Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents 4
3. Foreword: Co-Designing a Kaleidoscope 7
4. Introduction 11
5. Various, Humane, Political 16
6. Schooled in the New: The Arts as Social Research 20
7. Living and Learning from the University Center to 66 West 12th Street; or, Arendt in Mar-a-Lago 26
8. Alvin Johnson/ J.M. Kaplan Hall 33
9. Thomas Hart Benton America Today, 1930–31
10. From The New School to The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Odyssey of Thomas Hart Benton’s America Today 43
11. The Ghost of Progress Past 47
12. Paid in Eggs 50
13. José Clemente Orozco Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood (The New School Mural Cycle), 1930–31
14. Orozco’s New School Murals: Activating Revolutionary Thought 65
15. The Chains in Orozco’s Murals 69
16. Center of Gravity: Orozco 72
17. Camilo Egas Ecuadorian Festival, 1932
18. A Celebration of Dance 81
19. Celebration as Resistance 84
20. New School Desires: “Poised Precisely Between Fantasy and Reality” 87
21. Gonzalo Fonseca Untitled, 1961
22. Gonzalo Fonseca and Universalist Modernism 95
23. Solve et Coagula 99
24. When a Mural Is a Blueprint 102
25. Martin Puryear + Michael Van Valkenburgh Vera List Courtyard, 1997
26. Vera List Courtyard: A Brief History 111
27. Inside Out: Outside In 113
28. Seats of Tension: Collaboration, Access, Security, Expression 116
29. Vera List Courtyard and the Culture Wars 119
30. Dave Muller Interpolations and Extrapolations, 2002–03 Extensions (Interpolations and Extrapolations), 2008
31. Interpolating and Extrapolating 127
32. Brand New 129
33. Identity Interpolated and Extrapolated 133
34. Arnhold Hall 137
35. Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #1073, Bars of Color (New School), 2003
36. #1073 143
37. LeWitt’s Problem(s) 144
38. One Sentence for Sol LeWitt 150
39. Kara Walker Event Horizon, 2005
40. History’s Worth of Fictions 158
41. On Kara Walker’s Event Horizon 162
42. Black Atlantis 167
43. Brian Tolle Threshold, 2006
44. The Gentle Wind Doth Move Visibly 173
45. Unsettled 176
46. Of Two Minds 178
47. Quiet Possibilities of the Subjunctive 181
48. University Center 185
49. Rita McBride Bells and Whistles, 2009–14
50. Mnemonics and Pneumatics 191
51. Ringing Bells, Blowing Whistles 194
52. Breaking Out of School 198
53. Alfredo Jaar Searching for Africa in LIFE, 1996/2014
54. Searching Blindly 207
55. An Absence That Conjures a Presence 209
56. Alfredo Jaar: Dialectic of Sight 213
57. The Blink of Failure: Imagining Life in Africa 216
58. Glenn Ligon For Comrades and Lovers, 2015
59. Democratic Vistas of Space 225
60. Among the Throng: Glenn Ligon Situates Whitman 227
61. Incantations 229
62. For Comrades and Lovers: a dialogue 233
63. Agnes Denes Pascal’s Perfect Probability Pyramid & the People Paradox—The Predicament (PPPPPPP),
64. In Formation 241
65. The one who is the one who who is the one who is not many. Thoughts called forth by Agnes Denes’s Pascal’s Perfect Probability Pyramid & the People Paradox— The Predicament (ppppppp) 243
66. Agnes Denes: Promethea of Paradox 246
67. “Organized by Fascination”: A Roundtable Conversation on Art, Institutions, and Pedagogy 250
68. Histories of the Commissions 267
69. Contributors 295
70. Index 300