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Cooper Union President Finally Speaks to Students Occupying His Office

After nearly a week of avoiding confrontation with the group of Cooper Union students staging a sit-in in his office, last night president Jamshed Bharucha went up to the seventh floor to speak to them. The conversation followed a forum in the school's Great Hall, during which Bharucha, an accompli ... More >>

Good Enough to Read: Our Five Can't Miss Book Events

'Dragons in Space Redux' Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Mar. 6, 7pm, Free And here we are, rounding off Housing Works' Geek Week, or as any respectable frat guy might know it--every other week of the year. At tonight's panel discussion, science fiction and fantasy--sorry, we mean SF/F--writers Peter B ... More >>

MIGHTY WORDS

Celebrating two 
american legends

Hurricane Sandy and the Future of the New York Art World

Head above water

Class Action Listings

Cheap EV Favorite Tahini Shuttered by the DOH

Tahini dark during the shank of the dinner hour Tuesday On the edge of the Cooper Union campus and close to the NYU dorms, Tahini is a favorite for students seeking inexpensive Middle Eastern fare with an Israeli bent, especially falafel, chicken schwarma, bread dips like hummus and babaganoush, a ... More >>

Demonstrators Protest AIDS Inaction, Student Debt and Tuition Hikes

May Day isn't even here yet, and it's already becoming clear that a season of protest and politics in the street is upon us. Yesterday morning saw a substantial demonstration by ACT UP!, other AIDS activists, and Occupiers, marching from City Hall into the Financial District to call for a financial ... More >>

The New York Public Library's Maps Project is a Time Machine for Your Neighborhood

While public library systems across the country flounder in the face of declining tax revenue and dwindling readership, the New York Public Library is somehow managing to survive. Rather than run away from digitization, NYPL has embraced it, and has recently produced a series of projects which are h ... More >>

Q&A: Kyle Kessler On Aliases, Pop Marketing Conspiracies, And Being Visited By Demons While Performing

via WFMU​The word "grinding" means different things to different people. For video-game enthusiasts, it represents the expository dead stretches where no action is happening. In drug-dealing culture, it signifies a never-ending hustle. In youth club culture, it's the dance style formerly known ... More >>

George Campbell Jr., Ex-Cooper Union Prez, Blasts Tuition Proposal

The former president of Cooper Union is (for an academic) blasting the current administration's plan to start charging tuition to incoming students--the latest salvo in an increasing controversy over a proposal that has made faculty and students irate. President Emeritus George Campbell Jr., writin ... More >>

Michael Moore Will Visit the St. Mark's Bookshop Thursday

The St. Mark's Bookshop, which is still in talks with Cooper Union over a possible eviction, has announced that Michael Moore will make an "impromptu" appearance to sign books at the store tomorrow night from 7 to 9 p.m.: St. Mark's Bookshop is thrilled to host a book signing with Michael Moore for ... More >>

Dog or Girl? Padma Lakshmi Stars in Eels Video

Padma Lakshmi has enjoyed one of the more unusual food-themed careers, ascending from a couple of lackluster shows on the Food Network and a rather mediocre cookbook to being the doyenne of Top Chef - and the hatchet-woman, too, whose icy words and placid demeanor often spell disaster for the cont ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Foodie Storytelling, West Village Tasting

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food The Great Hall at Cooper Union at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 13 The Moth's monthly StorySLAM goes foodie this time around with an evening of gastro- ... More >>

Captain Arrested by Greek Authorities as U.S. Boat to Gaza Attempts to Leave Athens

The journey of The Audacity of Hope, the U.S. boat which was going to join an international flotilla attempting to break the blockade of Gaza this weekend, appears to have been very short lived. Not long after attempting to launch from Athens, the Hope's captain has been arrested by Greek authoriti ... More >>

Cooper Union's Giant Breast Will Retire to the Country

Photo via EV Grieve​If you have walked by Cooper Union on 7th Street in the past couple of weeks, you may have been wondering why there was a giant breast hanging on the wall inside the main event space. Like most giant boobs, it was garnering a lot of attention. We got in contact with Clio Ne ... More >>

ARTISTS UNITE

Who needs an MFA?

East Village to Get Another Ugly Building, at Astor Place

via Curbed​The Wall Street Journal reports today that 51 Astor Place, the site of Cooper Union's old engineering building, is once again in the works as the site of developer Edward Minskoff's fancy-shmancy new Fumihiko Maki-designed "13-story ribbed granite-and-glass office building," which h ... More >>

A Cooper Union Student Lost an Eye Protesting in Israel—But None of Her Vision

Mike Bloomberg's Off-Shore Tax Dodge Should Be Exhibit One in Obama's Cooper Union Speech

​The last time Barack Obama visited the Voice's neighborhood he and Mike Bloomberg were arms-around pals. That was March, 2008 and at the Great Hall at Cooper Union the then-candidate was talking about the need for new rules for the road for Wall Street and ways to block tax dodging by the big ... More >>

Coldplay Now Just Two Members Away From East Village Dominance

Hilarious, soulful image via Cityfile In news that will make at least one-third of this blog really, really happy, Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman is moving in just down the block from the Voice offices, into a 2,681-square-foot apartment at 79 East 2nd Street, for which the incredibly wealthy mu ... More >>

BUILT TO LAST

Artist Daniel Arsham takes his cutting-edge work downtown

Protesters Warm Up Before Rent Guidelines Meeting at Cooper Union

As we said earlier, there's a Rent Guidelines Board meeting tonight where they're expected to approve our new rent hikes. The only humanizing touch in the whole Soviet-style deal is the protests that took place earlier this evening outside Cooper Union, where the vote is to be held. The 60 or so pr ... More >>

TALKIE WALKIE

A discussion with filmmaker-artist Mike Mills

The Bruce High Quality Foundation: 'Empire'

Bones' Beat: Saying Goodbye to Guild & Greyshkul with On From Here

This week Bones, intrepid art-world raconteur, bids the Guild & Greyshkul gallery farewell with one last valedictory fling. While they did it, they did it rather well... Jamie Isenstein's 2006 sculpture Intermission, a portable brass easel with a white-on-black handmade sign bearing the work's ti ... More >>

Nissan crashes; hedge funds lick chops; incoming Israel govt. may take 'harder line'

Harkavy Plans are moving apace to purposely set up a "toxic bank" full of poisonous assets to further bail out those banks that had greedily and recklessly accumulated them. Call it Shitibank. And give it the naming rights to the new baseball stadium for the New York Mets, taking the moniker awa ... More >>

Soup and Homicidal Nuts: Recalling a Cheaper, Scarier Village

Hyper-Local News from Cooper Square!

Clip Job: A Trip on the Crosstown Stage

New York Schooled: Spring Art-School Exhibitions

Name-Dropping Lincoln at the Obama Speech

Letters

Spire Education

Cooper Union's Towering Tax Break

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Education

Nobel-Winning Wangari Maathai on Democracy

Amid frenzied talk of freedom, a seasoned voice from Africa

Education Listings

'You Can Never Not Fight Back!'

A conversation with Larry Kramer about the current state of gay activism

Daddy Starbucks

Toasting Kerry on Astor Place

Heroic Restraint

The tongue is mightier than the sword

Education

Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow: Downtown Sensorial Celebration

Burning Bush

Rushdie Rocks A Reading, Maestro Bumps The Quad, Tapis Rouge Goes Gay

Poor Memorial

Insult to injury: Looking at the real problem behind the pseudo-solutions at ground zero

The Gray Area

Art

Pizza Orientation

The Best Slice Near Your School

The Real Curriculum

NY Mirror

Day Without Color