POETRY:
September 2:
Harlem by Langston Hughes
Awaking in New York by Maya Angelou
* Nuyorican Poets Cafe website
September 4:
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pietri
FILM:
September 9:
The Actuality Film (Library of Congress)
New York City at the Turn of the Century (Library of Congress)
Watch: “What Happened on Twenty-third Street, NY”
“The Great Train Robbery”
September 11:
Film Art Chapter 1, concentrate on pages 2-9; 17-34(David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Jeff Smith)
Are Movies The Highest Form of Art? 5 Reasons Why I think “Yes” (Kenan Proffitt, Actionvfx.com)
Should Film be considered and art form? (Mary Ginther; Dailyevergreen.com)
Select ONE:
– Do the Right Thing
– Style Wars
– Rent
ASSIGNMENT 1:
NYC_Film_Discussion_Questions
Film_Response_Rubric
September 16:
Digital Media Trends (Deloitte Insights)
Just as Taylor Swift: Data make the case for movie theater versus streaming (LA Times)
VISUAL ARTS:
September 18:
De Botton, Alain and John Armstrong. Art as Therapy. Phaidon Press Limited, 2013.
Tuesday, September 23: NO CLASS
September 30:
Gurian, Elaine Heumann (2001) What is the Object of this Exercise? A Meandering Exploration of the Many Meanings of Objects in Museums? In Humanities Research (Vol. 8, No 1) pp 25-36.
Thursday, October 2: NO CLASS
Watch:
How to do visual (formal) analysis in art history
What is Visual Literacy?
October 7:
Guggenheim in NY
October 9:
Abt, Jeffrey “The Origins of the Public Museum” in Sharon Macdonald, A Companion to Museum Studies, Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006, pp. 115-134 (concentrate on pages 119-129)
Falk, John (2012) The Museum Visitor Experience—Who Visits, Why and to What Effect? In Gail Anderson. Reinventing the Museum (second edition) New York: Altamira Press. (PDF)
Tuesday, October 14: NO CLASS
October 16:
What is Public Art? (associationforpublicart.org)
50 Years of public art in NYC celebrated in new museum exhibit (Amy Plitt; ny.curbed.com)
Keith Haring “In His Own Words” (Beginnings and To New York; haring.com)
**October 23** PRESENTATIONS
Art presentation Rubric
DANCE:
October 28:
Graham-I-Am-a-Dancer
Kraus-Meaning-of-Dance
Arthur Mitchell/Dance Theater of Harlem:
Stages, Streets, and Screens
“A Brief History of Breakdancing”
October 30:
Read about our guest speakers: ETHEL
November 4:
Read: “Cracking at America’s Heart: The Nutcracker’s Enduring Holiday Legacy”
Watch:
The Nutcracker Ballet(NYCB)
OPERA:
November 11:
Plotkin, Fred (1994) Opera 101. New York: Hachette Books.
A Night at the Opera (Christina Parrella, nyc.gov)
From Opera House to Starbucks: A Brief History of NYC‘s Bygone Opera Houses (Heather O’Donovan; wqxr.org)
November 13:
Synopsis: La Boheme (Met Opera)
Watch: La Boheme (free trial needed/or Rental)
November 18:
Synopsis: Aida (Met Opera)
Watch: AIDA (free trial needed/ or Rental)
MUSIC:
November 25
Louis Armstrong House Museum
FINAL PRESENTATION:
2025 Final Project_HNRS125
