Posted in PEOPLE
Vera L. Zolberg, a pioneer of sociology of arts and memory studies, was born in Vienna in 1932. Amidst the growing anti-Semitism her family left Vienna for the United States in 1935, travelling together with Louis Armstrong who was just returning from his European tour, and who enjoyed playing music for the kids in his […]
Posted in PEOPLE
As an actor, director, political activist, and writer, Judith Malina exemplified the creative dynamism of the New School. Born on June 4, 1926 in Kiel, Germany, Malina spent only the first three years of her life in Europe before her family emigrated to New York City in an attempt to escape rising anti-semitism. The daughter […]
Posted in PEOPLE
Paul Mocsanyi (in Hungarian, Mocsányi Pál) initiated and directed the New School Art Center for about 15 years. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1900, to a grain merchant family and attended various universities in Budapest, Vienna, and Paris, where he studied art and music without pursuing a degree. German and Hungarian were his […]
Posted in PEOPLE
One of Ecuador’s most important 20th century artists, Camilo Egas, built the first Art Department at the New School that included on its faculty Berenice Abbott, Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Lisette Model during his 30 years of directorship. Born in Quito, Ecuador, in 1889, Egas studied art in his hometown and later in Rome […]
Posted in PEOPLE
Vera Glaser List, daughter of a Latvian house painter, was one of the New School’s most generous, devoted, and faithful patrons. She was born in 1908 in Fall River, Massachusetts. The arts dominated her life, even though no one around her was very interested in or collected art. [1] Coming from a not very well-off […]
Posted in PEOPLE
Bob Adelman took photography classes with Alexey Brodovitch at the New School in the 1950s and became one of the photographers regularly documenting the life of the New School in the 1970s and 1980s. [1] He also taught photography courses at the school, including “Thinking Images and Innovative Images” from 1976 to 1977, and “Photo […]
Posted in HISTORIES
In Spring 2014, Shannon Mattern’s graduate course in Media Studies, “Digital Archives + Institutional Memory,” investigated the history of Media Studies at the New School. The students created a Scalar-based online exhibition here. Featured image via words in space.
Posted in PEOPLE
“Breaking the rules, taking risks comes at a price,” says Sondra Farganis, Director Emeritus of both the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (VLC) and the Wolfson Center for National Affairs at the New School (WC). Dr. Farganis was a draft resistance counselor during the Viet Nam War. In her oral history interview for […]
Posted in PEOPLE
You walk into her office on the ninth floor of Joseph Urban’s Modernist architectural masterpiece, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, at 66 W. 12th St. She gives you a warm smile with a firm, friendly handshake. BB: Hello, I’m glad to be here, Gerard. Not a lot of people care about my history here at The New School. […]
Posted in HISTORIES
An American modernist composer during the 1920s and 30s was, for all intents and purposes, not on the radar screen. Not only was he/she unnoticed but in some quarters even distained by the mainstream concert community. To be American and modernist in the same breath carried a double burden. On the one hand, they were […]