New York Since Guernica: City As Art Work

A free panel & book signing open to the public featuring Diane Lewis, author of “Inside-Out” Architecture New York City: 1982- Present” along with Dennis Adams: artist and professor of the School of Art of The Cooper Union Beatriz Colomina: professor of architecture and founding director of the program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. Anthony McCall: a British artist who has a cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap. Daniel Sherer: visiting assistant professor at Cornell AAP and assistant professor columbia GSAPP Anthony Vidler: dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union WHAT: The architectural monograph, Diane Lewis: Inside-Out Architecture New York City, spans the years since Picasso’s Guernica was sent back to Spain by the Museum of Modern Art. The absence of Guernica as the collection’s centerpiece may be seen to have removed the anti war, resistant, ant -fascist connection to abstraction and spawned the onslaught of an amnesiac modern-“ism” that had never existed in New York before. The panel consists of architects, artists, and writers who have a continuity with the ideologic roots of abstraction and the questions it raises for the city as art work today, each of which has a new book of work that however subtle, may be related to this question. Diane Lewis assembled this panel as a celebration of her 25th year as Professor of Architecture at The Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture where she was invited to teach in 1982 by John Hejduk. WHEN: Friday, April 25, 2008, 6:30 pm WHERE: The Cooper Union, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street b/w 3rd and 4th Aves. Subways: Astor Place (6), 8th Street (N, R)