The Arts in New York City

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Lynn

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On Wednesday we will be going to see “The Violin” at Film Forum. The ticket will cost you $5.50 (this is a discounted rate). The film is in Spanish with English subtitles. There is some violence, especially at the beginning.

Arrive at 2:45pm.

Film Forum is in Soho, 209 West Houston Street, New York, NY 10014, between 6th Avenue and Varick (7th Avenue). Click here for a map, directions, and subway info.

If you’re coming from Baruch I recommend you walk over to 23 St. and 6th Ave. and take the F/V to West 4th St. Exit at the front of the train and walk downtown on 6th Ave. to Houston St. Take a right on Houston and Film Forum is halfway down the block.

So nobody has come forward with any ideas for our final two classes. Sad.

To get the ball rolling, here are some things I would like to see or do with you…
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On Wednesday we’re going to see Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) at the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, Broadway at 64th St.
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• For info on the show (time, location, etc.) see the Brooklyn Academy of Music page
• Here’s a 2005 profile of the composer/performer, Daniel Bernard Roumain, from the New York Times
• And a link to Daniel Bernard Roumain’s website
• What else? How about some YouTube videos?

See you Friday!

    Conceptual artist Roxy Paine took ideas about nature and industrialization to create steel trees and a steel rock, artworks housed in the museum called Madison Square Park. The tension between nature and industrialization were obvious in Paine’s works: the real trees and rocks surrounding the artificial trees and artificial rock; the material used to make the artworks, steel, which is made from natural raw materials but becomes steel through a man-made process. The artist sought to contrast nature and industrialization in his works, a theme we are all familiar with in this city. The whole city can be seen as a museum, with its many parks and trees and its many skyscrapers as artworks depicting this tension between nature and man. This tension is everywhere around us: when we walk on a sidewalk with trees on the side, when we are in Central Park and we look up to see skyscrapers in the backdrop, or when we admire the blue sky, lost in a daydream only to come back to our city life. Although Paine did an admirable job in portraying the tension between nature and man, the audience did not have to look any further for this tension than in their everyday life as a New Yorker.