Casey Smith's "Writing for the Arts": Short Essay #2: Menu of Online Art Exhibitions

Spend an hour or two exploring these online exhibitions. Let me know if the links don't work. This is part of your homework. Enjoy learning about new artists and designers. Take notes about certain features of particular online exhibitions that are pleasing, distracting, smart, stupid, etc.

Choose one of the following 13 (a baker's dozen!) online art exhibitions to review. Write a brief paragraph (3-5 sentences) about why you chose it. Be specific. Bring this paragraph to class on Thursday, February 3. The draft of your review will be due on Tuesday, February 8, no later than 1:00 pm. The final will be due on Thursday, February 10, no later than 1:00 pm.

We will talk at length about the actual assignment during class on Thursday, February 3. For those of you looking to get started early, look at the new scans of the start of Sylvan Barnet's chapter in A Short Guide to Writing About Art about writing art reviews. However, he doesn't take into account the differences between writing about an in-person experience and an online experience. This scan is located in the Files tab on our Populi course page.

Questions: csmith@dcad.edu

1. Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, 1968-2020

https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/hung-liu-portraits-promised-lands-1968-2020:event-exhib-6513

2. Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now

https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/chicano-graphics?utm_source=si.edu&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=exhibitions

3. Willi Smith: Street Couture

https://willismitharchive.cargo.site/

4. John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal

https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/john-singer-sargent-portraits-charcoal:event-exhib-6291

5. James Van Der Zee’s Photographs: A Portrait of Harlem

https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2021/james-van-der-zee-photographs-portrait-harlem.html

6. Artist Projects: Sarah Cain, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Kay Rosen