Readings are due in preparation for the day they are listed.

Week 1 (8/28):

  1. Ovid, “Pygmalion,” from the Metamorphoses
  2. E.H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion, selections

Week 2 (9/4):

  1. David Carrier, “Remembering the Past: Art Museums as Memory Palaces,” pp. 61-65
  2. Brian O’Doherty, “Inside the White Cube,” pp. 14-16, 26-28
  3. Dave Hickey, Air Guitar, pp. 10-14
  4. Ameena Walker, “New York’s best public art installations this season”

Week 3 (9/25):

  1. Roland Barthes, Camera Obscura, hard copy. Buy at the bookstore or Amazon.

Week 4 (10/2):

  1. Henri Cartier-Bresson, selections from The Mind’s Eye
  2. NYT: “Cartier-Bresson’s Scenes Unseen at Moma” (be sure to click through the slideshow!):  https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/cartier-bressons-modern-century-at-moma/
  3. Valerie Jardin, selections from Street Photography
  4. NYT: Scenes Unseen: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/27/nyregion/newyork-parks-photos.html

Week 5 (10/9):

  1. Tim Carter, “What Is Opera?,” excerpts: 1-3 (stop at star), highlighted text on pg. 4, 5-10 (stop at star), 17-19
  2. Kristin M. Turner, “Opera in America After the Civil War: Many Languages and a Splintered Audience”
  3. John Dizikes, Opera in America, pp. 528-531

Week 6 (10/16):

  1. Catherine Clément, Opera, or the Undoing of Women, excerpts. In-class excerpt.
  2. Anne Midgette, “In Theater and Film, We Demand that Asian Roles be Played by Asian actors. Why is Opera Different?” Washington Post
  3. Edward Said, Orientalism, excerpts

Week 7 (10/23):

  1. Poem packet
  2. Begin reading Teju Cole, Open City
  3. Andrew Leland, “An Interview With Kate Soper,” Believer Magazine

Week 8 (10/30):

  1. Carrie Leigh Page and Dana Reason, “Playing Like a Girl,” New Music Box
  2. Anne Shreffler, “The Myth of the Canon’s Invisible Hand”
  3. Will Robin, “Opera is the New Black,” (listen to the sound files, too!)
  4. Wallace Dace, Opera as Dramatic Poetry, pp. 174-179

Week 9 (11/6):

  1. Teju Cole, Open City, pp. 1-146.

Week 10 (11/13):

  1. Teju Cole, Open City, pp. 146-end.

Week 11 (11/20): NO READING – STEAM festival work in class

Week 12 (11/27):

  1. Sophie Haigney, “Martha Rosler Isn’t Done Making Protest Art,” the New York Times
  2. Wilson Tarbox, “An Art School Started by Marc Chagall that Became a Modernist Wasteland,” Hyperallergic
  3. Jackie Wullschlager, “When Revolutionary Art Took Flight,” The Financial Times
  4. Candy Bedworth, “War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing! A Protest Art Story,” Daily Art Magazine

Week 13 (12/4):

  1. Alistair Good, “What is Life Like inside the Calais ‘Jungle’ Migrant Camp,” The Telegraph (be sure to watch the included video, too)
  2. Andrzej Lukowski, “The Journey from the Calais Jungle to the London Stage,” NYT
  3. David Conquergood, “Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture,” selections
  4. Mireille Rosello, “The Calais Jungle: Mediations of home” Nescus.
    • NOTE: Focus on the first three sections of Rosello’s article–from the opening to “…abject exceptions who were not entitled to human rights”–and the final two sections: from “What was destroyed in Calais in October 2016?” to the end.