Archive for 'Art and Politics'
A Few of our Favorite Things (without a soundtrack, sorry)
Posted: December 6th, 2012 under Art and Politics, Defiant Art, Jazz, Modern Dance, Opera, Photo Composition, Terms and Conditions.
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Dizzy Gillespie
Posted: October 25th, 2012 under Art and Politics, Jazz.
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“Journalist Mona Eltahawy Arrested in New York for Spray Painting Over Pamela Geller’s Racist Subway Poster”
Posted: October 16th, 2012 under Art and Politics, Defiant Art, Uncategorized.
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Allen Ginsberg, “HOWL”
Posted: October 16th, 2012 under Art and Politics, Poetry.
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Defiant Art
“Piss Christ” (1987) by Andreas Serrano
And here’s a link from Marina Abramovich’s “The Artist is Present” at MOMA.
Posted: October 2nd, 2012 under Art and Politics, Defiant Art.
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Kenneth Pietrobono: Terms and Conditions
On Thursday, September 6, Kenneth Pietrobono will visit class to talk about his project “Terms and Conditions” that will begin on Friday September 7 @6PM on the High Line. I’ve posted an essay from Felix Gonzalez-Torres, an artist whose work inspires Pietrobono’s. Please read it before class. Here are a few You Tube videos of artists whose work Pietrobono admires:
Posted: September 4th, 2012 under Art and Politics, Defiant Art.
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Art and the ruling classes
After reading chapter five of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, I thought we should look at Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” (1533) more closely:
How does this oil painting shape and inform the interests of the ruling classes?
Here’s a 2001 photograph, “Olympia’s Boyz” by Renee Cox. It revises Edouard Manet’s famous oil painting, “Olympia” (1965). How does it shape, inform and critique the notion of the ruling classes?
And here is the oil painting by Manet. How are all of these images political?
Posted: September 3rd, 2012 under Art and Politics.
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