Panel

Feb 11, 2026 | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm

Artist Panel (In-person & Virtual)
Papunya Tula Artists: Contemporary Art and Community Activism in the Australian Desert

The Grey Art Museum at NYU is honored to host a panel with acclaimed Aboriginal Australian painters Sally Rowe Nakamarra, Marlene Nampitjinpa, Yukultji Napangati, and Mantua Nangala. Hailing from Australia’s remote Western Desert, these four women are leading members of Papunya Tula Artists, the oldest Indigenous-owned arts organization in Australia. The panelists will reflect on […]

Panel Discussion <br>Last Turn–Your Turn: Bridging Art and Science on a Changing Planet

Sep 25, 2025 | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm

Panel Discussion
Last Turn–Your Turn: Bridging Art and Science on a Changing Planet

In 1991 American artist Robert Rauschenberg created a print for the United Nations called Last Turn–Your Turn, which bears his pledge “to make the earth a secure and hospitable home for present and future generations.” Nearly thirty-five years later, in conjunction with NYC Climate Week, join us for an interdisciplinary panel in the spirit of Rauschenberg’s art and activism. Russell […]

June Leaf on Screen<br> Program 1: Jem Cohen and Panel Discussion

Sep 15, 2025 | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm

June Leaf on Screen
Program 1: Jem Cohen and Panel Discussion

The Grey and Anthology Film Archives present three programs of films and videos that document June Leaf’s life and work, and attempt to capture her profoundly creative, exploratory, and uncompromising spirit. PROGRAM 1: JEM COHEN AND PANEL DISCUSSION In the mid-1990s, filmmaker Jem Cohen sent an unsolicited VHS tape of his recently-completed film BURIED IN […]

Book Panel<br>“Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years”

Jun 18, 2025 | 06:00 pm - 07:30 pm

Book Panel
“Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years”

Join us for an evening celebrating the publication, Anonymous Was A Woman: the First 25 Years at Rizzoli Bookstore. Alexandra Schwartz, curator at the Museum of Art and Design and contributor to the catalog, will lead a panel of AWAW recipients, including Nancy Bowen (AWAW 2017), Jennifer Wen Ma (2019), and Saya Woolfalk (2023), followed […]

Webinar<br>Geographies of Modernism: Considering the modern through India, Iran, and Turkey

Dec 09, 2021 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Webinar
Geographies of Modernism: Considering the modern through India, Iran, and Turkey

Join Dr. Vishakha Desai, (Senior Advisor for Global Affairs at Columbia University), Dr. Fereshteh Daftari, (scholar and curator), and Sarah-Neel Smith (Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the Maryland Institute College of Art) in conversation with Lynn Gumpert (Director of Grey Art Gallery at NYU in New York) on modernisms in India, Iran, and Turkey respectively. Organized in partnership with the Institute at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Webinar<br>James Baldwin: Race, Media, and Psychoanalysis

Jun 24, 2021 | 08:00 pm - 09:00 pm

Webinar
James Baldwin: Race, Media, and Psychoanalysis

Join us for a panel discussion around Joseph Lovett's 1979 film profile on James Baldwin, interviewed by Sylvia Chase for ABC's 20/20. Lovett will moderate a panel with guests Victor P. Bonfilio, JD, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Annie Lee Jones, Ph.D., clinical psychologist/psychoanalyst, co-chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Race, Culture, Class, and Language (CERCCL) NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; and Aisha Karefa-Smart, author, educator, public speaker, and niece of James Baldwin. Registration required.

Panel Discussion<br>A Bridge Between You and Everything: Iranian Women Artists in Conversation

Nov 04, 2019 | 06:30 pm - 08:00 pm

Panel Discussion
A Bridge Between You and Everything: Iranian Women Artists in Conversation

Working in the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution, contemporary Iranian women artists are embracing themes of gender identity, repression, religion, and memory. In this panel, speakers will also discuss the complexities of cultural duality and the nuances of an evolving artistic discourse. Moderated by artist Shirin Neshat.

Panel Discussion<br>Abby Weed Grey’s Archive: Yesterday’s Passion, Today’s Inspiration

Oct 01, 2019 | 06:30 pm - 08:00 pm

Panel Discussion
Abby Weed Grey’s Archive: Yesterday’s Passion, Today’s Inspiration

Panel discussion moderated by Susan Hapgood, Executive Director, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, and Founder, Mumbai Art Room; with speakers Hadieh Shafie, artist, and Hamed Yousefi, filmmaker and PhD student in Art History, Northwestern University, who will explore the relevance to and influence of the archive in terms of contemporary art-making and art-historical research.

Panel Discussion<br>Modernisms in National Contexts: Perspectives on Modern Art from Turkey, Iran, and India

Sep 27, 2019 | 12:30 pm - 02:00 pm

Panel Discussion
Modernisms in National Contexts: Perspectives on Modern Art from Turkey, Iran, and India

Speakers Duygu Demir, PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sonal Khullar, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Washington; and Hamed Yousefi, filmmaker and PhD student in Art History, Northwestern University, will present their perspectives on artistic modernism in the 1960s and ’70s in Turkey, India, and Iran, respectively. Exploring the political context of modernist art in the period’s global imaginaries, they will examine the circulation of modernist discourses between these regions and the West—and also reveal how such exchanges, at both regional and global levels, produced new forms of modernist art.

Panel Discussion<br>Curating South Asian Modernism

Sep 13, 2019 | 06:30 pm - 08:00 pm

Panel Discussion
Curating South Asian Modernism

How do politics, diplomacy, and other worldviews influence both private collecting and exhibition organizing? What factors enter into a curator’s selection of works for a show? How do museums and other institutions help shape a collector’s identity? These questions and more will be considered by speakers Sean Anderson, Associate Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art; Beth Citron, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rubin Museum of Art; and Saloni Mathur, Professor of Art History, UCLA. Moderated by Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, NYU.