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Congrats to our Auction Winners! Our final scores were:Museum of Multimedia – 47Mystery, Inc. – 43Brushstroke Institute – 34Destiny Museum – 19

A Famous Art Heist I mentioned today that a very famous (and still unsolved) art heist happened a while back at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. You can see photos of the empty frames and read about it here!

Two Lounging LadiesIf you are wondering about the two artworks you compared today in our in-class writing, one by Titian and the other (from our time period) […]

Inci Eviner's "Harem" & OrientalismIf you were intrigued by the bizarre actions going on in Inci Eviner’s video piece that we looked at in our artistic responses to O […]

More Stereographs! Thanks for thinking at War & Memory today, including some of the earliest photo documentation of conflict. If you are interested in seeing […]

Our Exquisite Corpses! Loved seeing the bizarre and amazing collaborative drawings you made today while playing “Exquisite Corpse” — the Surrealists would be proud of your strange, fun creations!

See a Rothko in Person!In light of our conversations about Symbolism, Spiritualism, and the ways in which artists used their work to give viewers a transcendent, […]

James Van Der Zee @ The MetWe covered a lot during our session around Urban Space! If you want to see the all 60 panels of Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Se […]

Land Art, Sculpture, Architecture, Landscape! It was great to see your takes and diagrams in respond to Rosalind Krauss’s dilemma: defining landscape, architecture, sculpture and Land A […]

Describe & Draw, Defining Terms Great first session! Your drawings and instructive descriptions for your drawings were great (and creative!) We’ll come back to your d […]

Welcome!Welcome to Intro to Modern Art! I’m excited to get started and get to know you. We’ll be covering a lot (but not nearly everything, because […]

Congrats to our Auction Winners! Our final scores: Lightning Bug Foundation – 69Van Gogh’s Ear – 34Gen X Museum – 33Xena Foundation – 31Lehman BIPOC Art Org – 10

Bidding Begins Next Class!Excited to jump into our simulated art auction next class. Come prepared to compete against other “institutions” in the room for your […]

More Self-Portraits! Loved hearing what you saw in Cindy Sherman’s Film Stills and in Carrie Mae Weems’ Kitchen Table Series today! If you’re curious about […]

More Stereographs! Thanks for thinking at War & Memory today, including some of the earliest photo documentation of conflict. If you are interested in […]

Inci Eviner's "Harem" & OrientalismI know we were all intrigued by all the bizarre actions going on in Inci Eviner’s video piece that we looked at in our artistic […]

Our Exquisite Corpses Loved seeing the bizarre and amazing collaborative drawings you made today while playing “Exquisite Corpse” — the Surrealists would be proud of your strange, fun creations!

Mark Rothko and More!In light of our conversations about Symbolism, Spiritualism, and the ways in which artists used their work to give viewers a […]