The Arts in New York City

Macaulay Honors College at CUNY Hunter – Fall 2009

The Arts in New York City

  • Historical Perspective

  • American Culture

  • Established and Fringe Art

  • Form and Content

  • Contact

    Instructor: Professor Orna Weinroth
    orna.weinroth[at]hunter.cuny.edu
    Office Hours: By appt.


    Tech Fellow: Fiona Lee
    fiona.lee[at]gmail.com
    Office Hours: Mondays, 10-4pm

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  • Cultural Map

Announcements

Dante Adela performing this weekend

by Orna Weinroth
For those of you who would like to see Adela in a new program in New York: A SHARED PROGRAM OF BRIAN CAREY CHUNG’S COLLECTIVEBODY|DANCELA...

Publish your review

by Orna Weinroth
Dear Class, Time to get into the action: Send out your best review to City Arts, New York Review of Culture ww.cityarts.info editor: Jerry Patwood : j...

Punk Rock at the MoMa

by Orna Weinroth
Here are the pictures from our visit to the MoMa today.  The original map is at the Honor Office at Hunter.  If one of you would like to adapt it in...

Assignments

Beauty and Biology

by Edna Normand
All animals, including humans, seek symmetry and proportion in a mate. These qualities indicate a minimal number of genetic defects, and therefore a m...

Beauty and Biology

by Orna Weinroth
“The lack of physical attraction was fatal” Spencer wrote of his rejection of George Eliot love.  He argued that biology was interfering in his a...

Punk Rock at the MoMA

by Krishan Sharma
The punk rock era captured the true spirit of anti-establishment and rebellion. Although I wasn’t sure of what to completely expect, I could have al...

  • Credits

    Header Image: Stephen L. Harlow, "I made this pano for Ruth from telephoto shots. She wants something to draw on." Date retrieved: 08.23.2009


    Cultural Map: "The Original Topography of Manhattan Island from the Battery to 155th Street" From Report on the Social Statistics of Cities, Compiled by George E. Waring, Jr., United States. Census Office, Part I, 1886. (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas-Austin)