G:Class | New Museum

June 9th Professional Development for Teachers

June 9, 2011

Join New Museum staff in a professional development session for high school teachers including a gallery tour with New Museum Associate Curator Gary Carrion-Murayari and an interactive workshop. This professional development workshop focuses on the New Museum’s upcoming exhibition “Gustav Metzger: Historic Photographs” and introduces the concurrent exhibition “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Primitive,” both on view from May 19 through July 3, 2011.

“Museum as Hub: Carlos Motta: We Who Feel Differently” is a multipart project that explores the idea of sexual and gender “difference” after four decades of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer, and Questioning politics. The exhibition draws from Motta’s database documentary wewhofeeldifferently.info that consists of a website, publication, online journal, and discursive events.

Ellen Altfest, Head and Plant, 2010. Oil on canvas, 11 x 10 in (27.9 c 25.4 cm). Courtesy the artist and White Cube, London. Photo: Todd-White Art Photography

Courtesy the artist. Photography by Benoit Pailley.

Emory Douglas: Black Panther

Some of Emory Douglas’s images are nearly forty years old, but they are still as powerful as when Douglas first created them. They are dangerous pictures, and they were meant to change the world.

New Media: New Practices

Lauren Cornell

February 2, 2009

Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator of the New Museum, will outline the history of Internet and new-media art, and touch upon some of the more significant practices and artists working in the field today. "RSVP here":http://app.formassembly.com/forms/view/24198

Art and Architecture

The following lessons focus on the architecture and the permanent works of the New Museum .

Storyboarding Revolution

Using an excerpt of Persepolis students will investigate how Marjane Satrapi represents her life by reading one of the book’s vignettes. The lesson focuses on point of view. Students consider how history is told by considering the author’s perspective in telling her story about the Islamic Revolution in Iran. This graphic novel helps students question different points of view in history. It also provides student with the format of the storyboard to consider how to tell a historical narrative, sequencing events, and highlighting cause and effect within a historical context.

Allison Smith: What Are You Fighting For?!

Allison Smith is an artist whose artwork is inspired by American history, specifically the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, arts and crafts, and historical reenactments. WithThe Muster Smith is very much interested in trench art, that is art objects made by soldiers in the trenches during war, as they many times have been recognized for engaging in the practice of decorating found objects. The artist draws the comparison that contemporary art, much like trench art, speaks to the extraordinary times in which we live. Smith employs trench art as a metaphor.

Beacon Final Exhibition

"The Shirt Off My Back" was the Senior Art Honors' final exhibition for the 2006-2007 academic year. G:Class helped to expand students' knowledge of contemporary art as they embarked on creating their own bodies of work.