Art 691A - Sem-N.Y. Pop

Introduction to the professional art system in New York City. Overnight trips. Visits to artist studios and art critics. Meetings with curators at nonprofit, alternative and museum spaces. On Friday nights: performance art, video screenings, art openings, underground films, dance events. Independent work from students' studios discussed in critiques with class and instructor in Amherst.

This class is open to MA-Art and MFA-Art students only Concurrent enrollment in this course and Art 697CR, Contemporary Critique, may be coordinated by arrangement with the instructors.