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Fordham’s Summer 2015 course Art Worlds: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives, taught by Professors McGee and Aseel Sawalha, exposes students to a multimodal learning experience, with field trips to cultural institutions throughout the city — including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, El Museo de Barrio and the Rubin Museum of Art — film screenings, and intensive class discussion of relevant readings. Through these hands-on learning experiences students gain a working knowledge of the sociology and anthropology of the arts, and insights into the creative culture of New York City.

Art Worlds students Geneva Smith and Jeanelle Augustin visit the Whitney Museum of American Art at its new downtown home.The Whitney Museum intersects with the traditional meatpacking industry on Gansevoort Street.

Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "America is Hard to See" includes Barbara Kruger's "We Don't Need Another Hero" on a wall of Visual Arts/ACT-UP posters.

Fordham Summer 2015 Art Worlds class listens to museum educator Nicole Leist at the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea.

Geneva and Margaret at New Museum

Images, clockwise from top:

  • Art Worlds students Geneva Smith and Jeanelle Augustin visit the Whitney Museum of American Art at its new downtown home.
  • The Whitney Museum intersects with the traditional meatpacking district on Gansevoort Street. Mary Heilmann’s site specific installation Sunset on fifth-floor outdoor gallery with sculptural chairs seen from above.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition “America is Hard to See” includes Barbara Kruger’s “We Don’t Need Another Hero” on a wall of Visual AIDS/ACT-UP posters.
  • Fordham Summer 2015 Art Worlds class listens to museum educator Nicole Leist at the Rubin Museum of Art in Chelsea.
  • Students Geneva Smith and Margaret Sanford discuss exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art on the Bowery.