Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

Submissions // Summer Exhibition

19TH ANNUAL SUMMER EXHIBITION  PLEASE READ CAREFULLY   We are pleased to announce this year’s juried Summer Exhibition will be located at the New York Academy of Art. Please see below for timeline and guidelines.   CALENDAR 2025 April 2:  FINAL DEADLINE for receiving all online submissions (11:59pm EDT) May 14:  Notification of acceptance via email May 18:  Artist confirmation,… Read More

2017 Westminster Kennel Club Artwork Competition

The Westminster Kennel Club Artwork Competition is a skills contest in which entrants submit artwork for use and inclusion in the promotional materials for the Westminster Kennel Club 141st Annual Dog Show. Coordinated by the New York Academy of Art and the Westminster Kennel Club the competition is open to Academy MFA students and alumni, and current continuing education students…. Read More

Eye to Eye

Eye to Eye was developed by collector Laura Skoler and Dean Peter Drake. Skoler, a longtime patron of emerging artists, is a founding member of the New Museum and the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation in Paris. For Eye to Eye, Skoler selected works by a diverse group of second-year MFA students at the Academy, and invited each student to… Read More

Piss and Vinegar

  Curated by Peter Drake, Dean of the Academy, and gallerist George Adams, Piss and Vinegar unites two generations of provocateurs: five men who came of age in the 1960s and five contemporary female artists. Robert Arneson, Robert Colescott, R. Crumb, Peter Saul, and Robert Williams, whose satirical, sarcastic prints and paintings demonstrate influences from psychedelia to MAD Magazine, will… Read More