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Dean Who Shepherded NY Studio School’s Signature Drawing Marathon Retires
After 36 years, Graham Nickson leaves behind a legacy that championed drawing as the basis for understanding art and the world.
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New York Studio School MFAs Get Serious
The artists in this year’s MFA thesis exhibition have formulated some novel responses to meet the existential dread of this moment.
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Lennart Anderson’s Blindness and Vision
The artist, who had macular degeneration, closely scrutinized his subjects, even as he fictionalized them.
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Discover the Artist Community at the New York Studio School
The School offers a free lecture series, evening and Saturday classes as well as a full program of exhibitions, twelve months a year, free and open to the public.
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Meet the MFA Students of New York Studio School
Now accepting applications for Fall 2019. Apply by February 15.
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Curators Debate the Pros and Cons of All-Women's Art Shows
In the wake of #MeToo, all-women's art shows have taken on new significance. But whether such shows are an effective strategy for achieving gender equity in the art world is still up for debate.
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The New York Studio School's MFA Thesis Show Builds on Modern Art History
In their paintings, sculptures, drawings, and installations, the students of the august art school demonstrate their fluency with formalism and, in a couple of instances, their interest in avian imagery.
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Summer Marathons at the New York Studio School
Two week intensives in drawing, painting, or sculpture are an amazing way for professional artists and students of all levels to gain new strategies and find tremendous growth.
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The Hushed Brilliance of James Castle's Mysterious Drawings
An exhibition at the New York Studio School gathers about 50 of Castle's strangely poetic drawings and cardboard constructions.
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James Castle: People, Places & Things on View at the New York Studio School
The exhibition includes rarely seen books, ephemera, and sources of inspiration from the James Castle Collection & Archive LP and The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation Inc.
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Tinkering with the Technophilia of Fernand Léger
Léger's sophisticated, imaginative examinations of the machine aesthetic coincided with one of history's most fraught technological periods.
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The New York Studio School Is “Not for the Faint-Hearted,” Says Dean Graham Nickson
"The New York Studio School is a place where the power of images is still searched for, the philosophy of drawing still present, and the quest for tangible form still engaged."