Webinar

Conversation (Virtual)<br>Art and Friendship in Downtown NYC: A Conversation with Deborah Kass, James Cottrell, and Joseph Lovett

Oct 11, 2022 | 06:00 pm - 07:00 pm

Conversation (Virtual)
Art and Friendship in Downtown NYC: A Conversation with Deborah Kass, James Cottrell, and Joseph Lovett

Join Cottrell, Lovett, and Kass as they discuss their shared passion for art as an instrument of social change, the social experience of the dynamic downtown art scene in the 1980s, and their transformational gift in a lively virtual conversation hosted by the Grey’s director, Lynn Gumpert. Online only.

Virtual Conversation<br>Pepe Karmel and Lynn Gumpert on Berthe Weill

Jul 06, 2022 | 07:00 pm - 08:00 pm

Virtual Conversation
Pepe Karmel and Lynn Gumpert on Berthe Weill

Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, this live virtual event will celebrate the newly translated memoir of Berthe Weill, a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the twentieth-century art world. Lynn Gumpert (Director, Grey Art Gallery) joins Pepe Karmel (Associate Professor of Art History, New York University) to discuss Weill's "Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting" (University of Chicago Press, June 2022).

Webinar<br>Impossible Enterprise: CETA, Ron Whyte, and The National Task Force for Disability and the Arts.

Mar 25, 2022 | 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

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Impossible Enterprise: CETA, Ron Whyte, and The National Task Force for Disability and the Arts.

Our friends at the NYU Center for Disability Studies will present a conversation on disability and the arts with Patrick McKelvey, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh, and Robert McRuer, Professor of English, The George Washington University.

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

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

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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

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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.

Webinar<br>Into the Collection: Orientalism and Expedition Photography

Apr 22, 2021 | 05:30 pm - 06:30 pm

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Into the Collection: Orientalism and Expedition Photography

In conjunction with the McMullen Museum of Art’s current exhibition, "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s" (on tour after its debut at the Grey in 2020), Assistant Director Diana Larsen, aided by the Museum’s Student Ambassadors, will offer a virtual presentation on Orientalism and works of expedition photography in the Museum’s collection. Visitors are invited to learn from the presenters, ask questions, and share their knowledge and observations. Registration required.

Webinar<br>“Islam & Surrealism: Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar’s Postwar Painting in Egypt” with Alex Dika Seggerman

Mar 10, 2021 | 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm

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“Islam & Surrealism: Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar’s Postwar Painting in Egypt” with Alex Dika Seggerman

The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College welcomes Rutgers University Professor Alex Dika Seggerman for a virtual presentation that delves into her recent publication, Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary (2019). Drawing from Modernism on the Nile, Seggerman argues that Gazzar’s local and transnational connections are evidence of “constellational modernism,” a framework for understanding modern art in Egypt that challenges Euro-centric narratives of modernism and expands Islamic art history into the modern era. Registration required.

Webinar<br>Joseph Grigely and Emily Watlington in Conversation

Apr 09, 2021 | 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

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Joseph Grigely and Emily Watlington in Conversation

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

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Reading and Conversation: “Golem Girl: A Memoir” (Riva Lehrer, 2020)

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

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Screening and Discussion: “Vision Portraits” (Rodney Evans, 2019)

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.

Iranian artists, academics,
and writers speak out