Our exhibit…

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…is opening next week!  We have some interesting work ahead and, I think, a wonderful exhibit to look forward to…and one that won’t disappear!

This post will be edited periodically, so please come back to it to check for additional information, updates, and news.  Please refer to this post as you develop your wall labels.

1) The timeline…  All of you have several dates in your projects.  Please add these dates to our timeline in our class blog.  There’s an easy link there now.  When you link to the first page, go to the top of the first timeline page and click on “register.”  This will take you immediately to the excell sheet on which you will add your dates, etc.  Make your additions at the bottom of the spreadsheet — regardless of chronology.  Please do not erase anything on the spreadsheet that is there.  Dates will not appear in chronological order on the spreadsheet…but will on our timeline!

2)  Our map…  Some of you have projects that can be located on the map…please do this!

3)  Group photo…  Is anyone good with Photoshop?  Do we have a volunteer to locate us in front of some great Venetian building?  I’ll bring my camera tomorrow.

4) Our exhibit has a site…  venice.umwblogs.org.  I worked on this over the break, and Jim taught me a few neat things this morning.  It’s going to work so smoothly!  Jim will send you some specific instructions and I’ll review the ins and outs with you during our meetings.  For now, please visit the site to get an idea of how it looks.  You are all writers/authors/editors of our exhibit blog.

5) Your wall labels…  The exhibit page will be populated by individual pages each of us will write.  I’ll write an introduction to the exhibit that links our visitors to each of your pages/wall labels.  Each of you will have the following pages within our “Exhibit” page:  a) overview (100-200 word summary of your project with a list of of additional wall lables with links to these); b) bibliography (this should be identified clearly so we don’t have 14 pages called “Bibliography”); c) the full text of your paper;  and d) through….  These will be defined sections of your final paper, for example, Nicole might have a section on the making of masks, on Commedia dell’arte, on Pietro Longhi, on types of masks (Nicole and I met today and these were sections she mentioned).  We’ll talk about these further…

6) Your pages are posted as “children” of the Exhibit page…I’ll show you what I mean in class and iin our meeting.  it’s not as strange as it sounds!

7) Please forward to me an image I can use in my introduction that best reflects the nature of your work.

8) Your papers are due to me this Friday, December 5 (as per the syllabus).  Please have a first draft of your wall labels posted on our exhibit blog no later than Monday, December 7, 5 p.m. so I can review these and get back to you on Tuesday.

Stay tuned…

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

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Here is a review of an important exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC) that will be of interest to all of us, especially to Katherine D. for the references to clothing and Avian S. for the references to courtesans.

“Courtesan and Blind Cupid (a flap print with liftable skirt), ca. 1588 by Pietro Bertelli”

Be sure to look at the Slide Show.  Unfortunately, not all images from the printed paper are illustrated online.  I’ll bring the article to class tomorrow.

The review is by Roberta Smith and was published in the New York Times, Friday, November 21, 2008.

Advertising in Venice

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What do you think of this?  This article from the Art Newspaper (Nov. 12, 2008) should get you thinking about how we preserve our cities and monuments.  Should advertisers be allowed to post ads on monuments that are covered with scaffolding and under restoration?  Is the money coming in from ads worth the desecration of the monuments?  Is it desecration?  Are these ads recalling Venice’s history as a commercial center?

Here is a recent view (from Flickr) showing the Molo and Sansovino’s work in the Piazzetta that John was discussing the other day.  Remember Whistler’s depiction of the scene?

A link to yet another image that suggests the setting of Venice has become the package for selling fine goods and a lifestyle.