Will Barnet
Host Ruth Bowman interviews artist Will Barnet. Barnet and Bowmen talk about his most recent retrospective at the Association of American Artists, his printmaking techniques, and his teaching pedagogy.
View ArticleRent Reduction Allows St. Mark's Bookshop to Stay Open
The financially struggling St. Mark's Bookshop in the East Village will stay open after its landlord, Cooper Union, agreed to reduce its rent by 12.5 percent and forgive $7,500 in back rent. "We are...
View ArticleSuccess Academy Charter Battle, Take Two
Here is what is making news in education on Tuesday in the New York area:Eva S. Moskowitz is deep into another battle, this time in Brooklyn, where she is trying to start one of her Success Academy...
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Cooper Union to Charge Grad Students Tuition
For 110 years, Cooper Union has offered free education to all its students. That is going to change for the incoming class of graduate students next year when they will be charged tuition for the first...
View ArticleCooper Union Students Protest Possible Tuition Fees
Twelve students at The Cooper Union continue to barricade themselves in a studio room in the school’s Foundation Building with three demands of their administration, including the resignation of the...
View ArticleCooper Union Art School Agrees to Explore Revenue Options
The fate of Cooper Union's art school is apparently no longer in doubt.Sources tell WNYC that faculty members agreed to cooperate with Cooper Union's plan to find new sources of revenue, and that the...
View ArticleCooper Union to Remain Tuition-Free...For Now
Cooper Union's Board of Trustees has voted to keep its art, engineering, and architecture schools tuition-free for students entering this fall.The school had asked the faculty of those programs to come...
View ArticleCooper Union to Send Out Tuition Bills in 2014
For the first time in more than a century, the Cooper Union will begin charging all its students tuition. Undergraduates will be expected to pay about $20,000, which is half the tuition to attend the...
View ArticleCooper Union Student Protests Spill into Graduation Ceremony
Cooper Union's graduating class used Wednesday's ceremony to display their disapproval for the school's plan to begin charging tuition in 2014, for the first time in its history. Many students,...
View ArticleCooper Union Tries to Chill Out Students, Via New Rules
After a tumultuous year where students occupied the president's office for 65 days, Cooper Union is revising its student code of conduct. A draft of the proposal would define "disruption" and...
View ArticleCooper Union Tuition Plan Gets Final Approval
Cooper Union will no longer be providing a free education. The school's 23-member board of trustees voted Friday to charge tuition to the incoming class for the first time in the school's more than...
View ArticleStudents, Faculty Protest Cooper Union's Decision to Charge Tuition
A coalition of Cooper Union students, faculty and alumni rallied in front of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan Friday during a court hearing on the school's decision to begin charging tuition to...
View ArticlePreet Speaks
Former United States Attorney Preet Bharara took the stage at Cooper Union Thursday night, marking his first public speech since he was fired by the Trump administration — along with 45 other US —...
View ArticleREBEL: Artist Torkwase Dyson Is Trying to "Desperately Live Up to Blackness"
Torkwase Dyson makes art that captures and extends the zeitgeist by mining the history of black bodies in America. Best known for her sculptures and multi-media installments, Dyson has recently been...
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