The Barney Arts Digest

New Exhibitions

Art Therapy Exhibition: Glimmers on view until February 8, 2026.

A small works art show featuring Art Therapy students. In polyvagal theory, "glimmers" are small moments that signal safety and connection to the nervous system.

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Visual Arts Administration Exhibition: S.U.D.S – Student Unity and Discovery Showcase | Art Fair on view until February 8, 2026.

S.U.D.S is a student art fair organized by Other Content and Art Business Society which was created to serve as a platform for emerging BFA and MFA artists and makers at NYU, nurturing a sense of unity and discovery among artists and art enthusiasts alike.

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80WSE | Project Space: DIY Grrrl: Constructing, Disrupting, and Reclaiming Girlhood in the 1990s on view until March 7, 2026.

DIY Grrrl: Constructing, Disrupting, and Reclaiming Girlhood in the 1990s examines how young women and girls in the last decade of the 20th century confronted dominant social expectations and redefined ideas of femininity through handcraft, community building, and a Do-It-Yourself approach.

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Upcoming Events

NYC Citizens Revival Screening featuring Marlos E’van (MFA) on February 2, 2026.

Director's Cut screening & discussion of the documentary Citizens Revival in the Einstein Auditorium.

Event of Interest

The Academy in a State of Siege: Pictures of an Institution on February 3, 2026.

Keynote by W. J. T. Mitchell

A lecture on images and narratives of academia from the myth of Akademos, to Plato’s Academy,  the Florentine Academy of Drawing, the British Royal Academy, and Pierre Bourdieu’s Homo Academicus.