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A whiteish paste-like fluid appears pressed between a background and a pane of glass, with bubbles and freeform shapes appearing in and extruding from the glass.

SVA Chelsea Gallery

Reception Sep 10, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Poster for "Brad Holland: Making It Personal" exhibition showing a self-portrait by the artist, the exhibition title, dates, and location details.

Brad Holland: Making It Personal

SVA Gramercy Gallery

Reception Sep 9, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Promotional graphic showing the title "Building Books" in stylized blocky letters with the subtitle "Corraini Edizioni: Children, Art, Design, and Everything Else" overlayed in a diagonal within the "N," and additional location, dates, and sponsor information displayed around the text.

Building Books. Corraini Edizioni: Children, Art, Design, and Everything Else

SVA Flatiron Gallery

Reception Sep 8, 6:00 - 8:00pm

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Sep 1 - Oct 30, 2026

SVA Chelsea Gallery

Reception: Sep 10, 6:00 - 8:00pm

A whiteish paste-like fluid appears pressed between a background and a pane of glass, with bubbles and freeform shapes appearing in and extruding from the glass.

Bruno Munari’s “The Circus in the Mist”

MFA Illustration as Visual EssaySVA Galleries

Sep 2 - 27, 2026

SVA Flatiron Project Space

Reception: Sep 8, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Image of the installation, showing somw hanging textiles with prints from the book.

Brad Holland: Making It Personal

BFA IllustrationBFA ComicsSVA Galleries

Sep 8 - 19, 2026

SVA Gramercy Gallery

Reception: Sep 9, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Poster for "Brad Holland: Making It Personal" exhibition showing a self-portrait by the artist, the exhibition title, dates, and location details.

Building Books. Corraini Edizioni: Children, Art, Design, and Everything Else

MFA Illustration as Visual EssaySVA Galleries

Sep 8 - 28, 2026

SVA Flatiron Gallery

Reception: Sep 8, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Promotional graphic showing the title "Building Books" in stylized blocky letters with the subtitle "Corraini Edizioni: Children, Art, Design, and Everything Else" overlayed in a diagonal within the "N," and additional location, dates, and sponsor information displayed around the text.

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Thesis Screening 2026

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Sep 8, 2026; 6:00 - 8:00pm

Split-screen promotional image. Left: a seated person leans over a table in a dark, heavily distorted, glitch-like scene, overlaid with the text “Malik Clement — Elephant in the Room.” Right: a person seen from behind walks through an overgrown garden beside a rustic building surrounded by white flowers, overlaid with the text “Tatiana Kreicheva — Wait and See.”

The Curatorial Roundtable: Júlia Rebouças (Minas Gerais)

MA Curatorial Practice

Sep 9, 2026; 9:00 - 10:00am

Online

A portrait of a person with curly brown hair and a chunky necklace

2026 Junior Jammies

Sep 12, 2026; 12:00 - 3:00pm

Seven illustrated film posters showcasing seven different short films layered over each other over a pastel gradient background.

i3 Photo Lecture: The Dark Bright Sky

BFA Photography and VideoMFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

Sep 15, 2026; 7:00 - 8:30pm

MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media

A large-format color photograph of a gently rolling grassland beneath an expansive sky at golden hour. The lower portion of the image is composed of smooth, green hills, with a dense stand of tall invasive common reed (Phragmites australis) rising from the crest of one slope near the center. The reed forms a vertical cluster of long stalks topped with feathery seed heads that stand in contrast to the surrounding low vegetation. Long, low-angle sunlight casts soft shadows across the landscape, accentuating the contours of the engineered landforms. Above, large billowing cumulus clouds dominate the composition,

The Curatorial Roundtable: Jeph Lo (Taipei)

MA Curatorial Practice

Sep 16, 2026; 9:00 - 10:00am

Online

a person with glasses and short dark hair smiling in front of a white wall

Valery Daniels Memorial Lecture: Closing the Education Gap in Medical Settings

MPS Art Therapy

Sep 16, 2026; 6:00 - 8:00pm

Online

Text listing event details are presented on top of brightly colored pink and yellow bubble shapes.

12th Pictoplasma NYC

BFA IllustrationBFA ComicsBFA 3D Animation and Visual EffectsBFA Animation

Sep 17 - 18, 2026

Pictoplasma NYC 2026 Flyer. A giant sized illustrated characters surround the cityscape of NYC

The Curatorial Roundtable: Jo-Lene Ong (Amsterdam)

MA Curatorial Practice

Sep 23, 2026; 9:00 - 10:00am

Online

a person in a white button up shirt with a large collar stands in front of a brick wall

After School Special 2026

Sep 23 - 27, 2026

red background with "after school special" written in blue and white text

MPS Digital Photography

Sep 26 - Oct 17, 2026

SVA Gramercy Gallery

Reception: Sep 25, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Photograph showing a bright yellow silhouette of a person standing in the foreground against a faded archival image in a campus setting.

Anand Gopal, “Days of Love and Rage”

BFA Visual and Critical StudiesHonors Program

Sep 28, 2026; 6:30 - 8:00pm

Author Anand Gopal and book cover

The Curatorial Roundtable: Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa (Harare)

MA Curatorial Practice

Sep 30, 2026; 9:00 - 10:00am

Online

The Curatorial Roundtable: Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa (Harare)