Avery Art Properties at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

During the Spring 2015 semester, Art Properties worked with Elizabeth Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University, and her students on a set of ten drawings from the 1890s made by the Inupiat people. These drawings depict aspects of a ceremonial ritual still performed by some groups in Northwest Alaska, and are part […]

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Avery Drawing & Archives in Affordable Housing exhibit at MCNY

    Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy Museum of the City of New York September 18, 2015-February 1, 2016 “Fifteen objects were lent from Drawings and Archives including drawings for Roosevelt Island development by Philip Johnson and John Burgee (preliminary scheme) and John Johansen (final design), sketches and photographs of Carver House by Simon […]

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Avery Classics in Early Soviet Photography exhibition

The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film Jewish Museum, New York September 25, 2015 – February 7, 2016 From early vanguard constructivist works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, to the modernist images of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers played a pivotal role in the history of photography. Covering the […]

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Meadmore’s Curl being conserved

Conservation day has arrived! The Curl by Clement Meadmore, the large sculpture installed outside Uris Hall, is about to undergo a major conservation project. On Tuesday, September 8, Conservation Solutions and their riggers will dismantle the sculpture, and on Wednesday, September 9, the sculpture will be moved off-site so conservation work may begin. The sculpture […]

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A.J. Downing and His Legacy exhibition

A.J. Downing and His Legacy Assembled by the staff of Avery Library and Janet W. Foster, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University GSAPP September 1 – November 13, 2015 Avery Classics reading room Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm Alexander Jackson Downing, known as the “father” of the American architectural pattern book, was born 200 years ago, on October 31, […]

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