Where is contemporary art heading in the coming decade?

In the past fifty years contemporary art has grown to be one of the most exciting and crowded fields in New York’s cultural life. This course offers a guide to contemporary art, surveying all the trends and movements that have shaped the period, and tracing how the market for art has kept pace. Students will review the emergence in the galleries of film and video, and assess the health of venerable practices like painting and drawing. The course will look both at the work of contemporary art’s leading lights – Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Elizabeth Peyton – and those just emerging in the downtown galleries.

This course is led by Morgan Falconer, a freelance critic and journalist who has written about contemporary art and culture for publications throughout the world. His writing appears regularly in the Times (London), Frieze, Art in America, and the Burlington Magazine. He is currently writing a guide to art in New York, to be published by Rizzoli (New York) and Thames & Hudson (London) in 2011.

Course Dates
Tuesday Lectures 6:30 – 8:00pm
Dates: February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 2, 9.
570 Lexington Avenue, New York

Course Fee
$500

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All New York coursework is offered on a non-credit basis.