Speaking in Pairs
Feb
5
to Apr 19
Exhibition

Speaking in Pairs

 

Left: Migrant Mother, 1936, Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Right: Holding Emmanuelle, 2008, Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Elinor Carucci.

 

Speaking in Pairs
February 5 – April 19, 2026

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

Upcoming Programming:

  • March 20, 2–9pm: Speaking in Pairs Dialogue at Lang Recital Hall
    RSVP HERE

Can a portrait represent violence and healing at the same time? A photograph made by artist August Sander of Hermann Leubsdorf in 1938, in Cologne, Germany, suggests that it can.

Speaking in Pairs, on view Spring 2026 in a gallery endowed by the Leubsdorf family, looks at the aesthetic, material, social, and political layers that portraits offer—revealing how the people they portray, their makers and viewers, and the changing world they exist in connect and conflict in shifting cycles over time.

More than eighty contributors—artists, historians, lawyers, doctors, writers, curators, and more—come together for this exhibition, which presents works in a continually evolving installation and uses books, posters, and ephemera to visually illuminate the connections between vernacular photography and art, nobody and somebody, the personal and public. An array of viewpoints blurs the lines between artists, curators, and other subjects, and between non-fiction and fiction. 

Along the way, we note the 200th birthday of photography (2026), the 150th birthday of August Sander (1876–1964), the 125th birthday of playwright Marieluise Fleißer (1901–1974), the 100th birthday of Boris Lurie (1924–2008), and the approaching 40th anniversary of the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery on March 8th, 2027.

August Sander (1876-1964), Hermann Leubsdorf, Victim of Persecution, 1938, Cologne, Germany, Courtesy of John Leubsdorf. © Die Photographische Sammlung/Sk Stiftung Kultur–August Sander Archiv, Cologne/VG-Bildkunst 2025.

Reiner Leist, exhibition curator and Hunter College Professor, writes: 

“Portraits allow immortality. This exhibition asks: Who gets to be pictured and seen? Who may tell their story? Such evidence of being present, alive, can also increase visibility or hasten our demise. Speaking in Pairs seeks to offer navigational references across time and geography, between works and the practitioners making, or pondering, them. The Leubsdorf family fled Germany in 1938 and in the 1980s descendants of Hermann Leubsdorf endowed the Hunter College Art Gallery on the 68th Street campus. Speaking in Pairs considers art's historical and contemporary response to oppression and crisis, in a space long used to offer representation to those impacted by extraordinary and unspeakable events.”

Juxtaposing images created at points of conflict and growth in history, Speaking in Pairs examines how multiple conflicting forces can be viewed and experienced in what appears—at face value—to be a quiet photograph. Dynamics between sitters and artists, and those who later view their collaborations, infuse the experience. The works convey an evolving meaning that can spark vital conversations.

Participants

Curatorial Practicum Students

Kerstin Barndt, Ano Chrispin, Francesca Esmay, Adrienne Keller, Nora Kennedy, Thomas Lang, Olaf Peters, Stephen Pinson, Daniel Polonsky, Sofia Rivera, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, Jillian Seymour, and Ingrid Song

Books & Ephemera

Lewis Baltz, Regina Baumhauer, Margaret Bourke-White, Alexander Chekmenev, John Deakin, Annette Deeken, Thomas Demand, Okwui Enwezor, Robert Frank, Chitra Ganesh, David Goldblatt, Adam Golfer, Ronald L. Haeberle, Albert Hien, Sabine Kammerl, Rinko Kawauchi, Victor Klemperer, Liza Lacroix, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Loretta Lux, Peter Magubane, Roger Meintjes, Annette Messager, Santu Mofokeng, Meleko Mokgosi, Zanele Muholi, Maurizio Nannucci, Gordon Parks, Raoul Peck, Birgit Ramsauer, Julian Rosefeldt, Jürgen Schadeberg, Mongane Wally Serote, Jamel Shabazz, Yoshida Shigeki, Susan Sontag, Ceija Stojka, Charles Traub, Nari Ward, and Hans Winkler

Lenders

Burns Archive (Elizabeth Burns, Stanley Burns), Peter J. Cohen Collection, Marieluise Fleißer Archive, Sean Kelly Gallery, Lynda Klich, John Leubsdorf, Vickie Russell, Stephanie Stebich, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery

Living Artists in the Exhibition

Ken Ohara, Dennis Adams, Keliy Aderson Staley, Nobutaka Aozaki, Sadaf Azadehfar, Dawoud Bey, Marina Berio, Marco Breuer, Jude Broughan, Stefanie Bürkle, Elinor Carucci, Ludger Derenthal, Natalie Eddings, Christiane Eisler, Omer Fast, Celeste Fichter, Andrea Frank, Rick Guidotti, Julio Grinblatt, Hans Haacke, Rachel Handlin, Sharon Harper, Rudolf Herz, Candida Höfer, Graciela Iturbide, Anna Lise Jensen, JeongMee Yoon, Caro Jost, Emily Katrencik, Michael Klant, Barbara Klemm, Danka Latorre, Reiner Leist, Dani Lessnau, Vera Lutter, Tuli Mekondjo, Hector René Membreño-Canales, David Moy, Ursula Neugebauer, Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Takako Oishi, Lauren Orchowski, Paul Pfeiffer, Barbara Probst, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Matthias Reichelt, R. W. Rexford, R.W. Rexford, Jessenia Reyes-Ambrosio, Gerhard Richter, Carly Ries, Larissa Rogers, Ann Rosener, Judith Joy Ross, Alexandra Ruggieri, Vickie Russell, Rudolf Schäfer, Hanna Schygulla, Sam Sherman, Milly Skellington, Stephen Sollins, Kerstin Specht, Joel Sternfeld, Rein Jelle Terpstra, Camilo Vergara, Virginia Inés Vergara, Wim Wenders, Michael Wesely, Hannah Westerman, and Byungsuk Yoon

Other Artists in the Exhibition

Richard Avedon, Ellen Auerbach, James Baldwin, George Barris, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Ernest Cole, Lynne Cohen, Edward Curtis, Roy DeCarava, Jack Delano, Alfred Döblin, Alberto Errera, Mark Feldstein, Hans Peter Feldmann, Jane Fincher, Marieluise Fleißer, Paul Fusco, Thomas E. Gilson, Hans Haacke, John Heartfield, Jon Hendricks, Alexander Herld, Erich Hartmann, Langston Hughes, Lotte Jacobi, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Barbara Klemm, Dorothea Lange, Jacob Lawrence, Russell Lee, Boris Lurie, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Miller, Hlonipha Mokoena, Gabriele Münter, Robert Nestora, Helmut Newton (Helmut Neustädter), Eva Obermeyer, Pach Brothers, Helga Paris, Jacob Riis, Martin Roth, August Sander, Horst Sauerbruch, Melissa Shook, Tony Smith, Fredrick Sommer, Edward Steichen, Hildegard Steinmetz, Alfred Stieglitz, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Edward Weston, and Sigríður Zoëga

Photography and Biography

Ludmilla Beckles, Elisabeth Biondi, June Canedo de Souza, and Noelle Théard

Public Program Contributors

Noam Elcott, Vie Darling, Beth Griffith, Tess Hamilton, Peter Handke, Benjamin Hett, Yehuda Hyman, Naomi Levinstein, Naomi Levinshtein, Paul Messier, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography and Time-Based Media Conservation Department, Susan Meiselas, Caroline Rupprecht, Stefan Ruiz, Pavel Schnabel, Kristina Shook, Sally Stein, and Ilana Zaks-Nederlander.

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Speaking in Pairs is curated by Reiner Leist, Professor of Art & Art History at Hunter College, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. The exhibition is organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and Tara Ohanian, Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager. Exhibition design: Louisa Thompson and Reiner Leist in collaboration with curatorial fellows Caitlin Anklam, Adrienne Keller, and Sofia Rivera. MA and MFA students: Noa Raviv, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, and Ingrid Song.

The exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Crossway Foundation. A catalogue, co-published with Hirmer Publishers and forthcoming in Fall 2026, is funded by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES

Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements.

For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org

PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu

 
 
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Speaking in Pairs Dialogue
Mar
20
2:00 PM14:00
Events

Speaking in Pairs Dialogue

Speaking in Pairs Dialogue
Friday, March 20th
Programming will take place from 2–7pm, followed by a Reception from 7–8pm.
Program supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Ida K. Lang Recital Hall, Room 424, Hunter North Building
695 Park Ave., New York, NY 10065
Guests without Hunter ID must enter on the south side of East 69th St., between Park & Lexington Avenues.
Photo ID required for entry.

To view the livestream of the event, click here.

 

Left: Migrant Mother, 1936, Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Right: Holding Emmanuelle, 2008, Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Elinor Carucci.

 
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Furthering the exhibition Speaking in Pairs and its emphasis on dialogue and duality, this day-long interdisciplinary program brings together artists, scholars, conservators, and performers in often paired conversations exploring portraiture, history, memory, and the power of representation. The program opens with a screening of Hommage à August Sander (1977), a 21-minute documentary film by Pavel Schnabel, followed by the day’s paired talks. It also features vocalist Beth Griffith performing an English rendition of Marieluise. A Report by Kerstin Specht, joined by dancer Yehuda Hyman, weaving embodied performance into the day’s layered exchanges.

Featured participants include: Luis Corzo, Vie Darling, Meredith Davenport, Steven Donziger, Beth Griffith, Rick Guidotte, Tess Hamilton, Benjamin Hett, Yehuda Hyman, Adrienne Keller, Reiner Leist, Naomi Levinshtein, Susan Meiselas, Paul Messier, Kendall Rogers, Stefan Ruiz, Caroline Rupprecht, Kristina Shook, Stephanie Stebich, Sally Stein, Camilo Vergara, and Virginia Inés Vergara

View participant bios here.

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Speaking in Pairs is curated by Reiner Leist, Professor of Art & Art History at Hunter College, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. The exhibition is organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and Tara Ohanian, Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager. Exhibition design: Louisa Thompson and Reiner Leist in collaboration with curatorial fellows Caitlin Anklam, Adrienne Keller, and Sofia Rivera. MA and MFA students: Noa Raviv, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, and Ingrid Song.

The exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Crossway Foundation. A catalogue, co-published with Hirmer Publishers and forthcoming in Fall 2026, is funded by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES

Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements.

For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org

PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu

 
 
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Lecture & Musical Performance
Mar
4
5:00 PM17:00
Events

Lecture & Musical Performance

Lecture & Musical Performance
Wednesday, March 4th, 5–7pm
Program supported by the Boris Lurie Art Foundation

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

 
 
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World‑renowned violinist Ilana Zaks Nederlander honors the legacy of Holocaust survivor and artist Boris Lurie (1924–2008) and his NO!art movement through a program of works by Jewish composers whose lives were shaped by the Holocaust. Vocalist Beth Griffith, joined by dancer and poet Yehuda Hyman, performs an English rendition of Marieluise. A Report by Kerstin Specht. This tribute to German playwright Marieluise Fleißer presented alongside the work of Lurie, draws connections between these artists’ experiences and their enduring creative resilience. The evening will feature introductory remarks by Stephanie Stebich, Executive Director of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation.

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Speaking in Pairs is curated by Reiner Leist, Professor of Art & Art History at Hunter College, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. The exhibition is organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and Tara Ohanian, Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager. Exhibition design: Louisa Thompson and Reiner Leist in collaboration with curatorial fellows Caitlin Anklam, Adrienne Keller, and Sofia Rivera. MA and MFA students: Noa Raviv, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, and Ingrid Song.

The exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Crossway Foundation. A catalogue, co-published with Hirmer Publishers and forthcoming in Fall 2026, is funded by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES

Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements.

For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org

PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu

 
 
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Public Opening Reception for Speaking in Pairs
Feb
5
6:00 PM18:00
Events

Public Opening Reception for Speaking in Pairs

 

Left: Migrant Mother, 1936, Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
Right: Holding Emmanuelle, 2008, Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Elinor Carucci.

 

Speaking in Pairs
February 5 – April 19, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday February 5, 6–8 pm

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

RSVP HERE

Can a portrait represent violence and healing at the same time? A photograph made by artist August Sander of Hermann Leubsdorf in 1938, in Cologne, Germany, suggests that it can.

Speaking in Pairs, on view Spring 2026 in a gallery endowed by the Leubsdorf family, looks at the aesthetic, material, social, and political layers that portraits offer—revealing how the people they portray, their makers and viewers, and the changing world they exist in connect and conflict in shifting cycles over time.

More than eighty contributors—artists, historians, lawyers, doctors, writers, curators, and more—come together for this exhibition, which presents works in a continually evolving installation and uses books, posters, and ephemera to visually illuminate the connections between vernacular photography and art, nobody and somebody, the personal and public. An array of viewpoints blurs the lines between artists, curators, and other subjects, and between non-fiction and fiction. 

Along the way, we note the 200th birthday of photography (2026), the 150th birthday of August Sander (1876–1964), the 125th birthday of playwright Marieluise Fleißer (1901–1974), the 100th birthday of Boris Lurie (1924–2008), and the approaching 40th anniversary of the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery on March 8th, 2027.

August Sander (1876-1964), Hermann Leubsdorf, Victim of Persecution, 1938, Cologne, Germany, Courtesy of John Leubsdorf. © Die Photographische Sammlung/Sk Stiftung Kultur–August Sander Archiv, Cologne/VG-Bildkunst 2025.

Reiner Leist, exhibition curator and Hunter College Professor, writes: 

“Portraits allow immortality. This exhibition asks: Who gets to be pictured and seen? Who may tell their story? Such evidence of being present, alive, can also increase visibility or hasten our demise. Speaking in Pairs seeks to offer navigational references across time and geography, between works and the practitioners making, or pondering, them. The Leubsdorf family fled Germany in 1938 and in the 1980s descendants of Hermann Leubsdorf endowed the Hunter College Art Gallery on the 68th Street campus. Speaking in Pairs considers art's historical and contemporary response to oppression and crisis, in a space long used to offer representation to those impacted by extraordinary and unspeakable events.”

Juxtaposing images created at points of conflict and growth in history, Speaking in Pairs examines how multiple conflicting forces can be viewed and experienced in what appears—at face value—to be a quiet photograph. Dynamics between sitters and artists, and those who later view their collaborations, infuse the experience. The works convey an evolving meaning that can spark vital conversations.
_______________
Speaking in Pairs is curated by Reiner Leist, Professor of Art & Art History at Hunter College, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. The exhibition is organized by Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and Tara Ohanian, Assistant Curator and Exhibitions Manager. Exhibition design: Louisa Thompson and Reiner Leist in collaboration with curatorial fellows Caitlin Anklam, Adrienne Keller, and Sofia Rivera. MA and MFA students: Noa Raviv, Kendall Rogers, Vivek Sebastian, and Ingrid Song.

The exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Crossway Foundation. A catalogue, co-published with Hirmer Publishers and forthcoming in Fall 2026, is funded by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES

Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements.

For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org

PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu

 
 
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Video by Artists: A Screening From the Pages of Artes Visuales
Nov
12
6:00 PM18:00
Events

Video by Artists: A Screening From the Pages of Artes Visuales

 

Artes Visuales no. 17, marzo-mayo/march-may 1978
JSP Art Photography

 

November 12, 6pm
205 Hudson Gallery
205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013

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This screening features Latin American artists working in video during the run of Artes Visuales, from 1973 to 1981, highlighting the avant garde tendencies the magazine sought to foreground.

From its first issue, Artes Visuales championed the popular arts in its pages, making space for vernacular photography and film to be appreciated alongside the traditional fine artforms of painting and sculpture. As video art rose to prominence in the 1970s with the accessibility of the Super 8 camera, the magazine documented the emergence of this experimental new media. Issue 17, from the spring of 1978, is devoted entirely to video art and places artists from Latin America, the United States, and Europe in conversation about the conceptual and practical capabilities of the moving image as medium.

This film screening is organized in conjunction with the curatorial practica seminar related to Artes Visuales. Curated by Harper Montgomery, Susan and David Bershad Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar and curatorial student fellows: Reuben Gordon, Lisa Mason, and Grace Sanabria. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).   

This exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). The exhibition's catalogue has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

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Artes Visuales, The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print
Oct
16
to Dec 13
Exhibition

Artes Visuales, The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print

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On view October 16 - December 13, 2025

Remembering Carla Stellweg
(1939–2025)

 

Carla Stellweg, 1960s. Courtesy of INBA.

 

The Hunter College Art Galleries mourn the passing of Carla Stellweg, former editor of Artes Visuales and the inspiration for the exhibition currently on view the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery.

Born in Bandung, Indonesia, Stellweg was an independent consultant specializing in Latin American and Latinx art and artists. Throughout her career, she worked as a museum and non-profit director, writer, editor, curator, and professor.

 She will be remembered for her essential role as community builder and as an ardent supporter of artists and their creative vision.

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 5-8pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street (at Lexington)
New York, NY 10065

Additional programming details forthcoming.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Gathering artists whose work appeared in the influential magazine published by Mexico’s Museo de Arte Moderno and directed by Carla Stellweg from 1973 to 1981, the exhibition calls attention to an international community of experimental makers. Featuring artworks by Luis Camnitzer (Uruguay and the United States), Antonio Caro (Colombia), Manuel Felguérez (Mexico), Paulina Lavista (Mexico), Vicente Rojo (Spain and Mexico), Regina Vater (Brazil), Anna Bella Geiger (Brazil), Jorge Caraballo (Uruguay), Alfredo Portillos (Argentina), Marta Palau (Spain and Mexico), Victor Grippo (Argentina) and others, this rigorously researched exhibition and accompanying catalogue demonstrate how this groundbreaking periodical expanded the bounds of art and cultivated a community for innovative creative practice. Curated by Harper Montgomery, Susan and David Bershad Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar and curatorial student fellows: Reuben Gordon, Lisa Mason, and Grace Sanabria. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).

The catalogue features an interview with Carla Stellweg, essays on painting, page art, photography, and performance, as well as a chronology and bibliography related to the activities and publications of Stellweg and the circle of artists and critics she gathered on the pages of Artes Visuales.

This exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). The exhibition's catalogue has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.




PUBLICATION

Pre-Order Now

Coming in Spring 2026, Hunter College and Marquand Books will co-publish an exhibition catalogue to accompany Artes Visuales, The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print.

Pre-order for $40
Regular Price $50

 

ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES

Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements. The 205 Hudson Gallery on the department’s MFA Studio Art Campus in Tribeca is dedicated to presenting exhibitions and programming that engage issues critical to contemporary art and artists. In Spring semesters, the gallery also hosts a series of MFA thesis exhibitions. The Hunter East Harlem Gallery, located in the Silberman School of Social Work at 119th Street and 3rd Avenue, is dedicated to collaborative social practice and art and artists engaged with issues relevant to the East Harlem community and to the city more broadly.


PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu

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Public Opening Reception for Artes Visuales: The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print
Oct
16
6:00 PM18:00
Events

Public Opening Reception for Artes Visuales: The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print

  • Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
 
 

Opening Reception: Thursday, October 16, 2025, 6-8pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street (at Lexington)
New York, NY 10065

RSVP HERE

On view October 16 - December 13, 2025

Additional programming details forthcoming.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Gathering artists whose work appeared in the influential magazine published by Mexico’s Museo de Arte Moderno and directed by Carla Stellweg from 1973 to 1981, the exhibition calls attention to an international community of experimental makers. Featuring artworks by Luis Camnitzer (Uruguay and the United States), Antonio Caro (Colombia), Manuel Felguérez (Mexico), Paulina Lavista (Mexico), Vicente Rojo (Spain and Mexico), Regina Vater (Brazil), Anna Bella Geiger (Brazil), Jorge Caraballo (Uruguay), Alfredo Portillos (Argentina), Marta Palau (Spain and Mexico), Victor Grippo (Argentina) and others, this rigorously researched exhibition and accompanying catalogue demonstrate how this groundbreaking periodical expanded the bounds of art and cultivated a community for innovative creative practice. Curated by Harper Montgomery, Susan and David Bershad Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries, with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar and curatorial student fellows: Reuben Gordon, Lisa Mason, and Grace Sanabria. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).

The catalogue features an interview with Carla Stellweg, essays on painting, page art, photography, and performance, as well as a chronology and bibliography related to the activities and publications of Stellweg and the circle of artists and critics she gathered on the pages of Artes Visuales.

This exhibition is made possible by The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). The exhibition's catalogue has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.



PUBLICATION

Pre-Order Now

Coming in Spring 2026, Hunter College and Marquand Books will co-publish an exhibition catalogue to accompany Artes Visuales, The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print.

Pre-order for $40
Regular Price $50

 

Coming in Spring 2026, Hunter College and Marquand Books will co-publish an exhibition catalogue to accompany Artes Visuales, The Latin American Avant-Garde in Print.



ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES

Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. The 205 Hudson Gallery on the department’s MFA Studio Art Campus in Tribeca is dedicated to presenting exhibitions and programming that engage issues critical to contemporary art and artists. In Spring semesters, the gallery also hosts a series of MFA thesis exhibitions. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements. The Hunter East Harlem Gallery, located in the Silberman School of Social Work at 119th Street and 3rd Avenue, is dedicated to collaborative social practice and art and artists engaged with issues relevant to the East Harlem community and to the city more broadly.



PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu

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BFA Degree Exhibition: coda
May
8
to Jun 7
Exhibition

BFA Degree Exhibition: coda

Click HERE for a pdf of the coda exhibition catalogue.

BFA Degree Exhibition: coda
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

On view: May 8–June 8, 2025
Opening reception: Thursday, May 8, 5–8pm
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 1–6pm 

The Hunter College BFA Program and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present the BFA exhibition coda at the Bertha and Karl Leubdsorf Gallery. The exhibition will feature works by Deni Artemisa, Maria Brito, Briana Garcia, Tyler Green, Aviella Holle, Christian Kent, Gigi Lin, Jasmine Sanchez, Lilian Shtereva, TJ Wilson, Taisuke Yamada, and Varvara Voetskova.

Please join us for an opening reception with the artists, faculty, students, and guests on Thursday, May 8th at 5pm.

The coda exhibition and catalog are made possible by the generous support of the Leubsdorf Fund. Thank you to our thesis advisor Alan Ruiz, the staff of the Hunter College Art Galleries including Katie Hood Morgan, Tara Ohanian, Aleeq Kroshian, Amy Tidwell and Phi Nguyen, the staff of Hunter's MFA program including Tim Laun, Genesis Salinas, and all others who contributed to the installation and development of this show.

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Mar
21
2:00 PM14:00
Events

After Acts of Art: Three Generations of Black-Owned Galleries in NYC (Copy)

After Acts of Art: Three Generations of Black-Owned Galleries in NYC

Friday, March 21
2-5pm: Roundtable Discussion
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 E 65th St, New York (btwn Madison and Park)
5-7pm: Closing Reception and Book Launch
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th St, New York (btwn Lexington and Park)


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To mark the release of Acts of Art in Greenwich Village (co-published by Hunter College Art Galleries and Hirmer Publishers), please join us for a dynamic and thought-provoking conversation highlighting some of New York's thriving Black-owned galleries. Bringing together gallerists who first opened their pioneering spaces in the 1970s and 1980s with representatives from Black-owned galleries founded in the past decade, the conversation will bridge generations, uncovering unique perspectives and shared experiences. Don’t miss this chance to explore the varied histories and the multiple futures of Black artistic spaces and opportunities.

Featured participants include: Peg Alston (Peg Alston Fine Art), Richard Beavers (Richard Beavers Gallery), Erwin John and Stevenson Dunn, Jr. (The Bishop Gallery), Bill Hodges (Bill Hodges Gallery), and Naima Wood (Dorsey's Fine Art Gallery)

The roundtable discussion will be followed by a light reception at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, a six-minute walk away. Please feel welcome to join one or both events. Our newly released exhibition catalogue will be available for purchase at both Roosevelt House and the gallery.

Our newly released exhibition catalogue will be available for purchase at the event. 

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey in 1969, Acts of Art was first located at 31 Bedford Street and later moved to 15 Charles Street in the West Village. In 1971, the gallery mounted  Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s strategic response to the Whitney’s concurrent Contemporary Black Artists in America. That same year, the gallery hosted the inaugural exhibition of the Black women artists collective Where We At. Before Acts of Art closed in 1975, it presented one- and two-person exhibitions by twenty-six different artists, and numerous group exhibitions. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village centers Acts of Art and its director’s curatorial vision, tracing the gallery’s exhibition history as it intersects with other histories of Black art and artists in New York—and with formations like the BECC, Where We At, and the Weusi Artists. Installed in Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the exhibition features artworks from the late 1960s and 1970s by fourteen artists with close ties to the gallery, a number of which were first shown at Acts of Art. A catalog with the gallery’s complete exhibition history is available to purchase and essays on key group exhibitions, including the first show of the Black women artists collective “Where We At,”.

This exhibition is made possible by the The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

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Nov
9
2:00 PM14:00
Events

Acts of Art Community Conversation

Acts of Art Community Conversation
Saturday, November 9, 2–6:30pm
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065

Please join artists and friends of Acts of Art gallery in conversation on Saturday, November 9, from 2–6:30.

Participants include exhibition artists Ben Jones, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone; and community activist and collector Fay Leeper. Moderated by Howard Singerman. 

All HCAG programs are free and open to public. Please let us know if you have accessibility concerns or questions and we will be happy to help. Email: hcag@hunter.cuny.edu.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey in 1969, Acts of Art was first located at 31 Bedford Street and later moved to 15 Charles Street in the West Village. In 1971, the gallery mounted  Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s strategic response to the Whitney’s concurrent Contemporary Black Artists in America. That same year, the gallery hosted the inaugural exhibition of the Black women artists collective Where We At. Before Acts of Art closed in 1975, it presented one- and two-person exhibitions by twenty-six different artists, and numerous group exhibitions. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village centers Acts of Art and its director’s curatorial vision, tracing the gallery’s exhibition history as it intersects with other histories of Black art and artists in New York—and with formations like the BECC, Where We At, and the Weusi Artists. Installed in Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the exhibition features artworks from the late 1960s and 1970s by fourteen artists with close ties to the gallery, a number of which were first shown at Acts of Art. 

Curated by Howard Singerman, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Art History, with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. 

Curatorial fellows: Eve Arballo, Kelis George, and Nicolas Poblete. MA and MFA Students: Ansley Browning, Karewith Casas, Erin Chase, Brianna Golub, Yayun Deng, June Kitahara, Laura Luo, Sondra McGill, Chloe Ming, Mary Lisette Morris, Grace Sanabria.

This exhibition is made possible by the Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition Fund Endowment. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

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Acts of Art in Greenwich Village Opening Reception
Nov
7
6:00 PM18:00
Events

Acts of Art in Greenwich Village Opening Reception

Public Opening Reception
November 7, 6—8pm

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

All HCAG programs are free and open to public. Please let us know if you have accessibility concerns or questions and we will be happy to help. Email: hcag@hunter.cuny.edu.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey in 1969, Acts of Art was first located at 31 Bedford Street and later moved to 15 Charles Street in the West Village. In 1971, the gallery mounted  Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s strategic response to the Whitney’s concurrent Contemporary Black Artists in America. That same year, the gallery hosted the inaugural exhibition of the Black women artists collective Where We At. Before Acts of Art closed in 1975, it presented one- and two-person exhibitions by twenty-six different artists, and numerous group exhibitions. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village centers Acts of Art and its director’s curatorial vision, tracing the gallery’s exhibition history as it intersects with other histories of Black art and artists in New York—and with formations like the BECC, Where We At, and the Weusi Artists. Installed in Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the exhibition features artworks from the late 1960s and 1970s by fourteen artists with close ties to the gallery, a number of which were first shown at Acts of Art. 

Curated by Howard Singerman, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Art History, with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. 

Curatorial fellows: Eve Arballo, Kelis George, and Nicolas Poblete. MA and MFA Students: Ansley Browning, Karewith Casas, Erin Chase, Brianna Golub, Yayun Deng, June Kitahara, Laura Luo, Sondra McGill, Chloe Ming, Mary Lisette Morris, Grace Sanabria.

This exhibition is made possible by the Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition Fund Endowment. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

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Acts of Art in Greenwich Village
Nov
7
to Mar 29
Exhibition

Acts of Art in Greenwich Village

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Acts of Art in Greenwich Village
November 7, 2024 – March 29, 2025
Opening Reception: November 7, 6–8 pm

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

The Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present Acts of Art in Greenwich Village, the first comprehensive account of the six-year history of Acts of Art, a gallery dedicated to showcasing the work of Black artists in downtown Manhattan.

Benny Andrews, James Denmark, Reginald Gammon, Harlan Jackson, Nigel Jackson, Ben Jones, Loïs Mailou Jones, Dindga McCannon, Enid Richardson Moore, Ademola Olugebefola, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone, Frank Wimberley, Hale Woodruff

Founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Grey in 1969, Acts of Art was first located at 31 Bedford Street and later moved to 15 Charles Street in the West Village. In 1971, the gallery mounted  Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s strategic response to the Whitney’s concurrent Contemporary Black Artists in America. That same year, the gallery hosted the inaugural exhibition of the Black women artists collective Where We At. Before Acts of Art closed in 1975, it presented one- and two-person exhibitions by twenty-six different artists, and numerous group exhibitions. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village centers Acts of Art and its director’s curatorial vision, tracing the gallery’s exhibition history as it intersects with other histories of Black art and artists in New York—and with formations like the BECC, Where We At, and the Weusi Artists. Installed in Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the exhibition features artworks from the late 1960s and 1970s by fourteen artists with close ties to the gallery, a number of which were first shown at Acts of Art. 

Curated by Howard Singerman, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Professor of Art History, with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, and with MA and MFA students enrolled in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar. 

Curatorial fellows: Eve Arballo, Kelis George, and Nicolas Poblete. MA and MFA Students: Ansley Browning, Karewith Casas, Erin Chase, Brianna Golub, Yayun Deng, June Kitahara, Laura Luo, Sondra McGill, Chloe Ming, Mary Lisette Morris, Grace Sanabria.

Community Conversation with Artists

Three Generations of Black-Owned Galleries in NYC

 
 

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

Public Opening Reception
Thursday, November 7 2024, 6-8pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter West Building
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065

Acts of Art Community Conversation
Saturday, November 9 2024, 2-6:30pm
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College
47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065

After Acts of Art: Three Generations of Black-Owned Galleries in NYC
Friday, March 21 2025, 2-7pm
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College and Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery

PUBLICATION NOW AVAILABLE

The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalog co-published with Hirmer Publishers and distributed in North America by the University of Chicago Press. In addition to an introductory essay and complete exhibition history, the volume includes biographies of the gallery’s key artists and entries on important group exhibitions, events, and affiliated organizations. The publication is designed by Natalie Wedeking and edited by Howard Singerman with Re’al Christian and Katie Hood Morgan. The catalogue is available for purchase HERE.

This exhibition is made possible by the The Leonard A. Lauder Exhibition and Catalogue Fund. The exhibition's catalog has been supported by a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

ABOUT THE HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES

Part of the college’s Department of Art and Art History, the Hunter College Art Galleries have contributed to New York City’s vital cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter of a century ago. The galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, and experimental methodology. Located on Hunter’s main campus at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue, the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery presents research-driven historical exhibitions that provide new scholarship on important and often under-represented artists and art movements. The 205 Hudson Gallery on the department’s MFA Studio Art Campus in Tribeca is dedicated to presenting exhibitions and programming that engage issues critical to contemporary art and artists. In Spring semesters, the gallery also hosts a series of MFA thesis exhibitions. The Hunter East Harlem Gallery, located in the Silberman School of Social Work at 119th Street and 3rd Avenue, is dedicated to collaborative social practice and art and artists engaged with issues relevant to the East Harlem community and to the city more broadly.

For more information about exhibitions and public programs visit: huntercollegeartgalleries.org

PRESS INQUIRIES
E-mail Aleeq Kroshian, aleeq.kroshian@hunter.cuny.edu

 
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Jun
8
5:00 PM17:00
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BFA Thesis Exhibition: lunchbox Closing Reception

BFA Thesis Exhibition: lunchbox
Closing Reception

Saturday, June 8 @ 5:00-8:00pm
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter College West Building
132 East 68th Street, NY, NY 10065

Please join us for the closing reception and last look at the BFA degree show on Saturday, June 8th 5:00-8:00pm. The exhibition will feature works by Peter Ayala, Jarrett Esaw, Sarah Lou Haddad, Natalie Hernandez, Dianna Hu, Frankie Tejada Lizardo, Mario Daniel Martinez, Alex Perloff, Maria Fernanda Rivera, Noelle Salaun, and Sara Shaw.

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May
29
to Jun 8
Events

BFA Pop-Up Show: Takeout

BFA Pop-Up Show: TAKEOUT

Opening Reception 
Wednesday, May 29th @ 5:00pm
205 Hudson Street, 2nd Floor

The Hunter College BFA Program and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present a Pop-Up show at 205 Hudson Street, 2nd floor.
The exhibition will feature works by Peter Ayala, Jarrett Esaw, Sarah Lou Haddad, Natalie Hernandez, Dianna Hu, Frankie Tejada Lizardo, Mario Daniel Martinez, Alex Perloff, Maria Fernanda Rivera, Noelle Salaun, and Sara Shaw.

Please join us for an opening reception with the artists, faculty, students, and guests on Wednesday, May 29th, 5:00pm. 

If you wish to visit the exhibition from May 30-June 8th, please email hunterbfaso@gmail.com to schedule your visit appointment. 

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BFA Thesis Exhibition: lunchbox
May
9
to Jun 8
Exhibition

BFA Thesis Exhibition: lunchbox

Click HERE for a pdf of the lunchbox exhibition catalogue.

The Hunter College BFA Program and the Hunter College Art Galleries are pleased to present the Spring 2024 BFA Degree Student Exhibition at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, opening May 9 and on view through June 8. The exhibition will feature works by Peter Ayala, Jarrett Esaw, Sarah Lou Haddad, Natalie Hernandez, Dianna Hu, Frankie Tejada Lizardo, Mario Daniel Martinez, Alex Perloff, Maria Fernanda Rivera, Noelle Salaun, and Sara Shaw.

Frankie Tejada Lizardo

Sara Shaw

Alex Perloff

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Oct
12
to Mar 30
Exhibition

Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas

Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas
October 12–March 30, 2024
Opening Reception: October 12, 6:30–9:00 pm

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
Entrance between Lexington and Park Avenues
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday, 12–6 pm

Digital Zine & Additional Reading

Library Guide to the Exhibition Reading Room

MFA Performance Showcase

Curatorial Talks

In the mid-1960s, Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–80) began embracing joyously transgressive modes of performance, film, and installation that championed marginalized persons and their culture. Created while Oiticica was self-exiled to New York in the 1970s, the immersive 1973 installation series of Bloco-Experiências in Cosmococa–Programa in Progress, or Cosmococas, operate on multiple levels to transform pop and underground culture into a psychedelic experience. Made in collaboration with the Brazilian filmmaker Neville D’Almeida (b. 1941), for each of the five original Cosmococas the artists crafted two sets of instructions: one for public institutional presentations and, in an anti-elitist effort, another for display in private homes. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cosmococas, the artist’s nonprofit foundation, the Projeto Hélio Oiticica, has organized a year-long celebration for 2023, during which the series has been installed in cities around the world. 

The Hunter College Art Galleries have joined the initiative to present Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas at the Leubsdorf Gallery from October 12, 2023–March 30, 2024. This exhibition features the United States premiere of two private Cosmococas and includes archival material to provide historical context for the layers of political commentary embedded in the subversive, psychedelic series. 

Curated by Daniela Mayer. The exhibition was developed in conjunction with a two-semester independent study by Hunter College MA Art History students Thais Bignardi, Rowan Diaz-Toth, and Angelica Pomar. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Hunter College Foundation with additional support from Lisson Gallery, Leon Tovar Gallery, and Sokoloff + Associates.

Every exhibition is a collaboration. Sincere thanks to all those listed below and the many others who contributed to the development and production of Cosmic Shelter.

Curators: Daniela Mayer with Thais Bignardi, Rowan Diaz-Toth, and Angelica Pomar. 
Hunter College Art Galleries: Harper Montgomery, Katie Hood Morgan, Tara Ohanian, and Phi Nguyen
Art Installation: Phi Nguyen with Joseph Gannon, Cannon Michael, Jules Oñate, Kevin Fusco, George Simonds, and Holden Pham
Exhibition Design: Liz Naiden with Daniela Mayer
Installation Photography: Argenis Apollinario 
Publication and Graphic Design: Natalie Wedeking
Technology and AV: Liz Naiden
Translations: Gustavo Aguiar (labels/essays), Patricio Orellano (Jardim de Guerra)
Website: Tara Ohanian

Special thanks to Neville D’Almeida, Cesar Oiticica Filho and the Projeto Hélio Oiticica for their collaboration.

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Oct
12
to Mar 30
Events

Cosmic Shelter: Programming-in-Progress

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Programming-in-Progress is a series of free public programs in conjunction with the exhibition,“Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas.”

See below for event programming. Click HERE to download a Programming-in-Progress flier.

PAST EVENTS:

Installation view, Cosmic Shelter: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Private Cosmococas. Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, October 12, 2023-March 30, 2024. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. 

SATURDAY, MARCH 23
Exhibition Tour with curator Daniela Mayer at 1:00-2:00PM
Curator Talk with Daniela Mayer at 2:30-3:30PM
Kossak Lecture Hall, Room 1527, 15th floor of Hunter North Building
695 Park Ave, New York, NY

Cosmic Shelter Curator Talk Recording


“COCAINE neither toxic nor water” : Reevaluating Cocaine’s role in Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Cosmococas is a presentation by Cosmic Shelter curator Daniela Mayer. Analyzing the most controversial aspect of the Cosmococas. This presentation considers cocaine as a driving force in Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica’s personal understanding of marginality as a revolutionary position. It will further explore the levels on which cocaine operates in the Cosmococas, from translating its effects into supra-sensorial art to acting as a vehicle for countercultural protest.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 6:30-8PM
Building the Cosmos of Cosmic Shelter: Curatorial Team Symposium by Thais Bignardi, Rowan Diaz-Toth, and Angelica Pomar
Kossak Lecture Hall, Room 1527, 15th floor of Hunter North Building
695 Park Ave, New York, NY


Building the Cosmos of Cosmic Shelter Curatorial Team Symposium Recording


A series of three presentations by the curatorial assistants of Cosmic Shelter, Thais Bignardi, Rowan Diaz-Toth, and Angelica Pomar. The presentations explore themes related to works presented in the exhibition in order to contextualize the world of Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Cosmococas.

Presentations to include:

  • “Marginality as Process: The South Bronx and Hélio Oiticica” by Angelica Pomar

  • “A Plan for a Practice: Hélio Oiticica’s Experiments in New York at the Boundaries of Time-Based Media” by Rowan Diaz-Toth

  • "Gardens, Wars, Politics, and Cinema: A Discussion on Neville D’Almeida’s Jardim de Guerra" by Thais Bignardi

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 12:00-1:00PM
Hélio Oiticica’s Private Poetics: Conversation with Dr. Rebecca Kosick, editor & translator of Hélio Oiticica’s Secret Poetics

A presentation by Dr. Rebecca Kosick, author of Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics. Followed by a moderated conversation with Cosmic Shelter curator Daniela Mayer, this program will discuss the poetic nature of Oiticica’s writing practice as it transforms from his early practice through the 1970s. A public Q&A will follow the discussion.

SATURDAY, MARCH 16
Screening of Jardim de Guerra (1967) at 1PM
Screening of Mangue Bangue (1970) at 3PM
Spectacle Theater
124 S 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY
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A double screening of two feature-length films by Cosmococas co-creator Neville D’Almeida. Both screenings will be followed by a virtual discussion with D’Almeida, moderated by exhibition curator Daniela Mayer.

Donation suggested with proceeds to benefit the Spectacle non-prifit. Pre-registration will be available, but tickets are not required.

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BFA Thesis Exhibition: remnants
May
18
to Jun 15
Exhibition

BFA Thesis Exhibition: remnants

Jossie Rivera

Frances Matassa

Nisida Spera

Karne Vera

Ophelia Arc

Israel Kidda

Laura Messner

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Apr
29
4:00 PM16:00
Events

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction Book Launch and Conversations

Saturday April 29, 2023, 4–6pm

Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter College West Building Lobby
132 E. 68th Street
NY, NY 10065

Gallery entrance is on the south side of 68th St. between Lexington and Park Aves.

In concert with the exhibition C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction the Hunter College Art Galleries in collaboration with the Weisman Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota and Hirmer Publishers have produced the first retrospective monograph on the renowned artist, collector, and connoisseur C. C. Wang. To celebrate the launch of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction the Hunter College Art Galleries have organized an afternoon of conversations hosted by the publication editors Hunter College Professor Wen-shing Chou and University of Minnesota Twin Cities Professor Daniel M. Greenberg with Arnold Chang, scholar, artist, and former student of C. C. Wang; Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang Associate Curator of Chinese Paintings at the MET; Elizabeth Hammer, Executive Director of the Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden; Lesley Ma, Ming Chu Hsu and Daniel Xu Associate Curator of Asian Art in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the MET; Margaret Liu Clinton, Hunter College MA Art History candidate; and Jordan Homstad, University of Minnesota undergraduate alumni.

Support for this publication is provided by the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

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Apr
13
6:00 PM18:00
Events

Exhibition Tour of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

Exhibition Tour 
Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 6pm

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter College West Building
132 East 68th Street, NY, NY 10065

Join graduate student curators for a guided tour of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction. This tour is free and open to the public. No registration is needed.

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.

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Exhibition Tour of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
Mar
25
3:00 PM15:00
Events

Exhibition Tour of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

Exhibition Tour

March 25, 2023 at 3pm

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
Hunter College West Building
132 East 68th Street, NY, NY 10065

Join graduate student curators for a guided tour of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction. This tour is free and open to the public. No registration is needed.

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.

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Mar
17
10:30 AM10:30
Events

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction Tour & Reception for Asia Week NY

Tour 10:30–11:30am, followed by a coffee/tea reception

RSVP here

Join the Hunter College Art Galleries during Asia Week NY for a morning tour and reception of C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction. Led by exhibition co-curator Daniel M. Greenberg, this walkthrough will introduce viewers to the life and art of C.C. Wang (1907-2003).  Born to a family of scholar-officials at the twilight of the Qing dynasty, Wang mastered the traditional ink and brush techniques in Republican Shanghai and immigrated to New York City in 1949.  Although he is well known for his discerning connoisseurial eye and world class collection of classical Chinese art, Wang’s own artistic practice has long been overlooked.  In this walkthrough, we will explore how Wang built upon both his deep knowledge of Chinese painting and the artistic climate in postwar New York to create distinctly cross-cultural works of modern American art. 

Curated by Wen-shing Chou and Daniel M. Greenberg with Hans Hofmann Graduate Curatorial Fellow Margaret Liu Clinton.

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction is made possible by the generous support of the James Howell Foundation, the Leubsdorf Fund, the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, and the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust.

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Feb
2
to Apr 29
Exhibition

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

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C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

February 2–April 29, 2023
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 12–5 pm

Opening Reception: February 2, 7–9 pm

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
Entrance between Lexington and Park Avenues

Born to a family of scholar-officials at the twilight of the Qing dynasty, C. C. Wang (Wang Chi-ch’ien 王己千, 1907–2003) mastered the traditional ink and brush techniques in Republican Shanghai and immigrated to New York City in 1949. There he sought to preserve the tradition of classical Chinese painting through engagement with new ideas, materials, and forms. Drawing inspiration from past masters in the history of Chinese painting, as well as New York’s artistic climate in the wake of World War II, Wang advanced breakthrough transformations in ink painting.

C. C. Wang is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art. Held twenty years after the artist’s death, C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction recenters Wang’s extraordinary career on his own artistic practice to reveal an original quest for tradition and innovation in the global twentieth century. Spanning seven decades, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s distinctive synthesis of Chinese ink painting and American postwar abstraction.

In concert with the exhibition, the Hunter College Art Galleries are producing a comprehensive catalogue published in collaboration with the Weisman Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota and Hirmer Publishers. This book is the first retrospective monograph on the renowned artist, collector, and connoisseur C. C. Wang and features texts by scholars Wen-shing Chou, Daniel M. Greenberg, Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, and Arnold Chang with additional contributions by Hunter College Graduate Art History candidates and an undergraduate student from the University of Minnesota. Support for this publication is provided by the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.

Curated by Wen-shing Chou and Daniel M. Greenberg with Hans Hofmann Graduate Curatorial Fellow Margaret Liu Clinton.

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction is made possible by the generous support of the James Howell Foundation, the Leubsdorf Fund, the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, and the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust.

Please find the full press kit here. For further press inquiries please contact Sarah Watson, Chief Curator, at swat@hunter.cuny.edu.

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Feb
2
7:00 PM19:00
Events

Opening Reception for C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

Detail of no title (Abstract Work with Blue and Green), 1998. Ink and color on paper, overall: 33 3⁄4 x 15 5⁄8 inches (85.7 x 39.7 cm). Collection of Pao Yung Chao. Photo: Stan Narten.

Opening Reception for C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction
Thursday, February 2, 2023, 7–9 pm

Hunter College Art Galleries
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10065
Entrance between Lexington and Park Avenues

Curated by Wen-shing Chou and Daniel M. Greenberg with Hans Hofmann Graduate Curatorial Fellow Margaret Liu Clinton.

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction was developed through a two-semester curatorial seminar at Hunter College led by Professor Wen-shing Chou with M.A. Art History students Thais Bignardi-Engstrom, Carolyn Bishop, Rawls Bolton, Jeremy Gloster, Sophie Kaufman, Emerald Lucas, Lindsey Poremba, and Mia Ye.

C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction is made possible by the generous support of the James Howell Foundation, the Leubsdorf Fund, the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn, and the Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust.

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Apr
3
4:00 PM16:00
Events

Online Sound Bath by KACH Studio: Sonic RETRIEVAL

Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle. Photo Credit: Tiffany Smith

KACH Studio: Sonic RETRIEVAL
Online Sound Bath by Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle

Sunday, April 3, 4–5 PM

Register here to view the live stream at Leubsdorf Gallery
Register here for the Zoom link

Leubsdorf Gallery will be open for visitors to The Black Index, 11am–4pm, and for Sound Bath attendees only, 4–5pm.
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 E 68th St New York
Enter from the south side of 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues

This event will take place on Zoom during the last hour of The Black Index on view at the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College. HCAG will also live-stream the sound bath in the Leubsdorf Gallery for those who would like to gather together to experience the sound bath in the gallery. Space is limited for the gallery’s live stream, so please register in advance.

KACH Studio: Sonic Retrieval will offer a sound bath that focuses on grieving in the midst of the pandemic in relation to the traveling exhibition The Black Index’s final journey to Hunter College. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle’s work on view in the exhibition, The Evanesced: The Untouchables, features 100 un-portraits of disappeared Black femmes created in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She will be offering a ritual not only to close the exhibition but also to create a sonic space for processing grief. Hinkle will be using a Dark Water and Dusk Gong as well as crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, rattles, and various instruments to offer a virtual experience. Those who want to contemplate the impact of Black death historically and presently can participate via cultivating deep listening as a form of witnessing and inner retrieval.

About Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle (Olomidara Yaya)
Award-winning interdisciplinary visual artist and writer Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, trained Reiki Master and Sound Practitioner, offers unique sonic healing experiences in relation to art exhibitions and museum programming. Using scientific theories concerning the benefits of sound healing to enhance theta state, neuroplasticity, and heal trauma, Hinkle incorporates sound therapy into unique sound installations, group sound bath sessions, and 1:1 healing sessions for artists, arts administrators, and art lovers. Based upon the premise of retrieval that Hinkle has explored for the past ten years within her multi-disciplinary practice, Hinkle aims to provide shamanic journeying to help museum and gallery visitors to experience sonic transformation and healing that is not only activated within the visual realm but activates extrasensory perception to confront and examine the ghosts of history and our shared present individually and collectively. Hinkle is highly sought after to speak about her work at various universities and institutions nationally and internationally and has created a following via the brand of being a Ghost Lady, working with the ghosts of history and ideas that haunt her. Using these explorations in her visual art practice with much success, participants will be interested in how she approaches a new field of sonics within her practice and how it accentuates this next journey in her established career.

KACH Studio creates unique artwork and performances that chart the intersections of art and healing. KACH Studio features award-winning artworks, signature sound baths, and performances that focus on retrieval. KACH Studio seeks to provide Empowerment for SEEKERS to retrieve through sonics and art. KACH Studio is a BIPOC-artist-as-healer-led initiative established in 2012 that interrogates history and trauma to facilitate healing through visual restorative justice and sonics. KACH Studio creates unique handmade collages, fine art, and signature sound baths that interrogate our relationships to healing within the Historical Present and the ramifications of colonialism. Through the creation of visual restorative justice, the artwork acts as a testimony, and the sound/healing work is the aftercare of the testimony. Each participant, art collector, or client plays a powerful role in addressing the effect of history on us as individuals and within the collective. To own artwork or attend a performance, one is also taking action to heal their own relationship to our collective past. KACH Studio is interested in decolonization and healing from individual and collective trauma, and we work with people who range from being art collectors, students, museum-goers, gallery-goers, creatives, artists, and everyday civilians.

This program is funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Mar
31
1:00 PM13:00
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Global Abolition and Visual Art: A conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez

Installation view of The Black Index at Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery, 2022. Photo: Stan Narten.

Global Abolition and Visual Art: A conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez, followed by a moderated Q & A with Brittany Webb

Thursday, March 31, 2022 1–3 PM EST This event will be held on Zoom and include live captioning (CART). REGISTER HERE

Global Abolition and Visual Art: A conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez is organized in concert with the exhibitions The Black Index, curated by Bridget R. Cooks (on view at the Leubsdorf Gallery, Feb. 1–April 3, 2022) and No Tears: In Conversation with Horace Pippin (previously on view at The Artist Institute, Nov. 11–Dec. 18, 2021). Following the conversation Brittany Webb, Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, will join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez for a moderated Q & A.

This program is funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

SPEAKER BIOS:

Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and teaches in Earth and Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Author of the award-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press), her forthcoming books include Change Everything (Haymarket); Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso); and (co-edited with Paul Gilroy) Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). The documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore features her internationalist political work. She has co-founded many grassroots organizations including California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Recent honors include co-recipient (with Angela Y. Davis and Mike Davis) of the 2020 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize.

Shellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.

Brittany Webb is the inaugural Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). Webb’s recent exhibitions include the co-curated show Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (November 2020–September 5, 2021). Webb is also organizing a major retrospective exhibition and catalogue of the work of the African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) and stewards a collection of nearly 300 sculptures by Rhoden, leading PAFA’s ongoing effort to place his artworks into the permanent collections of museums around the world. Prior to joining PAFA, Webb was a member of the curatorial staff of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Dr. Webb holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.


Images below from left to right:

Titus Kaphar. The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) XI, 2015. Chalk on asphalt paper. 48 ¼ x 36 13/16 inches. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Museum Purchase, Barbara Cooney Porter Fund. ©Titus Kaphar.

Horace Pippin. John Brown Going to His Hanging, 1942. Oil on canvas. 24 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, John Lambert Fund, 1943.

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Mar
28
7:00 PM19:00
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Curatorial Lecture by Bridget R. Cooks

Spring 2022 Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator Lecture

Monday, March 28, 7-9 PM
Roosevelt House at Hunter College
47-49 E 65th St, New York, NY 10065

REGISTER HERE FOR IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE

This event is free, open to the public, and live captioning (CART) and ASL interpretation will be provided. This event will also be live-streamed on Zoom. RSVP HERE FOR ZOOM LINK

Please note: all in-person attendees must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination through CUNY’s Cleared4 access form online in advance of the event.


Extended hours for The Black Index
Monday, March 28, 5-7 PM
Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 East 68th Street, New York, NY
Visitors to the gallery must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination and are highly encouraged to wear a mask.

Hunter College is pleased to announce that Bridget R. Cooks, Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and curator of The Black Index (on view at Hunter’s Leubsdorf Gallery, February 1–April 3, 2022), is the Spring 2022 Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator. Please join us Monday, March 28th for a public lecture by Dr. Cooks. This event will take place in person at Roosevelt House and will also be live-streamed.

Bridget R. Cooks is Associate Professor of Art History and African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on African American artists, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. Cooks has worked in museum education and has curated several exhibitions including, Grafton Tyler Brown: Exploring California (2018), Pasadena Museum of California Art, Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective at the California African American Museum (2019), CAAM, and the nationally touring exhibition The Black Index (2021–2022).

She is the author of the book Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011). Her writing can be found in dozens of art exhibition catalogues as well as academic publications such as the journals Afterall, Afterimage, American Studies, Aperture, and American Quarterly.

The Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Curatorial Workshops are designed to bring curators of international stature to the Hunter campus to work with students in the MA program in Art History and the MFA program in Studio Art for an extended period of time. Previous Goldberg Curators have included Ann Goldstein of the Art Institute of Chicago; Hamza Walker of LAXArt in Los Angeles; Fabrice Stroun, an independent curator based in Switzerland; Valerie Cassel Oliver of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art; Omar Kholeif of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Pablo Helguera of the Museum of Modern Art; and Lynne Cooke of the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C. The Foundation To-Life Curatorial Workshop program recognizes the curatorial interests and ambitions of Hunter students and the Hunter College Art Galleries’ longstanding commitment to exhibitions whose themes, theses, and checklists have been developed and honed by our students. Recent faculty-initiated, seminar-based exhibitions have included Life as Activity: David Lamelas (2021); Stephen Mueller: Orchidaceous; Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971; and Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (all 2018); and Framing Community: Magnum Photos, 1947–Present (2017).

This lecture is made possible by the generous support of The Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curators Series with additional event production funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Mar
26
3:00 PM15:00
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Curator and Artists Hours for The Black Index

Installation view of The Black Index at Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery, 2022. Photo: Stan Narten. Alicia Henry. Analogous III, 2020. Acrylic, thread, yarn, and dyed leather, variable dimensions. Courtesy of the artist.

Curator and Artists Hours for The Black Index

Saturday, March 26, 3–5pm
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 E 68th St New York
Enter from the south side of 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues

Join curator Bridget R. Cooks as well as artists Alicia Henry and Dennis Delgado at Leubsdorf Gallery.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration is needed.
Please note all visitors must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination.

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