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ARHT 345 - CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ART SINCE 2000
What is "contemporary art" today? In this intensive seminar our emphasis will be the global art scene since 2000, and related late-20th century trends. We ﬁrst ask, "what are the hot topics in the art world today," and then look back in time to better understand where they come from. Topics will be updated to reﬂect current gallery practice, and will likely include performing identities, social encounters as art, and screen-based, glitch-based, and immersive forms of art, sound based gallery art, and the arts of contemporary self-identiﬁed "indigenous" peoples. We will also consider how international art fairs have come to dominate the art world everywhere, determining how value is assigned and deciding who and what we are able to see. We will attempt to make sense of the many different art worlds taking place all at once in our contemporary world, and the ways that they intersect, overlap, and contest each other speciﬁcally within the New York City art scene today. We will engage directly with the New York an scene through several study trips to alternative galleries and to events like the Armory Art Fair and the Whitney Biennial. 0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Lecture/Online, Online Course Art History Department Course Attributes: CA-School Core as of 2014 fall, CA-School Core-300 Level, WRITING INTENSIVE Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels: Undergraduate Must be enrolled in one of the following Classifications: Senior Junior Prerequisites: FOR ARHT 345 General Requirements: ( Course or Test: CRWT 102 Minimum Grade of D May not be taken concurrently. )

ARHT 345 - CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ART SINCE 2000

What is "contemporary art" today? In this intensive seminar our emphasis will be the global art scene since 2000, and related late-20th century trends. We ﬁrst ask, "what are the hot topics in the art world today," and then look back in time to better understand where they come from. Topics will be updated to reﬂect current gallery practice, and will likely include performing identities, social encounters as art, and screen-based, glitch-based, and immersive forms of art, sound based gallery art, and the arts of contemporary self-identiﬁed "indigenous" peoples. We will also consider how international art fairs have come to dominate the art world everywhere, determining how value is assigned and deciding who and what we are able to see. We will attempt to make sense of the many different art worlds taking place all at once in our contemporary world, and the ways that they intersect, overlap, and contest each other speciﬁcally within the New York City art scene today. We will engage directly with the New York an scene through several study trips to alternative galleries and to events like the Armory Art Fair and the Whitney Biennial.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours
0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Lecture/Online, Online Course

Art History Department

Course Attributes:
CA-School Core as of 2014 fall, CA-School Core-300 Level, WRITING INTENSIVE

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:
Undergraduate
Must be enrolled in one of the following Classifications:
Senior
Junior

Prerequisites:
FOR ARHT 345

General Requirements:
( Course or Test: CRWT 102
Minimum Grade of D
May not be taken concurrently. )

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