Week of 8/27: Imitation(s) of Life
Ovid, selection from Metamorphoses
E.H. Gombrich, selection from Art and Illusion
Week of 9/3: Public Art / Art in Public
Miwon Kwon, selection from One Place after Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity
Aaron Short, “From the Bronx to Brooklyn, Confederate Symbols Come Down Across New York City,” Hyperallergic
Ameena Walker, “New York’s best public art installations this season,” Curbed
Nelson James, “Signage as Art”
Week of 9/10: Chelsea Gallery Crawl and High Line
Brian Dogherty, “Inside the White Cube” (excerpt)
Randy Kennedy, “Chelsea Galleries: Report” in The New York Times
Michael Kimmelman, “Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves?,” New York Times
Week of 9/24: Met meeting
No reading. Meet at 81st and 5th.
Week of 10/15: Photography 1
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, ENTIRE
Robert Bresson, The Mind’s Eye, excerpt.
Valerie Jardin, Street photography, excerpt.
Week of 10/22: Photography 2
Nathan Jurgensen, The Social Photo, excerpt.
WATCH: Edin Vélez, State of Rest and Motion, excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLdTbsNSEAI
WATCH: Balloon Scene, HBO’s High Maintenance, season 2 episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13sInBtD5kw
Week of 10/29: Writing the City 1: Book Arts
Walt Whitman poem packet
Paul Berman, “Revisiting the Streets that Spawned Walt Whitman’s Masterpiece,” The New Yorker
Rachel Stone, “The Trump-Era Boom in Erasure Poetry,” The New Republic.
OPTIONAL: Peter Schjeldahl, “How to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday”
Week of 11/5: Opera 1
Wallace Dace, Opera as Dramatic Poetry, pp. 174-179
John Dizikes, Opera in America, pp. 528-531
Tim Carter, “What Is Opera?,” excerpts: 1-3 (stop at star), highlighted text on pg. 4, 5-10 (stop at star), 17-19
Week of 11/12: Opera 2; Soundscapes / STEAM WORK 1-2 pm
Catherine Clément, Opera, or the Undoing of Women: excerpt from intro
Catherine Clément, Opera, or the Undoing of Women, excerpt on Madame Butterfly
Edward Said, Orientalism, excerpts
Anne Midgette, “In Theater and Film, We Demand that Asian Roles be Played by Asian actors. Why is Opera Different?” Washington Post
LISTENING ASSIGNMENT: Anne Guthrie, “Tune In: Soundscapes of New York”
OPTIONAL (highly recommended): Alison Kinney, “As the Met Abandons Blackface, a Look at the Legacy of African Americans in Opera”
Week of 11/19: Writing the City 2: Poetry / STEAM WORK (2nd half of class)
Audre Lorde, “Poetry is not a Luxury”
Week of 11/26: Excursion: The Jewish Museum
Two short Vogue (!) articles on the artist Rachel Feinstein: one from 2011, and one from this year
Art story on the Guerilla Girls (note the *contrast* to Feinstein’s work/aesthetic/aims!)
Jasmine Weber, “In Times Square, Kehinde Wiley Unveils a Massive Monument to Black Identity”
Kehinde Wiley on Alios Itzhak NOTE: the listening link is broken, but if you scroll down, there’s a transcript.
Week of 12/3: STEAM PRESENTATIONS / STEAM WORK
In this class your groups will give 5-7 minute presentations on your projects. You will spend the remainder of class working on those projects.
Week of 12/10: Course wrap-up
READING TBD
