Cooper Union (7 E 7th Street) - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Cooper Union (7 E 7th Street). Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Adam Silverman ” Eight Tide Jars”
Artist Adam Silverman exhibits a new series of works in Eight Tide Jars at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. On view September 5 through September 26 in the 7th Floor Lobby of The...More »
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Design Earth “Geostories”
At Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery Climate change is irrevocably transforming the Earth, making thoughtful and projective sustainable design practices more necessary than ever. Geostories: Another Architecture...More »
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“A Leap Into The Void” Exhibition
Exhibition features thesis work from The Cooper Union’s Master of Architecture II Presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, this exhibition highlights the work of the 2016-17 Master of...More »
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“Hélène Binet: John Hejduk Works” Exhibition
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art presents an exhibition highlighting seven built works designed by architect John Hejduk (1929-2000), founding dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School...More »
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“Alternativas / Alternatives” Exhibition
The Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) is being shown in the United States for the first time for an exhibition at The Cooper Union, before traveling to France, Germany, Japan and Sweden....More »
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“French Comics Framed” Exhibition
Part of French Comics Framed, a month-long festival celebrating Franco-Belgian comics art, this free, public exhibition traces the history of the artform. The show will feature a selection of the best...More »
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“Senior Shows” Exhibition
Spring Cleaning, Eavan O’Connor | Great Hall Gallery Enough, Saar Shemesh | 1st Floor Colonnade For days, in between lulls, Zoe Davis | 2nd Floor Lobby Perspective Matters, Martin Petrov | 7th...More »
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“Senior Shows” Exhibition
(f)Utility, Alex Brindis | Great Hall Gallery Improvised Munitions, Cyrus Blaze | 1st Floor Colonnade Tide closed the door with a gentle click, Zeb Bennet | 2nd Floor Lobby Ultimate Inspiration,...More »
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“Outreach Winter Exhibition”
The Saturday Outreach Program is profoundly grateful to the Jacques & Natasha Gelman Foundation for its major support. We gratefully acknowledge our other generous donors: The Altman Foundation, The...More »
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“2016 Menschel Fellowship Exhibition”
This annual exhibition presents works related to the Benjamin Menschel Fellowships granted to selected Cooper Union students to further work on projects related to art, architecture, design and engineering....More »
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“Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association” Exhibition
This exhibition features formative works by architects who are among the most celebrated figures today—including John Hejduk, first Dean of the School of Architecture, Cooper Union professor Michael Webb,...More »
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“Drawing Ambience” Exhibition
This exhibition features formative works by architects who are among the most celebrated figures today—including John Hejduk, first Dean of the School of Architecture, Cooper Union professor Michael Webb,...More »
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“The Master of Architecture II 2015 Thesis Exhibition”
The criticality of this moment for re-thinking the object of architecture through a critical approach to architectural discourse is at the core of the Advanced Research Studio. Established boundaries are...More »
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“2015 Summer Art Intensive Exhibition”
The Summer Art Intensive program of the School of Art presents an exhibition of artworks by its artists in residence Natalie Beall, Timothy Hull, Zahra Nazari and Sun Won Yu as well as students of the...More »
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“Three Views of Oman, The Photography of Wilfred Thesiger, Charles Butt and Edward Grazda 1945-2006” Exhibition
Collected here for the first time is a history of Oman in images. One of the most developed and stable countries in the Arab world and among the earliest adherents to Ibadi Islam, the sultanate sits along...More »
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Minh Bui and Emma Shoots “speculative reflections: squinting one’s eyes to see”
@ 2nd Floor Lobby More »
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Susan Martin “Minimum Wage”
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“The 2015 Menschel Exhibition”
Pedram Sazesh and Emmanuela Soria Ruiz — Spain and Morocco: The Strait Between the Known and Unknown Alyssa Davis — Ghana: Documenting Craft Arta Perezic and Nicholas Pacula — America’s Fourth Coast: Industrialization...More »
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Margaret Morton “Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan”
Traveling in Kyrgyzstan, photographer Margaret Morton became captivated by the otherworldly grandeur of these cemeteries. Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan exhibits the photographs...More »
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Peter North “Store Front”
Senior Presentation of Peter North More »
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“BOB: Fall ‘14 Exchange and Mobility Exhibition”
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“Art of the Book: Fall 2014” Exhibition
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Amanda Machnik “je ne suis pas née à la bonne époque”
Senior Presentation of Amanda Machnik More »
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Davon Howard “if we were the middle grounds of each other”
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“Drawing from the Archive: Analysis as Design” Exhibition
Showcasing analysis work completed at The School of Architecture between 1967 and 2014, this exhibition will celebrate the school’s unique approach to analysis as a didactic, structural and abstract discipline....More »
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“The 2014 Master of Architecture II Advanced Design Studio Thesis Exhibition”
The Master of Architecture II post-professional degree program was launched in 2009 to extend the vision and intellectual rigor of the undergraduate program and allow a further development of the school’s...More »
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“End of Year Show 2014”
The annual exhibition that transforms the classrooms and studios of The Cooper Union into galleries showcasing work from The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, the School of Art, and the Albert Nerken...More »
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“Foundations of Architecture: First Year Design Studio”
The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union will present an exhibition of student work from the spring semester of Architectonics, the First Year Design Studio. First year sets the...More »
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Justin Suazo “Prospecting”
Senior Presentation of Justin SuazoMore »
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“Low Life Extravaganza : Exchange and Mobility Program Exhibition”
Exhibition of work by Spring Semester Exchange and Mobility Students More »
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Emmanuela Soria Ruiz “Day Palm”
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Asia Tail “Now I Am a Plant”
Senior Presentation of Asia Tail More »
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Ryan Scails “Steady Habits”
Senior Presentation of Ryan ScailsMore »
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“The Model Block” Exhibition
Fourth Arts Block (FABnyc) and the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (CUISD) hosts The Model Block: An Exhibit. The Model Block represents the culmination of a multi-year project which focused...More »
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Bernhard Hoesli “Collages”
An exhibition containing a collection of fifty-four collages by architect and educator Bernhard Hoesli, completed between 1963 and 1984. Very intimate in scale, these works demonstrate a process of making...More »
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“EMISSIONS: Images from the Mixing Layer” Exhibition
Is Manhattan sitting in a cloud of methane? Odorless, invisible, lighter-than-air methane is a significant urban pollutant that is a potential crisis in the making. Developed by artists Ruth Hardinger...More »
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“DYMAX REDUX” Exhibition
The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is proud to partner with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design to exhibit DYMAX REDUX,...More »
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“EXPANDING BOUNDARIES: Master of Architecture II 2012-2013” Exhibition
This exhibition presents the work of the Master of Architecture II graduate studio, focusing on the Thesis projects but presenting a selection of work from the entire academic year. The work represents...More »
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“Show Up” Exhibition
The Cooper Union End of Year Show has marked its students’ transition from studios, laboratories and classrooms to the gallery from more than 150 years. A time honored tradition, the first recorded exhibition...More »
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"Lessons From Modernism" Exhibition
Lessons From Modernism examines selected works of architecture completed between 1925-70 through the lens of sustainability. This analysis of the use of environmental strategies — long before they were...More »
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"How do we look? Photographs by Engineering Students" Exhibition
What happens when talented engineers are challenged to draw from their scientific mindsets and express themselves artistically? The end result is both calculating and fascinating. Featuring the distortion...More »
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"The Critical Moment: Architecture in the Expanded Field MArch II Advanced Design Studio – Thesis 2012" Exhibition
This is a critical moment for the re-thinking of the object of architecture, approaching architectural discourse, questioning the very boundaries of Architecture itself. The innovative and visionary work...More »
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"Outreach" Summer Exhibition
The Summer 2012 exhibition of the Cooper Union Outreach Pre-College Program features work from the 6 week program, 4 week program and Artists in Residency Program. More »
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"Cooper Union's End of Year" Show
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-05-21 - 2012-06-09
For more than a century-and-a-half, the Cooper Union End of Year Show has marked its students’ transition from studios, laboratories and classrooms to the gallery. A time honored tradition, the first...More »
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Silvestre Preciado "The Piebald Proceeding"
New York based artist, Silvestre Preciado’s, debut solo show and culmination of her work at Cooper Union on April 17th 2012, titled The Piebald Proceeding Imagine a mug shot being the only output of...More »
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Carlo Scarpa "The Architect at Work"
Carlo Scarpa: The Architect at Work is the first exhibition in New York City dedicated to the renowned architect of Post-War Europe. The drawings on view create a window into the private intellectual space...More »
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Art Student Exhibitions "Timothy Atticus | Walter Wynne | Art of the Book | Drawing"
*Art of the Book also open to the public on Nov 22 Art of the Book Class Exhibition INSTRUCTOR: MARGARET MORTON 2ND FLOOR LOBBY, FOUNDATION BUILDING Drawing Class Exhibition INSTRUCTOR:...More »
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Tomasz Jan Groza, Dina Ravvin, Masha Vlasova "ART STUDENT EXHIBITIONS"
Tomasz Jan Groza : Please come to my show, it's gonna be cool I promise. SENIOR PRESENTATION 1ST FLOOR COLONNADE, FOUNDATION BUILDING Masha Vlasova : Seconds SENIOR PRESENTATION 2ND FLOOR...More »
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"Menschel Fellowship Exhibition 2011"
Projects in Art, Architecture, and Engineering from the 2011 recipients of the Benjamin J. Menschel Fellowship. RACHAEL BROWNING (ART) + SEAN GAFFNEY (ARCH) MAURICIO CORTES (ART) + LAURA GENES (ARCH) JESSICA...More »
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“The Critical Moment: Architecture in the expanded field” Exhibition
Debuting in the Houghton Gallery at Cooper Union, graduates of the Master of Architecture II Program will have their innovative 2011 thesis projects on display in “The Critical Moment: Architecture in...More »
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"The Cooper Union End of Year Show"
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2011-05-23 - 2011-06-18
More than 300 pioneering student works on view across the disciplines of architecture, art and engineering For more than a century-and-a-half, the End of Year Show at The Cooper Union for the Advancement...More »
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The Bruce High Quality Foundation "Teach 4 Amerika tour" Kick off rally
The School of Art at The Cooper Union and Creative Time are hosting the kick off rally for Teach 4 Amerika, presented by Creative Time. The Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF) is returning to Cooper Union's...More »
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Raimund Abraham "Musikerhaus"
Mounted in celebration of Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union Professor Raimund Abraham’s singular work as an architect and educator, the Musikerhaus exhibition features full size...More »
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J Henry Fair "Landscapes of Extraction The Collateral Damage of the Fossil Fuels Industries"
The debate over our dependence on fossil fuels to provide energy and the subsequent gas emissions and planetary warming they create has largely focused on the invisible. Landscapes of Extraction, an exhibition...More »
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Paul Rudolph "Lower Manhattan Expressway"
The Drawing Center presents Paul Rudolph: Lower Manhattan Expressway, organized in collaboration with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union. The Lower Manhattan Expressway (LME)...More »
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"The Cooper Union End of Year Show: The School of Architecture" Exhibition
With the 43rd annual End of Year Show, students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art make the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as they formally exhibit their...More »
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"The Cooper Union End of Year Show: The School of Art" Exhibition
- Media: Graphics - Painting - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-05-24 - 2010-06-19
With the 43rd annual End of Year Show, students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art make the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as they formally exhibit their...More »
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Tony Candido "The Great White Whale is Black"
Through a selection of work spanning over the past five decades, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture Professor and Painter/Architect Tony Candido presents his visionary idea of the interplay between...More »
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"Great Evenings in the Great Hall: Radical Politics" Performance
For 150 years, The Cooper Union has provided a platform for advancing social justice and political change. On Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Great Evenings in The Great Hall will feature "Democracy...More »
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"Women's Suffrage and Women's Rights" Performance
Performance artist Karen Finley, Karen DeCrow (former president of NOW who sued McSorley's Old Ale House in 1969 over the bar's "No Ladies" admissions policy) and others personify the feminist spirit as...More »
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"Free as Air and Water Symposium II: Art in relation to Human Rights and the Freedom of Expression" Symposium
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"Žižek: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce" Book Party and Talk
Called “the most dangerous philosopher in the West,” Slavoj Žižek is today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political...More »
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"Great Evenings in The Great Hall: Workers' Rights" Multimedia Talk Event
Journalist Pete Hamill and Tony nominee Maria Tucci lead a cast of notables including The Triangle Fire Remembrance Coalition in celebrating America's labor movement as seen through the eyes of its most...More »
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"Free as Air and Water Symposium I: Artistic responses to Self-Sustainability and Climate Change" Art Talk
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"The Cooper Union End of Year Show" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Architecture - Sculpture - Installation - Product - Video installation
- 2009-05-26 - 2009-06-27
With the 42nd annual End of Year Show, students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art make the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as they formally exhibit their...More »
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"Emerging Exchanges: New Architecture of India" Conference
Economic growth, euphoric urbanism, media technologies, transnational modes of production, as well as new state and social dynamics are challenging India's long-standing modernist ethos, revising notions...More »
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PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature: A week-long celebration of world literature, featuring 160 writers, from 41 countries, speaking 18 different languages, exploring the theme of Evolution/Revolution....More »
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"Nearly Trapped: Design in the Age of Climate Consequences" Lecture
As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art presents the inaugural lecture of The Institute for Sustainable Design. Dr. David W. Orr, professor...More »
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Pablo Helguera "Committed Explanations in Geography"
Committed Explanations in Geography, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Pablo Helguera, is an upcoming show at the School of Art at The Cooper Union that showcases his recent artworks highlighting...More »
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"Art Walk" Panel discussion
A roundtable of artists and scholars discussing the work of Robert Rauschenberg, an American artist who died early this year and came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to...More »
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Lene Berg "Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache"
The Cooper Union School of Art presents Art and politics as usual, a one-time series of programming that explores the political power of the visual arts. The final event is an exhibition entitled Stalin...More »
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Thomas Hirschhorn "Gwathmey Chair Lecture"
The Cooper Union School of Art presents Art and politics as usual, a one-time series of programming that explores the political power of the visual arts. The second event in this series, a public lecture...More »
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Patrick Cockburn "Why America Will Have to Get Out of Iraq Regardless of Who Wins the Presidential Election"
Patrick Cockburn argues that a central political fact in Iraq today is that the great majority of Iraqis have always opposed the US occupation. Though Iraqi factions sometimes find it convenient to ally...More »
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Daniel Richter "Alex Katz Chair in Painting Lecture"
The Cooper Union School of Art presents Art and politics as usual, a one-time series of programming that explores the political power of the visual arts. Art and politics as usual launches on October 21...More »
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"The Uses of 1968: Legacies of Art and Activism" Panel Discussion
1968 was undoubtedly one of the most momentous years in modern history. From the student uprisings at Columbia and the Sorbonne to the Beatles "White Album;" from the Prague Spring to the assassinations...More »
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Buckminster Fuller Symposium
Visionary designer, philosopher, poet, inventor, engineer and advocate of sustainability, Buckminster Fuller was one of the great transdisciplinary thinkers of the last century with a legacy that extends...More »
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The Cooper Union End of Year Show
- Media: Painting - Photography - Architecture - Installation - Video installation
- 2008-05-27 - 2008-06-20
With the 42nd annual End of Year Show, students at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art make the transition from the studios and classrooms to the gallery as they formally exhibit their...More »
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The Fifth Creativity Now Conference
Tokion Magazine’s Creativity Now conference is an annual cultural event, taking place in New York and abroad. For one weekend the most creative minds in art, fashion, film, design, music and photography...More »