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Is Art History? A Panel Discussion on the Selected Writings of Svetlana Alpers

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Oct 28, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

Poster image with image of mirrors extending into infinity

Samir Gandesha—Prophets of Deceit Today

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Nov 18, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm EST

Image of the speaker Samir Gandesha and the book cover of Prophets of Deceit

Cinema & Politics: Machuca at 20 with Roberto Brodsky

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Dec 2, 2024; 6:00 - 8:30pm EST

Poster for film Machuca with name of screenwriter Roberto Brodsky

Wafa Ghnaim—Tatreez Resistance: The Traditional Art of Palestinian Embroidery in the Diaspora

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Jan 22, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm EST

Wafa Ghnaim wearing a piece of Tatreez embroidery with red and blue colors, standing outside

Malynne Sternstein on Love without Hope: Walter Benjamin’s Trials with Surrealism

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Feb 10, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm EST

Image of Walter Benjamin huddled over library books, with text below on speaker Malynne Sternstein

David France—Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Mar 31, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

Poster for film How to Survive a Plague, activists with fists raised, sunrise imagery

Anne Anlin Cheng, Women on Walls: Architecture, Projection, and Envy

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Apr 8, 2025; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

Scholar Anne Anlin Cheng standing in front of bookshelf, black and white photo

Past Events

Frances Fox Piven—Election 2024: Is Everything Going To Be OK?

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Sep 30, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

Online

Frances Fox Piven poster, with Piven looking pensive

Suzanne Anker: Arctic Gardens and the Sixth Extinction

BFA Visual & Critical Studies BFA Fine Arts Honors Program

Sep 16, 2024; 7:00 - 8:00pm EDT

Bio-art work Pyrexia, with intermixed natural and artificial colors and shapes, by Suzanne Anker

Suzanne Anker: Arctic Gardens and the Sixth Extinction

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Aug 6 - Sep 25, 2024

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Superimposed photographic images of a landscape over several seasons.

My Body in this Space

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

April 24 - 26, 2024

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Poster for performance series showing the day, time and artists involved. There is an image of a black circle on a green background behind the words.

Remembering Bayard Rustin

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program Diversity Equity & Inclusion

Mar 26, 2024; 6:00 - 8:00pm EDT

Event poster, with image of Bayard Rustin speaking in New York

Sarah Stolar: Selected Works from The Grief Club

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Mar 21 - Apr 19, 2024

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Photographic image of an iphone on a stand taking video of a woman.

Keren Moscovitch: Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Mar 19, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

SVA Library West

Book cover of a blue toned set of portraits with the text "Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art" over it in white

Sonando el Suelo/Sounding the Ground

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Feb 18 - Mar 14, 2024

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Photographic image of a hand one a keyboard. The keyboard has two ricks on it.

Aura Rosenberg: What is Psychedelic?

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Jan 23, 2024; 6:30 - 8:00pm EST

SVA Library West

Poster for event, What is Psychedelic, with Aura Rosenberg art photo of man's face in ecstasy

Frances Fox Piven: Way Beyond Normal

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Nov 14, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm EST

Online

Poster for event, twisted clay American flag

Artist’s Journal: Letterpressed

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Nov 1, 2023 - Jan 5, 2024

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Photograph of a hand cleaning a letterpress plate.

Renzo Aroni: Protest Songs and Political Mobilization in Peru

BFA Visual & Critical Studies SVA Library Honors Program

Oct 24, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

SVA Library West

Poster for event, with clay face

Charles Traub: Skid Row

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Sep 21 - Oct 26, 2023

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Black and white photographic portrait of a man

Kay Gabriel: A Queen in Bucks County

BFA Visual & Critical Studies SVA Library Honors Program

Sep 19, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

SVA Library West

Poster for event, with title, details, and image of clay arrow and eye

Leigh Behnke: Time Travelers and Ghost Ships

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Aug 2 - Sep 15, 2023

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Oil painting of a ghostly ship in a modern-day park in early Autumn. The ship is a light yellow/white with large translucent sails.

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

June 13 - 30, 2023

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Poster for Somewhere exhibition featuring the name of the three artists over grey cloud pattern.

Another Last Dance

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Apr 27, 2023; 5:00 - 8:00pm EDT

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Poster with text including details for open studios event. Text is white and the background is an old, wooden floor with splattered paint.

Intimate Documents

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Apr 24 - May 3, 2023

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Image of seeminlgy confidential documents spread blue tablecloth with white flower designs. The image is based off the recently retrieved classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

Art in a Democracy

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Apr 10, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

Theatrical poster for event

Shells for Teeth

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Mar 23 - Apr 20, 2023

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Black and white photograph of the two artists standing barefoot in front of a large tree root.

Alex Kitnick on ‘Normal Art’

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Mar 20, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

An artwork depicting three men tucked into a bed in the sky

The Neighborhood of the Self

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Feb 18 - Mar 17, 2023

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Sculpture made out of different shaped canvas.

Radical: A Political Graphic Novel

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Feb 9, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm EST

Graphic novel cover by artist Sofia Warren of a person (Senator Julia Salazar) standing at a podium with the title "Radical: My Year With a Socialist Senator" overhead

do you know what i mean?

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Jan 26 - Feb 13, 2023

SVA Flatiron Gallery

3-color screenprint in red, yellow, blue, and white featuring a blonde person holding a cigarette. The smoke plume turns into a speech bubble that says "DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?"

Ben Davis: Art in the After-Culture

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Jan 23, 2023; 6:30 - 8:00pm EST

Event poster with machine image

The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Dec 5, 2022; 6:30 - 8:00pm EST

Poster of world and event title

Frances Fox Piven On the Midterms and American Fascism

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Nov 10, 2022; 6:00 - 7:30pm EST

Online

Frances Fox Piven, among piles of papers, looking steadily ahead

The Object Speaks

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Nov 3 - Dec 1, 2022

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Painting of a yellow feathered vest with a zipper down the middle against a gray background

The Art of Time in “End Times”

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Oct 17, 2022; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

Event poster with climactic swirl in blue

The Magician’s Breakfast

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

October 4 - 28, 2022

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Small painting of a man in red and orange about to be beheaded by a green axe held by a green knight.

Stickers and Society

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Sep 19, 2022; 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT

Event poster with stickers

A Sticker History Exhibition

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Aug 29 - Sep 29, 2022

SVA Flatiron Project Space

info graphic for Sticker History Exhibition A Snapshot from 100 Years of Design Told Through Adhesive Materials

CANCELLED

Shells for Teeth

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

August 4 - 24, 2022

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Photograph of two hands in black latex gloves coming out a shell and holding an organic amorphous shape with skin tones.

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Jun 2 - Jul 1, 2022

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Black and white photograph of a nude with large gestural brushstroke of orange an another of red at bottom

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Apr 26 - May 2, 2022

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Image is the top half of a sculpture made of a notebeook with tassels and ribbons on the sides. Written on the notebook are different measurements.

Identity, Art and Migration

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Apr 14, 2022; 6:00 - 7:30pm EDT

Lines of flight, list of speakers

Insurgent Practices Against Neoliberalism: Artists in a Changing NYC

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Mar 24, 2022; 6:00 - 7:30pm EDT

Online

info graphic with hands setting out cards, listing the speakers

Winter Drawing Marathon

Continuing Education

Feb 11, 2022; 6:00 - 9:00pm EST

Online

person looking up at arches

CANCELLED

Book Discussion: Nivedita Majumdar, The World in a Grain of Sand

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Feb 10, 2022; 6:00 - 7:30pm EST

Online

Event poster, distorted globe

Wrong Man at the Right Time

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Dec 2, 2021; 6:00 - 7:30pm EST

Online

Cover of Judith Stein book, Eye of the Sixties

Democracy and its Discontents

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Nov 18, 2021; 6:00 - 7:30pm EST

Online

Red, white and blue poster featuring event information

Afghanistan: 20 Years of War

BFA Visual & Critical Studies Honors Program

Oct 7, 2021; 6:00 - 7:30pm EDT

Poster with missiles

Correspondence: The Installation

BFA Visual & Critical Studies

Aug 4 - Sep 10, 2021

SVA Flatiron Project Space

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