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New York University MFA Students Rethink the Body
This year’s class comes up with novel ways to think about the bodies we inhabit, the stresses they carry, and their limits of perception.
MFA Exhibitions
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Fifteen Shows in One at Bard’s Center for Curatorial Studies
This beast of an exhibition includes kinky live performances, site-specific installations, and a prevailing feeling of joyousness.
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The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
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Pratt’s MFA Exhibition Mirrors These Disjointive Times
The exhibition ruptures space to unlock novel metaphors for the abject moral environment of 2025.
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A Quiet Crescendo at the Hunter MFA Show
Worms, A Good Business Model, the second part of Hunter’s thesis show, feels like a living, breathing exhibition.
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Columbia’s MFA Show Is an Immersive Experience
The Unravelling and Exploding of Time, Space, and Matter presents student artworks that transport and disorient us.
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Pratt MFA Graduates Contemplate the Mess We’re In
Part 2 of Pratt's MFA thesis exhibition is all about depicting the toxic capitalist, racist, misogynistic, transphobic status quo in the US.
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Reclamation and Care in Hunter College’s MFA Thesis Exhibition
In the first installment of the show, students displayed sensitive material selections and candid presentations of one’s impact on an environment and vice versa.
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Pratt's MFA Students Plumb the Meaning of Belonging
A tiny room with painted tile flooring, intricate self-portraits, and textiles made of plastic waste were among the most beguiling works in the first half of the MFA thesis exhibition.
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Highlights From Columbia University's MFA Thesis Exhibition
Every corner and crevice of Columbia University's MFA Thesis show feels lived in, reflecting not just artists’ experience quarantining with their work, but also that of re-entering society.
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At CalArts MFA Open Studios, Failure Is an Option
The school’s 2022 cohort was encouraged to fail, get messy, and try new things.
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Art’s Conventional Signifiers Are No Longer Useful
Pratt’s MFA Thesis Exhibition features immersive presentations that transcend the parameters of traditional painting.