National Academy - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for National Academy. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Don Perlis “TRUMPWORLD”
In the artist’s words: “Times Square is a metaphor for the American Empire in a decadent phase dominated by overblown symbols: Coca Cola, Budweiser and others. Donald Trump, the emperor of this land,...More »
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“Creative Mischief” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2017-05-18 - 2017-06-13
The National Academy Museum & School is pleased to announce the opening of the 6th annual exhibition Creative Mischief. Conceived and curated by Maurizio Pellegrin, National Academy School Dean, in...More »
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Michelle Bratsafolis and Dennis John Bourke Exhibition
MICHELLE BRATSAFOLIS was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up on the North Shore of Long Island. She received her B.A. in American Studies from Brandeis University and her J.D. from Hofstra University...More »
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“Creative Mischief” Exhibition
The National Academy Museum & School is transformed by the vision of the faculty, alumni and students of the National Academy School. More »
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“Black & White Perspectives: Works on Paper” Exhibition
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Malgosia Malinowska and Jennifer Brickman Exhibition
Work from the final exhibitions of Studio Art Intensive artists, Malgosia Malinowska and Jennifer Brickman.More »
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“Contemporary Highlights from the Collection” Exhibition
Drawn entirely from the National Academy’s permanent collection, Contemporary Highlights from the Collection serves as a continuation of An American Collection, and features pieces gifted by artists from...More »
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Miriam Schapiro “A Visionary”
Miriam Schapiro, A Visionary presents a cross-section of works from each period of the artist’s remarkable, multifaceted sixty-year career, and will be Schapiro’s first survey exhibition in New York City,...More »
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“An American Collection” Exhibition
Spanning the period 1820-1970, An American Collection features approximately 100 works from the National Academy’s extensive permanent collection. Intending the Academy to be an organization of leading...More »
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“Method Order Metric” Exhibition
Drawn entirely from the National Academy’s permanent collection, Method Order Metric considers the systematic approaches that artists define and use within their practice, and how these are ingrained in...More »
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“Emotion, Discovery and Illusion: Between Art and Fashion” Exhibition
The National Academy School exhibition explores the relationship between art and fashion, through pieces of key designers, such as Christian Dior, Issey Miyake, and Hermès, from the late 18th century to...More »
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“Studio Art Intensive Final Exhibition”
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Caryl Stern and Anne Vandycke “Studio Art Intensive Final Exhibitions”
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Jacopo Degl’Innocenti & Jos Stumpe “Studio Art Intensive Final Exhibitions”
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“Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie” Exhibition
Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie will make its East Coast debut at the National Academy Museum in New York on September 10, 2015. The exhibition, which traces the trajectory of Safdie’s...More »
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“The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface” Exhibition
Comprised of nearly 70 esteemed artists and architects, The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface is a celebration of the Academy’s members and, as in years past, features a broad range of styles employed...More »
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“Creative Mischief 2015” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Other - Sculpture - Installation - Other
- 2015-05-16 - 2015-05-24
The National Academy Museum & School’s fourth annual Creative Mischief exhibition embraces more artists, a wider range of media, and more space on the calendar than ever before. The constant in Creative...More »
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“SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence” Exhibition
Artists have created self-portraits for centuries, in part to ensure presence in their absence. Drawing from the collection and including work by international artists of different generations, Self explores...More »
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“Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time” Exhibition
Artists have explored the meaning of classicism and pushed against its boundaries for centuries. Whether an artist embraces or resists a “classical ideal”—of order and balance, beauty or spirituality—it...More »
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“The Annual 2014: Redefining Tradition” Exhibition
The National Academy Museum presents THE ANNUAL 2014: REDEFINING TRADITION, on view June 11 through September 14, 2014, and featuring work by artist and architect members of the National Academy. One...More »
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“2014 Year-End Exhibition”
Current Student & Faculty Exhibitions.More »
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“Creative Mischief” Exhibition
Two floors of Fifth Avenue’s historic Huntington Mansion, home of the National Academy Museum, are transformed by the international + national + neighborhood artists who study at the National Academy School....More »
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“The Paradox of Sculpture” Exhibition
The Paradox of Sculpture, on view from March 12 – May 3, 2014 at the National Academy School, explores the diversity of form, shape and media used in contemporary sculpture, focusing on artwork that challenges...More »
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“Gideon Bok: Welcome to the Afterfuture” Panel Discussion
Nora Griffin, Drew Lowenstein and Barry Schwabsky join moderator David Cohen to discuss the following exhibitions: Gideon Bok: Welcome to the Afterfuture at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects Elana Herzog:...More »
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Anders Zorn “Sweden’s Master Painter”
By the turn of the 20th century, the success of Anders Zorn (1860-1920) rivaled that of the most famous artists of his day, including John Singer Sargent. A virtuoso watercolorist, bravura painter, and...More »
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“Edwin Blashfield and the American Renaissance” Exhibition
Celebrating the conservation of Study for Minnesota, Granary of the World, Blashfield’s magnificent final study for the Minnesota Capitol lunette, and also featuring works by other American Renaissance...More »
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Philip Pearlstein “Six Paintings, Six Decades”
Since the early 1960s, Philip Pearlstein’s paintings of nudes - passive, aloof, unemotional - have fascinated, captivated, and even confounded viewers, and established him as the most significant living...More »
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“Mid-Year Exhibition: 2013-2014”
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“Projects in Contemporary Art & Architecture: Between Vision and Function” Exhibition
Projects in Contemporary Art & Architecture: Between Vision and Function features the works of such world-renowned architectural firms as FXFOWLE, Safdie Architects, and Gluckman/Mayner Architects,...More »
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“On the Relativity of Distance” Exhibition
This exhibition presents artwork created by renowned American and Italian artists during the 1960s and ‘70s as well as National Academy students and faculty who were influenced or affected by the aesthetic...More »
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“See it Loud” Exibition
In the years after World War II, a group of young New York artists known as the New York School formed the basis for Abstract Expressionism, a school of painting in America that exerted a major influence...More »
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Pat Steir “Blue River”
Pat Steir: Blue River, an installation of four paintings, is presented as a contemporary counterpoint to the concurrent exhibition, William Trost Richards: Visions of Land and Sea. Steir has engaged with...More »
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Jeffrey Gibson “Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel”
Gibson’s work has established him as a leading artist of his generation. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, he explores notions of identity and modernism within a contemporary context....More »
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“Visualizing Time: Narrative Prints from the National Academy Museum, Selected by Andrew Raftery, NA” Exhibition
Showcasing narrative prints from the Academy’s collection, National Academician Andrew Raftery focuses on how printmakers structured the representation of time.More »
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William Trost Richards “Visions of Land and Sea”
William Trost Richards is regarded today as one of our finest landscape and marine painters of the 19th century. The ground breaking retrospective of the Philadelphia native’s work held exactly forty years...More »
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"Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture" Exhibition
- Media: Photography - Architecture - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-01-31 - 2013-05-05
How is innovation defined today? For most, the instinctive tendency is to think about it in the context of technological innovation. With an increasing reliance on technology and bombarded daily as we...More »
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"The Annual: 2013" Exhibition
A tradition at the Academy since its founding in 1826, the exhibition includes work by recently elected Academy members and highlights their important contribution to American culture. [Image: Howardena...More »
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Claudia Gavrus "Genesis"
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Faculty Exhibition
[Image: Dan Gheno "Nightmare Triptych, The Waiting Room" (1989) oil, 60 x 72 in.]More »
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"Portraits: Between Psychology and Form" Exhibition
[Image: "English Nobleman" (early 1800) oil on canvas, 29.5 x 35.5 in.] More »
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John Cage "The Sight of Silence"
Best known as a ground-breaking composer and performer, John Cage was also a visual artist who created an extensive but little-known body of watercolors and prints over the last twenty years of his life....More »
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"Her Own Style: An Artist’s Eye With Judith Shea" Exhibition
Drawn from the Academy’s extensive portrait collection, sculptor and National Academician Judith Shea has selected a group of women artists’ portraits spanning from the late 19th century to today for Her...More »
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Phoebe Washburn “Nudes, Housed Within Their Own Clothes and Aware of Their Individual Thirst, Descending a Staircase”
From September 2012 to September 2013 the Academy will present for the first time in its history a large-scale site-specific installation by artist Phoebe Washburn, titled in a typically nonsensical way...More »
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"Women's Work" Exhibition
A distinguished selection of work by women artists from the 19th century to present day will be on view at the National Academy in Women's Work. The exhibition reflects the Academy's mission of presenting...More »
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Colleen Browning "Urban Dweller – Exotic Traveler"
"Colleen Browning: Urban Dweller – Exotic Traveler" will highlight two major facets of the artist’s subject matter: New York City and sites in the developing world that she visited and where she worked,...More »
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"An American Collection – Second Rotation" Exhibition
The second in a series that reveals masterpieces and notable works from the National Academy’s collections, "An American Collection" – Second Rotation will feature a salon-style installation of approximately...More »
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"Women Sculptors of the National Academy" Exhibition
Rarely on public view, the approximately 20 works in Women Sculptors of the National Academy will reflect the range of developments that occurred in American sculpture between the 1890s and the late 20th...More »
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"White: The Anatomy of a Color" Exhibition
The infinite properties and subtleties of the color white in various ways and in various media will be presented in White: The Anatomy of a Color, and exhibition that includes a sculpture that incorporates...More »
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"The Annual: 2012" Exhibition
The National Academy’s Annual exhibition features works by over 100 artists and architects juxtaposing contemporary masters with emerging and mid-career artists. This year’s new format has been designed...More »
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"Parabolas to Post-Modern: Architecture from the Collection" Exhibition
"Parabolas to Post-Modern: Architecture from the Collection" is a brief survey of post-war architecture by National Academicians (NAs) and reflects the immense growth and changes in American architecture...More »
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"Will Barnet at 100" Exhibition
In the first New York retrospective of the artist’s work, "Will Barnet at 100" will explore the dialogue between figuration and abstraction that has defined Barnet’s remarkable 80-year career. A painter,...More »
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"Opening Weekend" Event
Free Admission: On view in the newly renovated exhibition galleries, Will Barnet at 100, a retrospective of Barnet’s figurative and abstract paintings and prints and An American Collection, exhibitions...More »
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"National Academicians: Then and Now" Exhibition
"National Academicians: Then and Now" will trace the work of four artists and one architect by pairing diploma presentations – the artwork contributed by an artist or architect upon their induction into...More »
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"An American Collection" Exhibition
A salon-style installation of approximately 120 paintings from the museum’s collection, An American Collection spans the period 1820-1970 and reflects the diversity of American art and the Academy’s membership....More »
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"Contemporary Selections: Aligning Abstraction" Exhibition
Aligning Abstraction will bring together a selection of recent diploma presentations by newly admitted members. Each year the National Academy receives around 15 works of art that are new members’ diploma...More »
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"The Artist Revealed: A Panorama of Great Artist Portraits" Exhibition
Highlights from the National Academy’s extensive collection of artist portraits from the early 19th century to today will be on view for the first time in the Academy’s history. Most of the more than 1,000...More »
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"The Review Panel, An Evening of Critical Conversation About Art 5/6/11" Panel
Colleen Asper, Ariella Budick and Jeffrey Kastner join David Cohen to discuss: Julia Jacquette: Water, Liquor, Hair Anna Kustera, 520 West 21st Street Josephine Meckseper FLAG Art Foundation,...More »
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"The Review Panel, An Evening of Critical Conversation About Art 4/1/11" Panel
David Carrier, Eva Diaz, and Marjorie Welish join moderator David Cohen to discuss: Alison Knowles: Clear Skies All Week James Fuentes LLC, 55 Delancey Street Jaq Chartier: Slow Color Morgan Lehman,...More »
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"The Review Panel, An Evening of Critical Conversation About Art" Panel
"The Review Panel" is a provocative evening of debate in which moderator David Cohen is joined by panelists, Robert Storr, Sarah Valdez and Joan Walthemath to review the following current New York exhibitions...More »
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"The Review Panel" An Evening of Critical Conversation About Art
David Cohen of artcritical.com moderates a dialogue with artists/art critics/art journalists Carol Diehl, Blake Gopnik, and Elisabeth Kley. They discuss the following art exhibitions currently on view: Brice...More »
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Mid-Year Student Exhibition
- Media: Graphics - Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Digital - Media Arts
- 2010-12-10 - 2010-12-22
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"The American Art Fair" Exhibition
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Stephanie Terelak "Red Sky in the Morning"
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Greg Lindquist, Barbara MacAdam and John Perreault Review Panel
Greg Lindquist is an artist and a contributing editor for artcritical.com. Barbara MacAdam is the Deputy Editor for ARTnews magazine. John Perreault is a blogger for artopia.com.More »
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Raúl Santiago Sebazco "Diploma Program Graduation Show"
Surface & Symbols, Recent Paintings Oval Gallery, 2nd FloorMore »
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Nadia Martinez "El Bosque del Qualtron: Qualtron's Forest"
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"185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art"
The 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art will feature 65 emerging and established artists selected by a jury of National Academicians. This biennial invitational is an...More »
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"An Evening of Critical Conversation About Art" Panel Discussion
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts presents an evening of candor and controversy as Bill Berkson, Bridget Goodbody, and Robert C. Morgan join moderator David Cohen to discuss the...More »
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"Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009" Exhibit
This exhibition examines the critical role the human figure has played in the Nation’s art for the past 189 years. Transcending chronological, stylistic, and generational boundaries the exhibition will...More »
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"The 184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art"
The 184th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art will have 189 National Academy artist-members exhibiting their work. From figurative to abstraction, the art will cover many different styles and...More »
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"American Waters: Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Hudson, Fulton and Champlain" Exhibition
American Waters: Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of Hudson, Fulton and Champlain brings to light many works that have rarely been viewed by the public. This exhibition features more than 50 works drawn...More »
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"George Tooker: A Retrospective" Exhibition
George Tooker: A Retrospective is the first museum retrospective in three decades of the work of George Tooker (b. 1920), providing a comprehensive examination of his place in American art and revealing...More »
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"The Unknown Blakelock" Exhibition
The Unknown Blakelock offers new perspectives on the prescient work of Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) specifically addressing the modernity of his accomplishments as reflected in this exhibition’s...More »
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The 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
The National Academy Museum presents its biennial non-member invitational exhibition, an exceptional selection of contemporary works by over 125 of the finest artists from across the country. This Annual...More »
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The 183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
The National Academy Museum presents its biennial non-member invitational exhibition, an exceptional selection of contemporary works by over 125 of the finest artists from across the country. This Annual...More »
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Contemporary Architectural Drawings
Contemporary Architectural Drawings presents a counterpoint exhibition to the meticulously detailed renderings of Richard Morris Hunt and highlights the work of ten preeminent contemporary architects:...More »
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Recent Acquisitions
This installation presents a selection of recent acquisitions by the National Academy. The majority of works included here are known as "diploma presentations", gifts often given by the artists upon election...More »
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"Out of the Ashcan: Robert Henri and the National Academy" Exhibition
Consisting of 23 works of art this exhibition is drawn selectively from the museum's collection of work by Robert Henri and his associates, as well as a selection of painting and sculpture by artists who...More »
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Ports of Entry: Richard Morris Hunt’s Architectural Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts and the Gates of Central Park
Richard Morris Hunt’s architectural genius radiates from the chambers of The Breakers in Newport, R.I., The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., the great entrance wing to The Metropolitan Museum of Art,...More »