Week 25 was a quick one.
In Digital Imaging we took a quick look at Smart Objects:
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In History of the Book we had a chat about porn. A special guest, Lorelei Lee sat in and joined the discussion:
Essays we read for class:
“Pornography” by Andrea Dworkin
Nobuyoshi Araki : The PDN Interview
“How to Look at Pornography” Laura Kipnis from “Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America”
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Wednesday morning in Visible, Invisible we talked more about notions of time. Christian Boltanski’s work really stood out:
In Right Here, Right Now we went over to David Zwirner Gallery and had a gallery walkthrough with James Welling for his new show Glass House featuring photographs of Philip Johnson’s Glass House which Welling first shot for New York Magazine:
And that was Week 25. Coming soon: End of year review, thesis advisor choices and all sorts of fun stuff.
Boltanskis show at the Grand Palais was mindblowing! One had more the impression of experiencing a landscape than an artwork.