In the mid-1960s, the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica began embracing joyously transgressive modes of performance, film, and installation to champion marginalized persons and their culture. Made in collaboration with the Brazilian filmmaker Neville D’Almeida while Oiticica was self-exiled to New York during the 1970s, the original installation series of five Bloco-Experiências in Cosmococa–Programa in Progress […]
More than 120 studios will be open showcasing the work of MFA & BFA students. There will be a fundraising exhibition on the 2nd Floor with works for sale and proceeds benefitting our student organization, along with special project spaces curated by Hunter College MA and MFA students throughout the building. No pets allowed unless […]
Please join us for a conversation with author Amy Yee as we mark the release of Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels Among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents with a foreword by […]
Mary Szybist is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. Her work […]
Robert Seltzer Lunch Lecture Series The Yiddish (Un)conscious: Psychoanalysis as a Jewish Science Presented by: Naomi Seidman, Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto, and a Guggenheim Fellow. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Music at Hunter College. This lecture will also be available live on Zoom. Link sent […]
Hunter College President Ann Kirschner Invites you to the launch of a new Roosevelt House series: Mapping the Future of Higher Ed Presented by Hunter College and Macaulay Honors College Featuring: Achieve Partners Managing Director, Ryan Craig, author of Apprentice Nation: How the “Earn and Learn” Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and […]
The Roosevelt House Human Rights and Public Policy Programs together with “The Invisible Americans” Podcast invite you to the first of three 2023 convergings: Child Poverty Is Personal: How Do We End It? In support of nearly 13 million American children living in poverty, we invite you to join us for the first of three critical […]
Join Basil Smikle Jr. and Nicholas Bloom in conversation with Hon. Alicka Ampry-Samuel, for a meaningful discussion about federal housing policy and urban development. Ms. Ampry-Samuel is an experienced human rights champion with a deep understanding of the experiences and the needs of the Department’s most vulnerable. She strives to provide quality affordable housing for low-income residents and homebuyers by […]
2023 marks the 125th anniversary of the beginning and end of the so-called Spanish American War. With the signing of the Treaty of Paris on the 10th of December 1898, a twenty-million- dollar financial transaction, and US armed forces poised to assure the terms of the peace, Spain relinquished its sovereignty over its last major […]
Melissa Febos is the bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism and has been translated into seven languages, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. Her fifth book, The Dry Season, is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. Her awards and fellowships include those from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA […]
