Tu 1/10 The Visual Arts: What IS an Art Museum, Phenomenologically Speaking? Who works there?

Submit assignment Journal #1 to Digication. Use “Discuss” feature to comment on one another’s Art on My Mind Journal #1 essays. Consider the museum as an ethnographic site, where you will be introduced to the idea of the “canon” in visual art, the role of the curators and other professions within the museum as an institution. Complete juggling balls in class and meet Bryant Park Jugglers.

Texts:                       .pdf: Map of the Met

                                   Handout: Met assignment sheet for Visual Analysis

Jigsaw Activity: Choose one of the following readings, found in InfoCommons LibGuide, read and then share with others who read it, then with students at your table.

Danzinger, D. (Ed.) (2007). “Carrie Rebora Barratt: Curator, American Paintings and Sculpture” pp. 10-18, “John Barelli: Chief Security Officer, Security Department” pp.4-6, “Keith Christiansen: Jayne Wrightsman Curator, European Paintings” pp. 46-52, “Michael Barry: Islamic Art” pp. 19-25, “James Moran: NYPD” pp. 163-166, “Thomas P. Campbell: Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts” pp. 35-42, “Sabine Rewald: Curator, Modern Art”

Assignment:  Download The Met app on your phone. Go to Audio Guide. Select Location: The Met Fifth Avenue. Select language. Select tour. Each tour contains an average of 20 pieces to view. There are dozens to choose from, grouped by Highlights, Exhibitions, By Theme, and For Kids. (If you choose tours For Kids, you will need to complete two tours to be comparable.) 

Bring cash donation (from 1 cent or above), earbuds or headphones, cell phone, pencil and clipboard/hard writing surface or tablet with you to Thursday 1/12, 10:20a.m. or 12:40 p.m. "class" at Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street. Use MTA Trip Planner or Google Maps arrival time to plan your trip. You must check all backpacks and umbrellas. No flash photos. No pens. Not meeting as a group, or we'd have to pay Group Fee.

Th 1/12:  Art Excursion (Pay-as-you-will): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street. Remember that the Admission price is the suggested donation, and the Metropolitan allows you to contribute any amount toward admission, so you may enter with 1 penny or $1, more or less, as you wish. The museum does not permit touring with more than three visitors or may charge you the Group Fee. So you can tour individually or with at most two other people. Meet in the lobby, go to the central desk and pick up a free map of the museum, check your backpacks, umbrellas or coats, keep your Met assignment sheet, clipboard and pencil or tablet and then proceed to any one of the admission cashiers in front of you or to your left and right. Using your earphones, turn on the audio tour you chose to guide you to the first piece of art in your tour. You may feel free to leave at the end of our "class."  No need to check in.

Assignment: Upload photos and create identifying captions from your notes on yesterday’s handout in your ePortfolio before class F 1/3. We will continue working on  Museum/Gallery Visual Analysis #1 for completion and submission to Digication in F 1/13 class.

                   --Ophelia by Millais, J.E. (1851-1852)

F 1/13: Art as Work and Works of Art

Complete and submit Museum/Gallery Visual Analysis #1 in ePortfolio and Digication.

Who do you know who makes a living in the arts? Scroll through search results for NY state jobs in the arts: https://www.careerzone.ny.gov/views/careerzone/search/occupation/occupationSearchResult.jsf What surprises you? What interests you? What are you curious about?

Introduction to the historical context of modern and postmodern art and the conversations and complexities in these two periods of art history. Explore the term “aesthetics” and the cultivation of “taste” to analyze why art in the 20th and 21st centuries has created such contentious dialogue. Compose Museum/Gallery Visual Analysis from field notes in ePortfolio and submit to Digication in class.

Texts:  Representation and Abstraction https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/beginners-guide-20-21/v/representation-abstraction-looking-at-millais-and-newman

Freeland, C. (2001). “Blood and Beauty” from But is it Art?  pp. 1-29

Assignment:       

10:20 class:          Annotate Drinko, C. “Improv-ing Your Life” .pdf

12:40 class:          Annotate in preparation for Tyner, M.’s ’ work: Wartenberg, T. (2015).  #3 Film and Authorship and #4 Emotional Engagement. “Philosophy of Film", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta (ed.), Retrieved from:  https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/film/#NatFil

        --Vir Heroicus Sublimis by Newman, B. 1950-1951.