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Posters from the Spanish Civil War: Exhibit and Reception

December 3, 2007

On Wednesday December 5, (6 pm – 8pm) there will be a reception in the Bobst Gallery for “Art and Politics: Posters from the Spanish Civil War, 1936 – 1939.” Professor Jordana Mendelson from the Spanish Department, who teaches a course “Exhibiting Spain,” will be giving a gallery talk.
The Bobst Gallery is located [...]

The Communist Party of the USA: 90 Years of History

August 16, 2007

The Communist Party traces its origins to the militant labor struggles of the early years of the twentieth-century. It was forged by the industrial union movement of the 1910s, opposition to World War I, and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Throughout its history the Communist Party and the nearly one million people who were [...]

Exhibition in Bobst Library: Posters of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

June 18, 2007

Mamdouha S. Bobst Gallery, Main Floor, Bobst Library
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was the culmination of centuries of division: centralists against nationalists, anti-clericals against the Catholic Church, workers against industrialists, landless agricultural laborers against landowners, monarchists against republicans. The weak Second Republic could not contain the demands for regional independence, land reform and worker control. [...]

Exhibition in Bobst Library “Episodes of the City: New York as a Source Book”

June 14, 2007

“Episodes of the City,” an exhibition of wallworks and artist’s books by Joyce Cutler-Shaw, will be on display at New York University’s Tracey/Barry Gallery, 3rd floor of Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, from May 30 through August 16.
Highlights of “Episodes of the City” include a wall display, “Our hidden history written in an alphabet [...]