Posted in HISTORIES
1896-1904: 57 West 57th St. 1905: the main school was still at 57 West 57th; there were also studios maintained at 76 West 55th and in Brooklyn at 49 Court St. 1906: 2237-2239 Broadway, corner of 80th Street. 1909: 2237 Broadway. (At some point in the teens, the address became 2239 Broadway.) […]
Posted in READER
" The review panel endorsed as "clearly superior" a proposal in which platform space would be minimal and the buildings would seem to float like islets in the Hudson. "
Posted in PEOPLE
If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Thomas Hart Benton, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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 HISTORIES
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 […]
Posted in HISTORIES
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 […]
Posted in HISTORIES
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. […]
Posted in HISTORIES
The address at 65 Fifth Avenue has a storied past. Back in 1881, when it was a four story brownstone, the building housed the headquarters of Thomas Edison’s “new” electrical company. It became the first building to be lit exclusively by electricity. In later years it was demolished and became Lane’s Department store in 1951, […]