EVENTS

Tuesday, October 1, 6:30 – 8:30pm | Sam Pollard in Conversation With Grahame Weinbren | 214 E 21st St.

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media presents a discussion with acclaimed director, editor, and producer Sam Pollard (Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children; MLK/FBI; South to Black Power; Bill Russell: Legend; Biography: Ol’ Dirty Bastard) and faculty member, artist, editor, and filmmaker Grahame Weinbren.

Wednesday, October 2, 9:00 – 10:00am | The Curatorial Roundtable: Katerina Gregos (Athens) | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Katerina Gregos, artistic director of the National Museum of Contemporary, Athens. Gregos will consider democracy, human rights, economy, ecology, crisis, and changing global production circuits in addressing her recent exhibitions “Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies),” “Statecraft (and Beyond),” and the 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Tuesday, October 8, 3:00 – 5:00pm | Uri Aran | 133/141 W 21st St., room 101C

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by the New York-based artist and program faculty member Uri Aran, part of the Talks lecture series. Aran has exhibited internationally with both group and solo exhibitions.

Tuesday, October 8, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Meryl Meisler | 136 W 21st St, room 418F

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with CLAMP, NYC and Polka, Paris representing the work of Meryl Meiser, part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Inspired by Dian Arbus, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Brassaï, and her dad Jack, Meisler, born in 1951, moved to NYC in 1975 to study with Lisette Model while documenting her own life with a queer, quirky eye. After retiring from 31 years as an NYC Public School Art Teacher, Meryl began releasing her archives in exhibits and monographs. Her photographs are a simultaneous celebration of discos and strip clubs, her Jewish family and Long Island suburb, school life in one of Brooklyn’s toughest neighborhoods, and more. Impertinent and comical, Meryl captures moments of pure joy at the center of daily hardships.

Wednesday, October 9, 5:00 – 6:00pm | The Curatorial Roundtable: Daisy Nam (San Francisco) | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Daisy Nam, director and curator of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco. Nam will talk about what she calls “curating for places and spaces,” discussing her work at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center, Ballroom Marfa, and the Wattis. She’ll discuss the ways she’s worked with artists she has exhibited in terms of physical space, historical context, and audience.

Tuesday, October 15, 3:00 – 5:00pm | Kris Grey: “Tension & Tethers” | 133/141 W 21st St, room 101C

MFA Fine Arts presents a lecture by the artist, curator, and educator Kris Grey, part of the Talks lecture series. Through individual and collaborative performances that display extreme vulnerability, Grey uses transness as a radical laboratory for building communities of affinity across identity and embodiment to interrogate the effects those systems have on access to life chances. Code switching between professional roles as an artist, educator, and activist, Grey’s social practice takes many forms. This lecture traces their unique, process-based approach to interrupting inherited systemic violence through different avenues of cultural and social engagement.

Wednesday, October 16, 9:00 – 10:00am | The Curatorial Roundtable: Hou Hanru (Paris) | Online

MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with curator Hou Hanru, independent curator, former artistic director of MAXXI (National Museum of 21st Century Arts), Rome, and one of the most prolific international curators of the last three decades. Hanru will discuss some of his early biennales that have led to more recent projects.

Tuesday, October 22, 3:00 – 5:00pm | Alice Wang |133/141 W 21st St., room 101C

MFA Fine Arts presents a discussion with the artist Alice Wang, part of the Talks lecture series. Wang makes sculptures and experimental films that interrogate medium-specificity as both a conceptual schema and in the exploration of forms. Taking a phenomenological approach where the body is the site of knowledge production situated within a non-geocentric universe, Wang ventures to the Arctic, Biosphere 2, the Mayan Pyramids, and other geological, technological, and archaeological sites to investigate the uncanny dimensions of the natural world. Using metamorphic substances such as fossils, meteorites, electrons, plants, and heat, Wang engages the medium of sculpture as a critical framework to examine metaphysical questions about the nature of reality.

Tuesday, October 22, 7:00 – 8:30pm | i3 Photo Lecture: Owen Davies | 136 W 21st St, room 418F

MPS Digital Photography presents a talk with British architectural and still life photographer Owen Davies, part of its i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series. Exploring the eccentricities of the American psyche and its relationship to the built environment, Owen seeks out the strange, surreal and often overlooked landscapes within the spaces we inhabit. Owen’s work has been shown in exhibitions in Paris (2021), London (2019, 2022, 2023), and Berlin (2023) and his work has been published in Designboom, BROAD Magazine and Grand Designs Magazine.

Features

The new semester continues with various exhibitions and events featuring guest artists, panelists, writers, filmmakers and educators.