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Ernesto Klar's Relational Lights Awarded Share Prize
Ernesto Klar, ADHT and AMT Part-Time Faculty Member, was awarded the 2010 Share Prize in Turin for his work, Relational Lights. The Share Prize was created in…
Call for Papers – Special Issue: Olympic Design
Jilly Traganou will be editing The Journal of Design History’s upcoming Special Issue on Olympic Design. This issue will explore the diverse outlets for design…
Hollywood’s Bad Boy Designer: The Raymond Driscoll Collection
Home to a wealth of records that help to document the history of design, The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Design Archives offer great insight…
Locating Fashion / Studies: Research Sites and Practices
This symposium marks the launch of the new MA Fashion Studies program in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons. Placing…
Supports / Surfaces
Rosemary O’Neill presented her paper, “The Installations of Supports/Surfaces: Focal Dispersion in a Collaborative Field,” as part of a panel, The Visual Arts in France…
Collective Creativity & L'École de Nice
Rosemary O’Neill wrote the preface for the book, L’École de Nice: Paroles d’Artistes, published by Verlhac Editions, Paris (2010). Entitled “École de Nice: Action artistique…
Call for Course Proposals for 2011/2012 Academic Year
The School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons will consider proposals for new courses to be taught during the 2010-11 academic year…
My Name is Red, Read in Yelavich’s Design Fictions Seminar
It’s not everyday that a Parsons Senior Seminar prompts a television producer to pick up the phone. But that’s just what happened last November, when…
The Lives of Others
Set in East Berlin in 1984, The Lives of Others is a political thriller that exists on a human scale. It tells the story of a…
Women Artists in the Age of the French Revolution
On November 23, 2010, Laura Auricchio, Assistant Professor of Art History, will give a lecture, “Women Artists in the Age of the French Revolution,” in…
Counter Space: Design + the Modern Kitchen
On view at MoMA through March 14, 2011, this is one of the most innovative and engaging exhibitions of the season. Celebrating the museum’s recent…
A History of the World Told Through Objects
A solar lamp, the plastic credit card, an 18th-century African drum and a Chinese jade cup are just a few of the 100 selections made…