The New Art School Modality Fall Course Recap
Image: ‘Arts Writing / Writing About Art’ module with The New Art School Modality, Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street, 2024
The New Art School Modality Fall Course Recap
In fall 2024, Hauser & Wirth established a partnership with The New Art School Modality, an innovative and alternative art school model that offers free participation to students via hybrid, online and in-person modules worldwide.
The first course, ‘Arts Writing/Writing About Art,’ ran from 11 October – 13 December 2024 and focused on various forms of art writing, including traditional criticism and fresh, innovative approaches. More than 85 students attended, hailing from Jamaica, France, Rwanda, Uganda, Italy, Morocco, Brazil, Germany, Nigeria, Trinidad, Canada, UK, Puerto Rico, Mexico City, UAE as well as various parts of the US including CT, Vermont, Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, Boston, Ohio, California, Oregon, North Carolina, Washington, Illinois, Virginia, Maine, New York, Maryland, etc.
Faculty included writers, artists and arts professionals with experience in this genre: Hauser & Wirth Publishers editor Jake Brodsky; curator Valerie Cassel-Oliver; academic, writer and founder of The Art School Modality Romi Crawford; academic and writer Stefano Harney; academic and art historian Hannah Higgins; artist Glenn Ligon; writer and critic Siddhartha Mitter; curator and researcher René Morales; academic and poet Fred Moten; art historian and writer Alexander Nemerov; curator and writer Legacy Russell; art historian and curator Lowery Stokes Sims; art historian, curator and writer Jenni Sorkin; and film historian, archivist and author Jacqueline Stewart.
You can watch an excerpt from one class led by Glenn Ligon below. In this session, Ligon shares his perspective on how writing, text, painting and printing intertwine within his practice.
‘A huge thank you to the team for making this amazing and expansive course possible, to all the brilliant and inspiring lecturers and to everyone who shared provocative questions and comments.’
—The New Art School Modality Participant
Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street will continue to host courses this spring including ‘The Sun Ra Course’ every Friday from 7 March – 4 April 2025 and ‘Notes from the Artist’s Studio’ from 18 April – 9 May 2025. Additional courses will be offered by The New Art School Modality until spring 2026.
About The New Art School Modality
The New Art School Modality explores and brings to life new forms of teaching, learning, art production and impact. The school is grounded in an ethos of collaboration, experimentation and improvisation. It offers a revised version of the art school model, methods and procedures, one that has fewer institutional protocols. There is intentionally less handholding and the apparatus is reduced. All of this as a nod to prior historical moments when making art and being an artist were less reliant on costly infrastructures. The New Art School Modality courses are hybrid, online and in-person. Unlike other art schools, it is not place based or centric. The New Art School Modality is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
