POETRY:
September :
Harlem by Langston Hughes
Awaking in New York by Maya Angelou
* Nuyorican Poets Cafe website
September :
A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
These New York City Pigeons by Jayne Cortez
FILM:
September :
The Actuality Film (Library of Congress)
New York City at the Turn of the Century (Library of Congress)
September :
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)
September :
Does it Matter if You See a Film in a Theater or at Home? (Ben Keningsberg and Jason Nailey; nytimes.com)
Cinema can’t shake its case of long Covid _ Financial Times (Cat Rutter Pooley; FT.com)
September :
Assignment 1: Film Discussion Questions
Grading Rubric 2022
VISUAL ARTS:
September :
Dewey, John. Art As Experience. New York, Penguin Putnam, 1934.
De Botton, Alain and John Armstrong. Art as Therapy. Phaidon Press Limited, 2013.
October :
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.
Watch:
How to do visual (formal) analysis in art history
What is Visual Literacy?
October :
October :
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)
DANCE:
October :
Graham-I-Am-a-Dancer
Kraus-Meaning-of-Dance
Arthur Mitchell/Dance Theater of Harlem:
Stages, Streets, and Screens
November :
“A Brief History of Breakdancing”
Monday, November :
(Select one to watch)
The Nutcracker ballet
Alvin Alley (Chroma, Grace, Takademe, Revelations)
Dance Theater Harlem Sunday Matinee
OPERA:
November :
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 :
Synopsis: La Boheme (Met Opera)
November :
Synopsis: Aida (Met Opera)
MUSIC:
November :
TBD
Monday, November :
Louis Armstrong House Museum visit (Possible)
Wednesday, November : TBD
Monday, December : TBD
