Wafa Ghnaim, Tatreez Resistance: The Traditional Art of Palestinian Embroidery in the Diaspora
Wednesday January 22, 2025 6:30 PM - January 22, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Wafa Ghnaim, curator for the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C. and Senior Research Fellow for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Ancient Near East, intertwines memory, history, politics and embroidery in sharing traditional ...
Malynne Sternstein: Love without Hope; Benjamins Trials with Surrealism
Monday February 10, 2025 6:30 PM - February 10, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Cultural theorist and University of Chicago Professor Emerita Malynne Sternstein weaves Czech surrealism into the urgency of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project.
David France, Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS
Monday March 31, 2025 6:30 PM - March 31, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker David France speaks on the achievements, in the midst of terrible necessities, of AIDS activists in art and politics.
Anne Anlin Cheng, Women on Walls: Architecture, Projection, and Envy
Tuesday April 08, 2025 6:30 PM - April 08, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
This talk by cultural theorist, Princeton Professor of English, and historian Anne Anlin Cheng takes a collage made by the early 20th-century architect Eileen Gray (collage TR168801, MoMA, circa 1935) as a springboard from which to examine the su...
