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Parsons' School of Art and Design History and Theory launches a new MA Fashion Studies program:
The aim of this groundbreaking graduate program is to foster the critical investigation of fashion in its multifaceted dimensions as object, image and practice that…
Sixties Dress Only
Based on an ethnographic study of the contemporary mod and sixties-scene the book explores the appeal and consumption of 1960s fashion among youth and adolescents…
MA student publication
MA Decorative Arts and Design Program alumna Amy Azzarito (2008) is publishing an essay, drawn from her MA thesis, on the hand-built architecture of the…
MA student delivering paper on Pedro Almodovar
MA Decorative Arts and Design Program student Natalia del Rivero delivered a paper on Pedro Almodovar at the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association, in Boston,…
Learn about the Victorian Society in America Summer Schools Program
Sarah Lichtman is a member of the Education Committee and Board of Directors of the Victorian Society in America Summer Schools Program. Please contact her…
Participate in the Production of Parsons Magazine
Susan Yelavich is the Faculty Advisor for PM (Parsons Magazine). Contact her at yelavics@newschool.edu to find out how to get involved. Opportunities include: publication of…
Routes and Homes
In Spring 2010 Jilly Traganou will be working on a participatory research project titled “Routes & Homes: Prototyping socio-spatial micro-structures in conditions of migration and…
Internship Coordinator for the Manitoga/Russel Wright Design Center
From 2005-2009 Sarah Lichtman was the Internship Coordinator for the Manitoga/Russel Wright Design Center. Professor Lichtman worked closely with several students from the Parsons Masters…
Affluence and Anxiety: Aspects in postwar America, 1945-1965
On January 21, 2010 Sarah Lichtman gave a lecture at the Museum of Art and Design entitled “Affluence and Anxiety: Aspects in postwar America, 1945-1965.
Televisual Spaces and the Paradox of Anamorphosis
Margot Bouman is presenting a paper “Televisual Spaces and the Paradox of Anamorphosis” in the session Art and the Televisual at College Art Association 2010,…
All about Yves
Rosemary O’Neill is presenting a paper “All about Yves” in the session Autofictions, Avatars, and Alter Egos: Fabricating Artists, at College Art Association 2010, the…
By the Book: Toward a New Paradigm of Design Studies?
Hazel Clark and David Brody are discussing their new book Design Studies: A Reader in the session By the Book: Toward a New Paradigm of…
