Webinar

Webinar<br>Joseph Grigely and Emily Watlington in Conversation
Apr 09, 2021 | 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Join Joseph Grigely, artist and writer, and Emily Watlington, critic and curator, in conversation on art, disability, apologies, and other matters. Organized by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Registration required.

Webinar<br>Reading and Conversation: “Golem Girl: A Memoir” (Riva Lehrer, 2020)
Mar 12, 2021 | 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Join us for a reading of "Golem Girl: A Memoir" (2020) and a conversation with authors/artists/disability activists Riva Lehrer and Sunaura Taylor. Riva Lehrer’s memoir is a vivid portrait of her life, growing up disabled and Jewish, discovering her sexuality and her place as an artist in the emerging world of Disability Culture. Organized by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Registration required.

Webinar<br>Screening and Discussion: “Vision Portraits” (Rodney Evans, 2019)
Mar 05, 2021 | 04:00 pm - 06:30 pm

Join us for a screening of "Vision Portraits" (2019) and discussion with filmmaker Rodney Evans and performance artist/dancer Kayla Hamilton. This feature-length documentary chronicles the creative paths of blind and visually impaired artists—photographer John Dugdale, dancer Kayla Hamilton, writer Ryan Knighton, and the director, award-winning filmmaker Rodney Evans. Organized by the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Registration required.

Webinar<br>Walk + Talk through “Taking Shape” with Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation and Visiting Instructor at Boston College
Mar 04, 2021 | 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm

To celebrate the virtual opening of "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s" (on tour after its debut at the Grey in 2020), the McMullen Museum of Art invites guests to join Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi,  Founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation and Visiting Instructor at Boston College, for a virtual tour and Q+A session on the exhibition. Al Qassemi will introduce major themes in "Taking Shape" and will offer background and anecdotes on how the collection and the exhibition came together. Visitors are welcome to ask questions along the way. Registration required.

Online Event Series<br>Day With(out) Art 2020
Nov 30, 2020 | 06:00 pm - 09:00 pm

Grey Art Gallery at New York University is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2020 by presenting TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las […]

Webinar<br>Perspectives on Museum Reopenings
Nov 23, 2020 | 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm

Join us for a panel discussion with Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery; Cindy Caplan, Chief Counsel & Talent Officer, The Jewish Museum; and Jason Busch, Director and Chief Executive Officer, American Folk Art Museum; joined and moderated by POWarts Steering Committee member Molly Kurzius, Director of External Affairs, MoMA PS1. The group will discuss their paths to reopening (or decision to remain closed), management shifts, creative fundraising and programmatic initiatives, and what comes next as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Registration required.

Webinar<br>Resilient Antibodies: Creative Responses to COVID-19
Nov 10, 2020 | 06:30 pm - 07:30 pm

Art communities began responding almost immediately to COVID-19, mobilizing everything from zines to exhibitions, online performances, and street photography. This panel will explore early curatorial, photographic, and grassroots collective responses to the pandemic. With speakers Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Documentary Photographer; César Garcia-Alvarez, Curator, Writer and Executive & Artistic Director of The Mistake Room, an international nonprofit art space in Los Angeles; and Theodore (ted) Kerr, Writer, Artist, and Community Organizer. Moderated by Pato Hebert, Associate Arts Professor and Chair, Department of Art & Public Policy (TSOA), NYU. Registration required.

Webinar<br>Historicizing the Avant-Garde Context in Korea: From Experimental Arts to Collective Groups
Nov 18, 2020 | 06:00 pm - 07:00 pm

The lecture will be given by the Institute's alumna, Professor Yeon Shim Chung on the occasion of her latest edited book, Korean Art From 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction, published by Phaidon in June 2020. The discussion will focus on Korean experimental avant-garde art in the 1960s and 1970s and its global context. Professor Chung will be examining Korea's reception and response to international trends such as earth art and time-based art forms. In particular, she explores the identity of Korean avant-garde art, which includes both early installations and performance art. Registration required.

Webinar<br>Behind the Scenes at the Grey: Cultivating Talent at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, from Graduate Curatorial Assistants to Art World Luminaries
Nov 12, 2020 | 06:00 pm - 07:00 pm

In this conversation moderated by the Grey’s Director, Lynn Gumpert, three of the gallery’s former Graduate Curatorial Assistants who went on to become art world luminaries discuss their current projects and look back on their time at the Grey. Featuring Nora Burnett Abrams, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Ian Alteveer, Aaron I. Fleischmann Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Kim Conaty, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art. Registration required.