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The Whitney Biennial is the longest running survey of contemporary art in the United States, with a history of exhibiting the most promising and influential arts and provoking lively debate. The students in the Senior Thesis are in the process of developing their senior projects and exposing them to this multidisciplinary and important show will be inspiring and nurturing.

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Professor Meredith Davis will bring her ARHT 325 class to the Met Museum to visit the American Art Galleries.

This event is for students of ARHT 325 and AMER 327 only.

Students of ARTS 211: Basic Art and Technology will be taking a trip to The New Museum to see the Pipilottia Rist exhibition. Students will be engaging with the Pipilotti Rist exhibition and answering questions about how the artist’s work relates to their current project. Having access to relevant, prestigious arts allows students to get a better sense oft he connection between an artist’s practice and his or her resulting body of work. This opportunity is invaluable to students who are still forming their own methods for investigation and visual problem-solving.

This event is open to students of ARTS 211 only.

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Students of ARHT 204 will visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art: African Art collection. Professor Peffer will be lecturing in the gallery to enhance learning objectives including how non-western objects are displayed in museums today.

This event is open to students of ARHT 204 only.

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Professor del Amo’s Black and White Photography class will visit the exhibition “Danny Lyon: Message to the Future” at the Whitney Museum in NYC. “Danny Lyon: Message to the Future” is the first comprehensive retrospective of the career of Danny Lyon (b. 1942) to be presented in twenty-five years. The exhibition includes approximately 175 photographs and related films. This show is relevant to the ARTS 206 Black and White Photography class for several reasons: He was a leading figure in the street photography movement in the 1960s , and Street Photography is one of the projects that students are assigned. Also, ARTS 206 fulfills the Gen Ed requirement “Topics Arts and Humanities’ and this show emphasizes Lyon’s concern with social and political issues.

This event is open to students ARHT 225 only.

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Professor del Amo’s Digital Photography course will be visiting the “Who Shot Sports’ A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present” exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The show “Who Shot Sports’ A Photographic History, 1843 to the Present” includes 170 photographers ranging from commercial to fine art, and includes artists like Richard Alvedon, Rineke Dijkstra, Leni Riefenstahl, Alexandre Rodchenko, and Catherine Opie. It is the most comprehensive presentation of sports photography ever organized. The Digital Photography class is primary populated by non-majors who learn to master the digital camera and to develop basic composition skills. The exhibition will expose students to a wide range of photographic approaches and styles– from technical virtuosity to a personal artistic vision–, and will raise questions about the historical and political context in which images were made.

This event is open to students ARTS 207-02 only.

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Professor del Amo’s Portrait Photography class will be visiting the “Diane Arbus: In the Beginning” exhibition at the Met Breuer Museum in NYC. Diane Arbus is one of the most important portrait photographers of the 20th century. The exhibition “In the Beginning” features early and less known works that she created during the first seven years of her career (1956-62). Students will have the unique opportunity to see original works that will inform what they will learn about this artist in the Portrait Photography class.

This event is open to students ARTS 328 only.

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Professor Davis’ class will be visiting the Newark Museum, in Newark NJ.

This event is open to students ARHT 322 only.

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Professor Shamash’s “The Craft of Costume” class will be visiting the “Uniformity” exhibit at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Students will observe first-hand examples of uniforms within a historical contest as it relates to the societal contexts in which they were worm, covering several centuries. The tour will be led by the curator for the exhibit.

This event open to students of THEA 203 only.

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Students of Professor Gidal’s “Music, Technology, and Media” course will be visiting the outstanding exhibit at the Morris Museum which features an immense collection of mechanical music boxes, player pianos and organs, and related automata which will enhance their understanding of the development of recording devices beginning in the 18th and 19th centuries. They will receive a tour and live demonstration of the key devises for the course.

This event is open to students of MUSI 316 only.

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