Grey Art Gallery

Always pleased to partner with our friends at Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU on public programs! This 10/29 webinar considers the digital junctions of aesthetics and protestmediated by a capture, circulation, and reconfiguration that spans the globe. Register at the link on the event page to join us next Thursday.

Webinar tonight! See you there.

The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU is presenting an important virtual panel on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 6 pm EDT, which will foreground how queer/feminist/Indigenous scholars, activists, and artists make connections between the politics of food, land, water, and sovereignty, and offer a vision for a more livable, mutually dependent future. Read more in the event description and register now! https://nyu.zoom.us/webi/register/WN_UKixp01RQkOLmsO1qwhziw

There's a great conversation on the docket tonight from NYU Center for Disability Studies! A conversation with contributors to "Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century" (2020, Alice Wong, editor; Vintage Books) with Alice Wong (Director, Disability Visibility Project), Britney Wilson (Civil rights lawyer, contributor to Disability Visibility), Reyma McCoy McDeid (National Center for Independent Living, autism self-advocate). Moderated by Alice Sheppard (Dancer/choreographer)

Reminder to NYU students that our writing competition (cash prizes will be awarded!) is open through this Friday, October 16! Get your entries in.

This time last year we were sharing our permanent collection of modern Asian and Middle Eastern art with our visitors, with the exhibition Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection. This painting by Tehran-born architect and artist Kamran Diba is part of a twelve-piece installation that Abby Grey first saw in 1967 at Seyhoun Gallery, Tehran. The work depicts a blood-red diver plunging into watery blue depths. Underscoring ...the surreal quality is the Persian inscription between the diver’s hands, which reads, I am an underwater man, where is underwater? I am the underwater woman, underwater is here. In this call-and-response dialoguewhich was recorded and played back alongside Diba’s painting at the exhibition’s openingmale and female counterparts express a desire for unification, a desire that is thwarted in the frozen image. Though we’re temporarily closed, you can still explore artworks from our permanent collection on our website! Kamran Diba, Diver, 1967, Oil on canvas, 80 3/4 x 34 1/4 in. (205.1 x 87 cm). Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection. Gift of Abby Weed Grey, G1975.86 #kamrandiba #modernismsnyu #iranianart #modernart #greyartgallerynyu #abbyweedgreycollection

How do artists find space to live and work? How do they create and exhibit art in a politicized world where freedom is often limited? How do smaller museums and other art venues survive the economic pressures and competition in the art market? On Monday, October 19 at 6:30 pm, join #NYUalumnus Roslyn Bernstein, art critic, professor of art journalism, and author of the just-released "Engaging Art: Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe," and Lynn Gumpert, director... of @nyugrey, as they consider these questions, illuminating the pains and pleasures of contemporary artistic production as well as the challenges faced today by artists, curators, and gallerists around the globe. Register at: http://bit.ly/33ZSMo5 Requests for live closed captioning or ASL interpretation should be submitted to [email protected] at least 72 hours in advance. This event will be recorded and posted online. #roslynbernstein #lynngumpert #nyualumni #nyuart #engagingart #artcrticism #artjounalism #webinar NYU Alumni See more

Our artist talk with Joseph Burwell and Reuben Lorch-Miller is tomorrow! Have you registered yet? Check out the artists' website in advance of the talk: https://josephburwell.com/ http://www.lorch-miller.com/

TODAY (Oct 12) is Indigenous Peoples' Day. Why Do We Celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day?Indigenous Peoples' Day is an opportunity to reveal historical truths a...bout the genocide and oppression of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, to organize against current injustices, and to celebrate Indigenous resistance. Join us in recognizing Indigenous Peoples' Day by reflecting on the land on which you occupy. Identify: Whose land was I born on? Whose land do I live on/occupy? Whose land do I vacation on/visit? Learn: What is the history? What is the language? What are the cultural protocols and practices? What are my responsibilities for being on the land? Check us out on Instagram @NYUCMEP or at https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOuJLqBhgP/ for more information on Indigenous Peoples' Day!

New Yorkers: TODAY Friday, October 9 is the deadline for voter registration! Planyourvote.org can help you register and plan your voting strategy. #PlanYourVote is a 2020 visual arts initiative from Vote.org that harnesses the power of artists and museums to encourage civic engagement and promote the right to vote. Help connect & mobilize our communities by sharing widely with friends and family. Head to planyourvote.org to see participating artists! Image: Hank Willis Thomas (Tisch Photography & Imaging '98)

Attention all NYU students: the Grey is now accepting entries for The "Taking Shape" NYU Student Writing Prize competitions! We will award $250 each for the best short prose piece or poem written by an NYU undergraduate and graduate student in response to the Grey Art Gallery’s recent exhibition, "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s1980s." Two second-place winners will receive $100 each, and two honorable mentions $50 each. Each of the six winners will ...also receive a copy of the exhibition catalogue and have their winning entries published in the Grey Art Gallery’s blog. The submission deadline is Friday, October 16, 2020. Visit this link to read the full submission instructions: https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu//taking-shape-nyu-student-/ Thank you to our friends and co-sponsors at Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU for making this possible! Image: Dia al-Azzawi, Composition, 1976. Oil on canvas, 35 x 35 3/8 in. Collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE #nyustudents #nyuniversity #nyuundergrad #nyugraduate #nyustudentcompetition #writingcompetition #studentwriting #takingshape #arababstraction Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU NYU Creative Writing Program New York University NYU Tisch Department of Art and Public Policy NYU College of Arts and Science The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU NYU Steinhardt ART Department La Maison Française of NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU/www.kjcc.org

Today's #CollectionSpotlight is this moody etching by Devayani Krishna (19202000), hailing from India. Like many of her generation, Krishna attended the renowned Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay, graduating in 1936. Later she left urban India and moved with her husband, artist Kanwal Krishna, to the Himalayas, where they witnessed Tibetan Buddhists’ loss of autonomy to the People’s Republic of Chinawhich in 1951 would wrest control of Tibet and send Buddhists into exil...e. Intrigued by the masks used in Tibetan spiritual practices, Devayani began to incorporate them into her work. When Abby Weed Greyfounder of the Grey Art Galleryasked her about the dark aesthetic of Veiled Mask, seen here, she replied: No, it is not sad. This is a veiled mask. It is very hard to get to know people. This is just a human being behind two masks. Through such veiled imagery and esoteric symbolism, Devayani subtly conveyed their response to the tragedies unfolding around her. Devayani Krishna, Veiled Mask, n.d., Etching on paper, 15 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. Grey Art Gallery, @nyuniversity Art Collection. Gift of Abby Weed Grey, G1975.207 #devayanikrishna #indianart #modernindian art #modernart #etching #abbyweedgreycollection #nyuartcollection #universitymuseum