Lecture: “The Picture Is the Window”: Abby Grey and Intrepid Art Collecting Hosted by Rollins Museum of Art, Rollins College Original Program Date: October 25, 2022 Watch a lecture from Lynn Gumpert, director of the New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, exploring 1960s and early 1970s modernisms in Iranian, Turkish, and Indian art. Selected […]
Original program date: July 6, 2022. This virtual event celebrated the newly translated memoir of Berthe Weill, a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the twentieth-century art world. Watch Lynn Gumpert (Director, Grey Art Gallery) and Pepe Karmel (Associate Professor of Art History, New York University) discuss Weill’s Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting (University of Chicago Press, June 2022).
Original program date: June 27, 2022. Watch the recording of a special in-person conversation at the Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC, celebrating Berthe Weill’s Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting (University of Chicago Press, June 2022). The book's editor, Lynn Gumpert (Director, Grey Art Gallery), joined Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (curator, art advisor, gallerist, and activist) and Carlo McCormick (curator and critic) in conversation.
We at the Grey are heartbroken by the loss of our friend Julie Saul, an entrepreneurial Manhattan gallerist and NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts alum who championed many photographers and multimedia artists. Saul passed away on February 4, 2022, from leukemia.
Behind the Scenes at the Grey: Cultivating Talent at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, from Graduate Curatorial Assistants to Art World Luminaries Organized by NYU Alumni Association and Grey Art Gallery Original program date: November 12, 2020 Graduate Curatorial Assistants play an essential role in the life of NYU’s Grey Art Gallery. Selected each year […]
Engaging Art Lynn Gumpert In Conversation with Roslyn Bernstein, PhD Organized by Grey Art Gallery, NYU Original program date: October 19, 2020 Join Roslyn Bernstein (GSAS ’67, ’74), art critic, professor of art journalism, and author of the just-released Engaging Art: Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe, and Lynn Gumpert, director of NYU’s Grey Art […]
One Singular Sensation Presented by the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University Directed and Edited by Sam Vladimirsky On May 6, 2020, the art world lost Tom Sokolowski, Zimmerli Art Museum Director and previous director of the Grey Art Gallery, who co-founded the organization Visual AIDS and its annual observance Day With(out) Art. Each year on December 1, coinciding […]
Behind the Scenes at the Grey Joseph Burwell and Reuben Lorch-Miller in Conversation with Lynn Gumpert Organized by Grey Art Gallery, NYU Original program date: October 13, 2020 Artists Joseph Burwell and Reuben Lorch-Miller join Lynn Gumpert, director of NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, for a wide-ranging conversation focusing on their multimedia works—which range from painting, sculpture, and printmaking to installation. […]
Original program date: July 28, 2020. What is an art scene? How does one form? In this conversation, "Inventing Downtown" curator Melissa Rachleff joined a conversation with Director of NYU's Grey Art Gallery, Lynn Gumpert, and Maya Allison, Executive Director of The NYUAD Art Gallery. Taking the exhibition "Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965" as a point of departure, the conversation explored questions around the definition and formation of art scenes.
Original program date: June 12, 2020. In response to the worldwide outcry against racial injustice, Art at a Time Like This presented a special program featuring Lynn Gumpert, director of the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, and Noel Anderson, artist and professor in NYU’s Department of Art and Art Professions. They discussed matters ranging from discrimination in education and the art world to teaching studio art remotely to the future of museum and university programming in the age of COVID-19.