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Mon May 11, 6 pm: Webinar: Highlights from the NYU Grey Art Gallery's Collection



Webinar: Highlights from the NYU Grey Art Gallery’s Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art
Monday, May 11, 6:00 pm
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Join the NYU Grey Art Gallery’s Lynn Gumpert, Director, and Michèle Wong (STEINHARDT ’80), Associate Director | Head of Exhibitions and Collections, in a discussion and virtual tour of the highlights of NYU’s unparalleled and unique Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art.

Donated to NYU in 1974 by art collector and patron Abby Weed Grey, the collection includes some of the largest institutional holdings of Iranian, Indian, and Turkish modern art outside those countries. At a time when few Americans were attuned to contemporary art from the Middle East and Asia, Grey assembled a substantial collection of some 700 works.

This event is presented in collaboration with the NYU Office of Alumni Relations.

This webinar is presented in Eastern Time.

New York University is pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events and services should be submitted to alumni.events@nyu.edu. Online events will be closed captioned and posted on the NYU Alumni website after the recording ends.

The Grey Art Gallery is temporarily closed. To view our current exhibition online, Taking Shape: Abstract Art from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s, go to our website for a complete collection of images as well as the checklist and exhibit labels along with related content.

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MSSO Spring Conference

Friday, March 6th, 2020 | 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Kimmel Center, Room 903

Conference Schedule

 

Welcome + Refreshments - 9:30 am-9:45 am

 

Panel 1 - Curatorial + Exhibition Design - 9:45 am-11:00 am

    Paul Orselli, Chief Instigator, Paul Orselli Workshop

Herb Tam, Curator and Director of Ehxibitions, Museum of Chinese in America

Anna Cahn, Curatorial Assistant, Rubin Museum of Art 

 

Panel 2 - Institutional Advancement + Administration - 11:30 am-12:45 pm

     Eduardo Ayala Fuentes, Director of Development, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art 

Michele Wong, Associate Director and Head of Collections, Grey Art Gallery, NYU

 

Panel 3 - Education + Public Programs - 1:15 pm-2:30 pm

Jessica Underwood Varma, Manager for Staff Development and Costumed Interpretation, Tenement Museum

Elyse Rodriguez-Aleman, Manager of Adult and Academic Programs, Rubin Museum of Art 

Allyson Schettino, Associate Director of School PRograms, New York Historical Society 

 

Panel 4 - Collections Management, Registration, + Archives - 3:00 pm-4:15 pm

Anna Schwartz, Collections Manager, Art and Artifacts, and Exhibitions Manager, Brooklyn Historical Society

Madeleine Hazelwood, Associate Registrar, Museum of the City of New York

Weatherly Stephan, Head of Archival Collections Management, NYU Libraries 

 

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Afro Syncretic Artist Panel 

Date: February 21, 2020

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Location: King Juan Carlos Center 53 Washington Sq S 

In addition to the talk, we will have a Haitian Tea Party hosted by Wynnie Lamour who teaches Haitian Kreyol here at NYU in the CLACS department sponsored by the CLACS department.

The Haitian Tea Party is a unique experience during which we share with our guests specific information about a very particular aspect of Haitian culture – how we use the land to heal our bodies. As people of the Afro-diaspora, our connection to the land is not just tied to a history of tumultuous subjugation but also to healing, sustainable self-care, and conscious community building. The Haitian Tea Party is the space to explore all of this and more. Guests will be able to sample four traditional Haitian teas along with delicious Haitian snacks all while learning about Haitian culture and history

The artists in conversation are Fabiola Jean Louis, Melissa Misla, Lucia Hierro, Tifanny Alfonseca and Elia Alba.

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Mandatory Internship Orientation: Save the Date - Fri Oct 25, 5:30 - 7:30pm

SAVE THE DATE: 
Internship Orientation 
Friday, October 25th from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
19 University Place Room #102

Come learn all you need to know about the Museum Studies Internship Program and hear first-hand perspectives from second-year students about how to maximize your internship at NYU.

Schedule:
5:15 pm Doors
5:30 pm - Welcome Remarks and Overview with Dr. Rosanna Flouty
6:15 pm Refreshment Break
5:45 pm - Miriam Miller,  Wasserman Graduate Liaison for Museum Studies


Second Year Panel:
- Second Year Speakers talk frankly about interning in NYC and beyond! Second-year speakers include Bella Goodrich (on Villa La Pietra/NYU Florence), Xinming Xia (on Museum of Chinese in America), Norma Guzman (MSSO International Student Liaison) and more.

This session is mandatory for first-year students and optional for second-year students. Refreshments will be served.

Mandatory Internship Orientation Invitation

Congratulations to our alumna, Alexis Fleming

Congratulations to our alumna, Alexis Fleming on her new position as Curatorial Associate at the MOFAD (Museum of Food and Drink) in Brooklyn, NY. 

Historic Recordings Revitalize Language For Passamaquoddy Tribal Members - Professor Jane Anderson on All Things Considered

Click here to learn more about the project professor Jane Anderson was a part of.

 

Upcoming Event:

DEVELOPING AN INDIGENOUS DATA SCIENCE PLATFORM

Organized by Professor Māui Hudson (University of Waikato) and Jane Anderson

MONDAY, 9 SEPT 4.30 PM – 6 PM reception to follow

AI NOW INSTITUTE, 155 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, 4TH FLOOR

RSVP: https://airtable.com/shrHX8a3SybnSW5yj

Questions? Contact: alejandro@ainowinstitute.org

Click here for more info. 

 

Villa La Pietra Internship

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ALUMNA, KELLIE HONEYCUTT

Congratulations to our alumna, Kellie Honeycutt, who was just promoted to Deputy Director of the Public Art Fund! You can read more about it here.

 

Congratulations to our 2019 Grads!
Congratulations to our 2019 Grads

Congratulations to our alumna, Kimberly Kitada

Congratulations to our alumna, Kimberly Kitada on her new position as Curatorial Assistant at the MOCA in Los Angeles. She's currently working on research for upcoming 2020 exhibitions and would be happy to connect with other Museum Studies alumni at  kkitada@moca.org. 

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: INTERVIEW WITH GRACE T. WEISS

The first guest of our new feature Alumni Spotlight feature is Grace T. Weiss. Grace graduated from the Program in Museum Studies in 2015, and was interviewed by faculty member Rosanna Flouty. In their conversation, Grace talked about how she began to explore her career path through course projects, thesis research, and internships in New York, and the particular experiences that finally lead to her current position of Assistant Registrar for the Media Arts Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Read full interview here.

2018 GSAS Master's Award for Academic Achievement in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Sciences

We are excited that Joanna Epstein has received the 2018 GSAS Master's Award for Academic Achievement in the Humanities for her Museum Studies Master's Thesis entitled "Racialized Places: Historic Sites, National Self-Image and the African American Historical Record" (MA Thesis Advisor - Dr. Marissa H. Petrou, Faculty Fellow, Program in Museum Studies). Awards of $500.00 were given for the most distinguished master's thesis or final project in each academic division to those who received their master’s degrees in May 2017, September 2017, or January 2018. Recipients of this award will be acknowledged at the GSAS Master’s Convocation ceremony in May 2018. Joanna graduated with MA in Museum Studies in May 2017 and currently works as Administrative Aide at the Center for Experimental Humanities, New York University.

Museum Studies Best MA Thesis Competition (Spring 2017)

The Best Thesis award was given to Joanna Epstein for her thesis “Racialized Places: Northern Historic Sites, National Self-Image and the African American Historical Record.”

Mathilde Lejeune has been awarded the Program's Distinguished Thesis award for her work "Putting a Halt to Heritage Heist: International Efforts to Combat Art Trafficking During Armed Conflict."

Sara Lowenburg received Honorable Mention for her thesis Serving Those Who Served: Engaging Veterans in Museums.

Congratulations to the Class of 2017!

NEW FACULTY

We are pleased to welcome Kim Kanatani, Sharon Vatsky and Sheri Levinsky-Raskin to our Adjunct Faculty. Kim Kanatani, Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation will co-teach Museum Education (MSMS-GA 2224) with Sharon Vatsky, Director of School and Family Programs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Sheri Levinsky-Raskin, Assistant Vice President, Research and Evaluation, Intrepid Air, Sea and Space Museum will teach Topics in Museum Studies: Research and Evaluation in Museums.

ACHIEVEMENTS

A Russian translation of Bruce Altshuler’s book, The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the Twentieth Century, will be published in Spring 2018 by the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, with a new introduction by the author.  He will speak in Moscow on the occasion of the book’s publication.  In February 2018, for a conference at Arte Fiera in Bologna, Italy, Dr. Altshuler lectured on the relationship between the art market and exhibitions of the historical avant-garde, and in March 2017 he spoke at and organized a session on art museums for the conference Museums and their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History, at the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland.  Other museums at which he has lectured in the past few years include the Brooklyn Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Tensta Konsthalle (Stockholm), Jumex Museum (Mexico City), Museum Sztuki (Lodz, Poland), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), and Serralves Museum (Porto, Portugal). In 2016 Dr. Altshuler published essays in The Art Newspaper on the achievements of Tate Modern (London) and on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s opening of the Met Breuer.  

Dr. Miriam Basilio (joint appointment in the department of Art History with Museum Studies) was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor effective September 1, 2013. She is on sabbatical leave for academic year 2013-14, working on her second book which focuses on the role of Alfred Barr in defining the "problematic term 'Latin-American art'" through his particular strategies of collection and display at The Museum of Modern Art. Earlier this year, Miriam Basilio lectured on "The Evolving Latin American Canon" at the Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX), in a two-day international symposium, From the Other Shore: Narratives and Perspectives on Spanish & Latin American Art. The symposium, which took place on May 1-2, 2013, was organized to "analyze the various ways in which ideas and perceptions about Spanish and Latin American art have evolved in the last decades..." Here is the full program of the symposium; Professor Basilio's talk and the Q&A session afterward are here and here. She also gave a presentation at the Encuentros trasatlánticos: discursos vanguardistas en España y Latinoamérica, held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) in July. Professor Basilio also lectured at the Institute of Fine Arts in October. Her talk "The Evolving Canon: Latin American Art at MoMA, 1945-55" was part of the Institute's Latin American Forum. In November 2013 she will lecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Glenn Wharton left his position as Media Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art last summerin 2013 to accept a Clinical Associate professorship in Museum Studies, effective July 1, 2013. Since then he has launched a number of research projects related to the disposition of contemporary art in museums. In 2018 he began an in-depth survey of time-based media holdings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2017 he was awarded a Guest Scholarship at the Getty Conservation Institute for research leading to a book on the conservation of contemporary art. In 2015, with Co-Director Deena Engel from Computer Science, he launched the Artist Archives Initiative at NYU. He continues to serve on the board of the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art -- North America (INCCA-NA), and as advisor to NYU's Grey Art Gallery and other arts organizations. He organized a roundtable discussion at NYU in October 2013 on Archiving Performance Art for the Future with artist Lorraine O'Grady, and spoke at the University of North Carolina on Collaborative Heritage Preservation with Descendant Communities. In November 2011, Professor Wharton published The Painted King: Art, Activism, & Authenticity in Hawai’i with the University of Hawai’i Press.