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Leipzig Residency 2017

During the summer of 2017 Atalanta Arden-Miller (MFA 2018), Aidan Barker-Hill (MFA 2018), Naomi Nakazato (MFA 2018), and Arngrimur Sigurdsson (MFA 2018) participated in a two-month Artist-in-Residence Program hosted by Leipzig International Art Programme, in Leipzig, Germany. The Academy’s Leipzig residency is made possible by the New York Academy Travel Fund, the Villore Foundation and Trustees Gordon Bethune and Eric… Read More

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

Art Review: Coming to Power at Maccarone Gallery

Art Review: “Coming to Power” at Maccarone Gallery by Anastasiya Tarasenko MFA 2017 Alice Neel Nadya Nude, 1933 Just as our own Take Home a Nude auction is right around the corner, “Coming to Power” offers a scintillating look inside the world of the artist, for whom the forbidden fruit hangs low and always within reach. While sexual imagery used to… Read More

Art Review: Jonathan Gardner at Casey Kaplan Gallery

Art Review: Jonathan Gardner at Casey Kaplan Gallery by Stephanie del Carpio MFA 2017 “Bather with a Yellow Towel”  As artists, and more so as painters, we have a complex relationship to the past. Jonathan Gardner embraces it and reinvents it into a wonderful pastiche of figures and patterns. His reverence for art history feels genuine and the historical references… Read More

Interview with Steve Mumford

“Empire” Steve Mumford Interview by Claire Cushman MFA 2015 “I tried heroically to be an Abstract Expressionist in the late 80s and early 90s,” says Steve Mumford, when asked how he came to paint scenes of war. “It took me years to shake that and realize I wanted to return to my illustrational roots, to tell stories with my paintings.”… Read More

Interview with Lisa Rosen

by Claire Cushman (MFA 2015) “People tend to think that “golden” (more like murky) hues of older paintings were the artists’ original colors,” says Lisa Rosen, director of Fine Art Restoration. “But this isn’t the case. The further back in time you go, the richer and more vibrant the colors were. Color screamed MONEY. It’s just that the varnish used to cover… Read More