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Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons MA History of Decorative Arts and Design Graduate Open House

October 16, 2012 | Events

Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 6:00 p.m. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (entrance at 9 East 90th St.) The next generation of decorative arts and design historians,…

Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons MA History of Decorative Arts and Design Graduate Open House

October 8, 2012 | Events

Tuesday, November 6, 2012, 6:15 p.m. Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (entrance at 9 East 90th St.) The next generation of decorative arts and design historians,…

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – At Home with Charles and Ray Eames: Interiors as Spaces of Contemplation, Entertainment and Performance

October 1, 2012 | News

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – X is for an Expert on Bathrooms: Alexander Kira & Peter Greenaway’s “26 Bathrooms”

April 28, 2012 | News

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – Intersensory Interiors in Eighteenth-Century France

April 20, 2012 | News

INSIDE (hi)STORIES – The Material Culture Lens: Place, Objects, and Narratives

March 6, 2012 | News

Fashionability and Automobility: The Women of General Motors Styling Section, 1950s

February 1, 2012 | Events

Damsels in Design Presents “Fashionability and Automobility:  The Women of General Motors Styling Section, 1950s” a lecture by Wendi Parson February 16, 6:30-8:00 6 East…

New MA Design Studies Program Launches Blog

October 4, 2011 | News

  The School of Art and Design History and Theory is delighted to inform you of our brand new MA Program in Design Studies.  Launching…

Perspectives in World Art and Design

February 7, 2011 | Faculty News

In the fall of 2010, ADHT launched two pilot sections of PWAD1.  Employing the lecture/recitation model for a total of 150 students, two sections led…

First Call for Papers — Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts & Design

January 14, 2011 | Events

Themed “stuff,” this year’s History of Decorative Arts and Design symposium will be held at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum on April 28-29. This is…

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Offered jointly with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York, the History of Design and Curatorial Studies program leads to a master of arts degree. Graduates go on to careers as historians, curators, and scholars in museums, universities, historic houses, auction houses, and galleries.

Visit the main Parsons site for more information about the MA in History of Design and Curatorial Studies.