Assignments

1. Visit the Met (the Metropolitan Museum of Art), free for Macaulay students with ID (and ‘name your price’ for anyone else with an NY ID or a student ID from NY, NJ, or CT). Spend a couple of hours there. Explore. Take photos of all of the pieces that impact you. Be sure to also photograph the informational cards showing you the work’s title, artist, and other info.
2. After your museum visit, submit Blog Post 1 by 11:59pm on Sunday, 28 June:
   Pick two pieces that you found particularly impactful, which you hadn’t seen before this visit. How did they relate to your preexisting ideas about art? Did they support these ideas or challenge them? How do they relate to New York City? Include photos.
3. Read “Alice Austen’s Larky Life,” on our Texts page, ahead of next week’s class.

Remember: Next week, on 1 July, we’re meeting at the Alice Austen House on Staten Island, not in our regular classroom.