NYU Students Take Part In Zine Revival With The Fly By Night

April 11th, 2013 by Ashley D'Arcy

We are in the midst of a zine revival, friends! Tavi Gevinson’s is on a mission to bring the zine to the young girls everywhere via the internet. Just last month, the Fales Collection at NYU acquired all of Sheila Heti’s zine from her youth, Brillantine. Now we have a new favorite zine coming out of NYU to share with you: The Fly By Night.

One part blog, one part quarterly zine, The Fly By Night is a self-professed “art platform for the free-living aesthete.” TFBN, which takes its name from Charlie Chaplin’s tramp in The Kid, is DIY in technique but not aesthetic. Pages from TFBN’s newest issue resemble Vogue more than the Riot Grrrl zines that popularized the medium.

This high-fashion look is no mistake. TFBN is just as concerned with visual art as it is with fashion. Our favorite component of their blog is the Art Breaker in which Culture Editor, Vanessa Castro, turns to iconic artworks for sartorial inspiration. This fun, casual approach to highbrow art is part of TFBN’s appeal. Sorry gentleman, they have yet to look at the stylish men of paintings. Read more…


James Franco’s BirdShit: White Paint, Chekhov, And NYU Students

April 10th, 2013 by Hanna Armour


Bird shit. It’s not a term that brings to mind beauty–let alone art–but this past weekend at MoMA PS1 a few NYU students were able to create something truly incredible out of “crap.” Now, before we begin, let us preface by saying that no birds, nor their shit, were included in this piece, but rather, a lot–and we mean a lot–of white paint. We were warned before we entered the VW-sponsored dome that we had the chance of encountering said paint as well as flashing bright lights. What had we gotten ourselves into?

We sat down recently with Nina Ljeti, a Senior at Tisch, who, alongside James Franco and Chloe Kernaghan, brought the piece into fruition. The piece is inspired by Chekhov’s The Seagull, a 19th century play that follows the lives, and loves, of actors and playwrights and the aimless death of a seagull. In “Bird Shit,” the same characters are used but find themselves on stage in a new light through punk rock music from Ljeti’s band Yeah Well, Whatever. The piece also uses female modern dancers crawling and writhing through the fallen paint and feathers, bringing to mind the 19th century’s obsession with“hysteria.” Read more…


Hats, Beating Hearts, & The Self: The 2013 Gallatin Arts Festival

April 9th, 2013 by Cara Cifferelli


“This isn’t college art. This isn’t weird Gallatin art. This is art,” announced Keith Miller to a large group of students at last night’s opening of the 2013 Gallatin Arts Festival. When planning our trip, we’ll admit that’s sort of what we expected: weird meta theatrical dance troops, or a spoken word ode to the caps lock button. What we got was surprisingly in (yet still out) of the box—something sophisticated yet very modern. It was a unique look into the minds of how teens and 20-somethings see the world, and how their art wrestles with that view.

Read more…


[PHOTOS] We Saw Sphinxes & Sprouse Twins At Met’s Annual Elegant Dance

April 5th, 2013 by Angela Almeida

Last night, in a party reminiscent of Blair Waldorf’s high school prom, the 15th annual Elegance Dance reminded the attendees the perks of going to NYU. The event, held in the Egyptian gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, welcomed students, flashy dresses, and countless photo ops beside ancient sphinxes. Read more…


The 2013 Armory Show Brings High-Brow Art To The Hudson

March 7th, 2013 by Chelsea Beeler

Since 1994, the Armory Show has been an integral part of the New York City art scene and this year, as the 100th anniversary of the Armory Show (of 1913) is celebrated, more than ever it hopes to draw attention to the fascinating collections of the world’s most renowned galleries. Over the years the Armory Show has been held at venues across the city, but has finally settled on Piers 92 and 94 between 52nd and 55th Streets on Twelfth Avenue.

For those that are unaware, the Armory Show of 1913 – from which today’s show takes its name – was a modern art exposition held at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue that housed modern American and European art under one roof for the first time in history. The Armory Show was influential in that it exposed the American public, or more importantly American artists, to the experimental movements of the European avant-garde such as Fauvism and Cubism and challenged America’s affinity for realism. The Armory Show was divided in 18 galleries that juxtaposed American and Irish, German, French, Dutch, and Swiss art, featuring notable artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Robert Rauschenberg. Today the Armory Show recalls its roots, but has moved on – diving global modern and contemporary art between two navel piers along the Hudson.

Read more…


Students Look Ahead After Fire Tears Through Pratt Institute

February 20th, 2013 by Kelly Weill

John Leone, a senior at the Pratt Institute, woke to a text message from the college’s alert system. Early on the morning of February 15th, he would learn, a four-alarm fire had torn through the school’s Main Building.

“I was initially pretty worried,” the art student says. “I’m a first semester senior this spring with the intention to graduate next fall and because of this I was assigned a studio space on the 6th floor.” But Leone did not know which floors had been affected until he went online. “On Facebook a fellow senior painter had posted a status regarding it with a photo of the building. My heart sank at the sight of the 6th floor engulfed in flames.” Read more…


A New Museum Reclaiming Urban Space In The Village

December 10th, 2012 by Utpala Menon

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) was all set to open in mid-November when Hurricane Sandy struck, wreaking havoc on its and so many others’ plans for that month. The storm flooded the museum’s basement, leaving signs, boards and photographs soaked. In spite of being a part of this unfortunate flood zone, the museum decided to be positively proactive rather than despairingly reactive.

A bicycle-powered generator, an item set to be part of the museum exhibit, helped the staff pump water out. The apparatus was created by bicycling eco-activists Times Up! awhile back to help power the Occupy movement in Zuccotti Park, making it clearly relevant for the new exhibit space. But in that period of mass outages, the bike was no longer an artifact; besides powering a pump, it became a cell phone-charging hub. Adults and children alike came by to pedal the bike, cheering each other on as they drained the saturated basement.

This Saturday, nearly a month later, MoRUS and it neighbors’ effort to restore the space finally paid off. The museum opened with a bang; a chain-cutting ceremony led by Councilmember Rosie Mendez inaugurated the space, saying,“We are gonna sweat, we are gonna squat; let’s go in and look at our history!”  Read more…


[PHOTOS] College Students Pretend They’re Back In The Factory At The Met

October 25th, 2012 by Rachel Kaplan

Last night, the Metropolitan Museum hosted “Warhol’s Factory at the Met” for college students because, according to the event page, we’re “all that and a can of soup.” It is true: the Met thinks very highly of us, and they frequently host events: Last year, they hosted An Oasis at the Met. College students in the surrounding Manhattan area could go to the Met, present a valid student ID, and be whisked inside for a night of mingling and pretension as you’d expect from a night honoring the father of pop culture and all the works he’s influenced.

Read more…


Local And A Show: Paris Commune

October 8th, 2012 by Cara Cifferelli

I became a History major after watching four seasons of “The Tudors.” Titanic is my go-to film. History is not as interesting to me unless it can be packed into two hours of narrative. When I found out about “Paris Commune” from my Drama in Performance professor, I dragged my pre-med friend and set off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to learn about the revolution of the Paris Commune.

“Paris Commune” is not the usual historical musical in the vein of “Les Miserables.” Rather than creating fictitious characters, “Paris Commune” (created by Steven Cosson and Michael Friedman) takes the story of the time and illustrates it with characters that really existed, and examines how they really impacted the story. The cast narrates a loosely chronological path of the revolution as present-day historians.

Read more…


Art Just Got Cheap: Your NYU Card Now Gives You Free Admission To Great Museums

September 10th, 2012 by Zoe Contros Kearl

While it’s true that NYU has a lot of positive qualities, it’s fair to say that being inexpensive is definitely not among them. Add the cost of tuition to New York’s inevitably high prices, and next thing you know Bank of America is sending you text messages warning you that your bank balance is barely enough to buy one more 40 (oz) of Olde English.

But now, thanks to J Sex, NYU students are now able to visit twelve different museums (including the Frick, MOMA, and the Whitney) for free! New York University is now an official corporate partner of all of the museums listed here, and all you need to take advantage of this partnership is a valid student ID. Even better, NYU’s status as partner means no more waiting in lines on busy days; we all qualify as members of the museums listed. Very exclusive, I know.

Read more…


« Older