Contents

  • Histories

    Essays on periods and aspects of New School history, partial and evolving.

  • People

    Profiles of people who have passed through the New School. Entries focus on their time at the school.

  • Reader

    Readings, artworks, and materials by and about people associated with the school, including faculty, staff, and students.

  • Reflections & Analysis

    Podcasts, scholarly commentary, and opinion.

About

This website seeks to explore and interrogate the past at a school dedicated to the new. Contributions by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and researchers.

Editors
Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History
Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Wendy Scheir, Director, New School Archives and Special Collections

Connections
The New School Archives Digital Collections from the Archives Public Seminar The New School

Contact
[email protected]

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Category: Arts

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A Space to Collectively Reflect

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A Space to Collectively Reflect Created by Ana Holschuh, Charlotte von Hardenburgh, and Jennifer Simonton   March 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of remote learning for students at The New School. We, the students, were all collectively disrupted, but our experiences were individually felt. To memorialize this moment, we archived the experiences and emotions of […]

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New Talks Podcast

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New Talks: International Voices for the Arts By Marissa Giblin, Sara Valbuena, Nakai Falcon This project was conducted as part of the class “Curating Public Memory” in Spring 2021.   This podcast series is a platform that focuses on the experiences of international students involved in creative practices at The New School during the pandemic. […]

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Oral History Interview with Benjamin Patterson

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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

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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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Patrons of Progress

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" The Art Center's first curator Paul Mocsanyi, was responsible for more than a quarter-century of provocative exhibitions on art and social themes, and for an ongoing exhibition series, The Artist Thinking of Our Time, from 1987 to 2000, Kathleen Goncharov, the first curator hired with the specific mission of building a collection, greatly expanded New School University's artistic holdings. "