new york art trip 08
SPEND TWO WEEKS FULLY IMMERSED IN THE NEW YORK ART WORLD, PRODUCE A TRAVEL JOURNAL. THEN RETURN TO MELBOURNE AND EXHIBIT YOUR WORK IN THE NEW YORK 08 EXHIBITION AT LATROBE GALLERY.
LIMITED TO 15 PLACES
ACCOMPANIED BY 2 LECTURERS
A TWO WEEK ART TRIP TO NEW YORK CITY CREATING AN ART JOURNAL COMBINING PRACTICAL DRAWING AND PAINTING CLASSES AND PRACTICAL PROJECTS WITH VISITS TO GALLERIES, ART SHOPS, BOOK SHOPS AND
MUSEUMS.
SPEND 2 WEEKS FULLY IMMERSED IN THE NEW YORK ART WORLD WITH DAILY ART PROJECTS AND VISITS TO MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES ACCOMPANIED BY LECTURERS JANE COCKS AND MICHAEL MARK FROM LATROBE COLLEGE.
DAILY WORK ON YOUR ART JOURNAL
DAILY HANDOUTS
ALL TUITION, GALLERY ENTRANCE FEES AND ART MATERIALS INCLUDING A JOURNAL WILL BE PROVIDED IN THE COST.
STUDENTS WILL NEED TO ORGANISE THEIR OWN TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS TO AND FROM NEW YORK AND ACCOMMODATION, WITH WHICH WE ARE HAPPY TO HELP.
WE RECOMMEND STAYING AT THE WEST SIDEYMCA AT 5 WEST 63RD STREET WHICH COSTS APPROX $50 AUS PER PERSON FOR A DOUBLE PER NIGHT AND APPROX $100 PER NIGHT FOR A SINGLE ROOM. WE WILL USE THIS HOTEL AS A DAILY MEETING PLACE.
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Proposed Itenerary
Explore the Commercial Galleries
Hundreds of commercial galleries showing contemporary art are spread through three major Manhattan art districts--Soho, Chelsea, and the Mid- and Uptown galleries along 57th Street and Madison Avenue. Chelsea in New York City is the world’s center for contemporary art, with over 250 galleries in a concentrated area
Art Projects
Examples of New York based assignments:
New York Silhouettes
Collect papers…newspapers, tickets, and post cards, etc. and make a series of cut out silhouette works in your visual diaries about your time in New York. This will be an on going project over our time here.
Small Things Project
Often it is the small things that strike us when we are away from home. Packaging, the shape of rubbish bins, the type of milk, the layout of the daily paper, types of food, labels on things. It’s often these things we remember and I want you to choose several small things to draw that in some way seem “different” to you. You might like to collect these things over the day, you can photograph them, buy them, find them, remember them.
Draw in Central Park
Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres) in Manhattan With about twenty-five million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited city park in The United States and its appearance in many movies and television shows has made it famous.
Pearl Paint
For over 70 years, Pearl Art and Craft Supply has been serving artists. In 1933, the fi rst Pearl Art Store was opened in New York City. As New York City became more dominant in the art market, so too, did Pear Paint. With several fl oors and relatively inexpensive prices, this is a candy store for artists. We will visit early in the trip.
Strand Book Store
In 1927, Ben Bass opened Strand Book Store on Fourth Avenue. Named after the famous publishing street in London, the Strand was one of 48 bookstores on Book Row, which started in the 1890’s and ran from Union Square to Astor Place. Today, the Strand is the sole survivor. The Strand now occupies 55,000 square feet of space. In the 1970s, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George F. Will wrote, “the eight miles worth saving in this city are at the corner of Broad- way and 12th Street. They are the crammed shelves of the Strand Book Store.”
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. The Museum of Modern Art seeks to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is
responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, while being accessible to the public. A collection which is more than an assemblage of masterworks, which provides a uniquely comprehensive survey of the unfolding modern movement in all visual media.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, an affi liate of The Museum of Modern Art, is the oldest and second largest non-profi t arts centre in the United States solely devoted to contemporary art. P.S.1 is a catalyst for ideas, discourses and new trends in contemporary art and its practices.
Storm King Art Center
The focus of Storm King Art Center’s distinguished permanent collection of American and European modern sculpture is on large abstract welded steel works from the 1960’s to the present, although fi gurative works are also on view. Storm King Art Center is a museum that celebrates the relationship between sculpture and nature. Five hundred acres of landscaped lawns, fi elds and woodlands provide the site for postwar sculptures by internationally renowned artists. At Storm King, the exhibition space is defi ned by sky and land. Unencumbered by walls, the subtly created fl ow of space is punctuated by modern sculpture. The grounds are surrounded by the undulating profi les of the Hudson Highlands, a dramatic panorama integral to the viewing experience.
Walk New York
and Draw/Visit Chinatown / Bryant Park / Greenwich Village Check out some of the shops on St. Mark’s Place, or go to one of the great cafes on MacDougal Street, or just sit and relax while we draw in Washington Square Park and Bryant Park.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece of modern architecture is home to the world-renowned Guggenheim collection of modern and contemporary art dating from the late 19th century to the present.
Staten Island Ferry
Drawing exercise on the ferry as we travel to and from Staten Island.
The Sphere
is a large metallic sculpture by German sculptor Fritz Koenig, currently displayed in Battery Park, that once stood in the area between the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. After being recovered from the rubble of the Twin Towers after the September 11, 2001 attacks, its fate was initially uncertain and it was dismantled into its components. Although it remained structur- ally intact, it had been visibly damaged by debris from the airliners that were crashed into the buildings and the collapsing skyscrapers themselves. “It was a sculpture, now it’s a monument,” Koenig said, noting how the thin globe had mostly survived the cataclysm. “It now has a dif- ferent beauty, one I could never imagine. It has its own life - different from the one I gave to it.”
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the pre eminent cultural institutions in the world. In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum’s collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times.
Jeff Koons on the Roof
April 22, 2008 – October 26, 2008 (weather permitting)
Georgio Morandi, 1890 – 1964
September 16, 2008 – December 14, 2008
New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burkhardt, 1937 – 1940
September 23, 2008 – January 2009
Empire State Building
Drawing-Photography.Observing the city from a birds-eye view, drawing the skyline and signifi cant architectural details.
“ IT IS A MIRACLE THAT NEW YORK WORKS AT ALL. THE WHOLE THING IS IMPLAUSIBLE.”— HERE IS NEW YORK
E.B. WHITE
The New Museum of Contemporary Art
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa is a new seven- story, structure located at 235 Bowery in New York City. The fi rst art museum ever constructed from the ground up in downtown Manhattan, the New Museum opened to the public in December , 2007. The New Museum building is a home for contemporary art and an incubator for new ideas, as well as an architectural contribution to New York’s urban landscape. Sejima and Nishizawa, who received the commission in 2002, have described the building as their response to
the history and powerful personalities of both the New Museum and its storied site. “The Bowery was very gritty when we fi rst visited it,” they have said. “We were a bit shocked, but we were also impressed that a contemporary art museum wanted to be there.”
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney collects and exhibits American art from the twentieth and twenty-fi rst centuries.
Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement Three Installations, Two Films June 26, 2008-October 12, 2008
This exhibition brings together a group of new and rarely seen works by Paul McCarthy (b. 1945), one of the most infl uential American art- ists of his generation. The show focuses on a core strand of McCar- thy’s work: the use of architecture to create perceptual disorientation in the viewer through spinning mirrors, rotating walls, projections, and altered space. In Bang Bang Room (1992), the space almost seems to come alive as the walls of a free-standing domestic room move slowly in and out, the doors in each wall wildly slamming open and shut. In Spinning Room (2008), fi rst conceived in 1971, but being realized for the fi rst time for this show, live images of viewers are rotated and projected onto double-sided screens that appear infi nitely refl ected on four surrounding mirrored walls, enclosing the viewer in a wildly disorienting space. In Mad House (2008), being created for this show, a room spins disconcertingly on its axis.
Brooklyn Bridge
Drawing/Photography
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, a 365 degree unobstructed view of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens Staten Island, Statue of Liberty and Governors Island. This enduring, historic monument is the southern- most of New York’s East River bridge crossings. With its Neo-Gothic towers, you can’t miss it-and neither have many artists over the years who have been inspired by its majesty, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Georgia O’Keefe and Walt Whitman.
Brooklyn Museum
October 08- An exhibition of the work of Ghada Amer called Love Has No End- which will comprise 50 works from every aspect of Amer’s career.
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is an exhibition and education facility dedicated to feminist art—its past, present, and future. Among the most ambitious, infl uential, and enduring artistic movements to emerge in the late twentieth century, feminist art has played a leading role in the art world over the last forty years. Dramati- cally expanding the defi nition of art to be more inclusive in all areas, tion of socially relevant issues after an era of aesthetic “formalism,” while pioneering the use of performance and audiovisual media within a fi ne art idiom. The Center’s mission is to raise awareness of feminism’s cultural contributions; to educate new generations about the meaning of feminist art; to maintain a dynamic and welcoming learning facility; and to present feminism in an approachable and relevant way. The Center’s 8,300-square-foot space encompasses a gallery devoted to The Dinner Party (1974–79)