CUNY Graduate Center/ The James Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for CUNY Graduate Center/ The James Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“We Are Beside Ourselves” Exhibition
With intensifying systemic inequalities around the world materializing as global pandemics, accelerating climate change, food and energy bottlenecks, escalating refugee crises and rising race and religion-based...More »
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“Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism” Exhibition
The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in collaboration with the James Gallery at the Graduate Center CUNY and the Polish Cultural Institute NY present: Group Exhibition Portable Landscapes: Memories...More »
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“Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print” Exhibition
Exploring a chapter of the anti-colonial struggles that unfolded after World War Two, Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print considers the role played by printed materials in the practice of Tricontinentalism....More »
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Ellen Rothenberg “ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant”
The James Gallery presents ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, a solo exhibition of work by Ellen Rothenberg which focuses on the current crisis of migration and the forces of global capitalism by considering...More »
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Jen Mazza “Disobedience is Not Careless”
What does painting specifically “do”? Painting has been a mode of public expression for many systems of culture and politics, and as Theodor Adorno noted, painting contains sedimented time. It is a slow...More »
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“Shared Sacred Sites” Exhibition
The exhibition focuses on the stories of shared holy places in the Mediterranean through photographs, prints, miniatures, video, and a newly-commissioned Wish Tree by Anna Marie Rockwell for visitors to...More »
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“GCC: Belief in the Power of Believe” Exhibition
GCC: Belief in the Power of Believe, which investigates cultural heritage of the Gulf region of the Middle East through this project of relief sculptures by the artist collective GCC. “Heritage engineering”...More »
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Peter Krashes “Block Party”
The James Gallery presents “Block Party” an exhibition of paintings by artist and community organizer Peter Krashes. We invite the Graduate Center community to a special Speakers’ Corner to add their voices...More »
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“NSK State Art: New York, The Impossible Return” Exhibition
What is the experience of a state that is not based on territory but on time? In 1992, under different historical circumstances but with political resonance to the contemporary moment, the Slovenian art...More »
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“Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives 1966-2016” Exhibition
Founded by artists and critics in 1966 in Warsaw, Poland, the Foksal Gallery has thrived through transitions in the realms of government, the economy, and the art world. Today, at a time when New York...More »
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Alison Knowles “The House of Dust”
Alison Knowles’s computerized poem of 1967, The House of Dust, her subsequent built structures of the same name and the many works it generated are the focus of this presentation. Documentation of Knowles’s...More »
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Dor Guez “Christian Palestinian Archive”
Artist Dor Guez founded the Christian Palestinian Archive (CPA) in 2009 after he discovered a suitcase under his grandparents’ bed filled with old photographs. Today, much more than a family album, the...More »
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Arkadi Zaides “Capture Practice”
Arkadi Zaides in collaboration with Daniel Landau, Dana Shalev, Effi Weiss & Amir Borenstein How do individuals take on the bodily affect of the dominant structure? What are the range of choices...More »
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Zoe Beloff “A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood”
Sergei Eisenstein was invited to Hollywood in 1930 under contract with Paramount Pictures. Fleeing from the Nazis, Brecht arrived in 1941. Both attempted the impossible, to challenge the formulas of the...More »
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“Left Coast: California Political Art” Exhibition
“Left Coast: California Political Art” with artworks by Futurefarmers, Precita Eyes Mural Collective, Andrew Schoultz, and Rigo 23. Left Coast: California Political Art includes artworks from the 1980s...More »
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“Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art” Exhibition
“Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art” curated by Boris Groys, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University. In contemporary Russia, where official political and cultural...More »
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Yevgeniy Fiks “The Lenin Museum”
The Lenin Museum reflects on the historical contradictions and complexities of intersections between Communism and anti-Communism as well as ideology and sexual identity. The project acknowledges the Lenin...More »
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“World of Matter” Exhibition
The world we inhabit is expanding. Global population growth, increased mobility, accelerated contacts, rising levels of production and consumption, and the expansion of natural resource extraction have...More »
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“A Story of Two Museums: An Ethnographic Exhibition” Exhibition
The Museum of American Art, Berlin, and The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, are both concerned with the histories of museums as well as the varieties of paths to knowledge. Exhibiting artifacts...More »
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“Sexing Sound: Music Cultures, Audio Practices, and Contemporary Art” Symposium
“Sexing Sound” Symposium at Martin E. Segal Theatre Pop and rock music has long been an important forum for experimentation with gendered performance, audience identification, and different models of...More »
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“New Film, Dark Matter: Innovations in Yugoslav Cinema in the Late 1960s” Art Talk
Screening and Conversation at The James Gallery with Katherine Carl & Nadia Perucic. The period between the 1960s and early 1970s marked the height of productivity, creativity, and innovation in...More »
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“Curator’s Perspective: Remco de Blaaij” Art Talk
Conversation at The James Gallery with curators Remco de Blaaij & María del Carmen Carrión. Globalization, national identity, and immigration have been important lenses for exhibitions of contemporary...More »
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“Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores” Exhibition
“Sexing Sound: Aural Archives and Feminist Scores” will bring together a selection of audio, flyers, scores, documentation of performances, and zines of women’s sound work in the last two decades with...More »
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“After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer” Exhibition
The experimental exhibition “After History: Alexandre Kojève as a Photographer” presents the photographs, collected postcards, and hand-drawn itineraries of the French-Russian philosopher Alexandre Kojève...More »
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"Maja Bajević" To Be Continued
What is the boiling point of language? When does it agitate and awaken listeners to spring into action? On the other hand, when is it just a lot of hot air—left to dissipate and lose meaning in a haze...More »
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Jiha Moon "Stars Down to Earth"
What is the meaning of cultural icons in a world saturated with images and information? Amidst fields of exuberant abstraction, Jiha Moon shares bits of culturally specific popular imagery. Often executed...More »
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"Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency: Common Assembly" Exhibition
The gallery is pleased to present the work "Common Assembly" by Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, a design group and residency program founded by Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, and Eyal Weizman...More »
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"And Another Thing" Exhibition
The world is brimming with things, and seen from a non-anthropocentric vantage, all things are equal, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral. In the exhibition, the artists go beyond reassessing the human...More »
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"The Multispecies Salon" Exhibition
Prophecies about the singularity, a future moment of biocultural salvation, will be unveiled at the opening reception by performance artist Praba Pilar. Rather than being a static exhibit, the Multispecies...More »
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"James Johnson Sweeney and Modern Art in America" Lecture
James Johnson Sweeney (1900–1987) was Director of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art from 1945 to 1946 and Director of the Guggenheim Museum from 1952 to 1959. Owing to the fact that the...More »
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"Salon: Nina Simone and Lorraine Hansberry" Art Talk
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) worked with Paul Robeson and WEB DuBois writing political speeches, letters, and essays before her best-known work, "A Raisin in the Sun," became a Broadway hit in 1959....More »
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"Irit Rogoff" Lecture
What is the impact of knowledge when it is not bounded by discipline, but begins to move freely across different creative and institutional modes? What does it mean to own an image? Is the museum really...More »
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"Exhibition Histories: Americans Dorothy Miller" Lecture
Dorothy Miller (1904–2003) served as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art from 1942 to 1963 and produced a series of key exhibitions, including "Twelve Americans, Fourteen Americans, and Fifteen Americans,"...More »
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"Salon: Barbara Guest and Joan Mitchell" Art Talk
Barbara Guest (1920–2006) was a poet and a member of an informal but highly influential group of writers known as the New York School of poets. Influenced by modern art, especially surrealism and abstract...More »
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"Exhibition Histories: The Moderns, Gertrude Stein" Lecture
The legendary modernist Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was famous not only for her writing but also for her art collection, acquired as an American expatriate in Paris during the interwar period with her brother...More »
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"I Am The Archive: Premiering New Publications" Readings & Performance
Archives are both repositories and wellsprings of creativity, serving as sources for reclaiming the lives and texts they harbor back to life. Join Ammiel Alcalay, founder of the Lost & Found series,...More »
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"Artist Dialogue: Milica Tomić and Joshua Decter" Event
Through performance, video, and collaborative workshops artist Milica Tomić finds strategies to include critical voices in the memories and memorials of historical events. She proposes that social sculpture...More »
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Jim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz & Encke King "Untitled" Screening and Performance
"Untitled, 2010" is a film made through the collaboration of noted artist Jim Hodges with Carlos Marques da Cruz and Encke King. Responding to the life of acclaimed artist Felix Gonzales-Torres, Hodges,...More »
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"Salon: Katherine Dreier and Hilla Rebay" Art Talk
Katherine Dreier (1877–1952) was an artist and collector who played an early and essential role in generating American interest in and acceptance of modern art. Together with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray,...More »
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Panel "Postwar Debate I: What is American about 'New American Painting'?"
What are the cultural and artistic precedents for the shift in American abstraction that “New American Painting” was meant to represent? What are its implications for modernism, and finally for American...More »
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"Curator’s Perspective: Zdenka Badovinac" Lecture
How does the director of a national museum see her role as a generator of culture and also a civic leader? An opposition to conformist ideas and violations of democratic principles has been the task of...More »
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"The Making of Americans" Exhibition
"The Making of Americans" takes an innovative approach to the modern narrative of art history, particularly in the controversial period directly following World War II. The presentation at the James includes...More »
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Willie Cole "Deep Impressions"
This exhibition is the first to survey the prints, drawings, and other works on paper of the New Jersey–based artist Willie Cole (b. 1955). With a selection spanning more than thirty years, from a circa...More »
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"Experimental Geography" Exhibition
"Experimental Geography," is a traveling exhibition that explores the intersection of geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, curated by Nato Thompson and organized by Independent Curators...More »
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"Fashion + Film: The 1960s Revisited" Exhibition
Focusing on the 1960s, this multimedia exhibition will explore the cross-cultural relations between a number of European countries’ cinematography and fashion and their reception in modern US culture....More »
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"Pornography in the City" Symposium
Where and when is pornography and public sexuality constructive? And what, in metropolitan areas such as our neighboring Times Square, is it constructive of? As part of The James Gallery’s mission to support...More »
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"The Metropolis Between One’s Ears" Exhibition
The Metropolis Between One’s Ears brings together a major new project by American filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, titled “The Ape of Nature”; a new series of sculptures and video sketches by British artist Andrew...More »
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"The Sixth Annual Prelude Festival" Theatre and Perfomance Festival
The PRELUDE festival features dozens of performances, conversations, and symposia will take place at The Martin E. Segal Theatre at The Graduate Center, CUNY. This free event gives audiences an advance...More »
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Noam Elcott "Comic-Film-Strip" Conversation
In conjunction with the exhibition, "Silent Pictures: Inspired by & Featuring Works from Art Spiegelman’s Personal Collection" Columbia University art historian and film scholar Noam Elcott will elaborate...More »
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Alan Turner "Itineraries"
The Graduate Center presents ITINERARIES, a survey of work from 1979–2009 by Alan Turner, in its Exhibition Hallway. The show, viewable during building hours, features Turner’s evocative drawings and paintings...More »
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"Silent Pictures: Inspired by & Featuring Works from Art Spiegelman’s Personal Collection" Exhibition
"Silent Pictures" focuses on aspects of comic-book structure and syntax that do not depend on words to advance an image sequence. The exhibition is inspired by Art Spiegelman's personal collection of "wordless...More »
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Amy Herzog and Romy Golan "Peeps/Pistoletto"
The James Gallery presents tandem exhibitions inspired by current research at the Graduate Center. Amy Herzog's "Peeps" grows out of her work on peep-show pornography and the inhabitation of public and...More »
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"Writing in the Dark" Performance/ Talk
David Antin, returning to New York from San Diego, will improvise a talk-poem (a home grown medium in which he has worked for more than three decades). Charles Bernstein will read pieces from a forthcoming...More »
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Thomas Torres Cordova "Everybody Loves the Sunshine"
The James Gallery invites Thomas Torres Cordova back for an encore screening of his film, "Everybody Loves the Sunshine"-- a DVD projection with narration by Cordova and live sound by Woody "Uncle Woody"...More »
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"The Great Issues Forum presents" Power & Art" Conversation
Filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh and poet & novelist Eileen Myles launch the Great Issues Forum spring programs with an intimate discussion about the power of art. Peggy Ahwesh's many experimental films and...More »
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“Walk-By Movies” Exhibition
The James Gallery's "Walk-By Movies," visible and audible only from the street, presents an urban, pedestrian version of the drive-in theater. On the heavily trafficked corner of Fifth Avenue and 35th...More »
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"Writing in the Dark: Bruce Andrews, Wayne Koestenbaum, Wendy Steiner, and Reva Wolf" Event
Bruce Andrews will relive his 2006 confrontation with Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, playing an "Outrage of the Week" video segment. Wayne Koestenbaum will offer a medley of poems and prose. Wendy...More »
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"Writing in the Dark: Lee Ann Brown, Elaine Equi, Richard Kostelanetz, Dennis Tedlock" Event
Lee Ann Brown will read poems written in the dark at movie screenings, music concerts and other events. Elaine Equi will present pieces from "Cinema Tarot," a poetic project she began by photographing...More »
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"People 'Weekly': Yunhee Min 'For instance'" Exhibition
People "Weekly” comes full circle in February and the exhibition's five-month run closes with a reconstruction of Yunhee Min's theatrical curtain installation, "For instance." Yunhee Min thinks in color....More »
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"Why Victorian Art?" Symposium
This symposium will address two critical issues: why the study of Victorian art has been overlooked in the U.S., and how a closer examination of Victorian art can provide new or alternative perspectives...More »
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Exhibition "A Retrospective: Harry Koundakjian, Photojournalist"
Harry Koundakjian worked for Associated Press (AP), the world's largest news gathering organization, for over 40 years covering the hottest spots in the Middle East and elsewhere. He has won many awards,...More »
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Thomas Torres Cordova "Everybody Loves the Sunshine: I wish you could color correct my films for the rest of my life"
Thomas Torres Cordova, who has worked for the past fifteen years as a gate manager for Continental Airlines (and whose brother runs an air-conditioning repair business), understands the anatomy and dynamics,...More »
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Daniel Joseph Martinez "the west bank is missing, i am not dead, am i"
Daniel Joseph Martinez's installation, "the west bank is missing; I am not dead am I," is comprised of two huge cast aluminum "wheels of fortune" which introduce an angry abstract allegory addressed to...More »
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor “Sheep Rushes”
“Sheep Rushes” is the title anthropologist/filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and producer Lisa Barbash have given to a series of video works recorded between 2001 and 2005 in and around the Absaroka-Beartooth...More »
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Meena Nanji and Tommy Gear "Transmissions from Alphaville," "Constitution Cafe with Melissa Goodman and Larry Siems"
In conjunction with the exhibition, "Linda Pollack: Habeas Lounge," "Transmissions from Alphaville" by Meena Nanji and Tommy Gear will be screened all day. In the evening, another installment of "Constitution...More »
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Sara Hendren "Tools for Historical Transformation: Jury Duty," "Constitution Cafe with Barry Friedman," Eric Lindley "Bruce Conkle", Eva Jung "Adam Overton and Dorit Cypis (Exchange Rate 2008)"
In conjunction with the exhibition, "Linda Pollack: Habeas Lounge," the day prior to election day will feature an all day screening of "Tools for Historical Transformation: Jury Duty" by Sara Hendren...More »
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Seth Kaller "The Habeas Index: Material Change - Documents that Shaped the United States" and "Constitution Cafe with Josh Chafetz"
In conjunction with the exhibition, "Linda Pollack: Habeas Lounge," historic document dealer and collection-builder Seth Kaller of Seth Kaller Inc. Historic Documents, will present "The Habeas Index: Material...More »
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"Aholloween" Party
In conjunction with the exhibition, "Linda Pollack: Habeas Lounge," the "Aholloween" Party features: "You /Me/We the People," which pays homage to favorite characters from banned books, songs, plays, video...More »
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Kick-Off Speech & POLITAOKE "Linda Pollack: Habeas Lounge"
During the week of this year's momentous presidential election, Linda Pollack's "Habeas Lounge" (October 29 – November 6) uses an elegant, over-sized red couch to transform the Graduate Center's James...More »
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"People 'Weekly': Linda Pollack 'Habeas Lounge'"
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"People 'Weekly': What You Wish For"
An exhibition within the exhibition, "What You Wish For" will allude to the intertwined histories of department store and museum display. will feature Barbara Kruger's "Justice" (2008); reconfigured projects...More »
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"People 'Weekly': Barbara Kruger 'Untitled'" Exhibition
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"People 'Weekly': Yunhee Min 'For Instance'" Exhibition
Starting off with the artist, Yunhee Min's installation entitled, "For Instance," this inaugural exhibition of the Amie and Tony James Gallery at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, opens...More »
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"Deadpan: Photography, History, Politics" Exhibition
"Deadpan: Photography, History, Politics" brings together distinctly different bodies of work from Sierra Leone, Lebanon, South Korea, and Australia to consider the efficacy and politics of 'documentary'...More »
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Isabella Ducrot "Russian Faces"
Isabella Ducrot "Russian Faces," will feature forty-two portraits executed in pencil, charcoal, watercolor, and pastel in the Exhibition Hallway. Inspired by the myriad cultural developments that informed...More »
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Gerardo Rueda "Emerging Significance from Overlooked Period in Spanish Art"
The Amie and Tony James Gallery of the Graduate Center presents Gerardo Rueda, Spanish Modernist, an exhibition of forty-two paintings dating from 1957 to 1996. The exhibition highlights the abstract,...More »