Schedule/Assignments

Dates	Theme	Trips	Assignments
8/27	Introductions and Preparations, Preparation for the Night at the Museum.		Introductory Exercises Photobooth Profiles–(posted by September 10) Jackson Pollock–why is that important? (video) The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock (video) “I Was Jeff Koons’ Studio Serf” (NY Times article) Learn to Say F**k You to the World (video) Smithson, Spiral Jetty (video)
9/1 and 9/3	What is Art? What is an Artist? Where is Art?		Why Look at Art? Art:21–Jeff Koons (video) Art:21–Yinka Shonibare (video) Duchamp and the Ready-Mades (video) Levine, Untitled (After Edward Weston, ca. 1925) (video) “Beating the Heat in Art’s Fortress” (New York Times Article) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (video) “The Met Can Charge Whatever It Wants Thanks to Bloomberg” By Joe Coscarelli “Should Rembrandt, Van Gogh help bail out a bankrupt Detroit?” by Mark Caro A clip from the documentary “National Gallery” (documentary is three hours long…just watch the clip.)
9/8 (and no class 9/10–Monday Schedule)	What is Beauty, What is Art, What is Truth	9/9 Brooklyn Museum #2 train to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum (eat dinner before you come, meet at Museum by 630 PM)	Polykleitos, Diadoumenos (video) Botticelli, Birth of Venus (video) Gérôme, Pygmalion and Galatea (audio) about this painting (make sure to look at the painting). A Darwinian Theory of Beauty (video) Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (poem) Beautiful Music. Find it and tell us how Make the Thing You Can’t NOT Make–Adam Savage on STEAM Barnett Newman’s Painting Techniques (video) Jackson Pollock’s Painting Techniques (video)
(9/15 no class) and 9/17	Poetry		A poem in your pocket “The United States of Poetry” Shakespeare’s Sonnets “City of Ships” by Walt Whitman “Meditations in an Emergency” by Frank O’Hara Angola Prisoner Poetry
(9/22 no class) and 9/24 and 9/25 Tuesday Schedule	Art in Nature and Nature in Art	9/24 no class–instead meet for walk on the High Line and visits to Chelsea Galleries	Thomas Cole, “The Oxbow” (video) John Constable “View of the Stour Near Dedham” (video) And bring your own images of “nature”
9/29 and 10/1	Photography	(10/1 guest speaker Michael Grohman on photograph)	READ THIS CASE (for 10/13) Foster v. Svenson. “Viewfinder” by Ethan Canin and “The Photograph” by N. Scott Momaday (these are on a password-protected page. I will give you the password in class). American Memory Project Lewis W. Hine’s Powerhouse Mechanic Eastman House podcast. Diane Arbus “Boy with a Toy Hand Grenade“ Appropriation…and Sherrie Levine’s “After Edward Weston.” (we already saw this one, but have another look)
10/6 and 10/8	Death and Memorials in Art	10/8 NO CLASS–Instead meet at 9/11 memorial and walk to Vietnam memorial (wear comfortable shoes)	Picasso, Guernica (video) Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (video) Selections from Trauma At Home: After 9/11 Andrea D. Fitzpatrick, “The Movement of Vulnerability: Images of Falling and September 11“ Maya Lin on Art21 (and read this)
10/13 and 10/15	Urban Art and the City as Art	10/13 Guest Speaker Michael Grohman for Snapshot Photography critique	Courbet, The Meeting or, Bonjour M. Courbet Haussmann and the Creation of Modern Paris Manet, The Railway (video) Monet, Gare St. Lazare (video) Kirchner, Street, Dresden (video) Your Cities
10/20 and 10/22	Dance and the Body in/as Art	10/22 no class instead meet at Lincoln Center for ABT!!	Ingres, La Grand Odalisque (video) Manet, Olympia (reading and video) A Brief History of the Representation of the Body in Western Sculpture (video) The Royal Ballet’s Glossary of Ballet Behind the Scenes at the Royal Ballet
10/27 and 10/29	Opera	10/27 special guest Amanda Hick will sing for us! 10/29 no class-instead meet at Lincoln Center for Tosca! Opera	A Beginners’ Guide to the Opera Etiquette for Opera and Ballet
11/3 and 11/5	Storytelling and Oral Performance Art…And Drama		Quacks, Yokels and Everyday Folk” (by your own professor). (And also have a look at the photos which originally accompanied the article). “Pitchmen” and “Pitchmen” Page 2 video clips Henry IV (read the whole play or just the summary)
11/10 and 11/12	Drama	11/10, no class Henry IV at St. Ann’s Warehouse	Henry IV (read the whole play or just the summary)
11/17 and 11/19	Music and Musical Truths	11/19 After class go to the Brooklyn College Performing Arts Center for Big Band performance. (7PM)	“Has Pop Music Changed?” (radio show–listen to the whole show–about an hour–using the player linked on this page) And discussion and examples of our own music Watch these videos on string instruments (especially the violin).
11/24 (no class 11/26 Thanksgiving)	Gender and the Gendered Body in Art	(11/22 Snapshot Exhibition at New-York Historical Society)	Cassat, The Loge (video) Some Male and Female Body Beauty Thoughts Ways of Seeing Chapters 3 and 4 (video link) “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” by Linda Nochlin
12/1 and 12/3	Bringing it Together and Preparing Presentations		Your Professor’s Final Exam Reviewing Presentations and Starting Your Own
12/8 and 12/10	Food and Culinary Arts		12/17 Class celebration…bring your own culinary creations! and Final project presentations.
12/15 and 12/17	Presentations		No Class 12/15 (reading day). Final Projects presented and enjoyed by all.

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