Friday October 30 MoMA Outing

Rock and roll photography and more! For this Friday's outing, we'll see "Looking at Music: Side 2" and explore the Museum of Modern Art's legendary contemporary art collection. Meet in the MoMA lobby, on the 53rd St side.

Looking at Music: Side 2

In the mid-1970s, right on the heels of Conceptual art and Minimalism, many visual artists turned to making raw, hard-edged work that addressed urban blight and bad economies. With an ear set to punk, these artists worked in the netherworld between music and media, often forming their own short-lived bands. Their rough, do-it-yourself projects pushed the envelope of interdisciplinary experimentation, which soon spread to underground venues from New York to London, Düsseldorf, and Krakow. This exhibition features music videos, super-8 films, drawings, photographs, and zines from MoMA's collection that explore the melding of music, media, and visual art in the final decades leading up to the twenty-first century.

SLASH

This Friday, you get your first glimpse of the MAD Museum's latest show.  The incredibly named.....

Slash: Paper Under the Knife 

Slash: Paper Under the Knife takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations.

Visual Arts TRaC begins!

Get ready for the ultimate insider's look at the museum world with your instructor Sarah Valdez!  You are in good hands. 

You'll be starting by exploring your homebase for the next 8 weeks.  High 5's partner in the Visual Arts TRaC venture is the Museum of Arts and Design.....

the MAD Museum:


Prepare to have the best view from your classroom of all the TRaC classes.  You look out over Central Park.  (Music TRaC, which is in a mirrored room, has only view of themselves.)  For more info about the building itself, click here.

Meet Sarah in the lobby on Fridays at 4:30. 
MAD is located at 2 Columbus Circle, easily accessible by both subway and bus.

By train:
A, B, C, D or No. 1 to Columbus Circle at 59th Street;
N, R, Q or W to 57th Street and 7th Avenue
F to 57th Street and 6th Avenue
By bus:
M5, M7, M10, M20, M30 and M104 to Columbus Circle
at 59th Street or 57th Street and 8th Avenue

Enjoy!