Upcoming Programs
Unless otherwise noted, programs are free of charge, no reservations, capacity limited. All are subject to change. Please see individual event listings for visitor access, registration, and accessibility information. Onsite visitors to programs hosted at the Grey Art Gallery must be in compliance with our COVID-19 protocols.
Curator Tour (In-Person)
Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection
Join Lynn Gumpert, Director and Michèle Wong, Associate Director | Head of Collections and Exhibitions at Grey Art Gallery, NYU, for a curator tour of Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection. In-person only.
Conversation (In-Person)
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962
Hosted by Albertine Bookstore
On October 4, at 6 pm, join Lynn Gumpert, director of New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, and Debra Bricker Balken, independent curator, for a conversation about Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 which has just been released by Hirmer Verlag and Grey Art Gallery, NYU. Long renowned as an artistic mecca, Paris renewed its allure as a leading cultural capital following the end of World War II by attracting a new wave of expatriates from the U.S. In-person only.
Conversation (Virtual)
Art and Friendship in Downtown NYC: A Conversation with James Cottrell, Joseph Lovett, and Deborah Kass
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.
Conversation (In-Person & Virtual)
On Political Photography: Documenting Racial Inequality in the US
Join NYU Professor Lauren Walsh, author of Through the Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter, and Vanessa Charlot, an award-winning photographer and filmmaker whose work focuses on the intersectionality of race, politics, culture and sexual/gender expression, for a conversation on the power of political photography in the contemporary moment. Inspired in part by photos on view at the Grey Art Gallery by Danny Lyon, an instrumental photographer during the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. In-person and virtual attendance.
Artist Talk (Virtual)
Samia Halaby
Hosted by The Block Museum of Art
Join "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s" exhibition artist Samia Halaby for a talk exploring her groundbreaking artistic practice and career. The artist will be joined in conversation by Sarah Dwider, Block Museum 2021–22 Graduate Fellow and Northwestern Ph.D. Student, Department of Art History. Online only.
Book Party (Virtual)
Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation
Join us for a discussion and reading of "Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation" (Routledge, 2022), edited by Amanda Cachia with contributions by Sandy Gutman, Molly Joyce, and Lyza Sylvestre. Moderator to be announced. Online only.
Past Programs
Lecture (In-Person & Virtual)
Working Out with Warhol. . .Sort of: Negotiating the Swish and the Clone on Andy Warhol’s T.V.
Dr. Kara Carmack, art historian and Exhibitions and Public Programs Officer, New York Studio School, will discuss Andy Warhol’s televised interrogation of two post-Stonewall archetypes of the gay male body: the swish and the clone. In-person and virtual attendance.
Performance | Livestream
36.5 / NEW YORK ESTUARY
The last in a series of global performance and video works by Sarah Cameron Sunde, 36.5 / NEW YORK ESTUARY will feature the artist standing in the Cove on the East River where Astoria meets Long Island City in Queens for a full tidal cycle (12-13 hours). She partners with local organizations and invites the public to participate by standing in the water with her and by marking each passing hour from the shore. Viewable in the museum's Washington Square East window and online.
Conversation & Book Event
“Pow! Right in the Eye!” with Lynn Gumpert and Madeline Warren
Hauser & Wirth Southampton is pleased to invite you to a special book event celebrating the recently released memoir "Pow! Right in the Eye!" by provocative Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill, now available in English for the first time. The event will feature a conversation between the book’s editor and director of NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, Lynn Gumpert, and Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth Southampton, Madeline Warren. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the event. Free, reservations and proof of vaccination required.