The Cardew Object: Exhibition in the Skybridge Art & Sound Space

New School faculty Sarah Montague and Simonetta Moro and their students in the Skybridge Curatorial Project present an exhibition celebrating Cornelius Cardew’s work and the events below. The Skybridge Art & Sound Space hosts multi-media exhibitions and curriculum-based projects in …

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 …


Offense and Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging

Twenty-five years ago, a furor erupted at The New School when Sekou Sundiata, poet, performer, and professor, scrawled his dissent across a blackface image exhibited in the Parsons Galleries. His “X” inspired others and 40 signatures soon covered the image. …

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 …


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

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.” …


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. …