Parsons School of Fashion Fully Integrates Ask any fashionista at Parsons where they study and chances are you’ll hear the term: “Parsons 560.” For years, students, faculty and staff of the acclaimed School of Fashion have used the shorthand to describe their home in Midtown. “Parsons 560” has become a brand: it is the name of the school’s Twitter and [...]
The Free Press sits down with The New School’s chairman of the Board of Trustees Joseph Gromek, the newly elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees, has a reputation as a turnaround man. As CEO of the Warnaco Group apparel corporation, Gromek managed one of the most acclaimed rescues in the recent history of the fashion industry. Just two months before [...]
Dorm Like Micro-apartments Could Become the City’s Future Since Nicole Chu moved into her 200-square-foot, $1,675-a-month West Village studio in August, small spaces have forced her to get creative. She uses a Pilate’s mat as her dining area. She places a ceramic water bowl atop her radiator, in lieu of a humidifier. And between the ceiling and an iron staircase—which [...]
Art History Flavors The New School’s Halls Through the haze of smoke in the Lang courtyard, where students roll cigarettes, click through Tumblr or occasionally glaze over their homework, a sculpture by Martin Puryear, an internationally renowned artist, sits unrecognized. Students sit on the three large rounded chairs made of wood, granite and metal in the 12th Street atrium and [...]
Workshop Prompts Dialogue on How to Combat Racism If a stranger asked you how you felt about benefiting from of the color of your skin, in front of 40 members of your community, including the provost of your university, several deans, an advisor to the school’s president, professors, graduates, and undergraduates, what would you say? During the last weekend of [...]
Digitization Project Expands to Include All Past Course Catalogs Hidden behind an inconspicuous gray door in the lobby of the main Parsons building at 66 Fifth Ave. are The New School Archives and Special Collections, home to thousands of documents that reveal The New School’s nearly century-old history. Until recently, the Archives remained in their original form: intact, but largely [...]
Dean Search Fuels Dialogue on NSSR’s Future The New School for Social Research is the longest-running asset of The New School. In the post-World War II era, few academic centers have gained greater renown. NSSR has employed the famed political theorists Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, the pioneering sociologist and civil rights leader W.E.B. Dubois, and the psychologist Erich Fromm, [...]
An Inside Look at Eleven Students’ Fight For Free Education December 3 was an unusually mild, sunny day in New York, and Astor Place, between Bowery and Cooper Square, was buzzing as usual. Inside the historic Cooper Union Foundation Building, an elevator carrying 11 Cooper students slowly ascended to the eighth floor. “Ratchets?” someone asked, and 11 hands raised wrenches [...]
Parsons students come together to commemorate Nicki Muller’s life and art There it hung, adding color to the tar black walls that surrounded it. A portrait of Nicki Muller, painted by Parsons Fine Arts senior student Vanessa Turi, served as the focal point of her studio space. “I wanted the portrait to make the viewer see someone important, powerful [...]
The message, sprayed on the sidewalk in white paint, greets New School students, faculty and staff before they enter 65 W. 11th St. “Israeli Bombs On Gaza Are Murder Not ‘Defense,’” it reads. The statement, anonymously placed, first appeared in mid-November during Israel’s week-long attack of the Gaza Strip. The campaign, dubbed “Operation Pillar of Defense” by the Israeli military, [...]
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