6. Museum trip
Tues., Nov. 11
Post #6: Museum trip: Go to a museum and look at art or artifacts associated with the place you’re going, then write about what you saw. How is the place you're going represented in landscape painting, cultural artifacts, and the museum display? How do these images and objects conform to or depart from your expectations of the place? What feelings and ideas do the representations evoke? For suggestions about places to go, check out this list of museums in New York. For most of the NYU study-abroad sites, my main suggestion would be to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; first take some time to search its data base of holdings so you know a little about what you're going to see. (You don't need to see a lot of different works: just going to see a couple of things might be enough.)
Read
- Alain de Botton, from The Art of Travel, chapter 7: “On Eye-Opening Art” (available in the ebrary here or pdf below)
- Optional: D. W. Meinig, "The beholding eye: ten versions of the same scene"
