Charles A. Riley II, Director, Nassau County Museum of Art Charlie will take us on a private tour of the current exhibition at his museum, for which Eric Fischl was the curatorial advisor. The show features more than a hundred…
Charles A. Riley II, Director, Nassau County Museum of Art Charlie will take us on a private tour of the current exhibition at his museum, for which Eric Fischl was the curatorial advisor. The show features more than a hundred…
Elka Rifkin, Director, Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation Elka will discuss the work of artistic visionary Robert Wilson, who established the Watermill Center in 1992. She will give us a brief history of the site and the programs it offer to visual…
The History of the Southampton Windmill by Dr. Tara Rider Dr. Tara Rider, professor of maritime and environmental history, will discuss the history of the Stony Brook Southampton campus windmill. Once known as the Mill Hill Windmill, it was moved…
While preparing material for a retrospective exhibition of work by her late husband, Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, Elena discovered a remarkable collection of largely unseen photographs of Beat writers, artists and musicians. The photographs—more than 70 of them in color—were…
In Ninth Street Women, published this month by Little, Brown, Gabriel profiles five artists—Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell and Helen Frankenthaler—who challenged the status quo in the male-dominated art world of the 1950s, when women were…
Learn more about the University Libraries’ multidisciplinary streaming video collections and how they can be utilized in research and teaching.
Harrison’s latest book, An Accidental Corpse, published in August by Dunemere Books, re-imagines Jackson Pollock’s fatal automobile accident. On August 11, 1956, speeding up Fireplace Road in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs, the car veered into the woods and…
Students take a deeper look into the cultural messages and practices that families within the African Diaspora associated with love and protection. Student Panelists: T’kheya Yisrael Aaron K Jackson Amadi Agbomah Faculty Panelist: Dr. Crystal Fleming. Associate Professor Sociology Department…
Dr. Rita Shabnam Nezami will talk about how she fosters in her students a sense of global citizenship through world literature. It is central to her educational mission. She encourages university students in the United States to evolve their skills…
Stony Brook University is host to a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique environments for diverse cultural and artistic exchanges. Art Crawls unite our university galleries through a series of free, guided tours led by curators. This initiative…