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Welcome to IFAcontemporary!

IFAcontemporary acts as a network and outlet for modern and contemporary students at the Institute of Fine Arts. Our mission is to connect our academic community with artists, scholars, curators, conservators, gallerists, collectors and other New Yorkers with an interest in the arts.

This website will serve as an open forum for IFA students, alumni, and CAC members. We encourage you to contribute your thoughts, relay feedback to your colleagues, and join in our discussion. Please contact us or visit our Get Involved page for more information.

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Current Editors of IFAcontemporary

Hannah Kay, Co-Editor

MA Class of 2021, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Franny Lilliston, Co-Editor

MA Class of 2022, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

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Previous Editors of IFAcontemporary

Scout Hutchinson, Co-Editor, 2018-2020

Damasia Lacroze, Co-Editor, 2018-2020

Francesca Ferrari, Editor, 2017-2018

Megan DiNoia, Managing Editor, 2017-2018

Damla Koksalan, Editor, 2016-2017

Connor Hamm, Managing Editor, 2016-2017

Katharine Wright, Editor, 2015-2016

Patryk Tomaszewski, Managing Editor, 2015-2016

Elizabeth Buhe, Editor, 2014-2015

Caroline Barnett, Managing Editor, 2014-2015

Kristen Gaylord, Inaugural Co-Editor, 2011-2014

Rachel Nackman, Founder and Inaugural Co-Editor, 2011-2014

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The art world according to IFA students and alumni of the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU)

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“I often think about what white fun looks like, and this notion that Black people can’t have the same. Growing up with Tumblr, I would often come across images of sensual, young, attractive white models running around being free and having so much fun—the kind of stuff Larry Clark and Ryan McGinley would make. I seldom saw that freedom for Black people in images—or at least in the photography I knew. My work responds to this lack. I feel an urgency to visualize Black people as free, expressive, effortless, and sensitive.” —Tyler Mitchell

See Mitchell’s work in “Tyler Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good” on view @icp

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If you have to be at Port Authority on a Sunday morning, at least it’s nice to know that George Segal is there, too. .
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#georgesegal “The Commuters,” 1980

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Frida Kahlo stealing the show in “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945” @whitneymuseum

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This week, we are pleased to publish MA candidate Frances Lilliston's review of the exhibition “Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art from Europe” currently on view at Luhring Augustine. Lilliston discusses the merits of exhibiting pre-modern art in a contemporary context. Link to her review in bio! @luhringaugustine @samfogglondon @antigonick
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Caption: "Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art from Europe," in association with Sam Fogg, London, Installation view, January 25 – March 7, 2020, at Luhring Augustine, New York. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine and Sam Fogg

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The new Duke House Exhibition is now on view @nyuifa ! “Fanny Sanín’s New York: The Critical Decade, 1971-1981” is the first comprehensive solo exhibition to explore the artist’s evolving practice of geometric abstraction during her first decade living and working in New York City @islaa_art #fannysanin #dukehouseexhibition

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Today on the blog: we’re happy to publish IFA PhD candidate Johanna Sluiter's review of the exhibition “Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World” currently on view at the @fondationlv Sluiter explores how the exhibition frames architect-designer Perriand's career in relation to her male contemporaries. Link in bio! .
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Image caption: Charlotte Perriand – Maison de la Tunisie, chambre d’étudiant – Cité universitaire international’s de Paris, 1952″ Reconstitution 2019, vue de l’installation Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris – 2 Octobre 2019 – 20 Février 2020. Crédits artistes : © Adagp, Paris, 2019 Crédit photo : © Fondation Louis Vuitton / Marc Domage

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Julia Bland 🕸 Michelle Segre
On view @derekellergallery through March 8

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Noah Davis @davidzwirner through February 22

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✨Liza Lou✨ Her installation is a full-scale replica of a kitchen space entirely covered in glass beads. “Kitchen” (1991-1996) is currently on view @whitneymuseum in “Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019” @liza_lou_studio @lehmannmaupin

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Footage of the making of Gordon Matta’s-Clark’s “Conical Intersect” (1975), an architectural intervention into a pair of Parisian 17th-century buildings set to be demolished to make way for urban renewal. On view in “Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect” @roseartmuseum #gordonmattaclark

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Installation shots from "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift" on view now @themuseumofmodernart
The exhibition features Abstract and Concrete artists from South America spanning from the mid-1940s through the late 1970s.

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Happy to publish Master's student Danarenae Donato's review of Edmund de Waal's exhibition @frickcollection today! @danarenaed , who studies Italian Renaissance art at the IFA, explores how de Waal's minimalist contemporary sculptures engage with The Frick's collection of Renaissance and Baroque fine and decorative arts. Link in bio!

@edmunddewaal #edmunddewaal .

Image caption: Edmund de Waal (b.1964), sub silentio, porcelain, steel, and plexiglass, on view in the Living Hall, Two of: 24 × 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches, One of: 22 7/16 × 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches, Two of: 21 5/8 × 6 5/16 × 6 5/16 inches, © Edmund de Waal. Courtesy the artist and The Frick Collection; photo: Christopher Burke

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Work by New York-based photographer Arielle Bob-Willis in “The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion.” Organized by @sirsargent and on view @aperturefnd through January 18. @ariellebobbwillis

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"Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print" @jamesgallerygc through November 2nd!

Exploring a chapter of the anti-colonial struggles that unfolded after World War Two, Notes on Solidarity: Tricontinentalism in Print considers the role played by printed materials in the practice of Tricontinentalism. A political project born of the mid-1960s, Tricontinentalism aimed to unite liberation movements across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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Sarah Sze @tanyabonakdargallery

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Anni Albers @davidzwirner
#annialbers

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