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January 30, 2023
What's so Special about "Special Electives"
A moment in SVA history when students could supplement their studio classes with something a little more more spiritual.
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October 28, 2021
The Big Apple
“Inside the Big Apple: Paintings of New York Interiors,” was held at the Visual Arts Gallery from October 9-November 1, 1968.
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July 21, 2021
Shadowlight Theatre
In 1968 Milton designed two posters for Shadowlight Theatre that showed his growing interest in the interplay between color and light.
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June 01, 2020
SVA COVID Collection
The SVA's community's artistic response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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April 21, 2020
Documenting COVID-19 Within the SVA Community
The SVA Archives is collecting our community's artistic response to the historic COVID-19 pandemic. All students, faculty, staff, and alumni are encouraged to submit work.
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March 23, 2020
George Tscherny's Sublime Installation Design
George Tscherny provided detailed and beautiful instructions for installing an exhibition of his work.
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July 12, 2019
George Tscherny at 95
Designer extraordinaire and one-man-band George Tscherny is 95.
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March 12, 2019
Steve Reich at SVA in the 60s
New York City's avant-garde art scene was on full display at SVA's 1967 Fall Gallery Concert Series.
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November 17, 2017
Department of the Newly Uncovered: Seth Siegelaub’s Artist’s Contract
We just uncovered a batch of Seth Siegelaub’s original Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement from 1971.
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June 14, 2016
Underground Images in Warsaw
A survey of SVA subway posters in Warsaw.
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February 16, 2016
Delpire
Robert Delpire and Push Pin Studio’s mutual admiration resulted in exhibitions in both New York and Paris.
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November 23, 2015
Bettmann Panopticon
In 1964, SVA’s Visual Arts Gallery hosted the Bettman Panopticon, an exhibition of works by the leading art directors and designers of the day created from materials in the Bettmann Archive, the trove of vintage clip art and photos.
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August 04, 2015
65 Self-Portraits
65 Self-Portraits is one of the best documented of the remarkable series of exhibitions organized by Shirley Glaser while she was director of SVA’s Visual Arts Gallery, 1964-1969.
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October 25, 2014
Fed up with mediocrity
In 1964, the Sanders Printing Corporation invited SVA’s graduating class to produce its periodic promotional publication, Folio.
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October 09, 2014
Accidents will happen
The tension between the accidental and the controlled is almost always present in the work of George Tscherny.
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October 08, 2014
Brilliant mistake
The 1964 course announcement for Henry Wolf’s and Melvin Sokolsky’s photography course at SVA manages to be both instructive and artful, assembling outtakes of the instructors’ portraits in a way that elevates them.
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August 31, 2014
Use your head
SVA’s early subway posters helped raise the school to a new plane of artistic and intellectual pursuits.
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August 29, 2014
Story arc
Milton Glaser got minimal for SVA’s 40th Anniversary logo.
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June 28, 2014
Robert Weaver at SVA
Pioneering illustrator Robert Weaver was a major figure at SVA beginning in 1950s.
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June 26, 2014
Sunday hats
Tony Palladino created this indelible image for an SVA poster in 1989.
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