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Public Programs

Word and image driven, the VLC public programs cross disciplines, institutions and geographies and bring together artists, writers, and academics for lectures, panel discussions, roundtables, and the occasional performance. Switchboard documents these programs in various ways.

Matthew Monahan, "The Martial Tune," 2009, courtesy of Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Huma Bhabha, "The Orientalist," 2007, courtesy of Salon 94, New York; Thomas Houseago, "Untitled (Red Man)," 2008, courtesy of Michael Werner Gallery, New York.
Public Art Fund Talks at The New School

Matthew Monahan

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Admission: $10 for single talk, $20 for full series of three talks, free for all students, as well as Public Art Fund members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

“It’s interesting to see how
inanimate the figure can be, how
figurative art dies, how it scars,
how it shatters into mere things,
how it turns to dust…”

– Matthew Monahan
b. 1972 in Eureka, California, lives in Los Angeles

This spring’s Public Art Fund Talks series features three artists whose works reinvent and extend the language of figurative sculpture for a new era. Neither literal portraits nor…

Posted on March 9, 2010

James H. Karales, Selma to Montgomery March, Alabama, 1965
The Bronx Museum of the Arts at The New School

Road to Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement 1958-1968, and Beyond

Friday, March 26, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: $8, free for all students, New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID, free for The Bronx Museum of the Arts members

Held in conjunction with The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ exhibitions “Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968″ and “After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy,” the Vera List Center and the Bronx Museum present a panel discussion with photographer Julian Cox, curator of African American culture and of the exhibition “Road to Freedom”; Doris…

Posted on December 17, 2009

Colloquium with Workshops and Performances

The Cardew Object: The Dynamic Control of Changes in Time

Friday, April 9 through Sunday, April 11, 2010
See complete program schedule below
Admission: $8, free for all students, New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

As an extension of The Cardew Object at the ICA London (November 2009), this celebration of British avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew (1936 – 1981) is a collaboration between Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Studies, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at NSGS. Instigated by 2009-10 Vera List…

Posted on December 21, 2009

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