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L E H M A N C O L L E G E
The City University of New York
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Bronx, New York 10468-1589
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In 2005, President Ricardo R.
Fernández was cited by Hispanic
Magazine (March 2005 issue) as
one of the most influential Hispanic
educators in the U.S.
For fiscal year 2004, Lehman ranked
third in extramural funding among
all CUNY colleges. External funding,
including contracts, educational
awards and research grants, reached
just under $16.3 million, almost
double that of 1999.
In 2004, Dr. Joseph Dauben, one of
the world’s leading scholars of the
history of mathematics, became
the eighth member of the current
Lehman faculty to join the rank of
“Distinguished Professor.”
In 2004, out of nearly 350 chapters
on four continents, the Lehman
chapter of Golden Key International
Honor Society won the prestigious
Key Chapter award.
In 2003-04, Lehman opened stateof-the-art
facilities in biology, speech
pathology, foreign language learning,
radio broadcasting, and geographic
information science.
In 2003-05, the student-produced
video magazine “Inside Lehman”
won two Telly Awards; First Prize in
the Alliance for Community Media’s
Northeast Regional competition
(two years in a row); and an
Award of Distinction from The
Communicator Awards.
In 2002, Lehman was one of eight
senior colleges across the country
to be selected as “institutions of
excellence” by the Policy Center on
the First Year of College, a national
research center.
In 2002, Lehman became the
first college in CUNY to earn
accreditation from NCATE (National
Counci for the Accreditation of
Teacher Education) for its teacher
and school counselor programs.
‘The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment’
On Exhibit at Lehman This Spring
The newest exhibit
in the Lehman
Art Gallery—“The
City: Contemporary
Views of the Built Environment”—explores
the notion of the city
as a focal point for
utopian dreams and
shared histories and
represents a sequel to
the Gallery’s earlier
landscape exhibit,
“Images of Time and
Place.”
The new exhibit examines
work in a broad
range of media—painting,
drawings, photography,
video and installation—and
explores
innovative approaches
to the traditional genre
of the “cityscape.”
The work ranges
from Kahn and
Selesnick’s fictive narrative
“City of Salt” to
Bertrand Ivanoff’s conceptual proposal to deconstruct
an abandoned building in the South
Bronx.
Sze Tsung Leong documents the striking
contrasts and displacements of China’s urbanization,
while Shimon Attie marks the loss
of Jewish neighborhoods of pre-World War
II Berlin with archival photographs projected
onto contemporary buildings.
The exhibition also includes Benjamin
Above: (left) Yvonne Jacquette’s “Herald Square
Composite II,” oil on linen, and Monika Bravo’s “Times
Square.” Below: Tomie Arai’s Chinatown of silkscreen
construction and mixed media and Kahn and Selesnick’s
“Two Streets” from the “City of Salt” Series.
Edward’s contemporary
city, depicted as a
place where fast-food
franchaises and corporate
logos merge with
townhouses and parking
lots. Meanwhile,
Nancy Davenport’s
manipulated photographs
offer views of
city buildings under
siege.
New York City is
represented in many
of the works, including
the jewel-like imagery
of Monika Bravo’s
“Times Square” and
Yvonne Jacquette’s
night view of Herald
Square. City infrastructure
is seen in Red
Groom’s “Loop the
Loop,” Jane Dickson’s
“Green Tunnel” and
Carlos Vega’s “Cross
Bronx Expressway.”
Oblique references
to the events of September 11 are found in a
video of the Brooklyn Bridge captured from a
studio in the World Trade Center by Jaime Davidovich
and as an impetus for Jacobo Borges’
documentation of the Chrysler Building.
The exhibition is funded in part by the
New York State Council on the Arts and was
curated by Nina Sundell and Susan Hoeltzel. It
is on view until May 14 in the Edith Altschul
Lehman wing and the Robert Lehman wing. ◆
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