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Public Programs Archive

Word and image driven, the VLC public programs cross disciplines, institutions and geographies and bring together artists, writers, and academics for lectures, panel discussions, roundtables, and the occasional performance. Switchboard documents these programs in various ways.

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Public Art Fund Talks at The New School

Thomas Houseago

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Admission: $10 for single talk, $20 for full series of three talks, free for all students, as well as Public Art Fund members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

Conversation

My Best Friend: When Fiction Meets Archeology / I-Hsien Wu and Sandrine Larrive-Bass

Monday, May 10, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Malcolm Klein Room
510 66 West 12th Street, 5th floor
Admission: $8, free for all students and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID, RSVP requested

OPEN MEETING & WORKSHOP

Vogue’ology and The New School Gender Studies

Saturday, May 8, 2010—2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
The New School, Orozco Room
66 West 12th St., 7th floor
free, reservations required at vlc@newschool.edu

Discussion

The Democratic Trilemma: Rational Choice Theory and the Challenge of Designing Democratic-Decision Making

Monday, May 3, 2010 -- 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: $8, free for all students as well as New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

PANEL DISCUSSION

The Shape of Change: A Conversation

Friday, April 23, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
25 East 13th, second floor
Free

SculptureCenter at The New School

Expanded, Exploded, Collapsed?

Monday, April 19, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: $8, free for all students as well as SculptureCenter members and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID

Conversation

My Best Friend: Vladan Nikolic and Eric Werthman

Friday, April 16, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Malcolm Klein Room
510 66 West 12th Street, 5th floor
Admission: $8, free for all students and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID, RSVP requested

Public Art Fund Talks at The New School

Huma Bhabha

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Admission: $10 for single talk, $20 for full series of three talks, free for all students, as well as Public Art Fund members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

Colloquium, Film, Workshops, Installations

The Cardew Object

Friday, April 9, Saturday, April 10, and Thursday, April 15, 2010
The New School Campus
Location and admission information for each event is listed below

Colloquium, Film, Workshops, Installations

The Cardew Object

Friday, April 9, Saturday, April 10, and Thursday, April 15, 2010
The New School Campus
Location and admission information for each event is listed below

Colloquium, Film, Workshops, Installations

The Cardew Object

Friday, April 9, Saturday, April 10, and Thursday, April 15, 2010
The New School Campus
Location and admission information for each event is listed below

Panel Discussion

Confounding Expectations XI: Open Cover Before Striking

Thursday, April 8, 2010
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Admission: free

STORIES

The National Theater of the United States of America: THE GOLDEN VEIL

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 - 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: free

The Bronx Museum of the Arts at The New School

Road to Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement 1958-1968, and Beyond

Friday, March 26, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: free

Lecture

AMT Visiting Artists Lecture Series: Lin + Lam

Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street
Admission: free

Public Art Fund Talks at The New School

Matthew Monahan

Wednesday, March 17, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Admission: $10 for single talk, $20 for full series of three talks, free for all students, as well as Public Art Fund members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

STORIES

Aleksandra Wagner / Goes West

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: Free

STORIES

Pablo Helguera: What in the World

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: Free

EXHIBITION, COLLOQUIUM & PROGRAM SERIES

The Storyteller

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Parsons The New School for Design Kellen Auditorium
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center 66 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Panel Discussion

Confounding Expectations X: Photography in Context, The Projected Photograph

Thursday, December 10, 2009 – 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Streaming Culture / Art & Politics

Entangled Activisms: Emergence, Betrayal and the Possibility of Rethinking the Possible / Iain Kerr in Conversation with Brian McGrath, Petia Morozov and Nato Thompson

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street, New York City
Admission: Free

Panel Discussion

Bookforum at The New School: Getting to Work – Labor Issues in the 21st Century

Thursday, November 19, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City
$5 general admission; Free admission to all students and New School faculty, staff and alumni with ID through the New School Box Office.*

Conference

The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor

Thursday, November 12 through Saturday, November 14, 2009
Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Registration is required

Screening and Discussion

Museum Futures: Distributed

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets
Admission: Free

Lecture

Roberta Smith: “Criticism: A Life Sentence”

Thursday, November 5, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students, as well as AICA members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID
Reservations strongly recommended*

STREAMING CULTURE / ART & POLITICS

Miodrag Mitrasinovic and Carin Kuoni in conversation

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street, New York City
Admission: Free

Conversation and Art Walk

Art in the Institution/Art as the Institution: The New School Art Collection and its Institutional Life

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
The Vera List Courtyard
66 West 12th Street, ground floor
Admission: Free

Workshop

Joseph Heathcott: The City as Archive

Thursday, October 22, 2009 – 12:00 to 1:40 p.m.
Parts and Labor Gallery at The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Roundtable

The Librarians’ Circle

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School
Orozco Room
66 West 12th Street, 7th floor
Admission: Free, reservations required at vlc@newschool.edu, or 212.229.2436

Open Discussion

John Zinsser, The New York Art World and The New School: History and Possibility

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – 1:00 to 2:45 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design, Kellen Auditorium
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street
New York City
Free and open to the public

Workshop

Andy Bichlbaum’s Class, sans Andy

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 3:00 to 5:40 p.m.
Parts & Labor Gallery at The New School
New York City
Admission: Free

Lecture

Peter M. Rutkoff, The New School at 90: What Would Dewey Do?

Monday, October 19, 2009 - 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free, no reserved seating

Discussion Group

Tess Harrison

Monday, October 19, 2009 - 5:00 to 5:50 p.m.
Parts and Labor Gallery at The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Discussion Group

Ali Krasners

Monday, October 19, 2009 - 4:00 to 4:50 p.m.
Parts & Labor Gallery at The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Drawing Workshop

Thomas Bosket

Monday, October 19, 2009 – 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Parts and Labor Gallery at The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Sound Installation

WHERE ARE WE GOING? AND WHAT ARE WE DOING?

Monday, October 19 through Saturday, October 24, 2009
Parts & Labor Gallery at The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Consultation/Séance

The Future

Monday, October 19 through Friday, October 23, 2009
Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Parts & Labor Gallery at The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Exhibition and series of workshops, lectures, and Séances

By Any Name: Institutional Memory at The New School

Monday, October 19, through Saturday, October 24, 2009
Open daily, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The New School
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Journal Launch Celebration

Where We Are Now, Issue 2: Speculating on Change

Saturday, October 17, 2009 – 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Inaugural Lecture on “Speculating on Change”

Michael A. Cohen, Speculating on Change: Four Paradoxes of Our Urban Future

Friday, October 16, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Kellen Auditorium
65 Fifth Avenue, between 12th and 13th Streets
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students, as well as New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

Panel Discussion & Art Installation

Changing Labor Value

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students, New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

Screening and colloquium

Birth and Rebirth of a Nation

Saturday, September 26, 2009
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free, reservations recommended at vlc@newschool.edu, or 212.229.2436.

Panel Discussion

Confounding Expectations X: Photography in Context, Words Without Pictures

Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Conversation in collaboration with Art in General

The Mobile Archive: The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
66 Fifth Avenue at 12th Street
New York City
Admission: Free

Exhibition

Vogue-ology

Wednesday, November 17 through Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Gallery hours: 12:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Aronson Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue at 13th Street
free

Lecture

The AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School: Holland Cotter: Art Critic, So What?

Thursday, November 11, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Admission: $8, free for all students, as well as AICA members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID. Advance reservations strongly recommended. Box office hours: 1 to 7 p.m. (212) 229-5488 or email: boxoffice@newschool.edu

Lecture

The John McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture: Peter Galison

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 -- 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
$8, free for all students as well as New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

Anniversary

How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel II

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
free

Lecture / Performance

Ryan Gander

Thursday, September 16, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
Admission: $10 for single talk, $20 for full series of three talks, free for all students, as well as Public Art Fund members and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID

Anniversary

How Obscene is This! The Decency Clause Turns 20: Panel I

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 – 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street
free

Summer 2010

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Fall 2010

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