Tag Archives: Claire Bishop

They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy

September 16, 2014
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room

Marina Sitrin (Visiting Scholar, Center for Place Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center) and Dario Azzelini (Institute for Sociology, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) present their new book. Tuesday, September 16th
4:30-6:30pm
Room 5109
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave. New York, NY 10016
*This event is co-sponsored by the read more»]

Friday, May 9th: Gentrifying the Congo: A Conversation with Artist Renzo Martens

May 09, 2014
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room

Renzo Martens is a controversial Dutch artist and filmmaker who in 2010 founded the Institute for Human Activities, an arts-based development program in Democratic Republic of Congo that brings together artists, thinkers and specialists. With a nod to precedents in cities like New York and Berlin, the Institute aims to turn art production into an engine of economic growth in [read more»]

Claire Bishop on Artist Dan Perjovschi’s Work at the CUNY CGSC

By Claire Bishop, Ph.D. Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center   Dan Perjovschi has been making lightning-fast, razor-sharp drawings since the early 1990s, in tandem with his ongoing work as a political cartoonist producing weekly drawings for Rivista 22 in Bucharest (named after the day Nicolai Ceasescu fled parliament by helicopter, on 22 December 1989). Born in [read more»]