PROGRAMS

All programs are subject to change. For information, late-breaking additions,
and cancellations, visit www.nyu.edu/greyart, e-mail greygallery@nyu.edu,
or call 212/998-6780.
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Gallery Talks
Wednesday, April 23 and May 7, 6:30 pm
Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East

With Pepe Karmel, guest curator of the exhibition and Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, NYU.

Bringing It All Back Home: The New York Art Scene, 1955–65
Wednesday, April 30, 6:30 pm
Silver Center, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)

This panel discussion features Irving Sandler, leading critic and historian of the New York School; Roni Feinstein, independent scholar and guest curator of the upcoming exhibition Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, organized by the Ackland Art Museum of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Pepe Karmel. They will discuss the art of the later 1950s and early ’60s as the point of departure for pretty much everything that’s happened since then. 

Co-sponsored by NYU’s Department of Art History and Grey Art Gallery. Free of charge, no reservations, seating is limited. Photo ID required at door.

“We’re All So Damned Happy It Stinks!”
Thursday, May 8, 6:30pm
The Fales Library, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, Third Floor

In the spirit of Norman Bluhm and Frank O’Hara’s collaborative Poem-Paintings, on view in New York Cool, New York poets from several generations respond to the atmosphere of camaraderie among artists and poets downtown from 1955 to the present. With John Godfrey (City of Corners, 2008), Lisa Jarnot (Night Scenes, 2008), and Aaron Smith (Blue on Blue Ground, 2005).

Co-sponsored by Poets House, NYU’s Fales Library, and the Grey Art Gallery.  Free of charge, no reserva-tions, seating is limited.  Photo ID required at door.  Information: 212/998-2596


Related Exhibition and Panel Discussions

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976
The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue (at 92nd St.)
Information: www.thejewishmuseum.org, info@thejm.org, 212/423-3200
Exhibition on view: May 4–September 21, 2008

Art and American Culture at Mid-Century
Thursday, May 8, at 6:30 pm
Moderated by Morris Dickstein, with Ann DouglasGary Giddins,
Anne Roiphe
, and Irving Sandler.

Identity, Engagement, Judgment: Clement Greenberg
and Harold Rosenberg Then and Now

Thursday, May 15 at 6:30 pm
Moderated by Michael Brenson, with David JoselitLinda Norden,
Kenneth E. Silver
, and Catherine Soussloff.