Life as we know it has been dramatically altered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing health crisis – in many of the same ways that deadly pandemics and plagues have caused upheavals and decimated human life in past ...

From what does the artist draw for inspiration? How are memory, imagination, emotion, and abstract thought translated into concrete imagery? This course will explore contemporary approaches to creative practice, while ...

This course will explore issues of identity in relation to perception and the role of the artist in reinventing and interpreting these perceptions. How does the artist impact the story being told and how this is communicated ...

This course explores the art produced in the Western world between the time of the earliest civilizations and the end of the late Gothic era (roughly 30,000 BCE to 1400 CE). We will focus on major artistic monuments and ...

This course offers a basic introduction to the history of European and American art from the ancient period to the present. It covers all the major eras of Western art, but it focuses only on selected artists and artworks. ...

This course explores the family portrait as an embodiment, reflection, and testing ground of key social, familial, psychological, political, and artistic concepts across history. We will look closely at portraits of families ...

This course is about art in New York City. From the downtown bohemia where artists lived to the midtown museums and galleries where they exhibited their work, from the spatial interventions of the avant-garde to the ...

Discover the evolution of the skyscraper from its roots in 19th century cast iron lofts to the complex amalgams of today. This is an in-depth look at the links between architecture, engineering, planning, zoning, economics ...

Since its inception photography has been critical in shaping our personal and collective memory. Whether in the form of historical documentation or through a personal archive of family photographs, we look to images to ...

Drawing and model making are the primary means of spatial representation and investigation. It is through this media that the idea begins to evolve as form. This course focuses on model making and its implementation as a ...