Investigating Art

This course will concentrate on contemporary exhibitions of art in the Five College Museums. We will visit a number of exhibitions and permanent collections, covering the art of a variety of times and places. This course will consider the historical context, critical analysis, and curatorial issues of the art on display, as well as exhibition design and museum architecture. The course will include class lectures and discussions, as well as weekly field trips to area museums. Occasional evening lectures and symposia by visiting artists, critics and curators are also required. This is a speaking and writing intensive course; students will be responsible for a creating a portfolio of progressively more rigorous exhibition reviews, critical art writing, and scholarly papers, as well as presentations and group reports. Thursdays will be a lecture/discussion at Hampshire, and Tuesdays we will meet in one of the Five College Museums.MCP, PRJ,PRS,REA, WRI