Spring 2017 Lectures
The NYSS Evening Lecture Series is free and open to all, bringing artists, critics, curators, historians, and scholars into conversation with students and the public.
Lectures begin at 6:30 pm and are followed by discussion and a reception.
Join us in person at 8 W 8th Street. Please RSVP by filling in the form found in the individual lecture page.
You may also register to attend via Zoom or watch live the NYSS YouTube Channel.
Supported By:
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
The Evening Lecture Series is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The New York Studio School is also grateful to our other funders including the Robert Lehman Foundation; the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; and many individual contributors.
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View past lectures on our YouTube Channel:
NYSS YouTube
David Cohen in Conversation with David Carbone and Julie Heffernan
ART BOOK REVIEW PANEL—The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century by Timothy Hyman
David Reed, Christopher Wool, and Katy Siegel
Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975
Jennifer Samet in Conversation with Jackie Gendel and Franklin Evan
Spills, Scrims, and Image Saturation
Geoffrey Dorfman
Milton Resnick at 100: A Centenary View. And a New Film, “Milton Resnick Paints a Picture”
Dennis Kardon
From the Bordello to the Clinic: The Consciousness Raising of Thomas Eakins
Frederick Ilchman, Melissa Conn, and Karen Wilkin
The Art and Science of Saving Venice
