October 2014 - New York Academy of Art

Take Home a Nude, and an Interview with Gabriela Palmieri

Posted on October 22, 2014

By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015) Gallery 1 Closing You may have heard of “Take Home a Nude” and wondered whether this annual fundraising auction featured dates with the New York Academy of Art’s nude life models. Allow me to clarify – Take Home a Nude, wherein academy students, alumni, and other artists donate works to raise money for Academy Scholarships… Read More

Artist-in-Residence Program at China 2014

Posted on October 17, 2014

During the summer of 2014 Tamalin Baumgarten (MFA 2015), Dana Kotler (MFA 2015), Arcmanoro Niles (MFA 2015), and Ryan Schroeder (MFA 2015) participated in a six-week Artist-in-Residence Program on the University of Shanghai campus. At the end of the residency all four artists participated in the group exhibition Mutual Interests 3 Cross Culture Exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery at… Read More

Babies on Top of Cabinets, Surrealist Mollusks, and a Life Sized Mermaid

Posted on October 14, 2014

AN INTERVIEW WITH SENIOR CRITIC JUDY FOX By Claire Cushman (MFA 2015) “It’s hard to say life is small, delicate, and vulnerable unless you can show the real size of life,” says New York Academy of Art’s newest Senior Critic Judy Fox. On September 17th, Fox discussed the presence of abstraction in sculpture with renowned abstract sculptor and Pace artist… Read More