NYAB Events - Grey Art Gallery

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.

"Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Performance Art
- 2011-09-09 - 2011-12-03
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 »
John Storrs "Machine-Age Modernist"
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-04-12 - 2011-07-09
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 »
"Nueva York, c. 1929: What García Lorca Didn't See (or Say)" Lecture
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2011-02-23 - 2011-02-23
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 »
"Esteban Vicente, Abstract Expressionism, and the Spanish Legacy of Collage" Lecture
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2011-02-17 - 2011-02-17
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 »
Esteban Vicente Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2011-01-11 - 2011-03-26
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 »
"Künstlerplakate: Artists’ Posters from East Germany, 1967–1990" Exhibition
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- Media: Prints
- 2010-09-07 - 2010-12-04
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 »
Jason Dubs "Lil Picard" Gallery Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2010-05-19 - 2010-05-19
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 »
"Lil Picard and Counterculture New York" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2010-04-20 - 2010-07-10
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 »
Talk by C. Carr "David Wojnarowicz, Photographer"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2010-02-04 - 2010-02-04
C. Carr will discuss her research for the forthcoming biography of Wojnarowicz, focusing on his photography.More »
"Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961–1991" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography
- 2010-01-12 - 2010-04-03
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 »
"Negotiating Form and Spirit: Abstraction in Papunya and New York" Panel Discussion
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-11-06 - 2009-11-06
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 »
"Landscapes of Longing: Place and Image in the Early Papunya Boards" Lecture
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-11-05 - 2009-11-05
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 »
"All these dots are making me dizzy: An Indigenous Perspective on the Australian Western Desert Dot Painting Movement" Lecture
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-10-22 - 2009-10-22
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 »
Fred Myers "Gallery Talk on Icons of the Desert"
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-09-23 - 2009-09-23
[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 »
"Showing Too Much, Showing Too Little: The Predicament of Aboriginal Painting in Central Australia" Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-09-17 - 2009-09-17
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 »
"New Indigenous Cinema from Australia" Film Screening
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- Media: Film - Art Talk
- 2009-09-12 - 2009-09-12
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 »
"Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2009-09-01 - 2009-12-05
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 »
Nathan Lyons Gallery Talk
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-05-13 - 2009-05-13
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 »
John Wood "On the Edge of Clear Meaning"
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- Media: Photography
- 2009-05-12 - 2009-07-18
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 »
Gallery Talk with Terrie Sultan
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-02-18 - 2009-02-18
Gallery Talk With Terrie Sultan, Director, Parrish Art Museum, and co-curator of “Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion"More »
"Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion" Exhibition
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- 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 »
"Damaged Romanticism" Lecture
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-02-05 - 2009-02-05
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 »
"Seeing and Wearing: Textiles in West Africa" Lecture
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- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-11-12 - 2008-11-12
Lecture by John Picton, Emeritus Professor of African Art, University of London, and catalogue essayist for The Poetics of ClothMore »
"The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Fashion
- 2008-09-16 - 2008-12-06
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 »
"New York Cool" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2008-04-22 - 2008-06-19
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 »