Events

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150th Anniversary Gala

The Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center

Join us for the Art Students League of New York’s 150th Anniversary Gala — an extraordinary celebration honoring the 200,000 artists who have studied at the League since its founding in 1875. This unforgettable evening will feature a special tribute to Robert Rauschenberg, trailblazing League alumnus, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

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In Session: Artist Foundations in the 21st Century

Studio 15 & 16, 1st Floor

This innovative symposium brings together thought leaders to discuss the impact of artist foundations in our changing world.

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Legacy in Every Page: 150 Stories Book Launch

Studio 15, 1st Floor

Toast the launch of 150 Stories at our post-symposium reception, celebrating 150 years of artists at the League!

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Open House for New & Prospective Students

Studio 17, Basement

Join us for a talk and tour to learn about monthly classes.

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Virtual National Military Veteran Artist Network Symposium 2025

Visit artist studios while learning about professional and exhibition opportunities for veterans who paint, draw, print, sculpture and more!

15

Members Business Meeting

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery

Members Business Meetings allow League Members to participate in key decisions by voting on important issues and voicing their opinions.

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A Conversation with Pat Lipsky

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

Join us for an in-depth discussion about art, life, and New York with leading American color field artist and Art Students League instructor Pat Lipsky to mark the publication of her critically-praised memoir, Brightening Glance.

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The Art of Painting: Violations of Hierarchy

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

A lecture by Professor Christopher S. Wood (New York University) on the temporal logics and illogics of late medieval and early Renaissance narrative painting.

05

Barnett Newman: Here

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

A conversation with Amy Newman, author of Barnett Newman: Here (Princeton University Press, 2025), the definitive biography of a transformational American artist and the city that shaped him.

11

150th Anniversary Gala

The Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center

Join us for the Art Students League of New York’s 150th Anniversary Gala — an extraordinary celebration honoring the 200,000 artists who have studied at the League since its founding in 1875. This unforgettable evening will feature a special tribute to Robert Rauschenberg, trailblazing League alumnus, on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

18

Another Other Tradition: Counter Culture, Comics, and the Sixties

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

Learn about the volatile aesthetic currents that flowed through a tumultuous and pivotal decade with Dan Nadel, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawings and Prints and a co-curator of Sixties Surreal at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Long Legacies: American Abstract Women Painters, Past and Present

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

A roundtable discussion presented by the American Federation of Arts on the occasion of Abstract Expressionists: The Women, a landmark exhibition featuring approximately fifty works by over thirty women artists from the world-class Levett Collection.

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Curating Dia Art Foundation

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

A talk with curator Matilde Guidelli-Guidi about one of the country’s most important cultural institutions and the ways it has shaped artistic discourse through its distinctive approach to commissioned art projects, site-specific installations, and collecting.

18

The Life Scale Revolution in European Painting

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

A lecture by Professor Alexander Nagel (Institute of Fine Arts) on a seismic shift that occurred in the Renaissance and set the course for painting through the 20th century.

18

The Function of Criticism

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

A conversation about the state of contemporary art criticism with John-Baptiste Oduor, associate editor of Jacobin and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Apollo, ArtReview, New Left Review, The Nation, and Frieze.

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Adam Gopnik on Learning to Draw

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, 2nd Floor

Join us for a talk by celebrated New Yorker staff writer and best-selling author Adam Gopnik about his experience learning to draw in mid-life, adapted from his most recent book The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery (Liveright, 2023).‍

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