Class#8: The Art Market and You're the Curator Homework Assignment

Plan's for an out of class fieldtrip (Brooklyn Museum) are postponed due to scheduling difficulties. We'll still do one or two more field trips before the semester is done. Meet in the classroom next week!



Todays Lecture
 


Homework: Be the Curator

For those of you who were in class today complete the 4 artwork mini-exhibition based on our visit to Fischer-Landau Art Center. For those who did NOT attend class--shame--and
you can create your 4 piece exhibition from the

  Museum of Modern Art's online collection browser 
(stick to the painting and sculpture or drawing sections)



You’re the Curator

As demonstrated in the above slideshow, the Curator is the one who creates the narrative surrounding a solo or group exhibition. The curator decides on the relationship of art objects to each other in a space, the lighting, the color of the walls, and importantly, how the show is written up, how the work is contextualized, in what art tradition this work is placed into.

So it’s your turn to try out the role of writing the art narrative, by acting as curator for a show of your own (theoretical) making.

     Create a mini-exhibition with 4 works from the Columbia MFA Exhibition (or the online MOMA database) that speak to one another, either formally, through their subject matter, through mood, or because of more personal associations. You will create a name for your show and think about who the audience is for this exhibition.

a. Make a blog post with with images of each of your four chosen works. Describe each of the four works in detail, including accompanying information about name, medium, size, etc.


b. Write a  300+ word essay introducing your show, that includes the following information
     1. An exciting title for your show  (“The Color Blue in the 21st Century”, “A Journey in Geometry:, etc.) that evokes the reasons for grouping these works together
     2.Images of all four pieces with details provided by the exhibition
     3. how the pieces relate to one another and to the larger theme
     4. who the audience is for your exhibition. (does it relate especially to a particular group; pregnant women, civil engineering students, your grandmother, cos-play kids?)

This is due before class next week.