Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

William Keller (son of Deane Keller Sr. and brother of the late Deane G. Keller (former NYAA faculty)) is an historian of architecture with an interest in cultural landscapes, borderlands, and human geography. Keller graduated from Yale and concentrated on Northern Renaissance art at Columbia University, earning his PhD in art history at the University of Delaware. Keller was on… Read More

Alexandria Smith is a mixed media visual artist based in London and New York. She earned her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University; MA in Art Education from New York University; and MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the… Read More

Julia Halperin is an arts and culture journalist, editor, and cofounder of the Burns Halperin Report, the largest report of its kind tracking equity and representation in the art world. Her writing has appeared in T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Financial Times. From 2017 to 2022, she was executive editor of Artnet News. Before… Read More

Join us for our first in-person Conversation with the Critics in 4 years! This dynamic discussion about art, culture, and community will be moderated by New York Academy of Art Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly. Danny Báez Head of Arts at Kickstarter A Dominican-born, NYC-based cultural producer and organizer. Director and founder of REGULARNORMAL gallery, one-half of the founding duo behind Puerto Rico… Read More

Joe Fig is an artist known for work that explores the creative process, the spaces where art is made and contemplated. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally with over thirty solo and fifty group exhibitions. He is the author of the acclaimed books Inside the Painter’s Studio and Inside the Artist’s Studio (Princeton Architectural Press), which share an… Read More

OG’s of the outlaw printmaking scene, Huck, Hernandez, and Fick will field tough questions and gentle prods from one of their partners in crime, Kirsten Flaherty. We’ll learn how the most energized sector of the print world came to be, how they make stuff, and what new territories they are plundering. Bill Fick is a printmaker who lives in Durham,… Read More

Join author and educator Yanely Espinal, and Senior Critic Dexter Wimberly for an in-depth and frank, online conversation about budgeting tactics and tools for visual artists. The talk will cover topics including: Why better budgeting is a key component to building your art career What are the best tools for managing the finances of your artist studio What can you… Read More

  Keith Timmons Lecture Series  Organized by Clifford Owens, Director of Critical Studies, New York Academy of Art This lecture series is supported by Keith Timmons, a Baltimore-based art collector, to convene Black artists, scholars, curators, and critics at the New York Academy of Art during the 2023 – 2024 academic year.   David Antonio Cruz (b. 1974, Philadelphia) received… Read More

Drawing, Photography, and the Representation of Space with Kurt Kauper Before the middle of the 19th century, the representation of illusionistic space–the impression that the flat plane of the paper was a spatial expanse opening up before the viewer – was primary in the drawings of European artists. With the invention of technical images–photography and everything that followed–and their unavoidable… Read More

Laurie Simmons has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (TX), the Jewish Museum, New York (NY); the Neues Museum, Nuremberg (DE) and a career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL). Her work is included in many public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago (IL); the Corcoran Gallery… Read More