The Barney Arts Digest

Posted

April 20, 2026

Announcements from the Department of Art & Art Professions

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New Exhibitions

BFA Thesis Project: II PAINT MYSELF AS THE DEVIL INSTEAD performance on April 24, 2026.

Introducing Sinspiro. One night only performance.

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Ongoing Exhibitions

BFA Senior Thesis Projects 2026 on view until May 8, 2026.

BFA Studio Art majors culminating thesis project featuring a wide range of ambitious work across media and forms.

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BFA Senior Honors Studio: The Magician's Choice on view until May 17, 2026.

The Magician's Choice is a group exhibition curated by 80WSE Director, Howie Chen, and features the artwork of nine BFA Studio Art Majors in the final year of their undergraduate studies at the New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development’s Department of Art & Art Professions.

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Upcoming Events

Virtual Event: VAA & PAA Bites & Insights in London on April 20, 2026.

Steinhardt Alumni Relations is currently hosting "Bites & Insights", a student-alumni conversation series hosted by the Student to Alumni Initiatives (SAI) Committee. The SAI Committee is a group of current Steinhardt students dedicated to building stronger connections between students and alumni through meaningful programs and engagement.

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Visual Arts Administration Colloquium: Spaces of Encounter on April 24, 2026.

Panelists will engage in a discussion highlighting the politics of space in the built environment. The discussion is moderated by Spaces of Encounter exhibition curator and NYU Steinhardt Visual Arts Administration MA graduate Alyse Tucker. It features arts & culture ambassador, urban planner and PhD candidate Danicia M. Malone, interdisciplinary artist and NYU clinical professor Curry J Hackett, and Director and Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programming at Temple Contemporary gallery Dr. Matthew Kenyatta. The discussion will take place at 4pm in the Einstein Auditorium in the Barney Building.

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Art Therapy Thesis Presentations on May 9, 2026.

The NYU Steinhardt Graduate Art Therapy Program proudly announces the presentation of Master’s Theses for the Class of 2026.

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News

Anna-Michelle Roux (VAA Alum) has curated an ambitious exhibition for Southern Guild Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa about the legacy of Surrealism in the country, past and current. The Poets Are Working is part of the gallery's mission to foster collaboration, cultural memory, and progressive futures.

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Anna Fleury (BFA Alum) is currently an artist in residence at the AriZona Beverage Company.

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Valentina Castellani (VAA Alum and Adjunct Professor) and her book Trading Beauty were featured on the ArtTactic podcast.

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Open Call: Xingzi Gu (MFA Alum) is organizing an exhibition titled slipknots, exploring the tension between intimacy and circulation, softness and constraint, and private expression and public visibility within feminist print culture and independent publishing. slipknots is collecting submissions from artists and writers across all disciplines.

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Event of Interest

Things We Say When We Teach
Neil Goldberg (Adjunct Faculty) with Rabih Alameddine, Juliette Mapp, and Elle Pérez

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | 6:30 PM
Skowhegan NYC | 136 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

For this conversation, Neil invites Rabih Alameddine, Juliette Mapp and Elle Pérez—a multigenerational, multidisciplinary group of artists and writer—to explore the references, metaphors, anecdotes, aphorisms, riffs, and bits they find themselves returning to in their teaching.

 

New Shows

Anna Fleury, Just Powers: Long Island Biennial 2026, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY. Until September 13, 2026.

Robyn Berland, 3 Artists in Abstract, Bronxville Public Library, Bronxville, NY. Until June 3, 2026.

 

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Jobs & Opportunities

  1. Artist-in-Residence Program, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY.
  2. Audience Management Internship, Interlochen Arts Festival, Interlochen, MI.
  3. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants, Creative Capital for Artists.

 

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