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The Parsons fashion design program has been the starting point for many of today’s industry leaders. Not many people know that before Tim Gunn was the host of Project Runway, he was the Chair of Fashion at Parsons School of Fashion. We’re looking at all of the notable people who have come through Parsons as an important […]
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One of the many reasons the New School is proud of the Orozco Room is the relative rarity of “true fresco” murals in the United States. The Orozco murals are sometimes trumpeted as “the only true fresco murals installed the United States” or “the only true fresco murals installed in New York City.” The former […]
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Once in a while, a team encounters a hitch during project making that opens up a new layer of investigation. That hitch, for us, came as we were gaining access to the famous Orozco murals on the 7th floor of 66 W. 12th Street. The Orozco Room, as it is called colloquially, is generally closed […]
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A New School masterpiece made an unexpected showing in the movie The Monuments Men (2014). The film was about the European artworks that the Nazis scoured away in mines during World War II, hoping to gather, own, and control civilization. An eagle-eyed Mark Larrimore noticed a conspicuous American artwork featured in the trailer, however. Behind Matt Damon […]
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The New School has its well-known triumphs, from the rescue of persecuted scholars that formed the University in Exile to its groundbreaking courses in film, psychoanalysis, and urban studies. But, as with most institutions, there is little attention to more controversial decisions. Starting September 30, 2014, there is a grand display of one of them. […]
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The Parsons table is not a physical object but an idea, the platonic ideal of a table, characterized by a simple form, unadorned, adaptable to any material, with legs as wide as the tabletop is deep. The “ur-modern” table, the “essence of tableness,” it is capable of assuming many different forms: a singular model with […]
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It was during Gina Luria Walker and Ellen M. Freeberg’s Women’s Legacy class at the New School that I was introduced to Vinnette Carroll. Ellen Freeberg had come across Carroll’s name in the New School Archives. In doing research, I discovered that Vinnette Carroll was the first black woman to enroll in the Dramatic Workshop […]
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The ceiling is painted black, excepting the reflecting area in the center and around the walls which are white. To the level of the tops of the doors, the walls are painted in colors, one section being orange and the next yellow with blue next to that and so on. The floor is dark blue. […]
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Seymour Lipton was a sculptor who taught at the New School for Social Research from 1940 to 1965. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Seymour Lipton, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. For more in the New School Archives on Seymour Lipton, see […]