{"id":1714,"date":"2024-10-15T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natm.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:08:52","slug":"1714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2024\/10\/15\/1714\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would definitely encourage other Macaulay students to visit museums as this really helps understand what we learn in the classroom. It is difficult for me, personally, to appreciate modern art and more recent music trends because I am not aware enough of the classical foundations that these modern styles rebel against. To recognize the significance of a banana taped to the wall, one has to spend hours staring at antique Roman busts and Renaissance maidens. Museums help one build up this foundational knowledge. I appreciated the way in which the museum used space in an artistic way; paintings were hung together to show contrast and provide context, identify historical relationships and underline the message that more modern works carry. This was very helpful to the viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would definitely encourage other Macaulay students to visit museums as this really helps understand what we learn in the classroom. It is difficult for me, personally, to appreciate modern art and more recent music trends because I am not aware enough of the classical foundations that these modern styles rebel against. To recognize the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1942,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1714\/revisions\/1942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}