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Category: Events
Fall 2023 Open Studios
The New York Studio School welcomes the public to visit the studios of MFA candidates & Certificate students.
November 29, 2023 · Events
Morton Feldman Returns to Eighth Street highlighted in New York Classical Review
“The connection between the composer and the school was literal, as Feldman was not just an admirer of painters like Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko, and Philip Guston (his closest friend), he served as dean of NYSS from 1969-1971.”
September 11, 2023 · Events
2023 Annual Benefit Auction & Dinner
Honoring Kelly Baum, Carroll Janis, and Veronica RyanThursday, October 19, 2023 Auction from 6-8pm at the New York Studio School, 8 W 8th StreetDinner from 8:15-10pm at Loring Place, 21 W 8th Street The New York Studio School cordially invites you to our 2023 Annual Fall Benefit. Your generous participation champions the School as a […]
September 7, 2023 · Events
Morton Feldman Returns to Eighth Street
Join us on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 6:30pm as the New York Studio School celebrates the groundbreaking and hugely influential composer Morton Feldman, who was Dean of NYSS from 1969 to 1971.
August 31, 2023 · Events
Dialogue 2018: Laurie Anderson in Conversation with William Kentridge
Dialogue 2018: Laurie Anderson in Conversation with William Kentridge. Monday, December 10, 2018.
December 10, 2018 · Events, News
![[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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