NYTimes Arts is coming to a close. In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. Provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article. Make it a good one–it’s the last one.
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NYTimes Arts rolls on! In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. Provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article.
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NYTimes Arts rolls on! In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. Provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article.
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NYTimes Arts is back! In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. Provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article.
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For this week’s comments you may have to do some searching in past issues of the NYTimes. You can do this by using the search function at http://www.nytimes.com.
Find a NYTimes article discussing any aspect of the Metropolitan Opera’s current or past productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (the opera we will be seeing on 11/3). Include a link to the story, a synopsis of the article, and three questions the story left you wondering.
You may NOT discuss an article that a classmate has already commented on. First come, first served!
Finally, read this synopsis of the opera . You will have a much better experience if you have a sense of what the opera is ‘about’ and can focus on the singing, music, acting, staging, etc. when you are there. If you have a pair of opera glasses, get them ready! and if not, borrow a bird-watcher’s binoculars, you will not regret it.
This week I’m shifting the emphasis to the Feature Story, to encourage you to look more closely at how feature articles work. So, your job is to:
You may not comment on a feature article that a classmate has already discussed. First come, first served!
Let’s continue last week’s format. The connections you’re making are interesting & original. So… in your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. The idea is to provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article.
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This week I present you with a challenge, to liven things up…
In your comments this week, draw connections between at least two different articles AND at least one event you’ve attended this semester. The idea is to provide your own original thinking, not merely a summary of an article. Let’s see if this makes your comments a bit more complex.
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This week your task is changing from observer to critic. You’ve been reading the Arts section for a few weeks now. What observations do you have on the Arts coverage in the NY Times? How does it correspond with your own sense of the arts and/ or culture generally? Are there aspects of the coverage that you find particularly illuminating, irritating, surprising, or dull? Are there areas where you would like to see more, or less, coverage? Support your observations with specific references to articles from this week’s NY Times Arts section.
And as always… Add your comments to this post. I encourage you to leave multiple comments, and to respond to freely others’ ideas. Also, please save your comments on your own computer, in case the blog crashes.
What have you found of interest in the NYTimes Arts section? Add your comments to this post. I encourage you to leave multiple comments, and to respond to freely others’ ideas. Also, please save your comments on your own computer, in case the blog crashes.
What have you found of interest in the NYTimes Arts section? Add your comments to this post. I encourage you to leave multiple comments, and to respond to freely others’ ideas. Also, please save your comments on your own computer, in case the blog crashes.
Mr. Nobel speaks with a heavy hand and and an open mind. His piece, “The Future, Retrenched,” an articles which carries with it explicit somber connotations of the state of the architectural world, with hints of optimism in his forthright approach. Mr. Nobel highlights several dissatisfying effects of the current worldwide recession on the present building development landscape such as less ambition, increase in genericism, and the comprise of artistic integrity, with a cathartic sense of inevitabilitiy.
Though he does note the current slowdown has yielded some positive gain. Indeed, architects have been pondering their artistic endeavors effects on society, the environment, and the human condition. In addition, with the dawn of a new age approaching, populations increasing and their centers shifting, many have come together to discuss what our next-generation standard community will look like. MOMA has already “announced an initiative to research architectual responses to the foreclosure crisis… imagining better-built futures for the country.” The Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal has begun a project called “Imperfect Health” to determine architectures impact on human and environmental health. So Mr. Nobel may view the recent recent stasis of the building market with a disappointing lens, but he is quick to note the shining silver lining hidden just beneath it.
What have you found of interest in the NYTimes Arts section? Add your comments to this post. I encourage you to leave multiple comments, and to respond to freely others’ ideas. Also, please save your comments on your own computer, in case the blog crashes.
