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Category: Student Perspectives
Student Perspective: Betsey Lindor (CFA 2026)
“The Studio School felt like a different environment compared to what I was used to in the past. And I wanted to go to an art school, not necessarily a college that had an art program. I wanted intense work. I wanted more discipline. I wanted to expand my creativity and not be limited to a small space. I wanted to have instructors. I wanted to experience a different environment in a community setting.”
May 25, 2026 · Student Perspectives
Student Perspective: Muzzammil Mehdi (MFA 2026)
“There’s a lot of occult mysticism and mythology and folklore and all this stuff that you learn about as a kid in a whole different part of the world in Pakistan that you don’t really learn about in other parts of the world, like the US. And I try to bring some of that with me when I’m in my practice. Symbols and intersections and influences. I think it makes my vision sort of unique in a way, but also in conversation with the rest of the world and broadens it.”
April 7, 2026 · Student Perspectives
Student Perspective: Francie Cook (MFA 2026)
“I love to capitalize on the childhood experience of just trying something and seeing how it goes. And being a novice and not having all of the rules and regulations and what is right and what is wrong and what is formal. It’s honest play. And it’s honestly me figuring out how to do the thing.”
March 23, 2026 · Student Perspectives
Student Perspective: Adrianna Krajnovic on Life-Sized Figure Sculpture Marathon
“One thing I want to highlight about the Marathon overall is the community of students. It was so amazing being there every day and working with people who were all committed to the same project. There was such a diverse background—one student was from Mexico and another person was from Taiwan, and there were multiple people from all over the US who came to this class.”
October 28, 2025 · Marathons, Student Perspectives
Student Perspective: Chloe Miao on 2025 Summer Marathons
“I think there need to be more Marathon-ish things that exist in the city, or art education in general. That’s how I feel. I wanna see more art education. Because I think at the Studio School, I find it very welcoming to different levels of experience.”
August 29, 2025 · Marathons, Student Perspectives
![[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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