.DR. MARIA ELENA BUSZEK
WESTERN ART II : BAROQUE TO POSTMODERNISM

ARTHI1002: Western Art II
Irving Auditorium
Tuesday/Thursday, 1:00-2:20pm
and Tuesday/Thursday, 2:30-3:50pm

• Course description: This course will survey the history of art from the Baroque era to the present.  The course readings and lectures will be largely based on painting and sculpture throughout these periods, but will also touch upon architecture, photography, installation, performance, and new media.  Since the course deals as much with history as with art, we will be exploring the different historical events and literary theory that inform the artworks presented in the class.
• Spring 2010 syllabus
  NEW! Final exam (May 13th) review sheet!
• Check out the Stokstad textbook companion website!
• Art History Links: Great websites on art from the Baroque to Postmodern eras!
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• Art in the news:
• NEW! The Guardian assesses the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall commissions on its 10th anniversary
• Tate Modern Paul Gauguin retrospective explores the myths of his life and art
• Pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge retrospective opens at Corcoran
• Victoria and Albert Museum shows legendary costumes of the Ballets Russes
• Expressionist Otto Dix retrospective opens at NYC's Neue Galerie
• Has Caravaggio eclipsed Michelangelo's mystique for popular audiences?
• Ceramist Ken Price finally gaining recognition after decades of experimentation
• Animal Collective takes over Guggenheim for Transverse Temporal Gyrus
• Whitney Biennial opens its "spartan" and "solid" exhibition
          [Go to the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2010 Biennial website]
• MoMA opens retrospective of multimedia artist William Kentridge: Five Themes
• Recent work by Kiki Smith opens at the Sackler Center for Feminist Art
• Go to the UK National Gallery site for The Sacred Made Real, on Spanish polychrome sculpture
          [Read The Guardian's review of The Sacred Made Real, with more images]
• Watch a clip from Banksy's new grafitti documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Contemporary artists rethink Wright's Guggenheim in Contemplating the Void
• L.A.'s Hammer Museum opens Rachel Whiteread Drawings
• Whitworth Gallery's wallpaper show rethinks "new media" and "installation art"
• Tate Modern opens revealing retrospective of Armenian-American artist Arshille Gorky
• Afro Modern at Tate Modern Liverpool explores the role of Africa in art since 1900
          [Go to the Tate Modern Liverpool's Afro Modern exhibition site]
• Textile designer Lucienne Day dies at age 93
• A collection broken up by Nazis reunited at the reopened Folkwang Museum
• NYU's Gray Gallery opens Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961-1991
• Metropolitan Museum mulls over options for fixing Picasso torn by a museum visitor
• Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery exhibits documents from the avant-garde Ballets Russes
• KCAI alum Nick Cave exhibits his awe-inspiring costumes at UCLA's Fowler Museum
• DeStijl leader Theo van Doesburg earns long-overdue retrospective at the Tate Modern
• London's Royal Academy reveals The Real Van Gogh in drawings, paintings, and letters
          [See a selection of letters and drawings from the Royal Academy exhibition]
• The New Acropolis Musem opens as a "gleaming showcase" for ancient culture
          [Take a photo tour of the New Acropolis Museum]
• Cooper-Hewitt's Design U.S.A. exhibits familiar objects in hi-tech new way
• The Drawings of Bronzino is "a scholarly tour de force" of this Mannerist artist's work
• Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art chooses dealer Jeffrey Deitch as new director
• An American scholar sums up the interesting cultural history of Dutch capitalism