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PowerPoint presentation looking at art in NYC.
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Arts in NYCFall II Gwen Shaw
Arts in NYC • Think of a powerful experience that you have had with a work of art— • Describe the art work • How did it affect you? • Why do you think it had an impact on you
NYC: World Cultural Capital • In the current fiscal year, NYC will spend $115.6 Million on the arts, making the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs the largest cultural funding agency in the nation • Did you Know: NYC’s Percent for Art Program ensures that 1% of all money spent on city-funded construction projects be spent on artwork for city facilities. (NYC Department of Cultural Affairs)
What do we think of when we think of art? Andy Warhol, Marilyn, 1968 Leonardo, Mona Lisa, 1504
The Hudson River School: Where the heck is the Hudson River Valley?!
History of Arts in NYCHudson River School Thomas Cole, The Oxbow 1836
Hudson River School Frederick Church, Niagara, 1857
Modernism in NYC Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917
But wait, there’s more! Piero Manzoni, The Artist’s Shit, 1961
Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background), 1990