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FACE VALUE –>A Talk by DB Dowd on March 11th (New time and location!)

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FACE VALUE –>A Talk by DB Dowd

THURSDAY, MARCH 11TH, 2010 7:30 PM (NEW TIME!)

Room A510, 66 W. 12th Street (NEW LOCATION!)

Douglas B. Dowd is a professor of Communication Design and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Dowd is active as a curator, essayist and critic in the realm of modern graphic culture, writing on theoretical and historical topics in comics, animation, and illustration. He writes the blog Graphic Tales at http://www.ulcercity.blogspot.com/ and serves as an advisor to the Norman Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He co-edited Strips, Toons & Bluesies: Essays on Comics and Culture for Princeton Architectural Press in 2006 and served as a curatorial advisor for Ephemeral Beauty: Al Parker and the American Women’s magazine, 1940-1960 at the Rockwell in 2007.

Originally trained as a printmaker, Dowd’s books and prints are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. His illustration work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Last year, Dowd published Visit Mohicanland, an online illustrated novel, at http://visit-mohicanland.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

From Lascaux Caves to Autocad–Brett Littman from the Drawing Center visits Parsons!

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Parsons The New School for Design Presents:

Is This A Drawing? From Lascaux Caves to Autocad
Brett Littman, Executive Director of the Drawing Center

The kick-off event of a collaboration between The Drawing Center and Parsons. Free and Open to the Public.

Tuesday,
March 9, 2010
6:30 pm
The New School
66 West 12th Street
Room A510

Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center — is the only fine arts institution in the United States to focus solely on the exhibition of drawings –, will present a lecture entitled “From Lascaux Caves to Autocad.” A wide range of issues will be explored, including: What is the relevance of drawing in contemporary culture? How does one define the activity of drawing today? What does it mean to expand the definition of drawing to encompass architecture, design, music, science, dance? This talk will also explore the curatorial decisions that have shaped the Drawing Center’s upcoming programming.

Artist as Author Symposium is happening on March 27th!

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The Illustration Program at Parsons The New School for Design presents:

The Artist as Author — a symposium on self-illustrated texts in history and contemporary practice.
Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 3 – 8:30pm
The New School, Wollman Hall, 5th Floor, 66 West 12th Street, NYC
Free and open to the public

Patrica Mainardi (CUNY Graduate Center) on Popular Prints and Comics.
Emily Lauer, (MA MPhil CUNY) on William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair illustrations
David Kurnick (Rutgers University) on The Theatrical Impulse and the Illustrated Novel.
Ben Katchor (Parsons The New School) on Picture-recitation.
Jerry Moriarty (School of Visual Arts) presents his latest project: Whatsa Paintoonist?

The participants:

Patricia Mainardi is Professor of Art History at City University of New York, where she teaches at The Graduate Center. Her publications include Art and Politics of the Second Empire: The Universal Expositions of 1855 and 1867 (Yale, 1987), which received the College Art Association Charles Rufus Morey Award for the best art history book of 1988; The End of the Salon: Art and the State in the Early Third Republic (Cambridge, 1994); Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Marriage and Its Discontents in Nineteenth-Century France (Yale, 2003); and many articles and catalogues. She is currently completing a book: Another World: Illustrated Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century France, which includes chapters on caricature, book illustration, popular prints and comics.

Emily Lauer, MA MPhil, teaches Children’s Literature at Hunter College, where her students routinely say brilliant and helpful things about illustrations. “Signs as Designs” is part of her PhD dissertation, “Drawing Conclusions: Visual Literacy In Fiction,” which she will defend later this Spring at the CUNY Graduate Center.

David Kurnick is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University. He is working on a book called Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel of Interiority about major novelists with frustrated theatrical careers.

Ben Katchor’s picture-stories appear in Metropolis magazine. His upcoming collection of weekly strips, The Cardboard Valise, will be published by Pantheon Books. His most recent music-theater collaboration with Mark Mulcahy, A Checkroom Romance, will be performed at Lincoln Center in May 2010. He is an Associate Professor at Parsons, The New School for Design in New York City.

Jerry Moriarty has taught painting and drawing at The School of Visual Arts in NYC since 1963. A prolific artist, writer and illustrator, his work has appeared in Raw magazine, Kramers Ergot, Comic Art Magazine and The Best American Comics, 2009. In the 1980s and 90s, he produced a series of subway posters for The School of Visual Arts. His work has been exhibited at the Corridor Gallery in Soho, SVA Museum, Cue Foundation, the Phoenix Art Museum and the Vancouver Art Gallery. His latest book, The Complete Jack Survives, was published by Buenaventura Press in 2009. He was interviewed by Chris Ware in The Believer (art issue) in 2009. He was the recipient of an NEA grant.

Upcoming Comics History/New York History events

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The New York Center for Independent Publishing presents:

Comics History/New York History

New York City was the birthplace of the modern comic book, and the city has had a starring role in some of the greatest and most influential work the medium has produced. The New York Center for Independent Publishing will be presenting a series of events looking at the rich history of Comics and the City. Join us at our historic building at 20 West 44th Street as we explore the city through comics, from Riverdale to the Baxter Building, from Dropsie Avenue to Forest Hills, to untangle the relationship between the world’s greatest city and the comics that chronicle its history. Visit  www.nycip.org for more information!

New York, the Super-City

Tuesday, March 9th, 6:30 pm

New York served as the model for Gotham City, inspired Will Eisner as he created the noirish adventures of The Spirit, and became a recurring character during the 1960s resurgence of Marvel in comics such as Spider-Man and Iron Man.ForeWord Magazine contributing editor Peter Gutiérrez will moderate a talk on the relationship between superheroes and their favorite hometown… and on how comics culture has promoted potent and memorable images of New York to readers worldwide.

“Carousel” in New York

Tuesday, April 20th, 6:30 pm

The series closes with a multimedia presentation hosted by R. Sikoryak, Parsons faculty member and author of Masterpiece Comics. This event will feature work and performances from some the of the top comics artists working in New York.

Admission is $15, $10 for Members, and $5 for students.

Tonight–On Notation: A Talk By Hubertus Von Amelunxen

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The Illustration Program, School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design presents:

On Notation: A Talk By Hubertus Von Amelunxen
Wednesday, February 17
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Bark Room (Orientation Room)
Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, NYC

Notations are sign systems. They offer legibility, they enclose sound, meaning and movement, enable repetition, expansions and digressions. According to György Ligeti, they can be instructions for playing, means of communication or “an end in themselves”. Since the 19th century, notations have been considered as especially technical, media-technical in origin: from telegraphy to photography, from phonography, cinematography and dactylography to binary codifications, notations or metrical systems cause and determine not only phases in creation, repetition and the reproduction of artistic works, but also possibilities of interpretation. As sign systems, notations are predisposed to translation.

This talk was given in connection with the exhibition, “Notations – calculus and form in the arts”, curated by Hubertus von Amelunxen together with the artist Dieter Appelt for the Akademie der Künste in Berlin 2008 and for the ZKM in Karlsruhe 2009.

Hubertus von Amelunxen is a Professor of Media Philosophy and Cultural Studies at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.

Presented by the Illustration Program, School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design.

Quick Hit: Mentoring Opportunity!

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Parsons has openings for students who would like to mentor New York City youth in the Parsons Scholars Program. Almost 60 students in 10th – 12th grade study at Parsons each Saturday morning to prepare portfolios and attend college access workshops and events through our pre-college scholarship program.

Mentors work with cohorts of 12 – 15 youth and their faculty coordinator on a weekly basis both in the pre-college classroom and planning and organizing events. This is a paid position through Federal Work Study awards and both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend an information session on Friday evening to find out how to make a difference in the lives of our pre-college youth.

Mentoring Information Session
Friday, February 5
6pm
The New School Orientation Room (“bark room”)
2 West 13th Street, lobby
RSVP – academy@newschool.edu

The Cultivated Life: A Talk by Jean-Philippe Delhomme on February 3rd

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Jean-Philippe Delhomme is perhaps one of the most influential artist-illustrators working today. He is internationally known for his witty satirical illustrations that are as much gentle ribbing at the notion of the “good life” in the modern world as they are chronicles of the hip and fabulous.

For this reason his work has been embraced by the worlds of fashion, art and design as well as luxury commercial clients, including: Barneys, Grazia Casa, GQ, the Mark Hotel- New York, Le Bon Marche, Indochine, Casa Brutus, Whitewall, Travel and Leisure, SAA B, the NY Times, VISA , Interview Magazine, Vogue Nippon, House and Garden, Vogue UK and the New Yorker.

Mr. Delhomme visits Parsons to give a talk on his work on:

Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Bark Room/Orientation Room
Street: 2 W. 13th
City/Town: New York, NY

Free and open to the public!