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59-418: Something Else Press was founded by Dick Higgins in 1963. It published many important Intermedia texts and artworks by such Fluxus artists as Higgins, Ray Johnson , Alison Knowles , Allan Kaprow , George Brecht , Daniel Spoerri , Robert Filliou , Al Hansen , John Cage , Emmett Williams and by such important modernist figures as Gertrude Stein , Henry Cowell , and Bern Porter . Something Else

118-489: A tenured faculty position. He was succeeded by Joseph W. Westphal , yet on December 8, 2008, Kerrey announced that Westphal was stepping down to accept a position in President Barack Obama 's Department of Defense transition team. Kerrey then took the highly unorthodox step of appointing himself to the provost position while remaining president. This decision was strongly criticised by faculty and other members of

177-411: A Master of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship program, which can be obtained along with either a Bachelor of Music (Mannes) or a Bachelor of Fine Arts (drama or jazz) in five-years. Various institutes and research centers at The New School focus on specific fields of study: The New School's College of Performing Arts is home to the influential experimental music venue, The Stone, offering 240 concerts

236-407: A central hub for all university students, though the majority of classrooms and studios are in use by Parsons. The tower, which was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill 's Roger Duffy , is the biggest capital project the university has ever undertaken. The building added classrooms, new residences, computer labs, event facilities, and a cafeteria to the downtown New York City campus in addition to

295-600: A facsimile edition in 2013. In 2018, Siglio Press published a posthumous collection of Dick Higgins's writings titled Fluxus, Intermedia and the Something Else Press. Selected Writings by Dick Higgins edited by Steve Clay of Granary Books and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman . Dick Higgins Dick Higgins was the son of Carter Chapin Higgins and Katherine Huntington Bigelow. He was born in Cambridge, England in 1938 into

354-582: A fellow artist, and four years later, they had their daughters, Hannah Higgins and Jessica Higgins. They both grew up to continue the family Fluxus dynasty. One daughter of Higgins and Knowles, Hannah Higgins, is the author of Fluxus Experience , an authoritative volume about the Fluxus movement. Her twin sister, Jessica, is a New York based intermedia artist closely associated with seminal curator Lance Fung . Higgins and Knowles divorced in 1970 after 10 years of marriage and remarried in 1984. Higgins died of

413-1142: A heart attack while staying at a private home in Quebec City . Higgins heard the John Cage Twenty-five-year Retrospective Concert in May 1958, and began studying with him that summer. Higgins and Alison Knowles both took part in the Wiesbaden , Germany Fluxus festival in 1962, that marked the founding of Fluxus activity. He founded Something Else Press in 1963, which published many important texts including Gertrude Stein , Bern Porter , Marshall McLuhan , Cage, Merce Cunningham , Cage's teacher Henry Cowell , as well as his contemporaries such as artists Allan Kaprow , Al Hansen , Claes Oldenburg , and Ray Johnson as well as leading Fluxus members La Monte Young , George Brecht , Wolf Vostell , Daniel Spoerri , Emmett Williams , Eric Andersen , Ken Friedman , Ben Patterson , and others. The Something Else Press series of "Great Bear Pamphlets," documented

472-782: A home for progressive thinkers. Since then, the school has grown to house five divisions within the university. These include the Parsons School of Design , the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts , the College of Performing Arts , which includes the Mannes School of Music , The New School for Social Research , and the Schools of Public Engagement . In addition, the university maintains the Parsons Paris campus and has also launched or housed

531-601: A home in this country. Alvin Johnson adopted that idea, and the motto continues to guide the division in its present-day endeavors. The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science was founded in 1933 as the University in Exile for largely Jewish scholars who were being purged from teaching positions due to anti-semitic laws initially passed in 1933 in Hitler 's Nazi Germany. By 1938

590-497: A library, and lecture hall. Several of the university buildings are New York City designated landmarks . Among these is the egg-shaped Tishman Auditorium, an interior landmark. It was designed by architect Joseph Urban , along with the entirety of The New School's 66 West 12th Street building, the last major project Urban designed. Thousands of writer's forums, author visits, political debates, award ceremonies, academic lectures, performances, and public hearings are held for both

649-567: A lot of time in school; he attended Yale University , Columbia University (1960), Manhattan School of Printing, and the New School . He trained under many influential artists of this time, such as John Cage and Henry Cowell . He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia, and participated in John Cage's monumental music composition course at the New School. In 1960, he wed Alison Knowles ,

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708-466: A major student occupation that was held at The New School's previous building on that site), plans for the University Center were adjusted in response to community concerns and have since been well received. In a review of the University Center's final design, The New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff called the building "a celebration of the cosmopolitan city". The UC serves as

767-429: A major, selecting topics that are of interest to them. An exception to this is in the performing arts, where students must declare majors at enrollment. Although all "New Schoolers" are required to complete rigorous core training—usually of a literary, conservatory, or artistic nature—students are expected to be the primary designers of their own curriculum. The university offers 81 degree/diploma programs and majors, with

826-842: A member of the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference Soccer – competes against Cooper Union, Culinary Institute of America, St. Joseph's College, and Vaughn College In addition to sports, the recreation department offers a myriad of free fitness classes to its community including boxing, dance, HIIT , Pilates , tai chi , yoga , and Zumba . Personal training is also offered at an affordable rate ranging from $ 16.50 to $ 40 per session. Outdoor Adventure trips are offered several times/week and what started to be wilderness in nature (camping, hiking, rafting) has expanded to include excursions such as archery, biking, horseback riding, skiing/snowboarding, surfing, rock climbing and trapeze. Yee has increased programming to include

885-515: A posthumous collection of Higgins's writings titled Fluxus, Intermedia and the Something Else Press. Selected Writings by Dick Higgins edited by Steve Clay of Granary Books and Fluxus artist Ken Friedman. The New School The New School is a private research university in New York City . It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and

944-769: A range of institutions, such as the international research institute World Policy Institute, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics , the India China Institute, the Observatory on Latin America, and the Center for New York City Affairs. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Approximately 10,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The vast majority, over 70 percent of all students enrolled in university are in

1003-604: A rather rich family, due to his father owning Worcester Pressed Steel in Worcester, Massachusetts. He grew up with a brother and sister, Mark and Lisa. His younger brother Mark Huntington Higgins was murdered in the Congo in 1960. As a boy, Higgins grew up and was educated in private boarding schools around the New England area, including Worcester, Massachusetts ; Putney, Vermont ; and Concord, New Hampshire . When he got older, he spent

1062-465: A school-wide election was held to select a mascot, where The New School Narwhals were born. On January 25, 2013, the athletics logo was launched, designed by Parsons’ student Matthew Wolff (Graphic Design '14). The department began in December 2008 under its original name Recreation and Intramural sports. The initial director, Michael McQuarrie, held the position for four years. He built a relationship with

1121-599: A second charitable race that takes place annually in April called the 5K Rabbit Run. She has also started the Urban Hunt (a scavenger hunt around campus and the Village) and Club New (a dance party for first-year students the weekend before first day of classes). The New School, as most instititions of higher education, has from time to time been associated with left leaning politics, campus activism, civic engagement, and social change. It

1180-530: A series of pamphlets titled The Great Bear Pamphlets . A collection of The Great Bear Pamphlets is available on UbuWeb . The Great Bear Pamphlets included essays, manifestos, and artist statements by Jackson Mac Low , Allan Kaprow , Alison Knowles , John Cage , Claes Oldenburg , Diter Rot , David Antin , and many others. The Great Bear Pamphlets were reprinted in facsimile editions by Primary Information in 2007. Primary Information also republished Something Else Press' An Anthology of Concrete Poetry in

1239-402: A student:faculty ratio of 9:1. Small class sizes allow The New School to teach most of its classes seminar style—especially at Eugene Lang College, which consistently ranks at the top of The Princeton Review's "class discussions encouraged" national listing. The university offers a range of dual degree programs. These include a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts (colloquially called

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1298-630: A volunteer initiative, for the "widest array of [civic] service events both on and off campus". Miriam Weinstein also cites the Eugene Lang division in her book, Making a Difference Colleges: Distinctive Colleges to Make a Better World . In 2024 during the Israel-Hamas war , students participated in pro-Palestinian protests which called for the divestment from weapons manufacturers that the school has invested in, an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, amnesty for all students and staff sanctioned by

1357-442: A year, but what a year it was. The school and New York itself had become a sanctuary for hundreds of extraordinary European Jews who had fled Germany and other countries before and during World War II, and they were enriching the city's intellectual life with an intensity that has probably never been equaled anywhere during a comparable period of time. These twelve individuals have served as president of The New School: The New School

1416-564: A year. Thirty-three percent of New School students come from outside of the United States, with 112 non-US countries represented at the university. U.S. students come from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Forty-three percent of them are people of color, and 5% of American students identify as more than one race. Of the entire student population, 63% receive financial aid, and 17% study abroad before graduating. The New School's campus

1475-549: Is a "Periclean University" (a member of Project Pericles ), meaning that it teaches "education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs, in the classroom, on the campus, and in the community". The New School is one of nine American universities to be inducted into Ashoka's "Changemaker" consortium for social entrepreneurship. In 2010, NYC Service awarded New School special recognition in The College Challenge,

1534-700: Is a member of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan. In 2009, its libraries counted a total of 1,906,046 holdings. In 1931 the New School commissioned two mural cycles: José Clemente Orozco 's "A Call for Revolution" and "Universal Brotherhood" and Thomas Hart Benton's epic America Today. The New School Art Collection was established in 1960 with a grant from the Albert A. List Foundation. The collection, now grown to approximately 1,800 postwar and contemporary works of art, includes examples in almost all media. Parts of it are exhibited throughout

1593-738: Is centered on the area immediately south of Union Square in New York's Greenwich Village . Exceptions are some dormitories and other administrative buildings that are located in Chelsea, Stuyvesant Park, and the College of Performing Arts in the West Village . The New School opened the 16-story University Center ("UC") at 65 5th Avenue in January 2014. While the 65 Fifth Avenue plans were initially controversial among students and Village residents (spurring in 2009

1652-405: Is divided into autonomous colleges called "divisions". Each one is led by a dean and has its own scholarships, standards of admission, and acceptance rates. Similar to many liberal arts colleges, The New School's Lang College has a "student-directed curriculum," which does not require its undergraduates to take general education courses. Instead, students are encouraged to explore before focusing on

1711-582: The University in Exile and the École libre des hautes études in 1933 as a graduate division to serve as an academic haven for largely Jewish scholars escaping from Nazi Germany among other adversarial regimes in Europe. In 1934, the University in Exile was chartered by New York State and its name was changed to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In 2005, it adopted what had initially been

1770-497: The "BA/FA pathway") program or a Bachelor of Arts and master's program. The former is a comprehensive five-year program that allows students to obtain their B.A. from Eugene Lang College and their B.F.A. from either Parsons or School of Jazz and Contemporary Music . The latter is also a five-year program that allows students at Eugene Lang to obtain their masters from the New School for Social Research . The university also offers

1829-558: The Composition of Signs and Images , his edition of a Giordano Bruno text, which he annotated. He saw Bruno's essay on the art of memory also as an early text on intermedia. A Dialectic of Centuries: Notes towards a Theory of the New Arts collected many of his essays and theoretical works in 1976. In 1972, Higgins founded Unpublished Editions (later renamed Printed Editions) to publish his short novel Amigo . In 2018, Siglio Press published

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1888-803: The Consortium has helped host scholars from Afghanistan and Ukraine following the fall of the democratic Afghan government in 2021 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 . The New School played a similar role with the founding of the École Libre des Hautes Études after the Nazi invasion of France. Receiving a charter from de Gaulle 's Free French government in exile, the École attracted refugee scholars who taught in French, including philosopher Jacques Maritain , anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss , and linguist Roman Jakobson . The École Libre gradually evolved into one of

1947-568: The Graduate Faculty was again renamed, this time taking the original name of the university, The New School for Social Research. In 2018, the New University in Exile Consortium was formed. The consortium is a group of multiple colleges and universities around the world which host at least one exiled scholar per year, aiding them in academic pursuits as well as providing personal support with respect to their exile. Following its establishment,

2006-554: The Great War. In October 1917, after Columbia University suppressed criticism of the United States by the faculty, related to World War I, it fired two professors who were outspoken pacifists. Charles A. Beard , Professor of Political Science, resigned his professorship at Columbia in protest even though he supported the war. His colleague James Harvey Robinson , who also supported the war, resigned in 1919 and both Beard and Robinson became founders of The New School. The New School plan

2065-845: The McBurney YMCA where intramurals continue to be held on Wednesday nights and created the ongoing New School Olympics and charitable 5K Turkey Trot. The Narwhals feature several intercollegiate teams: basketball (2009), cross country (2010), cycling (2013), soccer (2013), tennis (2014), ultimate Frisbee (2014). The New School Narwhals are an independent school, unaffiliated with the NCAA, but regularly compete against NCAA Division III schools. Basketball – competes regularly against Cooper Union, Culinary Institute of America, Pratt Institute, and Vaughn College Cross Country – competes in CUNYAC and HVIAC conference invitationals as an unaffiliated school Cycling –

2124-457: The New School's senior full-time professors gave a vote of no confidence for the New School's former president, Bob Kerrey . By December 15, 98% of the university's full-time faculty had voted no confidence. On December 17, over 100 students barricaded themselves in at a dining hall on the campus while hundreds more waited on the streets outside. They considered the current school administration opaque and harmful. Their chief demand, among others,

2183-420: The New School. Notable scholars associated with the University in Exile include psychologists Erich Fromm , Max Wertheimer and Aron Gurwitsch , political theorists Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss , philosopher Hans Jonas , and composer Hanns Eisler . In 1934, the University in Exile was chartered by New York State and its name was changed to the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In 2005,

2242-437: The Something Else Press eventually relocated to West Glover , in northern Vermont in the 1970s. While Higgins was always owner and publisher of the press, other individuals served as editor, including Emmett Williams and Jan Herman. Herman took the job in 1973 and served until the press folded a year later. Higgins is quoted as saying about Herman: [T]oo much an editor, and too little a fund-raiser. His idea of doing business

2301-609: The academic community and general public throughout the year in Tishman. Newer buildings have garnered a multitude of awards. Among these is The Sheila Johnson Design Center, which attracted media attention for its revolutionary design. In 2009, it won the Society for College and University Planning's Excellence in Architecture Renovation/Adaptive Reuse Award. In addition to being a Parsons core academic building,

2360-455: The campus. Notable artists such as Andy Warhol , Kara Walker , Richard Serra , and Sol LeWitt all have pieces displayed in New School's academic buildings. The New School publishes the following journals: The New School houses over 50 recognized student organizations, most of which are geared towards artistic endeavors or civic engagement. Notable among these are The Theatre Collective, which stages numerous dramatic productions throughout

2419-546: The center also serves as a public art gallery. The New School Welcome Center, located on 13th Street and Fifth Avenue, won the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter's Interiors Merit Award in 2010. In October 2019, the university celebrated its centennial with The Festival of New. The New School currently maintains three library locations and its Archives & Special Collections in New York City and

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2478-569: The creative areas of design, performing, and fine arts. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York educators, largely former Columbia University faculty that objected to pressure by Columbia to avoid any criticism of its president, during the Great War , and for most of its history, the university was known as The New School for Social Research . Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University . The university and each of its colleges were renamed in 2005. The New School established

2537-403: The earliest Fluxus performances. He was an early and ardent proponent and user of computers as a tool for art making, dating back to the mid-1960s, when Alison Knowles and he created the first computer-generated literary texts. His A Book About Love & War & Death , a book-length aleatory poem published in 1972 included one of those. In his introduction, Higgins states, having finished

2596-586: The famous students of the Dramatic Workshop were Beatrice Arthur , Harry Belafonte , Marlon Brando , Tony Curtis , Ben Gazzara , Michael V. Gazzo , Rod Steiger , Elaine Stritch , Shelley Winters and Tennessee Williams . Prior to the Dramatic Workshop, The Group Theater under the leadership of Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg taught dramatic arts. Subsequent to the Dramatic Workshop, both Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg ran studios at The New School. I attended The New School for Social Research for only

2655-466: The first semester, 100 courses, mostly in economics and politics, were offered by an ad hoc faculty that included Thomas Sewall Adams , Charles A. Beard , Horace M. Kallen , Harold Laski , Wesley Clair Mitchell , Thorstein Veblen , James Harvey Robinson , Graham Wallas , Charles B. Davenport , Elsie Clews Parsons , and Roscoe Pound . Many years later, The New School begin to offer degrees in line with

2714-633: The first three parts of the poem throwing dice, he wrote a FORTRAN IV program to produce part (or Canto ) four. His work was published in 0 to 9 magazine , an avant-garde publication that experimented with language and meaning-making. Higgins also created metadrama poems that were minimal emotional statements or narratives . Between 1976 and 1994 he collaborated with the Italian writer and visual artist Luciano Caruso through email correspondence. Higgins wrote and edited forty-seven books, including George Herbert 's Pattern Poems: In Their Tradition and On

2773-615: The leading institutions of research in Paris, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , with which the New School maintains close ties. Between 1940 and 1949, The New School included the " Dramatic Workshop ," a groundbreaking theater education program and predecessor of School of Drama that was founded by German emigrant theatre director Erwin Piscator . The department chairs hired by Piscator were Stella Adler (acting), Lee Strasberg (directing), and Herbert Berghoff (playwriting). Among

2832-471: The matter became an issue of life or death for these scholars. The University in Exile, one of a number of similar program being established nationally, was initially founded by the director of the New School, Alvin Johnson , through the financial contributions of Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation . The University in Exile and its subsequent incarnations have been the intellectual heart of

2891-700: The name of the whole institution, the New School for Social Research, while the larger institution was renamed The New School. The New School for Social Research was founded by a group of university professors and intellectuals in 1919 as a modern, progressive, free school where adult students could "seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order, its genesis, growth and present working". Founders included economist and literary scholar Alvin Johnson , historians Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson , economist Thorstein Veblen , and philosophers Horace M. Kallen and John Dewey . Beard, Dewey, and Robinson were all faculty at Columbia University and all supporters of

2950-493: The occupation lasted 30 hours. The following year, on April 10, 2009, students, mostly from New School but also from other New York colleges, reoccupied the building at 65 Fifth Avenue, this time holding the entire building for about six hours. Once again, the students demanded the resignation of Bob Kerrey. The New York Police Department arrested the occupiers; the New School students involved were then suspended. The next month, Kerrey announced he would fulfill his presidency at

3009-423: The traditional university model. John Cage , who came to study at The New School in 1933 with the experimental composer Henry Cowell , taught at The New School from 1950-1960, including courses such as Experimental Composition and Mycology. Cage's teaching at the school inspired the founding of Fluxus , through his students, including Yoko Ono . Cage was forced out by the Graduate Faculty who did not feel that he

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3068-601: The university community as a power-grab involving potential conflicts of interest. This was seen as a threat to scholarly integrity since the role of provost in overseeing the academic functions of a university has traditionally been insulated from fundraising and other responsibilities of a college president. After a series of rifts including protests involving student occupations of university buildings, Kerrey later appointed Tim Marshall, Dean of Parsons School of Design , as Interim Provost through June 2011. Marshall has since been reappointed in this role. On December 10, 2008, 74 of

3127-547: The university for violations of codes of conduct, and an end to the university's collaboration with the NYPD. Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey became president of The New School in 2000. Kerrey drew praise and criticism for his streamlining of the university, as well as censure for his support of the 2003 invasion of Iraq , generally opposed by the university's faculty. In 2004, Kerrey appointed Arjun Appadurai as provost . Appadurai resigned as provost in early 2006, but retained

3186-699: The year, Narwhals on Broadway, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the New School Debate Team (intercollegiate competition in Policy/Cross Examination style debate), ReNew School (sustainability and environmental advocacy group) Moxie (feminist alliance), the New Urban Grilling Society (NUGS), and The Radical Student Union (RSU). Former Athletics and Recreation Director Diane Yee joined The New School in August 2012. On October 25, 2012,

3245-633: Was an early publisher of Concrete poetry and other works by Fluxus artists throughout the 1960s. During the 1960s in New York City some of the artists who worked at the Something Else Press included Editor-in-Chief Emmett Williams , artist Alison Knowles , poet Larry Freifeld, novelist Mary Flanagan, artist Ronnie Landfield , and publisher/founder Dick Higgins. Fluxus artist and scholar Ken Friedman acted as general manager for Higgins from California in 1970 and 1971. Originally located in Chelsea in Manhattan,

3304-554: Was appropriate to their ideal of an academic professor. The New School uses "To the Living Spirit" as its motto. In 1937, Thomas Mann remarked that a plaque bearing the inscription "be the Living Spirit" had been torn down by the Nazis from a building at the University of Heidelberg . He suggested that the University in Exile adopt that inscription as its motto, to indicate that the 'living spirit,' mortally threatened in Europe, would have

3363-463: Was that Bob Kerrey resign. The students soon enlarged their occupied area, blocking security and police from entering the building. At 3 AM the next morning, the students left the building after Kerrey agreed to some of their demands (the most important elements on their first list of demands were not agreed to), including increased study space and amnesty from any actions performed during the protest. He did not, however, concede to resignation. In total,

3422-403: Was to offer the rigorousness of college education without degree matriculation or degree prerequisites. It was theoretically open to anyone, as the adult division today called Schools of Public Engagement remains in part. The first classes at the New School took the form of lectures followed by discussions, for larger groups, or as smaller conferences, for "those equipped for specific research". In

3481-528: Was to wrap books and mail them away – for that one has assistants (mailing books IS fun if one can afford the time) – and he spent too little time looking for production money from foundations and wealthy people. So the press went kaput the following year... Since Higgins had personal wealth, this account could be disputed. The press collapsed when Higgins's fortunes turned, and there was virtually no funding base in rural Vermont. Herman disputes Higgins' account. Alongside book publications, Dick Higgins published

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