lucidly articulated in the murder-mystery novel by China Miéville, The City and The City, which is about two imaginary cities that are intertwined, Beszel and Ul Qoma. Although they occupy the same geographical space, their respective citizens are bound by…

August 8, 2016

IN AN ECHO is an exhibition of thesis work from Parsons’ MFA Photography program’s class of 2016. The exhibition features thesis work by Elizabeth Harnarine, Fernanda Kock, Alex Kwok, Kyle Meyer, Cecilia Mezulic, Varvara Mikushkina, CHR!S REEL, Zhongjia Sun, and Mengya Xiao. Under the direction of James Ramer, the studio-based Parsons MFA Photography program brings visionary students together with some of the art world’s most influential photographers. Students are encouraged to develop their individual vision in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment and to explore related technologies, focusing on the relationship between concept and production. “The works in the show represent a…