The Cooper Union

10/23/2026

There's just one more week to see "Guild & Greyshkul," a group show about the artist-run gallery of the same name, which closes on October 31, 2026. The show was organized by gallery co-founders and School of Art alumni Anya Kielar A’02, Johannes VanDerBeek A’04, and Sara VanDerBeek A’98 in cooperation with Dean Adriana Farmiga A'96 and Associate Dean Yuri Masnyj A'98.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6 pm

Installation images by Jason Wyche.

10/20/2026

A new exhibition in the colonnade of the east side of the Foundation Building celebrates the history of poetry in the Great Hall since the room opened in the mid-19th century. This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the return of the People's Poetry Gathering for the first time in twenty years. A celebration of poetry throughout Lower Manhattan, the gathering was held at The Cooper Union in 2001 and 2003. This year's event celebrating the poet Sonia Sanchez on Friday, October 23 is presented as part of The Cooper Union’s Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum series.

And visit Voices from the Great Hall (greathallvoices.cooper.edu) to learn about all the poets and much more who have spoken in the Great Hall. The digital archive was made possible by a generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation of New York.

10/19/2026

Victoria Gonzales and Dila Köksal, third-years in the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, with Associate Dean Mersiha Veledar AR'03 after they were awarded a certificate of merit and scholarship from AIA Brooklyn.

10/19/2026

2024 The School of Art at The Cooper Union alumnus Jacksun Bein continues the tradition of an artist-run gallery ... this time from his apartment. Read The New York Times interview with Bein at https://rebrand.ly/g9jhcp8.

Artists across Crown Heights, Ridgewood and beyond are following in the grand New York City tradition of apartment galleries.

10/16/2026

School of Art Professor Coco Fusco's class recently visited MoMA PS1 to see the first US large-scale museum exhibition of work by artist Teresa Margolles.

10/13/2026

“Primers for a Handmade Utopia” is currently on view in the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture’s Third Floor Hallway Gallery. The exhibition looks at America’s “back to the land” movement from the 1960’s, a moment that proved to be the greatest urban-to-rural exodus in American history. The backwoods of Northern California became the movement’s epicenter, where a patchwork of utopian communes sprouted, together with a distinctly radical mode of hand-built architecture. Although most of these back-to-the-landers did not call themselves architects, their experimental structures offered a reappraisal of what a home could and should be—and how it might inform the lives of its inhabitants.

The exhibition features work from “Handmade Utopia: Back-to-the-Land Architecture in Northern California” (D.A.P./Edition Patrick Frey), a new book by author David Jacob Kramer and photographer Michael Schmelling that celebrates these extraordinary—and under-documented—residences. Their photos and oral histories are presented alongside a selection of handmade tools, archival materials, and a reading library of influential publications from the period.

In conjunction with the exhibition, catch tonight’s discussion featuring the authors in conversation with Cooper Union associate professor Irene Cheng and design critic Alexandra Lange.

“Primers for a Handmade Utopia” is on view through October 29.

Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday, 12 pm – 7 pm
Saturday & Sunday, 12 pm – 6 pm

Photos by Mia Press AR'28

10/10/2026

Watch an interview with Emilio Martínez Poppe, a 2016 graduate of The School of Art at The Cooper Union, about his work "Civic Views."

10/01/2026

Work by The School of Art at The Cooper Union professor William Villalongo and urban planner Shraddha Ramani reinterpreting the data visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois is currently on view at the MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. Learn more about the project which was also acquired by MoMA at https://bit.ly/4xXsDRk.

School of Art professor William Villalongo and urban planner Shraddha Ramani reinterpret the data visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois.

09/30/2026

Drawing Newtown Creek. First-year School of Art students in Professor Marie Lorenz's Foundation class recently sketched the city from one of New York's waterways. Thanks to alumni Patterson Beckwith A'94 and Amy Gartrell A'96, founding members of the North Brooklyn Community Boathouse in Greenpoint and the entire boathouse, who took the class out for their scenic tour.

Photo courtesy of Marie Lorenz.

09/29/2026

If you haven't stopped by 41 Cooper Gallery yet to see Guild & Greyshkul, here's a look of what you're missing.

Guild & Greyshkul (2003-2009) was an artist-run exhibition venue that bridged being a shared studio space and a commercial gallery and engaged with larger questions around what it meant to be an artist at the start of the 21st century. In many cases, Guild & Greyshkul offered a space for emerging artists to have their first solo exhibition including many The Cooper Union alumni.

The current group show is organized the gallery's co-founders Anya Kielar A’02, Johannes VanDerBeek A’04, and Sara VanDerBeek A’98 in cooperation with Adriana Farmiga A'96, dean of The Cooper Union School of Art and Yuri Masnyj A'98, associate dean of The Cooper Union School of Art.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6 pm

Installation images by Jason Wyche.