Readings and Materials

STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST

Steal Like an ArtistDownload

CAN ART AMEND HISTORY?

Titus Kaphar: Time Cover: “I Cannot Sell You This Painting”

BEN SHAHN

Ben Shahn’s Social Realist Art Feels Relevant Again in Landmark Survey

DANCE RESOURCES

4 Step CritiqueDownload
Ellfeldt, A Primer for ChoreographersDownload
Lihs, Appreciating Dance (Explanation of Dance Elements)Download

Dance Framework

THEATER

Elinor Fuchs:  Visit to a Small Planet: Questions to ask a Play (PDF)

CARNEGIE HALL

“How Music Works” (excerpt) by David Byrne

“How We Listen to Music” by Aaron Copland

GUGGENHEIM

The New Yorker, Profiles: The Confident Anxiety of Rashid JohnsonDownload
The New Yorker, The Art World: Review on Rashid Johnson’s Own “Poem for Deep Thinkers”Download

JAZZ

How to Listen to JazzDownload
Jazz, A Uniquely American MusicDownload

AHA MOMENT

Ben Lerner “Leaving the Atocha Station”Download