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A View From The Studios (Roll 2 / 2)

A View From The Studios Roll 2 / 2 By Maya Koenig The New York Academy of Art operates like a family home, with many bedrooms (studios),  and living rooms (classrooms) where siblings (MFA students) spend a majority of their life for the  next two years making their work.  Here is a second glimpse of that world, taken with an Olympus OM-2… Read More

A View From The Studios (Roll 1 / 2)

A View From The Studios Roll 1 / 2 By Maya Koenig The New York Academy of Art operates like a family home, with many bedrooms (studios),  and living rooms (classrooms) where siblings (MFA students) spend a majority of their life for the  next two years making their work.  Here is a glimpse of that world, taken with an Olympus OM-2… Read More

Pattern, Color, Texture – Observing the History

The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Holly Ann Sailors (MFA 2012)Its 3:50 am. I am thinking about painting. The birds are beginning to chirp, and the… Read More

Eric Telfort: Keeping the Brushes Wet, part 4

The New York Academy of Art is pleased to present the next installment in this new series on our blog. Eric Telfort, a 2009 graduate of the New York Academy of Art, blogs with us about “keeping the brushes wet.†Follow us as Eric writes about what it’s like to be a working artist. Continued from the last post: Delayed gratification. This… Read More

Eating My Still Life

The Academy sends four students to enjoy a two-month residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in the historic Spinnerei in Leipzig. Holly Ann Sailors, Aleah Chapin, Nicolas Holiber and Alexander Barton blog with us while they’re on residency in Germany. By Nicolas Holiber (MFA 2012)Haben Sie Schweinefüße? “Do you have pigs feet?†was the first complete German sentence I… Read More

Artists’ Talk: Yu Hong and Liu Xiaodong

  Yu Hong, Colorful World, 1992, 70×71 in.,  oil on canvas Join us for a very special visit from preeminent Chinese artists Yu Hong and Liu Xiaodong. They will present a lecture on their work with curator and translator Michelle Loh. The husband and wife pair both teach at the Central Academy in Beijing and have shown their individual artworks… Read More

LIVE FROM THE STUDIOS: Mary Harju

Join Mary in her studio when we broadcast LIVE FROM THE STUDIOS at the New York Academy of Art. Watch & Chat LIVE Tues. 3/22/11 at 1pm EST http://www.nyaa.edu/nyaa/studentlife/livefromthestudios.html Live Broadcasting by Ustream Mary Harju is a graduate of both the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BFA in painting. She… Read More

Lecture: Jeanne Silverthorne

  Jeanne Silverthorne, Nightshade, courtesy McKee Gallery Jeanne Silverthorne is an artist who lives and works in New York. She is best known for sculptures cast in rubber, but her installations often include photographs, videos and kinetic elements as well. She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art,… Read More

Elizabeth Sackler Lecture

Elizabeth A. Sackler is an arts activist and a public historian who lectures and writes on ethics and morality in the art market and beyond. The idea of a place, a center, bound to equality without artificial constraints led her to found the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, home of “The Dinner Party†by… Read More

(i’ve got a secret)

Everybody loves to get in on a SECRET… and every artist is holding something back.   Whether it’s a SECRET self, a SECRET place, or a SECRET body of work, “i’ve got a secret” represents the mysterious and hidden, subtly tucked away thoughts that our artists always wanted to share… but haven’t.   January 14 ~ March 19, 2011Tuesday –… Read More