“A Working Model of the World” Curatorial Walk-through

The Curatorial Design Research Lab is pleased to co-host a curatorial walk-through of the upcoming exhibition, “A Working Model of the World” on Friday, September 29th, 4pm. Curator Dr. Lizzie Muller (UNSW Art & Design) will guide visitors through the …

3rd Annual CDRL Curatorial Slam! 4/21/17, 6:30-9PM

3rd ANNUAL CDRL CURATORIAL SLAM! 

What is Curatorial Work Today?

Friday, April 21, 2017

6:30-9PM

The Orozco Room (A712) / 66 W. 12 Street 

Parsons’ Curatorial Design Research Lab (CDRL) is a community of practice comprised of faculty, staff and …


2nd Annual Curatorial Slam! 4/22/16, 4–7pm

2ND ANNUAL CDRL CURATORIAL SLAM!
What is Curatorial Work Today?

Friday, April 22, 2016
4–7pm
The Orozco Room (A712) / 66 W. 12 Street

Parsons’ Curatorial Design Research Lab (CDRL) is a community of practice comprised of faculty, staff

Anti-Illusion: Procedures/ Materials

Anti-Illusion was a catalytic exhibition, which articulated some of the key terms of the paradigmatic shift in postwar art and theory. Including artists working in a variety of media, the exhibition was significant in its redefinition of “the artist” and …


Still Working? – Skybridge Art Exhibit

Eugene Lang College’s Practicing Curating class presents Still Working?, an exhibition which shows the distinction between work and play. Set in the innovative home of the New School offices, this show enacts the very hybrid state it puts into question.…

Authority Figures

“Authority Figures” is an exhibition-as-pretext for research and documentation. Its binding premise is direct, yet open-ended—what does it mean to make a picture of the forces that subordinate subjects, willingly or not? The artwork appears to answer this question, to …


Art, Environment, Action!

Art, Environment, Action! is a creative teaching laboratory and environmental “artshop.” Bringing together artists, designers, architects, dancers, chefs, and scientists who work at the intersections of art, pedagogy, and ecology, it invites the public to join them to transform and …

MASTERPIECES OF EVERYDAY NEW YORK: OBJECTS AS STORY

There are more than 8 million ordinary objects in this city that carry within them a sense of its inimitable expression. They express its thundering diversity or a thorough particularity; they connect us to other places, past and present, or …


The New School History Project

The New School was founded in 1919. Or 1896, when the Chase School of Art began, which eventually evolved into Parsons School of Design. Or 1933, on the occasion of the University-in-Exile, which became the Graduate Faculty in Political and …

Voices of Crisis

VOICES OF CRISIS explores the American Race Crisis lecture series held at The New School in 1964. The original series, intended to broaden understanding of the struggle for racial equality, brought leading lights of the civil rights movement to The …


ALL OVER THE PLACE: PARSONS POSTERS FROM THE KELLEN DESIGN ARCHIVES

These posters — many designed by Parsons’ students and faculty — date primarily from the 1970s-1990s. The Kellen Archives holds materials that document the history and creative output of Parsons The New School for Design, its students, faculty, administrators, and …

The Sue Coe Printmaking Residency

A collaboration between artist Sue Coe, Parsons Printmaking Program, Vera List Center, The New School Art Collection

Born in England, Sue Coe came to the United States in 1972 and began work as an illustrator for the op-ed page of …


(re)collection

(re)Collection looks at the daily lives of art objects and examines the role of an art collection within a university setting. The exhibit will showcase newly acquired work, expose works rarely seen due to fragility, scale or subject matter, and …

Inspiring Women

“Inspiring Women” was an exhibit held in conjunction with the conference “No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at The New School.” The exhibition was made possible in part with support from the School of Art


Ultra Red: Vogue-ology

Vogue’ology contains seemingly incompatible elements: aesthetic experience and political activism; community events and forensic research; public manifestations and private workshops. As part of the Vera List Center’s 2009–2011 focus theme, Speculating on Change, Vogue-ology comprised an exhibition accompanied by a …

Living Concrete / Carrot City

Living Concrete/Carrot City is an exhibition of creative and research projects that demonstrate the possibilities of urban agriculture. The exhibition links sociologist Thomas Lyson’s coinage “civic agriculture” to Joseph Beuys’s influential formulation of social transformation and individual creativity, “social sculpture.” …


#search under occupy

Occupy Wall Street (OWS), like other social and political movements of our time, is instantly archival. Continually documented by traditional and new forms of digital and social media, OWS produces an active dialogue with itself, even as it engages with …

Radical Shifts

In the 1960s, Parsons’ renowned Interior Design program underwent a dramatic overhaul. Renamed Environmental Design, the program broke through traditional disciplinary barriers, embarking on an ambitious pedagogical experiment and expanding the role of design as an agent of social transformation. …


Against All Odds Project: Ethics/ Aesthetics

As an interdisciplinary collaboration, Against All Odds explored ways that architects, artists and designers are devising innovative aesthetic strategies to tackle ecological, social and economic crises within their local environments.The project manifested in an academic conference featuring talks by Parsons …