Becoming NEW: Artists on Change and Transformation

Thu, Feb 6, 6:30pm - Sat, Feb 8, 2025 8pm

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The New Museum and The Cooper Union School of Art bring together a range of artists for conversations on change and transformation. The featured artists will reflect on expansion and reinvention in their own creative lives, and consider the current moment of political and social transition. The program is timed to the New Museum’s continued construction as the institution embarks on its own building expansion and growth. 

This evening will feature artists Coco Fusco, Malik Gaines, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Amy Sillman, and a performance by Morgan Bassichis. 

Registration on EventBrite is required. However, an EventBrite ticket does not guarantee entry as this is a first-come-first-served free event.

 

 

 

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  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.