Grey Art Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Grey Art Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Mostly New Selections from the NYU Art Collection” Exhibition
Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection—originally on view March 21–June 17, 2022—will reopen on September 6, 2022 and remain on view through December 17, 2022. The exhibition presents modern...More »
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“Taking Shape Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s” Exhibition
Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s explores the development of abstraction in the Arab world via paintings, sculpture, and works on paper dating from the 1950s through the 1980s....More »
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“Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection” Exhibition
Drawing on its remarkable collection of modern Iranian, Indian, and Turkish art, the Grey Art Gallery at New York University presents Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby...More »
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“Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989” Exhibition
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings, Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989 is a long-awaited and groundbreaking survey that features over 200 works of art and related visual materials...More »
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Fritz Ascher “Expressionist” and “Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt”
Fritz Ascher: Expressionist presents works by this German Jewish artist, who lived through the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and into the postwar years. Organized by the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted,...More »
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“NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960” Exhibition
NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 portrays life in Italy before, during, and after World War II through the lens of photography. While neorealism has largely been associated with literary...More »
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“Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Film - Video installation
- 2018-04-17 - 2018-07-07
In the current global environment—with nature threatened now more than ever—how is our contemporary landscape reimagined by artists? Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime explores this intriguing...More »
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal “The Beautiful Brain”
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the first U.S. museum exhibition to present the extraordinary drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spain, 1852–1934), the father of modern...More »
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Baya “Woman of Algiers”
Baya: Woman of Algiers is the first North American exhibition of works by the self-taught Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931–1998). Known as Baya, she was born in Bordj el-Kiffan and orphaned at age...More »
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“Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson” Exhibition
New York University’s Grey Art Gallery presents the first exhibition to focus on the groundbreaking collaboration between Alfred Barr, the Museum of Modern Art’s first director, and Philip Johnson, its...More »
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Mark Mothersbaugh “Myopia”
- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Installation - Film - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2017-04-26 - 2017-07-15
A founding member of the trailblazing band DEVO, Mark Mothersbaugh (b. 1950) has been a visual artist since before the group’s formation. Beginning in the early 1970s, he has created a large body of work—paintings,...More »
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“Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965” Exhibition
Examining the New York art scene during the fertile years between the apex of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism, Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965...More »
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“A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s” Exhibition
A Feast of Astonishments is the first museum exhibition to explore the art and impact of Charlotte Moorman (1933–1991)—cellist, performance artist, and impresario. Best known for her collaborations with...More »
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“Art For Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934–2000” Exhibition
Art For Every Home: Associated American Artists, 1934–2000 provides the first comprehensive and critical overview of Associated American Artists (AAA), the commercial enterprise best known as the publisher...More »
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“Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2016-01-12 - 2016-04-02
Global/Local 1960–2015: Six Artists from Iran features works by three generations of Iranian artists born between 1937 and 1982. The exhibition presents some ten works each by six artists, examining their...More »
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“For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979” Exhibition
In the wake of World War II, Japan experienced sweeping trans-formations. Rapid industrialization and the economic surge that began in the mid-1950s were soon overshadowed by deep anxiety, sparked by the...More »
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Tseng Kwong Chi “Performing for the Camera”
Combining photography with performance, personal identity with global politics, and satire with farce, Tseng Kwong Chi (1950–1990) created a compelling body of work whose complexity is belied by its humor...More »
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“The Left Front: Radical Art in the ‘Red Decade’” Exhibition
The Left Front highlights work produced by American artists amid the economic and social devastation of the Great Depression. Joining forces in the John Reed Club and its successor, the American Artists’...More »
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“Abby Grey and Indian Modernism: Selections from the NYU Art Collection” Exhibition
In the wake of India’s independence from British rule in 1947, the country’s artists experimented with new approaches, forming its first modernist schools. During five trips to India from the late 1960s...More »
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Ernest Cole “Photographer”
One of South Africa’s first black photojournalists, Ernest Cole (1940–1990) created powerful, devastating photographs that revealed to the world what it meant to be black under apartheid. Hard-hitting...More »
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“Energy That Is All Around” Exhibition
Mission School features works by five artists—Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, and Ruby Neri—who lived in San Francisco’s Mission district in the early 1990s. By 2002,...More »
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“An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle” Exhibition
Artist Jess (1923–2004) and poet Robert Duncan (1919–1988) number among the most fascinating artistic couples of the twentieth century. After meeting in San Francisco in 1950, they created a domestic life...More »
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“Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art” Exhibition
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art is the first exhibition to survey over fifty years of performance art by visual artists of African descent from the United States and the Caribbean....More »
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Alice Aycock "Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating"
Alice Aycock creates art that explores the relationships between fantasy, science, imagination, and experience. Although she is known primarily for her large-scale installations and monumental outdoor...More »
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"Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg" Exhibition
One of the most visionary writers of his generation,Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was also a photographer. He began photographing actively in New York City in 1953, having his film developed and printed at...More »
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"Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore" Exhibition
Featuring 35 major paintings, more than 50 works on paper, and numerous sketchbooks, films, and ephemera, Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore surveys the career of a remarkable artist whose life was cut...More »
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"Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art" Exhibition
Throughout history artists have sought new and innovative ways to tell stories through visual means. Storied Past: Four Centuries of French Drawings from the Blanton Museum of Art, on view at New York...More »
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"Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970" Exhibition
Comprised of some 50 works, Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970 is the first largescale exhibition dedicated to this major Venezuelan artist to be held at a New York institution in more than 35 years. Featuring...More »
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"Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" Exhibition
Fluxus—which began in the 1960s as an international network of artists, composers, and designers—resists categorization as an art movement, collective, or group. It also defies traditional geographical,...More »
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John Storrs "Machine-Age Modernist"
John Storrs (1885–1956) was one of the most important modernist sculptors to emerge in the early 20th century. During the 1910s and ’20s, he divided his time between his native Chicago and Paris, where...More »
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"Nueva York, c. 1929: What García Lorca Didn't See (or Say)" Lecture
Lecture by James D. Fernandez on Spanish culture in New York, 1920s-40s James D. Fernández, Associate Professor and Chair of Spanish and Portugese, New York University, will explore the presence of...More »
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"Esteban Vicente, Abstract Expressionism, and the Spanish Legacy of Collage" Lecture
Daniel Haxall, Assistant Professor of Art History, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the art of Esteban Vicente, the tradition of Spanish collage, and its reinterpretation by the Abstract...More »
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Esteban Vicente Exhibition
The lyrical collages and polychrome sculptures by noted Abstract Expressionist painter Esteban Vicente are paired for the first time in a major American museum exhibition, opening January 11, 2011, at...More »
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"Künstlerplakate: Artists’ Posters from East Germany, 1967–1990" Exhibition
New York University’s Grey Art Gallery is pleased to announce the first American museum exhibition of artists’ posters created in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the 23-year period preceding...More »
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Jason Dubs "Lil Picard" Gallery Talk
An early feminist, Lil Picard (1899–1994) was a fixture in the Downtown New York art scene of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s as both artist and critic. Multitalented—she also designed hats—Picard was born in...More »
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"Lil Picard and Counterculture New York" Exhibition
An early feminist, Lil Picard (1899-1994) was a fixture in the Downtown New York art world of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s as both artist and critic. Born Lilli Elisabeth Benedick in Germany, she worked as...More »
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Talk by C. Carr "David Wojnarowicz, Photographer"
C. Carr will discuss her research for the forthcoming biography of Wojnarowicz, focusing on his photography.More »
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"Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961–1991" Exhibition
Jointly organized by New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, NYU’s repository of rare books and manuscripts, Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961–1991 features over 300 photographs...More »
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"Negotiating Form and Spirit: Abstraction in Papunya and New York" Panel Discussion
Roger Benjamin and Andrew C. Weislogel, Associate Curator, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, discuss affinities and differences between Aboriginal painting practices and Western abstraction...More »
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"Landscapes of Longing: Place and Image in the Early Papunya Boards" Lecture
The jewel-like works in Icons of the Desert refer to times and places far removed from the government reservation of Papunya where they were painted. In this lecture, Roger Benjamin, guest curator of the...More »
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"All these dots are making me dizzy: An Indigenous Perspective on the Australian Western Desert Dot Painting Movement" Lecture
Franchesca Cubillo (Larrakia), Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, will give an Indigenous perspective on the acrylic painting movement....More »
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Fred Myers "Gallery Talk on Icons of the Desert"
[Image: Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri "Pintupi Big Cave Dreaming with Ceremonial Object" (1972) Synthetic polymer paint on composition board, 35 7/8 x 25 1/8 in.]More »
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"Showing Too Much, Showing Too Little: The Predicament of Aboriginal Painting in Central Australia" Talk
In this Dean’s Lecture, Fred Myers, Silver Professor and Chair of Anthropology, NYU, will discuss a fundamental predicament of Indigenous acrylic painting in Central Australia: While the artists seek to...More »
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"New Indigenous Cinema from Australia" Film Screening
One of Australia’s most talented filmmakers, Beck Cole (Luritja/Warrumunga), will screen and discuss her documentary A Fair Go for A Dark Race, on the Indigenous struggle for citizenship in Australia,...More »
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"Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya" Exhibition
Exhibition of some of the earliest and rarest paintings by Indigenous Australian artists; artists presented at Cornell, UCLA and New York University "It is not every day that a new kind of beauty is...More »
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Nathan Lyons Gallery Talk
John Wood (born 1922) challenged “pure photography” in the 1960s when he began to employ collage, cliché verre, solarization, and lithography in his work. Encompassing Wood’s career from the early 1960s...More »
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John Wood "On the Edge of Clear Meaning"
Photographic renegade John Wood (born 1922) challenged “pure photography” in the 1960s when he began to employ collage, cliché verre, solarization, and lithography in his work. Encompassing Wood’s career...More »
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Gallery Talk with Terrie Sultan
Gallery Talk With Terrie Sultan, Director, Parrish Art Museum, and co-curator of “Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion"More »
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"Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion" Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-02-13 - 2009-04-04
Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion brings together the work of 15 internationally recognized contemporary artists, whose work explores the confrontation between classic, highly idyllic romanticism...More »
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"Damaged Romanticism" Lecture
David Pagel, Assistant Professor of Art Theory and History, Claremont Graduate University, art critic for the Los Angeles Times, and co-curator of the exhibition, will discuss his work as a newspaper...More »
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"Seeing and Wearing: Textiles in West Africa" Lecture
Lecture by John Picton, Emeritus Professor of African Art, University of London, and catalogue essayist for The Poetics of ClothMore »
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"The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art" Exhibition
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art juxtaposes a selection of the finest examples of modern and classic 19th-century textiles—from Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,...More »
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"New York Cool" Exhibition
After 1955, a number of New York School artists moved away from a “hot,” gestural style to what art critic Irving Sandler dubbed the new “cool art” of the 1960s. Although the late 1950s and early ’60s...More »