gallery info

Please post the information you want displayed next to your piece on Thursday. I will transfer it to a card exactly as you type it, with only a little formatting for space, so be precise.

research report

Please report on your research. Include two links to sites you find useful, or, if you’re not using the web, a link to the bookstore page of a book, or the library catalog page, you get the idea.
Here are two links from me:
BLDGBLOG is one of the coolest web sites ever. Here’s that story about [...]

bonnard

Please read Michael Kimmelman’s essay “The Art of Making a World” carefully and look at these reproductions of some of Pierre Bonnard’s paintings. On Wednesday we used Hass to start talking about some Big Themes at the end of this course–what do you think about Bonnard’s attempt to create a world through these paintings, through [...]

art and life (time and materials)

Hi Class,
For Wednesday, please look over these two Robert Hass poems (coursepack pp. 39-42) in addition to commenting on your peers’ essays. The Gerhard Richter paintings that Hass discusses are in a post farther down. Unfortunately, they don’t get bigger when you click them, so there is also a link to a website with more [...]

kathakali

god’s own country

Kerala’s advertising motto has been, for years, “Kerala: God’s Own Country”. It’s not exactly “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” but you get the idea.
Please choose a passage from this section of reading (89-177) in which the writing, that is to say the language itself, does something interesting. I’ll let you decide and explain [...]

a pale daymoon hung hugely in the sky

Please answer this question and then RESPOND to at least one other person’s response. In other words, interact with each other.
Obviously Arundhati Roy is taking some liberties with syntax and grammar. Choose one instance where language corresponds with the tone of the story so far in an interesting way. You may like or dislike her [...]