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In Memory of Hon. J. William Middendorf II
The New York Studio School mourns the passing of our dear friend and longtime Board Member, the Hon. J. William Middendorf II, who died on October 24, 2025, at the age of 101.
November 4, 2025 · News
The Conrad Fund for Teaching Fellowships
The New York Studio School is honored to announce a transformative gift of $500,000 from Parker and Alexandra Conrad and the Conrad Family. This generous donation establishes the Conrad Fund for Teaching Fellowships, an endowed fund dedicated to supporting visiting faculty of exceptional distinction in drawing, painting, sculpture, and related media.
September 29, 2025 · News
Letter from Executive Director Matthew Ritchie
“It is my privilege to write to you as the new Executive Director of the New York Studio School, a position originally held by Sidney Geist when the School first opened. I am an alumnus of the school and studied there in the 1990’s, alongside many of the faculty and alumni on the Board of Governors. As a radically independent institution, operating in an historic building that has hosted a hundred and twenty years of American art and artists, I believe the New York Studio School is uniquely positioned to evolve and thrive in the twenty-first century.”
September 8, 2025 · News
Historic Plaque Honoring Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
New York Studio School and Village Preservation unveiled of a plaque on our historic facade honoring Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, organized by Village Preservation. NYSS is housed in the site where Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney had her art studio and founded the first museum devoted to contemporary American art, the Whitney Museum of American Art.
May 12, 2025 · History, News
Remembering Graham Nickson
The New York Studio School mourns the passing of our very own Graham Nickson (August 30, 1946 – January 28, 2025). We remain forever grateful for Graham’s elevating presence, oceanic knowledge, and profound generosity of spirit. Here we publish remembrances and stories of Graham submitted by the NYSS community.
April 2, 2025 · 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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