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News from New Haven

 April 2021

To you, our current faculty and students, esteemed alumni, and greater community, we send word of what's up in New Haven, and ask that you might keep us updated in kind. Email us.
In this issue:

All-School lecture with Xin Wang

 Join us online Thursday, May 6 at 7:30PM

Poster design by Mianwei Wang, Graphic Design MFA '21.


Exploring Asian/American Perspectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with Xin Wang
    Thursday, May 6 at 7:30PM (EDT)
    Zoom link to join >


Join the Yale School of Art online for a public virtual All-School lecture next week with art historian and curator Xin Wang.

Xin Wang is an art historian and curator based in New York. Past curatorial projects include Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013); Lu Yang: Arcade, New York (2014); THE BANK SHOW: Vive le Capital, BANK, Shanghai (2015); THE BANK SHOW: Hito Steyerl, BANK, Shchin(A)frica: an interface, Institute of Fine Arts, New York (2017); and Life and Dreams: Photography and Media Art in China since the 1990s, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm (2018). Her writing has appeared in e-flux journal, Artforum, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Flash Art, and Art in America.

She has lectured at institutions such as the Para/Site International Conference, Yale University, School of Visual Arts, Queens Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Städelschule, and as the keynote speaker for the “Asia/Technics” conference at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2019). Currently pursuing a PhD in modern and contemporary art—focusing on Soviet hauntology in Postmodernism—at the Institute of Fine Arts (New York University), Wang also works as the Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and manages the discursive archive on Asian Futurisms at afuturism.tumblr.com.


This talk is being organized by graduating Photography student Ronghui Chen. To stay updated on this and all upcoming Yale School of Art events, subscribe to our public events calendar here >>
 

2021 reprise of Photo Pop Ups continue

 Guests include A$AP Rocky, Julianne Moore, & Jeff Wall

Yale Photo Pop Up posters for events hosted throughout April 2021. Series graphic identity by Kyla Arsadjaja, Graphic Design MFA '20.


On April 1, the School of Art announced the return of the Photography Department's virtual pop up lecture series—a reprise of last year's Q&A-style events initiated by Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, Gregory Crewdson, in response to the shift to online learning during the 2020 pandemic.

In these online 30-minute events, Crewdson asks each guest a list of simple questions about artistic practice, and the anticipation of an end to the pandemic crisis. American film director David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Gone Girl) kicked off the 2021 series with the first event on April 5, with subsequent events welcoming A$AP Rocky, Barry Jenkins, James Laxton, Julianne Moore, Adrianne Lenker, Jeff Wall, and Jeremy O. Harris. The series continues through May 10, 2021.

The events in the 2021 reprise are officially open to all, with new events announced on the School's public, Yale, and Facebook calendars, with Zoom links made available through our Instagram. Select recordings of past talks are also being shared via the School of Art's YouTube channel.
 

Faculty & alum highlights

Matt Keegan, 1996. Image courtesy of Inventory Press.


A few recent projects and announcements featuring Yale School of Art alums and faculty members: Matt Keegan, Senior Critic in Painting/Printmaking, recently published the artist book 1996—a collection of essays, interviews, and imagery that together offer a striking reassessment of the 1990s as the moment when the Democratic Party swung to the right. Since its release last fall, 1996 has been praised by Artforum, Art in America, and LAMBDA Literary, with BOMB Magazine writing that the book "digs deep, extracting clarity from a legacy of deceit, while keeping humor and nuance intact."

Another exciting highlight comes with the recent 2021 Guggenheim Fellow announcement: alums William Cordova (MFA '04), Eve Fowler (MFA ‘92), and Victoria Sambunaris (MFA '99) have been named as 2021 Fellows, alongside former faculty member and alumnae of the School of Art’s summer program, Yale Norfolk, Josephine Halvorson.

Earlier this spring, the Chicago-based national arts funding organization United States Artists (USA) announced its 2021 USA Fellows: "the storytellers, shapemakers, movement builders, and culture bearers practicing today." 2021 USA Fellows include SoA alums Njideka Akunyili Crosby (MFA '11) and Lex Brown (MFA '17) as well as Assistant Professor in Sculpture Aki Sasamoto.
 

Call for alumni who studied under Alvin Eisenman

In 1950, Josef Albers asked typographer Alvin Eisenman to help establish the graphic design program here at the Yale School of Art. Subsequently, Eisenman taught at what was then the Yale School of Art and Architecture (and only later the Yale School of Art) for over four decades. 

Alumni who may have studied under Eisenman are invited to contribute their experiences to a new book project about the educator and designer. Please find full information, including how to submit responses, here

 

School of Art alums are invited to submit events and exhibitions to be added to the new School of Art in the World calendar, as well as publications and initiatives to be archived on the wiki.

Members of the public are invited to subscribe to the School of Art in the World calendar, and visit the full wiki archive.
 

Thank you for being part of our community. During these uncertain times, we've created support funds to help address the School's most pressing needs.

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