Workers from The New School Archives reflect on issues, debates, conundrums and fascinations that emerge while collecting, preserving, organizing and describing the archives.
This 2014 exhibition investigated three episodes when art roused protest at the New School.
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
There is a tendency nowadays to downgrade the thirties. The reason for this is that the prevailing mood of the thirties was what used to be called “left of center.”