Announcement (Extra Credit 2)

1) EXTRA CREDIT 2: WE MEET IN CLASS AT 9:15AM for the Field Trip on Nov. 18th.
Last week, the class anonymously voted for a documentary video from a community-based art project in Brazil as "something worth following up." Therefore, we as Art-in-New York are visiting a design exhibit on
what the other 90% of the world thinks art is about
at the United Nations this Friday. The National Design Museum is renovating its own building right now, so they rented this space for the show.
Writing about this exhibition will be Extra Credit 2.
Please watch the video and check out the link below for more details:

Praça Cantão, Favela Painting Project [7:21] in the Design with the Other 90% Cities@the UN by Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. Video from last week's class.

"Design with the Other 90% Cities"@the United Nations by Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. Website.


2) Two Optional Readings now on blackboard.
Artworks: Money.
The 9/11 Film Script.
#They can be useful for your research papers.


3) Mid-Semester Feedback.
The voting last week took place in a form of an anonymous survey. Here is what some students had to say about the course:

"I want to know more about inspirational artists, artists that faced hardship and fought to succeed."

"A subject that should be followed up is why do people paint what they paint. When someone paints, what inspires the artist or where does the idea come from."

"I want the Professor to make more in-class activities than explaining and lecturing in class."

"What interested me the most in today's class was how artists were influenced by other artists. For instance, probably de Kooning was influenced by Picasso's paintings. The subject that I would like to follow up would be European Art Modernism as well as American Art Modernism."

"What I like most was the analysis of the painters. Use of body human in a[n] abstract way. The video about 9/11 [Memorial Park] and how they created a monument in order to remember a tragedy."

Thank you very much and see you on Friday!