New York Academy of Art

One of these places that makes living in NYC worth it.

I have taken 3 classes here so far. Every teacher is excellent and care about your education. However, Guno Park is not one of those teachers. I took his class and on week 3 his patience ran out. I am a beginner and I was doing not so well in his class. He gave me a rant in the Brooklyn zoo that even some people around us moved to avoid hearing such a rant. I gave up drawing for 3 weeks but I came back to drawing so I can show him how wrong he is. I give it four stars because the other teachers are WAY better than Guno Park.

Full Disclosure: my girlfriend goes to school here so I’ll try to rate the school based on my experience and not the curricula.
So far I have been to two art exhibitions here. Deck the Walls and The Ones. Deck the Walls is a holiday event where you can buy students’ work fro $ 200, $ 300, or $ 400. It is a opportunity to take home some smaller pieces from budding artists just taking off in their careers, plus it was sponsored by Heineken this year so it was quite the party.
More recently I went to «TheOnes» which is an exhibition feature alumni from the classes of 1991, 2001, 2011. Obviously so of the artists here are more established than others. Pieces were selling from around $ 500 — over $ 15,000 so there was pretty much something for everyone.
The Wilkinson Gallery is a fantastic space for viewing art. The school is in TriBeCa so it is a neat place to see some art, grab a bit of something yummy, and get some drinks.
I can’t wait to check out TriBeCa Ball!

Not sure how helpful it is to review schools on Unilocal given the variety of programs and courses they might offer. This is specifically for the one time Intro to Painting class that was offered via LivingSocial.
My wife and I attended this course yesterday and had a really positive experience. Neither of us have painted since we were kids. We went in with low expectations and we were surprised at the result that developed over the course of six or so hours. The instructors gave very understandable demonstrations and were not shy at all about giving constructive feedback on how we were doing. We felt comfortable painting during the course time despite having no idea what we were doing. We are now considering taking one of the multi-​week introduction courses offered by the continuing education department now, if we can fit it into our schedules. Taking this one class has really sparked our interest in learning a new skill.

One of the best schools for training in representational figurative art. The curriculum is rooted in the Renaissance and 19^th Century Academic Art traditions.