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PURE VISIONARIES: ARTISTS ON THE SPECTRUM
Exhibition and symposium
Reception: November 3, 6-8pm
The Great Hall Gallery, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
Exhibition: November 3-23
The Great Hall Gallery
Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–7pm, Saturday, 11am–5pm, closed Sunday
Symposium: Friday, November 4, 9:00am–3:30pm
The Great Hall

Pure Visionaries is a celebration of the cultural achievements of people on the autism spectrum. This historic event will feature a symposium along with an internationally curated exhibition of artwork created by emerging and established contemporary artists who have autism. The symposium will feature several speakers on the subject of autism, including scientist and writer Dr. Temple Grandin. Temple’s mother Eustacia Cutler will discuss her long- awaited memoir Thorn in My Pocket. In addition, Clara Park the acclaimed writer of Exiting Nirvana: A Daughters Life with Autism, and internationally renowned artist Jessica Park will be speaking at the symposium. For more information and registration please contact Pamala Rogers at 212-366-4263 or e-mail: purevisionarts@aol.com

IMAGES OF THE BELGIAN RESISTANCE PAST AND PRESENT: AN EXHIBITION COMMEMORATING RESISTANCE IN BELGIUM, 1940-45
Curated by Anne Griffin, Professor of Political Science, The Cooper Union
Through December 10
Weekdays 11am–7pm, Saturday 11am–5pm, closed Sundays
Gallery tours: November 1 at 1pm and November 5 at 3pm
Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. Gallery, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
Free

Following Germany’s attack on France and the Low Countries in 1940, a resistance movement developed in Belgium. Belgian citizens who joined the resistance did so at the risk of their lives. They managed to save the lives of thousands of Jewish children and to rescue over 800 allied airmen who had been shot down over the country. In this exhibit contemporary portraits of members of the resistance are paired with wartime photos of the same people in the context of an overview of the invasion and resistance.

VITALY KOMAR: THREE-DAY WEEKEND
Through December 11
Weekdays 12am-7pm, Saturday 12-5 pm, closed Sundays, and November 24, 2005 through November 26, 2005
The Cooper Union, Humanities Gallery, 51 Astor Place
Free and open to the public

Known for irony during his prominent 30-year collaboration with artist Alex Melamid as "Komar & Melamid," Vitaly Komar has apparently become serious with "Three-Day Weekend," an exhibition symbolizing the peaceful coexistence of different peoples and different concepts of faith and spirituality: Friday for Muslims, Saturday for Jews and Sundays for Christians. The artwork invites people of all other faiths, from Bahai to Buddhism and atheists, to dedicate themselves to love, family and creativity for three days each week. In elaborate mandalas (a design symbolizing the universe), Komar unites ancient symbols of spirituality with family and historical photographs.

SASKIA BOS, THE ARTISTIC AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE DE APPEL CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, WILL BE THE NEW DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF ART AT COOPER UNION, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 2005.

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COOPER UNION ALUMNI DESIGNERS OF UKRAINIAN MUSEUM'S NEW EXHIBITION

Yoshiko Sato (AR’89) and Michael Morris (AR’89) designed The Ukrainian Museum’s recently opened exhibition ‘Alexander Archipenko: Vision and Continuity’ on view at the Museum's newly constructed building at 222 East 6th Street (between Second and Third Avenues). For more information visit www.ukrainianmuseum.org/exhibit.html. 

THE COOPER UNION'S NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING ARCHITECT WINS PRITZKER PRIZE

Architect of Cooper Union's new academic building, Thom Mayne, wins architecture's most prestigious prize, the Pritzker Prize. (Read The New York Times article or visit the Pritzker Architecture Prize Web site).

RE-ENVISIONING PETER COOPER PARK

The Cooper Union, in collaboration with the Center for Architecture, recently hosted two workshops inviting community members and design professionals to re-envision Peter Cooper Park, with the intention to emerge with concepts and ideas that could inform any potential redevelopment of the public space.

The Center for Architecture, landscape architect Nancy Owens and other design professionals presented varied examples of New York City community efforts to conceptualize improvements in public spaces or parks. Participants broke out into groups to discuss these examples and explore ideas that may have relevance for Peter Cooper Park. These workshops were made possible by financial support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Click here for the brochure and summary report. 

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