Category Archives: Lectures

 Featuring Bo Bartlett, Vincent Desiderio, Zoey Frank, & Amy Sherald moderated by Noah Buchanan and Carl Dobsky Against the backdrop of the Big Stories exhibition at the New York Academy of Art, four of the nation’s leading figurative painters meet to discuss The Narrative in art, and its evolving role in today’s world. Reserve Tickets Bo Bartlett (b. 1955,… Read More

Join Senior Critic, Dexter Wimberly, and lawyer/artist James Nepaulsingh for a lively, in-person conversation about the essential business skills all artists and creatives need. The talk will cover topics including: When does an artist need a contract? What to do when you think you can’t afford a lawyer. Copyright! …know who owns your work? What to do if, and when… Read More

  Aleah Chapin (b. 1986 Whidbey Island, WA) is a painter whose direct portrayals of the human form have expanded the conversation around western culture’s representations of the body in art. She has exhibited throughout the US, Europe and Asia, including Flowers Gallery (New York, London, Hong Kong), The Belvedere Museum (Vienna), the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New… Read More

Mickalene Thomas is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. She is known for her elaborate portraits of Black women composed of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Not only do her masterful mixed-media paintings, photographs, films and installations command space, they occupy eloquently while dissecting the intersecting complexities of black… Read More

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