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Word and image on paper become postcards, posters, books, pamphlets, maps, and sometimes a sticker.

Announced: The 2009-10 Art Collection Writing Award Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009/2010 Art Collection Writing Award. In a first, this year’s competition garnered entries from four New School divisions – Parsons, Lang, NSGS, and NSSR – by students from such diverse programs as Design & Management, International Affairs, Fashion, Fiction & Non-fiction, Writing & Literature, Media Studies, Poetry, Anthropology, and Fine Arts.

On…

Posted on September 20, 2009

By Any Name: A Tiny Archive of Critical Viewpoints on The New School

By Any Name (PDF) celebrates The New School’s 90th anniversary at a time when the university contends with a highly publicized period of internal criticism and activism. The voices assembled in this publication examine the school’s legacy of progressive pedagogy and institutional policy, and ask that it remain a catalyst for social transformation in the future.

The related exhibition and series of…

Posted on November 18, 2009

Considering Forgiveness

Edited by Aleksandra Wagner with Carin Kuoni

Inspired by the 2005-06 cycle of public programs, Considering Forgiveness is the first in a series of forthcoming books that examine pressing issues of social, cultural and political relevance from a multitude of perspectives. The Considering Forgiveness volume is edited by Aleksandra Wagner with Carin Kuoni, with curatorial advice by Matthew Buckingham. It features textual and visual contributions commissioned from scholars, activists…

Posted on September 20, 2009

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