Author Archives: jelm

Nato Thompson in Conversation with Sharon Louden

Nato Thompson joined Creative Time in January 2007. Since then, Thompson has organized such major Creative Time projects as The Creative Time Summit (2009-2015), Kara Walker’s A Subtlety (2014), Living as Form (2011), Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures (2012), Paul Ramírez Jonas’s Key to the City (2010), Jeremy Deller’s It is What it is (2009, with New Museum curators Laura… Read More

It’s a MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD Panel

For over sixty years MAD has been introducing some of the most outrageous draftsmen to generations of young people hungry for absurd humor, extraordinary art and a poke in the eye of complacency. This panel brings together Al Jaffee, Sam Viviano, Liz Lomax and Peter Kuper all of whom have continued the MAD tradition of great drawing in the service… Read More

Contemporary Stone Carving in the Shadow of the Masters

Presented by Jonathan Tibett and ABC Stone the panel, consisting of Steve Shaheen, Dionisio Cimarelli, Brice Esso and Jiannan Wu will focus on contemporary stone carving and the effect of working in the shadows of the masters.

Academy Summer Residencies 2016: Giverny

Our third essay from Giverny, France comes from Kristina Reddy MFA 2017. Every morning I would wake up with the sun – happy, and excited to start the day. And who wouldn’t be, if they awoke in a beautiful home, situated amidst gardens and chirping birds! It is impossible not to see the French countryside as somehow “romantic.” I think… Read More

2016 Chubb Fellows Exhibition

Each year, the Academy selects three outstanding graduating MFA students as Chubb Postgraduate Fellows. Generously supported by Chubb Personal Risk Services, the year-long fellowship is the highest honor the Academy bestows and covers studio space, teaching experience and a stipend. Kathryn Goshorn, Esteban Ocampo, and Sarah Schlesinger were selected upon their graduation in 2015, and on September 6, the Academy… Read More

Academy Summer Residencies 2016: Giverny

Our second essay from Giverny comes from Matthew Durante MFA 2017. Giverny is an inspiration. I paint both the landscape and the figure, but here the landscape is such that to paint anything else would seem to miss the point. It is enchanting. I want to thank the New York Academy of Art and the Terra Foundation for an unparalleled experience…. Read More

Academy Summer Residencies 2016: Giverny

Our first dispatch from France comes from Naudline Pierre MFA 2017.  The Normandy region. What a lush place—the colors are so fresh and vibrant: golds, greens, more greens, and all manner of chromatic excitements found in the flora. This place is like a dream. Old medieval towns with faces and figures carved into their wooden beams, church bells ringing to… Read More