Visit
The School is located on West 8th Street, between Sixth Avenue/Avenue of the Americas and Fifth Avenue. Join us for our free exhibitions and lectures, or visit our historic library.
The Gallery is free and open seven days a week from 10 am to 6 pm. Visit our exhibition page to see current & upcoming exhibitions.
We would also love to welcome you to the New York Studio School for a tour & meeting to learn more about our Programs. To schedule a tour, please email Director of Admissions & Student Services Anki King at aking@nyss.org.
For inquiries about accessibility, please contact info@nyss.org.
Parking
Parking is available at on-street meters on 8th Street and at these nearby garages: GMC Parking Washington Square (next door to the School); The Brevoort Parking Corporation, 20 E.9th Street; The Brevoort Garage, 21 E.12th Street; East 12th Street Garage Corporation, 17 E.12th Street.
Public Transportation
Subway
W 4th St./Washington Square: A, C, D, E, F, and M lines (exit towards 8th St)
8th St./NYU: R, W lines
Astor Place: 6 line
Christopher St./Stonewall: 1 line
Bus
East 8th St & 5th Ave: M1, M3, M3, M8, M55
Admissions Tours
We would love to welcome you to the New York Studio School for a tour & meeting with our Recruitment Coordinator to learn more about our Programs.
Join Us In The Gallery
The New York Studio School offers a full program of exhibitions in its historic gallery space.
Come To A Lecture
All Evening Lectures begin at 6:30pm and are free and open to the public.
Visit The Library
The Library provides an online catalog to check the holdings of the collection, as well as access to research databases and indexes that aid in scholarly research.
![[RSVP FULL] We are currently at capacity for Bob Nickas' lecture, "Has Contemporary Art Run Its Course?", happening tonight on October 14th, 2026. There will be overflow space open in the downstairs gallery.
A critic and curator based in New York, Bob Nickas has organized more than 130 exhibitions since 1984. He was on the teams responsible for Aperto at the Venice Biennale in 1993, the 7th Bienal d’Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2003, and Greater New York 2005, at MoMA/PS1, where he served as Curatorial Advisor between 2004-07. Along with Peter Halley, he was founding Editor of Index magazine, which he helmed between 1996-2000. His writing has been widely published and translated, and five collections of essays and interviews have been published to date: Live Free Or Die (2000), Theft Is Vision (2008), The Dept. of Corrections (2016), Komplaint Dept. (2018), and Corrected Proofs (2023). He also published a yearlong daily diary, Yesterworld, (2022). In 2024, he founded the New York Art Critics Association.
At MoMA/PS1, Nickas organized the first U.S. museum survey exhibitions for Lee Lozano, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tom Sandberg, and Peter Hujar, as well as curated projects with Mike Cloud, Trisha Donnelly and Torbjorn Rodland. A prolific writer, he has authored and contributed to numerous monographs and books, among them for On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Yayoi Kusama, Dan Walsh, Stephen Shore, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anne Collier, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Tomma Abts, Robert Grosvenor, Vija Celmins, Salvo, Peter Bradley, and Kathleen Ryan.
Nickas has lectured at many museums, art schools, and universities over the past forty years, and taught at Columbia University and New York University.
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