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School of Visual Arts (SVA) is one of the nation's leading colleges of art and design. Since its inception in 1947, the College has engaged a faculty of well-known artists, critics, designers, and writers who are active and respected in their fields.
This archive page contains links to selected public programs produced by SVA in recent years.
Also check our archive for The Bio-Blurb Show, hosted by SVA's chair of the Bachelor of Fine Arts department, Suzanne Anker.
In conjunction with the New York School of Visual Arts' Visual Arts Museum exhibition Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life, this panel discussion brings together a philosopher, a poet and two artists from the exhibition to consider the social and political implications of artistic practice that is concerned with beauty. This panel discusses how personal esthetics might relate to larger historical and social questions. What are the concerns that stand behind a beautiful painting? Perhaps not those we might expect. Recorded Sept. 21, 2006 at the School of Visual Arts, Raphael Rubinstein moderates. (75 minutes)
Althea Viafora-Kress in conversation with cofounder Anne Livet of the arts management and marketing firm Livet Reichard Company, Inc. talk about creativity in collecting and play a game with the art culture. Are you an explorer, creator, critic, or warrior when you buy art? Tips are given for collecting at art fairs, benefit auctions, and galleries. What are the different visions of institutional exhibitions and private exhibitions? What are the differences of the large art fairs and satellite art fairs? Presented by School of Visual Arts specially for Art Radio Live at Art Basel Miami Beach 2006. (20 minutes)
A panel discussion entitled On Kitsch addressing the "high and low in art today" presented by the School of Visual Arts recorded by WPS1 on February 23, 2006. (94 minutes)
The participants were:
Brian Boucher, writer, editorial staff member Art in America
From Breakthrough to Cul de Sac: Recent Developments in the Social History of Art, a lecture, recorded on April 10, 2006 at the School of Visual Arts, in which Thomas McEvilley traces historical, political and aesthetic parallels and collisions between the modern and the postmodern (and the role of money in all this). McEvilley is chair of SVA's Art Criticism and Writing Department. He holds a Ph.D. in classical philology and has published widely on subjects from early Greek poetry, philosophy, and religion to contemporary art and culture including monographs on Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, and Pat Steir. (80 minutes)
This program features a lecture by the artist, critic, editor, and educator Mira Schor entitled The Art of Nonconformist Criticality; basically, how to think straight when you are surrounded by creative influences and market demands. Schor is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, an influential and highly regarded series of essays, among other activist pursuits. This talk, on Feb. 14, 2006, was the second in a series launched by the newly formed MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department at the School of Visual Arts. (90 minutes)
The School of Visual Arts, in conjunction with The Affordable Art Fair, presented this panel discussion for new and experienced collectors of contemporary art and photography on June 17, 2006. Writer, critic and SVA faculty member Monroe Denton led a discussion on buying art as an investment, doing research, and specializing in various media.
Panelists:
Monroe Denton -- North American editor of ARTI, contributor to Sculpture and Art Journal, faculty member of SVA's MFA Fine Arts Department (moderator)
Lisa Hunter -- author, The Intrepid Art Collector: The Beginner's Guide to Finding, Buying, and Appreciating Art on a Budget (Three Rivers Press, 2006)
Sandra Jackson -- director of education and public programs, The Studio Museum in Harlem
George Robertson -- art collector
Althea Viafora-Kress -- commentator and advisor on contemporary and new art and culture, host of Collector's Forum on WPS1.org Art Radio.
Joe Wolin -- independent curator.
The Affordable Art Fair makes the art world accessible to thousands of visitors each year with a selection of contemporary art in all media under $5,000. The Fair launched in London in 1999 and has since expanded to Sydney, Melbourne, Bristol, and New York. (88 minutes)
Suzanne Anker, artist, theorist and chair of SVA's BFA Fine Arts Department
hosts a discussion with Tom Huhn, philosopher and chair of SVA's Art History and BFA Visual and Critical Studies Departments;
Samantha Hoover, Director of Communications at SVA;
and artist and SVA alumnus and faculty member Amy Wilson
concerning the role of the art school and its relationship to contemporary art.
