TSENG KWONG CHI @ The Grey Art Gallery

Combining photography with performance, personal identity with global politics, and satire with farce, Tseng Kwong Chi (1950–1990) created a compelling body of work whose complexity is belied by its humor and grace. Born in Hong Kong, raised in Vancouver, and educated in Paris, Tseng moved to New York in 1978, where he quickly became a key documentarian of Manhattan's vibrant downtown scene. He also began crafting the performative self-portraits—"selfies" avant la lettre—that form the backbone of his artistic practice, exploring the questions of personal and political identity that preoccupied many artists of his generation.

April 21 - July 11, 2015 

@ The Grey Art Gallery | 100 Washington Square East

Featuring cutting-edge examples from Tseng’s archive that have rarely or never been shown, Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera is the first major solo museum exhibition of his works, which have long sparked the imaginations of younger artists. Organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. 

Check out the full story online here!

Visit the Rubin Musuem with CAS Today!

In New York with no plans for the day?  Join the CAS Advising team for a FREE visit to the Rubin Museum of Art!

 

We will be having a guided tour of the special photographic exhibition of Witness at a Crossroads: Photographer Marc Riboud in Asia, plus so much more!

Meet in the Silver Center 9th Floor Lounge at 2:30pm, TODAY!

 

 

Guided tour begins at 3:00pm, so we will take the short walk over together.  

 

After the tour, you are more than welcome to enjoy the rest of the museum at your leisure.

Rubin Museum of Art

150 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011

 

See you this afternoon in the Silver Center Lounge area!

Modernity 3.0: Bridging East-West Art

80 Washington Square East

Now Through July 12th

"Modernity 3.0 intends to respond to the current crisis of Western modernity as part of a cosmopolitan course involving a worldwide transition of views. In this ongoing transition, a modernity referred to as Modernity 1.0 - characterized by traditional nation states - was transplanted by Modernity 2.0 - an ultimate form of globalization, where a compressed world without any boundary arose. However, such a compressed, globalized world producing the core notion of proximity, i.e. a world without any layer or distance, seems to no longer match today’s cultural and economic developments. We seem to have achieved a state of Modernity connoting a world where multidimensionality and the novel notion of rooted cosmopolitanism has erased a totalitarian form of globalized proximity."

80WSE

Energy That is All Around

Grey Art Gallery Exhibit

NYU, Silver Building, 1st Floor

 Mission School: Chris Johanson
Margaret Kilgallen, Alicia McCarthy
Barry McGee, Ruby Neri 

"In the early 1990s, many aspiring San Francisco artists lived and worked in the Mission District, a gritty, low-rent area of the city. Among them were San Francisco Art Institute undergraduates Alicia McCarthy, Barry McGee, and Ruby Neri, along with friends Chris Johanson and Margaret Kilgallen. Turning their backs on the Bay Area dot-com boom—which brought to the neighborhood an influx of young professionals, upscale shops, chic restaurants, and eviction threats—they embraced street aesthetics and lowbrow visual culture such as cartoons, signage, and folk art. All made and promoted graffiti; all had tag names. All moved easily between representation and abstraction, the street and the studio, and worked in various media including painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, and installation. Although each developed a distinct artistic style and philosophy, they all were drawn to the radical and the political. Not surprisingly, all took inspiration from Bay Area Figuration, the Beats, Funk art, and Punk. They likewise witnessed how hard San Francisco was hit by the AIDS epidemic. By 2002, these high-octane and previously obscure artists were retroactively dubbed the Mission School by critic Glen Helfand.

The Mission School, however, is less a movement than an ethos. Nor does ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND purport to be a definitive survey. Instead it focuses on rarely seen early work by five key Mission School practitioners. Johanson, Kilgallen, McCarthy, McGee, and Neri often collaborated and showed their work in the same alternative venues. Moreover their art evokes a paradox: while it appears to be slapdash and unfinished, it is actually highly considered and resolved. With the exception of Margaret Kilgallen—who died prematurely in 2001—they remain friends and still share an affinity for humble and/or discarded materials, a devotion to community, and an anti-consumerist stance. Highlighting their aesthetic contributions as well as subversions, ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND provides a raffish and spirited introduction to the distinctive work of some of California’s most innovative contemporary artists."

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/

Rubin Museum of Art

Join us this Thursday!

CAS International Student Coffee Hour will be another event away from campus:

Thursday, February 27th

Meet at 2:45pm at CAS Advising 

(Silver 905) 

Walk to the Rubin for a guided tour!  

Admission to the Rubin Museum is FREE with your NYU student ID!

The Rubin Museum of Art holds a prominent collection of art from the Himalayas and surrounding regions. This event is perfect for anyone with an interest in South Asia and its history, various cultures, diverse religious traditions and fascinating artistic forms. Check the website here for more information!

Coffee Hour Special Event - Today!

This week’s Coffee Hour will meet at the NYU Grey Art Gallery at 3:30pm.  The gallery is located on the first floor of the Silver Center, entrance at 100 Washington Square East.  We will provide basic snacks.

At the Grey Art Gallery, we will take a guided tour of the current Modern Iranian Art show, which has been put on in collaboration with the Asia Society.  NYU has a wonderful, world-renowned collection of modern art from Iran that is showcased in this fascinating exhibit.  Refer to these links to learn more:

 

NYU Grey Art Gallery: http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/

New York Times Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/arts/design/shows-at-asia-society-and-nyu-grey-art-gallery.html

Finally, stay tuned for the upcoming Holiday Dinner on Thursday, December 12 (5:30pm-7:00pm), which is being co-sponsored by CAS and the CAS International Student Club (ISC).  The dinner will be held in the normal Coffee Hour room – Silver Center, 9^th floor, room 907.  We will have holiday-themed food as well as some activities and film clips.  More details to come…

We hope to see you all later today!

Focus on NYU: Grey Art Gallery

Fine Arts Museum on Campus!

New York City is well know for its many museums, galleries, and cultural centers located all around the city.  But did you know we have all of that right here on campus??  The Grey Art Gallery is located right on Washington Square Park in the Silver Center building.  Like most museums and art galleries, the Grey works to collect and preserve fine art.  In addition, the Grey:

"...distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts of programmatic planning. Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum-laboratory in which a broader view of an object's environment enriches our understanding of its contribution to civilization." 

Free for NYU students!

While you're there, make sure you check out "Radical Presence: Black performance in Contemporary Art" (through December 7th) - "the first exhibition to survey over fifty years of performance art by visual artists of African descent from the United States and the Caribbean." 

http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/index.html