Art is Where You Find It

If you can’t create a post to the class eportfolio, send me an email. Give me your non-Baruch email address. (That email address is probably also the address associated with your own Macaulay eportfolio). I can get you up & running. -Zoe

When the average theatergoer thinks of theater comedy, the first image that probably comes to mind is the classic bright, cheery musicals and plays, with enough overglitzed musical numbers and sarcastic one-liners to make a joke book out of. But what do you think would happen if, instead of a regular run-of-the-mill comedy, you took an East Asian martial arts action movie, combined it with slapstick comedy, and infused it with a whole lot of attitude? Well, you’d probably get “Jump”! [Read more →]

On June 27^th 2008, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened their Louise Bourgeois Exhibition. The exhibit is set up around the whole rotunda, which is the spiral walkway from the 6^th “floor” to the ground floor. With the type of posters that are advertised in the subways and on the streets, you can’t tell exactly what type of artwork is going to be shown. With no expectations, I went to go see Louise Bourgeois. [Read more →]

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This is a review by Jennie Lui. Her eportfolio wasn’t working, so I am posting up her review.

Part provocative, part breathtaking and part disturbing; Louise Bourgeois’s retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum is not an exhibit to be missed; an exhibit I found both enticing and spooky at the same time. Consistent with her signature styles of “abstraction and figuration” coupled with allusive symbols, Bourgeois gives visual form to her past: memories, emotions and personal experiences from her life in prewar Paris to present day New York. All her pieces resonate bits and pieces of her history, from her childhood in Paris to adulthood in America. A few of installations really caught my attention as I made my way up the Guggenheim’s six rotunda levels. [Read more →]