http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08 Orna Weinroth - Hunter College - Fall 2008 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:05:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To conclude our journey through the Arts, tell me what  you think after hearing Hemon and Ghosh discuss their life in literature.  Writing is an art form. A novel constructs a reality outside the reader, all other forms of art communicate a moment, a thought, an emotion.  The human imagination ... http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=205 Alex Hemon offered this name as his inspiration: A TOMB FOR BORIS DAVIDOVICH. By Danilo Kis. Translated by Duska Mikic-Mitchell (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 135 pp. "A tomb for Boris Davidovich," by Yugoslavian Danilo Kis (pronounced Kish), author of the widely acclaimed "Garden, Ashes" is a collection of seven short stories, each with ... http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=204 A free Juilliard Faculty Recital with works by the late Vincent Persichetti, Behzad Ranjbaran and Michael White, and the piano trio "Search." The concert will take place in Morse Hall at Juilliard on Thursday December 4 at 8:00 PM. Juilliard's address is 60 Lincoln Center Plaza. The new entrance is ... http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=203 Check this out! http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97356050 http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=202 Most resources I found deal with ancient Near Eastern Art and don't really bother with present-day, so this covers ancient more than modern. The Near East is a large area, typically defined encompassing the region between the eastern edge of the Mediterranean to present-day Afghanistan lengthwise, and from the Black ... http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=201 12/11 Public and Private Impression and Knowledge Creativity and Replication 12/12 Divide and Assimilate Form and Content Iconography and Symbolism http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=200 Check this link for the cutting edge art forms in the New York Art world http://artport.whitney.org/ http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=197 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY   I was first excited to find the video above, then dismayed to find that it said much of what I wanted to say. But by no means all of it, and there is some to correct. But I'm getting ahead of myself. So there I was, listening to Lateralus for about ... http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=196 Museum of Natural History Horse Exhibit   This exhibit is devoted solely to (you guessed it) the horse. It starts off with the horse's beginnings, its ancestors and how it evolved into the horse known today. It makes note of the fact that no true wild horses exist today-the American "wild horse," or ... http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=195 The New-York Historical Society Drawn By New York Exhibit An exhibit of art by New York artists. Some of the art features scenes from New York, while others depict different views. The New-York Historical Society is a more intimate venue for these paintings, and is entirely less crowded than the other, more ... http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/weinroth08/?p=194