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Conversation with the Critics, featuring Jori Finkel, Siddhartha Mitter, and Sebastian Smee

Posted on August 30, 2021

Jori Finkel is a journalist who covers art from the West Coast for The New York Times and The Art Newspaper. Her writing has also been published in W magazine, Art in America, ARTnews, and Art+Auction magazine, where she was previously a senior editor in New York. She lectures regularly at museums and art fairs and also appears on NPR, PBS and CNN broadcasts as part of her larger project of making contemporary art more accessible. In 2018 she developed and co-produced for KCET the Emmy-nominated documentary Artist and Mother. Her book It Speaks to Me: Art that Inspires Artists (Prestel) was called “fascinating” by Publishers Weekly and “an argument for why art museums matter” by New York magazine.

Sebastian Smee is an art critic for the Washington Post and the author of “The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art.” He won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2011 while at the Boston Globe and teaches non-fiction writing at Wellesley College. He has written books on Lucian Freud and Mark Bradford, and is currently writing a book about Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet during the siege of Paris and the Paris Commune, 1870-71.

Siddhartha Mitter writes about art, creative communities, and their social context. His writing includes artist profiles, scene stories and reported essays, and criticism. His stories have engaged particularly with art and culture work in the urban United States, in the American South, and in multiple locations in Africa, from where he was reporting frequently prior to the pandemic. Currently, Siddhartha writes mostly for the New York Times. He has also contributed recently to W Magazine, National Geographic, and others. He was a regular contributor to the Village Voice prior to its closure in 2018; previously he wrote for the Boston Globe (on music) and was the culture reporter at WNYC New York Public Radio from 2006-09. Siddhartha has also contributed to Artforum, Art in America and others.

2021 Summer Residency Exhibition

Posted on June 24, 2021

 

During the summer of 2021, the following MFA 2021 alumni participated in an onsite residency program: Zoë Davis, Regiane Donadio, Santiago Galeas, Timon I, Kayley Kemp, Heather V McLeod, Hannah Murray, Ellie Kayu Ng, Rohini Sen, Jed Smith, Javier Tovias, Julie Walsh, and Jeffrey Wood.

In addition to studio space and an exhibition at the end of the residency, the artists also met with the following for studio visits:  Hugo Bastidas, Kate Clark, Richard Dupont, David Ebony, Emma Fernbeger (Ross+Kramer Gallery), Paddy Johnson, Paul Laster, Veronica Levitt (Casey Kaplan Gallery), Claire Lieberman, Erik Parker, Natacha Polart (Off Paradise Gallery), Walter Robinson, Seph Rodney, Magda Sawon (Postmasters Gallery), Barbara Segal,  Steve Shaheen, John Silvis, Alia Williams (Jeffrey Deitch Inc), and Gwenolee Zurcher (Zurcher Gallery).

The summer residents had tours at the following artists’ studios: Will Cotton, Barry X Ball, Robert Feintuch and Rona Pondick, and Alexi Worth.

The summer residents also toured the following collections: The FLAG Art Foundation, Robert and Suzanne Cochran, Bernard Lumpkin, and John Thomson.

 

 

2021 Certificate of Fine Arts Exhibition

Posted on June 24, 2021

 

 

 

2021 Chubb Fellows Exhibition

Posted on June 24, 2021

 

The health and safety of our staff, artists, and guests is our top priority. Based on the latest guidance from federal, state, and local health officials on preventing the transmission of COVID-19, we will require attendees to provide valid proof of vaccination upon entry, wear a mask, and follow all other safety protocols while attending the 2021 Chubb Fellows Exhibition. Proof of vaccination may include a CDC vaccination card or an NYS Excelsior pass.

See below to tour the exhibition virtually.

Courtesy of Eazel / @eazel.art / #Eazel

 

2021 Staff Exhibition

Posted on June 8, 2021

 

 

 

 

Summer Exhibition 2021

Posted on May 17, 2021

Click here to view the exhibition digital booklet

 

2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Posted on April 22, 2021

Click here to view the 2021 MFA Thesis Catalog

 

 

Courtesy of Eazel / @eazel.art / #Eazel

 

 

 

Tribeca Ball 2021 Student Artwork

Posted on April 5, 2021

Chubb Fellows 2021

MFA Class of 2021

 

MFA Class of 2022

 

 

CFA Class of 2021