News and notes from across NYU's Campuses and Sites
NYU Madrid Site Director, Rob Lubar, associate professor of fine arts at the Institute for Fine Arts and Director of the Joan Miró Chair at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, has curated an exhibit on Miró in Oporto, Portugal. The exhibit, Joan Miró: Materiality and Metamorphosis, is on display at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary […]
NYU Madrid Professor Almudena Ariza Armada was awarded the prestigious Javier Conde Garriga Jury Prize 2015 for her book on al-Andalús coins. The jury’s decision was unanimous and her work was described as “magnificent”.
NYU Madrid Director Robert Lubar provides an update on the site and looks ahead to 2016.
Robert Lubar, Associate Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts and NYU Madrid Site Director, has produced a Mass Open On Line Course (MOOC) on Miró’s life and work. The course is offered in nine installments during October 2015. Sign up by October 7th?
Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar are the Emmy-award winning filmmakers of Made in L.A. (MadeinLA.com), a feature documentary that tells the story of three immigrant women’s transformation as they fight for their rights in Los Angeles garment factories. Praised by The New York Times as “an excellent documentary… about basic human dignity,” the film won numerous awards including an Emmy. They are currently directing and producing The Silence of Others, a cinematic portrait of the first attempt in history to prosecute crimes of the Franco era in Spain. They are also teaching a new course at NYU Madrid. Here they share their thoughts on teaching and filmmaking.
Our classic course “Masterpieces of the Prado”, which meets weekly at one of the world’s greatest art museums (taught by Julia Domenech and Carmen Ana Sierra), is perhaps the best example of how our faculty and students take advantage of what Madrid has to offer. But virtually all of the courses in Madrid offer exciting co-curricular activities. Here are some recent highlights.
The students in Juan José Tenorio’s “Introduction to Finance” enjoyed an outing to the auditorium of the European Commission, where they heard the eminent economic analyst Ignacio de la Torre speak about “The Case of Spain.”…