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" "We have an opportunity to do something here that was done only once before- at the Bauhaus," said David C. Levy, executive dean of the Parsons School of Design. Recalling the esthetic collaboration of the famous Weimar School of art and architecture, David Levy said the goal of the new Design Resource Center at Parsons is to provide a meeting ground for young talent and mass-market manufacturers. "
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William (“Bill”) Marvin Birenbaum (1923-2010) served as dean of the New School for Social Research’s Adult Division (also known as “the Founding Division”) between 1961 and 1964. Although his time at The New School was brief, he made an immediate and in some cases lasting impact on the university. Birenbaum is best characterized as an […]
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" The following oral history transcript is the result of a recorded interview with Benjamin Patterson on 2009 May 22. The interview took place at Patterson's home in New York, N.Y., and was conducted by Kathy Goncharov for the Archives of American Art,Smithsonian Institution. Funding for this interview was provided by the Brown Foundation, Inc. Benjamin Patterson has reviewed the transcript and has made corrections and emendations. The reader should bear in mind that they are reading a transcript of spoken,rather than written, prose. "
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Kathy Goncharov was the director of the New School Art collection for about twelve years. You can read about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Kathy Goncharov, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" "I personally was not terribly proud of some of those centers in terms of academic quality, and they were also in places that were quite remote from our ability to easily manage." Dr. Birenbaum said. "There were a few that we closed because of the academic quality. Our major problem, though, was our inability to produce the resources to carry out the promises. " "
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" The New School for Social Research was not founded for interested graduate students who did not want degrees, as J. Kirk Sale asserts ["The New School at Middle Age," July- August 1969], but for interested adults of varied educational backgrounds. The average instructional cost of New School courses is not $450-$550, but considerably higher. "
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" It was 1954 and Julien J. Studley had been working as a real estate broker in New York City for several years. Although he had mostly been handling secondary or loft space, he wanted to crack the prime office market and saw negotiating on behalf of tenants as a virtually uncharted path to starting his own company. "
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" Since its creation, the Center has changed its character dramatically from a leisure- and volunteer-activity orientation to a no-nonsense commitment to devising ways for women to get back into the mainstream. Ruth Van Doren, the director of the Center, has a clear sense of the need it fills. "The middle-class woman is suffering, just as the poverty woman, for lack of productive work," she says. "
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" According to Mr. Mocsanyi the show is the first in the United States to survey the "continuous flow" of French satire from the beginning of the 17th century to World War 1. "
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" Sondra Farganis, chairwoman of the social sciences at the New School for Social Research in New York City supports the importance of popular culture as a course of study . She also believes it belongs in the sociology or history departments. "