News
Every day someone from Tisch School of the Arts makes news. Here's where we share with you the incredible achievements of our students, alumni, faculty and friends.
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In Conversation with Alumni Ramiel Petros and Nicholas Freeman: “The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel” Tracks a Vanished Soccer Star's Reappearance in L.A.’s Gay Mecca
Tuesday, Jun 10, 2025
The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel is an aching portrait of sexual secrecy that reverberates as a cautionary tale of what’s lost when we are forced to hide ourselves.
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2025 Tony Award Winners
Monday, Jun 9, 2025
NYU Tisch Alumni won seven Tony Awards on Sunday, June 9th, including Best Musical and Best Play.
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SPIKE LEE FILM PRODUCTION FUND RECIPIENTS 2024-2025
Friday, Jun 6, 2025
Professor Spike Lee, Artistic Director of the NYU Tisch Graduate Film Program, is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Spike Lee Film Production Fund in support of the following students’ thesis films.
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DPI Chair, Deborah Willis, Featured in GENERAL CONDITIONS Exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery
Monday, May 19, 2025
The exhibition offers a sustained reflection on the social and political climate of our time by considering how we respond—individually and collectively—when many of the most basic components of public life can no longer be taken for granted.
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DPI Chair, Deborah Willis, featured in "Gathering: A Photographer's Collection" Exhibition at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Monday, May 19, 2025
Gathering: A Photographer’s Collection presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from the personal collection of Portland, Oregon-based photographer and curator, Christopher Rauschenberg.
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DPI Spotlight: Rhea L. Combs in Conversation with Tyler Mitchell for Brooklyn Rail
Thursday, May 8, 2025
In 2024 Tyler Mitchell traveled to coastal Georgia to create a new body of work. He scouted a number of locations, but when he returned to make photographs he gave his subjects minimal direction.
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DPI Professor Wafaa Bilal's Indulge Me Reviewed by Art in America
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Art in America's Emily Watlington reivews Wafaa Bilal's show "Titled “Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me.” The MCA show is hands-down the best museum presentation of past performances I have ever seen."
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DPI's Junior Jerry Li ('26) is a 2025 HEAR US Awardee
Monday, May 5, 2025
Jerry Li ('26), is recognized as a 2025 HEAR US Awardee. His work blends documentary and fine art to explore the Asian American diaspora and address lost histories.
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DPI Professor, Sean Fader, featured in the Brooklyn Rail
Friday, May 2, 2025
Read Charlotte Kent's review of Professor Sean Fader's Insufficient Memory (2019–20) in the Brooklyn Rail article titled, "Processes of Memory in the Age of Information".
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DPI Chair, Dr. Deborah Willis Co-curates Wendel A. White Schools for the Colored & Manifest
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025
Schools for the Colored, carefully selected from a larger portfolio of the same name, looks at the physical structures – both standing and demolished – of segregated schools of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
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DPI Chair, Dr. Deborah Willis, inducted into the American Philosophical Society
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2025
Join us in celebrating DPI Chair, Dr. Deborah Willis, who was inducted in The American Philosophical Society on Thursday, April 24th, in a ceremony with APS's esteemed members.
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DPI Chair Dr Deborah Willis Free As They Want to Be Opening Reception curated by Co-curated by Cheryl Finley
Friday, Apr 11, 2025
Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory presents contemporary art inspired by historical memory. The exhibition considers in comparative perspectives the historic and contemporary role photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath.
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Announcing the Inaugural Tisch Creative Research Faculty Publishing Grant Recipients!
Friday, Apr 4, 2025
The Tisch Initiative fo Creative Research, in collaboration with the Center for Research and Study, is pleased to announce the recipients of the first Tisch Faculty Publishing Grant.
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